was to Telegraph all to your Honor so that you might receive it on your arrival and lay it yourself before the Ministers -- but from all information I could get I found you would not arrive before 3½ oclook or thereabouts -- and finding that if I did not send word to Mr. Stafford that others would I transmitted (a copy in full as recd. by Your Honor) all to Mr. Stafford with a Telegram from Col. Whitmore -- having done so I sent the originals to Mr. Rhodes.