The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-07-16
Observation-Disclosures
WASHINGTON. july IL. 1885.

is preparing to leave Washington
for a summer vacation. His plans
it is said, have been arranged and
he will probably leave next week.
His destination is the woods of New
York state. There is place thirty
miles from the railroad where Mr..
hopes to escape for a sea
son the worry and bother of office
seekers and politicians. His plans
have been made very quietly and he
will probably leave when the time |
arrives without more ado than if
he was private citizen. The pres
ident does not propose TO be follow
ed in his retreat by either journal
list or politician. He has been
working very hard for the last
four months and no doubt will be
benefited by rest as well as edit
ed by perspective and RETROSPECT
tive view of his work
No other president has in all our
history been subjected to the ordeal
of such terrible pressure for office
on the part of those who aided in
electing him. The mistakes that
are purely his own are fewer than
might have been expected from one
little acquainted with politics and
the personnel of his party. His po
sitiOn has been peculiarly difficult
for many reasons, not the least of
which is the eternal menace of the
small but patent republican MAORI
ty. in the senate. Amid the soli-
tudes Of the AdirOndacks, he will
have time to look back over the
eventful year that has passed since
he was last by himself, and to draw
inspiring strength from infexible
nature for the stern duties that he
must meet and perform.
At this season of the year the
government employees begin to
think CT vacation joys, and, in con-
sequence, the files of the department
are crowded with applications for
leave. This year, however, there is
a remarkable dearth of such appli-
cations, and it might be concluded
that Washington was becoming a
|
clusion which is more generally
drawn Is that the government en-
ployes feel more comfortable at
home attending to their duties than
they would be at the coolest resort
in the world with the daily expec-
tatlon of receiving word that they
had been bounced. There has been
no new ruling on the question of
| leaves, and few have been grant
ed for the accustomed term of thir-
ty days. But it is probable that
very few leaves will be taken this
year until late in the season when
matters have quieted down. In
some Of the departments it is prob
able that thirty days leave will be
scaled down to twenty days, and in
some of the bureaus no leaves will
be granted at all There seems to
be no disposition on the part of the
clerks to make complaint on this
score, and so far the question has
not been forced upon the attention
of the heads of the departments.
A new policy with regard to the
Indians is proposed, which if car
ried out, will put an eternal quietus
to Indian troubles. An order was
issued yesterday from the Office of
the secretary of war and sent to
Gen. Miles who is to take the field
in command of the troops now in
the Indian territory to suppress the
trouble with the Cheyennes. Army
officers about the war department
are reticent end but little can be
| learned as &c the precise terms of
the instructions of Gen. Miles. It is
said, however, that Gen. Miles has
been ordered to disarm the Indians.
The Cheyennes are armed with the
latest improved rifles and are well
supplied with ammunition. For some
time they have expected that they
were. TO be disarmed and some have
secreted their arms. 1t is thought
by officials here well acquainted
with the Cheyennes that they will
resist an effort to disarp them.
There are about 1900 fighting men
among them. The secretary of war
has ordered Gen. Sheridan to con-
centrate all troops that may be
available in case of Indian distur-
Dances in the west
If the disarmament of the Indians
could only be followed by the dis
armament of the cowboys and other
outlaws of the west, an immense
stride would be made III the ciVili-
cation of that savage section. The
peaceful progress Of q community
increases in the proportion that
pistols become scarce in hip pock
cts, and accumulate in the windows
of paWn-shops.
The same causes which ruined
the wheat in Tennessee have pro-