418 KALERGIS, DEMETRIUS. 



KANSAS. 



French military commission in Japan stated 

 that they had begun the' military instruction of 

 the Japanese troops. A corps of ten thousand 

 infantry has been organized after the European 

 manner, and as soon as the reorganization of 

 the infantry could be completed, that of the 

 artillery was to be begun. 



On the 12th of January, 1867, M. de Graeff 

 van Polsbroek, in his capacity of plenipotentiary 

 for the King of Denmark, concluded a treaty 

 of friendship, commerce, and navigation be- 

 tween that kingdom and Japan. The foreign 

 countries having treaties with this country are 

 now England, France, America, Holland, Prus- 

 sia, Switzerland, Portugal. Belgium, Italy, and 

 Denmark. New embassies were, in 1867, sent 

 to the United States and to France. At the 

 head of the latter was a younger brother of the 

 Tycoon, Prince Takoungava Mimbou Taye, who, 

 when presented to the Emperor, declared the 

 object of his mission to be present at the Uni- 

 versal Exhibition, and to "study the sciences 

 which distinguish France." 



The appearance of Roman Catholic mission- 

 aries at Nagasaki brought to light the fact that 

 a number of the descendants of former Chris- 

 tians in Japan still secretly adhered to the Ro- 

 man Catholic faith, and now hoped for the 

 permission to exercise it publicly. The Japanese 

 Government, however, did not give the expected 

 permission, but arrested and imprisoned some 

 twenty of the native Christians. After an im- 

 prisonment of about six months, the French 

 charge d'aifaires obtained, in December, their 



liberation from the Japanese Government. 

 At the beginning of the year a Japanese 

 newspaper was established at Yedo by one of 

 the Christian missionaries. It is printed on 

 silky-looking paper, contains fourteen quarto 

 pages, and is entitled Ban Kok Shin Bun SM 

 (" The Universal Newspaper "). The object of 

 the paper is stated in the preliminary prospec- 

 tus to be to furnish the Japanese with the most 

 important foreign news, and it is to appear from 

 two to three times a month. Another interest- 

 ing fact with regard to literature was a large 

 purchase of American books by the Japanese 

 embassy to the United States. The former Japan- 

 ese embassy took back with them a number of 

 school-books, one of the consequences of which 

 was the instruction of the new commissioners 

 to procure large quantities of standard works. 

 Mentioning the matter in the State Department 

 at "Washington, they were referred to Mr. G. P. 

 Putnam as an agent in the selection and pur- 

 chase of books, and Mr. Putnam, responding to 

 an invitation to visit Washington on the matter, 

 received a carte Blanche order. The books se- 

 lected by him in all some ten tons, worth 

 about $25,000 were of all grades, from simple 

 spelling-books to Webster's Unabridged, in- 

 cluding also text-books in arithmetic, geography, 

 chemistry, natural philosophy, physiology, his- 

 tory, etc., etc., and wall maps, magnetic globes, 

 and other school apparatus, besides sample 

 copies of nearly all of those standard school- 

 books Avhich were not sent in sufficient quan- 

 tity for present use. 



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KALERGIS, General DEMETRIUS, a Greek 

 statesman and revolutionary leader, born in 

 the Island of Crete in 1803; died at Athens, 

 Greece, in May, 1867. Though young, he took 

 an active and prominent part in the Greek War 

 of Independence, in which he was seriously 

 wounded. After this war, he was at first reck- 

 oned among the Napians or Russian party, 

 but he soon announced himself an adherent to 

 the views of England and France. In the rev- 

 olution of 1843, he was the chief leader, and 

 by his firmness he greatly contributed to the 

 safety of the royal family. In the present 

 critical condition of Crete and the other Greek 

 provinces of Turkey, the Government of Greece 

 felt the importance of selecting its ablest states- 

 men as envoys extraordinary to the great Chris- 

 tian powers, to implore their aid and interposi- 

 tion in behalf of the Cretans ; and General 

 Kalergis, both as one of the most influential 

 statesmen of the kingdom, and as himself a na- 

 tive of Crete, was deemed their most appropri- 

 ate envoy to the United States. He set out for 

 America immediately on receiving his appoint- 

 ment, but on reaching Paris was taken sick, and 

 by the urgent advice of his physicians returned 

 to Athens, where he died after a brief illness. 



KANSAS. The financial condition of the 

 State of Kansas at the close of the fiscal year 

 ending November 30, 1867, exhibits outstand- 

 ing liabilities to the amount of $1,002,069.82, 

 from which are to be deducted the sums ex- 

 pended for war purposes, amounting in all to 

 $328,594.82, which leaves to the State a 

 bonded indebtedness of $673,475.00. The total 

 assets of the State, consisting of taxes levied 

 but not collected, and claims on the Federal 

 Government, amounted to $575,427.35. The 

 receipts and disbursements from the several 

 funds of the State during the year are cor- 

 rectly exhibited in the following schedule : 



Two hundred thousand dollars of the bonded 

 debt stated above arose from the sale of bonds 



