The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-04-05
Enlargement Of the United Safes.

'Eularg gement Of the United Safes.
A dispatch from Washington, dated the
30th ult., says:
''The President communicated to the
Senate In executive session q treaty with
Russia, by which that power surrenders to
the United States Its sovereignty over all
OF Rusolan America and the adjacent
islands. 1t especially includes the strip
which extends down the coast, thus nearly
excluding British America from the ocean.
The treaty was laid on the table, and will
be taken up next week. The cesslon ex-
cites intense interest. Influential parties re-
gard it as significant of the Russian policy in
view of impending European complications
on the Eastern question. Russia cedes her
American territory for the same reasons
that induced Napolean to sell Louisiana
In the event of war Russia would probably
lose this territory, and by parting with it
the Gar secures the friendship Of our GOV
ernment-The English representatives are
deeply chagrined and it is said Bruce will
telegraph to Lord Derby for instructions to
protest against the acceptance by our gov
ernment. This acquisition more than doub-
les the United States coast on the Pacific. "
Another dispatch says
1T is true as reported that the President
communicated to the Senate to day treaty
with Russia by which that power surren-
ders to the United Stntes her sovereignty
over all Russian America and adjacent isl
ands. The price to be paid for, this terri
tory is about seven million dollars. The
treaty was signed early this morning, and
sent to the Senate shorty afterward.
In speaking Of this cession of territory
by Russia to the United States the Milwau-
kee Wisconsin has the following:
The country will be electrified with the
intelligence that Russia has ceded to the
United States her possessions on the North
America continent for the sum of seven
millions of dollars. The country lies be-
tween fifty-fve and seventy degrees of
forth latitude. The soil is barren. The clim-
ate very severe, except on the islands off the
southern coast, where it is about like that of
Scotland. The area is four hundred and
sixty thousand square miles, and it has Il
coast line on the Pacific of sixteen thousand
miles. A strip of this country, thirty three
miles broad and four hundred miles long
extends between British America and the
Pacific Ocean. England will therefore view
this cesSlcn with natural Jealousy. The
country is not worth much save for its val
liable fisheries and furs
"Of course, this treaty must be first
ratified by two thirds of TIE United States
Senate, but it probably will be, for there is
a manifest feeling among our people for the
extension of our sovereignty over the whole
continent. 1t is mystery why Russia
should make this cession. She is generally
very tenacious of her territory. The Rus
sian Bear rarely yields after he has once put
down his paw, but it tissupposed that he Gar
is preparing for the time when Russia may
have another war with England, and, in
that event, Russian North America would
as Russia is friendly to our nation, she would
much rather that the United States should
become the possessor.