Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandra Gazette.l

ment is making into the accounts of
the State Department has given rise 10
rumors that the accounts are mike d
and that the system of bookkeeping
has been found faulty. The investiga-
ton has been going on at odd intervals
since July. AS matter of fact the in
quiry comes up in the course of regular
routine and the thoroughness with
which it has been conducted is due to
the Dockery reorganization law, which
provides for searching investigation
of all accounts. 1t is said that some ir-
regularities have been discovered.
Some of the fault, it is understood, lies
with persons with whom the bureau
has had dealings in the sale of bound
volumes of the laws of Congress, for
which the bureau is responsible.
The Postoffice Department to-day
issued an order against the Brown
Chemical Company of Chicago, ILL.,, de-
nying them the privileges of the mails
for violation of the postal rules and
regulations.
The second company, Governors
Foot Guards, of New Haven, Con-
necticut, reached here this morning
af er participating in Conuecticut's day
10 Atlanta. They will stop here until to-
morrow morning. They paraded in full
dress this afternoon and afterwards, un-
der the escort of the Washington Light
Infantry, marched to the White House
and were received by the President,
subsequently visiting the Treasury De-
partment. The first company, accom-
panied by the Governor, spent to-day
in Richmond and will leave there to-
morrow for home.
Congressman Meredith of the Alex
andria district was here to-day, on the
usual business that brings him here
trying TO get government employment
for some of his constituents.
Mr.. James McNabh, an old news
paper man of this city, has prepared
and will soon publish history of the
postal stamps of this country, contain
| ing description and picture of every
| one ever issued
Mr.. Sewers, originally of Virginia,
who was expelled from Cuba on &C
count of alleged sympathy with the in
surrectionists, was here to-day. The
Slate Department promised to look in
to his affair if he would bring afidavits
to sustain his side of the case, but this
it is impossible for him to do, as those
| able to make them are afraid to do
so lest they meet his fate, and be is
afraid to Press the matter lest his valua-
| Bile plantation in Cuba be confiscated.
The 70 10 wing changes in the fourth
class postoffices in Virginia were made
to-day: Balcony Falls, Rockbridge
county, Mrs. VS. Campbell, appoint
81 postmaster, vice i. D. Shannon,
! resigned; Figsboro, Henry county. j.
B. Price, vice E. P. Turaer, resigned.
An x-CoDfederate here to-day said
lie had recently seen at the army mu-
scum the body of tree sent there b.
General Miles. now commander-in-
chief of the U. S. A., with the remark
able statement that it had been cut off
by the bullets of the rebels, and show
ed the terrible fire to which his troops
had been exposed in the fight at the
''bloody angle" at Charlottesville
"Why," said he, .that tree was cut off
by Yankee bullets and fell across g
captain in an Alabama regiment,
urting him 80 severely that he had to
lie there during the remainder of the
| fight. How General Miles could have
written any such statement is more than
can understand, and what I say can
b. attested by numeous witnesses; and
in view of it am constrained to doubt
his other statement that he did not
chain President Davis OF his own vo-
lition, but by orders from Secretary
Stanton.
A well-known business man of this
CITY says all the newspaper talk about
the revival of business in this country
signifies nothing. There may be an in
crease in the manufacture of iron, but
from present indications it will not last
three months longer. The general
business of the country, he says, is de-
pressed for the very good reason that
most people have no money with
which to make purchases, and the few
who have any, are saving it for antici-
pated worse times. Business here, he
says, is Stacker, in every line, than it
has been at this time for years.
The wife of the imprisoned negro
U. S. Consul at Tamatave, Madagas-
car, had an interview with Secretary
Herbert this morning, but did not call
on Secretary Olney. She will call on
Mr.. Olney as soon as all the papers in
behalf of her husband have been CLASH
fed.
1t is rumored here that the Mt. YER
non Railroad company will probably
buy the charter of the Washington and
Falls Church Railroad, and complete
that road from Arlington to Falls
Church; also that the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, during the next ses-
sion of Congress, will try to extend its
inc, the road bed of which is completed
from Waterloo to the Aqueduct
Bridge, across that bridge into George
town.
DIR. Spaight, the U. S. vice consul at
Georgetown, British Guiana, adjoining
Venezuela, now here, says the British
government is Individually right in the
Venezuelan affairs and, so thought to be
by everybody who knows anything
about that affair. The doctor left the
city tc- day, and could not be further in
'terviewed on the subject. 1t is report
ed he will be removed for saying what
he has said.
Southern Railway Prospects.
New YORK, Oct. 25.-President Sam.
uel Spencer, of the Southern Railway,
said to-day: "The successful forma-