Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Fish, Secretary of State, to the President.

Department of State,
Washington, June 29, 1869.

The Secretary of State has the honor to lay before the President the inclosed telegram of this date, just received from Mr. Pierrepont, asking instructions as to steps to be taken in regard to Colonel Ryan and his expeditionary party of four hundred men at New York.¹

1. For inclosure see preceding letter.