Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND THE UNITED STATES CONSULATE GENERAL AT PARIS.

No. 106.

Mr. Read to Mr. Fish.

[By cable telegram.]

Paris, August 15, 1870. (Received 5.15 p. m., August 15.)

Paper depreciating daily, also difference between silver and gold; average daily receipts thirteen hundred francs. Very little gold in circulation. What am I to do?

READ.