Mr. Seward to Mr. Sullivan.
Sir: Your dispatch of the 16th of September, No. 25, has been received. It is accompanied by an interesting correspondence which you recently had with Mr. Hanaberg, United States consul at Carthagena, on a rumor that a citizen of the United States had been assassinated at Rio Hacha, and also concerning the case of the persons, lately citizens of the United States, who had enlisted in the Colombian service on board the Colombian steamer El Rayo. The reported assassination having proved to be without foundation, and the case of the persons enlisted on the steamer El Rayo having been already considered, I do not find it necessary to enlarge at the present time upon either of those matters.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Peter J. Sulliyan, Esq., &c., &c., &c.