The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-23
The Geneva Arbitration.

! GENEVA, Aug. 6.-The Board of Arbltrators
/ met at noon to-day, and at adjourned until
/ tomorrow. Nothing with regard 10 to-days
| proceedings has transpired.
NEW YORK, Aug. Ga special dispatch from
Geneva says that, as arbitration progresses,
! the probabilities increase that the verdict will
! be against England and that it will be in the
| form of declaration of her general response
bility for the acts Of the Confederate cruisers,
and an award of gross amount of damages Of
! some magnitude, thus obviating a resort TO a
| Board of Assessors. The American counsel
/ will apparently endeavOr to secure this instead
/ of detailed award. The Judgment of the
| court on each particular ship il. therefore, Of
! less consequence than il otherwise would have
| been; but there is reason to believe that the
case of the Georgia is the weakest, and has
] been practically abandoned. The case of the
! Shenandoah, however, IL pressed closely. In
! demnity for losses 10 the whaling fleet il
especially urged. The discussion proceeds
faster than was generally expected. The Eng
! lish counsel give particular emphasis to the
argument that the Tribunal, under the Treaty
! of Washington, has no right to examine the
conduct of England in her execution of munic-
ipal law. They maintain that no nation is
responsible to another for its internal adj
/ mlnlstratlon.
GENEVA. Aug. THE Board at Its session
! yesterday, was engaged in hearing the argu-
ments of the British and American counsel in
| TeldtlOn 10 tIe case Oh INC Cruiser SnendnQOaD,
which case, 1t Is understood Ii now closed.
The reassemblng of the Court Is fixed for
! Thursday. but il il possible that il may not
meet again before next week.
GENEVA, Aug. S.-The Board met to-day at
| half-past IL, and after q session of two and
half hours adjourned TO Wednesday next.
! Several of the arbitrators and counsel are slf-
! fering from indisposition caused by excessive
| toll and dlsagreeable weather. The object Of
! the court III adjourning for so long period is
to give the members time for especial study
| of number of the points involved in the
cases which have come before them. 1t is
| confidently hoped the labors OF the Tribunal
will be brought to satisfactory conclusion by
! the 10Th of September.
GENEVA, Aug 9.-Wm. NJ. Evarts goes to
Paris to-day, but will return before the re-
| assembling of the arbtrators next Wednes-
| day. Caleb Cushing and Mr. Waite will visit
Chamounl during the adjournment of the
| court. 1t is supposed that the American rep
resentatives have completed their case The
English agents and counsel are employing
themselves during the recess in preparing
| their reply thereto.
The arbitrators, counsel, and other gentle
men connected with the Tribunal, dined to-
gether at the Hotel DIES Bergers to-day
GENEVA, Aug. 10.--A Queens messenger.
bearing dispatches supposed to be of little i'm
portance. left here to-day for London. There
Is nothing new regarding the action of the
| Tribunal
GENEVA, Aug 12.-NTr. Cohen, an English
barrister who prepared the case for the Crown
on tie subject Of the American claims for loss
to the mercantile marine Of the United States,
has been summoned here from London This
gives rise to the conjecture that decision has
been rendered upon the general question OF
England's responsibility for the direct losses
claimed by America, and that Cohen is called
in TO assist in arguing upon the amount of
damages TO be awarded.
In the debate in the Tribunal upon the
question of the use of due diligence by Great
Britain, Mr.. Gushing strongly urged the point
that the same diligence upon the part OF the
British authorities which afterward served to
detain the Confederate rams would have been
equally effectua in preventing the escape of
the cruisers, had 1t been exercised.
NEW YORK, Aug. IA special from Geneva
says that the Tribunal Of Arbitration has re-
CURED argument on three points: First, due
diligence az principle Of law second what
was the value Of the commissions held by the
Confederate cruisers; and how far did the
coang Of the cruisers in English ports make
England responsible for their acts ? These
points have been deliberately argued by Sir
Rounded Palmer and NIessrs. Evarts, Cushing
and Waite. The fact that the Tribunal ana
lyzes the cases, as is seen in these points. is
strongly favorable in its indication.