Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-10-04
FROM WASHINGTON,
Sp'cM Correspondence Of the Aleca. Gazette.

WAsHINGToN D. G., Oot.. 4. 1881.
Among the Witnesses examined yesterday by
the lraud jay 10 the Guiteau case, WAS DR..
Lamb, Who conducted the autopsy of the late
President. aud Mr.. +. l. DuBarrty, who wit.
messed the shooting. The Indictment will be re-
turned to morrow. Mr.SooYille. Goiteau' coun.
sci is expected here tonight. Gen. B. h. Butler
has arrived in tho city and it is rumored would
| not refuse, if asked, TO asst 10 tho defense.
Guitesu YVES forty years old on the Sh ult.
lilo says no is tho author of a work 90 theology.
| q conversation with government agent yester
day ho talked fuenty on various subjects, but
did not allude tn tho crimo for which he il i'm
prlsOned. lilo is still debarred the uso of tho
mails and Is not allowed to have current road.
ing matter.
lntelIigero, from Ohio il to the effect that
smslI sote will be polIed 10 the election to take
place there next Tuesday and suoh q vote is
| favorable to the democrats. MIR. j. g. Thomp
! son who has lust arrived hero from Ohio SAYS
| he State IL Certain 10 90 for the democrats. 1t
went l9r the republicans last year by twenty
| seven thousand maj orty.
General Malone who is to delivar spnech
bttGrJ tho Union LsaQus Club 10 New York
tonight, Is expected here Tomorrow plight,
| accompanied by bis Iieutenanis. Messrs. Wise
AID Brady.
Mr.. A. Pope. who has been appointed Pas
| singer Agent OF tho Midland Railway is tho
| General Passenger Agent OF tho associated
railways Of Virgloia ADD Carolina. composed OF
thc htaotc Coast Lioe. the Piedmont Air
l. ne, tho Central Short Line. the Bay Lioe,
me Staboard Air Lloe and tho Yolk River
Line. MIR. Sol. llass. who hes bsep appointed
| Through Fright Agent of tho Midland Rsil.
Way, Is the General Freight Agent Of the same
| lines
"A letter from Carroll county, virginia. 70.
| caI:;d here to day says the democratic mt i)ri,y
10 hat county will be Increased to eight hun.
| dr"d 81 The c,mlug election.
ltii thouShG hero that General Mahooo's
| trip 10 New York to beg fuods from
| the radicals with which to carry on his cam
| raIgo 10 Virginia. looks bad for him snd that
| no must be reduced 10 sad straits when he has
TO address such an ultra radical orgapiz alton as
| the Uolon Lis&us Club.
Mf. John Ambler Smith. prominent 70
PUBLICAN, has conc 10 Vngipis to speak for
Malone.
Tno Treasury decision i1 the osso of private
| oaLk'r' wAs rendered to day. 1t decid; y 10
iaVor Of the ves taken By the commissioner oil
! internal rcveuu. the glst Of which ia that every
pcrs'r, firm or company haviug p'sc, OF bus
| lacsS where stocks. bonds. bullion, bills of *.
change or rf0mlnsory notes arc received for
| diseouot or itr aa",'s regarded in law as bank
or tr3kn and the capital and deposits of srch
! bark or hioktr arc sutitct to TAXATION.
Assistant Secretary of Sistc Hit, eud 81
hs,i.sut Walker Blaine will leave here to nipht
tor New York, whcro they will bo Joined by
Mr. Why'r,tne repre- s,ntsuse Ct tho Baltimore
CH",r' to mos: Tho Frerch guests Invited to
| tho ie.ktoHa Centennial upon their ar,iosI
| lha DIS lagulshrd visitors will be escorted first
TO Niagara, aud then 10 Baltimore. They are
! ex?ec Cd here about tho is h Instant. AS the
White House Is not 10 rtp,ir they will be for.
maiIy r.c!lved ty The PseslGcn. ct ,ho Capitol.
They will be scurtcd from The ArIipgton Hotel.
| their stopping plaza. to and from the capitol nv
| y military procession.
The President Is expected hero this evening
| or TO nlsht. Tho hotels arc already 6liop IN
| 10 cXp2c'aDcy OF his urlVsl. A large neroent-
| ige of tic ARRIVALS il from New York. The
sta'~aris ntc tu)gart, ths halt breeds ipyersey
de>poudcht Among tho arrivals arc several
del, gslous of s'ulgtrs from Baltimore. one
fsvorIug ard the other opposing he removal Of
COL Thomas Of llat port. Col. Joe Carer
heads tho loImCr.
Senator Johnston has gono 10 Baltimore on
business cJnotc cd with tho IGrklown Cunten.
nisl.
General Pierce Youog, Of Georgia, snys BIO
hos not Withdrawn from the contest for the
Seoretsryship Of tho Senate 10 reported 10 some
of the papers.
1t beiog generally o)ncOeded that BIaine's
toadSl' IS TO the President. which were COM
neLcsu 40 sohn as no btoamo convinced that
tho late President would die, which he did
| shortly alter tho shooting, will avail nothing,
and that his OF cessary resignation will be speed.
lily accepted, lii. friends are looking about to
preserve him from obsourity. The last rumor
co6carning him is that arrangements are in pro.
Rrcss ty Which MIR. Dingley, who was recently
elected 10 Congress in Malice, will rlsgu, and
allow the Secretary to tnke his plsoo, asd be
elected Speaker OF the next House.
MIR. Dudley. Com missioner of Pensions. the
IA .n who propofed TO turn all Southern men.
republicans or not. on! of office, ia being urged
by his trends Tor the position of Secretary OF the
Interior; and, strange to say. MIR. Gorham, the
editor Of General Mahone's organ in this civ i,
spoken Of by ono OF The ultra radicals for the
same place.
Tho telegraph operators on the Western Union
line to-day forwarded another petition to head.
quarters for increased compensation. No notice
WAS taken OF tho one they forwarded some lima
SGD. II Is sid that first class operators arc
scarce.
a COMMISSION as postmaster was o.day issued
to John Il. Museley at Bon Air Cheslerusld
county, Va
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Small PIX and AID mslaliAl f,var ara preysa
lent 10 Richmond.
Nov born babies arc piekrd mn in tha s,raaie