. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . eviouslythis country had been explored by a corps ofAmerican scientists, with a view of establishingtelegraphic communication between the UnitedStates and Asia by way of Behriug report of the exploration showed thatAlaska was hy no means the worthless countrywhich it had been supposed to be. It wasfound that the coast fisheries, including th
. Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations . eviouslythis country had been explored by a corps ofAmerican scientists, with a view of establishingtelegraphic communication between the UnitedStates and Asia by way of Behriug report of the exploration showed thatAlaska was hy no means the worthless countrywhich it had been supposed to be. It wasfound that the coast fisheries, including theproducts of the seal-islands, were of very great value, and that the forests of white pine andyellow cedar were among the finest in theworld. Negotiations for the purchase of thepeninsula were accordingly opened with Russiaby Mr. Seward, the American Secretary ofState, and on the 30th of March, 1867, a treatywas conchided by which, for the sum of sevenmillion two hundred thousand dollars, Alaskawas purchased by the United States. Theterritory thus added to the domains of the Re-public embraced an area of five hundred andeighty thousand square miles, and a populationof twenty-nine thousand souls. CHAPTER CXXV.—Epoch of^ IERY soon after his accessionto the Chief Magistracy,serious disagreementsarosebetween President John-son and the two Houses ofCongress. The difficultygrew out of the (ju of reorganizing the Southern enough, the particular point in dis-pute was the theoretical one as to the relationwhich those States had sustained to the FederalUnion during the Civil War. If both parties tothe quarrel had limited their views to the settle-ment of theijractical issues before them, the ques-tions involved might have been of easy the one party was as stubborn and dog-matic as the other was angry and President held, in brief, that the Ordinancesof Secession had been, in their very nature,null and void, and
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