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THE PRESIDENT AND MR.. szIDEnzs ELL,
From the Dc,roi, Free Proas.l

From the Detroit Free Press
There is of course no doubt that the President was de-
sirous that Congress should authorize. in a way that
might prove successful, the reopening of negotiations for
the purchase of Cuba, But Mr.. Slidells bill was not in
troduced at the Presidents instance. On this point we
have Mr.. slidell's testimony. During the debate on the
bill he said, in reply to an intimation that it was a meas
ure which the President had very much at heart, that he
had never consulted with him before bringing the bill
in, nor with regard to the report which was made upon
ii. He had never consulted with him as to the course of
strategy to be pursued to accomplish the passage of the
bill or any of these details. 1t would, however, he re-
marked, be an unworthy ahectation ON his part to say
that he was not perfectly persuaded that the President
did desire, sincerely desire, that the bill should pass. He
inferred that, not from anything the President had said
particularly to him more than to Others, but from the
tenor of his message, and because this bill was in strict
conformity with the spirit of his recommendation On
another point MI. Slidell remarked 4
''Now, one word more as to the personal relations that
the senator from New Hampshire has thought proper to
attribute TO me whether meant in the form of censure
or applause / do not know, but probably in a friendly
spirit. / can say that my relations, personal and politi-
cal. with the President are not of a more friendly char
acter than / hope characterizes those relations towards
him on the part of q great many of my colleagues in the
Senate. / will say, further, that nothing has ever fall
len from me, here or elsewhere, to authorize the imputa-
ton that / assume to be his particular organ, aud to en-
Joy his particular confidence, or in any degree to be more
responsible for his action, or more bound TO follow his
recommendations and approve his measures, than any
other gentleman who habitually acts with me ON this
floor"
There was really no ground for the insintation that it
was at the instance of the President that Mr.. Slidell in
troduced his bill, or that the President had sought to in
fluence the passage of the measure beyond that which
the recommendation OF his message might exercise. The
recommendation of his message was uncquivocal and dis
tinct, and we only regret that Congress did not heed 1t.
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INDIAN DISTURBANCES IN TEXAS.


From the Dallas CTexas) Herald, March 81
We learn from a citizen Of Bclknap that a party of
northern Indians came in below that place last week and
stole q number of horses and made for Red river with
them. A party OF Reserve Indians, forty in number,
started on the trail, and Captain Ford, with his rangers,
who was in the vicinity, also started ia pursuit. From
the signs on the trail the thieving party was supposed to
be q large one. 1t was Captain Ford's plan to leave the
Reserve Indians on the trail OF the depredators, and pro-
coed with his command to Major Van Dorn's camp, and
cooperate with him in a campaign against the Indians
at their villages. 1t was his policy to permit the In
dams to return to their villages, and then engage them
in a decisive fight. 1t is rumored, however, that the Re
serve Indians, after pursuing the trail some three days,
and not being 10 ned by Captain Ford, gave up the pur-
suit, Us the hostile Indians outnumbered them, and re-
turned to the Reserve. We have not learned whether
Captain Ford proceeded to Major Van Dorn's camp or
not. 1t is believed by some that there were white men
connected with the thieving party.
A gentleman who passed down from Belknap last week
informs us that great excitement prevails among the peo-
pie in the frontier counties against the Lower Reserve In
dians. He learned as he passed through that the citi-
zens of Jack, Palo Pinto, Erath, and perhaps other from
tier counties, had organized for the express purpose of
attacking the Lower Reserve, and driving the Indians
Off Our informant calculated on mastering some fifteen
hundred men ; that they had sent notice to Captain
Ross, the agent, that they would be at the Reserve on the
goth inst. to carry their purpose into execution. We
do not know how much reliance ought to be placed in
this report.
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NORTH CAROLINA.

The prospect in the coming election for members
of Congress in this State is most encouraging to the
democratic party. We notice a late meeting in Har-
nett county approving of the course of Hon. Warren
Winslow in the last Congress, and recommending his
name again as a candidate. We know of few or no
members of the last Congress whose absence would
be more felt in the next Congress-, where true and
tried men will be needed, than Gov. Winslow. His
services on the Committee on Naval Affairs, the Lii
brary. Committee, and on various important special
committees, were continued and valuable and in
consequence he exercised much influence in the
House by the perfect acquaintance which he mani
tested with subjects referred to these committees,
and few or no measures he advocated failed in being
adopted. North Carolina can wen boast Of her able
delegation in the 35th Congress, but of none more
truly than Of the member from the Fayetteville dis
trict.
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NO EXTRA SESSION.
prom ha petrol. Free rre.s, March Is.

lFrom the DetFo. Free Press, March 25
The Geographic statements are confirmed that the
President has arrived at the conclusion that he Will not
conyoke Congress in ezra session. He did not of course
reach this conclusion until his Investigations into the
condition in which Congress had left the postal service at
the adjournment, and into the powers of the executive
government in the emergency, had satisfied him that an
extra session was not Indispensable to carrying the service
through to the regular meeting of Congress. Some re-
%trenchment will be necessary, and is doubtless very de-
sirnble, and mail contractors VIII encounter some incon-
veniences from delay in obtaining payment for their ser
vices, but the seriousness of these inconvenience is
probably exaggerated. We believe the payments TO CON
tractors for the quarter ending on the LIST of October are
not ia fact due until six weeks later, and within a few
days OF the regular session of Congress, SO that for that
quarter, il Congress act promptly, the delay in payment
will be but short. For the quarter ending ON the lst of
April we suppose the department to TO provided With
means to make its payments. 1t will Therefore be only
for the quarter ending ON the LIST Of July that the greater
inconvenience will be felt, which the department wiz re-
prospective plethora Of the money market contractors
cannot find it difficult to supply their necessities, consid
ering the abundant security they will be able to offer
and il will be the manifest duty of Congress to provide
for the payment of interest on suspended payments to
contractors.
We have all confidence in the wisdom of the Prosi-
dents decision. Had all the States chosen their repre-
~sentativcs in the new Congress, the President would not
have hcsitated as to an immediate extra session. He
would have promptly called upon the new Congress to
supply the delinquencies of the old. But until Eovern
Der all the States viii not have chosen their represent
atiyes.
We can understand and appreciate the desire Of the
administration to avoid an extra session. The state Of
parties in the House is likely to be such that the public
business might not be the first consideration with a ma
iority of members, and the anticipation in the public
mind of uuwise legislation would certainly have a dis
turbing Influence upon the business of the country. We
know, from the disposition evinced by the blacI-repub-
lican leaders during the late session, what would be their
disposition in the event of an extra session. 1t would
be not to relieve the embarTassments of the government,
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HON. GEO. w. JONES, OF TENNESSEE.

We learn from tho Fayetteville Tenn Journal Of the
Gath inst. that Hon, George W. Jones, the faithful repre-
sentative in Congress from the sixth congressional district
of that State, has retired to private lie. After aluding
to the fattering manner in which he had been elected in
1855, when he had formally declined to be a candidate,
and his reelection in 1851, he says
~ am again in your midst, a private citizen, with no
personal ambition ungratifed, more than willing to retire
from the strifes and turnoils, the cares, anxieties, and ex-
elements Of political canvasses, and high and responsible
public station in which have been actively engaged, al
most continually, for the last twenty-four years, and
with the knowledge that there are other gentlemen in the
district Of ability, and who are worthy of confidence, anx-
ious to occupy the position ! have SO long held, who have
many warm and Jealous friends DESTROYS of their eleya-
ton and being myself a democrat, in fact as we'll as in
profession, | have determined TO disembarrass them and
their friends as far rs ! can by Withdrawing from The po-
litical arena, and declining TO be a candidate for re-elcc-
ton TO Congress at the approaching election.
In my retirement ! shall never cease to cherish the
undying recollection of the many and weighty obligations
Of gratitude l am undor@ 20 the personal and political
friends who have so long, and without waycring or
shadow Of turning, honored, supported, and oonfded in
me. Nor can ] ever be inserrsiblo to the kind cousidcra-
tons of many who, though differing with me in political
sentiment, have rcposed in me their confidence.
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We copy the following letter srom Hon. j. NJ. sandidge
to his constituents from the New Orleans Delta of tho
10Th
10 my Joaads Of Ue fourth Congressional District:
As the time approaches when, In accordance with uni
forF custom, 1t viii again be necessary to select a candi-
dre for Congress, i feel that III is due to you that l should
announce publicly my purpose 20 retire at the close of
this Congress.
This determination, though deliberately made, and ex-
pressed to many of my friends, several months ago, L
deem the more necessary TO be restated now, after the
recent settlement of a matter at Baton Rouge, with which
my name was, to some extent, connected.
The generous confidence which, at successive elections
have sent me here with increased majorities, has been
responded to, on my part, with whatever service unselfsh
devotion and an honest purpose could render. In lowing
the field now TO other gentlemen whose services and posi-
ton in the party entitle them TO consideration at the
hands of my democratic constituents. l but discharge what
l conceive TO be a duty TO them and 10 myself and that
there may be no misconception of my purpose ia this
withdrawal, l viii further say that i shall not be a can
didate for any Office whatever.
Returning to you, then, my grateful Acknowledgements
for many personal and political kindnesses, to be ever re-
membered, permit me to say that / shall be always ready
to run n race, Us u private citizen, with any Of you who
shall seek to do most for the success of the great prinei-
ples, which we profess.
With great respect, your ohedient servant,
JN0. Nj. SANDIDGE.
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NAYAL AFFAIRS.
From the Philadelphia Ledger, March 2s,l

from the Philadelphia Ledger, March 28l
Orders have cone to the navy yard here to ft ont i'm
mediately the sloop of war lancaster. The new steam
sloop-of- war Richmond, which was launched at the Cos.
port (Va) navy yard, on "Wednesday, is equal to ! $50
tons burden, and her total cost, when fully equipped,
will be about $500, 900. She will carry two cleveninch
pivot guns, and four eight inch broadside guns. This is
one of the five sloops of-war ordered by Congress in 1857,
all of which have been launched except the Pensacola,
at Pensacola. Since then Congress has ordered seven
others o~flighter draught to be built, carrying six guns.
One of these was launched last week at Norfolk. This
vessel is screw steamer of about 1000 tons burden, 200
feet long on the deck, 33 feet breadth of beam, I6 feet
depth of hold, and ID feet draught. She is to mount
two eleven inch guns and fear t~hiity-two FOUNDERS. 1t
is said that nearly every Commodore now hoists his flag
on a steamer, an improvement which has not yet been
introduced into the English and French navies, the flag.
ships being still sail vessels.
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vineyard and win take rank in the rear Of the SUI
percilious, ~pedantic, erotio Tribune the conceited
scuTilous, juggling Times the mendaeious, fip-
pant, BLACKBOARD Evening Post, and the passt, cor
rupt and aristocratic Codrier and Enquirer. IT. on the
contrary, it should cease its defamation, and declare
openly for, instead of coyertly against the democracy,
then its enemies in the opposition will fling into its
teeth its present stereotyped trades upon the democ-
accepting a support which it must regard as a deg
radiation.
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ouAReE or Roasr7vG a NAN ALlvE


From the Boston Courier1
Two engineers of a steamer employed in the mail SER
vice between Rio and Panama, were recently brought up
before q police magistrate in Liverpool, charged with
roasting one of the ''coal passers' to death. Itappearei
that the deceased, ovcrpowered by the heat of The hold,
had given out, and laid himself down ON the deck, uu-
able to work The chief engineer sent him below, and
caused him to be tied To a ladder between two furnace
doors, within two and a half feet of one fire, and within
three and a half feet OF the other. The fires were light
ed. were raging feroely, and were renewed twice while
the man remained tied. One of the witnesses said he
himself could not stand tho heat three minutes, and he
shipped rs a stokcr. The victim of this barbarity prayed
to be released but was confined half an hour, at the end
Of which time he was carried to the fercastle before the
next watch he was thrown overheard. anl one Of the
witnesses, the man who's cut him from the ladder, thought
no was dead before he was removed from the fire. The
names of the engineers are John Buchanan and Archibald
Mitchell The name OF the deceased was Thomas Ian
don. The vessel was the Bogota. Mitchell was commit
ted without bail. Buchanan was bailed.
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THE BANK or r~gssEssEE D1sMRuBERED


From the CarksviIe Chronicle
On and after the first day Of September next the banh
Of Tennessee and branches are required to pay out only
such notes as are on the face redecnable in gold ~ 's
counter where issued. This bank must obey the letter /"
the law the Union and Planters banks refused 70 !"
governed by the legislature in this matter. :,
One branch of the Bank of Tennessee cannot issue ana
pay out the notes Of another branch of the same bank VI
course it cannot receive the other branch notes uniess t0
is previously made Cor the redemption o. 'hv
notes. No bank can continue to receive ON dtpost s'
in payment of debts the notes OF other banks which te)
are forbidden to pay out. In n very short space o. WIN
the home issue would be exhausted, and all deposition
would have TO pay In gold by this act of the legisia'u'
The Bank of Tennessee is dismembered- it can no long
act as a unit. Each branch Is, in effect, an ~independaH
bank, relying on its own resources holding the banen"
as they do other banks, in war enemies, in peace iHen~
The mother bank viii probably no longer attempt "
redeem the bank notes at Nashville, for they cannot 90
this without keeping on hand two dollars in gold for oV
in paper. This win prevent Nashville from being us
money centre of the State, and IL Is probable that an t'
branches will be able to take care of themselves and inr
nish a sound currency to the people.
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We learn that Doctor Don Cipriano Coronel Zegar-
IA was yesterday introduced by the Secretary of
State to the President, to whom he delivered his ere
dentials as minister resident of the republic of Peru,
Mr.. Zegarra succeeds Senior Don J. ". Osma, who
has for some years past most acceptably represented
his government here, first as charge d'affaires, and
~latterly as minister resident, and who, we under
stand, has been transferred to the Peruvian mission
at London.
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ARMY INTELLIGENcE.

AoMAa
l. The Secretary Of War desires il 10 be announced +,
the army that, as the object of the act Of August Ii. 1915
In holding out the induoement OF a more permanent nm,
polntnent, was 10 procure the services Of a more conn.
tent body Of hospital stewards, no soldier nor citizen nrns,
der that act who is not known 10 be temperate honest
and ia every way reliable, as well as sufficiently inLsII'
gent and skilled In pharmacy, fr the proper dischargc aS
the responsible duties likely To be deyolved upon him
And as the act of July s, 1888, section IL. which n,
thorizes the payment Of soldiers employed AS tempor,,
stewards ID still in force, and fairly provides for ths j,
rent exigencies of the service, at the same time thai n
affords the means for a careful probation OF all soldie,s
detailed AS hospital stewards, who may be ambitions og
one day deserving "A permanent appointment, the Secre.
taTy wishes it 10 be known that he viii la future only h.
stow the latter in cases of special merit.
z Hospital stewards appointed by the Secretary Of
War, whenever stationed in places whence no post return
Is made TO the Adjutant Generals office, or when ON fin.
Tough, VIII at the end OF every month report themsely.s
by letter TO the Adjutant General and Surgeon General
as well as to the medical director OF the military depurt.
ment m which they may be serving To each OF whom
they Will also report each new assignment 10 duty N
change of station ordered Ia their case, noting carefully
the number, date, and source of the order directing ths
same. They will likewise report monthly, when ON fur,
Tough, to the medical officer in charge Of the hospitals 10
which they are attached.
3. All hospital stewards, appointed by the Secretary of
War, who are now in service, will, Immediately ON In.
receipt of this order, report, by letter, 10 the adjutant
general and TO the surgeon general, their present station,
and the number, date, and source Of the order under
which they are acting.
BY order of the Secretary OF War
s, COOPER,
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P CONTRACT

In accordance with a public advertisement of the
Superintendent of the Public Printing for proposals
for SOLIDS. paper, the contract was, we learn, yester-
day awarded to Messrs. James NJ. Wilcox 81 Co., of
Philadelphia, at 81 so per ream, being less than the
award at the letting of December last.
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Tho Toronto correspondent of the New York Herald
on this tariff snps -.

Tho Toronto correspondent OF the New York Herald
commenting on this tariff says:
ssThe' most important measure Of the session-the
tariff-has just passed the stage which makes further OPP
position unayailing. The report of the committee of
the whole was concurred in last night by a majority of
fourteen. 1t will pass its final stages without further
amendment in any material point, and will, no doubt,
meet with similar success. in the upper house. This is
the seventh tariff adopted in Canada within the last ten
years, each being on advance upon its predecessor. Dr
ties have risen successfully from two-and-a-hslf to an
average Of twenty per cent. The distinguishing features
Of this tariff are first, its recognition of the ad paioyen
system, with only one exception-to wit, the article of
whiskey-on which a specific duty Of eighteen cents on
the gallon is TO be levied secondly, its total abandon
ment Of protection-n prominent feature of the last
tarif-by imposing duties ON raw materials as well as
their manufactured products thirdly, its operation
against trade with New York, Boston, SC, and in favor
of Montreal and the 81. Lawrence route to the sea. This
effect is mainly attributable to the mode OF assessing the
ad palorem duty, which is upon the price at the last place
of purchase. Tea will be imported direct from China,
sugar from Cuba, SC. BY Che trade returns Of last year
il appears that more than half the entire Imports of
Canada came from and through the United States. TX Is
believed that the new tariff will force nearly tho whole of
this trade by the 81. lawrence. Montreal merchants are
in c~cstacies but they have oyerleaped The mark. A
duty Of twenty-five and thirty per cent, with the public
VIII put the trade into the hands OF s~muggleis. This
measure has been carried by a majority Of Lower Canada
representatives against the strong protest Of Upper Cana
da merchants, and the votes of nearly ~two-thirds of her
representatives
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TIE NoRFoLK WV YARp.

The Norfolk (ya) Argus Of the Goth says
"a considerable addition to the number of bricklayers
and masons was made on Thursday, aud the work on the
large ordnance building and the provision house is pro-
crossing rapidly.
a. W. learn That tho large and splendid new sloop-of-
war City of Richmond will be launched on the 7h of
May"
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Allaiant asnsral
prom the New York Herald, March IS

E
The President of the United States ordered a general
court-martial to assemble at Charleston, s. c., on the
10Th instant, for the trial of Surgeon Bernard NJ. Byrne
medical department United States army. The court is
composed of the following members Brigadicr General
Churchill, Brevet Colonel May, Brevet Colonel Waite,
Brevet Colonel Dimick, brevet Lieutenant Colonel Chand-
Ter, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Walker, Brevet Lieuten.
ant Colonel Septoe, Lieutenant Colonel Crittendcn, Major
Nichols, and Captain Samuel Jones AS judge advocate.
Captain Aliens company. * second regiment United
States artillery, has been ordered by the War Department
from Fort Hamilton to Pattsburg Barracks, lake Cham.
plain.
BY direction of the War Department a board OF officers
will assemble at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, on the
Sh instant, to examine into a system of evolution for
mounted rihemen when acting as skirmishcrs, prepared
by Lieutenant Manry, mounted rifles.
The board is further directed to report fully upon the
merits of this system Of instruction, and give their
opinion as to its adaptation to the particular corps for
which il is designed.
The board will consist of the following officers Lieu.
Colonel Crittenden, Breyet Lieut.. Colonel Porter, and
Lieutenant Maury.
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INTERESTING DECISION.


Washington, March 26, 1889.
SIN L transmit herewith, foE your Information, a copy
Of an opinion Of the Attorney General, dated the 10th
instant, elected by my letter 70 him Of the ed Of Deoem-
Der last, a copy Of which is likewise transmitted and,
also, copy OF u letter from II. S. Fitch, esq, United States
attorney for the northern district Of Illinois, dated the
18th Of December last. and have 10 advise you that the
point made by MI. Fitoh's appeal is oyerruled.
am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
j. THOMPSON,
Secretary.
Hon. WM. MEpIL, y
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