Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.

WASHINGTON. Aug. III.
Secretary Long is so satisfied of the
end OF the war that he will leave here
his afternoon for his home at Higham
Mass, to be away several days and
possibly g week. His wife who is an
invalid has been at Higham for several
months during which time the Secretary
has been unable to visit her on account
of the activity in naval affairs.
The President this afternoon decided
upon the rewards for the chief officers
who took part in the naval battle of
Santiago on July 8. Sampson is pro.
| NOTED eight numbers, Schley is pro-
NOTED six numbers and both are made
rear admirals. Captain Clark will be
promoted one number more than the
other captains and Lieutenant Com.
msnder Wainwright goes up more
numbers than any other officers.
Colonel William Lamb and Mr.. Nc
Intosh, prominent lawyer of Norfolk,
interviewed the President to-day in be-
half of the Swede Anderson who was
convicted at Norfolk of the murder of
the captain and mate of the schooner
Olive Pecker at Rio Jeneiro some time
ago. The papers in the case are now
before the Department of Justice and
have not yet reached the President.
People here to-day from Camp Alger
say the account Of the affair there yes
lerday was greatly exaggerated, and
that General Butler, by issuing his, or.
der in respect of it, has made noun
tain out of a mole hill. A negro team
ster attempted to put himself on On
equality with Virginia soldier whom
he subsequently assaulted, and when
the soldiers comrades heard that the
assault was being made, they naturally
ran to his assistance, and when they
had whipped the assailant they return
ed to their camp. General Buffers or.
der, they say, so fustered some of the
regiment that Chairman Agnew, the
Governor and the Attorney Gen
eral of Virginia, and other per.
sons were telegraphed for to come
here and exert their influence in
behalf of the regiment which General
Buffers order says has disgraced itself
and its State. They also call attention
to the various misbehaviors and loot
ings and grave dissertations committed
By Northern troops from Camp Aleer:
SO TO the recent riot of negro tro DDS
at Tampa, about which no orders have
been issued, and say that some Southern
men are so DESTROYS of showing their
thankfulness to the administration for
appointing them, that they take part
against their own people and sre even
harsher toward them than Northern
officers are.
In respect Il the business con-
di ion of this city, two of the lead
ing grocery merchants here, one
on Pennsylvania avenue and the
other on F street, told the Ga
zette's correspondent to cay, they had
never, in all their experience, known
business so dull. One said his sales
were not only less than in former years,
but that he mad more difficulty in col
lecting what was due him. He en-
ployed man, he said, to do his col.
lectiug, but he didn't think his collec.
tons paid his salary.
Ex-Congressman J. r. Brown, who
has been here to get help from the ma
tlonal republican committee, was I'M.
successful and went back home yester-
day. All the counties in bis district
have declared for him except Henry.