Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-28
UNCLE SAM WANTS 1T.
Thirty Millions of Confederate Property
Sold to Enrlishmen

solo To Ensilshmen.
WASHINGTON, July 27th.-In response to
Senate resolution calling upon him for
any evidence in the Treasury Department
relating to property of the United States to
which the United States has valid claim,
and which is held in adverse posse ession,
the Secretary of the Treasury to-day trans.
mitted to the Senate reports of the Solicitor
of the Treasury and the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue on the subject
The most interesting OF the documents
returned is letter from Litllepage, lately
employed as an agent OF the reasury TO
assist IN the prevention and detection OF
frauds upon the customs revenue" In a
letter dated November II, 1887, he states
that he went to his home in King William
county, Va, to examine his old Confe6er-
ate papers, made and received while in
Europe, under order OF the then Confed-
crate States Government, to obtain accurate
data. He says he found that in the winter
of 1864 he was ordered to the Confederate
ship The Texas, alias The Pompeiro.
This vessel was built at Glasgow as No. l
sloop-of-war and was to have received her
armament and equipment, while lying OFF
the coast of England, by another vessel.
NOW A MERCHANTMAN.
Captain Henry Sinclair of the Confeder-
Aut CldltS navy the COnS
ton of the vessel, her cost being ST. 400 900,
all of which was fully paid by the Confed-
crate Government. The vessel, he says,
started to sea, but having been reported as
Confederate cruiser, was seized. Captain
Sinclair, rather than carry her through the
Courts, secured her release by guaranteeing
that she should not go into the hands OF
the Confederscy. He then chartered her
and when, few months after, the Con-
federacy collapsed, she was sailing under
the same charter. He adds that this ves-
sci was fully paid for by the Confederate
Government, and should belong to the
United States. She is still valuable and is
now trading between Edinburgh and Co.
penhagen.
He adds that Theodore Clyde built
steamers constructed by Confederate Gov.
ernment money, and similarly disposed OF
by their agents or captains which should
now belong to the United States. There
were also two powerful rams built by Baird
& Co. on the Mersey, ostensibly for the
Chinese Government, but inspected and
tested by Confederate officers. They were,
he says, seized by the British authorities,
and were finally disposed of by the Con-
federate agents in charge, and are
now IN TIE BRITISH NAVY,
Having recently been seen by Admiral
Luce al Bermuda flying the British flag.
Littlepege also speakes OF certain power
ful Clyde-built steamers and rams built for
the Confederate Government, and also
states that parties who recently visited Cap
tain Sinclair's house say that its linen,
crockery. cutlery, ETC., bore the letters, " c.
s. N" which are supposed to have come
from the Texas. He adds that two new
Clyde-built steamers, the City of Peters
burg and the Old Dominion, which were
built for the Confederate Government and
paid for by it, are now running between
Liverpool and Dublin.
$50, 600 OF CONFEDERATE PROPERTY IN
ENGLAND.
Littlepage files an itemized statement of
Confederate property uncovered by the
Government amounting to 30,000, 900,
most of which is in English hands. He
estimates that there are Sc, 6,000,0O worth in
the United States, not including the value
of many million dollars worth of cotton
belonging to the Confederate Government,
shipped from Brownsville, Galveston and
Matamoras since the war.