Hamilton Fish to Official copy: H. CLAY WOOD, February 27, 1872

No. 293. Mr. Fish to Mr. Nelson.

Sir: I transmit a copy of a letter of the 23d instant, and of the papers which accompanied it, addressed to this Department by the Secretary of the Interior, relative to depredations, by Kickapoo Indians from Mexico, upon Texas. It is represented that in making these depredations, those savages were encouraged, if not instigated, by Mexicans. You will again make a representation upon this subject to the Mexican minister for foreign affairs. It must be obvious to that government that the ravages referred to cannot fail to occasion great irritation among those citizens of Texas who suffer from them, and that in the interest of the good understanding which we are desirous of maintaining with the Mexican republic, the government of that republic is expected to exert its authority toward checking the raids of the robbers adverted to.

I am, &c.,