Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-07-19
(Signed)
SHAFTER.

When Gen. Miles will leave Cuba for
Porto Rico is not definitely known.
l. is reported that he will proceed with
the four light batteries now on the
Yale and some of the Santiago troops
without delay, but his orders are such
rs will allow him to use his own judg-
ment. From what can be learned here
it seems to be the plan to have Gen.
Miles land in the vicinity of San Juan
and establish base of operations. At
the point selected by him the other
forces will land. The organization Of
the army of invasion will be perfected
at this point and the advance on San
Juan begun when the entire forces as
semble.
General Shafter telegraphs to the
War Department this morning that the
roster of the prisoners was handed in
this afternoon by General Toral. The
total is 22,7S9.
The President to-day made the fol-
lowing appointments Robert A.
Friedrich, of California. to be Marshal
of the United States for the District OF
Alaska; Tsin Ching Chung to be inter
prefer of the Consulate of the United
States at Canton, China. The United
States Consulate at Canton is one OF
the important ones in the Orient that
has been minus au interpreter. The
consul there is DR.. Edward Bedloe, Of
Philadelphia, who represented the gov
eminent during the Harrison admins
tration at Annoy.
The latest reports received at the
War Department show that 6,2G0
troops have embarked at Tampa and
are ready to sail for Porto Rico. The
brigade of Col. Ernst is still at Charles
ton awaiting transport. Gen. Haine's
brigade were last night ordered from
Chickamauga to VIEWPOINTS News.
Some Kentucky and southern troops
with four light batteries now at Chick
amauga have also received orders to
proceed to Newport's News. The sail
ing of the Tampa forces had not yet
been reported to the War Department
at II o'clock.
The President received very few
callers this morning previous to the
Cabinet meeting. Senators Carter,
Cannon and Martin were among the
number. Each introduced constitu-
ents seeking com missions in the army.
An official report received at the
Navy Department to-day says that late
one night when no firing was going on
at Santiago shell dropped on the spar
deck of the Indiana and burst without
warning. No flash was seen and no
report was heard. The explosion de-
stroyed the ceilings of several state
rooms, but no one was wounded.
Whence the shell came is mystery.
The official report says that it was an
81 inch mortar shell. The Spaniards
used no mortars and none of such large
calibre was taken to Santiago by Gen.
Shafter.
A prominent resident of the city,
talking about the depression of indus
try here, said to-day he was firmly of
the opinion that the lack of employ
ment and the inability to discern any
in the immediate future, were the chief
causes that saved the city from having
any trouble about raising its regiment
Tor the Spanish war. He also said that
for the ten watchmen's places at sur
lace railroad crossings within the city's
limits, created by Congress- at it's re-
cent session, he had signed the petit
lions of at least thousand men, many
Of them good and reliable mechanics,
but unable to get work.
Gen. Miles did not start for Porto
Rico yesterday, but will, it is expected,
get away to-day. The delay was owing
TO failure TO receive the necessary or.
ders. Secretary Alger declared to-day
that the plans for the Porto Rican
expedition were being executed with
out the slightest hitch. Secretary AL
ger declined to-day to announce the
list of troops that comprise the Porto
Ricau eXpt dition. He said that it was
still subje to change.
The Bowden republicans of Virginia
here say, now that Capt. Pat McCaull
has repented Of his ways in following
au innocent Lamb to the slaughter pen,
and has come back to join the army OF
The true followers of the grand old |
party of republicans, he shall be saved |
by the redeeming political grace of Col |
lector George Bowden, who holds the |
key to the door of all the federal pa-
tronage in Virginia, and without whose |
sanction no one enters into official |
life in the republican ranks in Virginia. |
Senator Martin of Virginia was here
to-day, but only for short while. |
Some of the people of his State who
still want to seek glory or something
else IN the war were awaiting him here,
and with them he went to the War
Department and the White House.
A dispatch received here to-day from
Tampa to the effect that yellow fever
had broken out there, induced an expe-
rienced Southern physician, now here,
to say that he would not be at all sur.
prised if that disease should appear in
all the Southern cities, first in those
that have had communication with
Cuban ports.
Telegraph advices state that there is
growing hostility between the Ameri-
can an Cuban troops, which may end
in disastrous collision with arms.
a full balloon service will be fea-
ture OF the expedition to Porto Rico.
Each army corps will be equipped with
q balloon of moderate size for the OBJ
servation Of the enemy's forces. The
big balloon sent up on Skaters skirm-
ISL line and perforated by Spanish bull
lets near Santiago is on thaway to
Tam pa where new supply of gas will |
be obtained.