URUGUAY. 



VIONT. 



7C1 



folio v. , $287,000; inci 



i&nroh expense*, $140.000; periodicals, $90,000; 



fMinday-srhooi :i'i<l other denominational b 



$40,0no; salaries of teaclu-rs iii our schools and 



(0 ; inridmtal expanses of llio 



same, $15,000. Total, $025,000. Addetl to 



. this siini makes U',r,.">.000 over 



lillion and 11 half paid or contributed for 



-ali-m during the year just cli/<rd.'' 

 URUGUAY ("TbeOrtentaJ Kcpublicof Uru- 

 vpublic. in South America. l'n>vi>- 

 're-idcnt, since November, 18C5,Vennncio 



. Area, 73,538 square miles; population, 

 ''>, according to the official census, 250,- 

 ln 1^04, according to a circular from tlio 

 ter of the Interior, 350,000; among whom 



were 150,000 foreigner*. The army \ra com- 



. in I.M'.-I. .-I-- follow*: - :' the 



capital, ].:; 



national guard, 20,000. 'J IK- ' fur- 



nished by Uruguay in the war against Paraguay 

 was stated to i -,500. The exports t 

 ohldf foreign countries were, in ]M~>, valued as 

 follows: United States, $11,777,241; 1 

 $3,781,680; Great Britain, $8,091,63!); Spain, 

 $971,538; Italy, $1,016,600; Brazil, $7!''. 

 The active participation of Uruguay in the war 

 against 1'araguay ceased in the latter part of 

 tin- year, as the government was unable to 

 make up for the losses siillei-ed du.ing tho war. 

 The election of a I'IX-M' lent was postponed to 

 1807. 



VAN BUREN, JOHN", an American lawyer 

 and politician, born at Hudson, N. Y., February, 

 1810; died on the Scotia, on her passage be- 

 tween Liverpool and New York, October 13, 

 1866. He was the second son of President 

 Martin Van Buren; graduated at Yale College 

 in 1828, studied law with Heiijamin F. Butler 

 at Albany, and the Hon. Aaron Vanderpool at 

 Kiii'lerhook, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1830. Though an able lawyer and an eloquent 

 advocate, he was less distinguished at the bar 

 than in political life. He was the attendant of 

 his father at the court of St. James, England, 

 in 1332, nnd in 1845 was elected Attorney-Gen- 

 eral of New York. At the conclusion of his 

 term of office in January, 1847, he settled in 

 New York, and devoted himself for the most 

 part to the duties of his profession, seldom ac- 

 cepting of any office, though occasionally tak- 

 ing an active part in State canvasses. During 

 tho presidential campaign of 1848 he distin- 

 guished himself as a popular advocate of the 

 Free-Soil party, and ofHhe exclusion of slavery 

 from tlio Federal territories. lie did not, how- 

 ever, adhere to the principles which were sub- 

 sequently developed by that party, hut during 

 the latter years of his life acted with the Demo- 

 cracy, often taking an active part in the polit- 

 ical Canvass. In May, ISM, ho left New York 

 for a European tour, travelling extensively dur- 

 ing the summer in Sweden, Norway, and Rus- 

 sia, and spending a few weeks, previous t<> his 

 embarkation for home, in the Highlands of 

 Scotland, and it was not until about a fortnight 

 before his death that his health gave signs of 

 failure. 



As an advocate he exerted a powerful in- 

 fluence, carrying the jury with him almost irre- 

 sistibly. He was always an eloquent and intcr- 

 .esting speaker, genial and agreeable in soci.-ty, 

 and possessed of tine social qualities. He had 

 very little ambition for preferment, and, while 

 more than once almost any position in the gift 

 of tho people of his State was at his command, 



he not only did not seek but generally refused 

 office. 



VENEZUELA, a republic in South America. 

 lent, Marshal Juan Crisostomo Falcon, 

 since March 18, 1865. Area, 4-Ji;.71:2 square 

 miles; population, in 1858, about 1,565,000 

 inhabitants. The public debt amounted, in 1849, 

 to $22,865,620; the revenue, in 18.-)2, was 

 $8,248,031; and the expenditure only $2,705,- 

 055. The number of entrances and clearances 

 in the ports of the republic was, in 1854, 1,158, 

 with an aggregate burden of 172,055 



VERMONT. This inland State present 

 change than any other in the Union during 

 siicci-s^ivo years. Nearly stationary in popula- 

 tion, its wealth slowly inciv 



A Republican convention assemble-] at Mont- 

 pelicr, Juno 20th, to nominate candidates for 

 officers in the State government. 



Paul Dillingham was nominated for Gov- 

 ernor, A. B. Gardner for Licutenant-Governor, 

 and John A. Page lor Treasurer. 



The committee on resolutions then reported 

 the following, which were adopted: 



1. That justice to nil, as well as tho commonest 

 considerations of prudence and security, demand 

 that no scheme of restoration of the rebel States and 

 people should be tolerated, whii-h does not by legis- 

 lative enactment or constitutional amendment place 

 the powers of the Government beyond contingency 

 in the control of the loyal people of the States, and 

 secure the Government against disloyal control or 

 cliei-k. 



'_'. That, while approving the constitutional amend- 

 ment lately proposed by Congress ns a i>tv-, at pr.ie- 

 ticul measure toward securing just ends, we yet in. 

 sist that every scheme of restoration is imperfect 

 that is not based upon equal and exact justice to all. 

 and tin- e<|iial rights, personal, civil, and practical, of 

 all loyal citizens, irrespective of color or race; that 

 ire iln- spet-dy restoration of the seceding 

 States to all their functions as States in our 

 t-tnictrd and purified Union the sooner the better, 

 so it be done severally and justly upon the basis of 

 an assured loyally of'the people'una the cmial right! 

 of all; but we insist that the loyal should be backed 

 by a loyal constituency ; that, as our institutions 

 were saved by the loyal, to them belong their re- 



