train on Saturday. I shall have to remain at Amprior all day Saturday, and must return on Sunday, and for this purpose I have engaged another conveyance to come to Amprior from here and take me home on Sunday. From the bad state of the roads I had to pay $3 to take me to Franktown, and $8 for the conveyance to go to Amprior and take me home on Sunday. I have also made arrangements to take me to Ottawa Monday evening, when I shall telegraph to you. There is some great movement going on in the Orange body. I saw a letter to-day calling a special meeting of the county lodge of Carleton, to meet on Saturday next on the most urgent business, as the very existence of the order is threatened." However, I shall ascertain this when I return, and repeat it to you. It is, I am sure, something in connexion with a contemplated raid. The Orangemen were loyal to a man, but I believe the sympathies of most of them are enlisted with the south, more especially as they imagine the Fenian movement in countenanced by the federal government. There is something important in the wind, and we are on the eve of great events. Now, I beg of you to show this letter to no person but the consul general. If it was known that I revealed to you or any one else the movements of the order, my life is not worth a month's purchase. Take no further steps till you receive my despatch after I return from Amprior. Yours, very truly, GALLOWAY L. KEMP, Esq., Ottawa Hotel, Montreal. COUNTY CROWN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Ottawa, April 7, 1865. SIR: In reference to your telegram of the 3d instant, stating that information had been given that raiders' conspiracies were on foot in this neighborhood, and requiring me to make investigations, &c., I have the honor to report that immediately upon its receipt I instituted inquiries in every direction where I thought it likely information could be obtained upon the subject. From the result, as well as from my own observations, I am at present of opinion that no such conspiracies are on foot in this vicinity. There are very few strangers about this city who appear liable to any suspicion of such conduct. I made my inquiries, however, so privately as not to alarm the conspirators, if any there be, or put them upon their guard; and I have still reliable parties on the alert. Should any discovery be made I will not fail to keep you informed, and, if necessary, to take steps to bring the offenders to justice. I have, &c., Hon. JAMES COCKBURN, Solicitor General, Quebec. ROBERT LEES, CORNWALL, April 8, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3d instant, enclosing a copy of a statement alleging the existence of arrangements for a raid from Dickenson's landing and other places, and requesting me to ascertain whether there was any truth in the report. Immediately on receipt of your letter I called on the collector of customs, R. K. Bullock, esq., who went the same day to Dickenson's landing, and made inquiries there as to the truth of the report; he informs me that he is satisfied from his inquiries that there is nothing of the kind in progress there. I am of opinion, from my own knowledge of the position of Dickenson's landing, that it is not a place from which a raid could be attempted, as the crossing of the river there is difficult, and can only be effected in canoes or small boats. There is no town or village on the the American side of the river within some miles of it. There is no railway on that side nearer than Pottsdam, which is some miles in the interior, and no steamboats are at present going up or down the river. I have instructed one or two persons at Dickenson's landing to be on the lookout, and to inform me of any suspicious circumstances that may occur there. In reference to the informant of the government, I may state that I saw on the first page of the Montreal Gazette, of the instant, a paragraph to the effect that, principal of the Grammar School, had been tarred and feathered at Amprior. An investigation into this outrage may throw some light upon the subject. I have, &c. H. BERNARD, Esq., Attorney General, Department Canada West, Quebec. J. F. PRINGLE. Mr. Burnley to Mr. Hunter. WASHINGTON, April 18, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to transmit, in original, affidavits relative to property alleged to have been seized at Savannah by the United States officers, and stated to belong to James Hart, who claims British protection. This property consists of two wagons, a horse, a mule, and six bales of cotton, the whole valued at $3,529. I would beg you to take these papers into consideration with a view to a settlement of the claim, should his British nationality and neutrality be fully made out. I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant. Hon. W. HUNTter, &c., &c., &c. P. S.-I beg you to return the affidavits to me. J. HUME BURNLEY. [Enclosure.] To all whom it may concern: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Be it known, that on the 3d day of April, A. D. 1865, before me, Edward C. Hough, & public notary, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, for the county and State aforesaid,. personally appeared James Hart, an alien, and a subject of her Britannic Majesty the Queen. of Great Britain, residing in the city of Savannah, county and State aforesaid, who, being duly sworn, declares that on or before the 21st day of December, A. D. 1864, that being the day on which the city of Savannah was occupied by the military forces of the United States, he, the said James Hart, was the bona fide owner of the following named articles of property, to wit: One wagon, of the value of.. One mule, of the value of.. .... Six (6) bales of upland cotton, marked J. H., weighing thirty-nine hundred and thirty (3,930) pounds, reported and registered at the office of Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Ransom, United States army quartermaster, in charge of cotton, and valued at eighty (80) cents per pound.... $75.00 50 00 200 00 60 00 3, 144 00 3,529 00 And the same James Hart further declares that the various articles of property before named have been unlawfully seized and removed from his possession and control without his consent and against his will, he being, and having been for some time past, the bona fide owner of said property, by officers of the United States army, as follows: December 27, 1864, one wagon, valued at $75; January 13, 1865, one wagon, valued at $50; January 18, 1865, one horse, valued at $200, taken by officers who stated that they were connected with the 20th United States army corps, and who refused to give their names, as also any receipt and acknowledgment therefor, except for the horse, for which a receipt was given, a true copy of which is herein written; March 6, 1865, one mule, valued at $60, taken by an officer who stated that he belonged to the 19th army corps of the United States, and who refused to give any receipt therefor; and on the 11th day of March, A. D. 1865, six bales of cotton, upland, weighing 3,930 pounds, stored upon the premises of the said James Hart, on Bemen street, Savannah, and of which a copy of the original bill of sale is herein written, were taken by Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Ransom, of the United States army, as quartermaster in charge of cotton, or by persons acting under orders from or in conjunction with him. Now, therefore, in view of the principles of international law, the said James Hart does solemnly protest, and I, the said notary public, at the special instance and request of the said James Hart, do solemnly and publicly protest, against the said seizure and removal of said property on the ground that the government of which he is a subject is at peace with the gov ernment of the United States of America, and that the said James Hart is not and has not been in any way connected with or compromised in the belligerent operations now and for some time past in progress within the country of the United States of America; that neither his person nor his property is or ought to be impressed with a hostile character, and that he is entitled to the consideration and protection of the laws of the United States of America as a neutral resident, as aforesaid. This done and protested in the city of Savannah, county of Chatham, State of Georgia, and United States of America, on the day and in the year aforesaid. In testimony whereof, I have caused the same James Hart to sign these presents, and I, the said notary public, have subscribed my name officially, and have affixed my seal [SEAL.] of office on the day and year aforesaid. JAMES HART. EDWARD HOUGH, Notary Public, Chatham County. Savannah, GeoRGIA, January 18, 1865. In accordance with instructions from Major General W. T. Sherman, commanding military division of the Mississippi, I hereby certify that I have this day taken possession of one (1) horse in behalf of the United States; said horse was in possession of James Hart, of Savannah, Georgia, in a stable situated on Banyen street, known as Robertsville, and number not stated. No payment has been made or tendered for said horse; it will be found accounted for, upon my return of quartermaster stores for the month of January, 1865, in due accordance with section 22, Appendix B, Revised Regulations. JOSEPH A. SCHONLUGER, Duplicates made-one given and one retained. SAVANNAH, August 3, 1864. Mr. James Hart bought of D. Bennett 6 bales cotton, 3,930 lbs., at $1 10 per lb.... $4,323 Received payment, STATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham county, city of Savannah : D. BENNETT. Before me, Edward C. Hough, a public notary in and for the county and State above written, personally appeared John Hart, who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith: That he has had for some time past an intimate acquaintance with the affairs of James Hart, and believes the property referred to in the accompanying protest to be the bona fide property of the said James Hart, and that he knows that said property was taken from the said James Hart by persons belonging to the United States army. Sworn to and subscribed before me this day, April 4, 1865. [L. S.] JNO. HART. EDWARD C. HOUGH, Sir Frederick Bruce to Mr. Hunter. WASHINGTON, April 20, 1865. SIR: The correspondence which passed between the Secretary of State of the United States and Mr. Burnley, respecting the proclamation of the late President of the United States which imposes the penalty of confinement as prisoners of war, upon domiciled aliens and non-resident foreigners who have been or shall have been engaged in violating the blockade of the southern ports, has been taken into serious consideration by her Majesty's government, and I am now instructed by her Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs to inform the government of the United States that her Majesty's government entirely concur in the principles laid down in the memorandum which was transmitted by Mr. Burnley to the Secretary of State of the United States in his note of the 16th ultimo. It is not necessary, I am to state, to dispute the right of the United States government to order any individual foreigner or foreigners that they may consider to be dangerous or hostile to the United States government to leave their territory upon reasonable notice; but her Majesty's government do not consider that the proclamation can be justified on that principle. It is addressed to no particular individual, but to "non-resident foreigners who have been or shall have been engaged in violating the blockade of the insurgent ports." And it makes the continuance of any person who may afterwards be decided by martial law, to fall within this catagory, for twelve days in the United States a ground for his imprisonment, in military custody, until the end of the war. Her Majesty's government are of opinion that this cannot be called a reasonable warning to individuals to leave the United States territory, and that it is nothing less than the enactment of an ex post facto criminal law, and an evasion of the restraints of international law, under the color of territorial rights, and that it is obvious such an edict, if acted upon, may be the occasion of most arbitrary injustice towards the subjects of neutral states, to which her Majesty's government cannot be expected to submit. I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, Hon. W. HUNTER, &c., &c., &c. FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE. Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Hunter. WASHINGTON, April 22, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch which I have received from the governor general of Canada, informing me of the measures taken by his excellency on receiving intelligence of the assassination of the President of the United States, and requesting me to communicate to the Secretary of State of the United States, on the part of the government and people of Canada, their feelings of abhorrence of the crime and of sympathy at the loss which has been sustained by the government and citizens of the United States. I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, Hon. W. HUNTER, &c., &c., &c. FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE. Viscount Monck to Sir F. Bruce. QUEBEC, April 17, 1865. SIR: The intelligence of the perpetration of the atrocious outrage by which the United States have been deprived of their Chief Magistrate has filled all classes of the community in this province with awe and horror. Immediately that I received a confirmation of the sad news, I gave directions, in conjunction with the lieutenant general commanding her Majesty's troops in this province, that at all civil and military stations the flags should be hoisted half-mast high. I shall feel much obliged if you will take a fitting opportunity of communicating to the Secretary of State of the United States, on the part of the government and people of this province, their deep feeling of abhorrence of the crime which has been committed, and their profound sympathy with the government and citizens of the United States at the loss which they have sustained. I have, &c., Hon. SIR F. BRUCE, G. C. B., &c., &c., &c. MONCK. Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Hunter. WASHINGTON, April 22, 1865. SIR: With reference to Mr. Seward's note of the 23d January, and to Mr. Burnley's reply of the 25th January, relative to an alleged projected raid on United States ships on the coast of the Pacific, I have the honor to transmit a copy of a despatch which has been addressed by Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope to the secretary of the admiralty on the subject. I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient, humble servant, Hon. W. HUNTER, &c., &c., &c. FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE. Sir James Hope to the Secretary of the Admiralty. DUNCAN AT TRINIDAD, March 8, 1865. SIR: You will be pleased to acquaint the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in reply to your letter of the 16th ultimo, that in conversation with the governor of Demarara, on the subject of the alleged attempt to seize United States steam vessels in the Pacific, he expressed his intention of taking every means in his power to frustrate this scheme should any attempt be made to carry it into execution, and that the senior officer of the division will be directed to afford him every assistance for this purpose. I have, &c., The SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY. J. HOPE. Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Hunter. WASHINGTON, April 24, 1865. SIR: Mr. Burnley communicated to the governor general of Canada the note which the Secretary of State of the United States did Mr. Burnley the honor to address to him on the 13th instant, relative to the mode of dealing with articles exported inland from Canada to the United States, and I have now the honor to transmit to you a copy of his excellency's answer, requesting me to convey his thanks for the manner in which his application on this subject has been received. I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, Hon. W. HUNTER. FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE. Viscount Monck to Sir F. Bruce. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, Quebec, April 20, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your despatch of April 15, and enclosures, relative to the mode of dealing with articles exported inland from Canada to the United States. I shall feel much obliged if you will communicate to the Secretary of State of the United States my thanks for the manner in which my application on this subject has been met by him. I have, &c., SIR F. BRUCE, &c., &c., &c. MONCK. |