Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III

[Per telegraph.]

Mr. Pruyn to Mr. Seward

No. 7.]

Legation of the United States in Japan, Kanagawa, January 7, 1864.

The Tycoon’s palace again destroyed by fire accidentally.

Demands made for $32,000, exclusive of the Pembroke.

Jamestown gone to Amoy, hoping to find Alabama in dry-dock there.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBERT H. PRUYN, Minister Resident in Japan.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, &c., &c., &c.