Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-09-07
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence Of the Aleua. Gazette

Spocldi correspondence Of the Ale1d. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. d. G.. Sept. +. 1881.
PnVato kilograms received at the White
House from L,ng Branch, Up to noon to day,
from MIR. Brown. the Presidents private sco>
Rotary, report the Pres;d ,nL's condition IS
much improved. and as indicating steady and
uninterrupted improvement from this time un.
til his entire recovery is completed. This. Of
course. IL extremely gratifying to most people
here. but there are some to whom this intelli-
gence is by no means agreeable. because it
dampens the hopes they entertained of possible
selfish benefits case Of change Of admins
tratloo. Now that the President is gone gossip
about what went on at the White House dur
| IL + his Illness there is becoming sensational. 1t
is said that tnoe his first relapse Surgeons
Hamilton and AgneW. and not Bliss, Rasburn.
Barnes and Woodward, have been 10 charge OF
| tho case, and that. by special order ef Mrs.
Galhsd, the trealm snt OF the Presidents gss.
| trio disturbance has been PRACTICAL that of DIR.
| Baxter: that Baxter ibfnenoe ia 90 great With
the President that all the Washington Surgeons
except Bliss. will be dismissed 10 few days and
| would have b,cn when the Pfesilent left for
Long Branch but for their urgent Appeals to BIO
| allowed to accompany him there as their dis.
miassl here they said would be looked upon
! IS implying want of confidence in their skill and
| thereby itjure their professional regulations
1t Is also said that there is trouble between the
Caticet and tho kitchen Cabinet, AID that as
The latter bad control CT the train that took the
President to Long Branch, aud did not send
passes to The former, Ind as 10 Cns was admit
ted 90 that train except those who had such
passes, the former felt that they had been
| sighted aud would not ask for passes and con-
stq lently had TO 60 to the Branch On tho regu=
| lar train. The truth OF both these statements is
| avouchcd by reliable people, and it is said that
should the President rtcavcr Baxter will get
| Barnes's place as Surgeon General Of he Army
Blaine, as 10 we'll known bad row before re
left here with Rockwell and Swain en- account
OF his dispatches and his evident leaning to The
| slalwsrt aolcn of his parry when no thought
! The President WAS bouad to did, The White
llouso presents lonely end deserted appoar.
| arce to dsy. All tho soldiers aud Policemen
| have gen., arrange menls sre in progress for
| cleaning ADD rCpa ring the plec,, snd photo.
grspher was engaged 10 tskirg pictures of The
House, It's sure uodng', tie room 10 which the
President lsy. and The way by which he sss
| tskcD tot 90 tho - OF July ard taken from it
Y,
Ia laSs active aud lusllirs than it was betore
| .hs President lsir. aod fewer pccp,o are seen on
| the streets End at tho hotels. 1t was known
that an immense number of newspaper men
wtro 10 town, but it was rot dreamed that their
| abst n,e-far nearly all of them have gone to
Long Bralci-oouId produce the change that
Is visible here, and yet there is no other way 10
| aocount for it.
The free bridge" busiocss ia as it was prior
70 the shooting of the President and probably
nothing will be done with it now until after ad-
dltlonal Congressional aoiion. Tho Secretary
| OF War has lnspf c:ed lhh books of the AlcXan
drla canal Company aud b. emo s.,isf. d that
hat company has control of tho piers of Tho
| canal tqutduot at Goorgetowu; that tho stock
| claimed 0y tho lessees TO boong to the govern
meot belongs to tho clnAl company and is re-
| corded in it's name. and that even should the
government get pf lsssion Of that stock it
would not hold a m j>rity of Tho STOCK Of the
c)mpauy. Should the govern ment doodle 10
erect new bridge it is thought the SIZES will
abandon The canal. Which VII then revert TO
the canal company.
The paragraph 10 THIS G FRI spondence dsy
| or two sgn about the propose sale ty the +.
Il y. Il. IL OF oil is interests south of Bllti.
more and MIR. Walkers disposition of his large
interest in that otmpany is su5stnnIi,ttd By
we'll Informed railroad men, who that all its
9attm !nls will DO established by III, develop
ments Of the early future.
The grand boat racing will cimmenco al II
o 'occk to morrow. Reprosonts,iv, y from near
Iy oil the boat clubs in til, oouatry and Canada
are present. ard if tho day he not too hot fac
sport is expected. Many Of tho rJwcta oom
plain CT tho heat and many defeats will TO
attributed to the uninviiing tfT.oIs of the
weather.
Professor Vennor, Who cana hero to bnok
ono Of the Canada bolt tlnbs, says no must 60
away. 81 he can aud neither tho heat cor The
mosquitoes. lilo asa snys cooler weather may
BIO expeott duiing tho next day or two.
The Rockville agricultural fair will CONNIE o.
to morrow.