Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC.
W ASH IN GTON.
The Status of Georgia Settled.
Private Property on High Seas
Cambria Wins the Ocean Rae
The Great Philadelphia F.!
W ASHI CT ON.
The Status of Georgia Settled.
Private Proportion High Seas
Cambria Wins the Ocean Rae
The Great Philadelphia Fle'
The status of Georgia.

The Status of Georgia.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-Advic re-
ceived here to day from Georgistal
that there is no reason to belize that
there will be any trouble in thf olate
over the Georgia bill Inc
weight of opinion in both parti' incline
to the belief that the law conteplates
new election this fall, but iporder to
settle all doubt an effort will ! made N
some way TO get Attorney -GeIral Aker-
man to give an opinion. Th,ony diff
Guilty is to get the question Toperly be-
fore him. 1t has been sugeSted that
Gen. Terry request an opinic-the same
way that Gen. Candy asked ne of Judge
Hoar-but that is Objecte to on the
ground that, Congress hang admitted
Georgia, military authorit' has ceased,
and Gen. Terry has no lager the right
to exercise the functions of military
commander. As regards the control of
its civil affairs, one of.he members of
Congress elect howeVe maintains that,
as the members of pngress have not
actually been admitted the State still has
provisional Governnnt.
Applications for NV banks continue to
pour in at the office,f the Comptroller of
the Currency at thecate of thirty or forty
daily. By far the humber of applicants
come from the Wet. 1t is thought that
between four hundd and five hundred
new banks will Ie chartered under the
new law, which viii be given to the South
and West, the Fast getting none. 1t is
expected that tie bureau will be able to
supply all the circulation needed in those
sections not having their due quota
Comptroller Hurlbut viii not call on the
East for any portion of the S25, 900
till after the s55, 0O0, 900 authorized under
the late act shall have been exhausted,
when he viii begin to call on the surplus
held in the Eastern banks.
No Passage for Volunteers.
Baron Gerolt fully confirms the state
ment Of the Consul General of the North
German Confederation that there is no
truth in the cable telegram that the Prus-
sian authorities had issued instructions to
their consuis abroad to furnish free pas
sage and outfit to all Germans who wish
to return home and volunteer in the army.
Private Property ON the High Seas.
The Secretary of State has transmitted
the following communication to the min
lister of North Germany:
WASHINGTON, July 26, 1S7O.-Sn: l |
have the honor to acknowledge the receipt |
of your letter of the 9th inst, communi- |
eating to this government the text of a |
dispatch from Count Bismarck, TO the /
effect that private property on the high |
seas will be exempted from seizure, by |
ships of His Majesty, King of Prussia.
In regard to reciprocity, and in
compliance with the request further con-
tained in your note, the communica-
ton has been officially made public from
this department 1t is now nearly a
century since the United States, through
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin,
and John Adams, their nlenipoteutiaries,
and under theguidance of Great Frederick,
of Prussia, entered into a treaty of am
ity and commerce; to be in force for
ten years from its date, whereby it was
agreed that if war should unhappily arise
between the two contracting parties, all
merchant and trading vessels employed in
products of different places
and thereby rendering necessaries, con-
and comforts of human life
more easy to be obtained, and more
generally, should be allowed to pass free
and unmoested, and that neither of the
parties should grant or issue
any commission to any private armed
vessels empowering them to take or de-
stroy such trading vessels or interrupt
such commerce.
The Government of the United States
received with pleasure this renewed ad-
herenCe of the great and enlightened Ger
man government principles temporarily
by the treaty of 1895, since |
then advocated by this Government when
ever the opportunity has offered.
In 1854 President Pierce, in his annual
message to Congress, said that should the
leading powers of Europe concur in pro-
posing as a rule of international law to /
exempt private property upon the ocean
from seizure by public and armed cruisers
as well as by priyateers, the United States
will heartily meet them on /
that broad ground. In 1856 this Govern
ment was invited TO give its admission to
the declaration of Paris. Mr.. Marcy,
then Secretary of State, replied: ''The
President proposes to add TO the first pro-
position in the declaration of the Congress
at Paris the following words: And that
the private property of subjects or citi-
zens of belligerents on the high seas shall
be exempted from seizure by the public
armed vessels of other belligerents unless
it is cOntraband.' Thus amended the
of the United States will
adopt it, together with the other three
principles contained in that declaration"
Again, in 1861, Mr.. Seward renewed the
offer to give the adhesion of the United |
States to the declaration of Congress at /
Paris, and expressed his preference that
the same amendment should be inCOTpO- |
rated. Count Bsmarck's dispatch, com
municated in your letter Of the 9th inst,
shows that North Germany is willing to |
recognize the principle even without re- |
ciprOcity, in the war which is now un- |
happily broken out between that govern
ment and France. This gives reason to |
hope that the Government and people of |
the United States may now be gratiied |
by seeing it universally recognized as an
other restraining and humanizing intlu- |
ence imposed by modern civilization upon
the art of war. Accept, sir, the renewed
assurance Of my distinguished cOnsideTa-
ton. HAMILTON Fish,
Secretary of State.