Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Ale1andris Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Sept. s, 1894.

Correspondence Of the Ae1sndris GaSette.]
WASHINGTON. Sept. s, 1894.
Though the late Louis Albert Phil
ippe, Count of Paris, was volunteer IN
The federal army during the war, no Of
fetal notice of his death will be taken
by the War Department. for the alleged
reasons that his rank in the service was
only that of a captain of volunteers,
ind that as he was exiled by the
French republic, any official marx OF
respect to his memory by the
government would be liable
to political misconstruction. His
war record is as follows In
the autumn of 1861 he and his brother,
the Duke of Chartres, accompanied
their uncle, the Prince de Joinville, to
the United States. At the invitation OF
Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan, the young
princes entered the military service OF
the United States and were attached to
his staff, with the rank of captains in
the volunteer army. They stipulated
that they should receive no pay, and
should be free to resign their commits
sions whenever they desired. They
served on Gen. McClellau's staff till the
close of the Virginia campaign and the
retreat of the army of the Potomac in
June, 1862, when they returned to Eu-
rope. While in the field they frequent
" volunteered on detached expedi-
tions. At Gaines's Mills they displayed
courage and zeal in conveying dis
patches and in efforts to reform the
line of BATTLE"
The compositors on the Times of this
city have agreed to 8 reduction OF
wages, in order to allow the proprietor
of that paper to compete with those OF
the other newspapers here who use
type.setting machines.
Congressman Meredith of Virginia,
spoke at Waterfall in Prince William
county, in his district, to-day, and will
speak at Louisa G. II. on Monday next.
A private letter received here to-day
from New York contains the following
items that may be of interest in Vir-
giuia. Judge Sener, of Fredericks-
burg, has left Saratoga, fully restored to
good health; Judge Riley, ex-consul to
Puerto Cabello, will not return to Viz
gipia, but will open law Office in New
York; Plat, one of the Virginia car
petbag congressman from Virginia, who
died recently in Denver, left q fortune
of quarter of a million.
Congressman Turner and Jones OF
Virginia returned from Richmond this
morning. They attended meeting of
the Virginia State democratic COM
mittee there last night. They say
that while at that meeting the reports
from the several districts indicated a
somewhat apathetic condition, they
also indicated that the apathy was
wearing of, and that the general condi-
ton of the party had improved consid-
erably during the last two or three
weeks.
A Virginia republican here to-day
saws his party in his State is unorsssn.
lied, but that it always casts more votes
when in that condition than in any
/ other. and that overwhelming defeat
has always been it's fate when it march
ed to the polls under its captains Of tens
and hundreds. He says the national
republican ComulIloo Will Si'o e'ii ohs
help they can, and that every negro
vote will be cast, as orders will be is.
sued from republican headquarters here
to that effect. He also says that not
withstanding tie talk about Judge
Waddill, Judge L. L. Lewis, president
OF the Supreme Court of Appeals of tine
State, will, very probably, soon be an.
nounced as the republican, candidate
for Congress in the Richmond district
and that his vote also will be "phe'
nomenal."
One of the GAzETTE's country sub
scribers here to day says that as much
trouble as he had about getting his pa
o r under republican postmasters and
route agents, he has a great deal more
now.
There is current rumor here to-day,
| to the effect that Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris, daughter of General Grant,
whose husband died two or three years
ago, and Major 81. Kydd Douglass,
who, in the war between the States was
on General Stonewall Jackson's staff
are to be married. They are both now
stopping at the Arlington Hotel in this
city, and are almost always together.
Democratic headquarters here, which
are in Wormley's Hotel, are in daily
receipt of requests from Virginia for
campaign documents, which are always
complied with as soon as possible.