Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-01
Currency Staten ent.
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Indian Matters.

Commissioner Smith, Of the Indian bureau, says
the Indian, whom the press dispatches report as
defeating our troops from Fort Hayes, are a band
of between IS and 100 Cheyenne warriors, who
nearly q year ago were declared outlaws, both by
the bureau agents and military, and have since
been roaming at large all the way from Indian
territory to the Red Cloud agency in the north.
They surrendered to the military last spring and
placed upon the Cheyenne agency, but ran Oft one
morning and regsined quantity Of fire arms
which they had sccreted before surrendering.
They fought the troops all day from behind the
sand banks and made good their escape at night.
They have proved themselves hard fighters, and
the commissioner considers it Of great impor
whipped.
Washington, October 81. The assistant tret s.
Sec'y of the Treasury to sell 81 900 900 in gold
coin, dnrng the month Of November as follows :
$500, 600 on each Thursday.
The Cuban Question.
The discussion of the Spanish cabinets reply
to what is called in the late Madrid telegram,
The Washington note, has reference to the un-
settled questions between the two countries. The
statement of them being free from the verbiage
of CORE spondence. and presented in a compare
lively brief memorandum. The exact points of
this official paper, cannot be ascertained, but they
may be inferred from the views OF the President,
which form the basis Of the instructions to Minis
lister Gushing, and which show that the President
re CARDS the civil discussions in Cuba, and espec-
ially the sanguinary hosttes, as producing effects
in the United States second in gravity only to
those which they produce in Spain.
The ultimate issue of events in Cuba will be its
independence, however that issue may be pro-
duced, whether by means OF negotiation, or as the
result of military operations, or one OF those I'M
expected incidents which so frequently determine
the fate of nations The continuance of the in
sulrection grows day by day more unsupportable
TO the United States, and while the attention Of
the government is fixed upon Cuba in the interest
of humanity, by the horrors OF the civil war pre-
yaipy there it cannot forbear to reflect that the
existence of slave labor in Cuba and its influence
| over the feelings and interests OF the peninsula
Spaniards, lie at the foundation OF all the calami-
| ties which now afiiict the island. But slavery
| cannot long continue in Cuba, environed as that
island is by emancipated slaves in the other West
| India islands and in the United States. The
President has not been without the hope that all
| these questions might be settled by the spontane-
Gus act OF Spain herself, she being more deeply
interested in such settlement than all the rest OF
the world. The question as to what decision the
United States shall make, is serious one, not to
| be determined without careful consideration OF
its complex elements of domestic and foreign pol
| icv but the determination of which may at any
| nome MT be forced upon US by occurrences either
| in Csba or Spain. Wthal the President cannot
| but regard Independence and emancipation as the
only certain and even necessary solution OF the
question of Cuba, and in his mind all incidental
questions are quite subordinate to these.
The President does not mediate or desire the
annexation of Cuba to the United States, but its
elevation into an independent republic of free
men, in harmony with ourselves and with the
other republics of America. The policy Of the U.
S. in reference TO Cuba at the present time is de-
cared to be one of expectancy, but with positive
! and fixed convictions as to the duty of the Y 5.
when the time Or emergency of action shall ar
rive.
The new sloops of war Alert, Alliance, Essex,
Ranger Adams, Trenton, Huron and Enterprise,
will soon be ready for sea, and most of them will
be in service before the end Of the year. The
Trenton is the only one not launched, but 1t Is
| thought she will be before the 18th Of Dec next.
| The Alert is already in commission. The Alliance
now at Philadelphia will be put in commission.
The Ranger, built at Wilmington, will,tn few
days, go 10 Philadelphia to get her outfit. The
Adams and Essex at Boston, the Enterprise at
Portsmouth N. H., and the Huron at Norfolk,
Va, are rapidly being prepared for sea. and their
officers will soon be ordered on board. 1t Is
thought that the Alert will be ordered to the East
Indies to join our squadi on in those waters. The
others will be ordered to join the North Atlantic
fleet as fast they are put in commission, and as
the vessels are needed abroad, they will be or
dercd from the North Atlantic to foreign stations