The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

secesh songs ; that it was thought best to send her home to
her father at New Orleans, and that she would a +il in a day
or two, but that no one would be allowed to see her,

" With this assurance her friends were obliged to be con-
tented,

"Thirty-five days afterwards a letter was r ceived by one
of her friends, stating that she was still a c ose prisoner in
the Forty .seventh-street station-house.
"Application was at once made to you. Her friends
were informed that you knew nothing of her case, that you
would at once address the proper authority at Washington
for information, and if in your power would release her.
"Pending this correspondence two ladies, the wives of
two of our most reputable merchants, who had been for
many years the neighbours and friends of Mrs. Brinsmade,
called upon Mr. Kennedy for permission to see her.
" They asked ' What were the charges against her, and
who were her accusers _

" Mr. Kennedy, vin his usual manner, answered, I,
madam, am her accuser ; she is a general spy ; from the
moment she set her foot in this city my presence over-
shadowed her. I did not leave her for a moment. She went
to Brooklyn to visit her friends ; I watched her, and when
she returned to the Everett House I watched her there. She
went to Washington, and when I got her in the right place
I arrested her and brought her back here and put her where
she is.'

" In reply to the inquiry if there was no more proper
place for the confinement of this lady than a police-station,
he said,—' No, that was the place for her. That her whole
conduct on board ship indicated that she was a spy, and that
she ought to be hung—that a thoughtless, giddy thing like
her and the one who was arrested a few days since in Wash-
ington, who was making a waggon of herself, carrying
quinine to the rebels, were the very ones to be employed as
spies, and that they all ought to be hung,'
" In reply to the inquiry as to whether she was to be kept
shut up where she then was and had been for five weeks,
and her friends unable to see her or know where she was,
he replied, That is with the department.'
Through your kind intervention, after this long confine-
ment, this lady on Monday was restored to her friends.
" I learn that she was arrested without the authority of
any one in Washington; that the fact of her arrest was
never reported by Mr. Kennedy to any department of the
Government; that no charges had ever been filed, and that
even her name was unknown at the War Department ; that
so soon as you were enabled to learn the facts you obtained
from Mr. Kennedy her release.
"Will you be so kind as to examine the facts as I have
related them, and inform me whether or not they are cor-
rectly stated, so far as they have come to your knowledge ?
"Yours very truly,
"SAMUEL L. M. BARLOW."
"TO SAMUEL L. M. BARLOW, ESQ., NEW YORK.
"Office of the Provost-Marshal-General of the War
Department, New York, Nov. 10.

" Dear Sir,—ln reply to yours of the Bth inst. I can only
state that up to the 29th ult. I had no knowledge whatever
with regard to Mrs. Brinsmade's case. On that day Mrs.
Elliott called and informed me that she was under arrest,
and inquired what was the cause.
"I on the same day wrote to -Washington, directing in-
quiry to be made of the Judge-Advocate-General.
" On the lst inst. I was informed that the Judge-Advo-
cate-General knew nothing about the case.
"Upon this I asked Mr. Kennedy by what authority he
held her as a prisoner ; he replied that she was arrested and
held by order of Colonel Baker, the Provost-Marshal of
Washington. This I forwarded to Washington, and on the
3d inst. received from Colonel Baker and the Assistant
Secretary of War information by telegraph to the effect
that the arrest had been made by one of Mr. Kennedy's
officers, and Mrs. Brinsmade was detained by him without
authority from the War Department.
" I then called upon Mr. Kennedy, received from him an
order directing Mrs. Brinsmade's release, and went with it
to the station house, took her from it and placed her in
charge of her friends.
" The foregoing is all the information that I can give
bearing on the subject.
" Your obedient servant,
"S. DRAPER, Provost-Marshal-General."