Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa GAZETTE
WASn1NGTnN d O. 0nt ID 1909

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. u, 1856.
Mr.. McCue, Solicitor Of the Treasury, in a
short talk with the GAZETTE's correspond
ent TO day about the Alexandria Canal mat
ter, said no understood that the lessees of
the canal and i committee Of the directors
OF the canal company were to have a con-
ference and try to come to terms about the
sale Of the aqueduct to tho Government and
that he would wait 6 few days to sea what
they intended 10 do but that if any further
intention to delay the sale was manifested
he would take matters in his own hands.
lie came, he said from where what was done
in an hour would take weeks to do in AL
exandria, and that if the Alexandriaus
didn't expedite matters they would find
/ that the Government had q way to make
them. When told that the Aleyaudriaus
were not at all antagonistic to the Govern .
ment, and that the directors of the canal
company only wanted the proceeds of the
sale of their own property and to have the
right to preserve their aQueduct and there.
| by prevent the destruction of the canal, and
that with al assurance to that effect they
would willingly give the Government title
to as mucn of the piers Of the aqueduct as
was required for 4 free bridge, he replied
that when they saw that the Government
wanted to buy the bridge the fact that they
were making this delay showed that they
were antagonisic to it. He said they had
failed to hold their annual stockholders
meeting, as they were required to do, and
that if they did not, there was way to
make them, and tina. that way the Govern
nent would take, and that they woald find
| they had many things to learn.
| Advices received at the Department of
State this morning ccrroborate the publish.
ed report Of the hauling down Of the Amer.
| lean flag on the American schooner Marion
Grimes ut Shelbnrne, by Capt. Qnigley, Of
| the Canadian cruiser Terror. The action of
The captain Of the Grimes in running up the
colors while tie vessel WAC in the custody
| of Canadian officers is deprecated at the De-
psrtmcat as likely needlrSSly to complcate
| matters.
The collector Of customs at San Francisco
mas informed the State Department OF the
great difficulty he experiences in the en-
| torcemcnt OF the law to exclude Chinese,
and has been directed to lay his complaint
! before the y. :. Attorney for that district
| The U. 5. Supreme Court to-day, after
hearing motions for the advancement of
several Cises, and other business of tba;
character, commenced the case Of the cred
itors of the Pacific National Bank in Bos.
ton, in which the two Hoars, Gen. Butler
and Congressman Kanney are counsel The
court will adjourn To morrow until Monday
in order to allow the members of the court
| to attend the rcn;ermeut of the late Chief
Justice Chase in Cincinnati He was dis.
inferred here Yesterday, aud as he had been
embalmed, his body was well preserved aud
his features perfectly recognizable.
Congressman Dibbe of South Carolina, is
here to-day. He says the negroes in the
congressional district in that State now
represented by Smals, black man, are
forming democratic clubs, 10 keep them
selves from being made "hot" if they vote
the democratic ticket next month, and that
from the numbers who are joining those
clubs the election of Mr.. Elliott, the demo.
cratic candidate, is highly probable.
Another pretty extensive removal oil
printers took place at the Government
printing office yesterday, and the end is not
yet, az Mr.. Benedict says the greater the
number of discharges the greater the
amount 0! work turned out, as The hands
there have been in each others way
Five republicans Of the Slh Virginia dis
trict, who hold federal offices here, told a
democratic voter Of that district here TODAY
that there would certainly be q republican
candidate for Congress in that district on
the day CT election, but the identity of that
ambitious individual they did rot divulge
An Alexandria republican, when told of this
ohpoohed the idea, and said he didn't
know republican in the district fool
enough to allow himself to be run. 4 Lou
doun county democrat here TO day says that
If there is any remaining dissatisfaction in
| his party i'll that county over the nomna.
ton OF Gen. Ice nobody there seems to
know it.
A Southern democrat holdings prominent
and important federal position here SAYS be
doesn't believe the President has the faint
est conception oil the extent of the dissatis.
faction his course has produced among his
party in the South. He says the President
only sees men who are seeking patronage or
more of it, and that to ingretate themselves
in mis- favor they tell him he is one Of the
best Presidents the country ever had, and
that his administration is alording satisfac-
ton to every body. republicans as we'll AS
democrats. He said there was q leading
democrat in his own State who had writ.
ten the President n letter extolling his ad.
minsration and representing it az excep.
t!onally popular, who in private CONVERSE
ton with him both before and after writing
thstletter had denounced in the severest
terms not only the Presidents course, hut the
President himself He says the President is
directed by Col. Lamont, and is constant
ly surrounded by set of tlatterers who
sednlously keep him in utter ignorance of
the true state Of public feeling
! Mr.. Porter, assistant Secretary OF State says
| there is nothing in tho report about new reci-
procity any other sort of treaty with Canada,
| and that Canada, England nor this country is now
or ever has been considering such treaty.
| VIM. +. Dalis has been commissioned rs post.
master at Fort Washington.
Episcopal Convention.
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