Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-08-26
From WASHINGI
Special Corresponding ii tie Alt.ra. Gussit,

WAsHINdToN. ID. o.. Aug. &c. 1881
While there is no excitement hero 10 coueo
qusno OF tho Presidents condition. every body
is arx.us about IT, AID nothing else is talk
about, and there a;c more people around tho
bulletin boards than for many day past. Moth.
ing but tho usual rouiao work is bsipg done 10
tho DAlar m ,ni5. IS tho respective heads
thereof ara either OF tho Whto House or so
co1o2rOtd abau, what is ia progress there that
they have neither limo Lor irc!ination for any
thing else. Both inside and outside the White
Il ouse this has been day Ct changes. When
Mrs. Edison lett tho White House early this
morning She thought it possible the President
might be dad before she returned. After that
his cOndil % Improved 50 much that hone re:
vlv.d and it was thought the roon day bue-
Ito would BE- favorable. Ag,ln, however, there
WAS auuthrr change and wncn lhat bulletin WAS
issued It. stated that tho pf3sld cnt5 fever Wss
higher tnan it had bean at the same hour for
several days past, aud iol lho fist time since
the publication Il tho bullctirs W4s @ mmetc-d
that ria case was critical" lis rus, bg il
Was ! Is. h temperature 100. AID bis rcspirs-
ton Is Ire pus formed 10 tho light pirotid
gaud EurIowed 40 opening iato tho cavity Of
the Ger au: discharged freely through that or.
it1o. also iourd C WY Of exit through the
bcsi1n m,dJ by tho surgeons day before yes
terdnY lie discharge by both thoso open
ngs was REQ and oopOu', and If the President
had not been 81 much reduced and bis powers
OF regeneration 80 cskenGd, The relief il would
have afforded him woud havo bsou iastsnIa
noou5 and paTm .Daht. AID the hopo OF improve.
ment it engeGdered vas natur,l aod legitimate.
Hhsff hefh ny, oh nall hEx, Il Il
it has been by the mdds2 bolIciin, oay epds
to coutirm tho prevailing lodi ryaiioo ina! The
President will soAn have run hil rsc, Tho
discharge Of the rus irCm the i.hamod cl,rd
OUGHT eariaiolY to have nbnud, II DOT
entirely removed moat Of tho unfavoTa olo synp-
toms thst have prG.0nttd Themselves within tho
last few days. aud Mat il has not done so 10
degree sutiicieIt TO continue the hope it nr1t on
gendered has sn onnOus look to thcso who have
10 rely upon the bulletins for the ir Information
concerning the Presid .nts condition. Doctor
Bsrnee. Surgeon General, said At neon to- day
precisely what The tutletln lssu cd econ after ward
said, that the condition OF the President was OK.
iromeIy critical. Mrs Garfield still retAins her
hope, and says her husband will not die. RuY.
Mr. POWera, the PASTOR Of the Presidents church,
who WAS allowed to sen Elm this morning says
no talked not only rHlionally but hopefully.
What tha Presidents physicians really believe
about his condition is only known TO themselves
hNu LHcII lullll iLc WuAL lucy Say 10 Inc
public is known by means Of the bulletins they
sisue; eIreriaucej surgeons who have no othot
mcsns # acquiring information concerning his
condition save what they obtain from those pul.
letins. look upon his death rs only q Iuestion o.
time, and very ,hort time st that We're it
not for the noon bulletin Today. and If they
had only heard tina! the swoolon gland had
broken intcrnsiv snd WAS discharging it's con-
tents, no matter by what opening, they would
presngo an Immediate Improvement. and an
abatement in all The unfsvorable symptoms Lha,
have recently manifested Themselves for ali
those symphonic could ba attributed TO tho 10.
Il animation of the psrotid gland that hss sub
sided by the dischsIge Of the pus that gland con-
tanned.
Dispatches received q. the otTco Of tho Naval
Board Of Health to-day. report great increase
of yellow fever st Havana. and ihx. v6lsel3 have
just cleared at that port for Now Orleans, No.
bile. Pensacola and New York. Tho qu.rkutine
officers At the ports llenliouod have been inform
cd Of this.
IL is generally believed hero that Capt. How
gate, has left tho country, and taken with him
enough monty to koop him out of !ha pours
house for several years.
1hN wstor in the q. e o. Canal romans OK.
ceedIrgy low But few bots are arriving at
GEORGETOWN and ihay only half loaded. The
grou AIDED bohts in tho Alo1. ndria canal have
been COTTON of, hut no moro arc Attempting tho
pasasg".