entirely concur, and hope that your relations with Mr. Johnson will be cordial, and that you will be well pleased with the results of his mission. With sincere regard, I am, very truly, yours, EDWIN M. STANTON. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., June 10, 1862. Col. GEORGE F. SHEPLEY, DEAR SIR: I have the pleasure to transmit herewith your appointment and instructions as Military Governor of Louisiana. No one can be more conscious than yourself of the great importance and responsibility of the official trust thus committed to you by the President. And I will only add that with full confidence in the wisdom and success of your administration, and with the purpose to afford you every aid in the power of this Department, I remain, truly, yours, EDWIN M. STANTON, P. S.-You will also find inclosed herewith copy of the memorandum of a conversation between Lord Lyons and the Secretary of State on the 30th ultimo, to which I beg leave to call your attention.* Col. GEORGE F. SHEPLEY, [Inclosure No. 1.] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., June 10, 1862. Military Governor of Louisiana, New Orleans, La.: SIR: The commission you have received expresses on its face the nature and extent of the duties and power devolved on you by the appointment of Military Governor of Louisiana. Instructions have been given to Major-General Butler to aid you in the performance of your duty and the exercise of your authority. He has also been instructed to detail an adequate military force for the special purpose of a governor's guard and to act under your directions. It is obvious to you that the great purpose of your appointment is to re-establish the authority of the Federal Government in the State of Louisiana, and provide the means of maintaining peace and security to the loyal inhabitants of that State until they shall be able to establish a civil government. Upon your wisdom and energetic action much will depend in accomplishing the result. For your instruction in respect to the manner of dealing with international rights, I inclose a letter of Hon. William H. Seward to me, under the date of the 3d instant, and it is the desire of the President that your official action shall conform to the views and policy indicated therein. It is not deemed necessary to give any specific instructions, but rather to confide in your sound discretion to adopt such measures as circumstances may demand. Specific instructions will be given when requested. You may rely upon the perfect confidence and full support of the Department in the performance of your duties. With respect, I am, your obedient servant, EDWIN M. STANTON, See p. 130. Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, [Sub-inclosure No. 1.] WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., June 3, 1862. Secretary of State: SIR: This Department has appointed Col. George F. Shepley Military Governor of the State of Louisiana. His jurisdiction will include the city of New Orleans. While exerting the military power to overcome the rebellion, the Department desires to avoid any encroachment upon international rights, and would be glad to be favored with any suggestions which the State Department may think proper to be incorporated into the instructions to Governor Shepley. Your obedient servant, SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, and thank you for the courtesy of the communication. In reply I have to acquaint you that this Department has already appointed Reverdy Johnson a commissioner to proceed to New Orleans to investigate complaints of foreign consuls against certain military proceedings of General Butler and to report to this Department. I think it would be well to instruct Governor Shepley to afford all reasonable facilities to Mr. Johnson to perform the trust confided to him, and further instruct him that the utmost delicacy is required in transactions with consuls and with foreigners, so as to avoid not only just cause of complaint but groundless irritation in a critical conjuncture. In making these suggestions I am by no means to be understood as prejudging, much less censuring, Major-General Butler, whose general course of administration seems to me to have been eminently judicious and energetic. It would be advisable for Governor Shepley to refer to the Government at Washington any questions in the determination of which, or in proceedings pursuant thereto, there may be a reasonable doubt as to his authority. I am, sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Hon. E. M. STANTON, STATE OF MICHIGAN, EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Secretary of War: SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the order of the Department authorizing me to raise one regiment of cavalry. In the order the hope is expressed that the regiment may be ready by the 4th of July next. I will cheerfully undertake to raise the regiment, but it will be impossible to do it by the time indicated. I cannot promise that it can be ready before the 1st of August, or near that time. If for any reason that length of time cannot be allowed, I should hope to be informed of it. It is the worst season of the year to recruit in the West, and the drain has already been considerable. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON: AUSTIN BLAIR, MADISON, WIS., June 10, 1862. Your circular dispatch through Adjutant-General is received. Enlistments for our new regiment move slowly. We are still embarrassed by failure to receive your favorable reply or any reply to my dispatch relative to mustering officers. E. SALOMON, Governor. ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Maj. R. S. SMITH, Madison, Wis.: The Secretary of War directs that you act as superintendent of the volunteer recruiting service and mustering and disbursing officer for Wisconsin. L. THOMAS, GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, June 11, 1862. I. All property captured by the Army, or seized by any provostmarshal, or taken up astray, or taken from soldiers marching in the enemy's country, will be turned over to the chiefs of the staff departments to which such property would appertain, on duty with the troops, and will be accounted for by them as captured property and used for the public service, unless claimed by owners and ordered by the commanding officer to be returned. In such case the receipts of the owners to whom the property is delivered will be taken therefor. Provost-marshals will make returns to the Adjutant-General of all such property and of the disposition made of it, accounting on separate returns for ordnance, quartermaster, subsistence, medical stores, &c., furnishing and procuring the usual invoices and receipts, and charging the officers to whom the property has been delivered with the same on the returns. II. Paragraph 41, Regulations for the Subsistence Department, of April 24, 1862, corresponding with paragraph 1217, Regulations for the Army, is hereby rescinded. The settlement of accounts for the board of soldiers in private hospitals is transferred to the SurgeonGeneral's Department. By order of the Secretary of War: L. THOMAS, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State: SIR: I beg leave to call your attention to the matter of the Mexican consulate at this port and to lay before you my action in the premises. Soon after my arrival here I found two gentlemen, Señors Feliciano Ruiz and Ignacio P. Oropesa, both of whom claimed to exercise rightfully consular powers for the Republic of Mexico at this port, with consular flags, offices, &c., each representing the other to be without consular authority from that Government. Being applied to by both to settle the question between them, I caused the letters addressed to the Mexican consul to be detained in the post-office until I would bring both gentlemen together, when communications addressed to the one and the other, copies of which are hereby annexed, marked A and B, were found, coming from the minister of the interior for the Republic of Mexico, which settled the question at once. Thereupon I ordered both gentlemen to take down their consular flags at once and cease to exercise or discharge the duties and business of the consulate, and referred them to their own Government and the consul-general of that Government at New York. Hoping that my action herein meets your approval, I have the honor to be, your most obedient servant, No. 41.] EXHIBIT A. (Translation.) MEXICAN REPUBLIC, MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR RELATIONS, Sr. Don FELICIANO RUIZ, In Charge of the Archives of the Consulate-General of the Republic in New Orleans: I have received the dispatch No. 5, which, under date of the 7th of the past month, you were pleased to send me, and I give you thanks for the information which you give me relative to events recently taken place in the United States. In case that you should not have received my communication No. 40, of 31st of January last, and as it is not now expedient that there should be a consulate in New Orleans, I must reiterate to you the order that you will be pleased to deliver the archives and seals which you have in your charge to the consul of the Republic in New York. Receive the protestations of my particular esteem. DOBLADO. I certify that the above is a correct translation of Document No. 41 in the original Spanish, signed and dated as above. In witness whereof witness my signature. S. A. PERKINS, First Lieut., Third Massachusetts Cavalry, Second Brigade. EXHIBIT B. (Translation.) MEXICO, National Palace, April 23, 1862. Sr. Dr. IGNACIO P. DE OROPESA: Having received lately at this department various communications from you, in which it appears that you are still exercising the functions of vice-consul, I must reiterate, in case that the last order of the Government should not have reached your hands, that not only your nomination has not been confirmed, but that that general consulate has been suppressed and established for the time at New York under the charge of Señor Duran, who has received an order to collect together the archives and seals which Don Feliciano Ruiz had under his charge in deposit. It is to be hoped, therefore, that as soon as you and also Señor Ruiz may have received notice that the general consulate in New Orleans has been suppressed, and have received orders, respectively, you shall have put an end to the indecorous and imprudent conduct which you have observed in treating of exercising the one and the other functions which as yet in no manner did not belong to either one of you. I reiterate to you my protestations of particular attention. FUENTE. I certify that the above is a correct translation of document, or rather letter, in the original Spanish, dated and signed as above. In testimony whereof witness my seal. S. A. PERKINS, First Lieut., Third Massachusetts Cavalry, Second Brigade. Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON : COLUMBUS, June 11, 1862. Over 4,000 men have assembled at Camp Chase under the call for three-months' volunteers. They have been formed into four regiments-Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, Eighty-sixth, and Eighty-seventh. The Eighty-fourth left at 6 p. m. this day for Cumberland, Md. The Eighty-fifth are organized for guard duty within the State. The Eighty-sixth and Eighty-seventh will be ready for the field in a few days. What orders have you for them? GENERAL ORDERS, DAVID TOD. WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, I. Paragraph 1269, Army Regulations, is hereby so modified that private physicians, employed as medical officers with an army in the field in time of war, may be allowed a sum not to exceed $125 per month, besides transportation in kind. II. The certificates of discharge to be given by the Medical InspectorGeneral, or any medical inspector of the Army, under the act of May 14, 1862, published in General Orders, No. 53, will be made on the printed forms for certificates of disability prescribed by the Army Regulations. The inspector giving the discharge will indorse it with his own certificate that it is granted upon his own personal inspection of the soldier, and with the soldier's consent, and for disability, the nature, degree, and origin of which are correctly described in the within certificate. III. Each medical director must, under the orders of his department commander, regulate the distribution of the sick and wounded to the hospitals within the military department to which he belongs. When want of room in such hospitals or the nature of the wounds or diseases of any invalids require that detachments shall be sent beyond the limits of their departments, the Surgeon-General will designate to 10 R R-SERIES III, VOL II |