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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peace conference, universal (search)
esent day. 8. To accept in principle the employment of good offices, of mediation and facultative arbitration in cases lending themselves thereto, with the object of preventing armed conflicts between nations; to come to an understanding with respect to the mode of applying these good offices, and to establish a uniform practice in using them. The following governments were represented: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States of America. The United States were represented by the lion. Andrew D. White, ambassador to Berlin; the Hon. Seth Low, president of Columbia University; the Hon. Stanford Newel, minister to The Hague; Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N.; Capt. William Crozier, U. S. A., and the Hon. Frederick W. Holls, of New York. At the op
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Perry, Matthew Calbraith 1794-1858 (search)
s, engaging in the siege of Vera Cruz in 1847. From 1852 to 1854 he commanded the expedition to Japan, and negotiated a very important treaty with the rulers of that empire, which has led to wonderf and secured great advantages to America. A monument commemorating Commodore Perry's visit to Japan was erected at Kurihama, Japan, in 1901. In a circular sent out by the American Association of ed the country to enter upon the unprecedented era in national prosperity in which we now live. Japan has not forgotten—nor will she ever forget— that next to her reigning and most beloved sovereignnt prosperity to the United States of America. After a lapse of forty-eight years the people of Japan have come to entertain but an uncertain memory of Kurihama, and yet it was there that Commodore Perry first trod on the soil of Japan, and for the first time awoke the country from three centuries of slumberous seclusion, and there first gleamed the rays of her new era of progress. He died in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Philippine Islands, (search)
f as great as in France, and onethird as great as in Japan and China. Various smaller islands, including thearea of the Philippines is about the same as that of Japan. In addition to the Christian population, it is e511 tons, and it came principally from Australia and Japan. In the same year the imports of iron of all kinds a large market for it in competition with coal from Japan and Australia. Agriculture. Although agricultuhe islands can support a population equal to that of Japan (42,000,000). The chief products are rice, corn, h the Pacific Mail and Canadian Pacific steamers for Japan and America. There has been no considerable devel and sugar. Of the manufactures and arts in which Japan so excels there is no evidence. The foreign comme.9 United States.77.4 France.71.2 Singapore.41.7 Japan.21.2 Australia.12.6 Other countries1.5.6 ———— Tos for generations been conducted on a silver basis. Japan has within the last year broken away from this and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Preble, George Henry 1816-1885 (search)
e: entered the navy as midshipman, Oct. 10, 1835; served in the Mediterranean and the West Indies; became passed midshipman in 1841; served in the Florida War, and in the St. Louis went round the world as acting master and acting lieutenant. He also served in the war with Mexico as executive officer of the Petrel. He became lieutenant early in 1848, while yet in service against Mexico; and from 1849 to 1851 he was attached to the coast survey, also in 1852-53. He was in the expedition to Japan and China (1852-56), and destroyed Chinese pirates in 1854. Afterwards he was with the South Pacific Squadron; and during the Civil War he was an active commander in the Gulf region. He was with Farragut at New Orleans in May, 1862, and in July was commissioned commander. He commanded the naval brigade at the battle of Honey Hill, S. C. In 1867 he was commissioned captain and became chief of staff of the Pacific Squadron. After some important duties at Washington, he was appointed comman
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sanger, Joseph P. 1875- (search)
Sanger, Joseph P. 1875- Military officer; born in Michigan; distinguished himself in the Civil War, receiving two brevets; accompanied General Upton on his tour of inspection of the armies of Japan, France, Austria, and England in 1875-77; was appointed inspector of volunteers with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in May, 1898; promoted brigadier-general of volunteers May 27, 1898. On Dec. 23 of the latter year he was ordered to the command of the Department of Matanzas, Cuba.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Scudder, Henry Martyn 1822-1895 (search)
Scudder, Henry Martyn 1822-1895 Clergyman; born in Panditeripo, District of Jaffna, Ceylon, Feb. 5, 1822; came to the United States in 1832; graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1840; ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1843. He sailed for Madras as a missionary in the latter year, and remained abroad till 1864. While in Madras he studied medicine and opened a hospital and dispensary for the poor. He was pastor of churches in Jersey City, Brooklyn, and Chicago, between 1865 and 1887, and then went to Japan as a missionary. He published several works in the Tamil language, among them Liturgy of the Reformed Protestant Church; The Bazar book; Sweet savors of Divine truth, a catechism; and Spiritual teaching. He died in Winchester, Mass., June 4, 1895.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Silver dollar, the (search)
00 of the new design of the silver dollar. There was no popular demand for this coin; but the dollar was issued from the mint from time to time until April 1, 1873, when the dollar of 1792 and 1837 ceased to have a place in the national coinage, the issue having been discontinued by act of Congress passed Feb. 12, 1873. The trade dollar, weighing 420 grains, and 900 fine, contained 7 1/2 grains more than the dollar of 1837. It was not intended for circulation at home, but for trade with Japan and other Eastern countries. The object of issuing it was to compete, if possible, with the dollars of Mexico and Spain, and to encourage the shipment of American silver to the East Indies, for the country had suddenly become a silver-producer. In 1878 an act was passed providing for the coinage of a silver dollar weighing 412.5 grains, and declaring the trade dollar not a legal tender for any sum. The latter almost immediately disappeared from circulation. The silver dollar which took it
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
aland31 345 Bahama Islands1 213 British America1 200 British India (Indo-European Telegraph Department）111 1,919 China2 113 Cochin China and Tonquin2 774 Japan70 1,508 Macao1 2 Nouvelle Caledonie1 1 Netherlands Indies7 891 Senegal, Africa—Dakar to Goree Island1 3 —————— Total1,141 19,883 On Sept. 23, 1901, the be about 8,500 miles, the first part, from San Francisco to Hawaii, about 2,200 miles. The new cable will connect at Manila with the present one running thence to Japan, and also with the one running to China. This will insure direct telegraphic communication between the United States, the Philippine Islands, China, and Japan witlso with the one running to China. This will insure direct telegraphic communication between the United States, the Philippine Islands, China, and Japan without, as heretofore required, transit across Europe. It was expected that the entire cable would be completed and in operation within two years from the time o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taylor, Bayard 1825- (search)
Taylor, Bayard 1825- Traveller; born in Kennet Square, Pa., Jan. 11, 1825; became a printer's apprentice at seventeen years of age, and at about the same time wrote verses with much facility. His rhymes were collected and published in a volume in 1844, entitled Ximena. In 1844– 46 he made a tour on foot in Europe, of which he published (1846) an account in Views afoot. In 1847 he went to New York and wrote for the Literary world and for the Tribune, and in 1848 published Rhymes of travel. In 1849 he Bayard Taylor. became owner of a share in the Tribune, and was one of the shareholders at the time of his death. After serving two months as the secretary of the American legation at Shanghai, he joined the expedition of Commodore Perry to Japan. In the spring of 1878 he went to Berlin as American minister at the German court, and died there, Dec. 19, 187
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tomes, Robert 1817-1882 (search)
Tomes, Robert 1817-1882 Physician; born in New York City, March 27, 1817; graduated at Washington (now Trinity) College in 1835; studied medicine in Philadelphia and later at the University of Edinburgh; returned to the United States and practised in New York for a few years, and was then appointed surgeon on a vessel for the Pacific Mail Steamboat Company, and made trips between Panama and San Francisco. He was United States consul at Rheims, France, in 1865-67. He contributed largely to journals and magazines; and was author of Panama in 1855; The American in Japan; The battles of America by sea and land; The War with the South: a history of the Great American rebellion, etc. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1882.
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