Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-23
From WASHINGTON

The receipts OF tho Treasury to day from Gus
toms amcuotcd to SI%7,l&0; from internal
revanuo, SI49,9l6. Tho amount Of national
bank notes received thero for redemption to day
amoualcd to $4,000
Secretary Ramlsy anu G,u,r4l Dunn ri
turned this mcrning from short visit 10 Fort.
ress Mourco. While there they ran up to
Iolkowo aud looked at tho proposed si.e Of
The monument 10 DO erected there. Tho CHI
Z'ns oil tho ntiIhb9rhood want tho monument
erected near the shore ~ rs to b. visible 10
passing vessels, but :ho battlefield aud tho
sccno cf tho surrender are sumG distsLc, back.
| and thoro is whrru tho Secretary aud Gen.
Drum think lIs site should DO. Tho Secretary
Tins mGrLlng app0inttda commission, consist.
ing o! three vel kuown arts--R. Nj. Hunt.
Henry Won B,un;, aod }. q. A. Ward-to
Ir.psro dcsigns, plane, and specifications for
the monutDcDt. aud has written to each m.m.
Der OF the congressional committee urgl1g them
TO lLcrcas, Il cEcryy and prnmpncss in their
part ut the work.
VlrGlnars hero speak q the nomination OF
Judge Garrison. OF Acc )mac, as the democratic
CANDIDATE iJr Congress from tho First Virginia
dlSr!c:, ~ Very lucky one, and say the Judge
crn Shore AZ will CnccluaIIy couatcrtuIancs any
dcttcion that may be oc,ssioned in tho party
On the west sid. OF the river by Judge Gfi chtr,
tho MahoDito candidate.
Senator Vest, m', has ust arrived hers and
who will speak OF -, ,'.r,ccratic mceting to be
held here next Thursday night. says that tho
report that he is doubtful Of the result 10 Lodi
ana is entirely itcorrcct that no uevcr told
anybody 80, and that as lar as his Information
GOES that State is sure for llaucCck.
Some OF tho clerks 10 Tho departments having
tailed to respond 10 the demands made upon
them Tor election purposes. they have been in.
formed that unless they pay up punc u ,lly their
places Will be given to people who will.
A gentlemen from Mr. Tucker district, now
hero, informed inc this moruiok that the Ma.
hoDites OF that 6iS,rc: would not nominate Mr..
Frazier as Mr.. fuckers opponent but would
select Mr. ii.iiott, formerly editor of tho Rich.
m0Dd Whig, and now a cliz n of that district.
The cousus returns from Virginia arc now
being REVISED 1t thc e,nsus bureau, and it is
understood that they fully coIrtborato tho al.
ready published reports of the ictscsscd popu
ation of that State, AID sustain the ole proverb
about the procrcatveucs5 OF poor people.
Secretary Sherman lei. last night and will be
gone some Tcckson an clcotoneering tour, said
by those who know him to be tho most disagree.
ablo duty OF Bis lite except providing tor Mrs.
jerks AID her family. Assistant Secretary OF
State Hay has recovered from bis illness and
returned and now relieves General Devous who
has been asiog Secretary Of State for some
limo past.
WGrkmen src cog engaged 10 painting the
west front Of the uaio building Ct the Capitol.
and arc thus rendering mere .soGspicuous tho
cllterel C, between the appearance O! tho free
stooc, OF which it 10 composed aud that OF tho
marble OF Hh;ch the wiogs arc built
Chief Marshal Ball, of the democratic CO.
pcpstratioa to tcEo placo next Thursday
Right, iolorDed me this morning that every
necessary arrangement for that sp iir Wtll!d be
lnaGo in due tim, AID that the indications vcra
it would equal if not excel abv display Of the
kind previously made hcru. In addition to the
numerous other oiubs aud assccistiocs already
mentioned Is going &c take part ia the proc.s-
sion, scrcrsl Ct which ara .:oin Baltimoro, ten
other cubs Of that CITY were ioyitHd 10 day, at
least hat OF which, it is expected. will accept.
Capt. q. ID. Wise. tho Gemtctaic Candidate
for ConGrsss from The Richmond district, was
in the city to dty. on his way homo from Now
York. lie has 20 doubt about his election, and
estimates his meioriiy at . 500. lie is a'so
sanguioo OF the success Of the electoral ticket,
proposa t6 tie Mshooe committee, il there be
such body. to leave the question now dividing
tho demo c;acy OF the Slate 10 tho arbitrament
of the rational democratic committee. The
CapLao thinks that Tho republicans Ct bia dis.
t:ist will nomioato Mr.. Walker. OF Chesterfield,
as hia Eecand opponent, tho NlshoDite candidate
AZ is wei: kuoaG, beng his first c,usin, Can't.
John Wise.
GkTTlfG Cur TnE CHE!.IsK.-The New York
Herald says that when tho bslls and whistles
around Clifton, Staten Island, announced in
noisy chorus the hour Of noon on Saturday, The
hugo steamer Dessoug rose slowly out of the
WaLers Of The bay and was dawn up on the ma.
rino rsiwsy, having within her hold tho famous
monolitb. When tho steamship was drawn up
and properly brcscd, scora of men went to
work TO rid her CT hsrnacles gid sea weed. This
morning tho riVets will be knocked off and the
plates taken out on the stsrbosrd bow end large
hole made 10 admit the egress CT the big needle
1t will take week at least TO accomplish this
mart OF the work. Then the hugo scoW will be
nosted under the platform on which tho mono.
nth rests, and about tho 22d Ct Septemb Der eve
rythlnR will be in readiness TO float the present
of the khedivs from Staten Island to the ~.
Tho September number Ct tho Southern His.
to1icsl Papers has been received fioIc the pub
fishers, III Richmond. In lis table of contents
are found General Hsrdee and the Military OPP.
erstions Around At,snts. including Letter
from ex Pres ident Davis; Lookout Mountsiu,
Lanes North Carolina Brigade. Recolections OF
GeDersi Besuregsrd's Service in W5ss Tonnes.
SEQ in the Spring Of 1862, "Reminiscences of The
Pcwhatsn i:oop Of Cavalry in 1851, and Guttys-
burg.
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Hon. 1hurlow Weed is seriously ILL., He has
no defined disease, In: his ner=ous system is
enervated, his breathing is alarmingly irregular
ard he receives no strength from food.
Rev. u. 5. Dogeott, ID. Bishop of the |
Methodist ChuIoh. lies critically i'll at bis resi-
dense in RiohDc1d