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46,149 letters[Inclosure No. 17.] Flag-ship Wabash, Off. Aspinwall, December 15, 1857. No. 142.] Sir: My letter of the 12th (11th) instant informed the Department that I had broken up the camp…
[Inclosure C] United States Flag-ship Wabash, Off San Juan del Norte, December 11, 1857. Sir: This will be handed to you by General William Walker, who has given me his…
[Inclosure No. 1.] Navy Department, October 2, 1857. Sir: I am directed by the President to transmit to you, for your guidance, the accompanying circular, which he has caused to…
[612] Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of January 4, 1858, the correspondence, instructions, and orders to the United…
Mr. McKeon, district attorney, to Mr. Vanderbilt, New York. Southern District of New York, United States District Attorney’s Office,December 18, 1856. Sir: Information has reached the Department of State that…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney. Attorney-General’s Office, December 12, 1856. Mr. McKeon, United, States District Attorney, New York: Complaints have been made to the President of enlistments…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. Marcy, Secretary of State. December 17, 1856. Sir: I have received your letter of the 12th instant, and have addressed suitable instructions on the subject…
[609] *Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney. Attorney-General’s Office,December 17, 1856. Sir: Information has been communicated to the Department of State to the effect that arrangements are in…
Mr. Marcy to Mr. Rowcroft Department of State, Washington, May 28, 1856. Sir: For reasons which have been communicated to Her Majesty’s government, the President has revoked the exequatur heretofore…
Mr. Marcy to Mr. Barclay. Department of State, Washington, May 28, 1856. [606] Sir: For reasons which have been com*municated to Her Majesty’s government, the President has revoked the exequatur…
Mr. Marcy to Mr. Crampton. Department of State, Washington, May 28, 1856. [605] Sir: The President of the United States *has directed me to announce to you his determination to…
Mr. Marcy to Mr. Dallas. Department of State, Washington, May 27, 1856. Sir: The President has carefully considered the note of the 30th ultimo, addressed to you by the Earl…
[546] *Lord Clarendon to Mr. Dallas. Foreign Office, April 30, 1856. The undersigned, Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, had the honor to receive, on the 20th…
Mr. Dallas to Lord Clarendon. Legation of the United States,May 1, 1856. [545] The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the…
[544] *Mr. Dallas to Mr. Marcy. [Extract] Legation of the United States, London, May 1, 1856. No. 8.] Dear Sir: I sent my No. 7 to Liverpool, to go by…
[543] *Message of the President of the United States, communicating to Congress information that he had ceased to hold intercourse with the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Her Majesty…
[521] *Attorney-General Cushing to the President Attorney-General’s Office,May 27, 1856. Sir: I deem it incumbent on me to bring to your notice sundry passages in official communications of the British…
Charge of Judge Wilson to the grand jury of the circuit court for the southern district of Ohio. [undated.] [Extract.] If I am correctly informed, gentlemen, these statutes to which…
[517] *Mr. McCoy, district attorney, to Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General. United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, April 10, 1856. Sir: In obedience to my instructions to the marshal of…
[516] *Mr. McCoy, district attorney, to Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General. Office United States Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana, April 9, 1856. Sir: This morning I have given peremptory instructions to the…