Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 74.

Mr. E. B. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

[By cable telegram.]

September 5, 1870. (Received September 5.)

Fish, Washington:

Republic proclaimed from Hotel de Ville. People still hold possession Chambers. Deputies Favre, Gambetta, Simon, Picard, and others, provisional government. Rochefort liberated by people.

WASHBURNE, Paris.