Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-09-15
From WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence Of the A2cc4. Gazette
NLhc111Nnr0N D q Gan Il 1901


ILo bulletins issued from Elberon this Morn
ing report the Presidents condition as slightly
improved, and that be ordered b,eisteak for
his breakfast. but private kilograms from the
same place say that there is no dub: of his
suffering from chronic p! nmia, and ono says he
will probably ljDger foc two weeks longer ord
then dic
A private letter received here this morning
from ono OF tho managers of tho political cam
pa'gn now 10 progress 10 mississippi says tho
lowest estimate oil tho demo cratic ma j0riy there
10 80, 900, and that there Is no doubt OF Lamar &
Reelection to Tho Senate
The result of thu consultation between tho
Commissioner Of Internal Rcgonuo aud The tri-
vato banks will, It il Understood, be that tho
Commissioner will exempt Cell loaos from taxa.
ton, but cXsc. the lax upon all other deposits
the same as upon tho deposits 10 tho national
banks. and that tho bankers who have been de-
iEuuoDt will b allowed 10 compromisc tho
Trcasuly's claims against them.
Tho Washington Stcanbost Company is DO
ug what ii Gan With The boats at its dir y jssl to
accommodate the travelling public. GA three
days OF the week, Thursdays, Fridays and Sat-
urda}s, it will Put tao steamer Mystic on the
Terry between this city and Alexandria, 50 that
Oh those dsy3, at least. boats viii leave both
etds Of he limo On tho half hours, as they ii |
b.lorc tbs s!eamcr titV OF Washington vans
taken eli Tor repairs. On tho other four days
OF tho week tho Mystic will iun on tho iyer
route. The r;rafs 20 tho City Of Washington
will. ii Is expected, DO completed 10 ten days CT
two WockS, when kha will resume her pIsc} on
tho teIy line. At tho next meeting oil Che suck
oidera Ut tho company lis president will nc
Cmmend tho purchase Of another boat IL lun Oh
tho river with tho AEfoRsmith. aud that tho
Mystic be tut permanently Oil tho ferry, TIC that,
with three boats, one oan leave both cnda Of tho
limo. not Oh The half hours. but every hplt hour.
General Rsum, Commissioner Of iatefnal
EcvCnue. ia with Secretary Window pcflnis-
sion snrplemcn'lng Postmaster Goucra Jsmes
work by appointing hlahnnica TO all tho offices
at his disposal IN Virginia. George j. lick.
man WAS appointed rsu2cr III tho 5 h lisuiot
to day. Such appointments. however, il il
untols 0uj. 10 m>s0 harm than coed to tho
NlahoLliG cause, lGasnuch AZ tho itilaorca oil
tho republicans removed ia Invariably more
potent with ITO yOitri thnn that Of tho Ma.
honltca :gno ar' arDont' Il i'll their places, and
tho parties rGmovod nro dCvoiing their whole
llIiic Uul phCTPy III tuC hRlurai u DOt com
mnndal'la desire nf 'gctting even.
Mr.. lorrcnscn, tho REPUBLICAN mGn,btr OF
Congress IRON the Petersburg distrc., wa.
hero aenin Yesterday, i!a told friend tha,
q liberal estimate Of tho REPUBLICAN voto the
Mahonltcs would receive in Virginia next is
fifty thousand, and that OF tho +; mainder of the
party tho tnost would refrain from voting,
while some Wnnd vGta Tho democratic ticket.
hn ltn . a.
election OF a democratic u. s. Senator. ueitbe,
MIR. JorGcnsen nor MIR. u. zandorf, the ropub.
loan GongTtssnen from tho Norfolk disrlc.,
has any doubt.
Scnatart Jones and Vnst and Sergeant nj
Arms Bright lets hero this morning TO attend
tho funeral OF tho late Senator burnside. Sen
atoIS Johnston aud Garland wero in tho eily
but wcrH too much engaged to 60.
The iorktuwn Comml,sion WAS again 10 ees-
sion to ds7. They did nothing yesterday blu,
talk, but Senator y Johnston, it's president, said
this mornIDG that something 10 tho way of clos
lnG up the arrangements would be DOM to doy.
tic will meet General Hancock ut Yorktown
next Thursday on tu-;ness connected with the
centennial. The Senator expected to mako 8
speech at Fairfax Courthouse, next Monday but
his time il SO occupied now With tho Yorktown
Centennial that no will DO unable to do 40.
A dispatch tcc7ivcd hero from Cumberland
to day says there are about one hundred and
fifty loaded coal boats at the tunnel" none
below that point, and that tho six milo level
is being flushed TO allow them to pass.
Tho reports to tho Agricultural Department,
to Septomber Isl chow heavy decline in tho
condition Of tho cotton crop, owing to the late
drought. Tho average condition OF tho corn
crop WAS GO.3l per cent lower than yosr ago.
In tobacco there has been sorious d0clino in
the prospect Of crop, being - per cent less
than month ago.
George II. Rhodes, At Roanoke Roanoke co..,
Va, and Joseph SLsrritt. 1T Saltvile Washing.
ton county, Va, have to-day Dton commissioned
as pOstnastorf.
A gentleman recently returned from the
Warm Springs says he met Mr. Connolly Trigg
there, and that Mr.. TriVg told him tho reason
he declined the nomination for the State Senate
from his district WAS that no was really sick
MIR. Trigg also told him that the democrat wore
making daily gains in all the southwest, and
won ID carry that section Of tho State beyond 9
doubt.