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. low price, so that, imf withstanding the 

 iitly manifested ti. take up Ku-- 

 minier.'iis capitali-ts an- In In- found 

 .\ ill invent in this lucrative <r\ ofl 

 Tin- mail to whom Uus>ia is indebted for tho 

 l.ipnient of her railway sy>i.-m, and 

 name will not be fonrot li-n in tin- annals 

 M and culture, N llerr von Dcl\i_-. a 

 ' ind har.m, Government director of rail- 

 Inly the Miniver of Finance addiv 



tin- Kmperor. pointing out tin- tu- 



introduction of changes in the 



:ppointtm nt of a special com- 



>n to examine the dillVivnt points which 



require, modification. Tho Minister of Finance 



i tliis report the conviction tli 



a. -nts in the tarilf can only : 

 by the adoption of an imli-p.-nd'-nt COmiU 

 polic, . it iii tin- piv-cnt < 'iidilioii 



of lin-sia tarill' qOMtkmi must not be made 



conditions >tipula'<-d ; n 



coninicrco with other nation-. Tin- 1', iipcror 

 ordered tlm minister's proposal to !..- e :,- cutod. 

 'I lu- members of the commis.-i.in Wtft Vpf 

 in November, and an imperial d.-< : 

 -ii- .!. instruetiiiL' them to commence tli'-lr 

 on the i:!th of November. '1'he result of their 

 labors and the ministerial ques- 



tion are to lie ready at lat -t on tin- Pith March, 

 18G8, when they will be laid before the council 

 of the empire. 



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SALMON", ArrriMATiox OF THE. The 

 of the salmon, whieh have lnvu introduced into 

 of Australia, have hatched, and the 

 young lisli are prospering. Ice has been u<ed 

 transportation of the eggs, which, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Youle, retards the phenomena 

 of embryonic evolution. This gentleman has 

 found that the vitality of the eggs may thus be 

 \ e 1 for three or four months. It is in 

 this manner that eggs taken from the Rhine at 

 Iluningen in ANace have been successfully 

 transported to Australia. Sweden and Nor- 

 way are both occupied in stocking their rivers 

 with salmon, so that the lino example of the Zo- 

 .pf Acclimation will not be lost. 

 SAN DOMINGO, or the Dominican Repub- 

 lic, a state of the West Indies, comprising tho 

 a portion of the Island of Hayti. Area, 

 | square miles; population, about 200,000. 

 'I'll- val-ie of imports and exports, each, is esti- 

 mated at about 0,000,000 francs annually. The 

 numb !s entering annually the ports 



of San Domingo and Puerto Plata is from 100 

 .it, in 1867, Jose" Maria Cabral. 

 A treaty of friendship, commerce, navigation, 

 and extradition, was concluded with the Uni- 

 it i-s on tho 8th of February, and officially 

 published by tho Government of the latter 

 on the 4th of October. A special envoy, Gen- 

 eral Sujol, was sent to the United States to 

 offer to that Government the lease of tho bay 

 of Samana, for the sum of $5,000,000. The 

 bay of Samana is on the south side of the pen- 

 of that name, situated on the northeast 

 of tho Island of Uayti. Tho bay is forty- 

 three miles in length from east to we>t, and 

 about eight miles broad. Tlu Ynma, the long- 

 est river in San Domingo, empties itself in at 

 its west end, and it has great natural facilities 

 (>r repairing or careening vessels of the L 

 burden. Samana, bc-ides being one of the iinest 

 harbors in the world, occupies a most important 

 po-ition with r various inter- 



oceanic, rot ^'c-t In. lies the Gulf of 



Mexico, and Central America. It commands 



the Mona Passage the principal entrance to 

 the Caribbean Sea for vessels from Europe 

 from whieh strait it is not more than sixty or 

 seventy miles di-tant ; and it is not much more 

 than three times that distance from the Wind- 

 ward Passage between Ilayti and Cuba. 



In the latter part of the year a new insurrec- 

 tion broke out, in the interest of ex-President 

 Buenaventura Baez. At the close of the year 

 the larger portion of the island was in the hands 

 of the insurrectionists, but General Baez had not 

 yet arrived in the territory of the republic. 



SARGENT, Lucius M.\.xi.irs, an American 

 author, journalist, and reformer, born in K 

 June 29, 1786; died at West Roxbury, ' 

 June 2, 1867. His early years were spent at 

 school, and after graduating at Harvard College 

 he studied law, but never practised his profes- 

 sion. Possessed of ample means, he devoted 

 himself to literary and philanthropic labor- 

 early took a prominent stand among the young 

 men of his native city. In 1813 he published 

 'Hubert and Ellen," with other poem?. For 

 many years he was a contributor to the Boston 

 Transcript, and republished some of his contri- 

 butions to that journal under the title "Deal- 

 ings with the Dead, by a Sexton of tho Old 

 School." He was an earnest advocate of tho 

 cause of temperance, in behalf of which he pub- 

 li-hed three volumes of "Tales," the first of 

 which appeared in 1833, and exhibited fancy, 

 culture, and beauty of expression. Ili.s poetry, 

 of which he wrote sparingly, was far above 

 mediocrity, and in his proso writings he dis- 

 played a research that was surprising in its 

 thoroughness, and highly entertaining and valu- 

 able in its character. His published writings 

 have had a large sale, and have elicited ; 

 from thousands of readers. 



SAXK, tho name of one grand-duchy (Saxe- 

 Weimar) and three duchies (S.-Allenburg, S.- 

 Meiningen, and S.-Cohurg-Gotha), belong 

 th.- North-German Confederation. lieiguing 

 princes, Grand-duke Karl Albert, of S.-Wiemar. 

 born Juno 24, 1818, succeeded h : jj father July 



