Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. IS, 1856.
The o. S. Marshal of Arizona, now here.
says Gercnlmo was no more captured than
he was. That the Indian, being tired of
lighting, and growing old, and the winter
coming on, and wanting TO join the members
of bis tribe who had been sent of the reser-
walton in that Territory, proposed to the
military commander the terms upon (which
he would stop his raids, and that those terms
being accepted he consented to come in and
be sent TO Florida.
Gen. Wells, one Of the lessees of the AL.
exandria caral, says the terms of the agree.
ment between the lessees and the directors
of the Alexandria canal were sent to the
latter this morning, by whom they will be
signed, and that as soon as that is done q
meeting OF the stockholders of the canal will
be called and perfect title, to the piers of
the aqued':,., = given to the Government.
The GAzETTE's correspondent is assured
that one OF the Presidents cabinet, at least,
agrees with the GAZETTE in its opinion of
civil service reform as now practiced, that
he so informed 81 Southern democrat who
recently called upon him on party business,
and that to show his disrega I'd for the civil
service rules he gave that gentleman a
check for three hundred dolls.rs for the dem.
ocratic campaign fund in a Southern con-
gressional district. One OF the chief officials
in the Treasury Department told the GA.
zETTE's correspondent to day that with the
exception OF Dir. Thompson, the second as
slstant secretary of the Treasury, who thinks
his present position Is q promotion from the
gubernatorat chair of South Carolina, and
who Is real mrtgwump, and Mr.. Fairchild,
the hrst assistant, who doesn't like the an.
noyance incident to changes, all the demo.
Gratis about tne Treasury are opposed to
muSWumpary, and would act accordingly if
they could do so without endangering their
own tenure.
General Dabney Maury, of Virginia. was
to-day appointed by the President U. S.
minister to Bogota. This is the same place
for which the General was nominated pre-
vlous to the adjournment OF the last session
OF Congress, but which nomination was held
up in the Senate by Mr.. Sherman in conse.
quence OF the reception of Ell anonymous
letter to the effect that Genersl Maury had
spoken disresDectfully of the American flag
In the presence Of witnesses, though every
one of the witnesses named denied that he
bad ever done any thing of the kind.
DR.. Cunningham, of Missouri, we'll in.
formed democratic politician in his State,
says the delegation from there in the next
ing is more certain than the defeat of
Wade and Warner, the two republicans in
the present delegation.
Acting Secretary Fairchild has instructed
the Collector of Customs at New York to
extend ali proper courtesies to and to admit
without examination the baggage and effects
Of the French guests who are coming to par
ticipate in the ceremonies incident to the
unwilling Of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty.
Acting Secretary Fairchild has informed
the Postmaster General, in answer to an in
quiry on the subject, that packages Of for
eign postage stamps, whether cancelled or
uncancelled, received in the mails from
abroad and apparently intended for trade,
are du!iable under the tariff at the rate of
% per cent. ad valorem as printed Natter
A private letter received from Mr.. Bar.
bour says he was in Paris on the 5th instant,
will spend the next two weeks in Ireland,
and will sail from Queenstown for this coun-
try on the Servia, on the 3lst instant.
Mr.. Frank Hume, when asked to-day if
he knew anything about statement in a
recent issue of republican newspaper in
one of the counties Of his Congressional dis.
trict to the effect that he would be candi.
date in opposition to General Lee, replied
that the question was the first he had f"~-a
of the statement that it was without inc
slightest foundation, and was only on q. par
with the statements made when he was
candidate for the democratic nomination,
that he was Yankee and professional
gambler.
A Fairfax county, Va, democrat here
10 day says the report that the re.
publicAns in his Congressional district
will spring candidate before election day
is Incorrect, but that if they do many of tb
white republicans in mis- country. especially
those in the lower part of it, would not, vote
for him, es they intend to support General
Lee.
Col. Ordway, whose wife is an Alexandria
lady, was thrown from his carriage yester
day afternoon, and badly, Though it is said
not severely injured.
MIR. Higgins, appointment clerk of the
Treasury Department, SAYS there is a repub.
lican bureau chef in that department who
with other members of his family draw
over niue .aoussud dollars year of Gov
erInent money.
The acting Secretary of the Treasury has
telegraphed to the collector of customs at
San Francisco, as follows "By request of
the Secretary of State, you are directed to
extend all proper courtesies to Prince and
Princess Romatsa and suite and Prince and
Princess Akhito and suite, NIL of japan |
who are expected to reach your port on the |
18th ins5., and to pass their baggage and eff.
fects free of duty"
]. NJ. Langston, colored, the superintend.
ent o. the colored normal school at Peters
burg, is here to-day. He says Parks, the
democratic candidate for Congress in the
Norfolk district, will be elected, but that
Gaines, the republican candidate, will be
elected in the Petersburg district. He saws
that Malone was beaten in that district and
lould not have been nominated if he had
ried to be. Regarding the reports once
current about his being candidate in that