The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
The Presidents Health. Major An.
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from the Washington Cor. of Eastern Papers.

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From the Washington Cor. of Eastern Papers.
THE PRESIDENTS HEALTH.
There is good deal of anxiety in Re-
publican circles concerning the Presidents
health, and the effect upon it of his manner
of doing business. He has no system or
method whatever, but allows his time and
strength to be exhausted in listening to
Office seekers, and doing other drudgery,
which belongs to the departments. Until
Wednesday morning he had not even taken
ride for recreation. From six o'clock in
the morning until long after midnight, he
permits himself to be made the passive VIC
tim of the thousands who would readily
sacrifice his life and the safety of the nation
to their own selfish eagerness for Office. This
course of action can have but one result.
1t has killed two good Presidents, and will
inevitably deprive the country of another, if
it is not changed. A false delicacy prevents
his friends from making proper representa-
tions to Mr.. Lincoln on this subject, and
the danger is that his profound and unself.
ish anxiety to see everybody and give no.
body any ground to complain of injustice,
will sap his strength and shorten his life.
The departments have clerical force suffi-
Gent to digest all applications for office,
and he should require the secretaries to
bring him the results of such a sitting pro.
cess, instead of taking the whole mass on his
own shoulders.
MAJOR ANDERSON.
1t is shameful to bear how the Republi-
can leaders are endeavoring to traduce
Major Anderson, now that they find that
they cannot hold Fort Sumpter. l heard
one intimate to-day that Major Anderson
has not been inSensible to the arguments of
his friend JEFF. Davis, and that be assented
to the withdrawal of all those of the enlist.
ed men who compose his garrison at the
expiration of their terms of service. By
law be b IS had authority to retain them in
his time oil peril, when every man counts.
A month ago Major Anderson, in their
their mouths, was the gallant hero of Fort
Sumpter; now, because the weakness of the
government, in their hands, is manifest, he
is branded coward or a traitor.
THE WEED AND GREELEY QUARREL.
The New York appointments still hang
fire; the slate still remains unbroken. Lin
coin listens to all the complaints of the dis
appointed with great patience.
Mr.. Dana, of the New York Tribune,
has had an interview with the President,
and, irritated by the appointment of Mr..
Littleohn as Consul to Liverpool, demanded
to know about the New York appointments.
The President told Mfr. Dana very plainly
that be should not recognize the existing
quarrel in New York State; be had con-
suited with Senator Harris, and that gen.
tleman sustained him 1.-THE President) in bis
view of the matter. Mr. Dana informed
the President that neither be nor Senator
Harris had any right to control the appoint
ments in New York that the people
through their proper representatives, in and
out OF Congress, were the parties to be
consulted in deciding who should have place
and power conferred upon them. The Pres
ident gave Dana no satisfaction.