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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Consular service, the (search)
iary to Greece, Rumania, and Servia, and serves in all the above offices for one and the same salary. The consul-general at Havana receives $6,000, and the consul-general at Melbourne $4,500. There are twelve offices where $5,000 are paid, viz.: Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai, Paris, Calcutta, Hong-Kong, Liverpool, London, Port au Prince, Rome, Teheran, Cairo, and Bangkok (where the consul is also minister resident); seven offices where $4,000 are paid, viz.: Panama, Berlin, Montreal, Honolulu, Kanagawa, Monrovia, and Mexico; seven where $3,500 are paid, viz.: Vienna, Amoy, Canton, Tientsin, Havre, Halifax, and Callao; thirty-one where $3,000 are paid; thirty where $2,500 are paid; and fifty-one where $2,000 are paid. The remaining ninety-five of the salaried officers receive salaries of only $1,500 or $1,000 per annum. Consular officers are not allowed their travelling expenses to and from their posts, no matter how distant the latter may be. They are simply entitled to their salaries
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaties. (search)
onJan. 30, 1875 Hesse-Cassel: Convention of Droit d'aubaine and tax on emigration abolishedBerlinMar. 26, 1844 Hesse-Darmtstadt: Treaty of NaturalizationDarmstadtAug. 1, 1868 Italy: Convention of ConsularWashingtonFeb. 8, 1868 Convention of ExtraditionWashingtonMar. 23, 1868 Treaty of Commerce and navigationFlorenceFeb. 26, 1871 Convention of Consular privilegesWashingtonMay 8, 1878 Convention of Consular rightsWashingtonFeb. 24, 1881 Japan: Treaty of Peace, amity, commerce, etc.KanagawaMar. 31, 1854 Treaty of Commercial; ports openedSimodaJune 17, 1857 Principal treaties and conventions of the United States with other powers—Continued. Foreign Power and Object of Treaty.Where Concluded.Date. Japan—Continued: Treaty of Peace, amity, and commerceTokioJuly 29, 1858 Convention of Reducing import dutiesTokioJan. 28, 1864 Convention of Indemnities. (U. S., Great Britain, France, and Holland sign)YokohamaOct. 22, 1864 Convention of Regarding expense of shipwrecksTokioM
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
The bark Daniel Webster brings advices from Kanagawa, Japan, to Dec. 29. . Her cargo consists of tea, coffee, arrow root, wax, honey, lacquered and porcelain ware. The ship Coquimbo, from Hong Kong, Oct. 24, for San Francisco, has put into Kanagawa in a leaky condition. Business at Kanagawa was at a stand still. Teas and silks were the only articles purchased for export at reasonable prices. It was thought that the Russians, who had been waiting many months, would get a treaty, es from Kanagawa, Japan, to Dec. 29. . Her cargo consists of tea, coffee, arrow root, wax, honey, lacquered and porcelain ware. The ship Coquimbo, from Hong Kong, Oct. 24, for San Francisco, has put into Kanagawa in a leaky condition. Business at Kanagawa was at a stand still. Teas and silks were the only articles purchased for export at reasonable prices. It was thought that the Russians, who had been waiting many months, would get a treaty, though not such a one as desired.
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Residence of Tommy. (search)
The Residence of Tommy. --Japanese Tommy, according to a letter in the Home Journal, from Kanagawa, is a very inferior custom-house official, and "lives in a large compound back of the custom-house, behind a high board fence, painted black, and looking very sombre, where are huddled together custom-house officials by the score. Under the roof, a neat, one-story cottage, with tiled roof, papered screens, and mat floors, Tommy has a place where he may eat by day and spread his quilts to sleep by night. The only furniture such a gentleman has, or needs, in Japan, is a cupboard to put his bedding in by day and a chest of drawers for loose articles. The mats are at the same time carpet, chairs, sofa and dining-table. His income is free rent, a per diem allowance of rice, and eight ichibus, or two dollars and sixty-seven cents a month."
The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Execution in Kanagawa, (Japan.) (search)
Execution in Kanagawa, (Japan.) The correspondent of a New York paper, writing from the above place, gives the following description of a poor fellow who was executed for arson: The criminal, dressed in a loose white cotton robe, and bound hand and foot, was placed on horseback and paraded through the principal streets of the native quarter. He was escorted by a large posse of police, soldiers and officials. Inscribed on a banner, carried directly in front of him, were particulars of his history, his crime and its punishment.--The poor fellow, reduced to a skeleton by long confinement, and bearing the marks of harsh treatment, was as object an object as one might see. Passing out of the town, he was conducted to a hill in the open country, a lovely spot overlooking fair fields, gardens in-numerable, and the placid bay, where a space of a half acre's extent was enclosed by ropes, within which the stake, the faggots and the fire awaited their victim. Shortly before reaching
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ion, while the organs of the Exeter Hall abolitionists contend that the destruction of slavery is the one and main issue of the present war in America. England's endeavors to obtain an independent supply of cotton are reported in a shape which must be very alarming to the rebel cotton interest of the Southern States. The comments of the London press on the fact of the tender of a Union commission to Garibaldi are very unfriendly towards the Cabinet at Washington. Our correspondent at Kanagawa, Japan dating on the 3d of July, states that the news of the attack on and bombardment of Fort Sumter had been received there. The intelligence was conveyed in English papers, which had copied the reports of the New York Herald of the 14th of April last. This news produced great consternation and anxiety among the American residents, who feared that the power and prestige of the United States would be destroyed by the act, and that our Government would fall, both in Europe and Asia, from
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Reported cavalry fight. (search)
ft Indianapolis on Saturday to join the regiment at Lexington, Ky. There is no truth in the report that Admiral Farragut is to be relieved from the command of the Gulf Squadron. A dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette says that Gen. McClellan declined being a candidate before the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention for Governor. Dispatches from San Francisco say that hostilities between Great Britain and Japan are probable. Thirteen English vessels of war were assembled at Kanagawa. They had demanded a large indemnity of the Japanese Government and the surrender of the murderers of Mr. Richardson. The 21st and 24th New Jersey regiments have passed through Washington on their way home to be mustered out. Capt. Brunner is the name of the Confederate officer who was killed in Mosby's raid into Maryland. In Lowell, Mass., last week, Major Gen. (Beast) Butler was severely beaten by a master stonemason, whom he had slapped in the face. The stonemason beat h
The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred dollars reward. (search)
timore American of the 18th: From China and Japan. A telegram from San Francisco, dated 17th, announces the arrival at that port of the bark Rogers, from Kanagawa, bringing a letter from Welsh, Hall & Co., dated Kanagawa, January 7th, in which it is stated that "the privateer Alabama is in dock at Amoy, (China,) and the WyKanagawa, January 7th, in which it is stated that "the privateer Alabama is in dock at Amoy, (China,) and the Wyoming, Captain McDougal, standing sentry over her. We may yet hope that her career is ended. The Jamestown is also there before this. The news comes by the brig Mary Capen, five days from Shanghai, and is authentic." The palace of the Tycoon of Japan, at Yeddo, was burned on Christmas day. On New Year's day, the city of Yeddo was again ravaged by fire. About five hundred buildings of the better class were burned. News had reached Kanagawa, that on the 31st October all of Hokodadi had been burned by incendiary fires. Miscellaneous. A fire occurred at Gloucester, Mass., on the 18th inst., destroying about seventy-five buildings. A dispatc