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

No. 49.

[Telegram.—Received July 25, 1870, at 9.30 a.m.]

Mr. E. B. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

Paris, July 24, 1870.

Fish, Washington:

French government assents to our protecting North Germans and Saxons. Hesse Grand-Ducale and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha also ask protection.

WASHBURNE.