Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward
Sir: The steamer Florida, for the want of a clear bill of health, was at first, as I am informed, put in quarantine at Brest. Our vice-consul at that port now telegraphs me that the quarantine was raised last evening and her twenty-four passengers landed. These passengers were the persons taken from the last ship which this piratical craft had burned. The ship burned was the Anglo Saxon, of New York, Captain John M. Cavarly; loaded with coal; bound from Liverpool to New York; sailed August 17; burned on the 21st, about twenty-five miles southeast of Cork. This is the account given by the captain, if I understand the telegraphic despatch aright. Our vice-consul is, of course, looking after the wants of the seamen who have been landed.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
His Excellency William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.