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ARGENTINE EEPUBLIO. 



citizens of the United States. Mr. Ford, the 

 British Secretary of Legation at Buenos Ayres, 

 reports that there are ten colonies established 

 in the Argentine Republic, composed almost 

 entirely of European families, of which the ag- 

 gregate number is 1,394, containing 7,550 indi- 

 viduals. Several of these are composed chiefly 

 of Swiss, who have prospered well in their new 

 homes on the land conceded to them by the 

 government. Some of the Swiss families at 

 Baradero, one hundred and twenty miles from 

 Buenos Ayres, are now worth $5,000. The 

 number of immigrants amounted, in 1866, to 

 upward of 13,000, of whom thirty-one percent, 

 were Italians, twenty-one per cent. Frenchmen, 

 ten per cent. Englishmen, seven per cent. Swiss 

 and Spaniards, two per cent. Germans, etc. In 

 1865 the number of immigrants ha'd been 11,767 ; 

 in 1864, 11,682; in 1863, 10,408; in 1862, 

 6,710. 



The revenue of the republic consists chiefly 

 of the proceeds of the customs. They amounted, 

 in 1863, to 3,900,562 pesos fuertes,* and, in the 

 budget for 1865, were estimated at 8,279,895. 

 There was, in 1863, a deficit of 569,000 pesos, 

 and, according to the budget for 1865, a deficit 

 of 315,142 pesos. According to the message, 

 addressed by General Mitre to the national 

 Congress, in June, 1867, the receipts, in 1866, 

 rose to 9,763,830 pesos. 



The commerce is chiefly carried on through 

 the port of Buenos Ayres. Next to Buenos 

 Ayres come, in point of importance, the ports 

 of Rosario, Corrientes, Uruguayana, San Nico- 

 las, and Gualeguaychu. A proper estimate of 

 the aggregate foreign trade of this republic is 

 obtained by adding about thirty per cent, to 

 both the imports and exports of Buenos Ayres. 

 The chief articles of imports are breadstuff's, 

 beverages, dry-goods, and cast-iron. The chief 

 exports are wool (46 per cent.), hides, skins, and 

 furs (34 per cent.), lard and tallow, salted and 

 dried beef. The imports and exports of Buenos 

 Ayres (in pounds sterling), during the year 

 1865, were as follows: 



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* Five pesos fuertes arc equal to one pound sterling or 

 $4.84. One peso fucrte is equal to twenty-five paper pesos. 



t The high figure of exports to Belgium is explained by 

 the fact that the exports to Germany, Holland, and Northern 

 Europe, all pass through the port of Antwerp. 



ARKANSAS. 



The movement of shipping of the port of 

 Buenos Ayres, in 1865, was as follows: En- 

 trances, 968 vessels, 258,239 tons; clearances, 

 939 vessels, 256,712 tons. Among the vessels 

 were 23 from the United States (13,808 tons) ; 

 220 English (73,119 tons); 108 French (45,358 

 tons), 136 Italian (29,275 tons); 110 Spanish 

 (22,257 tons). 



The total of the domestic and foreign debt of 

 the republic amounted, in October, 1866, to 

 6,496,742 4s., or 32,483,711 pesos. 



The army numbers 10,700 men, exclusive of 

 the militia and National Guard of Buenos Ayres. 

 During the war against Paraguay the republic 

 was to furnish a contingent of from 30,000 to 

 40,000 men; but, in fact, the Argentine force 

 never amounted to more than 8,000 men. The 

 republic has as yet no war-vessels. 



The war in which the Argentine Republic, 

 in union with Brazil and Uruguay, has for some 

 time been engaged against Paraguay, continued 

 throughout the year. The offer of mediation 

 made by the Government of the United States 

 was rejected by the Argentine Government. 

 (See PABAGUAY.) 



In January, 1867, an insurrection took place 

 in the province of Meudoza, which borders 

 upon Chili. It had for its object to separate 

 the interior provinces from the Confeder- 

 ation, and gained ground, under the lead- 

 ership of Videla, in the neighboring provinces 

 of La Rioja and San Juan. The Federal Gov- 

 ernment sent against the insurgents General 

 Pauuero, and, in February, the President, with 

 4,000 men, returned from the seat of war in 

 Paraguay, in order to act with energy for the 

 suppression of the insurrection. On March llth 

 General Paunero, after conquering the insur- 

 gents, entered Mendoza, the capital of the prov- 

 ince of the same name. In April the insurrec- 

 tion was fully put down. The leaders, however, 

 were not taken. 



The sixth Congress of the Argentine Repub- 

 lic was opened on June 2d. Two deputies were 

 expelled on account of their sympathy with the 

 rebellion. The Vice-President, Dr. Marcos Paz, 

 tendered his resignation, which, however, was 

 not accepted. 



ARKANSAS. At the close of the previous 

 year, a State government, consisting of Execu- 

 tive, Legislative, and Judicial Departments, was 

 quietly in operation throughout the State. The 

 United States District Court was also duly in 

 session, and the usual system of organization 

 for counties, cities, and townships was in force. 

 These organizations strictly represented the 

 white portion of the inhabitants, but not those 

 who were recently slaves, any further than civil 

 rights had been conferred upon them by Con- 

 gress. 



Nothing of importance in the general affairs 

 of the State took place previous to the enforce- 

 ments of the acts of Congress (see CONGRESS, 

 UNITED STATES, and PUBLIC DOCUMENTS), rela- 

 tive to a reconstruction of the Southern State 

 governments. The preamble to the first act 



