Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-05

states: AOrbuau ID. JUICES VI -
at Tuxpan, Mexico; Daniel Mayer, OF
West Virgina, at Buenos Ayres, Ar
eentine Republic; E. Theophilus Lie
field of Connecticut, at Frieburg, Ba'
den.
The Lancaster arrived at Fortress
Monroe last night with six of the crew
of the American bark Olive Pecker,
who were taken on a. Bahia, Brazil,
where they had been held on charge
of mutiny and murder of the captain OF
the Pecker. The navy department has
notified the attorney general that the
prisoners are at his disposal and they
will be landed either at Norfolk or
where the Lancaster now lies, or at
Boston where she is due in week.
Frank w. Mondell, OF Newcastle,
Wyoming. will be appointed assistant
commissioner of the General Land
Office, vice Judge Emory F. Best, OF
Georgia, removed.
A New York democrat here to-day
says the South may well, as it ia, be
glad of the election of Judge Van Wyck
as Mayor of that city, as he is a South
ern man not only in feeling, but by birth
and breeding, as be was born and raised
in South Carolina, had brother Killed
10 defense of the South, andis brother
iu.law of General Hoke, Of the Con.
federate army.
1t is reported here that the late cleo
ton has bred dissension in the republic
can party, and that Senator Hanna,
who still retains his influence with the
President, will see to it that MIR. Platt
shall no longer be recognized as the
dispenser of federal patronage in New
York.
Ex-senator Butler of South Carolina,
in talking to-day about the defeat OF
Senator German, said he had served
eighteen years with him in the o. S.
Senate, and in all that time, though ne
had observed him closely. he had never
discovered the faintest flaw either in
his personal or official conduct. Re-
publican Senators spoke in like manner
of MIR. German, one of them saying that
his defeat is national disaster. There
is already talk here of putting him on
the next national democratic ticket for
Vice-President.
The executive committee of the Ag-
new wing of the republican party OF
Virginia-the Wickham wing having
been rendered tunctus oficio by the re-
cent election, will meet here on the 9th
ms. ;, when, it is understood, they will
proceed to recommend Mr.. Brown Allen
for marshal and Mr.. Gleaves for attor-
new f3r the western district of their
State, and Mr.. Treat for marshal and
Mr.. Coles for assistant attorney for the
eastern district, irrespective of the OPP,
position of Congressman Walker and
Yost, who opposed them in the matter
of putting ticket in the field.
A Kentucky republican now here
says the combination between gold men
and republicans in his State is now
'sousted," and that Joe Blackburn or
some other rank silver democrat will
take Senator Lindsay's seat in the 0. S.
Senate.
Ex-senator NJ. G. Butler of South
Carol,ne, who has a law Office here, Il
talking about making his home in
Alexandria, taking the house on Prime.
.rreet now occupied by Major r. w.
Hunter.
Elk Senator Gibson, of Maryland.
alkiug to 'ay about the recent cleo
ZION 10 his State, said he was afraid
M,ryland ould now be republican
Safe permanently, and he was sorry
to say a S ate thsJ would turn down
such man as Mr.. German, is not one
of which its citizens could be very
proud.
Mr. Pat McCaul, the defeated republican
candidate for Governor of Virginia, has re
turned to this city. When he first heard Of
the largo majority by which the democrats
carried Fairfax county last Tuesday, he re
marked that the majority was larger than
The registered vote. But that was the only
indication of his not accepting his defeat with
e9uanimity.
There was some excitement in the brokers'
offices here to-day caused by tue general
slump in the stock market. Among the
stocks that suffered was the Southern Rall-
way.
General Fitzhugh Leo has returned to
Washington. and this morning before the
meeting of the Cabinet he called at the State
Department and later at the White House.
At the department he saw Secretary Sherman
and also Assistant Secretary Day, who had
Just returned to the city from Canton, Ohio.
The Consul General is here for the purpose OF
receiving any instructions that it Is deemed
necessary to give him before his departure for
his post at Havana, which vii! be as soon as
possible.