Minister of State, from all the charges against him. Declares Alejo Morales, Secretary of the Treasury, culpable of complicity in the matter of the Postoffice orders of Mosquera concerning the detention of newspapers. The said Morales is accordingly sentenced to pay a fine of $8, and be suspended from employ for two months; but as he has now no public employment, he is fined $10. Bernardo Espinosa, Ex-Secretary of Hacienda and Fomento, is fined $8 and suspended from employ two months for participation in the issue of the decree relative to salt. And the Secretary of War and the Navy, Rudecindo Lopez, is absolved from the charge founded upon his intervention in the secret treaty entered into with the Peruvian Minister. General Mosquera's sentence was subsequently commuted to a fine of $12 and two years' exile. He left the republic at once and went to Peru. The purchase of the steamer R. R. Cuyler, which has already been referred to in the conflict between President and Congress, led also to a complication with the United States. The facts in the case are stated in an official despatch from Mr. Seward, which Mr. Peter J. Sullivan, the American minister in Bogota, was directed to lay before the Acting President of the Republic. Mr. Seward, after acknowledging the official report of Mr. Sullivan on the subject, says: By these papers I perceive that the Government of Colombia has ascertained that on the 28th of August, 1866, a secret treaty was concluded at Bogota between Plenipotentiaries of that republic and Peru, which was approved and declared to be ratified by Thomas C. de Mosquera, at that time President of the United States of Colombia, on the 20th of November, 1866; that in said treaty the republic of Colombia bound itself to buy certain vessels of war which the republic of Peru had contracted for or was contracting for in the United States, in order to use them against Spain in the war which Peru, with certain allies, was then and is still engaged in; that said United States of Colombia, before concluding that treaty, had neither allied nor engaged themselves in war against Spain, but became allies secretly by the treaty; that when the treaty was made the Government of Peru had found itself embarrassed by the neutrality laws of the United States, and consequently incapable of obtaining from the fiscal officers of the United States the dispatch and release of the vessels of war which Peru had contracted for with citizens of the United States; that in the treaty it was stipulated that the vessels should become the property of the republic of Colombia, which State, nevertheless, should continue to be ostensibly neutral after the treaty; and that as soon as the vessels bad arrived within the jurisdiction of Colombia they should be sold and delivered by the United States of Colombia to the republic of Peru at such prices and on such terms as show clearly that the sale made in the United States by Peru to Colombia was nothing more than fictitious, and a violation of the neutrality laws of the United States; that according to the treaty, Mr. Salgar, Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia, announced to the Government of the United States that the R. R. Cuyler, which had already been libelled in New York and been refused discharge and detained for being fitted out in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States to make war on account of Peru and its allies against Spain, had been bought by the United States of Colombia for their own use, and was really the property not of the republic of Peru nor of any of its allies, but of the United States of Colombia, which were at peace with Spain; that this representation of General Salgar was accepted, and the proceedings against the R. R. Cuyler were suspended; that the persons who, according to the representation of Mr. Salgar, had contracted the vessel for the republic of Colombia, gave bonds of security to the United States that she should be delivered within the waters of the Colombian Government without violating the aforesaid neutrality laws during her voyage, and that on receipt of these securities and guarantees the R. R. Cuyler was discharged and went to her destination, which was Santa Martha, in the United States of Colombia. It also appears from the representations made to you by Mr. C. Martin, that when said treaty and the proceedings of Mr. Salgar in the United States afterwards came to the knowledge of the Congress of the United States of Colombia, that honorable body disapproved entirely of those proceedings, and that the Government of Colombia disavows and repudiates them now as completely illegal, unconstitutional, fraudulent and void. President Mosings, has been removed. The administration of that quera, who assumed the direction of those proceedcountry under the Presidency of Mr. Acosta has been recognized. The latter approves and adopts entirely the above ideas and policy of the Congress of Colombia. It further appears that the republic of Colombia finds itself embarrassed by the presence of the R. R. Cuyler in the waters of the republic, which presence is supposed to imply the following dangers: First, complications with Peru for the violation of the treaty between Peru and Colombia; secondly, complications with Spain for exposing the neutrality of Colombia; and thirdly, the probable loss of confidence in the good faith of the Government of Colombia on the part of the United States: that the Government of Colombia furthermore apprehends that the R. R. Cuyler, if permitted to leave the ports of the republic without a naval guard stronger than that which the President of Colombia can give her, might be converted into the scene of a mutiny, and even the officers and crew might take to piracy on the high seas; that under this supposition the Government of Colombia would consider it as the most desirable and prudent way that the R. R. Cuyler should return to the port of New York, under the naval protection of the United States, in order that this government might deliver her up to the Government of Peru, for whom she in reality was prepared as a vessel-of-war, and not for the United States of Colombia, as the matter is to be understood now. With regard to the request of the Colombian Government, Mr. Seward gaye the following reply: As far as the United States are concerned, the R. R. Cuyler is and must be considered a foreign vessel, belonging now to the United States of Colombia, or which at least in no way belongs or can be recognized as belonging to the mercantile fleet of the United States. There is no law in the United States by which the United States could exercise any restriction over the R. R. Cuyler, either in the waters of Colombia or on the high seas, or in the ports of the United States, so long as she does not do or threaten to do any injury to the United States. There is no law by which she could be received in the United States in any other character than as a vessel-of-war of that friendly republic, nor is there any law which could authorize her transfer or delivery here by the Government of Colombia, by that of the United States or any other, to a foreign power which is at war with another foreign power with whom the United States are at peace. Much less could the United States undertake to receive her from the Government of Colombia as neutral, and transfer her or order or allow her to be transferred to any belligerent within the waters of the United States. The Government of the United States has no authority to exercise any vigilance over the R. R. Cuyler in Colombian waters, as long as she does not commit or threaten to commit any act of hostility or injury to the United States. This reply of the United States Government was communicated to the Acting President Acosta by Minister Sullivan on Dec. 2d. Acosta's answer mainly consisted of general remarks about the high value Colombia places on the friendship of the United States, and the dishonesty of public servants who have already been condeinned by public opinion. At the State elections held in December, the conservatives elected their candidate to the Presidency of Cundinamarca. The threats of Aldana, the former incumbent of that office, to forcibly retain possession of the government if he were not himself reelected to the place, were promptly met by the federal government with the assurance that he would not be allowed to disturb the public tranquillity. As Aldana had previously depended on the government to aid him in his scheme, he was compelled by the opposition of Acosta to abandon altogether the idea of revolutionizing the State. The conservatives gained another victory in Bolivar, one of the States verging on the Carribbean. Carthagena, the capital, has heretofore been considered a stronghold of the liberals; but a recent municipal election was carried by the opposite party. The agents of the Panama Railroad Company, in August, 1867, after much trouble, considerable expense, and great anxiety, succeeded in obtaining a renewal of their charter for ninetynine years. Great efforts had been made by English capitalists to prevent the renewal, and it was believed that President Mosquera was acting hand in hand with them. After the coup d'état, Mosquera made repeated proposals to the agent of the company to make a contract on his own responsibility; but the agent refused to enter into an agreement which would not be ratified by Congress, and he did not wish to furnish the dictator with the money which he alone needed to maintain his rule. The new government at once called Congress together, and with the prospect of legal and constitutional ratification a contract was agreed upon by the Secretary of the Treasury and the agent of the company, accepted by the President and ratified by Congress, with some modifications. The following first four articles of the contract contain the most important points: ARTICLE 1. The Government of the United States of Colombia grants to the Panama Railroad Company the use and possession, for ninety-nine years, of the railroad constructed by the same which actually exists between the cities of Colon and Panama. This grant includes not only the road itself, but also the edifices, storehouses, wharves, docks, the telegraph between Colon and Panama connected with the road, and in general all its dependencies and other works of which said company is now in possession, which are necessary for the development of the enterprise, and those which in future they may establish with the same object. ART. 2. The government of the republic binds itself, during the period that this exclusive privilege granted to the company for the working of the railroad remains in force, not to construct itself, or concede to any person or company, in any way whatever, the right of constructing any other railroad on the Isthmus of Panama, and it is also stipu lated that while the aforesaid privilege exists, the government cannot undertake nor permit any person whatever to undertake, without the permission or consent of said company, the construction or working of any ocean canal that may put in communica tion the two oceans across the Isthmus of Panama, to the westward of a line from Cape Tiburon on the Atlantic and Point Garashine on the Pacific. But it is stipulated that the right granted to the company to give its consent does not extend to the opposing the construction of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama (except on the actual route of said railroad), but only to exact an equitable price for said privi lege, and as an indemnification for the losses which sition or competition of the canal. If the govern the railroad company might suffer from the oppo ment of the United States of Colombia should consider the sum exacted by the company not equit able, then it shall be fixed by arbitrators in New York or Panama, one of them appointed by the government and the other by the company, and in case of non-agreement the two shall name a third, whose decision shall be without appeal. In making their decision the arbitrators shall take into consideration the grounds on which the company rests, and the report that will be given by the government on the matter; and having these in view they shall decide, without appeal, what they believe just and equitable. The sum, whatever it may be, that shall be definitively decided on, shall belong, one-half to the railroad company and the other half to the gov ernment. ART. 3. In compensation and as the price of these concessions, the railroad company obliges itself to pay to the government of the United States of Cofombia one million of dollars in American gold coin, government may choose, on the day on which this or in drafts payable in New York in the same, as the contract is approved by Congress, and to pay from now until the expiration of the present privilege an annual rent of two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars in American gold coin. The payments shall be made by the company quarterly in New York to the agents named by the government of the United States of Colombia, or if convenient for the govern ment, the company shall place the money in London or Panama on the government giving the necessary terly payments shall commence to count from the advice to the company in New York. These quar day of approval of this contract by Congress. From the rent which the Republic gets by this contract, there shall be deducted annually, during twenty years, twenty-five thousand dollars, which the com pany shall deliver to the government of the State of Panama. ART. 4. The company binds itself to extend the railroad on the Pacific side to the islands of Nao, Calebra, Perico and Flamenco, or to any other place in the bay where there may be permanent depth of water for large vessels. COLORADO. The district of country known by the name of Colorado has an area of 106,475 square miles. It is wedged in between Kansas and Utah. Idaho is on the north, and New Mexico below it. The Rocky Mountains traverse it from North to South. The Arkansas River, emptying into the Mississippi; Grand River, which pours into the Bay of California through the Colorado; the Rio Grande, that flows into the Bay of Mexico along the south western border of Texas; and the south fork of the Platte, a tributary of the Missouri, all are fed from these acclivities. In 1859 gold was discovered in the then Territory. Three years after, $2,823,337 were coined from the product of this metal, and the next year $2,136,686. Rich silver mines were found soon after the gold, and their discovery was supplemented by finding copper, iron, coal, salt, limestone, and gypsum. These discoveries induced immigration. square miles within Colorado; the remaining portion is covered by excellent timber. Unlimited water power is found in almost all parts of the Territory. Inexhaustible and widelydistributed beds of excellent coal and iron ore exist. Lime, gypsum, and building-stone are abundant and of the best quality. Salt springs of great value and extent are found and worked. Several oil regions of great promise have been found and worked to some extent. Lead, copper, silver, and gold mines of surpassing richness, pervading in the greatest abundance a distance of two hundred miles in extent along the range of the Rocky Mountains, within Colorado, are a feature of extraordinary importance. Some difficulties took place with the Indians not only in Colorado, but in some of the other Territories. (See INDIAN WAR.) COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1867. With the exception of the year immediately preceding, the foreign commerce of the United States, during the twelve months which closed on the 30th of June last, was larger than in any previous year. The following table gives the specie value, in millions of dollars, of exports and net imports combined: Fiscal year. 1858. On January 16, 1867, a bill passed both The total receipts by the Post-Office De- In 1567 they were..... 41,160 28 ...151,686 51 Colorado has paid to the General Government internal revenue to the amount of $578,079.15, being more than half as much as all the other Territories combined. The assessed value of the taxable property in 1867 was nearly $12,000,000, excluding mines and homesteads preempted. Pastoral or grazing and agricultural lands cover the larger part of the area of one hundred and five thousand 1859 1860. 1861. The year ending June 30, 1866, it will be remembered, was that in which the war closed, and the Southern ports were reopened to commerce. The activity of our foreign trade during that period must therefore be regarded as entirely abnormal, and the fact that during the succeeding year it was less, does not prove a falling off. On the contrary, the commerce of the year 1867 was 178 millions larger than the annual average of the period of 1861-'66, inclusive, which was 548 millions. The impetus exhibited in 1866 has been better maintained than there was reason to expect, and the large trade of 1867 is due most likely to the steady growth of the country, the rapid filling up of its Western lands by immigration, and the gradual adaptation of the industrial classes of the South to the newer and wider fields of enterprise which a changed and better social organization has opened to them. It is remarkable, despite the apparently unsettled condition of affairs in that section of the country, that it has furnished in value nearly seventenths of the entire exports of the year. Exports of Southern products from Atlantic and frontier ports north of Baltimore, and from all Pacific ports, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1867. Total exports of Southern products during fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, currency value (approximate)...... $328,407,000 Total exports of domestic products from the United States during fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, currency value. $471,608,000 Proportion of Southern products to all domestic products exported, 69 per cent. These figures must not be regarded as exact, but only approximate; because the total exports from the Southern Atlantic and Gulf ports, including Baltimore, contain more or Jess of Northern products, which cannot be distinguished from the rest without considerable labor. Cotton still maintains its ascendency as an export staple. If the commerce and navigation tables up to 1865 are to be credited, the cotton exported during the past fiscal year, though less in quantity, nearly equals in value that of any previous year, and indeed exceeds that of all the years but 1859, 1860, and 1866. The following table exhibits the exports of cotton from the United States from July 1, 1855, to June 30, 1866, inclusive, as stated in the reports of the Register of the Treasury on commerce and navigation, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, as shown by the records of the Bureau of Statistics: served as yet in the prices of those which form the burden of their traffic with the principal commercial nations of the world-the prices of products in remote countries, and those with which we and other leading commercial nations have but little trade, have not yet been fully affected by this influence. In another relation, too, a comparison of prices may be deemed objectionable; for example, the cotton exports of 1860 were valued on exportation at about eleven cents a pound, and this valuation may have been fully The cotton exports of 1867 were valued on the realized on the sale of the cotton in Europe. average at 214 cents gold on exportation; and this valuation, owing to the well-known fall in cotton that occurred during the latter months of the calendar year 1866, and the first months of 1867, may be thought not to have been realized on sale. This point, however, has been subjected to examination, and the result is, that the cotton exported during the past fiscal year realized on sale in Great Britain considerably more than the gold value at which it was exported. The foreign trade of 1866 and 1867, respectively, was carried as follows: $128,382,351 131,575,859 100 726 100 YEARS. Pounds. As reported Reduced to in currency. gold. 1866.... 1867 263 31 229.4 31.6 583 69 846 496.6 68.4 1865 1866 1867 11,992,911 6,652,405 9,895,854 8,894,374 6,836,400 The slight relative improvement shown is more superficial than real as to American ves131,386,661 sels; the carriage performed in vessels and 161,434,933 vehicles respectively is not distinguishable. 191,806,555 The total imports from foreign countries at 34,051,483 New York during the calendar year 1867 were $252,648,475: consisting of dutiable goods, 6,328,229 $238,297,955; free goods, $11,044,181; specie, 3,384,356 $3,306,339. In order to show the comparative imports for a series of years, the following table has been prepared : 1,161,243 4,846,925 650,572,829 281,385,223 199,563,987 666,576,314 202,911,410 143,908,801 A comparison of values does not furnish a strictly accurate view of the relative importance in which cotton stands as an export staple between 1867 and 1860, for the reason that prices have considerably risen all over the world since 1860; consequently, $143,000,000, even in gold, would not purchase quite the same amount of foreign produce as it would have done in 1860. The rise in prices alluded to is due to a number of causes, the principal of which are, the increase of production over consumption of the precious metals, and the cost of the civil war, and indeed of all other wars which have occurred since 1860, increasing through the agency of taxation the cost prices of all commercial commodities. Nevertheless, so far as the lastnamed cause applies to the prices of the commodities which the United States sell or purchase, it is for the most part only to be ob Specie. Total United States.. 2,971 278,362 313,430 Canada New Brunswick. Total American Total in 1866..... 73 3,978 5,835 9 424 402 5 372 429 The number of absent members in the United States was 34,056, in all America, 34,372 46,339,611 289,310,542 335,650,153 (against 33,298 in 1866); number of additions, 16,415,052 258,941,999 275,357,051 29,638 in the United States, 30,080 in all Amer9,584,105 243,335,815 252,919,920 ica (against 20,266 in 1866); number of adult 18,115,612 316,447,283 329,562,895 baptisms, 8,598 in United States, 8,564 in all 9,810,072 238,745,580 248,555,652 America (against 5,248 in 1866); of infant bap10,700,092 434,812,066 445,512,158 tisms, 4,949 in the United States, 5,226 in all 22,308,345 389,924,977 412,233,322 America (against 4,345 in 1866). The following table gives the exports of domestic produce and specie from the United States to foreign countries for the years ending June 30th: 1-35 1966 1967 YEARS. 1300 1 Merchandise. Specie. Total exports. $316,242,423 $56,946,851 $373,189,274 The American Congregational Union held its fourteenth annual business meeting at Brooklyn, on May 9th. The secretary's report stated that during the past year, through the instrumentality of the Union, the Congregational Clerical Union, consisting of Congregational ministers 23,799,870 228,699,486 in New York and vicinity, has been organized, 182,024,868 31,044,651 218,069,519 a convenient place provided at the Bible House, 249,891,436 55,993,562 305,884,998 where ministers of the denomination may meet, 64,618,124 323,748,187 and a special effort has been made to promote 468,040,003 82,643,374 550,684,277 the work of church education. In this latter 885,722,450! 55,116,384 440,838,834 work, the receipts have been double those of |