Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-09-24
From JTASI{JNE7ON
SnccinI Correspondence Of the Aleru. Gait
WhSIlIEQTON y. g. Srn 81 1881

| WASHINGTON. D. g., Sep, 81, 1881.
Bartiig The black cambria that drspes all the
buiidtgs here and The flags lgiog at half mast
the clly has s,cc.Gy resumed its vented early
tall sIreafsDce. ard Tho truth OF the historic
cry tie hIna Is dead. .lcng live The King" i:
aSaia made wildly apparent.
Ihc President did not accompany Inc boiy OF
his predecessor to Cleveland. but remains nj the
residence OF his ilend Senator Jones lilo sat
W late last night aud suffered from something
Ike tunb chill, 20 That Though hs. USUALLY
Uses and Breakfasts carly he did not riso mil
nearly cItvtn o clock This mornioc and did nnt
breakfast upul noon. lie will make Tho Whito
House his office. but will not live there at least
for the present, ncr until lhe trcs!s have killed
tho malaria. lilo will cUmueDce trsnssct;or
Ills Official business 90 Tuesday NEXT. Ha has
| s0mo personal matters In attend 10 in Nav
OK. but will Dot 60 thero for several days, 1t
Seems thst The reason he did not sc,olnpnnv thu
remains OF Inc la!o President to their last rest :
| nG place WAS the expressed fear of soma Of IN,
Cabinet that he nigh; meet his Guitosu on the
way th'fe or bhck. Ito mi Dso apXey for his
personal Hatety on tho part Of the men who
We're 5, Is'elY lila open and aVowcd opponents,
10
| Inc OCCASION at nush commcnt, tho nost oI
which Is partially sarcasm aud ,iI;cnlo
With regard 10 lin i'tt sdaaL's couTse win rrt
cronee 10 Ill, tnhlnat tho providing impres.ion
secisi4 TO lin that no will rlt.in the nrrsent
members t"r soma tI!ne. Mt least. hut that some
II not all OF them vail eventual Y have 70 reru.
date hall treedlsn or else 90 into n;sf rsble RI
tiremenf. lhe stnI~aris arc rapidly coming IN
tho front. H'n raj Giant TaI mi,h the PR 81
dent Until i clock last night, Utter which in
response 70 an rfqniIy ab0ut tho PresidInt's
probable rtiI,y said, significantly, Arthur is
President. t0lnncI Grant ii also here. Ie
srrved here $. tight, and is also slopnipr
with Stna!oi 'nacS. It's runticd That tho fall
~ gram at chicago yesterday wa on effort of
tho halt breeds ct tba! city to produce the i'm
ntesaltn that panic was imminent so Rs TO
have deterrent ttt,C! upon any CONTEMPLATED
change IN The CaLintns and was engineered hv
tho friends q ), cre!sry Lincoln,
Senator Johnston has returned from, "a v;s;t
10 orktnwn. Ito ls OF the impression chat the
centennial will be eroat success, and saws thnt
all the aIrahsrmGuts and Preparations will be
completed IN time, and that lo thinks annie
accommodating will b. afforded all who attend.
ono bnr'dlng alone now in process of erection
being 2Il by 60 tcot. lie says the u, 8, troons
already on the spot arc cleaning ~ tic ground
SO that the sIto upon which tho ceremonies will
DO conducted even nav presents tho nnpoarsnoe
of we'll kept lawn. With retererc, to the no
lltlca campaign now in progress in Virginia, he
speaks 10 the most confident terms, and slvs
that should Judge Bond graft Gen. Mahopy's
claim for 1925 600 for salary az President of
the A. NJ. Il o. Il. II. duriog tho timo that
road was in the hands of receiver. ho coud
not use that sum 10 his Campaign as an sppeaI
would DO taken at once TO tho Supreme Court,
and that he ls certain that that court Would
never grant the claim. The Seuator il fearful
that MIR. Ill., of Georgia. will nevor Es ablo to
discharge the duties Of Senator again. but thinks
1t probable he may DO here so IS to vote at tho
extra session.
Tho late difficulty between tho Wises abd tho
heWlSes. OF Virginia. has all been amicably and
satisfactorily scttlcd Mr.. George d. Wise has
t9Id Shelley he"Ia, SOD OF ex Senator LOWS.
that no had never !mruRntd tho personal char.
ncter OF his fsthcr, and Mr.. j John Amber
Smith. son 10 law of OK Senator Lewis, has
told Mr. George ID. Wise that what be said
about him hcrn was said while excited bv tho
belief that il. Il Lewis had been shot, The
whole correspondence will be published in a
day or two
The prominent Virginians at The funeral Of
tho Iato President yesterday we-e Senators
Johnston and Malone. Representatives Tuck
er, Wise and D.zandorf, Governor HOLIDAY.
ex Senator Withcrs and Gen. Joe Johnston
Senator Malone entered the rotuuda leaning on
tho erm Of his frietd. Senator Blair, of New
Ham pshrc, who, II will be remt m5ered, wrote
sitter 10 support of Mahoneism. Owing to
the strlngcucy of tho orders respecting admis-
sion to the Capitol yesterday, Gen. Joe John.
ston Was not allowed to pass when ho presented
himself at tho door. The old gentleman wsxed
exceedingly wroih thereat. but, being recop-
tied ~ q member of the Capitol police, was
escorted to tho room of Sergeant at Arms
Bright. ~ whom he was given an admission
ticket.
Fix Senator Nlthcts. who Was here yestsr.
day, said no had carefully examined tho notori
Gus blair letters, and that ho has no moro
doubt about Blair beiog thoir author than he
has OF his own name. Hc says their authenIi-
city is proved, not only by their cagrsphy, but
ty their sequences 10 long correspondence.
Senator Malone left for Richmond to dsy.
10 talk last night, he said he knew no mora
about what the Senate would do when il mat
than anybody else; that he did not suppose the
s'sA2n would last many days, but that if i. did
no Gull not remain long in attendance unon
Ii, as he would be Compelled to 20 to Il edmond
and attend 10 his campaign 10 Virginia, the re
suit OF which Was OF vastly more constuuepoo
to bin than tho organization of tho Senate,
Tho Senator places his majority next fall at
so O00. the same figures at which he put it last
Nevambar, when ho onIY rtc,ived that number
OF votes all told.
The Developments in tho case Of the post NOR.
tom examination OF the late President is the
subject OF no little talk hero to-day Il is gen.
orally conceded that tho surgeons in charee of
the case made orc Of tho grestsst ''misEes" on
record. 1t 10 understood that they will publish
an explanation" in day or two
1t rumored here that there will be 1T an Ct
tempt 10 get up another peraonsl difficulty in
Virginia, and that this time it will be in conse.
9uence ola demand made upon Major Daniel
by Captain Blsir for retrsclion Of the assertion
that tho "Bsir letters wore written by Blair.
which demand it is csrtsin the Mayor will |
scornfully reject.
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