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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ers — they are to be delivered to the State of Vermont. In Montreal, on the 10th instant, the case of the St. Albans raiders was given up. The following telegram gives an account of the action taken in the matter: The prisoners' counsel asked for a further delay for reasons which were set forth in the affidavits, and which say that four messengers have been sent to Richmond. One of them, Davis, had been arrested in Ohio and sentenced to be hanged as a spy. Another left on the 17th, and was in Washington on the 23d; another was captured at Wilmington, but escaped, and returned to Canada; and a fourth, Mr. Houghton, Advocate, went to Washington, and endeavored, without success, to obtain a pass to Richmond. In reply to this letter, Mr. Seward wrote him that the Government could hold no communication or correspondence with him, and he expected to leave the country without entering the scene of insurrection or communicating with the insurgents. He saw the President a