Distribution of the Geneva award. April 24, 1878. -- Recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed
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"Copyright secured by W. & J. March 1862." Accompanied by cover: Map of Virginia. Richmond: West & Johnston, Publishers. 1862; 15 x 10 cm. Inset: View of Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.; includes list of railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by isolines. This item is in the Map Collection of the Library of Virginia; please contact the Library's Archives Research Services department for more information. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 475.5 Parrish & Willingham. Confederate imprints, 6204 Swem, E.G. Maps relating to Virginia, 971 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image. c. 1, May 2002, source unknown; c. 3, source unknown; Map Cataloging Team. Civil War Map Proj. no.: LVA00038. Conservation: copy 1 restored April 17, 1947; copy 1 and 3, Etherington Conservation Center, Jan. 2002. Copy 1 has no cover; c. 3 has blue cardboard cover and is 58 x 87 cm on sheet 66 x 96 cm. Copy 1 map accession no. 5177ax; copy 3 map accession no. 5177bx. Digital image available: 26 x 37.5 in. Previously filed as: 755 1862(3) copy 1 & 3
Relative Strength of Russia and Japan Now that hostilities have actually be gun in the Far East it may be of in terest to compare in a general way the resources of the two countries involved If this comparison be made without reference to the probable theater of war and the conditions hedging about the movement of forces thither the combatants seem very disproportionate ly matched The Russian empire com prises about oneseventh of the land surface of the globe Including intern al waters it covers an area of 8660305 square miles and its population is esti mated at about 120000000 inhabitants ot which 2005016 square miles and 106 264166 inhabitants were in 1000 com prised in European Russia It lias an annual revenue amounting to about 000000OOO and expenditures some what in excess of that sum The Rus sian army on a peace footing numbers about 1100000 men and oil a war foot ing about 0600000 men The navy is understood to comprise about 40000 officers and men 1 apan the island empire comprises an area of liil10s square miles including Formosa and tlie Pescadores Its popu lation including the islands specifical ly named numbered 47000Ono inhabi tants Its
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u America and Great Britain Many people do not realize that hitherto all the active political relations between Great Britain and America have been hostile relations writes William Archer in the Westminster Gazette Twice the two Nations have been at war and there are not a few Americans who are fond of boasting that in both of these conflicts they whipped us Our normal level relations have no doubt been amicable enough but when ever the level has been broken it has been by incidents which left a certain legacy of illfeeling The general attitude of Britain during the great Civil War was anything but j sympathetic Once we were on the verge of a rupture over the case of Mason and Slidell The affair of the Alabama was exceedingly disagreeable the Venezuelan squabble led us not perhaps to the brink of hostilities but some way in that direc tion The incident of Manila Bay is perhaps the only international episode of any note that has definitely tended to draw the two Nations together Of course this does not mean that there has not been real friendship between them There has never been a moment when thousands of Englishmen and