On a round voyage of a steamer of 407 tons between this port and that of New Orleans the period of fifteen days is reckoned. Upon this idea the Cardenas ought to have made a voyage and a half in the twenty-two days she was detained, and using as bases the net product of that she had just completed (if she had not been delayed), amounting to $8,300, the company would have earned for a voyage and a half.............................. $12,450

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Total.......................................... 16,347

It results that the Cuban Steam Navigation Company, which we conduct, has suffered damages to the amount of $16,347 by the detention of twenty-two days at the port of New Orleans of their steamer Cardenas.

SAN PELAGIO PARDO & CO.

(Certified.)

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., September 17, 1862.

Honorable WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

Secretary of State:

SIR: The Secretary of War directs me respectfully to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this date, inclosing a copy in translation of three notes from the Spanish minister, and requesting an investigation of statements therein made by him respecting the occurrences which took place on the arrival and departure of the Spanish steamer Cardenas and the U. S. steamer Roanoke in June last, and to inform you that the subject has been referred to Major-General Butler for a report of all the facts and circumstances connected therewith.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., September 17, 1862-10 p. m.

(Received 10.30 a. m. 18th.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

In accordance with your instructions I have authorized raising of two additional cavalry regiments, to wit: The Fourteenth, to be raised at Peoria, by D. P. Jenkins; the Fifteenth, also at Peoria, by Captain Hancock, U. S. Army. I have also authorized Major Stweart to fill up his battalion to a regiment, to be known as the Sixteenth, and Major Thielemenn's to be the Seventeenth.

RICHARD YATES,

Governor.

BOSTON, MASS., September 17, 1862.

Honorable P. H. WATSON:

Before receiving your answer Pennsylvania had bought the muskets at the price I named, adding the exchange, which made the cost &19,87. The parties have 18,000 more, which they will sell the United States on the same terms-that is, $16,50, exchange added. Pennsylvania will take them at these terms. Answer at once.

WM. SCHOULER,

Adjutant-General.

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