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264 CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
and Mobile. It being locked, and the consul of the Netherlands
having the key, I applied to him for it, saying that I desired to deliver
the bonds to Mr. Forstall, who claimed them as the agent of Messrs.
Hope & Co. He declined sending the key. I then had the box
opened, delivered the bonds to that gentleman, taking his receipt (a
copy is inclosed), and notified the consul that I held the box to be
delivered to him with the remainder of its contents. This he refused
also by letter. My answer, a copy of [which] I send you for the infor-
mation of the general, will show him the condition in which the mat-
ter now stands. * As this copy is the only one I have the general will
oblige me by returning it. I will have another made for him if he
should desire one.
Yours, with regard,
REVERDY JOHNSON,
Commissioner, &c.
[Inclosure.]
Received, New Orleans, 22d July, 1862, from the Hon. Reverdy
Johnson, commissioner, &c., under an order from Major-General But-
ler, the following bonds:
Ten consolidated debt city of New Orleans bonds for $1,000 each;
eight Mobile City bonds for $1,000 each, the property of Messrs. Hope
& Co., of Amsterdam, placed under the protection of the consul " des
Pays Bas," and seized by order of the commander of the Gulf
Department.
EDM. J. FORSTALL,
Agent of Hope & Co.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., July 27, 1862.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
Dispatch as to nine-months' troops received. Hope that the policy
of three-years' troops will be adherred to generally. In the last ten
days all right in Illinois. The nine-months' regiments are filling up
fast. I think I can raise 20,000 troops very soon, and hope you will
authorize me to do so.
RICHARD YATES.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, July 28, 1862.
Hon. REVERDY JOHNSON,
U. S. Commissioner, New Orleans:
MY DEAR SIR: I spoke to you Saturday of a proposition made to
me by an English gentleman engaged in the cotton trade in Mobile.
His proposition is, that the rebels will permit cotton to come out of
Mobile in exchange for salt and such merchandise as they need there,
not contraband of war, provided a pledge shall be given that the cot-
ton shall be shipped to England.
Of course we do not care where the cotton goes, even if it gets to
that portion of the world known as Great Britain, where they inhu-
manly blow rebels from guns and sack cities that are so unfortunate
as to fall into their hands, as witness Pekin and Delhi.
* Copy not found,
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 2., book, 1899; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139264/m1/273/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.