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

No. 84.

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

[By cable.]

Paris, September 14, 1870. (Received. September 14.)

Paris making stupendous preparations for defense. Three hundred thousand soldiers in city. Slight hopes of negotiations through England.

WASHBURNE.