Mr. Thornton to Mr. Seward.

WASHINGTON, February 20, 1868. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 17th instant relative to the abduction of Allan Macdonald from the township of Moore, in Canada, in October last.

I have much pleasure in expressing to you my sincere acknowledgments for the view which you have taken of this matter, and which so completely accords with my own. I am confident that her Majesty's government will also be much gratified, and will be entirely satisfied with the contents of your note. In the mean time I hope you will believe that we can have no sympathy with the individual in question, who showed so great a want of good faith on the occasion; nor was the representation I made to you inspired by any wish. to withdraw a convicted criminal from punishment, but was merely for the purpose of inviting your assistance for the prevention of any conflict between the authorities of our two countries.

I therefore take upon myself the responsibility of not accepting your offer, that Allan Macdonald should be set at liberty in Canada-confident, as I am, that her Majesty's government will approve of this step, at the same time that they will fully appreciate the straightforward manner in which you have treated the question.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

In obedience to law, statement of contracts made by the quartermasters' department during the month of February, 1868.

MARCH 11, 1868.-Read, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, and ordered to be printed.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, March 10, 1868.

SIR In compliance with the acts approved April 21, 1808, and July 17, 1862, I have the honor to transmit herewith statements of contracts made by the quartermasters' department during the month of February, 1868, and of those not received in time to be included in previous reports.

Your obedient servant,

Hon. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

Abstract of contracts made by the quartermasters' department during the month ending on the 29th February, 1868, and those made prior thereto, but not received in time to be included in the last report.

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1 Richmond, Va., December 24, 1867.
Richmond, Va., December 26, 1867.
3 Richmond, Va., December 31, 1867..
4 Atlanta, Ga., December 9, 1867

Lieut. Col. Jas. M. Moore and John D.
Smith.

For hard wood, supply of troops at Farmville,
Va., for six months, at $4 per cord.

Lieut. Col. Jas. M. Moore and Brauder & For 16,000 bushels oats in sacks, delivered at
Cooke.

Richmond, Va., at 754 cents per bushel.
For 25 tons straw, baled, at $13 per ton, deliv-
ered at Richmond, Va.

For 468 window frames and sash, 18 lights 10 by
12; 430 window frames and sash, 12 lights
10 by 12, primed and glazed with good Amer-
ican glass; 586 door frames, primed; 20 panel
doors, primed; doors to be trimmed with butts,
locks, and mineral knobs; all for $14,790-
delivered at Swift's race-track, near Atlan-
ta, Ga.

For 264 horses at $157 each, delivered at San
Antonio, Texas.

For 40 horses at $157 each.

For 10,000 bushels oats at 67 cents, and 13,437
bushels oats at 68 cents, in sacks of about 4
bushels each, delivered in St. Louis, Mo.
For 500 tons hay at $22 35 per ton, at St. Louis,
Mo.

For 50 tons straw at $18 per ton, at St. Louis,
Mo.

For 300,000 lbs. oats or barley at $6 70 per 100
lbs.; 250 tons hay at $14 25 per 2,000 lbs.,
coin; 30 tons oat straw, at $14 25 per 2,000
lbs.; 250 cords wood, at $24 75 per cord.
For 1,000 bushels charcoal at $1 24 bushel
per
For lease of square No. 138, Washington, D.
C., for drill-ground for cavalry, at $240 per
year, monthly occupation, six months' notice.

Capt. L. Mallen and Samuel H. Jones....
Capt. L. Mallen and Jasper P. Sears..
Capt. L. Mallen and B. D. Creary
Capt. C. L. Gorton and Sam'l H Jones...
John B. Anderson, agent, and Thacker,
Burt & Co.

Capt. C. L. Gorton and Jasper P. Sears, jr.
Gen. S. Van Vliet and F. S. Neven & Co..

Gen. S. Van Vliet and B. H. Classen

Gen. S. Van Vliet and Edwin A. Abbott.
Gen. S. Van Vliet and J. Tome & Co..
Gen. Wm. Myers and C. W. Hamilton.
Lieut. D. A. Griffith and John H. Staats.
Gen. G. B. Dandy and Fred Weddle..
Lieut. F. A. Kendall and H. L. Grant..

Lieut. Col. J. G. C. Lee and John James..

For 2,000 tons hay, cured and stacked, at $42 75 per 2,000 lbs., at Denver.

For 10,000 bushels corn in sacks, at 12 cents
per lb., delivered at Camp Sanborn, C. T.
For 1150 tons hay, at $39 40 per 2,000 lbs., de-
livered at Camp Collins, C. T.
For 20,000 bushels corn in sacks, at $8 68 per
bushel, at Denver, C. T.
For the erection of a bridge across Cumberland
river at Nashville, Tenn.; for the fixed spans
$45 per lineal foot, and for the draw por-
tion complete $13,000. For plans and speci-
fications see contract on file.
For 15,000 bushels corn, at 15 cents per pound
delivered at Fort Lyon, C. T.
For 170 tons hay, in bales, viz: 100 tons at
$24 50 per ton, and 70 tons at $25 per ton, de-
livered in Baltimore, Md.

For 100 tons hay, in bales, viz: 25 tons at $24
per ton, 25 tons at $24 50 per ton, 25 tons at
$25 per ton, and 25 tons at $25 50 per ton.
For 170 tons hay, in bales, viz: 100 tons at
$24 50 per ton, and 70 tons at $25 per ton.
For 100 tons hay, at $24 per ton, delivered in
Baltimore.

For 250 cords of wood at $23 75 per cord, deliv-
ered at Sidney Station, Neb.

For 400 cords of wood at $13 50 per cord, deliv-
ered at Fort Kearney, Neb.

For 1,000 bushels charcoal, at $2 per bushel,
delivered at Fort Phil. Kearney, D. T.
For supplying post with wood for six months,
say 75 cords per month, at $4 per cord.
For lease of certain tracts of land in Presidio
county, Texas, at $900 per annum, payable
monthly; metes and bounds particularly de-
scribed in lease.

Capt. N S. Constable and George Higgins. For 75 head half-breed horses, at $120 each; 65

to be delivered at new military post in the Gallatin valley, M. T., and 10 at Fort Shaw, M. T.