Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexsndris Gazette.
WASHINGTON. July is.

for Santiago. They will be assigned to
garris IN duty there.
There was throng of callers at the
White House as early as 10 o'clock this
morning, but outside of his official fam
lily, the President gave audience to no
one until some time after l., and that
was Senator German, of Maryland.
Attorney General Griggs was closeted
20 minutes or more with the President
and after that Secretaries Day, Alger
and Long came over. The President
received in the East Room to-day the
members OF the Georgia Editorial Asso.
citation and the leaders of the party.
\ telegram was received at the War
Department this morning stating that
Brigadier General Dufield was down
with yellow fever at the Siboney hos
pital. Gen. Dufiield comes from Detroit
.nd commanded the brigade composed
O. the Sixth Massachusetts, 39rd and
$4th Michigan.
Mr.. Richard Sylvester, appointed to
succeed William G. Moore as Major and
Superintendent of the District police,
qualified by taking the oath OF office
.o.day.
The authority possessed by General
McKibbin in the city of Santiago is ex-
planned ct the War Department to be
absolute commander under martial law
of the place which is considered exactly
as if it were a fort or post. General
Shafter continues in supreme control OF
all the conquered territory and he has
delegated to General McKibbon the
command of the force of occupation Of
the city itself. The civil government
OF the municipality has been continued
but General McKibbin will supervise
its acts. He will use his soldiers to
police the place and it is the under.
standing that he will at once take ad-
vantage of his authority to clean up the
city and abate its sanitary nuisances
As soon as Guanabacoa and Buracoa
surrender General Shafter is conf
IDENTIFY expected to send garrisons to
those places, with Generals in COM
mand. 1t is not likely that any attempt
will be made to assume control of the
smaller interior towns, but they will
be left to the Cubans. Gen. Shafter
has expressed desire to return to this
country as soon as he can be relieved
of command by an officer of sufficient
rank and it is thought he will be per
mitted to start for home before the end
of the present week.
1t is still denied in official circles
that any tangible offers of peace have
come directly or indirectly from Spain.
Congressman, army officers and others
of prominence at the White House to-
day generally expressed the opinion
that hoslilites would continue some
time.
Samuel W. Small was to-day ap.
pointed chaplain in the army. He
was formally q Georgia newspaper
man, be then became an evangelist and
lecturer aud more latterly has been do.
ing newspaper work in connection with
preaching.
The members of the naval war
board with Secretaries Long and Alger
were at the White House promptly at
ten o'clock this morning and remained
for more than an hour. AS usual
they were relicent concerning the
subjects of the discussion, but it is
believed they were the disposition to
be made of the forces about Santiago
and the details of the Porto Rico expe.
dItion.
Henry A. Wise and John S. Wise, jr.,
appointed captain and first lieutenant,
respectively, OF the fourth volunteer in.
fAntry, bat not confirmed by the Senate,
were re-appointed by the President to.
day.
Congressman James Hamilton Lewis
was informed to day by several of the
high government officials that no more
roops would be sent to the Philippines
unless au emergency should arise there
requiring an additional detail, and that
is not looked for. Mr.. Lewis called at
the departments in the interests of COM
mands in the State of Washington.
They have been mustered in, and want
to do active service.
Representative De Almond of Mis-.
souri, is here to-day, on his way home
from New York. There are several
aspirants for the Speakership of the
next House should it be democratic, of
whom Nj. De Almond is said to be
one, but Mr.. Bailey's friends think that
in the contingency referred to, he holds
the winning cards.
Applications have already been made
at the Treasury for permission to estab.
lish national banks at Havana, Porto
Rico, Manila and Santiago.
Senator Stewart, who is still here,
puts no faith in the talk of an early
close of the war, and says there is
nothing in sight that warrants it.
No appointments under the commits.
sion for the Paris exposition have vet
been made, but as there are said to be
forty thousand letters in the State De-
partment in respect to that exposition
from American citizens, requiring an
swers. it is expected that some will be
made in short time Among the ap.
plications for such positions are sew
eral from Virginia.
Mr.. Frank Hume and other ex.
Confederates from this city left here this
afternoon for Atlanta. to attend the
grand reunion OF the Confederate Vet
Grams, to meet there the Goth inst.
4 rumor was current in the Treasury be,
psrtment this morning thst 3 vessel arriving
81 Baltimore from Germany, with $50 immi-
grants. has bean held up at quarantine be-
cause of the existence Of smallpox among the
passengers. The quarantine ct that port be-
ing under local control, no report gas made
to the federal officials, aud the rumor could
not be confirmed here
Mr.. Woodward, of the firm of Woodward &
Lothrop, leading retail merchants of this city,
has purchased about fifty acres Of land near
Bsliston, in Alexsndr county, on which he
will hond-n,,,n raci6annn nd oh