Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 April 1898 — Page 2

$lu f ilu (Eotmtg gmonat ML MaO. STOOPS, Editor ud P*opc»olor. PETERSBURG. • * INDIANA. The Hamburger Correspondent announced, on the Slst, that the United ; States had bought three Chinese cruis- : ers that were building in the Vulcan j yards in that city. t The Spanish cruisers Vizcaya and ' Almirante Oquendo, last reported at Porto Rico, arrived at St. Vincent, Cape j Verde Islands, on the 19th, to reinforce ■ the Spanish fleet in those waters. Failures throughout the country, as j reported by Dun & Co., during the week ended April 22, were 204, as com- j pared with 218 for the corresponding ! week last year. For Canada the failures were 29, against 21 last year. Oh the 21st the British ambassador. Sir Henry Dummond Wolff, called | upon Senor Ciullon, the Spanish for-1 eign minister, and informed him that the affairs of the American legation 4 were in his (the ambassador's) hands. Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, who had been critically ill in Washington for several days, was not expected to survive on the 19th. His physician announced that there was not one chance in a thousand for his recovery.

, Tim United States cruiser Topeka, formerly the Diogenes, received orders, on the 19th, to sail immediately for the United States without waiting for the United States torpedo boat Somers, which was being repaired at Falmouth, England. The Spanish torpedo gunb oat Temerario left liuenos Ayres on the 23d. It is believed she went to attack the United States battleship Oregon and the United States gunboat Marietta, which left Valparaiso, on the 18th, for Montevideo. Advices from Honolulu, under date of the 14th inst., state that it was rumored there that Minister Sewall and Admiral Miller would take formal possession of * the islands in the name of the United States as a coaling station on the l$th. The Impartial, of Madrid, says: “The Americans who are rushing into war will be surprised to find that it is not an affair of weeks, but of months. It will last until^the commercials are ■sore anxious for peace thau they are nor/ anxious for war.” The president, on the 20th, dispatched an ultimatum to Spain reciting the provisions of the congressional resolution and iutimaling that if a satisfactory reply was not received by midnight of the 23d he should proceed to carry out the mandate of congress.

Tub police commissioners of San Fr&noisco have adopted a resolution declaring that in case of war police officers who enlist will not lose their places, which will be filled during their absence by men whose appointment will be merely temporary. Ob the 19th and 20th every railroad extendipg southward was busy transporting the troops of the regular army to their several points of concentration. In many instances the departure of the troops from their old posts was made the occasion of popular demonstrations. It was announced from Washington, on the evening of the 19th, that the Spanish minister,Senor Poioy liernabe, had made all arrangements to leave Washington immediately on receipt of the government's ultimatum, and take up his residence, temporarily at least, in Canada. Tub queen regent presided at the Spanish cabinet council on the 21st. Senor Sagasta, the premier, announced the departure of Senor Polo y liernabe from Washington, and that the United States minister, Gen. Woodford, had been informed that it would _|»e useless Vo present any note. PoSTMASTKR-GKXrRAt. GARV tendered t his resignation, on tin* 21st. as a mem- 1 ber of the cabinet, aud Charles Emory .'smith, of Philadelphia, was nominated by the president to nil the vacancy and promptly confirmed by the senate. Mr. ; Gary's resignation was much regretted , by the president aud cabinet. Os the 19th, at 1:30 a. m.—session of ! the ISth—the report of the conference j committee on the Cuban resolutions, i recommending the senate resolution, j with the Turpie amendment elitni- | nated and the words "are, and” again i inserted. In the first paragraph was adopted by both houses of congress. Tur.. first prize taken by our blue jackets was the Spanish steamer Buena Ventura from Pascagoula, Miss., for Rotterdam with lumber. The Nash- | ville tired a blauk shot, which ttye Spaniard ignored. This was followed ''by a shot from a six-pounder. The ' ll.uena Ventura then surrendered with her crew of 2S men.

TttK Spanish government, having received the test of President McKinley's ultimatum from Minister Polo, on the 21st, did not wait for United States Minister Woodford to present the ultimatum, but immediately notified him that diplomatic relations were at an end, whereupon he requested and received his passports, leaving Madrid the same evening. Carr. Sigsbek, who commands the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul, was given an impromptu ovation, on the night of the 20th, at one of the leading Philadelphia theaters, liis presence was not discovered until after the first act, when he was seen in one of the boxes, and with a burst of applause the entire audience arose and cheered the Maine's (Commander for fully 15 minutes* 3

CURRENT TOPICS. THE BEWS D B8IBF. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Hi the senate, on the 18th—the session toeing continued until 2:43 a m.—the question ot absorbing interest to senators and the throngs who crowded the galleries, was the consideration of conference reports upon the Cuban resolutions. After many recesses and many | reports from the oommittee an agreement was anally reached by the adoption of the senate resolution with the Turpie amendment stricken oil and the words “are, and" again inserted in the first paragraph—yeas. 43: nays, 35. .In the house, after a hard-fought battle, reaching far into the early hours, the conference report was agreed to—yeas. 310; nays. A No other business ot Importance was transacted. In the senate, on the 19th, Mr: Allen offered a resolution reoognizlng Cuban independence and declaring that the United States would insist that Cuba should not be responsible tor any debtor Spain. After some discussion of the resolution the senate took up the sundry civil appropriations bill.In the house, at the conclusion ot the reading of the journal, the speaker announced his signature to the Cuban resolution. Mr. Grosvcnor rose to a question ot personal privilege, disclaiming any intention of reflecting upon the loyalty ot democrats and populists in his speech of the 7th. The house then adjourned. In the senate, on the 30th. much ot the time of the session was taken up in speeches by senators who had voted against the Cuban resolution. Consideration of the sundry civil appropriations bill was resumed. An amendment ofered by Mr. Allison appropriating $413.151, with which to pay Great Britain the award for the Behring sea claims made by the joint convention of February 29, 1890, was agreed to.In the bouse the bill empowering the president to call out the volunteer forces and providing for their organization was amended and passed as an emergency measure. Ik the senate, on the 81st, the sundry civil appropriations bill was further considered and passed. The bill carries a largt amount of money intended to be used in the strengthening of the country's coast defenses. The naval appropriation bill was taken up and practically completed, ani a joint resolution was adopted giving the president power to prevent ths exportation of coal and war materials. A bill to restore Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris to citizenship in the United States was passed.In the house a jpint resolution was passed to authorize the president, In his discretion, to prohibit the exportation of coal and other war materials. The bill to restore Mrs. Nellie GrantSortoris to citizenship was also passed. is the senate, on the —d, during a brief opening session. Mr. Money (Miss.) announced the death of his colleague. Senator Walthall. The senate then went into executive session, during which the conference report on the volun- J teer bill was agreed to.In the house the conference report on the bill authorizing the president to call out the volunteers was agreed to without debate. The Patterson-Carmack contested election case was disposed of, the sitting member, Mr. Carmack, being,given the seat.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Cavax-BV and artillery from all parts of the country poured into Chattanooga, Tend., on the 20th. Maj.-Gen. John E. Brooke and his staff,of the department of the lakes, arrived from Chicago and assumed command at the Chickamauga camping grouuds. It was “discovered, on the 21st, that the submarine cables which connect the mines in the upper portion of New York bay and the Narrows with Fort Wadsworth had been tampered with and the wires severed. The break was repaired and caused no permanent in

jury. Cyrus A. Bell, a miner, has been arrested at Butte, Mont., charged with attempting to burn Mrs. Marian Kelly and her two children to death in their house. She had refused to marry him. The perpetrator of the crime entered her house in the early morning, bound and chloroformed her and her oldest daughter ,and then set fire to the house. Her screams when awakened by the flames summoned the neighbors who rescue^ the inmates and put out the flames. Gov. Bcshnell, on the 19th, ordered the Ohio national guard to be recruited to its maximum strength, 8,500. The war department has practically decided that the first call to arms will be for 80,000 men, to be taken from the militia of the several states. It was officially announced in Madrid, on the 19th, that negotiations were progressing with the Cuban insurgents to obtain their submission as a result of further concessions. font inches of snow fell at Iron wood, Mich., on the night of the 18th. Manitowoc, Depere and Plainfield, Wis., also reported o heavy fall of snow. The pneumatic gunboat Vesuvius made a successful test of her guns in Narragansett bay on the 19th. .. Cubans at Key West,Fla., on the 19th, adopted a memorial to President McKinley requesting him, after the Spaniards have been driven from Cuba, to appoint Gen. Fitzhugli Lee governorgeuerai of the island until a stable republican government can be established. At Sioux Falls, S. D., on the 59th, 14 indictments were returned by the United States grand jury against a number of prominent men in Nebraska and the Black Hills on the- charge of stealing timber from government land. chairman Cannon of the house committee on appropriations says that no war appropriations will be made except upon regular estimates from the; various departments. - President McKinlet expected to sign the Cuban resolution and the ultimatum to Spain at the same time, on the morning of the 2Ulh, transmitting copies of the latter to congress, to Minister Polo and by cable to Minister Woodford at Madrid, and then await Spain's reply, which would be due early on the morning of the -3d.

UK*. Milks xs quoted as saving that the army for the occupation of Cuba should not be leas than 100.0(10 men, with a sufficient force distributed along the Atlantic coast for concentration in case the Spanish should assume the of* tensive. Secketabt Gage is maturing his plans for placing a loan for carrying on the contest with Spain. The programme of the ways and means committee has been adopted in regard to loans, and probably will be pnt through the two houses of congress. Uks. Palma and one of Gen. Gomes* brigadiers, it is said, consulted Geo. Miles, on the 20th. arranging for cooperation against Spain. The United States government has purchased the Umbria and the Etruria of the Cunard lino.

The authoritative statement w»* made at the war department, on the 19th, that on the first call for troops, embracing 80,000 men, only the nation* al guard would have an opportunity to volunteer for service in war. Thk volunteer army bill was passed by the house, on the 30th, without division. f A soldier named Wheeler, of Co. K, Sixth cavalry, tj. S. A., en route from Fort Riley, Kas., to St Louis, fell from a Missouri Pacific train at Knobnoater, Mo., on the 30th, and was killed.. Thk Spanish minister and his suite left Washington, on the 30th, the former having demanded and very promptly been handed his passports. At 11:24 a. m., on the 30th, the president affixed his signature to the joint resolution of congress requiring Spain to evacuate the island of Cuba. Hekbebt W. Bowen, American con-sul-general at Barcelona, left that city, on the 21st, transferring his papers to the British consulate. Spanish senator and deputies declared, on the 30th, that the American demands must be rejected and war credits voted. It was officially announced, on th« 20th, that the United States will not resort to privateering in case of a Spanish war. Spurgeon's tabernacle in London was destroyed by fire that broke out, on the 20th, shortly after noon. At a meeting of the Spanish cabinet on the 21st, Prime Minister Sagasta said that the period of the armistice declared in Cuba had been virtually terminated by the rupture of diplomatic relations with the United States. Representative Hull, chairman of the military affairs committee, introduced a bill, on the 2Lst, to increase the efficiency of the United States army in time of war by organizing a field telegraph corps.

A kill was passed in congress, on the 21st. restoring Nellie Orant-Sar-toris, daughter of Gen. Grant, to citizensliip in the United States. As infernal machine was sent to the White llouse on the 21st. Fortunately, its character was suspected and due measures were taken to prevent its explosion. The Brazilian war ship Nictheroy recently bought by the United States, sailed from Rio Janerio.on the 21st, for the United States with 3.000 tons of coal. Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, died in Washington at 5:30 p. m., on the 21st. Secretary Long said, on the 22d, that Capt. Sampson hail been appointed as * "acting rear admiral.*’ It was supposed he would be named later as “rear admiral.” A dispatch from St. Thomas, on the 22d, said: “A revolution has broken out in the Ponce district of Porto Rico, and there is rioting all through the island.” After the cabinet meeting, on the 22d, it was announced that the president considered war as on, and no time would be lost ’’n forcing the issue. , F. Augustus Schermkrhobx, of New York cityilhas given his fine yacht Free Lance to the government, and it has been accepted with thanks. * Secretary Long laid down a hard-and-fast r^le, on the 22d, forbidding information concerning fleet movements. - Gov. Cook an nounced, on the 22d that the Connecticut brigade would immediately be recruited to a war foot* ing. A royal decree was gazetted in Madrid, on the 22d, calling out 30,000 men of the reserves of 1897.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Inr the senate, on the 23d, no business was transacted, adjournment being had immediately after the close of the funeral obsequies over the remains of Senator Walthall_In the house, before completing the consideration of the army reorganization bill, a recess was taken to attend the funeral of Senator Walthall in the senate chamber, after which consideration of the army bill was resumed, and its passage was secured at 1:43 p. m. The weekly statement of the associated banks of New York city issued on the 23d showed the following changes: Surplus reserve, increase, $6,179,025; loans, decrease, $7,439,100; specie, iuerease, $7,883,800; legal tender, decrease, $2,282,300; deposits, decrease. $2,302,100; circulation, increase, $140,800. A DISPATCH from Madrid, on the 24th, said: “A high official asserts that the powers are still conferring with re- ! suits which are expected to benefit Spain. The tone of the Portuguese press is friendly to Spain, and it is said demonstrations in favor of Spain have been made before several United States i consulates in Mexico.” The owners of the Buena Ventura, the Spanish ship captured by the United States cruiser Nashville, have issued a signed protest against her capture. They say the cargo belongs to British merchants, and was insured in Great Britain. A $300,000,000 loan is provided for in the new war tariff bill in the form of three per cent. 10-20 bonds. One hundred million dollars in certificates of indebtedness, to bear three per cent, in terest, are also provided. A steamship of the Beaver line, sail ing from London, on the, 24th, refused to take a cargo of gun cotton, lead and alloyed metal, believed to be in- | tended for the United States govern* I rnent’s use.

\\ atuk there is every reason to believe that Secretary Sherman contemplates a retirement from the cabinet, the indications are now that the change will not take place immediately. The Madrid imparcial prints a list of the American ships in the Mediterranean, and points oat that they will be easy prey for the Spanish war ships. Ox the *23d the president issued his proclamation calling -for 135,000 troops to serve for two years unless sooner discharged. Ox the 23d the associated banks of New York city held 934,525,000 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. role.

HOOSIER HAPPENING Told iia Brief by Dispatches from Various Localities. Anenlo Found. Lognnsport, Ind., April 23.—As a result of the chemical examination of the stomach of the late Commodore Brown, of Burrows, by Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, enough arsenic to kill ten men was found. Forty-five and one-seventh grains of the poison was discovered. Commodore Brown died under peculiar circumstances. Two men, Shuey and Jones, two years ago quarreled over Brown’s wife and fought a duel, in which Shuey was killed. Jones was acquitted on the .ground of self-defense. Letters found among Shuey’s effects excited the suspicion of D. N. Brown, a brother of Mr. Brown, and he came fceres from North Dakota and caused the investigation. Catholic Young Hen. Terre Haute, Ind., April 23.—The lo»1 council of the Young Men’s institute, an organization with 50,000 members of young unmarried men, com-? municants of the Catholic church, has received information from headquarters that it is the purpose to offer several brigades of volunteers from the membership. National Chairman H. W. Rives says in a letter: “Should the necessity arise (and may God forbid it) we would carry to the front our glorious motto: ‘For God. for Country,' along with the stars and stripes, and consecrate the banner of the Y. M. I. with a baptism of Are and blood. Let us not be carried away with enthusiasm and excitement. but let us be ready for any emergency.”

Day* a Glaus Plant. Anderson, Ind., April 23.—Long-pend-ing denis have been closed by which the Pennsylvania Plate Glass company of Pittsburgh absorbs the American plate glass plants in this Aunty, valued at $1,000,000. This is the big antitrust concern. The Pennsylvania company gains control by purchasing interests of the l)e Pauws, who were the original and sole owners. The company will enlarge the Indiana plants, which means they will centralize all interests in this state and withdraw from Pennsylvania. They will reopen thi plants at once. -\— Troop* to Mobilise. Indianapolis, Ind., April 23.—The general order for the Indiana national guard to assemble here lias been signed! by Gov. Mount and will be telegraphed to the company captains immediately upon the receipt of the president's call. Arrangements have been made for the transportation of 900 tents to the state fair grounds. The state authorities hope to make a record in filling the state’s quota quickly, and will strive to be the first to notify the president that the number of men asked for are ready to be mustered into the regular service. Favor Call for SOO.OOO Men. Indianapolis, Ind., April 23.—All the supreme and appellate judges, all the state officials and deputies, with many others, have forwarded a petition to President McKinley, requesting that 500,000 men constitute the first call. The petition concludes as follows: "No such opportunity probably will present itself soon to impress upon the World a conception of our resources in time of war, and, in our Judgment, nothing would more conduce to a speedy peace.*' Ready for Camp. Franklin, Ind., April 23.—Company E, Second regiment, I. N. G:, held its final meeting before leaving for Indianapolis to go into camp. Afterward the militiamen paraded the streets, followed by 500 citizens. Flags have been placed on the courthouse, city hall and all school buildings. A Spanish flag was dragged in the dust, while attached to “Old Glory” was the banner inscribed, “Remember the Maine.” Factorlea Burn. South Bend, Ind., April 23.—The factory of the Bissell Chilled Plow company and the Chicago Indurated Pail company were nearly destroyed by fire. The loss to the former company is $30,000 and to the latter about $10,000, fully covered by insurance. George Hammond. a workman, was severely burned in trying to extinguish the flames, which started from a hot box.

Son* of Veteran* Ready. Shelbyville, Ind., April. 23. — The Fra.uk Talbert earnp, Sous of Veterans, met and adopted the following1: ••Resolved, That , we. the officers and members of Frank Talbert camp. No. S5, Sons of Veterans, true to our obligation of allegiance to the United States government. do hereby tender our services, individually and as a camp, and It is especially desired that we be enlisted and mustered into the service immediately.” Agaiait •■guarUhopw.*’ Indianapolis, Ind., April 23.-—The i supreme eourUholds that the law passed by the last legislat ure requiring **quartshops” to take out county licenses is valid. The law was assailed by the “quartshop” owners on the ground that it did not provide a penalty. The court holds that the general penalty act of 18S1 attaches. EaliwIiBg at Brasil. Brazil, Ind., April 23.—A mass meeting was called at the opera house here and in less than 20 minutes 100 men placed their names on the enrollment list.

Coal for Saa KraacUcu. San Francisco, April 23.—A big fleet of coal is on its way to San Francisco from Australian ond English ports. No more coal ean come here from British Columbia, the principal source of San Francisco’s supply, and to guard against a shortage the goTernm ?nt has made arrangements for the transportation of 80,000 tons by rail from Penney],Tania. Croker Sail*. New York, April 23.—Richard broker sailed for Lirerpool Saturday on the Campania. He was accompanied by hilt Tonngeft son, Herbert

One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Men Called for by the President. TWO YEARS UNLESS SOONER DISCHARGER Th« Official Proclamation by the President of the United States Calling for Volunteers to Carry Into Effect the Mandate of Congress with Regard to the Island of Cuba.

Remember the Maine! Remember the Maine when great guns roar, when cannon belch on the hostile shore. Remember the dead in a sunken ship, and pass the cry from lip to lip. Forget the shriek of shot and shell; forget fox the hour that war is hell. For over there beneath the bay Two hundred sailors lie to-day. Remember the Maine in an alien sea, that rots with her men for you and me. Remember the death-ciys mournful note that rises yet from our sunken boat. For souls that rose from out the bay Are leading armies on to-day. —St. Louis Republic. Call for One Hundred and Twenty-Five Thousand Men. Washington, April 23.—The president has issued the following proclamation calling for 125,000 troops, to serve two years: By the President of the United States—A Proclamation. Whvreas, By an act of congress entitled: “An act to provide for the increasing of the military establishment of the United States in time of war, and for other purposes." approved April 22, 1838, the president was authorized, in order to raise a volunteer army, to issue his proclamation calling for volunteers to serve in the army of the United States.

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, presifient of the United States, by virtue of power vested in me by the constitution and laws, and deeming sufficient occasion to exist, have thought fit to call for. and hereby do call for, volunteers to the aggregate number of 125.00C In order to carry Into effect the purpose of the said resolution, the same to be apportioned as far as practicable among the several states and territories and the Distflct of Columbia, according population, and to serve for two years unless sooner discharg e d The details for this object will be Immediately communicated to proper authorities through the war department. In witness whereof I haw hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at Washington, this 23d day of April. 1866. and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and twenty-second. William McKinlet. By the President. John Sherman, Secretary of State. The proclamation will not be transmitted to the governors of the states until Monday, the purpose being to avoid any unseemly demonstrations on Sunday. The president also concluded to defer, at least until Monday, the message to congress recommending that a declaration of war be passed. THE BATTLESHIP OREGON. The Navy Department Folly Advised of Her Movements—Warning Has Been Sent to Her. Washington, April 24.—The. pavy department is fully aware of the whereabouts ot the battleship Oregon and the gunboat Marietta, but for obvious reasons the officials decline to say where the vessels are, whether they have been ordered to return to San Franeiseo, or, in fact, make any statement respecting them, further than that they have no apprehension for their safety. It is known that the department has taken steps to have the commander of the Oregon met by friends and warned of the outbreak of hostilities and the presence of the Spanish torpedo gunboat Temerario at Buenos Ayres in the path of the warship on her way to the North Atlantic station. *'

GEN. ALGER WILL NOT RESIGN, Rumor* that the Secretary of Wk Wool* Leave the Cabinet Denied I'pon Aothoritjr. Washington, April 25.—Reports haring been published that Secretary Alger inteuded to resign from the cabinet on account of ill-health,it cau be stated, after inquiry of the secretary himself, that there ia no foundation whatever for them. The secretary is in bettei health at present than at any time since he came to Washington, haring completely recovered from his attaek of the grip. _ SPANISH WARFARE IN CUBA. Troop* Laylas Waste by Fir* Intsrioi Towns and Plantations la Santiago ds Cuba Province. Kingston, Jamaica, April 25.—Fugitives from Guantanamo, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, say the Spanish troops are concentrating in the principal seacoast cities and laying waste by fire interior towns and plantations. It is feared the devastation will be complete before the Americans can occupy that territory.

PRIZE VESSELS CAPTURED. In the Dbtribate of Prlsa Money—An Incentive to Extra Effort. W Asuington, April 25.—Secretary Long1 has received from Admiral Sampson dispatches telling of the capture of several of the Spanish merchantmen. ' which are to be held as prizes and to be disposed of according to law, if the protest mode against such seizures are held to be without ground. Judge-Advocate-General Lemley, the law officer of the navy department., has been looking up the statutes on the subject and is prepared to assist the secretary in any way necessary. The law provides that the condemnation proceedings in the matter of prize j vessels shall be conducted under the supervision of the district courts. It is made the duty of the commanding officer of the vessel making a cap- $ ture to secure the documents of the , | ship and cargo and send them, together with certain witnesses from | the captured vessel, to the district | court in which the proceedings for the distribution of the prize money are to be had. The attorney for the

United States is tQ promptly ( file a libel against ' the prise- f property and take other proceedings S’ necessary. The evidence is to he | taken by prize commissioners, not ex* f oeeding three in number, one of whom is to be a retired naval officer,' and at least one of the others a member of the bar of the court of not less than three years’ standing, and acquainted with the taking of, depositions. ‘‘If the sale of the prize is ordered the gross proceeds are to be deposited with the assistant treasurer of the United States, at the place nearest to the sale subject to the order of the court. • The court is to make a decree of dis- ^ j tribution determining what vessels are » to share in the prize, and whether the prize was of superior, equal or inferior force to the vessel or vessels making the capture. The net proceeds of all j property condemned as prize shall* J when the prize was of superior or equal a force to the vessel or vessels making jj the capture, be decreed to the cap- I tors. This provision was evidently | put in the law with a view to encour- !' aging vessel captains to exert their | greatest effort when meeting a foe of superior or of equal strength, as the j same section of the law provides that j. when the prize vessel was of inferior | ■ force to the captors, one-half of the f net proceeds is to be decreed to the § United States and the other half to j the captors. In cases where the j amount in controversy exceeds $2,00€ \ appeals may be taken to the supreme | court.

WILL LET THE CUBANS FIGHT Well Armed, Clothed and Fed, They Wll> be Expected to “Hold the Fort” TUI Reinforcement* Arrive. Washington, April 2.. —Secretary Sherman said yesterday that it was his. expectation that for the present and immediate future the insurgent army would do the greater part of the fight* ing in Cuba. He added the statement that there was no intention of taking the militiamen and new recruits into Cuba until thoroughly inured to hardships of actual military life, and that probably the regulars also would be held in this country until later in the season. The secretary expressed the opinion that Admiral Sampson's fleet would take the first opportunity to form a. junction with Gomez’ army and that there would thenceforth be perfect cooperation between those two organizations in conducting the war against the common enemy. “The insurgents are the best men for these services at present,” said the secretary, “and they can be trusted to do zealous work when well armed and well clothed.” He said it was his understanding that this government would furnish the arms and munitions to fit out the insurgents in good shape, and to put the entire Cuban army in good fighting trim. He would not discuss the report that he would resign from the cabinet shortly. r

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW YORK. The Bis American liner Beady to Entoi the Service of Uncle Sam. New York. April 25.—The American line steamship New York arrived yesterday, but she brought neither passengers, mail nor cargo. The New York experienced heavy weather throughout, but otherwise had an uneventful voyage. Her officers and crew at nc time feared being intercepted by any Spanish war vessels. She carries a cnew of about 400, all told, including Capt. Passow and Chief Officer Bradshaw. As soon as the ocean liner was moored alongside her pier all handswere paid off. Capt. Passow, hia officers, and such of the other members of the crew aa desired to serve on the ship under the new conditions were signed immediately by Deputy United States Shipping Commissioner Baer. Each of them sighed articles with the American Line Co. and not with “Uncle Sam.” These articles were for 12 months term to go anywhere or everywhere , The wages as agreed upon, were the current merchant marine rate, paid by the International Navigation Co., but the latter orally agree to pay each officer, engineer, fireman, seaman, etc., a bonus of — per cent. 4 ‘for good conduct at the termination of the period signed tor” ‘•The crew will wear the American line uniform,’’ said Manager Griscota, “and neither the New York nor St. Loots is to be altered, so far aa 1 know. “I believe that neither the New York, St. Louis nor Paris is to be armored for proteotion, nor, so far as JL can learn, are armed.” to be heavily