Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-02

ClaucItr heretofore one OF the eadlug repub-
Ic1us If Missouri, has been called upon by the
rcvubIicars Of the Third district 10 accept the
tuminaton fer Congress- He has written u
icttcr. which viii be published TO morrow, IN
which ne dccllucs to be d candidate, and says:
Il an not IN sympathy with the ClnclnDau
Platform, and cannot support its nominees"
Chandler is trou Michigan, aud is relative OF
the notorious Zach. lie is a graduate OF Mich
irau University, and served with the Michigan
troops duriug the ate var, rising from the
raukS 10 be colonel ol his reg lIucut He settled
10 Missouri alter tue war, aud up to this time
has bucu lcaulug nlau 10 the republican party.
He wa. on the tlck kct as Attorney General
which Gen. John Is. Henderson headed four
wears ago The district u which he Is asked
10 run Is tnat ia winch Il. q. Frost is the dem.
ocra,ic candidate. Frost is the 500 oi Gen. u.
u. Frost, who commanded the State troops
here at the outbreak OF the war, aud was cap
,u,ed at Camp Jackson by Blair aud Lyon at
The head OF tue home guards, Oh the ground
that Frost intended to take the troops into the
Confederate service Frost, now, has the orig
n.a letter written to himself aud General Ster-
Ing Price whcn the Missouri troops were or
eanlzlug, before the attack on Fort Sumter,
iivm Ulysses 5. Grant, then 1T GaeDa, asking
for a commission 10 the force going South aud
Uticriuy to espouSe the Southern causG. Gene
ra: Eros, declines to make pubic the letter,
caiullus that it would not be honorable. Ii,
however, an attack be made on young Frost by
reason OF his Iather's Confederate record, the
letter viii be prcducet. The existence OF this
httcr is an lndisputablc fact, and uclther the
d. -. fran n tp =
pvlsoua habits duriog his residence with the
Dents uad been 80 bad that his offer was not
accepted and about five mouths atterward he
went to Spiugtell aud offered his serv'ca TO
Yates for the Federal army Chicaq0 Times.
CAUSES FOR DISEASE AMONG CENTENNIAL
VISITORS. We cauuut toll how well fouud.d
may be the reports contained 10 late issue OF
Que o. the morning journals. that there Is au
aaruliug prevalence ot disease among the vlsl
tors TO the Centennial ExhlbitloD, although
there are various reasons to believe that such
reports may be correct. Gee tact is beyond
uuestion, that several residents of this city,
who, within the last six weeks, have made pro-
lougcd visits of one Or two weeks TO the EXhl
bltloo, and durug those periods have lodged
every uisht iu hotels aud boarding houses con-
tguous to the Centennial Grouuds have re-
tutuci home laboriug under malarlal disease,
OF have hcon attacked by it some days after
rvaching home. Oi' the former we may iu
Slan.e ;ne son OF meulber of one OF the larg
-, Broadway dry goods houses, 90 the day OF
whose funeral, ii may be remembered, business
was suspended at that establishment. 1t can
hardly be surprising that sickness should exist
10 some extent among the muitltudes who spend
any time at the Centennial, aud especially
auong that portion who pass their nights near
the grounds, now for the first tine subjected 10
a partial cultivation that almost Invariably leads
II an evolution Of ualarlous enaoatlons aud
particularly in districts that for years have been
noloriou>ly Iulasmatic, rs Is the with lauds
h rlcrng ou the backs of the Schuylkiil.
These conditions, viewed in connection with
The has:y preparation OF an extensive area OF
Iaud Tor lumcdlate occupation and use, aud
before sufficient time could be allowed to ln-
sure satisfactory d:aiuage aud we have abuud-
ant causes Tor the prevalence of typho- maarlal
tlsca>c among the visitors to the Ceuteuulal.-
y. !. NeuS.
THoorS THAT ARE Nor WANTED IN TIE
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