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DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
126, purchases of most of these were shown to have been made from Arguelles

at nearly $1,000 per head; he claiming to have been authorized to sell them,
and 
also authorized to give many away in compensation of service and loyalty
in cap- 
turing the imported Bozals. All the details of fraud and falsehood are de-

veloped-Arguelles, convicted of stealing negroes, (Bozals,) and of false
and 
fraudulent reports to his superior authority to conceal his crimes, aggravated

by the fact that he held high of/lcial trust, was sentenced to 19 years (de

cadena) at the chain, and $50,000 fine, interdiction of civil rights during
the 
time, and perpetual inability for place of trust, honor, or profit, or political

rights, and constant surveillance by the authority until restitution to some
of 
the parties (those he sold to under pretence of authority to do so) qf the
sums 
paid by them to him. Valdez, to 8 years in prison, lasting inhabilitacion
and 
payment of costs; Pratts, Toral, Aguirre, and Palmer, to 6 years each (in

presidio;) Aria, 2 years; Molino, 5 years in prison; and all six to make
res- 
titution to those who had bought from them, and for the damages0they had
suf- 
fered in consequence; Santurio, 7 years in prison; Gispert and Arriaza, 4

years each, to make restitution like the former, and pay costs; Arguelles
and 
Valdez also to make restitution and pay the proportion of costs and charges,

notwithstanding their civil inhabilitation. 
Zucarriche and Azuela were acquitted, and Martinez. subjected to some small

conditions. 
Sentence passed, Habana, April 3, 1865.] 
Mr. Seward to MlIr. Koerner. 
No. 109.]                                DEPARTMENT 6F STATE, 
Washington, June 27, 1864. 
SIR: I have especial satisfaction in acknowledging the receipt of your de-

spatch of the 3d of June, No. 101. It was written, indeed, before the Spanish

government had received direct and full information from its agents in Peru.

Nevertheless, your account of the demonstrations which that government has

made concerning the unhappy difficulties at Lima seems to authorize an ex-

pectation that these difficulties will be adjusted in a way that shall be
at once 
peaceful and consistent with the safety, honor, and welfare of both countries.

I find no occasion at present to enlarge my instructions heretofore given.

I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
WILLIAM H. SEWARD. 
GUSTAVUS KOERNER, Esq., 4-c., &c., 4-c., 
Madrid. 
_Hr. Koerner to Mr. Seward. 
[Extract.] 
No. 106.]                  LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, 
Madrid, June 27, 1864. 
SIR : On the 20th of this month there were ratified by the Queen two treaties

of recognition, peace and friendship made some time in 1863 ; one with the
per- 
petual president of Guatemala, and the other with the Argentine Republic.

. On the 24th of June the ministers of both those republics were received
in 
audience by the Queen. At the same time the minister of Nicaragua, Sefior

de Marcoleto, presented his credentials; a treaty of recognition, peace and

friendship having existed between Spain and that republic for some time pre-

vious.