Enclosing summary of claims of citizens of the United States
against Great Britain for damages suffered by them during the
rebellion and thereafter, by means of depredations upon our
commercial marine, committed on the high seas by the Sumter,
the Alabama, the Florida, the Shenandoah, and other ships of
war, built, armed, equipped, and fitted out in British ports.
Sept. 14 Recovery of the Atlantic submarine telegraph cable. Communi-
cation between the two continents.