SLIDE VALVE

See Piston. Ameri - can politician; 6. in New York: d. in London. He graduated at Columbia 1810; in U.S. district attorney for Louis iana, In the latter year he was appointed minister te Mexico, but the government of Mexico declined to receive him. He was a member of the U. S. Senate in 1853, resigning when his state seceded in 1861. In that year he and James B. Mason were appointed commi ioners of the Confederate States to France. They sailed on the English ve el Trent, from Havana, but were overhauled by Captain Charles Wilkes of the Jacinto, U. S. N., arrested and held at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. Great Britain demanded an explanation and the United States disclaimed responsibility. June 1, 1862, the commi ioners sailed for England. Slidell was unable to persuade France to recognize the Confederacy but obtained a large loan, and then made his home in London. county, Con naught, Ireland, bordering on Atlantic; surface is diversified, the well-wooded hills being interspersed with lakes, bogs, and fertile tracts of level land; occupations chiefly pastoral. Pop. 80,000. Capital, Sligo (54° 16’ ate ee ee aR: piece: produce. penal F