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

No. 270.
Mr. Cadwalader to Mr. Nicholas Fish.

Department of State,
Washington, August 1, 1874.

No. 689.]

Sir: Your dispatch of the 15th ultimo, No. 4, inclosing, with extracts from the German press, a copy of your note of the 14th ultimo to Prince Bismarck, congratulating him upon his escape from assassination, has been received.

Your action in congratulating the prince, as “communicated by telegraph, has already been approved in No. 684, trom the Department.

I am, &c.,

JOHN L. CADWALADER,
Acting Secretary.