The Weekly Caucasian

Edward De Leon, formerly Consul General to Egypt, and afterward an agent of the rebel government in Europe, has written a long letter to the New York Citizen, on the secret diplomatic history of the rebellion. He states that Sir Henry De Houghton, one of the wealthiest baronets of England, contributed in all over £200,000 to the Confederate cause, and that he held at the close not far from one-tenth of the whole cotton loan. He speaks of the loan as a thorough job from the beginning, paying enormous profits to the agents by whom it was negotiated, but very little to the Confederate treasury. It had some influence favorable to the Southern cause, but this was temporary and of little real value.