Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 7, 1874

No. 809.
Mr. Fish to Mr. Russell.

Department of State,
Washington, October 29, 1874.

No. 23.]

Sir: Referring to your dispatch No. 15, under date of the 19th ultimo, relating to the arrival in Venezuela of emigrants from the United States, and to their disappointments and sufferings, I have to state that the Department is aware of no method either of relieving the destitute who have already gone, or from preventing others from going to that country.

I am, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.