The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-01-31

hospitals, and regulates elimits Of ofresidence. -.
and trade permitted to citizens of the United States
at the Five Ports and -apperiaining thereto
Art. 49, Empowers citizens ofthe United States
freely to employ teachers and other literary assist
ants, and to purchase books in China
Art 49, Provides for the means of assuring the
personal security of citizens Of the United States
in China.
Art. 20. Provides that citizens of the United
States, having paid duties on goods at either of the
said ports, may at pleasure export the same to any
other of the Five Ports without paying duty onthe
same a second time.
Art 2l Provides that subjects Of China and
citizens of the United States in China. charged
with crimes. shall be subject only to the exclusive
Jurisdiction, each, Of the laws and officers OF their
respective governments.
Art o. Provides that the merchant vessels may
freely carry between the Five Ports and any coun-
try with which China may happen to be at war.
Art. 20. Provides for reports to be made by the
consuls of the United States of the commerce Of
their country in China.
Art. "a Provides for the mode in which com
plants or petitions may be made by citizens Of the
United States to the Chinese government, and by
subjects of China to the officers of the United
States, and controversies between them adjusted,
Art. 35. Provides that all questions in regard to
rights, whether of person or of property, arising
between citizens of the United States in China,
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the authorities OF their own government.
Art. SO. Provides for the police and security Of
merchant vessels of the United States in the waters
of China, and the pursuit of and punishment Of
piraces on the same by subjects Of China.
Art. 27. Provides foI the safety and protection
of vessels or citizens of the United States wrecked
on the coast or driven by stress of weather or 9TH
erwise into any OF the ports of China.
Art. 49, Provides that citizens OF the United
States. their vessels and property, shall not be sub
ject to any embargo, detention, or other molesta-
ton in China.
Art 20. Provides for the apprehension in Chi
ma ofmutneers or deserters from the vessels OF the
United States; the delivering up Of Chinese crim'
Americans; and the mutual prevention of act of dis
order and violence; and that the merchants seamen
and other citizens of the United States in China
shall be under the superintendent of the appro-
pirate officers oftheir own government.
Art 80. Prescribes the mode and style OF cor
respondence between the officers and private ndi-
viduals respectively of the two nations.
Art. 81. Provides for the transmission ofcom-
munications from the government q the United
States to the Imperial Court.
Art 80. Provides that ships Of war Of the United
States, and the officers of the same, shall be hos
ptablv received and entertained at each of the Five
Ports.
Art 33. Provides that citizens of the United
States, engaged in contraband trade or trading
candestinely with such of the ports of China as
are not open to foreign commerce, shall not be
countenanced or protected by their government.
Art. "a. Provides that the treaty shall be in
force for twelve years, longer, at the option Of
the two governments; and that the ratitications shall
be exchanged within eighteen months from the
date Of the signatures thereof
The treaty purports to be signed and sealed by
the respe, tive plenipoentlaries at Wang Heya the
Sd of July. 1871, and is signed,
G. CUSHING. TSIYENG I'm .Mlnchu.)
The following are the 2lst aud 25th articles at
length:
Art. 81. Subjects of China, who may be guilty
ofany criminal act towards citizens of the United
States, shall be arrested aud punished by the Chi
nese authorities according to the laws of China
and citizens of the United States, who may com
nit any crime in China, shall be subject to be tried
and punished only by the consul or other public
functonary of the United States thereto authorized
according to the laws of the United States And
IN order to the prevention Of all controversy and
dsaIection, jus ,ice shall be equitably and impair
tally administered on both sides.
Art. 25. All questions in regard to the rights
whether of property or persons, arising between
citizens OF the United States in China, shall be sub
ect to the jurisdiction and regulated by the author
ties of their own government. And all conrover-
sizes occurring in China between citizens of the
United States and the subjects OF any other govern
ment shall bereguated by the treaties existing be-
tween the United States and such government re-
spectvely, without interference on the part of
China.
ROMANCE IN THE LIFE OF A Factory
GlRL.-Miss Irene Nichols, daughter
ofMr. Nathaniel Nichols, of Monmouth.
Kennebec Co., while at work in a fac,
tory in Dorchester, Mass, some four
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