Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
TCor, espondence Of tho Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. June 30.

and the expenditures 1or tne ike pc
Rod 1852, 900, 600, making the deficit for
the fiscal year S25, 500, 900. The heavy
interest payments in July, the payment
OF the sugar bounty claims which Will
be commenced in that month, and also
because appropriations made available
by Congress, it is estimated that the
deficit for that month will foot up near
ly $l0,OOO,000.
Before leaving for Buzzards' Bay the
President appointed the following
United States Consuls: William Coul-
bourn Brown, of Maryland, at New
castle, New South Wales; Thomas
Willing Peters, of Wyoming, at Plauen,
Germany, and George Sawter, OF Con-
uecticut, at Glauchau, Germany.
President Cleveland left Washington
at an early hour this morning to spend
the summer with his family at Gray
Gables. Washington was hardly astir
when he left the White House and
only the members of the sleepy night
force there were up to say good. bye.
He was driven quietly in one OF the
White House carriages to the Penn
sylyania station and walked down the
train platform without attracting any
attention even from the few porters
and station employees who were trying
to keep awake. He entered the special
car of MIR. Thompson, one of tho vice
presidents of the Pennsylvania road,
which had been placed at his disposal.
The car was attached to the train
scheduled to leave Washington for
Jersey City at seven o'clock and at
that hour it pulled out from the sta
ton. At Jersey City the President
will board the yacht of Mr.. E. G. Bene-
dict, the Oneida, and will proceed in it
to Gray Gables where they are due to
arrive Wednesday morning. During
the Presidents absence from Washing
ton official business will be conducted
in the same manner as if he were in
the White House. Official communi.
cation will be received and entered in
the records there and a special bag
will go every day to Buzzard's Bay.
All official news will be given out as
usual from the White House. The
President was accompanied by his pri-
vate secretary.
The Washington correspondents
special vestibuled train consisting OF
four Pullman sleepers of latest design,
q combination Car fitted with barber
shop, baths, and other reGnements OF
travel, dining car and an observation
car supplied with desks, typewriters
and all facilities for preparing and send
ing dispatches, will leave here over the
Pennsylvania road tomorrow afternoon
and is scheduled to reach Chicago
Thursday afternoon.
Confederate camps from Leesburg.
Winchester and other points in North
ern Virginia, the High School Cadets Of
Washington, and hundreds OF eN.Con-
federates now living in this city and its
vicinity, many of them accompanied
by their wives and daughters, left here
to-day for Richmond. Some of the
Confederate organizations, on their way
to the depot, marched to old Confeder-
ate tunes, and though most of the Con.
federate flags they carried were furled,
enough OF them were exposed to show
what they were. They received some
applause as they stepped, as lively as
they could, down the avenue, to which
they responded feebly with their
old yell. The gray in which
most of them were dressed, the
music that was played, and the
old familiar yell sutfused the eyes of
many who saw, but did not go with
them, with sympathetic emotion. A
wise old ex.Confederate, who could
hardly restrain his tears, said, how
ever, after they passed, that he had as
much cause to dislike the Yankees as
any body, but still he thought such
shows exhibited bad taste and less
sense, and that the place for them was
south of the Potomac, not in the fed
eral capital, especially now on the eve
of Presidential election.
A we'll informed financial correspond.
ent in this city, just from Philadelphia,
who has been outing in the Cumber-
land Valley of Pennsylvania recently,
says the feeling in favor of free silver
in the city and valley referred to can.
not be appreciated except by those
personally familiar with it, and that it
is as prevalent there as anywhere else
in the country.
Some of the democrats from Lou
doun county, Virginia, here to-day, say
that when the delegation from that
county to the Congressional convention
shall divide, halfwill so to Rixey and half
to Meredith, but others say that as one
of those is supposed to be the strongest
candidate, they will not divide, but, after
leaving their own countyman, will cast
their solid vote for one of the weaker
candidates.
An Ohio democrat here to-day
saws Mr.. Mclean will be o strong
candidate for the first place on
the Chicago ticket, for the fol-
lowing reasons: That for twelve years
his paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, has
been advocating free silver, that his
influence and the $4,000 he has SUBJ
scribed to the cause, have.produced the
strong silver feeling in Ohio, Kentucky,
West Virginia and Indiana, and that
having large monetary interests in the
country be cannot be classed with the
wreckers. What will make him strong
in the South, ne says, is the fact that
his paper was suspended during the
war between the States by federal au-
thority.
A lawyer praeticing before the court
of claims says Alexandria suffered more
by the Presidents veto of the French
Spoliation bill than any other city of its
size in the country, as large share of
the money nrovidad by that hill would