Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF tho Alexandria Gazette.
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vile. Secretary Alger mas fepHeu
that at present he cannot spare the
time to visit Jacksonville or other
camps, which he would like very much
to do, but states ne will 90 if an OPP
portunity offers later. On Saturday
next the Secretary will probably go to
New York with the President when
the latter inspects the troops at Mon
tauk.
tiyes Livingston and Bartlett, OF
Georgia. were at the War Department
to-day and offered the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton building and grounds as quarters
for the troops.
To day for the first time in the his
tory of the American army woman
was appointed member of the medical
stefi. DR.. Anita Newcomb MCGEE Was
regularly sworn in as an acting assist.
ant surgeon.
Ex-Secretary Hoke Smith OF Georgia.
now here, speaking of the proposi ion of
the Car OF Russia TO disarm all the
great nations of the earth, said: at is
an admirable suggestion. The propo.
out if four or five of the strongest ma
lions were to unite. l should like to
see the entire world put upon lasting
peace basis"
Messrs. Brown, Parr and Barksdale
of the 5th Virginia district are still
here. They came, they say, to assure
Chairman Agnew, of the republican
Of hot
party in their district is unit, with
not a kicker in it, though they &C
knowledge that one of their members
of the State committee is an anti Or
ganization man. They also say the
democrats there are not unit for Con-
gresham Swanson, and that unless
there be great cheating around the
board in Pittsylvania county, Mr.. Parr,
MS republican opponent, will beat him.
They also say they won't want any
money with which to carry on their
campaign if the democrats will only
allow fair election to be held, but
they confess they fear such will not be
the case, from the election judges that
have been appointed.
Some OF the officers of the volunteer
regiments that have been mustered out
of the service are now her., and some
of them say they havn't saved enough
money to pay for the expensive uni
forms they purchased when they were
commissioned.
1t is reported here that the order for
mastering out the Sd Virginia regi-
ment was hurried, in consequence OF
the trouble that regiment mad with
General Butler, and because of tie
obi sction its members had to saluting
negro officers.
a Pennsylvania republican now here
avs that while his State at the coming
election there will go republican, it wi
do so by greatly reduced majority, as
the Wanamaker influence is strong
there, and that it will be used against
the republican ticket, and the Quay
Stone combine by which it was nom
mated.
Prominent democrats, now here, SAY
that not only will the currency and au
income tax be features in the coming
Congressional campaign, but the con-
duct of the Spanish war also, and that
the needless suffering to which the SOL
djers have been subjected will be q
harp upon which the democratic spell
binders can play most effective tune.
Military men who have returned
from Porto Rico, say they know moth
ilg about the expedition to Santiago,
out that the one to Ponce can best be
described by saying it was perfect
junket so far as war is concerned, but
that its pleasures were sadly ma RE
By the fatality of the fevers that prevail
among uuacclimated people there.
Representative Bull of Rhode Island,
day requested the Navy Department
to order a number of naval vessels TO
Newport in order that the people oil
Rhode Island could pay their respect to
the officers and men of the navy.
The determination 10 court martial
General Miles WIS reached, it is said
mere, after ex-Secretary Sherman had
spoken his piece" about secretary Al
ger, vino, according to popular belief
s9duced the Sherman negro delegates
to the national republican convention.
It is needless to say that the democrats
here are not grieyed by this de
termination, as they say any
and all the investigations about
the war that may be made, must help
them. They also say that Mr.. Sher-
mans trip to Alaska and his rest from
official labor havs restored his mind, and
that he is now intent upon getting even
with Messrs. Hanna and Mckinley, who
played the trick by which he was ousted
from the Senate.
representative Wadsworth, Of New York,
is here today. He went to Santiago short
while ago and later visited Porto Rico and
has Just returned from the latter country.
he says ihst the sickness among the troops
there is becoming nearly as great as was tn ,
case at Santiago de Cuba. Fully 10 per cant.
of the men. ne says, have suffered from ma
arsl and typhoid fevers. The tropical rains
come down daily and the men are forced TO
sleep on damp ground. By the time they get
dried it rains again, making their condition
extremely uncomfortable.
An Ohio republican here to- lay, talking
with democratic acquaintance, said that
while it was not popular for him to say So,
he WAS utterly opposed to what seemed to
him to be the prevalent spirit Of territorial ag-
grandzement. His democratic acquaintance
told him that whether it was unpopular TO
say that now, he didn't know, but that he
didn't think it would be SIX months hence.
Mastering out is progressing as rapidly as
pc isib!e. Eight regiments were mustered out
Ofservice to-day.
THE CZAR WANTS PEACE.