UNITED STATES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 847, 4 June 1867, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

New York, April, 1, 1867. A Treaty has just been concluded between Russia and the United States, by which the former cedes all her American possessions to the latter, for the sum of 7,000,000 dollars. The surface of the territory ceded is nearly 500,000 square miles. The United States will now control forty degrees of latitude on the Pacific Coast, except the five degrees held by Great Britain. .New York, April 10. The Russian-American Treaty which President Johnson laid before the Senate and which took the whole country by surprise, has beeu ratified by that body by a vote of 30 to 2. The Press of the country and the people generally sustain the Treaty. It is looked upon as a master piece of diplomacy on the part of Secretary Seward, who is the originator of it, to check the movements of England to confederate her North American Colonial possessions more firmly together, and erect them into a monarchy to be styled the " Kingdom of Canada." The Senate has nearly finished its labors for the present, and will probably adjourn on the 13th inst., until the first Wednesday in July. The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives have temporarily suspended their investigation looking to the impeachment of the President, and the members constituting it have retired to their homes to rest from their labors before taking up the subject again. The next meeting of the Committee is called for the Ist of May next, preparatory to the completion of the testimony and the rendering of the report, which the House have requested them to make at the July session. The Southern States appear to be getting along very well under military rule. There is no trouble except in Lousiana and Texas, which are in the district of Gen. Phil. Sheridan. He has removed all the city officers in New Orleans, and upset some elections at other points. The people have made complaints to the President and Gen. Grant about the matter, who are looking into it and will decide what is the best to be done in the premises. In the other Southern States the Military Commanders appear to have no trouble whatever, and the most kindly feelings appear to be established between the commanders and the people. Washington, April 11, 1867. None of the Diplomatic Corps in this city participate in the apprehension of war between France and Prussia, and none are less apprehensive of such a calamity than the representatives of these two great powers. New York, April 11. The Democrats are holding a State Convention at Albany, and the Republicans a State Convention at Syracuse, to nominate delegates to a convention to revise the constitution of this State. The Republicans favor the inserting of a clause in the constitution giving the negroes in the State the right of suffrage. The Democrats are opposed to giving any such right. The political campaign in this State is opening briskly. A new line of steamers is to be laid on between New York and Panama. The contract has been entered into for the manufacture and laying down of a submarine cable between the United States and Havannah, to be completed by the end of June. This is to be the first link of the intended cable to Panama via Jamaica. The wires are already insulated, and it is expected Panama will have telegraphic communication with New York within twelve months. The new steamship line between Cali-

fornia and China has proved an entire success. The Colorado, on her first trip, took 274 passengers, and 1,200 tons oi freight.