INSTRUCTIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL.

SAME DATE, TO A FOREIGNER APPLYING FOR OFFICE.[From the Knoxville Whig for March, 1856.]

"War Department, Feb. 4, 1799.

"... For the cavalry, for the regulations restrict the recruiting officers to engage none except natives for this corps, and those only as from their known character and fidelity may be trusted."