A strong effort is on foot by naval officers who have been retired and their friends to set aside the law and the action under which they w...

Embracing a synopsis of the leading British Authorities as to the first proposed Instruction. The general rule of International Law, as...

Navy Department , 30 Sept. 1863. SIR: Since the interview with you some weeks since, in relation to certain proposed instructions t...

Executive Mansion , Washington, July 25, 1863. Hon. Secretary of the Navy, SIR, Certain matters have come to my notice, and con...

Navy Department , 26 August, 1863. SIR, In the case of the Mont Blanc, seized by Commander Collins at Sand Cay as a prize, the Cour...

Navy Department, 26 Aug. 1863. Sir , I have had the honor to receive your communication of the 4th Ins't . & 14th Ins't...

Dep't. of State, 4 Aug. 1863. Hon. G. Welles, Secty. of the Navy. Sir :— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your comm...

Navy Department , 31 July, 1863. Sir , On the 13th of May last I had the honor to receive a note from you enclosing the copy of a c...

Very warm. Little done at Cabinet. Seward undertook to talk wise in relation to Commander Collins and the Mont Blanc, but really betrayed i...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. The President read a brief telegram which he got last evening from General Hooker, to whom, gettin...

Navy Department, 18 April, 1863. Sir, I have had the honor to receive your note of the 15th inst. in reference to the mails of the ...