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Baltimore, Md., October 18, 1861. Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. SIR: I have the honor to inclose a list of prisoners brought to Fort Mdllenry within the last three days. All but Julius, of whom I know nothing, are implicated in the same criminal acts-recruiting and forwarding men to the Confederate Army. Julius is said to have been concerned in facilitating their passage across the Potomac. It is desirable that they should be sent away from Fort McHenry to some place of security more distant from their friends who are constantly seeking access to them. I am, very respectfully, JOHN A. DIX, Major-General, Commanding.
William F. McKewen was clerk to the board of police commissioners. He is an active and dangerous rebel; was the leader and adviser of the old police in their rebellious opposition to the Government; he was detected in enlisting men for the rebel army and was going himself. Source: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series 2, Volume 2.
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