Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-04-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
fUorreqpondance OF the Alexandris Gazette.
Washington, April 10.

Manila, Aprll ~.
Lawton returned from lake country
I7th inst, bringing captured vessels.
Insurgents much scattered. Retreat
before our forces. Await opportunity
10 attack attachments. Better class OF
people tired OF war and desire peace.
Euemy huid nope on return OF volun-
,eers 10 United States. Its army much
demoralized and loss by desertlon and
death large. VIII probably prosecute
Guerilla warfare, looting and burning
towns which it occupies. Health and
spirits of troops good. Volunteers re-
turn will commence about May 5. Will
render willing service until return
transports are available. Embarkation
will continue through Jnne and July.
Reports from Visayan islands continue
very encouraging.
The examination of applicants for
positions ia the Census Bureau will be-
Tin next week in the Maltby building
rwenty-!oul will be disposed of each
CAV. The morning session will be de-
voted TO arithmetic exclusively. In the
afternoon the applicants will be tried
in English and general information and
,iven chance to sec what they can do
with the punching machines. More
han half of the supervisors have al
ready heen decided upon by the Sena-
rors and Congressmen, and it is believ-
ed that the President will begin making
appointments in this class within the
! next week or ten dayg.
Dinop OOn1ioi lf.i tO
Washington today submitted to She
President a petition expressing the
wishes of the people OF Porto Rico.
rhev ask that the civil government be
aiken out of the hands of the War De-
Dartment and transferred to those de-
oartments of the government to which
hey rightfully belong, anc that the
army in Porto Rico be reduced to such
,umbers as are strictly necessary for
harrison duty. They also request that
natives be considered at once citizens
# the United States entitled to all the
rights as such, including that q self
government; that census be taken to
deGermine whether Porto Rico be or
ganiZed as territory or admitted as q
State of the American union, and that
trade between the island and the United
States be absolutely free. The Presi.
tent accepted the document but did
not intimate what action would be
taken in the matter. :
Richard A. Johnson was appointed
postmaster at Bethel AcaGeGy. Eau
auier county, today, vice Edgar W.
Heillin, resigned.
A dispatch from Berlin announces
that Germany is willing to accede to q
division of the Samoan Islands as pro-
proposed by the United States.
| lieutenant Lang has been dismissed
from the army. The President today
approved the finding OF the court mar
| .ial. Lang was accused Of conduct I'M
becoming an officer in stopping at q
boarding house here with woman not
| mis- wife.
The statement to the effect that Mr..
! Speaker Reed has determined to re-
! sign his seat in Congress and accept q
salary as large as That OF the President,
- couusel for rich corporations in New
York. affords no more delight to any
BODY than it does to the administra-
/ ZION. He has been aptagonistic to 1t
from the first, because he feels that he
/ would nave been President had 1t not
| been for the fat MIR. Hanna fried out OF
| Inc protected trusts; ne opposed the
SPANISH war, aud Is dead against ex-
D9usion: has been constant clog TO ii,
sud his resignation viii be great re-
lief. and no matter vino may be elected
Speaker, it will never have i'll his place
! i man who will consult with II and
with whom it can consult.
General Miles says he is not in the
least annoyed or even concerned about
the determination of the court of in
uuiry TO report that his charges against
ne commissary and quarternlaster de-
partments have not been sustained, as
he people know they have been, and
With that, 10 is perfectly satisfied. The
administration will stick to Eagan and
he Armours, though the officers IN the
field swear the meat was ''embalmed;"
out in a country Of unrestricted sui
frage, everything the administration
does goes"
The students of the Methodist girls
school at Roanoke, Virginia, have gust
zone home, and those of the Hollins
Institute, in the same section of
Virginia, will arrive here tomorrow,
also on sightseeing trip.
The capture OF boat load of u. ;.
sailors by the Filipinos yesterday has
Elongated al the faces at the Navy
Department, but all of those who talk
there say that should any harm come
10 She prisoners this country will draw
it's sword and Stay thousands OF the
capturers, and that, too, though the
American soldiers moved down" Fill
oinos engaged in defending their own
homes aud fresides.
General Wade Hampton is here and
is now Interested in mining operations,
the chief, if not Che only business in
which capital is now being invested IN
the South. The General is quite an
old man now, but he manages to get
along on his one leg as well as he ever
did.
Peopie from different parts of Vir-
ginia here today say they hear very
little now Of the proposed Richmond
convention and that some OF the few
who were advocating it week On two
ago, seem to have lost all interest IN 1t
since they have realized that it is only
an anti-Martin movement.
People here familiar with the condl'
ton of the health Of Senator Jones say
his recovery is not as rapid as it was
hoped it would be, and that his physl-
clans advise that he resign his position
as chairman of the nstional democratic
nor,, no t1oo an6 harahu I.aliava himsalf