Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-07
FROM WASHINGTON

.~l~ciai correspondence OF the Alexsuhr. Gazette
W ASiiNGroS. ID. G., November :, 1857
En>incrr Melville. was again before the
lcannrltc Board of Inquiry to-day and will
probably continue to be during Tie remain
der Of the week. His testimony to-day WAS
(" the effect that belong always consulted
The other officers Of the ship about his man.
a:,rncnt oi the expedition, ana that during
his whole experience he had never been
with Il more agreeable and united body of
inrn than those OF the Jeanette
the Ways and Means Committee of tre
|. :. House Of Representatives will meet in
this city next week. with the intention of
having four Of the regular appropriation
bills ready 10 report by the meeting OF Com
giess. II is also said that hey will attcnr,
10 report Il bill providing Tor some rcduc-
tion in the surplus revenue Of the country.
1t is understood that Major Iians. cn::i-
Ecrr in charge Of The reclamation Of the
Potomac flats, has decided that Adams, the
lowest bidder for the dredging portion of
That work, cannot comply with the terms of
the contract. and consequently will not
award it TO him. Whether he will give the
contract to the next lowest bidder or adj
Fertlse for new bids is not yet known.
The y. ). Supreme Court yesterday in the
case of G. NJ. Baylcy, individually and as
executor OF K. II. Bayley, deceased plain
TIL IN error VS.. Washington and Lee Uni
verslty, III error to the Supreme Court of
Louisiana, affirmed the decision of the Int.
ter court, holding the executor individually
responsible for thesum of SlS,02l, which had
been devised 10 the Washington and Lee
University, and which sum he had loaned
to the firm of bayley and Pond of which he
was member, and which had failed, and
been discharged by proceedings in bank
ruptcy. This discharge having been set
up against the claim, the court held it q
debt due in II iiduciary capacity, and there
fore not barred by a discharge in bank
ruptcy.
Postmaster General Howe will recon-.
mend the adoption OF postal tcleeruphy in
his annual report, but it is not stlnnosej
that Congress will adopt it, at least at the
next session.
The Avenue, Capitol, hotels departments and
all other public, and indeed most of the privotc
places mere are deserted today. nearly all the So
lourners having gone TO vote in the States from,
which they hail. Hardly negro can be seen ayv
where. all OF them having been sent to Viroini.
aud>Siaryland to vote the Malone ticket in thr
formeE and the republican in the latter The
chief interest manifested by the white peopl, who
remain heEe is the election now in progress in
Virginia. and republicans as well as democrots
pray that Mah6ne may be defeated.
The people abGIt republican headquarters NJ.
tempt to explain tbs removal of Mrs. Gen. Pickett
by saying that she >Ssas inefficient But if that
were why sit that tine neficiency was not dis.
covered for years and not >until General Malone
wanted her place for of his friends? 1t is also
said that Mason, the defeated\ republican candi-
date for Congress in the CharlesSown district of
West Virginia, will contest the seas9f Wilson, his
democratic opponent, who WAS elected by ten ma
jority, and who has been given the certificate of
lection.