Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-03


legation guards. The cruiser Baltimore
has been ordered with all possible dis
patch" to Tien Tsin, the port of Pekin,
China's capital, to guard American in
terests.
1t is reported that the President has
rendered the appointment of Assistant
Secretary of State to DR.. Hill, president
OF the Rochester. N. Y, University.
All the troops constituting the army
in field now at northern camps includ-
ing Camp Meade, Lexington and
Knoxville will be sent to new.
ly established camps in the south
about November /. The South
ern camps are to be established by
orders issued by the War Department
this afternoon. Those at Admission, and
Huntsville will be retained and in adj
dition the sites selected by General
Schwan in Georgia and South Carolina
or most of them will be utilized. They
are Columbia. Greenville and Spartans-
burg, S. c., and Augusta, Athens, At
lanta, Macon, Columbus, Americas and
Albany, Georgia. The next troops to
go to Cuba will be taken from Admission
and Huntsville and these will be fol-
lowed by those at Jacksonville.
Mr.. VIM. ]. Bryan, accompanied by
his wife, left Washington at II O'Clock
this morning over the Southern Railway
for the South. Mr.. Bryan will stop en-
route at Hot Springs for few days
rest. He is much improved in health.
After leaving the resort Col. Bryan
will Join his regiment at Pablo Beach,
Fla.
1t is generally understood that Gen.
Wade will have command of
the army of occupation in Cuba, and
that Gen. Lee will be assigned to the
command of one Of the three military
departments into which the territory is
to be divided.
The scarcity OF money in general cir.
culaton effects the ''sports" as it does
every body else. That this is so is
made evident by the fact that the bust.
ness at the St. Asaph pool room has
fallen off to such an extent that half
the clerks and other employees there
have been discharged.
As expected, the republican congress
sional campaign committee have recog.
nzed Congressman Thorp as the reg
ular republican candidate for Congress
in the Petersburg, Virginia, district,
and say that Jones, his negro rival, has
no right to be o republican candidate
in that district, and that, too, though
the negroes supply almost the entire
republican vote in that district. Re-
publicans from the district, now here,
, say the negroes there will vote for
Jones, all the same.
Ex-senator Blair of New Hampshire,
who is now here, is pronounced sup
porter of the administration, and says
| he feels assured that the commission
appointed by the President to investi-
gate the conduct of the late war will
find that if there be any fault with it,
that fault will be neither at the White
House or at the War Department.
| Anglers here say the number Of blacl;
bass, and the size thereof, caught in the
waters near this city this season are
surprising; that such fish heretofore
have been rare 10 the waters referred
to, but that now they afford them their
best sport. They say some weighing
q pound and half were caught at Four
Mile run and in Hunting creek at AL
exsndria yesterday, some even in what
is known as Tan Yard ditch in that
city.
Gen. Wheeler was at the War De.
partment this morning. He will ap.
pear before the army investigating com
mission tomorrow, and next day. or
any other day, ifrequired, and testify Ia
the effect that the errors of the war, il
any, &C uld not have been avoided IN.
der existing conditions. The General
says he expects to go to Cuba soon, but
hopes to occupy his seat in Congress
early in December; but the President
has treated him with so much consider.
alton that if he shall want him to stsy
in Cuba any longer, he will gladly do so,
Congress or no Congress. The General
says he did climb tall tree in the fight
at Santiago to see what was going CD,
and that as it had no branches near the
ground, he first got up smaller one,
near it, that had such branches, and
then swung over to the taller one.
| Democrats from New York here to-day say
Mr.. Jefferson Levi of that city, the owner OF
Monticello, in Virginia, has been slated by
tho Tammany democracy for Congressional
nomination in one of the districts.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania is here
to-day on business connected with govern
ment contracts. People from his State say
! that a warrant has been issued for the arrest
of his colleague Senator Quay, who is charged
with being partner of Hopkins, the cashier
of the Peoples Bank of Philadelphia, who
| defaulted and committed suicide.
1t Is stated here that Mr.. James Keen, the
Wall street specuator, profited to the extent
of q million and a half in the stock of the
tobacco trust last week.
The demand for the muster out of troops
continues with sufficient persistence 10 con-
vince the War Department officials that re-
organization of the army will be necessary.
The Chimes Minister here says: We know
nothing officially of the rumored death of the
Emperor. 1t would be highly improper for
me to make any comment. l cannot and
will not say anything until We are officially
informed of his DEATH"
The President has received ceblegram an.
nouncing the arrival OF Gen. Merritt at Paris.
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