Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-02-23
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Special Correspondence Of the Ale:ca. Gdz5tte
WASnINuT0N, d. c., Feb. %. 1850.


Special Correspondence Of the Aleca. Gdzatte
WAsnIHuToN, D. c., Feb. %. 1880.
Tfg Senate had but g short session 10 day,
and adjourned Hithout lrausaciiag any other
buslcess than the adoption Of az anne ndmeOt to
the bill to allow articles contributed to the re-
lief Of c:l1ro1 cnigrahis to be- admitted into
the pcris Ct IN, counlIy free Of duty. The
moLIon to al 1nTu in respect to the day Was
mace by Mr.. Bayatd Congress would have
adjourned over last Friday until to morrow had
| IL not been thRt Mr.. Llucoin's birthday is more
thought Of now than General Washington's.
The fist business 10 order 10 the House to.
day vas The cIGtlduation of tho call of States.
| After that is concluded is the time set for eu-
loeies upon the late member, Mr.. Lay. of Mis-.
sGutl. IA effort will be made, however, to get
up deficiency bill tor the star mail service,
aud Postmaster General Key ard First and
Second AssIs ants Tyner and Brady arc 90 the
floor TO assis! lis passage.
| Tho Senate COMMITTEE ca the District Of
| Columbia met to day, but did nothiog with tho
bill for free bridge loss the Potomac, nor sill
they do anylhlog with that till uniil somu ar
raugcmcnt shall have been made between tic
lessacs OF the Alexandria canal and tho AlcXaD'
drIa Canal Company, by which tho permapency
OF tic Georgetown squeduct shall BIO secured.
When say nothing mean nothing except 10
report favorably upon the House bill without
amendment. which will BIO douo II there bu any
unnecessary delay in making tho arrangement
10 which refer.
The only bills introduced in Tho House 10 day
from VlrGlnla under the ca If States were oIe
by MIR. Cabcll for the relief Of Alexander
| White, WHO was dismissed from the United
Statea cavalry service fer doscriop, and ono
By MIR. Goodo for tho relief of Mrs. Virginia
A. Wyatt, OF Charles City county, Va.
The House Distlic! Committco met this
morning atd considered the Distt;c; code.
Among the amendments they agreed to adopt
was ono providing that hereafter owners Of
property sold for delinquent taxes and
who htvI heretofore nado no tou6er Of
payment thereof, shall rot BIO allowed to reclaim
their property by offering to pay tho taxes that
Wero due on it.
Congressman BitcSburn went TO L,esburs
last Saturday and spent that day and Sunday
With his friend, Capt. Foster, of that town.
tie was entertained OF supper 90 Saturday
evening By Mr.. Ii D. Cleggctt, clerk O! the
House Committee on tho District OF Columbia.
lnte!llratc c, reached here this morlOg of the
death in NV Hampshire yesterday of John
| lSl VI TIC
Treasury. When he was removed By Mr.
buchanan, who appointed MIR. Cults in his
place. ho went TO the White House aud told
The PR s!dent that he did not object TO being
turned out, but he seriously objected to having
his plsc, filled by the most ircomp,tent clerk
IN tho department.. lie vas 70 arpJintcd BY
MIR. Lnc,ln. His remains will rec Oh hero TO-
morrow aRd be Inferred 10 tho Congressional
Cemetery.
Tho Democratic National Committee met al
Wizards Hall here, to day. to appoint q time
and place for holding tho Democratic Nstiona
Convention. Mr.. John T. Lowell, chairman Of
tho executive committee tf tho Conservative
party ID his State, represented Virginia in the
place of Mr.. Ccehill. The committee sis will
closed doors. 1t is generally believed thr
inciruati will TO selected and that The time
ill DO between The 18Th and the cud Of June.
Mr.. Her, tho proprietor Of tho large louine
mill recently destroyed by fire 10 Georgetown,
has determined to rebuild, and with that III.
tcnloo Ea7 gouo to Minneapolis aud ether
places IN tho West, where milling hss been re-
ouced 70 az exact art. 10 Inspect no mschncry
there with view 70 introdU chg il iUto his ueW
nil. FcrmcI y the West used to GIN, Eas
Tor the latest improvements 10 everything, but
tic tide has turGcd.
| huutR lic inCS. SitlGolF3 NiSltHla al the
Capitol this morning were tho pupils CT Mr.
Pcnick's female rcidcIry ia AlcxaGdia, who
were there under the charge Of their rripcipal
Among the appointments confirmed hy The
Senate last week Vas that OF f. T.. White
formerly Ct A!cxardrn, Es coHtu TO pOlc
Porto Rico.
MIR. J. I. La7;l, who represents Virginia or
the Democratic Nsional COMMITTEES, was to-
day, on mo;ion Of Mr. Richmond, allowed III,
privileges Of the floor Of the House duEog his
siby in Washington
Some Of Tho buildings Oh Pcntsylvsuju
Avenue were decorated to day. the Washington
Litht lutan.ry pafadcd. aud saluros Scre fired
Gu the Capitol grounds at snrriAc a0d neon,
aod vii be gt sunset
Great excitement was Gated q; The Imaeris
Hotel here yasctday by Tho violent vagsries oil
the c1ntotsionist u n tr0upe DOW exhibiting here
who, however, Vas liuslly erred. tut rct un.
III several p-onlu had b"c1 brushed ard uutil
he himself had picca Of his check bitten cH
by dog, which stackHd hiaI whrU he rad
fallen on the floor.
Mr. Shade, editor Of the Washington Sentinel,
| and ono OF ErS. Surratts counsel, has accented
| sn Invitation to hooress tho liquor men Of Rich
moDd. His address will show that the popuIa-
lion OF many of the counties in Virginia is less
now than 1t wss ia tho beginning of the century,
and vii! attribute the cause thereof partially ST
least 10 the existence Of laws similar in char
sctar to the Sunday liquor Law.
All the departments were closed o.daY.
FgREEaIT VIEWS.
Lord Salisbury is still i'll.