Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-03-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the ALEXANDRA Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., March Is, 1854.

WASHINGTON, -. u, Marcn 10, 1864.
Fred Douglass has been interviewed re-
Gently on the subject of the preference of
his race for the republican candidate for The
next Presidency. He says that Logan is
his favorite, as he has stamina enough to
enforce the national laws in all parts of the
country, ard see that in the South as in the
North there shall be free vote and a fair
count.
The House to- day took up the Postofice
Appropriation bill at an early hour. On this
bill the services of Mr. Randall have been
sadly needed He has been absent, and the
republicans, though in the minority, have
been enabled not only to prevent several
proposed savings in the bill, but actually
to increase the old expenditures.
Speaker Carlisle left to-day for New York
to attend the banquet of q free trade CLUB,
at which he will make a speech. The New
York World advises him to be careful OF
what he says and favor free trade as little as
possible, but fortunately neither the Speaker,
nor many other democrats deem the advice
of the World nor Of several other would be
democratic organs worth following.
VIM. A. Cook was examined to-day by
Mr.. Sprincer's committee in reference to
the Ottmann Casa case in which w. II.
Ottman was charged with being connected
with q clerk named Halleck in stealing
about S4S 900 from the United States Treas
ury in the summer Of 1915. The witness
testified that moneys amounting to nearly
the entire sum having been deposited in va.
rous places by Ottmann were found
and were believed to have been the sums
stolen, but the money could not be identi-
fed. Two criminal proceedings were in
stituted against O;tmann, Mr.. Cook being
his counsel, but the juries failed to agree.
A civil suit was also instituted. The case
was afterwards compromised, MIR. Richard
Crowley representing Ottmann, and Messrs.
Bliss and Brewster, the Government The
witness said the settlement was the COM
pounding Of felony for which Brewster
was impea enable, and he quoted the law to
sustain his assertion. The cashier of the
bank in Alexandria and the lawyer there
| who was employed in the case will be sum-
moned 10 appear before the committee next
week
1t seems to be the impression among those
interested in the matter that the bill report
ed favorably in the Senate yesterday for
paving Southern mail contractors, among
them many Virginiaus, for service done up
| to the time OF the civil war, will pass. The
bill excludes all claims for service pay for
which was received from the Confederate
government.
The Senate Committee Oh Rules meet this
morning and agreed to allow the United
Press Association the same facilities for re.
porting the proceedings of the Senate as are
granted to the New York Associated Press.
Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, received
despatch from Bear county, in that state,
this morning, saying that there are over
one hundred cases Of the foot and mouth
disease among the cattle there and asking
for Congressional aid in suppresspg the
disease Mr.. Hatch says there seems to be
no doubt that the disease was imported
| with some Scotch cattle that have been sent
to Kansas.
People TO whom the Secretlry of the
Navy talks familiarity on political matters,
say Mr. Chandler, who speaks for his party,
says, in effect that the republicans have
plac. c.ly abandoned all hope of le ewing
any ele .tGral VI tes IN the South next No
vemb r, hut hope, by means of the Danvile
and Copiah county affairs, aud such other
Southern outiases" as they can manu-
| facture in the mean time, to wave the bloody
shirt with such effect rs to make p solid
North, or get enough Northern votes 10
warrant IN attempt to throw out Southern
vo,es upon ay, The r,; .-uii, e. ,u,imiuauon.
olsnSi republicans repeat the story that
! the administration has fully determined
aud completed its plans for throwing troops
into Virginia at the next Presidential cleo
ton in order that free vote and fair
count may be had there.
The House Pustoifice Committee will re-
port adversely on the bill excluding news.
papers containing lottery advertisements
| from the mails; also against postal savings
| banks.
The bill for free bridge across the Poto.
mac at the Three Sisters" is still in abey-
ance The amount it appropriates is not
sufficient for u bridge there, but is for one
at the auueduct, which is the proper site,
and which can be obtained if provision be
made for the perpeluity of the aqueduct.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the
| House is still contendng with the Lasker
resolutions 1t is said to-day that there
| will probably be two reports, and that the
| majority one will be decidedly of the touch
me not" Sort and that it will let the world
| see that the House Representatives thinks
a great deal more of Mr.. Thomas Porterhouse
| Ochitree than it does Of Prince Bismarck,
even if he did prevent foreign governments
from recognizing the Southern Confederacy.
Navigation on the G. & o. Canal will be
resumed probably about the lst proximo,
and on the Alexandria Canal about two
weeks later A good business on these
canals is expected this season, as large con-
tracts for Cumberland coal have been made.
The House Judiciary Committee at their meet
ing this morning considered the proposed 10th
amendment to the Constitution, giving women the
privilege of su frage, and also whether or not the
papers filed by the women should be printed at
the Governments expense.
The House yesterday refused to grant Miss
Mekleham. solo surviving granddaughter Of
Thomas Jefferson, pension, for the reason that
THE MAHDI PUZZLED BY NUN.-A
rather amusing anecdote is related in con-