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ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.,


first treaty for opening the rivers being signed between General Urquiza
and the United
States minister. The first Argentine minaister sent to Washi ngton was Mr.
Sarmiento,
who found few people knew anythiig abGout Buenos Ayres., De Tocqueville,
years ago,,
recommended Americans to cultivate closer relationsw with Spanish America.
Grant
is doing so; and many of our best writers and statesmen labored for this.
  Washington Irving, Prescott, Motley, and Ticknor, by their writings; Gillies
and
Gould, by their astronomical labors; Stevens and Squires, by their explorations;
Wheelwright, Meigs, and Church, by their enterprises; Monroe, Clay, Adams,
and
Webster, by their fearless enunciations of state policy-all helped toward
drawing
closer. the republics of the new world. Some of them are backward, after
fifty years
of freedom, but did it not take Europe three hundred years to emerge from
feudalism ?
We find republicans in every land in Europe, such as John Stuart Mill, Lamennais,
Humboldt, and Arago, which shows how true principles make progress. Twenty
years
ago Kent and Story were unknown in Buenos Ayres; now every lawyer has them
on
his shelves. Let us labor to carry out the proposed line of steamers between
United
States and Buenos Ayres, and then our relations will be much closer.
  Mr. Lamarca, of the foreign office, followed, and at 4.30 p. in. the President
and many
of the guests retired.
  The popular toast of "The Ladies" was then proposed by Gen. Osborn,
ably responded
to by Mr. Yeatman; then cameý the toast of the "Army and Navy,"
and coupled with
it "The Press," to which Mr. W. T. Cathcart (of the Daily News)
replied in a brief
manner.
  We may mention that this year no invitations were sent to any person. It
was merely
made known that the saloons of the United States legation on the day in question
were open for. the reception by General Osborn of all true citizens, rich
or poor, as also


States minister. The first Argenti'ne mi aister sent to Wash~ington was Mr.
Sarmiento,
who found few people knew anyth'in,6 about Buenos Ayres.,:. ie Tocqueville,
years ago7,
recommended Americans to cultivate closer relations w'ith Spanish America.
G~rant
















isends of the Union. A largo assembly was the conseqnuece of this open and
free op-
portunity to celebrate an important day in the world's history.



                                  :NO. 6.

                         Mr. Osborn to Mr. Fish.

 No. 16.]                             UNITED STATES LEGATION,
                  Buenos Ayres, Jtdy 15, 1874. (Received August 20.)
   SIR: The election of Dr. Don Nicholas Avellaneda as President of
 the Argentine Republic, and Don Mariano Acosta as vice-president, is

 the result of the ballots east by the presidential electors chosen at the
 late election by the people of the several provinces.
   It is claimed that frands of the most serious character were practiced
 by the unsuccessful as well as by the successful party in the contest,
 but I learn from very good source that the authorities haveueliminated
 the frauds practiced by both partieseund the result is still in favor of
 the parties above named. For the past ten days rumors of coming
 trouble and revolutionk have filled this city. A few nights ago the
 guards were doubled anda the troops were put under arms, by reason of
 the fact that three thousand muskets were detected in the possession of
 one Caballos, said to be a Brazilian.
   A regiment of troops from one of the upper provinces was at once
 ordered to the city, and the present administration seems determined to
 put down any disturbance which might arise. It is now claimed by the
 friends o." the unsuccessful candidate in the late election, General
Mitre,
 that Dr. Don Nicholas Avellaneda cannot be legally declared President
 from the fact that the constitution requires that a quorum of two-thirds
 of the national congress is requisite to perform that duty ; and as the
 deputies of this province, Buenos Ayres, friends of General Mitre, are
 not permitted to take their seats, there will be no constitonstitutial quorum
 of the national congress present to declare Avellaneda President.
   It is claimed by the other side that the constitution requires only two-
 thirds of the members seated and present to make the proclamation.