Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, July %.


Department at noon to-day show that
there are now five transports at New
port News. One will arrive tonight,
one is expected tomorrow and one
Thursday. On Thursday the auxiliary
cruiser Harvard will also be available
aud on Saturday two more transports
are due. Next week four or five trans
ports will reach Newport News, max
ing about II troopships available for
Porto Rico. The vessels will depart as
fast as they are loaded.
The War Department to-day received
dispatch stating that the steamer AL
icante was ready to leave Martinique
for Santiago. She will take the first
ipstalment of Spanish prisoners.
Gen. Brooke and staff, it was said at
the war office this morning, should
reach Newport News, Va, to-day.
The greater part of General Haines
brigade was also due at that point this
morning. Part OF his troops reached
there yesterday afternoon. 1t is ex-
pected that a sufficient number of
transports to accommodate the COM
mand will reach Newport News in
time to get these troops under way by
Thursday.
Officers and workmen at the Wash.
ington navy yard were under great
strain for more than two weeks putting
the Princeton in first class shape, and
they hurried things when it was an.
nounced that President Mckinley and
his official family would take an outing
OF the vessel Saturday evening. They
polished her up beautifully, and had
the little ship decorated especially for
the occasion. The laborers even went
so far as to make new walk leading
to the anchorage of the Princeton. AL
most at the last moment Secretary
Long, who got up the trip, decided to
ignore the Princeton, and the seil down
the Potomac was on tug boat also be-
longing to the government.
About 900 beds for sick and wound
ed soldiers have been received at Fort
ress Monroe and the accommodations
at other points are ample for the pres
ent. Surgeon General Sternberg has
many offers Of the use of private es-
t&tes On the eastern coast. Reports re-
ceived by the Surgeon General indicate
that the wounds of soldiers injured in
the Santiago campaign are healing rap.
idly. Blood poisoning has occurred
only in the rarest cases. The wounds
from Mauser rifle bullets have in most
cases not been dangerous and they have
Welded promptly to the antiseptic
treatment.
The First and Second regiments OF
immunes situated at Galveston, Tex,
and Covington, La, have been ordered
TO Santiago, to form permanent garri
son in the city.
General Greeley says the nearest Ca
ole station accessible from the location
where Miles is likely to be, is st.
Thomas. From that island q cable
goes into San Juan, another into An
tigua, and still another through st.
Croix to Trinidad. There is q line from
San Juan to Kingston, Jamaica, and
also one from Ponce, on the south side
of the island to the same city. But, of
course Miles cannot get at these latter
lines until ne has captured San Juan or
Ponce or grappled the cables. The
chances are that Miles will steam to ST.
Thomas, a six hours run, and send his
first message from there. The San
Juan-St. Thomas line is owned by Eng
fish stockholders but is subsidized by
the Spaniards.
Lieut.. Carr, one of the rough riders
VINO was badly wounded in the battle
near Santiago, was given an audience
by the President who asked him many
questions regarding his experience.
Lieut.. Carr still limps badly but is on
the road to recovery.
Secretary Long being asked this
morning if any important naval move
would be made within the next few
days, said nothing had yet been def
nitely decided.
At the White House nothing further
had been heard from Gen. Miles. 1t is
the impression of the President and his
advisers that the troops have landed
but General Miles has probably been
too busy locating them desirably to
cable the authorities here.
A democrat from the Sth Virginia dis.
trict, here to-day, says some OF the re-
publicans in that district are complain.
ing because their sons will not be al
lowed to compete in the examination
TO be held in Alexandria next Wednes.
day for cadetship at Annapolis, but
he doesn't know why, as be never heard
OF republican Congressman putting
such a cadetship within the chance of a
democrat.
1t is said at republican headquarters
here that requests for money and docu-
ments from the 9th Congressional dis
trict OF Virginia have been received, but
that the reply TO them has been that it
is entirely too early for Virginia mat.
tiers to be considered. Il is also said
there that requests for money from
many other districts in the South have
reached there, but receive un-
favorable responses, as the hope of a
republican Congress depends upon the
North, and as both parties in the South
will vote all the men and money the
may want to carry on
the war-the main question of the next
Il is understood that the regular re-
i ublicans in Virginia, as bluff to the