Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria eazette.l

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
It IL stated that the two consular
agencies on the isthmus of Panama will
he abolished and the duties thereof be
d scharged by the consuls at Panama and
Colon. Col. Dick Wintersmlth, OF
Kentucky, now fills one of those agen,,,
cies. but it is understood that he will
be appointed consul at the special re-
quest of ex.Seoretary Carlisle.
It is now currently reported that the
t. n per cent. additional tax imposed by
the new tariff bill on goods imported
through Canada found its way into
that bill by fraud, the parties to which
will soon be exposed.
Some of the negroes who have secur-
@ lgovernment positions here are not sat
l-Hed with them and want others that
paw better. One OF them for whom
MIR. Pat McCaull got place, the pay
of which ia forty dollars a month, was
enquiring at the down town hotels here
last night for Mr.. Caull, saying he
wanted to be transferred to the Treas
ury Department, where laborers get
more pay.
Mr.. Palmer, of the government print.
ing Office, Mr.. Smith, of the bureau OF
American Republics, and Fourth Assls
tant Postmaster General Bristoe, who
have been Cd a fishing trip near Nor.
folk with e1.Congressman Bowden, OF
Virginia, are expected back tomorrow.
In respect of the reported return OF
prosperity, wholesale grocer and q
real estate agent OF this city, talking
this morning, said nothing would please
them more than to know it had come,
but that they couldn't see it. The
former said his business was dull
enough last August, but his sales this
month would be smaller by six thou
sand dollars; the latter, that in all his
life his business had never been duller;
and what annoyed them the most, they
said. was the fact that there was moth
ing in sight to induce them to expect
better times.
There are few Virginia republicans
here to day, nearly all of them having
gone to Lynchburg, where the State
committee of their party will meet next
Wednesday. All of them are kicking
against the administration and the
majority of their State executive COM
mittee, and all want State convention
to be called, to down" that
majority and let the democrats get such
a big majority that the President may
know what to expect next time II he
don't "let up" on the civil service.
The Virginians here, almost without
exception, hope to hear nothing more
of the invitation extended the G. A. r.
to hold it's reunion in Richmond, the
capital of the late Confederate States.
None of them believes such thing
possible, but even if it were, they say it
would cost more than it would come 10,
though it was suggested, not as a
sentimental, but solely as pecuniary
affair. They also say that while the
G. A. R. would probably be treated po-
litely and courteously in Richmond,
and by some, even Hospitality, every
body there would be uneasy until it
left, lest some drunken man might say
or do something that would tend to re-
vive the now dying sectional AMI
mostly.
The Canadian government has submitted
formal proposals to this government to estab-
lsh communication with the Klondike region
in Alaska by the construction of q telegraph
line from the head of winter navigation, on
the Lynn canal, into the centre Of the Klon-
dixie district. 1t also signifies its intention,
in case the propositions sre adopted, to erect
suitable places for shelter at periods Of from
forty to fifty miles along the line and keep up
dog trains during the months of winter for
the conveyance of the mails to and from the
interior.
To-day Associate Justice Field, OF the U. 8.
Supreme Court, has served longer than any
other man ever did before him. Chief Jus.
t;ce Marshall served thirty.four years, five
months and six days. Justice Field now ex-
ceeds that time by one day, but though quite
feeble he doedn't hint at resigning. There is
8 rumor here to the effect that if he shall re-.
sigh during Mr. McKinley's admir- stration,
his place will be given to Attorney General
McKenna, who will be succeeded BY Judge
Golf, of West Virginia.
The graduates of the famous female Vasssr
College, Of whom there are several here, are
shocked to find out that among this years
graduates of that institution is q negro girl,
who was adopted by Northern woman, who
sent her to the most expensive Northern
schools.
Edward Gibson, who came here from Ro-
anoke, Va, and had recently moved to Balls
ton, in Ale1andria county, was brought here
ctis, but died under the operation.