Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III

Mr. Hunter to Mr. Dayton

No. 695.]

Department of State, Washington, November 7, 1864.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 21st ultimo, No. 552, relative to the answer of Mr. Bigelow, consul at Paris, to the comments of his excellency upon a previous report of Mr. Bigelow on the movements of commerce between France and the United States, and to the satisfaction expressed by M. Drouyn de l’Huys with the action of the government of the United States in regard to the Mexican troops under Cortinas which recently crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, and, in reply, to express my approval thereof.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

William L. Dayton, Esq, &c., &c., &c.