Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
[ Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazett i
WASHINGTON. Oct. 81.


devoted most of the forenoon to the
consideration and dispatch of routine
matters requiring his action, a great
deal of which accumulated during the
last few weeks. 1T is expected that
the official routine of the house will be
fully re-established before the close OF
the present week.
The officials of the Navy Department
are watching the course OF events at
Charleston, S. c., where, beginning TO-
day, there is to be celebration III com
memoration of the escape OF the city
from total destruction by the earth
Quake of 1886. At the request OF the
citizens the U. S. vessels Dolphin and
Vesuyius have been sent to the city TO
participate in the celebration. some
O the officials hear that naval bonn
blrdment of Fort Sumter Is to form
part of the programme. If any such
intention had taken shape in the pro-
gramme the Navy Department would
have countermanded the orders Of the
naval vessels, for Commodore Ramsay
saws that he would not for Il moment
tolerate the idea that vessel of the
U. S. Navy should participate in an at
tack, even though it was sham attack,
on the national flag. The officials have
concluded that as no official programme
of the celebration has been brought to
the attention OF the department, there
is ut present no basis for official action.
So it has been decided to leave the
question as to the participation OF the
vessels in the celebration to the discre-
ton of Commander Brownson of the
Dolphin, the senior officer of the fleet.
1t is reported that when he has time,
Col. Marcus Wright, of the Rebellion
Record" bureau Of the War Department,
will prepare for publication statement
OF the relative strength of the Union
and Confederate forces during the war.
He, however, does not anticipate that
such statement will vary in the least
from those previously made from the
same data by which it appears that
the federal army numbered nearly three
million and the Confederate six hum
dred Il lsand, and that in the former
were five hundred thousand foreigners,
who came from abroad after the COM
mencemen: of the war, and one hum
bred aud sevcnty-eight thousand ne
groes, thus showing that the foreigners
" no enlisted after 1862 and the negroes
in the federal army exceeded the entire
strength Of the Confederates. Both
General Lee and Adjutant General
Cooper agreed to the strength OF the
Confederate army as above stated.
The United States Supreme Court
to-day eni d, without prejudice to re-
newal after the Circuit Court for the
California Circuit has passed upon ii,
The application made by the Attorney
General for certiorari TO bring at once
before the Supreme Court the appeal
taken by the United States from the de-
cision that the federal government had
not the right to seize the steamship
Itata for violation of neutrality in car
rying arms to the CHILEAN revolutionists.
A Virginia republican here to-day
says few people in his State know who
are the republican Presidential electors
there, aud that if the democrats should
anticipate any danger, and should choose
to do so, they could very easily have
the names of their electors printed on
the republican ticket, and that thou
sands would vote it without knowing
the difference.
An Alexandria county republican,
here to-day, says he understands that
Turner's name will be on the republican
Presidential electoral ticket to be voted
in his county, and that thereby Turner
will probably get the votes ofmany ne
groes there, as they will not know how to
scratch his name off and write that OF
some body else in its place, and that as
there is no republican congressional
candidate in the district, he and all the
other white republicans in the county
VIII vote for Meredith, and that he has
advised Mr.. Meredith to have his name
printed on the republican electoral
ticket, so that such negroes as may
want to vote for him will not have to
use pencil.
Shtr # Veitch, Deputy Sheriff Burch
and three special deputies of Alexan-
dria county made a raid upon a keno
house at Monte Carlo, south end Of the
Long Bridge, yesterday evening, and
arrested John Nelson aud Frank Eos
ter, two of the proprietors, and carried
them to Alexandria, where they were
Jailed in default of 81 900 bail. All the
outfit of the game was also captured.
A large number of players were en-
gagged, but they all managed to escape.
The arrested parties were bailed this
morning.
A private letter received here this
morning from Mr.. Basil Gordon, chair
man of the State democratic committee
of Virginia, says that the democratic
outlook in his State is growing better
and better rs the day of election APP
proaches.
As means of "liring the northern
heart" the republican managers have
had printed and distributed all over the
North list of the -Confederates who
were appointed to Office during the last
democratic administration, under the
head of, "Rebels Rewarded. Union
Soldiers Sighted. The Highest Honors
Were for the Wearers of the Gray"
The rooms of the Virginia demo-
cratic association, of this city, will be
opened daily hereafter until election
day, for the purpose of.supplying trans
portation to people entitled to vote in
Virginia. Mr.. a. L. FAINT is in charge
and will supply all required informa-
ton.
Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania
has returned to this city. He is one of
tI,o most raticent of ren1hlicans and is