Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-10-18

TBE NAVAL RETIRING BoARD-"Attorney
General Black has prepared an elaborate opin-
ion' In which be announces the entire proceed
ings OF the Naval Retiring Board illegal and
void. Under this opinion the President will
restore the whole list eff retired and dropped
officers. Four of them will be brought before
courts martial to answer charges to be pre-.
ferred." The above is an annou ncernent in
New York paper, aud is entirely wron. The
action Of the Naval Retiring Board in the
several Individual cases, has been examined bv
the Attorney General, and a. legal adviser of
the President, he has given opinions thereup
on, but we are assured that his decisions do not
involve any such broad ground as that stated
above.
SENATOR FIrCH MALrRRArED BY INDIAys.-
The st. Paul Pioneer and Democrat says:
Senator Fitch, of Indiana, accompaned bv two
or three friends and guides. left this city a few
weeks since, to enjoy Buffalo hunt on the She
venue river, where buffalo are reported very
plenty The Senator and his friends were well
provided with animals, provisions, guns and
ammunition. II 10 now reported in this CITY ON
good authority, that the hunting party had been
set upon by band Of Yankton Indians who. to
punish them for trespassing upon their lands,
took forcfble possession Of the guns belonging
to the hunters, maltreated aud mutilated theft
slaughter of buffalo and leave the country. DR..
Fitch and bis friends left Immediately for Fort
Abercrombis.
FIFrY-Two THOUSAND DOLLARS n'-Sena-
tor Douglas, in mOrtgaging his Chicago property
to Fernando Wood ct al, recently, at 10 per
centum per annum, to raise the wind where.
with to be borne aloft, if possible, throu ghout
his current Illinois canvass, is destined not to
hear the last ONT, perhaps, until ames w atson
Webb hears the last Of his somewhat similar
raising OF $4,000 from the Bank of the United
States to be invested in q somewhat similar
sinking political cause. The New York and
Illinois papers have been making merry over
the "little transaction" ever since it become
public.
NIcARAGUA.-We see it stated that Secretary
Cass has informed Gen. Jerez, the Envoy Ey-
traordinary from Nicaragua, that, not having
power, as it was understood he had, to settle
the Nicaragua difficulty by accepting the Cas-.
Irisarri treaty, it would be useless to hold fur
Their communication with him, and that this
Government, in the meantime, would not wait
for any further useless negotiations, which only
served to embarrass plain question, but would
pursue the decisive policy already explained to
him.
OREGON sURvEYs.-No appropriation was
made at the late session of Congress for contin-
uing surveys Of the public lands in Oregon.
The estimates Of the Surveyor General of that
Territory called for $4,000 for this purpose
Further surveys are said to be necessary west
OF the Cascades, while the most pressing ne
csssity exists for surveys of the settled and set
Ting country east OF that mountain range,
though there has not yet been q compass in |
that country.
NAvAL.-Itis stated that on Friday last, q |
collision occurred near Craney Island, between |
the United States steamer Arctic, coming from !
Washington, and the City of Richmond, of the |
Union Steamship line, which just left her wharf
for Philsdslphia, with . heavy freight and :
number Of passengers. The latter vessel was