Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1879

No. 495.
Mr. Baker to Mr. Evarts.

Legation of the United States,
Caracas, February 27, 1879. (Received March 24.)

No. 98.]

Sir: At about 4 p.m. on the 25th instant General Guzman Blanco arrived in Caracas. The town was duly decorated and embannered for the occasion, and the entrée was accompanied by a movement of the people, discharges of cannon, and explosion of rockets.

I have, &c.,

JEHU BAKER.