Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, July %.


WASHINGTON, July %.
Frank G. Richardson, who was ap-
pointed collector of customs at
Gloucester, Mass, to-day, is Q well
known politician, residing near that
port but not within the city. An effort
was made to prevent his appointment
by the circulation OF report that he
had spoken disrespectfully of President
Cleveland and the administration but
he was able to disprove the charge,
since which time it has been under
stood that he was to be appointed.
Ia the absence of Attorney General
Harmon, who has gone to Cincinnati,
Ohio, Solicitor General Conrad is IN
charge of the Department of Justice.
AS the result of the gold exports last
week, the Treasury gold reserve o-day
stands at S105, 800, 957, q loss since Sat
urday of 81 ,O65, 900 :,
Secretary Carlisle will leave here
again about the first proximo for an ex-
tended trip along the lakes and in the
Northwest.
The Interior Department, in a pen
sion case, decided this morning that
the war between the States commenced
with the issue of the blockade order in
April, 1861 and ended August 20, 1866.
At the State Department the talk is
to the effect that the United States is
low at peace with sail the world and
the rest of mankind" and that there is
no danger of break of that peace, and
that the only difficulty anticipated is
the possibility of the escape of some
Cuban flibusters from the cost Of
Florida. 1t is said that as it was i'm
possible to keep a perfect blockade
during the civil war, when the blockade
runners were large sized vessels, it Will
be equally so now when they are small
boats.
This is the excursion season, and ex-
CURSOR parties, white and black, from
various parts of the country now arrive
here almost every day in the week.
The State Department is in constant
receipt of appeals from the ignorant
aud ill.informed people who have es-
poused the cause of Waller, the negro
ex-cousul now in a French prison. He
was put there after a fair trial for a
gross infraciion of French law, and this
government Can not help him.
Passengers by the Manassas train
here this morning report severe hail
stern at Front Royal yesterday even
ing that did great harm to the growing
cora.
General Wade Hampton, who is now
here, says Mr.. Cleveland will be
nominated for third term, and that
every democrat in the South, no matter
what he may thiuk of the silver ques-
ton, will vote for him. And the
General is not the only one who talks
this way.
The prevailing impression on the sub
iect here is that Senators Cameron and
Quay understand each other perfectly,
are working together, and that each Is
helping the other in the most available
way, and that though the latter says
he is not for the former for President,
and not for free silver, neither Gamer
IN nor silver need fear him.
A well.known Virginia republican
here to-day says all the prominent men
of his party in his State have received
General Mahone's invitation, extended
through Capt. Asa Rogers, to attend the
free vote and fair count convention at
Petersburg on the 1st proximo, and that
most of them will be present, but, lie
added, he did not think the convention
would amount to much or its action
Gu. any considerable figure at next
falls election.
A North Carolina democrat now
here says that while the vast majority
of the democratic voters of his State
are in favor of free silver, some of the
leaders of the democratic party there
have evidently hauled in their silver
horns lately, and are now sitting on the
fence and playing the waiting game.
Judge Nowlin. formerly of Danville,
Va, but now q worker in the Christian
Mission OF that twon, Gays that twoweekn
ago at one of their street meetings in
the disreputable part of this city, a
young man and young woman were
among the auditors, and that the latter
being seen to weep, was approached by
some of the women members, to whom
she said she realized the error of her
ways and wanted to be saved, and
that she would go with them
if they would let her return to
her abode for her clothing. They told
her to come with them and let her
c o.hing alone; they would send for
that. And this she did. At their next
meeting the young man who bad been
with her also professed conversion, and
that he and her are now married and
living respectable lives. The Judge,
who used to be politician, says such
incidents as this make his lie infinitely
more agreeable now than it ever was
efore.
The prevailing hot weather has driv-
en- thousands of people away from this
city, and the streets now present q
decidedly inactive, and almost desert
d appearance.
4 prominent Fairfax county democrat here
t, day says he hears of no opposition to the
re- section of State Senator Mushbach. The
place, he SAYS. belongs to Alexandria for the
n,1t tenn, and as the people of that city
don't object to Mr.. Mushbach certainly those
of Fairfax and Prince William do not
THE MASSEY-PILOr TRIAL.
The fourth week of the Massey libel
case closed in Norfolk on Saturday.