Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-22
ROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexs GAZETTE !
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov %, 1856.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. %, 1856.
All the Government departments and
Offices here are closed to-day in respect Of
the memory OF the late ex.President Ar
thur, and all the employees therein have
holiday. Ia Consequence the hotels and
Pennsylvania avenue present q more ami.
mated appearance than usual.
The closing of the White House grounds
during the hours the President and his wife
are walking therein is what was never
done before since the time the grounds re-
terred to were laid out.
Representative Cabell, of Virginia, is here
for the session, having been summoned by
Mr.. Randall, chairman of the Appropria-
tions Committee, of which he is member,
to attend the meetings of that committee,
now being held, in order 10 prepare the reg
ular appropriation bills, and have them
ready early in The coming session of Con.
gress. Mr.. Ca5ell, it is understood, attrib.
utes his defest to the unnecessary and posi-.
lively outrageous manner in which the 10.
ternal revenue laws in his district were exc.
cuted and to the democratic apathy induced
by the policy of the administration.
Intelligence here from Indiana is to the
effect that the republican clerk of the court
| of one of the counties there who had charge
of the returns of the late election in that
county, about which returns there is to be
a contest, has committed suicide Demo.
| Gratis from that State, now here, say there
will be more Of such suicides and some pen
| itentiary convictions.
! From Indiana it is learned to day that
though Senator Mcdonald, until recently,
privately condemned the Presidents policy,
and when interviewed npon that subject
said that was a question upon which he did
not like to talk, now that he has heard that
Mr.. English intends to be his rival for the
Senate as en- avowed ant.sdministration
man, says Mr.. Cleveland will be the next
democratic Presidential nominee and will
| be elected.
Among the arrivals last night was sena-
f! tor Van Wyck, Of Nebraska. If reelected
] Mr. Van Wyck will be one of the two Sen
ators upon whose votes the political COM
plcxion Of the next Senate depends. The
Senator is in the best of health and spirits
which is said by bis friends to indicate that
he is pretty sure of u reelection, though he
says that matter is still in doubt, and that
what has happerei was only "skirmish.'
| To day 5 most current rumor about the
result Of the recent investigation of the po
lice scandal in this city, is that Lit. Arnold
will be reprimanded and chief Walker ex
culpated. Such result would be even
more outrageous than the infamous oilense
that has just b.en investigated.
Mr.. Bisse!i, tie Presidents law partner
who is here, has, it is said, advised the Prssi
dent TO sell his new country house near this
city, lest his continued possession of it give
credence to the rumor that its purchase was
part ofthe scheme of q land ring here.
Congressman Barbour has been rendered
and accepted public reception and game
supper by his fellow ctizsns of Culpepel
irrespective Of party, on the evening of Sat
urday next, the eth inst.