Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria GaHe.te.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.

Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gaze.te.]
WASHINGTON, Nov. s.
The government departments here are
as bare of employees to day as they were
when the British took the city in 1914
and when the CoDfederates could have
taken it in 1861. Nearly all the EN-.
ployees are Northern republicans and
negroes, most of the former having
gone to New York, Pennsylvania, In
diana and Ohio, and many OF the latter
to Maryland, to vote the republican
ticket. OF the few democrats among
them, few have gone awsy.
General Miles's report has not yet
been published, but it is known to con-
tain severe structures upon both Score.
tsry Alger and General Shafter, and
come of the Generals friends in Con-
gress. will, it is understood, demand
frat it be made public.
Now that the action of the President
il the case of Captain Garter, convicted
OF stealing millions of government
money and sentenced by court martial
to heavy fine and imprisonment in
the penitentiary, can not effect the
election, it has been made public. The
Captain will not go to the penitentisry,
and his fine will be only $1,000, which
he can we'll afford to pay.
The football teams of the University
of Virginia apd Georgetown College
played game here on the grounds Of
the latter to-day, and almost as much
Washington money was bet on it as on
the election. The University boys are
in good trim and are confident OF vic
tory.
There is a current rumor aloat here
to-day to the effect that as the Navy
was opposed to raising not only the
Maria Teresa, but any of the
other sunken vessels, including the
Maine, the efforts to save the former
were not persisted in as long as they
might have been.
A democratic ex-senator from the
South, now here, talking about the cleo.
ton in progress to-day, said he really
didn't care much how it would result,
except in the case of North Carolina
where, he said, mis- natural feelings in-
duced him to hope tbs democrats
would be able to defeat the last at
tempt to enforce negro domiDancy
upon white people. And yet, he con'
tinued, with the experience of North
Carolina before their eyes, the jingoes
would impose upon the government
the care of ten million more people, les6
intelligent and more barbarous than
these of North Carolina.
Secretary Long and other officials at
the Navy Department are SO we'll sat
isfed that there is something in the re.
port that the Maria Teresa is ashore at
Cat Island, that orders were telegraph.
"a this morning to the repair ship Vul
an at Norfolk and the wrecking tug
Potomac at Santiago to sail at once for
that place. The Maria Teresa was
abandoned only about so miles from
Cat Island and the storm was driving
her directly toward it. 1t is remem'
bered from the report of Captain Har'
ris that she was taking in all the water
al the bow and none at the stern. This
may have been due to the fact that she
was being towed and as soon IS the
tow line was released she might have
righted herself.
A farmer from the lower Potomac
here to-day, said he had recently come
up to buy his winter supplies and hac
tried the markets of both Alexandra
aud this city, and that he must say be
made better and more satisfactory bar
gains in Alexandria than it was possible
for him to make here.
The amount of money that is being
wagered here on the election is almost
as great as upon tie occasion of a Pre-
sidential election. Probably $4,000
will change hands 10 this city. 1t Ii
estimated that S1.000,000 will change
hands in New York city.