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THE TEXAS TREATY.

We are glad to see the leading journals of the
country taking firni and conservative ground in
regard to the Treaty $50 caed Of Annexation =
which we hold to be no treaty at ALL because the
moment it is ratified, one of the parties to it is
annihilated it is only an agreement on the part
of the United States.
The following remarks from the Cincinnati
Atlas express our sentiments exactly:
The TEXAS TREATY.-In looking over the doc
uments, such as they are, connected with this
treaty, it is with deep modification we see our
country degraded for the first time by its diplo-
macy. 1t has hitherto been our pride and boast,
that in all our negotiations with foreign nations,
they have been conducted with consummate ab-
ity, and with an eagle eye to the honor and Dig
nifty of our country.
Shades of JEFFERSON, ADAMS, JAY, MARSHALL,
and MADISON! How would they blush to peruse
the correspondence of the TEXAS TREATY A
more puerile, weak, trucking, and unstatesman-
ike correspondence never disgraced the dIplo-
macy OF any country. 1t is true, that little was
to be expected of Mr.. Upshur, and still less of
General Murphy, who never, until the hacyon
days OF lylerIsm, aimed at anything higher than
village demagogue. But from the lofty Cal
houn--the chivalrous Cahoun.-tbe proud Null
fer-something better was expected and we had
a right to suppose that the dignity and honor of
the nation would not voluntarily be furnished and
degraded by him And yet such weak, anti
republican, unstatesmanlike, and every way i'm
proper farrago of impertinence, whining and So
phistry, we venture to say, is not to be found in
the whole annals of diplomacy, as is contained in
his letter to Mr.. Pakenham the British Minister.
Not satisfied with the disavowal by the British
Government of any designs upon Texas, or of
any intention to resort to any measures, either
openly or secretly, to disturb the internal tran
GUILTY. of the sIave-holding States of the Union"
he takes it in high dudgeor because Lord Aber-
deem had on a certain occasion eaid that Great
Britain desires the general abolition of slavery
throughout the civilized world, and goes on to
Justify slavery, as benevolent institution, and,
with arguments too weak and absurd to pass for
sophistry, attempts to prove to Mr.. Pakenham,
Lord Aberdeen, and the British nation, that sla-
yery is an excellent institution, and ought not to
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CHEATING ABOUT THE BOARD

The pteous oucry of the Globe, against the
intriguers of his own party, at Washington, is
very amusing 1t reminds us of story we re-
member to have heard many years ago, of an hon
est son Of Erin who kept a tavern at Pittsburg.
tie was playing cards, and took occasion, when
there was high stake on the table, to withdraw
secretly from the pack, the three highest cards,
which he hid in his lap, and adroi,ly exchanged
for those which were dealt to him. Confident of
winning, he knocked his big fist on the table, and
exultlngly announced that he would stand his
hand without looking at it. In the meanwhile,
however, some looker-on, who had observed the
manGuvre, slipped the stolen cards from his lap,
and substituted others, and honest Jack never
discovered the trick that had been played on him,
until, with an hair of triumph, he commenced
playing, when 10 he found his cards changed,
and OF no value-and starting up, he exclaimed,
Bother and blast all rogues there's chatting
about the board I'll not play" So with the
Globe. BLAIR and his comrades have been stock
ing the cards upon the people for years. taking all
the trumphs to themselves and practising all sorts
of legerdemain and trickery. The political gam
bIers have fallen out-and are practising on each
other the tricks by which heretofore they feeced
and duped the public; and hence the lamentable
accents of BLAIR: There's chatting about the
board Gin. Alias.
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FROM HAVANA.

Advces to the 9Th instant announces the con-
tnuance of the excessive drought. The late con-
sPlracy among the blacks appears to have been
known to the whole slave population, and is said
to have been countenanced by Englishmen The
young women alone were to be spared. Turnbull,
ex-Engllsh consul at Havana, and now Judge at
Jamaica, was to have been chosen provisional king.
Turnbull, it is said, had S27O,O00 placed at his
disposal for the support of the insurgents and the
purchase of arms and ammunition. The ring-lead-
err was the poet Placedi of Matanzas, an inAuen-
tial muatto
One of the conspirators, muatto named Cenqi,
has disclosed the plans Of his companions. He
says: every town had enemies in its bosom.
We hoped to have become masters of the Island,
and marry the white women, whom, on this ac-
count we were ordered not to kl-at least those
who were not old and ugly. Finally, the disclo-
sures which have yet to make will fill the whole
world with horror"
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FROM CHINA.

By the arrival, on Saturday morning, of the
bark Valparaiso, Captain Lockwood, which left
Canton on the Goth of January, and touched at
st. Helena on the 18th ult., we have Chinese adj
vices six days later. We have the Canton Ma
caol Press to the 9th, but little news.
MIR. Gushing had not arrived
Accounts from ,Chusan to the 18th. and from
Shanghae to the 9th, had been received. The
difficulties thrown in the way of trade at Shang-
hae had been overcome and good many British
goods had been sold at satisfactory prices. Trade
had not opened at Ningpo on the 9th.
Owing to some dispute between the Hoppe and
Linguists concerning fees, there has been tenn
porary stop of two or three days to all shipping
business, chops for either shipping or landing car
go having been refused at the Hoppo's office.
The alleged reason was the inability of the Hop
pc to pay his officers, all the duties received I'M
der the new tariff being carried 10 the credit of
the Imperial Treasury, and nothing left for the
expenses of collection. This was regarded by
the foreign traders as device to cover new de-
mands of extra duties, and resisted accordingly.
The latest accounts from Canton state that the
differences had been settled and that business
was proceeding as usual.
Another vessel had been wrecked on the Pra-
ia shoal, supposed to be the Linnet, (Britsh,)
which had been despatched thither on hearing of
the wreck of the Porter, from Bombay. The
wreck is barque of 500 tons. The Duke of
Wellington, sent to the shoal saw the wreck Of
this and three other vessels there-no boats.
The British authorities have been leasing lots
of quarter acre each at Hong Kong for rs years,
at an aggregate annual rent of over $l2,00O-
The Press estimates the entire ground-rent an
nually realized by Great Britain from its leases
on that Island at about $l20,0OO.
The Governor General of Canton has sentenced
the murderers of DR.. M'Kinay and Sharp to be
beheaded forthwith. The ringleader, Fanasze,
being already dead, is to be cut to pieces and
stuck up on poles, Gas an example" Two other
Chinese, who were merely aware of the conspi-
racy to murder, and did not reveal it, are to be
logged. This energetic conduct of the Chinese
foreigners-N Y. Tribune.
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FROM PORT AU PRINCE.

A letter from Boston dated April Goth, is pub
lislIed in the Courier des Etats Uns. The wri-
ter states that the American brig Pandora, Capt.
Paxton, had slight brush with the DOMINICAN
fotilla, which he says the!Captanihad the mpru-
dence to attack though under the American flag
he might have passed it quietly. Capt. p. had on
board certain provisions which he was carrying
from Port au Prince to Aqua, under contract with
the Haytian Government, against whom the Do
mingan part of the Island is now in arms The
result of the encounter was that he run his YES
sci on shore as if to escape capture, and The
French letter writer cody accuses him of intend
ing this from the beginning, as his contract more
than covered all delays and losses. The accusa-
ton seems to fall to the ground, however, since
it appears that he got his vessel off without injury
at the next tide. He was, however, obliged to
return to Port au Prince without supplying Aqua
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oANDss SARsAPARILLA.-In this preparation is con-
cenrated all that valuable in the best Spanish Sar
saparilla root combined in the most careful and sci
entlhc manner, with other vegetable extracts. All
the ingredients are held in the highest estimation by
our most eminent physicians, and the unsolicited tes-
timonlals OF thousands to its great value stand as
perpetual monuments to its worth In all diseases
originating IN an impure depraved state Of the
blood and general fluids of the system it's benign in
huence is speedily felt and those suffering from
scroiula in its various forms salt rheum ringworm
scad head, &c. will, by its restorative properties
soon regain their health
Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by A. B.
& D. SANDS, Wholesale Druggists 70 Fulton St.
New York.
Agents for Washington city ROBERT FARM
HAM, Bookseller, corner of Pennsylvania avenue and
18th street, and R. s. PATTERSON, Druggist, cor
ner of Pennsylvania avenue and 9th street.
Price 81 per bottle 6 bottles for IS.
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LATER FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA

The brig ATLANTA, Capt. Lawlin, arrived at
New York on Sunday, in 35 days from the coast
Of Africa, last from Monrova, brings intelligence
some days later than our former advices. Rev.
Mr.. Seys had returned from an excursion in the
interior, having explored the country for some
hundred miles and planted two missionary stations
at the extreme end of his journey. This part Of
the country has never been visited before. He
represents it most beautiful. He was accom-
panied by Rev. r. r. Mallory, Rev. E. Johnson,
Revs. A. E. Russell, and J. II, Stevens, who all
experience good health during the whole time Of
the excursion. The Colony at Monrovia were in
most prosperous condition and enjoying excel
lent health. Business was fourlshing and pro-
visions were plenty. An American brig from
Havana in the river Galenas, from having car
go of slave goods was suspected of being connect
ed with the slave trade, was detained by the Brit
ish and prevented from landing her cargo. The
British steamer Henlopen came round to Monro-
via and towed the U. s. ship Decatur up the river
to investigate the affair. The British brig Per-
rett made second attack upon the SLAYER ship
Crawford. The ship had her cargo of 900 slaves
on board, and the brig was beaten off by the shin
after some severe fighting on both sdes-N Y
Tribune.
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AUX CAVES.

BY the brig Joseph Atkins, from Aux Cayes,
I'd of May, we learn that the state of the town of
Aux Cages is most desperate. The town is oc-
cupied by the cultivators and montaignards, under
command of Gen. Acao, who has had possession
of it since the 18th of April, with large body of
cultivators-say six thousand All mercantile
and commercial houses are shut up, and orders
given for every one of the natives tomarch against
Aquin. Gen. Acao pronounced himself much OPP
posed to the colored people. great many ar
rest have been made of persons of both sexes. A
great number of persons are anxious to leave for
Jamaica.
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From the Louisville Journal.
LYNN BOYD.

The last number of the Hopkinsvlle Gazette,
referring to Lynn Boyd's recent letter on the old
bargain SANDER, says:
"We can assert most positively that we can
prove, by one of the most respectable citizens of
HopknsviIle, that Lynn Boyd declared to him
that the charges preferred against Mr.. Clay were
utterly false and eroundless, and were gotten up
for mere political purposes. And we defy Lynn
Boyd to deny this fact"
We have no doubt that Lynn Boyd will very
soon, if he does not already, regard this letter as
the most unfortunate act of his life. The miser-
able SANDER was denounced by those who were
instrumental in getting it up, and has long since
been regarded by all intelligent men as too dead
to be revived by any galvanic efforts Mr.. Boyd
has evoked its ghost, and it will haunt him through
all the future scenes of his life. His is the un-
envable notoriety of being the last man, profess
ing to be decent or intelligent, who strove in
order to subserve miserable partisan interests, to
perpetuate foregone, dead, and sinking calumny
against of the noblest statesmen and sincerest
patriots this country ever produced Mr.. Boyd's
worst enemy could not wish him harder lot Than
he has voluntarily brought upon himself. The
bargain story will be to him henceforth what
tin-ke,tie tied to dogs tail is to dog. He has
applied the brand to his own forehead, and no
time can efface its impressions He has tried to
impose on the people what he himself has de-
nounced as lie, and he is, therefore, unworthy
of the seat he disgraces, and of the constituency
he dishonors.
We should say that the Journal gives it to Mr.
Boyd some in the above. But what measure of
punishment is too great for one who reterates,
for political effect, what he has himself declared
to be charge "uterly false and groundless 2"
He deserves to be impaled in paragraph, as he
is, and held up to the gaze of ian admring world"
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FoRT W1LKINs.-Thc new post at Copper Har-
Dor, on Lake superior, is to be called Fort Will
kins, in honor of the Secretary of War. The
troops for the occupation of the post left this city
on Saturday last, in the steamer De Witt Gin
ton, for their destination. Tie detachment con-
slsts of companies A and B Of the 9th Infantry,
100 strong, under the following officers:
Capt. Cleary, commanding LIST Lieut.. Rug
giles, A. c. S., LIST Lieut.. Stevenson, ID Lieut..
Gesse, I'd Lieut.. Brooke, brcvet I'd Lieut.. Howe,
and Assistant Surgeon Isaacs. 1t was accompa-
MED by Generals Brady and Brooke, and staff
We take pleasure in adding that the officers,
who have thus been re- poved to distant and less
congenial sphere, have left very pleasing and
favorable impression on our citizens.-Detroit
Advertiser.
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MUTTERINGS OF EXECUTIVE THUNDER.
THREATS OF EXECU five VENGEANCE.


The Madisonian of Monday, in an article
headed " to the friends of Texas holds the fol-
lowing significant language, which we suppose it
uses "by authority"
Mr.. Blair says that I" Mr.. Van Buren's friends
have been consinered out of the questionable
Offices being given TO every shade of Democracy
but his friends they now have the door opened
to them, and are indeed preferred! Now, we
say, without the fear of contradiction, that the
majority, and large majority, of the offices of the
country are now, and always hgve been, in the
hands of Mr.. Van Buren's and Mr.. Clay's friends
This article is written by Blair with the knowl-
edge of the fact under his very nose, that ene-
mics to the President are at the head of almost
every Bureau in w Washington that out of six hun
dred clerks IN the Departments, not more than fifty
real Tyler men are to be found; that almost every
important office in the great State of New York
is in the hands at friend of these ant-Texas
gentleman-how long to remain SO, we shall
sooner or later see-and that Baltimore always
has had and still has, more than her full quota,
and SO with every other State in the Union. Mr.
Tyler has resisted all efforts to make removals
upon mere personal grounds. new state of
things has now arisen. A question is before the
country, on which the Executive Department,
for the country, should stand as unit. We knoo
mol The Presidents rieUs concerning ii, but zoe
shall feel surprise If he shall permit the chief
Offices Of The country 10 be filled by men ,oho are
associated Nth AboLuionists on Mis and the other
side Of the oater, 10 foil and defect the gr-at ques-
hon Of the age.
In subsequent part of the same paper, we find
the following paragraph:
MYSTERIOUS.
We hear it rumored that when Mr.. Benton
concluded his British Federal speech in the Sem
ate last week, some of the Federal leaders ga
thered around him, and overwhelmed him with
congratulations.
N. b. number Of oficeholders in the Depart
ments from the West, (Whigs,) who were re-
Gently the back door attendants of Mr.. Clay,
speak in the highest terms of Mr.. Benton. 1T
WILL VERY SOON BE SEEN HOW THE
LAND LIES"
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Calhoun and Texas meeting was held at New
Orleans on the 10th instant, at which the follow
ing resolution was adopted, suggesting the forma-
ton of treaty between Louisiana and Texas
"Resolued, That the inhabitants of Texas hav-
ing repeatedly manifested great anxiety for the
incorporation of their republic into the Federal
Union, it will become the duty of the State of
Louisiana, in the event Of the rejection Of the
treaty of annexation, to take immediate steps for
the formation Of compact with the republic of
Texas, subject to the constitutional action Of the
Congress of the United States, the object Of
which will be to extend the boundary of louisa
ma to her ancient limits
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A correspondent Of the Rochester Advertiser
gives an account of an attack on branch of the
Erie Canal, at Evansville, N. Y, on Saturday last,
by persons who were unsuccessful in their applca-
ton to the Legislature for an appropriation to
change the terminus of the branch canal at that
place The canal was dug away, the water drawn
off, navigation suspended, and everything in posses:
sion of the mob on Saturday. The State author
ties were driven off the ground.
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My BILL ar C.aRUsI,s SALOON

I 0H01 Z OsILL IT C.1NUNI' IS S.HLUUW.
~. CARUSl, by special request, will give ball
on Thursday evening, the 23d instant portion of
the proceeds Of which will be appropriated to the
he respectfully invites all those families who have
received invitations former occasions and honored
him with their company to attend without further
notice.
Tickets 49, to be had at the door Of the saloon on
the evening of the ball. NAV 90 ct
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CALLING THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES
The verdict sometimes rendered by Coroners,
Jures, "Died Of mania a.potu," is translated
into plain English by the Picayune, thus" Died
ravlng mad, in consequence of hard drinking"
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A CARD.

I I'll .YI1U. : :
y. II. GIBBS takes this method of returning his
thanks to the ladies and gentlemen Of Washington
city and its vicinity for their liberal patronage, and
also to inform them that he has just returned from
New York with large and handsome assortment of
new and fashionable goods, which will be opened this
day, at his Fancy Store, Pennsylvania avenue, be
tween 9Th and 9th streets, opposite the Centre Mar
ket. an 92-Im
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WAXING UP THE WRONG PAssENGER.-Notl long
since there happened to meet in the city of Wash
ngton, Massachusetts man and Kentuckian,
both Locos. In the course of conversation, the
Massachusetts, man commenced slandering Mr..
Clay, calling him political weather-cock, and
extolled Mr.. Van Buren, to the skies. The Ken
uckan heard him out, and then replied, Friend,
| am neghbor to Mr.. Clay we do not ex-
actly agree in politics; but | do not allow any
man in my presence to speak i'll of Henry Clay's
personal character" The Massachusetts man
took the hint, and sloped. Waldo (Me.) Sig.
We do not recollect having heard of the above
incident; but we have heard of similar one in
which a generous Virginian backed out an honor
able M. c., who was pouring out his abuse on
Mr.. Clay
We have often thought that we could give an
additional reason to the many already given. why
the term Locofoco is appropriate to the so-called
party-6ring a genuine one sup TO the SCRATCH"
and he's sure to GO OFF.
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INDIAN WAR.-A letter received at Indepen-
dence, Missouri, from the mountains, states that,
at various times during the past winter, the Sioux
Indians made inroads upon the Pawnee Indians
taking two of them prisoners, and destroying one
hundred lodges. Only three of the Sioux Indians
were killed. 1t is further stated that all of the
independent fur companies trading on the north
fork of Platte, White river, and Missouri, have
done well this season.
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NAvAL.-The United States sloop-of-w war On
tario, Capt. John II. Nicholas, from Norfolk, ar
rived at Baltimore on Monday The Ontario is
to be stationed in that harbor as a receiving ship
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W A S H | N G I O N.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY %. 1914.

u The able speech of the Hon. Z. Joy Nor
RIs, of Pennsylvania on the Tariff, is now in
press, in pamphlet form, at this offce-l6 pages
octavo-price ST. 25 per hundred.
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LATER FROM TEXAS.

The editor of the New Orleans Bee has re-
ceved Galveston papers to the llth INST.
The United States frgate Potomac, Com. Con-
ner, from Pensacola, arrived off Galveston on the
10th, and sent in her launch.
1T is stated that Mr.. Thompson who had gone
to Mexico in the steamer Poinsett, is charged
with important negotiations from the United
States. Two millions of the indemnity due and
acknowledged to the United States remain unpaid
while four millions more of claim, the Justice of
which is said to be undcubted, remain unadusted
for the payment of all of which, in some way the
American Government is said to be unwilling
longer TO wait, as justice TO her citizens has long
since demanded that they should be satisfied. 1t
is reported that the United States Government is
no longer willing to admit the claim of Mexico to
Texas, yet very liberal allowance Ito be paid by
the assumption on the part of the United States
OF debts due by her citizens to Mexico) would be
made for the REIMBURSEMENT, by Mexico of her
title to the territory in dispute between her and
Texas, including all ever claimed by the govern
ment
The United States schr. G.. w. A. Tate, which
touched at Galveston on the Sh or her way from
Arkansas to New Orleans, reports that on the I'd
INST, an engagement took place between party
of Mexican traders, their way, as is believed.
from Texas with goods, and company under one
Pena, with commission from Gen. Woll to
suppress smuggling into Mexico from Texas
Pena and fifteen of his company were killed in
the action. The traders sustained no loss,
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1t is the opinion of sagacious men in Washing
ton that the Treaty of Annexation will be CON.
FIRMED by the Senate.-Madisonian.
The same sagacious men" are of opinion that
John Tyler will be the next Observation-Disclosures
Advertiser
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Henry Clay writes south against the Tariff,
and to the Middle States and the East for the Ia
rf-thereby proving that :" he blows hot and cold
with the same BREATH" and he ought to be dis
countenanced by every candid, fair dealing man.
Chicago Democrat
Jew or Gentle, Turk or Christian, present my
compliments to him. and say that the charge is
utterly false.-Henry Clayto C. J. IngersoN.