WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., September 15, 1862.

Honorable WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

Secretary of State:

SIR: The Secretary of War directs me respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 13th instant, inclosing the translation of a note from the Dutch minister, advising you that he had invited Mr. Amedee Couturie to receive the articles other than the $800,000 in coin seized at his house by the military authorities in New Orleans. The Secretary further directs me to say that your request, that instructions be issued in accordance therewith in the proper quarter, has been complied with.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, September 15, 1862.

Major General B. F. BUTLER,

Commanding at New Orleans, La.:

GENERAL: The Secretary of War directs me to inform you that he has been advised by the Secretary of State that the Dutch minister has invited Mr. Amedee Couturie to receive the articles other than the $800,000 in coin seized at his house by the military authorities of New Orleans, and to request that you will accordingly cause the same to be delivered to Mr. Couturie.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

[Indorsement.]

All matters have been delivered to Mr. Couturie except small box of papers, which have been delivered to their owner, and the matter adjusted, I believe, to his satisfaction.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., September 15, 1862.

Governor BUCKINGHAM,

Norwich, Conn.:

Please forward the Second Connecticut Battery and any other troops you have as quickly as possible.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

NORWICH, CONN., September 15, 1862.

Hon. E. M. STANTON,

The Twentieth and Twenty-first Regiments went forward on Wednesday. The Nineteenth, Colonel Wessells, left to-day, which is one

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