Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-17
PROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandris Gazette
WASHINGTON. Aurust Il

WASHINGTON, August IL.
At the meeting of the American for
lists this morning st. Louis was selected
as the place for the next annual meet
ing. The chairman was instructed to
appoint g committee to memorabilia
Congress through the Postmaster Cen
eral for a pound postage rate for cata-
logues. William R. Smith, the Super
intendent of the United States Nation
al Botanic Garden at Washington, was
nominated to be the next President OF
the Society, and Prof. Trelease, of st.
Louis, as Vice President. VIM. J..
Stewart, of Boston, was nominated for
Secretary and NJ. a. Hunt, of Terre
Haute. Indiana, as Treasurer. The
formal ballot on these nominations will
be taken tomorrow morning. An es-
say on the propagation of roses was
read by Paul Pierson, of Scarborough,
New York. The European bulb mar
ket and the American buyer was the
subject of an essay read by John Beck,
of Bridgeport, Connecticut. After a
brief discussion of these essays the
m ;eting adjourned until this evening.
Affairs at democratic headquarters
here to-day are very quiet, no visitors
called and no letters of any Importance
were received. Mr.. Gardiner, the sec
rotary in charge, has gone to New York
10 attend a meeting of the committee.
1t is intimated at the State Depart
ment to-day that Rider, the L. S. con-
sui at Copenhagen, who is now in jail
there for forgery and embezzlement,
and who has confessed his guilt, may
hare his commission revoked.
A member of the State republican
committee Of Virginia, here to-day, on
his way home from the recent meeting
of that committee in Richmond, says
General Malone is very much dis
gruntled, not at the opposition certain
republicans in his State arc making to
his having the disbursement Of any Of
the election money that may be sent to
the State by the national republican
committee, but to the apparent effect
iveness of that OF pc iition at New York,
and that in his opinion the General will
not strain himself in his efforts TO carry
Virginia unless the national committee
shall be more liberal toward Virginia
than they now seem disposed to be, and
shall allow him TO place the money
where it will do the most good.
General Raleigh Colston, who was
Frustrated during the recent hot spell.
has improved considerably, but his
friends fear he will never recover. He
was taken sick while in the service of
the Khedive in the Soudan, and has
never been well man since. The
General now holds position in the
Office of the Surgeon General.
It has leaked out that the recent
mysterious visit of Mr.. Carter, chair
man of the national republican COM
mittee, to this city, was for the purpose
of having full and complete lists of all
the employees of the federal govern
ment made by government clerks at
the expense of the government so that
each one may be informed that a con-
tribution to the republican election
fund will be expected. and that the
larger it is. the firmer will be his hold
upon his place in case Mr.. Harrison
shall be reelected. 1t is also under
stood here that the bureau for the pur-
chase of votes in Indiana will again be
intrusted to Col. Dudley, who has pock-
eted the affronts he has received at the
hands of the President and agreed to
serve-for consideration.
Lawyer Nicol of Prince William
county, Virginia, passed through here
today on his way to Falls Church, to
attend the Potomac Baptist Associa-
ton, including most of the Sth congress
sional district, now in session at that
place. MIR. Nicol says there is good
deal of dissatisfaction among the peo-
ple in his section of the State. and that
if some able and respected man were to
head it, the democrats might have some
trouble, but that as it is, he doesn't
think there is any danger.
The officials of the Post Office De
partment UP to noon to-day had re-
ceived no information of delay or IN.
reference with the running of mail
trains. incident to the convict labor
riots in Tennessee, and they are in
clined to the opinion that there has
been none. If there should be and the
miners should used force to prevent
the movement of mail trains, the
United State Marshal of the Tennessee
district would no doubt be directed to
use whatever force was necessary to
protect the U. S. mails in transit, and
if the situation required it, .. S. troops
would be sent to the scene of the
trouble to enforce his orders.
Among the Yirginians in the city to-day is
Mr.. StGeorge Pitzhugh Of Fredericksburg.
He SAYS he doesn't think there is any doubt
of the reelection OF Congressman Jones in that
district, and that he does not think the repub-
licans and the third psrty men in that disarict
will unite upon candidate to run against
him
Congressman Meredith was here yesterday
but left for Stafford C. H, where ne made
speech to-day. He did not say whether or
not he would accept the proposition of Mr.
Turner, the third partys candidate for Con-
gross in his district, to discuss politics Tlth
him on the hastings.
The Solicitor General has decided that the
act making promotions in the Us. marine
corps subject 10 examination does not apply
TO cases OF vacancies occurring prior 10 the
passage Of the act.
A GLACIAL FIELD.-F. J. Schorner-
horn, geologist and mineralogist, who