Huntingdon Journal

              J_ ke  Xiuntingdon   J ournal.
VOL. 47.
HUNTINGDON, PA., JULY 24, 1872.
NO. 29,
The Huntingdon Journal.
J. R. DURBORROW,
PUBLISHERS y
J. A. NASH,
r.OPRIETORS.
OJice on the Corner of Fifth and Washitigton streets.
The HcsTisGnoN Jour.nal is published every Wednesday, by J. R. Durborrow and J. A. Nash, under the firm name of J. R. Durborrow & Co., at $2,00 per annum, is advance, or $2,50 if not paid for in six months from dato of subscription, and $3 if not paid wilhin thc year.
No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the publisbers, until all arrearages arc paid.
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Speoial notices will be inserted at twelve and A HALF CENTS per line, and local and editorial no¬ tices at FIFTEEN cents pcr line.
All Resolutions of Associations, Communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of Mar¬ riages and Deaths, exceeding five lines, will be charged ten cents pcr linc.
Legal and other notices will be charged to the party having them inserted.
Advertising Agents must find their commission outside of these figures.
-Ml adrertising acconnts are due and coUectnble tchen the adcertisement is once inserted.
JOB PRINTING of evory kind, in Plain and Fancy Colors, dono with neatness and dispatch.— Uand-bills. Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, Ac, of every variety and style, printed at tho shortest notice, and every thing in tho ~ ted in the most artistic rates.
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ADVERTISERS:
•inting line will i)e e.xecU' n.inner and nt thc  lowest
Professional Cards.
BF. GEHRETT, M. D.,- ECLEC- • TIC PHYCICIAN AND SURGEON, hav¬ ing returned from Clearfield county and perma¬ nently located in Shirleysburg, offers his profes¬ sional services to the people of that place and sur¬ rounding country. apr.3-]8"2.
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R. H. W. BUCHANAN,
DENTIST,
Ko. 22S Hill Street,
HUNTIXGDON, PA. July 3, '72.
DR. F. O. ALLEMAN cau  be con- suited at his office, nt all hours, Mapleton, Pa, [marcli0,r2.
THE    HUNTINGDON     JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED
EVERY   WEDNESDAY    MORNING
J. R. DURBOBROW & J, A. NASH, j
Office corner ol Washington and Bath Sts.,
HUNTINGDON, PA.
IVIiscsllaneous.
1872.
1872.
CARPETS'.! carpets:: CARPETS!
SPRING  STOCK.
AT LOWEST  PRICES I
JAMES A. BROWN
1.1 eonstantly rreeiniiig at his new
CARPET STORE,
HUNTINGDON, PA., 525 i HiU Street.
Beautiful    Patterns  of   Carpets, fresh  from the ooms of tho manufacturers.    His stock comprises
BRUSSELS, INGRAINS,
VENITIAN. WOOL DUTCH,
COTTAGE, IIEJIP,
LIST and RAG CARPETS
CARPET CHAIN,
COCOA AND CANTON MATTING!?,
FLOOR, STAIR AND TABLE
THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
DC ALD WELL, Attorney-at-Law, • No. Ill, 3d street. Offiee formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods i Williamson. [apl2,'71.
DR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, oflfers his professional services to the community. Offiee, No. 523 Washington street, ono door cast of tho Catholic Parsonage. [jan.4,'71.
EJ. GREENE, Dentist.    Office re- •    moved to Leister's newbuilding, HiUstreet F'.-ntingdon. ijan.4,'71.
aL. ROBB, Dentist, offiee in S. T. •    Brown's new building. No. 520, iTill St., Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2,'71.
H   GLAZIER, Notary Public,  comer •    of Washington  and Smith  streets. Hun¬ tingdon, Pa. [jan.12'71.
HC.   MADDEN,   Attorney-at-Law •    Office,  No. —, Hill  street, Huntingdon, Pa. [ap.19,'71.
JFRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney- • at-Law, HUXTINGDON, PA.
jane26,'72-0m.
J    SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at- •    Law, Huntingdon, Pa.    Offlce, Ilill  street, hree doors west of Smith. [jan.4'7].
FR. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth- • ecary, opposite thc Exchange Hotel, Hun- QgdoD, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded. uro Liquors for Medicinal purposes,    [nov.23/70.
HALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law, »No. 319 Hill St., lluntingdon, Pa. [jan.V71.
JR. DURBORROW, Attorney-at- • liOtW, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the aereral Courts of Iluntingdon county. Particular attention given to the gettlement of estates of dece¬ dents.
Office in he Jour.nal Duilding. [feb.1/71.
JW. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law • and General Claim Agent, Himtingdon, Pa., Soldiers' elaims against the Government for back pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend¬ ed to with great care and promptness.
Offico on Hill stroet. [jan.4,'71.
K ALLEN LOVELL, Attorney-at- • Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to Collections of all kinds ; to the settle¬ ment of Estates, kc; and alt other Legal Business prosecuted with fidelity and dispatch.
J^*' Office in room lately occupied by R. Milton Speer, Esq. [jan.V71.
MILES ZENTMYER, Attorney-at- Law, Huntingdon, Pa., willattendpromptly to all legal business. Office in Cunningham's new building. .      Ijan.4/71.
PxM. & M. S.   LYTLE,   Attorneys- •    at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to all kinds of legal business entrusted to their care.
Office on the south side of Hill street, fourth door west of Smith. [jan.4,'7l.
R.
A.   ORBISON,   Attorney-at-Law,
Office, 321 Hill stroet, Huntingdon, Pa. [m»y3V7I.
SCOTT, BROWN  &   BAILEY,   At- torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa.    Pensions, and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against the Government will be promptly prosecuted. Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'71.
TW. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun- •    tingdon. Pa.    Office with J. Sewell Stewart, E^q^ [jan.V71.
TyTLLIAM A. FLEMING.^ttorne^-
' ' at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to collections, and all other l5gal husiness attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, Hill street. [apl9,'71.  '
Hotels.
M'
ORRISON HOUSE,
OPPOSITE   PENNSYLVANIA   I!.   U. DKPOT
HUNTINGDON,   PA.
Aprils, 1871-ly.
J. H. CLOVER, Prop.
WASHINGTON HOTEL, S. S. BoWDOX, Prop'r. Corner of Pitt i Juliana Sts..Bodford, Pa.   may].
EXCHANGE  HOSTEL,   HuMingd^, Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor.
Jsnuaxf 4, 1871.
Miscellaneous.
COLYER &   GRAHAM,  Paintees. Shop No. 750, Hill Street, (2d door from S. E. Henry 4 Co's.,) Huntingdon, Pa., will do all kind of painting cbeapcr than any I in town.    Give them a call belore applying lmay6m.
elsewhere.
ISAAC TAYLOR & CO., Manufac¬ turers OF Hemlock, Pine, and Oak Rill Tim¬ ber and Shingles, Osceola, Clearfield county. Pa. They make a specialty of furnishing to order all kinds of
HEMLOCK AND   BILL   TIMBER.
Orders taken and any i M. LOGAN, at his office, Huntingdon, Pa.
Jan.24,1872-«mo.
tformation giv over tho  Uni^
iby M. liank.
CIRCULATION 1700.
RA. BECK, Fashionable Barter • and Hairdresser, Hill street, opposite the Franklin Honse. AU kinds of I'Snics and Pomades kept on hand and for sale. [spl9,'7I-^m
HOME AND FOREIGN ADVERTISE MENTS INSERTED ON REA¬ SONABLE   TERMS.
A    FIRST     CLASS    NEWSPAPER
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
$2.00 per    annum    in    adranee.    $2 50
witliin six months.    $3.00 if not
paid within the year.
JOB PRINTING: ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK DONE
WITH
NEATNESS AND DISPATCH,
AND  IN   THE
LATEST   AND   MOST   IMPROVED STYLE,
SUCH AS
POSTERS OF ANY SIZE, CIRCULARS,
BUSINESS CARDS, WEDDING AND VISITING CARDS, BALL TICKETS,
PROGRAMMES,
CONCERT TICKETS, ORDER BOOKS, SEGAR LABELS,
RECEIPTS,
LEGAL BLANKS, THOTOGRAPHER'S CARDS, BILL HEADS,
LETTER HEADS,
PAMPHLETS, PAPER BOOKS, ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC., ETC.,
Our facilities for doing all kinds of Job Printing superior to any other establish¬ ment in the county. Orders by mail promptly filled. All letters should be ad¬ dressed,
J. B. DURBOBROW & 00
OIL CLOTH.S,
and a largo stock of
WALL   PAPER,
Window Shades and Fixtures, Drugget, Velvet Rugs, Door Mats, Extra Carpet Thread and Bind¬ ing. I make a specialty of furnishing Churches and Lodges at City Prices, and invite Furnishing Committees to call and sec goods made expressly for their purposes.
Buyers will save money and be better  suited by going to the regular  Cariiet and  Oil Cloth  Store, for nny of thc above goods.    I  defy competition in prices and variety of beautiful patterns. I have also the Agenoy for tho Orignal
HOWE SEWING MACHINE, IMPROVED, so well known as tho beet Family Machine in the world Call at the CARPET STORE and see them.
JAMES A. BROWN.
Feb.14,1872.
[OFFICIAL.]
L -A. ^V S
OF   THE
UNITED   STATES
PASSED AT TllE
FIRST SESSION OF  THE   FORTY-SECOND
CONGRESS.
CONVENTION
BETWEE.V THE
UNITED STATES AND THE GER¬ MAN EMPIRE.
B
UCHANAN & SON.
5 0 9    HILL    STREET,
HUNTINGDON,   PA.
the largest, cheapest
id   l)c.=t:
We have t sortment of
COOKING   STOVES
West of  Philadelphia.    Wc constantly  keep on hand
SPEARS',
CALORIFIC, EXCELSIOR,
OLIVE BRANCH,
PENN, MORNING LIGHT, COTTAGE, STAR, and the
REGULATOR.
BVERY     STOVE     WARRANTED ! WOOD and WILLOW WARE,
JAPANESE WARE, TIN AND PAINTED AVARE,
TOLEDO PUMPS, ETC., ETC., ETC. ETC.
Persons going to housekeeping cau gut every¬ thing they need, from a clothes pin to a cooking stove.
ROOFING, SPOUTING & JOB WORK
done at short notice.    Give us a call and  we feel satisfied you can save money. lOnpril,
THE    MERCHANT     TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT, at
OAK HALL,
opposite I'irst Xational 1 Is now fully prepared to Bank Huntingdon, Pa., J make up suits which for
NEA TNESS, DCRARILITYctti CHEAPNE.'iS
cannot he equaled   in  thi.';  county.    Having . received my
SPRING and SUMMER stock of CLOTHS,
CASSIMERES,
VESTING,
ETC.,
I ask everyliody to call and be convinced of the fact that the most complete Merchant Tailoring establishment is carried on at Oak Hall.
Also Ready-made clothing,for Men, Youths ond Boys.    Gents Furnishing Goods,
HOSIERY,
NOTIONS, ETC.,    ETC..
GLOVES,
ETC.,     ETC.
I   invite all  to call and  examine my  stock of
READY MADE GOODS;
they are of the best  qualities   andof   all  grades and patterns, aud I will be able to please all wic.^ ing anything in my line. Imaytf. B. P. DOUGLASS.
GRAND DEPOT FOR
NEWGOODS.
D. P. GWIN INFORMS THE PUBLIC THAT HE
HAS JUST opj:ned a
SPLENDID STOCK OP NEW GOODS
THAT
CAN'T   BE   B E A T
IN CHEAPNESS AND QUALITY.
CALL AND SEE.
D. P. GWIN.
"pRESH ARRIVAL OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS
at the Cheap Store of
BENJAMIN JACOBS,
Corner ofthe Diamond, iu Saxton's Building I have just received a large stock of Ladies' ele¬ gant Dress Goods, Gentlemens' Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats and Caps of all kinds, in end¬ less variety, for ladies, gentlemen, misses and children.
CARPETS,
OIL CLOTHS,
GROCERIES,
Coffee, Teas of all kinds, best and common Syrups, Spices, kc. Tobacco and Segars, wholesale and retail.
Tbese g«ods will be 9old as eheap, if not cheaper, than any other houso in town. "Quick salos and small profits," is my motto.
Thankful for past patronage, I respectfully soli¬ eit a continuance of the same.
y    R. NORTON,
Dealer in PIANOS.
AND STATE AGENT
For  thc celebrated
JEWETT & GOODMAN ORGAN, 118 Smithfield Street, Opposite New City Hall,
PITTSBURGH, PA. (Send for Illustrated Catalogue.)
Juno 26, 18(2-3m.
Respecting Consuls and Trade-Marks.
Signed  December 11, 1871; Exchanged April 29,1872; Proclaimed June 1, '72.
By the President of tho United States of America: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Convention betweeu the United States of Ameriea and the German Empire, relating to the rights, privileges, immunities, and duties of Consuls, and to the Protection of Trade-jMark.«, was signed at Berlin on the eleventh day of Decem¬ ber, in the year of our Lord ono thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. by their respective Plenipotentiaries;
And whereas a Protocol thereto was signed by the said Plenipotentiaries on the twenty-ninth day of April last; which Con¬ vention aud Protocol, in the English and Genuan languages, are, word for word, as follows:
The President of the United States of America, and His Majesty thc Emperor of Germany, King of I'russia, in the name of the German Enipiio, led by the wish to define the rights, privileges, immunities, and duties of the respective Consular Agents, have agreed upon thc conclusion of a Consular Convention, and for that purpose have ajipointcd their Plenipoten¬ tiaries, namely:
The President of the United States of America, George Bancroft, Envoy Extra¬ ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from thc said States, near His Majesty the Em¬ peror of Germany; His Majesty the Em¬ peror of Germany, King of Pru.ssia, Ber¬ nard Konig, His Privy Councillor of Le¬ gation, who have agreed to and signed fhe following articles :
Art. 1. Each of the Contracting Patties agrees to receive from the other Consuls General, Consu]s,Vice-Consuls,and Consular Agents, in all its ports, cities, and places, except those where it may not be convenient to recognize such ofiScers. This reservation, however, shall not apply to one of the Con¬ tracting Parties without also applying to every other Power.
Art. 2. The Consuls General, Consuls, Vice- Consuls, or Consular Agonts shall be re¬ ciprocally reeeived and recognized, on the presentation of their commissions, in fhe forms established in their respective coun¬ tries. The necessary exequatur for the exercise of their functions shall be fur¬ nished to tnem tree ot charge, ana, on the exhibition of tliis instrument, they shall be admitted at once, and without difficulty, by the territorial authorities. Federal, State, or communal, judicial, or executive, of the ports, cities, and places of their re¬ sidence and district, to thc enjoyment of the prerogatives reciprocally granted. The Government that furnishes the exequatur reserves the right to withdraw the same on a statement of the reasons for which it has thought proper to do so. Art. 3. The respective Consuls General, Con¬ suls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents, as well as their chancellors and secretaries, shall enjoy in fhe two countries all privil¬ eges, exemptions, and immunities which have boen granted, or may in future be granted, to the agents of the same rank of the most favored nation. Consular officers, not being citizens of fhe eountry where they are accredited, shall enjoy, in the eountry oftheir residence, porsonal immu¬ nity from arrest or imprisonment exeept in the case of crimes, exemption from mil¬ itary billetings and contributions, from military service of every sort, and other public duties, and from all direct or per¬ sonal or sumptuary taxes, duties, and con¬ tributions, whether Federal, State, or mu¬ nicipal. If, however, fhe said consular officers are or become owners of property in the country in which they reside, or engage in commerce, they shall be subject to the same faxes and imposts, and to the same jurisdiction, as citizens of the coun¬ try, property holders, or merchants. But under no circumstances shall their official income be subject to any tax. Consular officers who engage in commerce shall not plead iheir consular privileges to avoid their commercial li.ibilities. Consular offi¬ cers of cither character shall not in any event be interfered with in thc exercise of their official functions, further than is in¬ dispensable for the administration of the laws of the country.
Art. 4. Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents may place over fhe outer door of their offices, or of their dwellings, thc arms of their nation, wifh fhe proper inscription indicative of the office. And they may also hoist the flag oftheir country on their consular edifice, except in places where a legation of fheir country is established.
They may also hoist fheir flag on hoard any vessel employed by them in port for the discharge of their duty. Art. 5. The consular archives shall be at all times inviolable, and under no pretence whatever shall the local authorities be al¬ lowed fo examine or seize fhe papers form¬ ing part of them. When, however, a con¬ sular officer is engaged in other business, the papers relating to the consulate shall be kept in a separate enclosure.
The offices and dwellings of Cousules missi who are uot citizens of the country of their residence shall be al. all times in¬ violable. The local authorities shall not, except in the case of the pursuit of crimes, under any pretext invade fhem. In no case shall fhey examine or seize the pa¬ pers there deposited. In no event shall those offices or dwellings be used as places of asylum.
Art. 6. In   the event of the death, prevention, or  absence  of Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and  Consular Agents, their chancellors  or  secretaries,   whose official character may have previously been made known   to  the  respective   authorities  iu Germany or  in the  United   States,  may temporarily  exercise their functions, and, while thus acting, they shall enjoy all the rights, prerogatives, and immunities grant¬ ed by this convention to the incumbents. Art. 7. Consuls General and Consuls may, with
he approbation of their respective Gov¬ ernments, appoint Vice-Consuls and Con¬ sular Agents in the cities, porfs, and places within their consular jurisdiction. These officers may be citizens of Germany, of the United States, or any other country. They siall be furnished with a commission by fho (!onsul who appoints them and under vhose orders they are fo aet, or by fhe <TOvernment of the eountry which he re¬ presents. They .=hall enjoy the privileges stipulated for consular officers in this con¬ tention, subject to the exceptions specified il Article III.
Art. 8. Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, ajd Consular Agents shall have the right tc apply to the authorities of the respective Ciuntries, whether Federal or local, judi¬ cial or executive, within the extent oftheir consular district, for fhe redress of any in- fiaction of the treaties and conventions c:isting between fhe two countries, or of itternational law; fo ask information of Slid authorities, and to address said au- tlorities fo the end of protecting thc rights aid interests of their countrymen, especi- aly in cases of the absence cf the latter; in which cases such Consuls, etc., shall be piesumed to be their legal representatives. If due notice .should not be taken of such application, the consular officers aforesaid, in the absence of a diplomatic agent of tbeir country, may apply directly to fhe Government of fho country where they reside.
Art. 9. Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, o: Consular Agents of the two countries, 01 their chancellors, shall have the right, ccnformably to tho law;; and regulations of their country—
1. To fake at their offico or dwelling, at tie residence of fhe parties, or on board of vissels oftheir own nation, the depositions olthe captains and crews, of passengers on board of fhem, of merchants, or of any otlier citizens of their owu country.
2. To receive and verify unilateral acts, wills, and bequests of their countrymen, and any and all acts of agreement entered upin between citizens of thoir own coun¬ trj, and between such citizens and the citizens or other inhabitants of the country wlerc they reside ; and also all contracts be;ween fhe latter, provided they relate to preperty situated or to business to be friusacted in tho territory of tho nation by which the said consular officers arc ap¬ pointed.
All such acts of agreement and other instruments, and also copies and transla¬ tions thereof, when duly authenticated by stch Consul General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent under his official seal, sliall be received by public officials and in courts of justice as legal documents, or as atthentieafed copies, as the case may be, ar.d shall have the same force aud eflfeet as if drawn up or authenticated by competent ptiblic officers of onc or thc other of the two countries.
Art. 10.
In CISC of the death of any citizen of Germany in the Unifcd States, or of any citizen efthe Dnitnrt Stntes in the German Empire, without having in the country of his decease any known heirs or testamen¬ tary executors by him appointed, the com¬ petent local authorities shall at once inform the nearest consular officer of the nation to which the deceased belongs of the cir¬ cumstance, in order that the necessary in¬ formation may be immediately forwarded to parties interested.
The said consular officer shall have the right fo appear personally or by delegate in all proceedings on behalf of the absent heirs or creditors, until they are duly re¬ presented.
In all successions to in herifances citizens of each of the Contracting Parties shall pay in fhe country of the other such du¬ ties only as they would be liable to pay, if they were eitizens of the country in which fhe property is situated or tho judicial ad¬ ministration of fhe same may be exercised. Art. 11.
Consuls General, Consul.s, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents of the two countries ave exclusively charged wifh the invento¬ rying and the safe-keeping of goods and effects of evcry kind left by sailors or pas¬ sengers on ships of their nation, who die either ou board ship or on land, during the voyage or in the port of destination. Art. 12.
Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents shall be at liberty to go either in person or by proxy on board vessels of their nation admitted to entry and fo examine the officers and crews, fo examine the ships' papers, to receive de¬ clarations concerning their voyage, their destination, and the incidents of the voy¬ age ; also to draw up manifests and lists of freight, to facilitate the entry and clear¬ ance of their vessels, and finally to accom¬ pany the said officers or crews before fhe judicial or administrative authorities ofthe country, to assist fhem as their interpre¬ ters or agents.
The judicial authorities and custom-house efficials shall in no caee proceed to the ex¬ amination or search of merehant vessels without having given previous notice to the consular officers of the nation to which the said vessels belong, in order fo enable the said consular officers fo be present.
They shall also give due notice to the said consular officers in order fo enable them to be present at any depositions or statements fo be made in courts of law or before local magistrates, by officers or per¬ sons belonging to the crew, fJius fo pre¬ vent errors or false interpretations which might impede the correct administration of justice. The notice to Consuls, Vice- Consuls, or Consular Agents shall name the hour fixed for such proceedings. Upon the non-appearance of the said officers or their representatives, the case may be pro¬ ceeded with in their absence. Art. 13.
Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents shall have exclusive charge of the internal order of the mer¬ chant vessels of their nation, and shall have the exclusive power to tako cogni¬ zance of and to determine difierences of every kind which may arise, either at sea or in port, betweeu the captains, officers, and crews, and specially in reference to wages and the execution of mutual con¬ tracts. Neither any court or authority shall, on any pretext, interfere in these diffijrences, except in cases where the dif¬ ferences on board ship are of a nature to disturb the peaee and public order in port, or on shore, or when persons other than the officers and crew of the vessel are par¬ ties to the disturbance.
Except as aforesaid, tbe local authori¬ ties shall confine themselves to the render¬ ing of efficient aid to the consuls, when they may ask it in order to arrest and hold all persons, whose names are borne on the ship's articles, and whom they may deem it necessary to detain. Those persons shall be arrested at the sole request of the con¬
suls, addressed in writing to the local au¬ thorities and supported by an official ex¬ tract from the register ofthe ship or the list of thc crew, and shall be held during the whole time of their stay in the port, at the disposal of the Consuls. Their release shall be granted only at the request of the Consuls, made in writing.
The expense of the arrest and detention of those persons shall be paid by the con¬ suls.
Art. 14. Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, or Consular Agents may arrest the officers, sailors, and all other persons making part ofthe crews of ships-of-war or merchant vessels oftheir nation, who may be guilty or be accused of having deserted ships and vessels, for the purpose of sending them on board or back to their country.
To that end, thc Consuls of Germany in the United States shall apply fo either the Federal, State, or municipal courts or au¬ thorities ; and the Consuls of the United Sfates in Germany shall apply to any ofthe competent authorities, and make a request in writing for the deserters, supporting it by au official extract of tho register of the vessel and the list of the crew, or by other official documents, fo show that the men whom they claim belong to said crew. Upon such request alone thus supported, and without the exaction ofany oath from the Consuls, the deserters (not being citi¬ zens of thc country where the demand is made either at the time of shipp'ng or of their arrival in the port) shall be given up to the Consuls. All aid and protection shall be furnished them for the pursuits, seizure, and arrest of the deserters, who shall be taken to the prisons of the country and there detained at the request and at the expense of the Consuls, until the said Consuls may find an opportunity of sending fhem away.
If, however, such oppjrtuuity should not present itself within the space of three months, counting from the day of the ar¬ rest, the deserters shall be set at liberty, and shall not agaiu be arrested for thesame cause.
Art. 15. Ill tho absence of an agreement to the contrary between fhe owners, freighters, and insurers, all damages suffered at sea by the vessels of the two countries, whether fhey enter port voluntarily or are forced by stress of weather, shall be settled by the Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents of the respective countries. If, however, any inhabitant of the country, or citizen or subjeet of a third power, shall be interested in the matter, and the parties cannot agree, the competent local authorities shall decide. Art. IG. Iu the event ofa vessel belonging to the Government, or owned by a citizen of one of the two Contracting Parties being wrecked, or cast on shore, on the cost of fhe ofher, the local authorities shall inform thc Consuls General, Consul, Vice-Consnl, or Consular Agent ofthe district of the occurence, or if there be no sueh consular agency, they shall inform the Consuls General, Consul, Vice-Consul, or Consular Agent of the nearest district.
All proceedings relative to the salvage of American vessels wrecked or cast on shore in the territorial waters of fhe Ger¬ man Empire shall take place in accordance with the laws of Germany ; and, recipro¬ cally, all measures of salvage relative to German vessels wrecked or cast on shore in the territorial waters of the United States shall take place in accordance with the laws ofthe United States.
The consular authorities liave in both countries to intervene only to superintend the proceedings having referenee to the repair and revictualling, or, if necessary, fo the sale of the vessel wrecked or easton shore.
For the intervention of the local author¬ ities no charges shall be made except such as in similar cases are paid by vessels of the nation.
In case of a doubt concerning the na¬ tionality ofa shipwrecked vessel, fhe local authorities shall have exclusively the di¬ rection of the proceedings provided for in this article.
All merchandise and goods not destined for consumption in the country where the wreck takes place shall be free of all du¬ ties.
Art. 17. With regard to the marks or labels of goods, or of their packages, and also with regard fo patterns and marks of man¬ ufacture and frade, the citizens of Germa¬ ny shall enjoy in the United States of America, and American citizens shall en¬ joy in Germany, the same protection as native citizens.
Art. 18. The present convention shall remain in force for the space of ten years counting from fhe day of the exchange of fhe rati¬ fications, which shall be exchanged at Ber¬ lin within the period of six months.
In case neither partygives notiee, twelve months before fhe expiration of the said period of ten years, of its intention not to renew this convention, it shall remain in force onc year longer, and so on, from year fo year, until the expiration of ayear from the day on which one of thc parties shall have given such notice.
In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Convention. Berlin, thc llth of December, 1871. [L. s.] GEO. BANCROFT.
The undersigned met this day in order fo effect fhe exchange of the ratifications ofthe Consular Convention, signed on the llth day of December, 1871, between thc United States of America and Germany.
Before proceeding to this act, the un¬ dersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Min¬ ister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America declared—
1. That in accordance with the instruc¬ tion given him by his (iovernment, with the advice and consent of the Senate, the expression "ptoperty," used in the English text of Articles III and IX, is to be con¬ strued as meaning and intending "real es¬ tate."
2. That, according to the laws and the Constitution of the United States, Article X applies not only to persons of the male sex but also to persons of the female sex.
After the undersigned, President ofthe office of the Chancellor of the Empire, had expressed his concurenco with this declara¬ tion, the acts of ratification, found to be in good and due form, were exchanged, and the present protocol was in duplicate exe¬ cuted.
Berlin, tho 29th April, 1872.
GBO. BANCROFT. DELBRUECK.
And whereas the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Berlin on fhe twenty-ninth day of April last:
Now, therefore, be   it   known that   I,
Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention and protocol to be made public, to the end fhat fhe same, and every clause and part thereof, may be observed and ful¬ filled with good faith by the United States, and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set may hand and caused the seal ofthe Uni¬ ted States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this first day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy- two, and of the Independence ofthe Uni¬ ted States of America the ninety-sixth. [SEAL.] U. S. GRANT.
By the President : Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State. [Resolution op general nature.] JOINT RESOLUTION providing for a more efiective system of quarantine on the Southern and Gulf coasts. Whereas experienoe has proved that fhe present system of quarantine on the southern and gulf coasts is inefficient to prevent the ravages of yellow fever in the cities and town of that section : Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Represeutatiues of the United Slutes of America in Congress assemljleii\ That fhe Secretary of War be, and is hereby, di¬ rected to detail one or more medical offi¬ cers of the regular army, who shall, du¬ ring the coming season, visit each town or port on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast, which is subject or liable fo invasions of yellow fever, and shall confer with the authorities of such port or town, with reference to the estab¬ lishment of a more uniform and effective system of quarantine, and who shall as¬ certain all facts having reference fo the outbreaks of this disease in sueh ports or towns, and whether any system of quaran¬ tine is likely to bo effective in preventing invasions of jellow fever, and, it so, what system will least interfere with the interests of commerce at said ports; and shall make, also, a detailed report on this subject to the Seeretary of War, through the Surgeon General, on or before the as¬ sembling of the third session ofthe Forty- second Congress, in December, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Approved, Juno G, 1872. [General nature—No. 138.] AN ACT to prevent and punish the ob¬ struction of the administration of jus¬ tice in the courts of the United States. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemhled, That if any person or persons shall corruptily, or by threatening leUers, or any threatening communications, endeavor to influence, in¬ timidate, or impede any grand or petit jury or juror of any court ofthe LTnited States, in the discharge of his or their duty, or shall corruptly, or by threats or force,'or by threatening letters, or any threatening communications, influence, obstruct, or impede, or endeavor to in¬ fluence, obstruct, or impede the due ad¬ ministratiou of justice therein, such per¬ son or persons so offending shall be liable to prosecution therefor by indictment, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by Cnc not exceeding one thousand dol¬ lars, or by imprisonmeut uot exceeding one year, or by both, according to the ag¬ gravation of the offense. And if any person or persons shall attempt to influence the action or decision of any grand or petit juror upon any issue or matter pending before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a member, or pertaining to his or their duties, by writing or sending to him any letter on,letters, or any com¬ munication in print or writing in relation to such issues or matter, without the or¬ der previously obtained of the court be¬ fore which the said juror is summoned, such person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to prosecution therefor by indictment or information, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding onc thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, according to the aggravation ofthe offense. Approved, June 10, 1872. [General nature—No. 137.] AN ACT relative to retired officers ofthe army.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all officers of the United States army who may hereafter be retired shall be retired upon the actual rank held by them at the date of retirement, and the thirty-second section of thc act to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the United States approved July twenty-eighth, eigh¬ teen hundred and sixty-six, is hereby re¬ pealed.
Approved, June 10, 1872.
General Amnesty.
In his speech delivered on the 29th of June, 1872, at Decatur, Illinois, while discu.ssing the issues presented in the Lib¬ eral Platform, Gov. Oglesby, said :
Resolution third says: "We demand the immediate and unconditional repeal of all disabilities." That lets in everybody. It lets the seventy-five in. How does the question stand ? In 1866 the republicans in congress proposed thofourteenthamend- ment to the constitution. In July 18G8, that amendment was ratified by three- fourths of the States of the Union, and was declared by congress and by Secretary Seward to have been ratified and made a part of the constitution. What did that amendment s.iy '' -'All persons born in the United States, or naturalized, are cit¬ izens of thc Uuited States and of each State of the union." What is the next thing it said ? "The debt contracted in the suppression of the rebellion shall nev¬ er be questioned." That is two things. "All debts contracted by the Confederate States shail never be paid." That is three things. "That compensation for emanci¬ pated slaves shall never be granted by congress or by any State of the Union." That is four things. And fifth, "that no person shall be eligible to the office of member of congress, senator of the United States, elected as president, nor hold any civil or military office in the United States or any State, who, haviug taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, afterwards engaged in re¬ bellion against our government; that they should never hold office except that disa¬ bility should be removed by a two-thirds vote of congress." Very well. Then no man who, having taken oath to support the constitution of the United States, and afterward engaged in rebellion, could hold office unless a two-thirds vote of congress removed the disability.
What did we do ? Immediately we be¬ gan to remove the disabilities. AVell, could these rebels all vote ? Yes, sir— they could all vote, like the colored peo¬
ple—^we allowed them all to vote—we only provided that they eould not hold offico until the disabilities were removed by act of congress, and then it had to be a two- third vote.
The Republican party commenced re¬ moving these disabilities. That constitu¬ tional provision itself removed the disa¬ bilities from a great many of them; and congress kept on removing disabilities un¬ til last session, when 25,000 were discharg¬ ed by one act. That act read: "All per¬ sons who have over borne arms against the government of the United States, except members of the thirty-sixth and thirty- seventh congress—except men who were in the army, navy, or judiciary when the war began." These "excepts" cover about seventy-five men. Why not let them hold offiee? That is just where the re¬ publican party stops. The liberals say, "let them all in." We say "no, it is not wise." The great leading landmarks of the rebellion stand now as they stood then. Jeff Davis says he will take nothing—he accepts nothing from you. Alexander H. Stephens, Robert Toombs and others say, "We are rebels still ; we believe we were rightjwewere not in rebellion against your government; wo had a right to se¬ cede; we stand now just where we did during the war." We say, "So long as you talk that way wo will let you stand as a monument of the wrath of an outraged people." [Applause.] They trifled with the liberties of this people, and shot dead, or cqused to be crippled, four hnndred thousand of these men, and just as long as they stand in that attitude, and say they won't come back and be true to the Union, we say these disabilities shall not be removed from them—that they shall not be elected to congress, or be elected president or vice-president. I stand upon that to-day. I say we have been liberal as no people on the globe were ever liberal before. But Gov. Koerner and Judge Trumbull and all of them say, "We want fhe disabilities removed from Jeff Davis, from Toombs, from Stephens—we want them elected to office if fhe people down there choose to elect them." Judge Trum¬ bull says that the people down there have a right to vote for Davis if they like best fo do so. He says, "has not every one a right to vote for whosoever he prefers?" I say that has been the doctrine —it is the doctrine now; but it has always been understood by democrats, reptlb- licans and whigs alike, to mean that when you and I vote for whom wc please we are to vote for a friend of our conntry, and not for rebels or traitors. The right of election was never extended to that dangerous and fearful extent. Go to the soldier here to-day—to fhe loyal man who stood by the government, and ask him if he wants Jeff Davis elected president or vice president of the United States, or if he wants him in congress, and he will say No—he considers him a dangerous man. You men say it is right for him to be there, and that you arc in favor of it. Your platform pledges you to it, and so does the speech of Judge Trumbull; but I say there is no reform in it—I say it is an outrageous violation of prudential meas¬ ures. A nation that cares nothing for its reputation is like a man or woman who cares nothing for reputation, which repre¬ sents the brightest Jewel of the hnman heart. I favor no man nor no party that will advocate fhe bringing back of such men to government and place. Jeff Davis is a traitor before, and I will not consent to place him in a position to be voted for by men, who will vote for him solely on account of his unexhausted treason against our laws, our people, and our union; who sympathize with him alone on account of his unpatriotic views and open avowals of hate ofour constitution. Neither human¬ ity nor injustice require this abandonment of sound and healty principles. I am asked if we still fear Jefferson Davis. I promptly answer, if democrats and liberal republi¬ cans should succeed in returning Davis, Stephens, Breckinridge, and Toombs to the United States Senate, the fatal error would have no effect cither upon my nerves or my fidelity to our oountry, but I should be mortified to know that a politi¬ cal party had gained thc control of fhe government who had no higher standard of patriotism than to take counsel of an old foe who has neither respect for our institutions or gratitude for the generous mercy already extended to them, who would under eyery pretense again renew the discord of former days and make it a daily business to talk treason to the youth of our country—vote upon all occasions in the interest of our late enemy and secretly instil posion as they did into the veins and arteries of thc nation. I am not so stupid as not to know that Mr. Greeley, by his avowal ofa policy of prompt restoration to political power of Davisand others, wbo still insult us, will inthe approaching pres¬ idential election, secure the vote of every southern and northern man once in re¬ bellion or in .sympathy with those who were against our land and country. That I fear is the real secretof all this profligate love of amnesty, and Gen. Grant and our cause will to that extent suffer in the next election. I will not, therefore, vote for Mr. Greeley, nor any other man who goes for that kind of amnesty. It is trifling with the principles of the government.
Now, these are the only two points of difference—civil service reform and am¬ nesty. Poor Greeley! You cannot tell what the old man will do. He went crazy on amnesty; he must go to Richmond to sign Jeff Davis' bail bond, and now his cry from morning to night is to bring back these seventy-five or a hundred. To put one of them in his cabinet will be perfect consistent with the signing of fhat bail bond. It was the foolish freak of an old man, trying to do something to pacify tho country; he thought he was going to reconcile rebels and republicans by it. The rebels laughed at it. Jeff Davis turned up his nose at it. I say it was the simple thought of a poor old man that had been dreaming half his lifetime that he would do something to rule the world. I re¬ member as well as you do that he once said that no man could bo healthy or vote intelligently who did not subsist on bread; he thought that a man who took a glass - of whiskey, or a glass of beer, ought to be hanged on the spot. Such practices, and such views, will not answer in a republic. In selecting men wc take capacity and general features into aecount, and thongh a man may not do as we do in these smaller matters, yet that is no reason why we should not vote for him. Look at mem¬ bers of temperance societies; they will frequently vote for a man who is not a temperance man at all. They say, "We must look over that thing—that man has qualification—he is eminently fitted for the office, and I will overlook thetjuestion of his intemperance for the time being." Just so with a man who drinks occasion¬ ally; he votes for a temperance man, be¬ cause other considerations come iI^to con¬ trol his action.