The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-12-26


for like purposes during the preced-
ing year.
PATENT OFFICE STATISTICS.
The year ending the 3Oth of Sep
tember last the expenses of the pat
ent Office exceeded the receipts by
one hundred and seventy-one dol
lars, and including reissues and de-
signs, fourteen. thousand one hum
dred and fifty-three patents were is
sued,
INDIAN TREATIES.
Treaties with the various Indian
tribes have been concluded, and will
be submitted to the Senate for it's
constitutional action. / candidly
sanction the stipulation which pro-
vides for reserving lands for the va
rious tribes, where they may be en-
couraged TO abandon their nomadic
habits and engage in agricultural
and industrial pursuits. Thispoliey,
inaugurated many years since, has
met with signal success wherever it
had been pursued in good faith, and
with becoming liberality by the I'm
I AANN DAntNDs llO hCNNDDlLh IDI CA
tending 1t as far as practicable in our
relations with the aboriginal popula-
tion is greater now that at any pre-
ceding period; whilst we furnish
subsistence and instruction to the
Indians and guarantee the undis-
turbed enjoyment of their treaty
rights, we should habitualIy insist
upon the faithful observance of their
agreements to remain within their
reservations. This is the only way
by which collisions with other tribes
and with the whites can be avoided,
and the safety of our frontier settle-
ment secured. a..
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The companies constructing the
railway from Omaha to Sacramento
have been most energetically engag-
ed in prosecuting the work, and it is
believed the line will be completed
before the expiration of the next fis-
cal year. The six per cent. bonds is
sued to these companies amounted
on the 9TH instant, to$44 ,337 ,006, and
additional work had been performed
to the extent of So, 200, 900. The Sec
retary of the Interior, in August last,
invited my attention to the report of
q Government Director of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company,
who had been specially instructed to
examine the location, construction
and equipment Of that road. / sub
mitted for the opinion Of the Attor-
ney General, certain, questions inre-
gard TO the authority Of the EXecu-
tive which arose from this report,
and those which had, from time to
time, been presented by the Com
missioners appointed to inspect each
successive section of the work. AT
ter carefully considering the law of
the case, he affirmed the right of the
Executive to order, if necessary, a
thorough revision of the entire road.
Commissioners were thereupon APP
pointed to examine this and other
lines, and have recently submitted
a statement of their Investigations,
of which the report Of the Secretary
Of the Interior furnishes specific in
formation.
THE WAR, NAVY AND POST OFFICE
REPORTS.
A resume of the War, Navy and
Post Office reports is here given,
which have already been published
in the papers.
FOREIGN RELATIONS.
No important question has occur
red in our accustomed cordial and
friendly intercourse with France,
Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Por-
tugal, the Netherlands, Denmark,
Sweden and Norway, Rome, Greece
and Turkey.
Cordial relations have also been
maintained with the Argentine and
the Oriental Republics. The ex-
pressed wish of Congress, that our
national good offices might be ten
dered to those Republics, and also to
Brazil and Paraguay, for bringing to
an end the calamitous warwhich has
sol0ngbeen raging inthe valleyof the
La Platte, has been asslduously COM
piled with, and kindly acknowledge
ed by all the belligerents. That inn
portant negotiation has, thus far,
been without result.
Charles A. Washburne, late United
States Minister to Paraguay, having
resigned, and being desirous to re-
turn to the UnitedStates, ,theRearAd-
miral commanding the South Allan
tic squadron was early directed to
send ship of war to the capital Of
Paraguay, toreeeive Mr.. WashbHrne
and his family, and remove them
from situation which we represent
ed to be endangered by factions and
foreign war. The Brazilian COM
mander of the allied invading forces
refused permission to the Wasp to
pass through the blockading forces,
and that vessel returned to It's aeeus-
toned anchorage. Remonstrance
having been made against this refus-
al, it was promptly overruled, and
the Wasp thereupon resumed her err
rand, received Mr.. Washburne and
his family, and conveyed them to a
safe and convenient seaport. In the
meantime, an excited controversy
had arisen between the President of
Paraguay and the late United States
Minister, which it is understood,
grew out of his proceedings in giving
an asylum in theUnited States Lega-
tionto allegedenemies ofthe eRepublie.
The question of the right to give an
asylum is one always difficult to de-
terlnine, and often productive oi
great embarrassment. IN States
well organized and established, For
eign Powers refuse either to eoneede
or exercise that right, except to per
sons actually belonging to the al.
| plomatic service. On the other hand
! all such powers insist upon exercis-
ing the asylum in States where the
law Of nations is not fully acknowl.
edged, respected, and obeyed. The
President of Paraguay is understood
to have opposed Mr.. Washburne's
proceedings the injurious and very
improbable charge of personal com.
plicity in insurrection and treason
The correspondence, however, hai
not yet reached the United States
MIR. Washburne, in connection will
this controversy, represents that tw,
United States citizens, attached {,
+ the legation, were arbitrarily seized
at his side, when leaving the capita
of Paraguay, committed to prison
! there subjected to torture, for Til
Purpose of procuring confession .
, their own criminality and testifnon,