New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-09
WHAT THE GERMANS DECLARE
Insurrection Suppressed or ksrciless Wa
RUMORED ENLISTMENT FOR NApoLEO
WASHINGTON.

Mixed Spanish C0mmission-The High
Conmission-The Treaty Signed-I,s
Details-Deafh of Secretary Belknap's
Child-Weather Synopsis and Proba-
bilities-Arrest of Five Dollar Gold
Counterfeiters i'm FIorida-Important
Decision by Court of CIaims-Farm
Animals of the United States-Cor-
coran's Condition Unchanged.
WASHINGTON, May 8.-The mixed Spanish
commission consists of Otto, arbitrator and
Cushing, attorney in behalf of the United
States; P0tistoa, arbitrator, and Carlisle,
attorney, in behalf of Spain.
The high commission takes no cogniZance
of contracts between British subjects and
the confederate government.
Assistant Commissioner, Douglas acts
during Pleasonton's absence.
Secretary Belknap's child is dead. The
child's mother died recently. Doctors were
constantly in attendance.
The treaty was signed to-day by the high
commission at the State Department. The
gentlemen, after this was done, exchanged
congratulations on the result of their labors,
| expressing the belief that they had done
the most they possibly could for the peace
and honor Of the two countries. Although
| the commissioners have been cautious in
| talking to persons outside of their own
| circle, the following points will be found to
be correct.
First-There are to be two boards of arbi-
tration or commissions. To one will be re-
ferred the Alabama claims, and to the other
similar claims which are recognized as ma
tional, and to be settled ON the principle of
responsibility for such depredations where
the government has not exercised the
utmost diligence and possible precau-
tion to prevent privateers from being
fitted out in its ports to prey upon the COM
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The other board is to take cognizance of
miscellaneous claims, British and Ameri-
can, confined principally to the period of
our late civil war. Among these are the
st. Albans claims, for damage to property
in that town by the Canadians, but no
claims for the Fenian invasion of Canada
are to be admitted. As to the claims of
British subjects for seizures of their cotton,
Great Britain, through its commissioners,
does not recognize them in cases where
such subjects took up their domicile in the
South, as thereby they subjected themselves
to all the risks and contingencies of war.
All legitimate claims for cotton will be
considered. 1t has been reported that they
will amount to thirteen or more millions,
but this is considered to be great exagger-
alton; they will probably not amount to
ST. ,000, 900. There will be no difficulty in as
certaining all the particulars, as the Treas
seizures of cotton, the name of the owners
thereof, and all the particulars concerning
the seizures.
Among the claims which will also come
before this board will be that of our gov
ernment, growing out of the purchase of
saltpetre in the East Indies during the war,
and which was seized by the British author
tiles. This government is aware that full
list of British claims was recently pub
Hsh in al hos in
formation that many of them have already
been adjusted, while others will not come
within the provisions of the treaty.
There are other miscellaneous claims
which will come before this second board
The San Juan question will be referred to
the arbitration of friendly sovereign,
probably the Emperor of Brazil. From
one of the documents which will accompany
the submission, IL is believed that the de-
cision can not fail to be in favor of the
United States. The treaty provides for the
free navigation of the st. Lawrence by YES
sells of the United States, and for the use of
the Canadian canals upon the payment of
regular tolls.
There are also provisions regulating the
privilege of fishing in Canadian waters,
but these have not been ascertained with
sufficient accuracy to justify their state
ment. The London Times of to-day mis-
takes in saying that the treaty must be
ratified by both houses of Parliament.
Legislation will however be required only
to carry some of its provisions INTO effect.
Weather Report.-Synopsis for the past
twenty-four hours: The barometer con-
tinues high on the Pacific coast, with pleas
ant weather. The lowest pressure still re-
mains in Maine. The thermometer has risen
ssmewhat, only to fall again, west and
south of Pennsylvania. Fresh northeast
,lah hn,v lad I,,p,p
on lakes Michigan and Superior; southerly
winds from Georgia to Texas; cloudy
weather, with easterly winds, in the Ohio
valley. The temperature Is very low on
Mount Washington, with a westerly gale
The falling of the barometer reported Sun
day evening in Virginia and the Ohio val
ley passed eastward during the night, with
light rain in Southern Illinois and Mary
land.
Partially cloudy and clear weather will
probably prevail, on Tuesday, on the lower
lakes and the Atlantic coast: northeasterlv
winds on the upper lakes, and threatening
weather west of the central Mississippi
valley.
The Supervisor of Georgia and Florida
reports the arrest of counterfeiters of five
dollar gold pieces, at Lake City, Florida.
The machinery was seized.
The Court of Claims to-day decided the
of the government, being a suit brought
for the recovery of proceeds of steamboat
at Charleston, which had been
used by the confederate authorities and |
was afterward, on a verbal agreement with |
Slawson, employed by the United States |
Quartermaster department, then turned
over to the treasury agent and sold.
The judgment against the claimant is rem
dered on She ground that the court has no
jurisdiction of suits to recover proceeds of
any captured property which had been
used for the purpose of carrying on war
against the United States, and also for rea-
sons that said boat having been appropria-
ted by the federal army for military pur
poses, is exempted from the jurisdiction of |
this court by the act of July 4, 1864.
An investigation of the condition of farm
animals of the United States, recently made |
by the Department of Agriculture, shows |
that fewer losses, either from disease or
winter exposure, have resulted during the |
past season than for several years pre- |
viously.
Losses amounting to millions of dollars |
have been heretofore reported yearly, but
no epizootic has lately prevailed in any por-
lion of the country. Restrictive laws and /
The practice of gathering Texas herds in the
frontier depots has reduced the ravages Of I
splenic fever.
The foot ard mouth disease, which spread |