Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, July 19, 1864.

Sir: I have to-day had the honor to receive a note from you, dated yesterday, in which you inform me that it is reported to you by the United States consul at St. John, New Brunswick, that a force is being organized in the neighborhood of that place, for the purpose of committing depredations on the frontier of Maine.

I have lost no time in calling the attention of the administrator of the government of the province of New Brunswick to this matter.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.