Mr. Olney to Mr. Dupuy de Lôme.

No. 43.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 7th instant, and to say that I have transmitted a copy of the same to the Attorney-General, that through him the district attorney at Wilmington, N. C., may be put in possession of the significant facts stated in your dispatch.

Accept, etc.,

Richard Olney.