Mr. Adee to Signor Mayor des Planches.

No. 70.]

Excellency: I am charged by the President to express his sincere appreciation of your sympathetic note of the 5th instant, in which you conveyed your Government’s congratulations and your own in view of his fortunate escape in the accident at Pittsfield, Mass.

Accept, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee,
Acting Secretary.