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GKEEN, DUFF. 



GUATEMALA. 



raanian Church, who was at the same time 

 President of the Senate, died on May 17th. 

 On June 12th the united members of the 

 Synod, the Senate, and the Chamber of Depu- 

 ties, elected the Metropolitan of Jassy, Kalinik, 

 as "Primate of the Holy Orthodox Church of 

 Eoumania," and Metropolitan of Bucharest. 

 The election was sanctioned by the prince. 



The Church of Greece suffered a great loss 

 by the death of the Archbishop of Syra. None 

 of all the bishops of the Eastern Churches had 

 taken so active a part in the movement for 

 establishing close relations of friendship and 

 intercommunion with the Anglican and Old 

 Catholic Churches as this prelate. 



The Government of Greece intends to adopt 

 stringent measures against the clergy of the 

 state Church and against the Church property.' 

 In December the ministry submitted to the 

 Chambers a bill, providing for the abolition of 

 all the convents, except five, which are to be 

 designated by the Holy Synod. The proceeds 

 of the sale of the convents and their property 

 are to be devoted to the establishment of an 

 agricultural bank at Athens. According to the 

 statistical information which was on this occa- 

 sion collected by the Government, there were 

 in Greece, in 1875, 145 convents (of which only 

 7 were for females), with a total number of 

 1,728 monks and 145 nuns. The property of 

 the convents yields an annual revenue of 1,- 

 617,157 drachmas, and they owe an aggregate 

 debt of 224,348 drachmas. 



The Greek Church of Austria received, by 

 the establishment of a university at Czernovitz, 

 for the first time, a theological faculty in con- 

 nection with a complete university. * 



GREEN, General DUFF, died inDalton, Ga., 

 June 10, 1875. General Green was an influ- 

 ential politician and editor during General 

 Jackson's Administration. As early as 1801 he 

 published in Baltimore a journal called The 

 Merchant. He was at one time well known 

 throughout the country, and his name appeared 

 almost daily in connection with political in- 

 telligence. For ten years past he had devoted 

 his attention to the subject of the regulation 

 of labor and capital. 



GUATEMALA (REP^BLIOA DE GUATEMALA), 

 one of the five independent states of Central 

 America, comprised between latitude 13 50' 

 and 18 15' north, and longitude 88 14' and 

 93 12' west ; and bounded on the north by 

 the^Mexican State of Chiapas ; on the east by 

 Balize, or British Honduras, and the Carib- 

 bean Sea ; on the south by the republics of 

 Honduras and San Salvador ; and on the 

 southwest by the Pacific Ocean. 



There is nothing lacking in the geograph- 

 ical position of Guatemala to render it, with 

 its extensive seaboard on both oceans and one 

 good port on each, one of the most prosperous 

 states south of Mexico. 



Mexico has not renounced her claim to the 

 district of Peten, bordering upon her territo- 

 ry, and the inhabitants- of which, immediately 



after the establishment of Central American 

 independence, expressed the desire to remain 

 under the Mexican Government. An exten- 

 sive exchange of diplomatic correspondence 

 upon this subject took place in the course of 

 the past year, and the question of right to the 

 district was discussed at some length in the 

 journals of the Mexican capital. The terri- 

 tory of Guatemala is divided into the twenty 

 departments of Guatemala, Amatitlan, Esquin- 

 tla, Zacatepeque, Chimaltenango, Solola, Qui- 

 che, Totonicapan, Quezaltenango, San Marcos, 

 Suchitepequez, Huehuetenango, Vera Paz, San- 

 ta Rosa, Jutiapa, Jalapa, Zacapa, Chiquiinu- 

 la, Izabal, and Totonicapan, with an area of 

 40, 777 square miles, and has an estimated pop- 

 ulation of 1,200,000. Of these not more than 

 20,000 are whites (natives), mainly descended 

 from the early Spanish colonists ; the number 

 of foreigners of all nationalities is computed at 

 about 2,000; there are 750,000 pure-blooded 

 Indians; 420,000 ladinos or mestizoes (from 

 whites and Indians) ; and the remainder are 

 negroes. 



In a non-oificial statistical report published 

 in 1875, the population of the department of 

 Solola was set down at 80,000, and that of the 

 town of Solola, capital of the department, at 

 15,000. Its area was given at 700 square miles, 

 and within its limits are comprised 26 coffee 

 and 19 sugar estates. This department, one 

 of the most prosperous in the country, has a 

 number of cotton and woolen factories, and 

 35 public schools. The capital, Guatemala, 

 has a population of 45,000. 



The President of the Republic is Lieutenant- 

 General Rufino Barrios, elected on May 7, 1873. 

 The Minister of the Interior and of Finance 

 is Sefior F. Alburez ; of War and of Public 

 Works, Senor J. M. Samayoa ; and of Foreign 

 Affairs and of Pubiic Instruction, Senor M. 

 A. Soto. 



The standing army is composed of 3,200 

 men ; besides which there is a militia 13,000 

 strong. 



The following tables exhibit the amount 

 and various sources of the national revenue 

 for 1874, and the branches and amount of the 

 expenditure for the same year : 



REVENUE. 



Balance from 1873 $12.200 



Import duties 959,100 



Yield of frontier custom-houses ' 14,600 



Export duties 70,000 



Tonnage dues 2,800 



Spirit-tax., 673,600 



Slaughter-house tax 62,700 



Mill-tax 52,300 



General duties 84,500 



Communal duties 70,300 



Sugar-plantation tax 54,100 



For exemption from military service 19.200 



Paper-stamp 24,500 



Post-office 5^00 



Fines, confiscations, etc 5,600 



Sale of public land 4,600 



National bank (account current) 5s'300 



Mint 58.400 



Keceipts extraordinary 10,700 



Sundries 401,800 



Total. $2,601,000 



