Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-18
FROM WASHING TON.
OF the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON. Aug. is.

n y. :, reporting the ARRIVAL OF tue trans
port ship LaGraude Duchesse, with the
list New York volunteers on board.
rni, is the regiment whose action at
Slu,iago was criticised by its own gen
eral. The District of Columbia volun-
teers. under Col. Geo II. Harries, after
refusing transportation twice on the
transport ship Catania, which carried
them to Santiago, are expected to en-
bark on one OF the transports now at
Santiago and will, in that event, reach
Montauk Point early next week where
thew will remain for several weeks.
The Fifth u. S. Infantry, now at
Tampa, have be IN ordered to leave to.
morrow for Santiago. 1t is intended
that they shall help preserve order
among the insurgents.
The sites for dry docks will soon be
chosen at Portsmouth, Boston, League
Island and Mare Island.
Past Assistant Surgeon John Car
michael of the Marine Hospital Ser
vice, has been detailed by the Presi-
dent for duly at Honolulu. though no
attempt has yet been made TO establish
a station at mat port.
In reference 10 the mastering out OF
soldiers, General Corbin says that the
regiments will be sent home TO the
place of recruitment for muster out,
which will be promptly entered upon.
In the case Of States which were not
atle to fill their quota and had to re-
crut from other States, it is under
stood that the troops will be sent home
for muster out to the State IN which
they were recruited, or that State
which they represent, and the men
who were enlisted from other States.
as in the instance OF men being taken
from Illinois to fill the States quota
in North Carolina, will be mustered out
in the State in which they were mus
tered in and will afterwards return
10 their State camps and then be dis
charged.
1t is understood that $4,000 or more
will be taken from troops under the
,econd call. In some instances, regi
ments OF this Glass have only been PAL
TALLY organized. In other instances,
regiments have been fully organized,
but have not yet been supplied with
arms and ammunition and are really
uothing N IRE or less than raw and mex
Derienced men. These regiments will
be Immediately disbanded. Those who
left profitable employment will be al
lowed to resume their former occupa-
lions with the least possible delay.
Che regular army as it is now consti-
tuted consists of about $4,000 men and
will remain at this figure until Con-
gress makes provision for it's furth-
er enlargement. 1t is the inten-
ton of the administration to allow
the regulars to monopolize the garrison
duty in Cuba and Porto Rico as far as
they will hold out. After the Spanish
soldiers evacuate Cuba, it is stated on
nigh authority that &c, 900 men in the
island will suffice for every purpose;
10000 in Porto Rico will cover every
need; il it be decided by the peace com.
mission to hold the city and bay of Ma
Mia, 10000 will be more than sufficient
in any emergency; $4,000 in the United
States and 5000 distributed between
Hawaii and West Indian possessions,
needs of the government. This est.
mate would necessitate the increase Of
the leg llar establishment to a figure
approxlmatiug 80 900 or 100000 men,
which figure is but little in excess OF
that decided upon some time ago.
Chairman EIlyson OF the democratic
committee of Virginia who was here
last night said the democrats OF his
State are in good condition and that
many of them anticipate the election of
4 solid democratic congressional dele
CATION next fall. He says the demo-
cratic nominee in the OH district is one
Of the best canvassers in the State.
Colonel "Lige" White of Loudoun
county, accompanied by two OF his sons,
left here yesterday evening for Atlantic
City.
The following changes in the 4th
class postofiices of Virginia were made
to-day: NJ. S. Bratton appointed post
master at Boiler, Bath county. vice
T. G. E.kle, removed: j, E. Wilson
appointed postmaster at Meadow
Creek, Grayson county, vice Josiah
Davis, removed; Andrew Stone ap
pointed postmaster at Union Mills,
Fluvana county, vice D. ]. Sclater, re.
moved.
Those here who know Col. Roosevelt,
of the "Rough Riders" say that after
he resigns, which he intends to do, now
that the war is over, he will let the
public know what opinion he has of
secretary Alger, who made public
private letter he had written to him.
From statement just published by
the pension bureau it appears that no
fewer than 1860 new names were
added to the pension rolls last year
thirty three years after the close of the
war.
An intelligent and we'll informed
democratic politician from North Caro-
lima, who arrived here this morning.
says his party has strong hope of re-
claiming that SITS te, as the populists there
are divided or the question OF union
with the republicans, as the colcr line
has been raised in nearly all the coun.
ties, and as the white people have
hundred thousand majority.
From the Petersburg, Virginia, con-
gressional district, it is lear 81 that a
negro named T. S. Jones who is in
the governments employ ment here, is
the accepted candidate of his race for
Congress there, and that some of the
white republicans in that district are so
dissatisfied with the way in which they
have been treated by their party, that
they are taking little or 10 interest in