Thomas O. Osborn to By the President: Hamilton Fish, June 24, 1875

No. 16. Mr. Osborn to Mr. Fish.

Sir: As an extra steamer leaves here this morning direct for New York, I take the opportunity to inform you that a dispatch has just been received that the Paraguayan government has rejected the late treaty, concluded by Dr. Tejedor and Senor Sosa, at Rio de Janeiro, and that Senor Sosa has been dismissed by his government. How reliable this dispatch is I cannot now say, but it is credited here.

I have also the honor to transmit with this a translation of the statement of Dr. Tejedor’s reply to the reports, and rumors, and charges of the Brazilian press, that his mission was an imposition and a farce, inasmuch as a treaty had already been made with the government of Paraguay by the Argentine Republic before Dr. Tejedor left for Rio de Janeiro, and that his conduct while there, and the manner of his leaving Rio de Janeiro, was not proper or courteous to the Emperor or the ministry.

I am, &c.,