The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-04-01
EGRAPnEC NEWS.

WASHINGTON, March 28.-Ex- Senator Wade.
of the San Domingo Commission. is quite III
OF pieurisy. Ii he is we'll enough today.
which is improbable, the Commissoners and
marty will call IN the President in a body.
The report is sti'l'ineomplete ard unsigned.
bnt all the points have been decidell. an |
Will be submitted TO the President within a
dag or two. While the Commission was
coming up on the Acquia Greek steamer.
yesterday, Fred Douglass was denied seat
ut the dinner table BY the officers of the boat
'on account of his color The Commissioners
indignantly left ,he table
NTw loRK, March 28--The 7fijnne's
Washington special says rumor is current
that the Administration has decided to drop
the San Domingo business for the sake of bar
m0nzng the party. The iuferenceis drawn
from the remark of Morton in the Senate yes
terday, that if the Commissioners report I'M
favorable TO annexation, be should favor the
abandonment of the. project. The declgra-
ton is thought to be significant. in view Of
the fact that the correspondents with the
Commission all announce shat the report is
unanimously in favor of annexation. An
other correspondent says it seems to he the
general opinion Of the Commissioners ;aatan-
nexaton is certain to invoke the United
States in war with lIavt Baez admitted
that Cabral controlled 900 square miles of
Dominica contiguous to IIay'i. and acknowl-
edged be could not protect the Commissioners
in visit to that portion of the island. The
impression is that the report of the Commits
sioners. when presented to Congress, will be
rather uhfavorable than otherwise to annexa-
ton.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-Mr. Turner, the
negro member from Alabama, intends nd-
dressing the House at an early day. He
will disclose the fact that, so far as Lis dis
trict is concerned, Radicals may live in il
and travel through it with the utmost safety.
end that there are no grounds whatever for
sending military force there.
WASHINGTON, March l9-Gov Alcorn has
sent telegram to the Mississippi delegation
in Congress. informing them that he stalking
active measures to punish the persons who
committed the murders at Meridian, and that
he expects soon to arrest the chief erimirals.
lie adds that he is able to maintain pence and
order in this State, and desires no aid from
the general Government to enforce the laws.
No disorders are now complained of. he says,
except in tew of the northern border cpuu-
ties, and he is confident that he will soon
succeed in tranqullzng that section. The
Mississippi Republicans here lack confidence
in the Governor, and fear that he intenGs TO
aprostatize ard join the Democrats, and that
his dispatch is sent for political effect, to aid
in preventing the passage of the legi~a-
ton affecting the South, now pending in Con-
Gress.
ST. LOUIS, March PA Memnhis special
says FORESTER, the alleged murderer of B.
Nathan, appeared in Memphis three weeks
ago, when he disappeared simultaneously
with the advent of detective, who was lock-
ing For him. FORESTER said before leaving
the city that if pardon was procured for the
twelve years unexpired service in the Illinois
penitentiary he would deliver hinself up on
the Nathan charge, as he had no fears eff TIE
result of the trial.