..., or by day, so active a surveillance as you [I] desire. Mr. Duchatel, commanding H. I. F. M's steamer Acheron. As the lawyers say, I took nothing by my motion, with Governor Conde. The United States were strong at sea, and the Confederate States weak, and this difference was sufficient to insure the ruling against me of all but the plainest points, about which there could be no dispute, either o...