Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III

Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward

No. 469.]

Paris, May 20, 1864.

Sir: I cut the annexed small slip from Galignani. It gives you, I presume, the result of the conference held in Paris, some months since, as to a southern line of route between the European and American continents. I wrote you of this conference at the time it assembled, stating the fact that neither England nor the United States were invited to take part in it.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WM. L. DAYTON.

[Slip referred to.]

After conferences opened at the ministry of foreign affairs for the establishment of an international telegraphic line, projected by M. Balestrini, between the European continent and America, a convention on the subject was yesterday signed by M. Drouyn de l’Huys, the Brazilian, Italian, and Portuguese ministers, and the chargé d’affaires of the republic of Hayti.

Hon. William H. Seward &c., &c., &c.