Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette

The Inspector General Of the Army
to-day submitted to the War Depart
ment an additional report of the opera
tons of his department. 1t dwells upon
the activity of the army in the pas .
year and the services rendered by i. to
the country. At one time, the report
asserts, the country seemed r be upon
the verge of war, which ser we'd to show,
according to the report. the eagerness
with which all Amer cans were ready
to resent indignities, inflicted upon those
upon whom we Lave imposed the duty
of protecting the flag" When war
seemed ine'. liable, it continues, the re-
spouse ri people to d call not yet
made, but anticipated, for men, was
sop .ething thoroughly gratifying. These
tenders of regiments OF men came spon-
taneously from all sections of the coun-
try, Texans being perhaps the first to
offer their services in rallying around
the old flag in defence of the national
dignity. In South and North alike the
spirit of patriotism was equally enthu-
siastic." These episodes show, the re-
port states, that we can never know
how soon we may be called upon to
fight, and demonstrate most incisively
how necessary it is always to be pre-
pared to meet such emergencies. y
larger appropriation is urged ior the
maintenance of the national guard and
more equitable method of distributing
it il recommended. 1t has been sug-
gested, the report continues, that an
army officer be detailed as military sec
retaiv on the stall Teach Governor of 4
State. who, when discreetly chosen,
would make new and needed tie be-
tween the different branches of the ser
vice, which would be benefit to both
the regulars and the State troops, cspe-
cially in the case OF war.
\ copyright of the Confederate mon
ument at Alexandria was issued by the
Congressional Librarian last week, but
it is said at the library that as the mon
ument had been copied before the copy
right was issued, the copy right will
hardly hold in law, and that issuing ii
was like locking the stable door aft 7
the horse had been stolen.
A Boston democrat now here says II
the coming election be close, or ifthere
be any trouble about the electoral vote,
the republicans will certainly get it, as
they have all the money that may be
required for that purpose and that the
only way by which the democrats can
secure it is by polling such big vote
that u contest would be absurd.
While the Department Of State has
not vet received the resignation ofJohn
ID. Washburn as United States Minis
ter to Switzerland, it is expected that
his resignation will soon be forthcom-
ing. Ill health is supposed to be the
reason for his resignation.
George S. Batcheller to-day called ut
the Department of State and rendered
his resignation OF the office of United
States Minister to Portugal, which was
accepted.
A private letter received to-day from
a Nirginian, now engaged i'll civil en-
sineering in North Dakota, says that
people here need not be surprised il
they shall read next Wednesday that
that State has gone for low tariff and
against the Force bill.
A well-informed and prominent Nir-
yinia democrat, here to-day, says that
MIR. Gordon has proved himself to be Il
wise and astlte politician by his man
agement of the democratic campaign i'll
his State, and also that he is a demo
cratic mascot, for that luck has been on
his side from tho first, and that never
before have the republicans there been
80 divided and so i'll provided for con-
test. He says tho democratic majority
there will be large, and that for his part
in securing it, the democrats ofthe State
will make Mr.. Gordon their next Gov
ernor. He also says that Ex-Governor
Lee is slated for the noxt U. S. Senator
from Virginia.
A Norfolk republican now in private
life, in the city, says he understand:
that Corrigan, the negro republican
candidate for Congress i'll that district,
will be compelled to withdraw by
the administration, and the coast be
therefore clear for Dezendorf, who has
been endorsed by the national republi-
can committee; that therefore Dozen
dorf will probably get the republican
vote of the district, and stands Il good
chance of being elected. On the con
trary, ex-Congressman Bowden. from
the same city, who was the nominee o.
the republican convention of the dis
trict, but withdrew for harmony, says
the republicans of the district are all al
odds, and that Tyler. the democratic
candidate, will surely be elected.
Mr.. J. $. b. Thompson, of the Rich
mond and Danyille Railroad, was here
Yesterday on railroad business. He
saws that from what he reads and hears
he is induced to believe that Virginia
will give large democratic majority
next Tuesday, and that Mr.. Gordon's
management of the campaign is COM
mended throughout the State.
Numerous Nirginians, democrats and
republicans, intelligent and ignorant
prominent and obscure, are here to-day
and each, like everybody else, is talk
ing politics. Boiled down, what they
all say. amounts to the following: The
democratic majority in the State
may be from thirty up to sixty
thousand, and solid democratic con-
gressional delegation. The republicans
by their quarrels and fights, have dis
gusted themselves and their party, and
have travestied the campaign into q
roaring and grotesque farce, in which
none ofthe players appear to advantage
Collector Brady, who has been here
y day or two, left for his home in Pc
tersburg, Va, this morning. He ap-
peared to be in his usual good humor
and can well afford to be, as the ad-