Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1881-05-31
goicgs; it is overhauliug his accounts with The
Gas Company, crookednoss of which is said to DO
apparent, and also his relations with III, Old Dis


Gas Company, crookedno:s of which is said to DO |
apparent, land also his relations with Ii old Dis
triot ring as regards pavirg contracts, by wach,
it is SAID. he proitted largely. Taess invassi.
cations are going on simultaneously with those
of the star route sWindle, and the certainty CT
detection, exposure, t!ial and Conviction is 50
depressing that it has made him really sick. his
spirits are said to have broken doWo, and the
contrast between his present con iition and Vhat
it was at tho time of the Dsmonico dinner last
winter is so great that even bis enemies feel
sorry for him.
The Investigations 10 the airs of the Tress.
ury and Star route crookedness ara still in pro-
gress and the opinions Oh the SUI .ci have set
tied into the conviction thst tbs charges will be
sustained. and that some Of thoss implicated ip
the Star route swiudle will graz, the pepiten-
tlary II they do not get into it. 1t is also said
that Dorsey is reVeugeful aud that if be is
caught he will make it his business to sec that
others now dear 10 the affections Of tho republi.
CAD party shall suffer withSim,
The lost model of the YorktoWn monument,
unlike tho lbs: art, has been discovered, and is
now on exhibition at the War Department.
The echo point in tho ststuary hall of tho
Capitol is famous but ono. destined to become
more famous, hss recently been discovered. 1t
Is near the Senate chamber. aud standing on it
every word that is uttered in that chamber can
be dlsiaolly heard. Some of those who have
heretofore been suspected of divuIsiug tho So
crets OF tho tXecuIl7e session of The Senate
lmagloe that this discovery will relieve them of
that suspicion.
As all the fuad5 for public printing fr tho
current fsc.l yeer have been exhausted, lhe
employees 10 the document rooms at the Cari.
toll aud these who have to prepare matter for
the Public PIloter are having rest, on tIll
pay however, and will e., ~ it until tho first of
July, when the appropriation TO. The next year
will become available.
Gentlemen hero from different paris Of Ohio
say that tho support and vote Mr.. Pendleton
gave to the Stanlty Matthews nomipa,ion fer
Associate Justc, of the Supreme Court are not
q: ell satisfactory to the democrats of that late.
and that the estimation in which hs WAS held
BY his parry Of home has suffered to Nd little
degree 10 cons; qlenoc.
Many newspaper correspondents have already
gone TO Richmond TO write up the Mahonite
convention to assemble there mex! Thursday,
and miry more will 80. The impression here
respec lDg the action of that convention will be
that its ckct will be Cameron, dem ,cratio Ma
homie, fVr Governor; Lewis, the * Senator,
republican, for Lieutenant Governor. and Blair,
dsnccraic Mahonitc, who wants the principle
OF read l;tment applied SO we'll to the national
as to the State debt. for Attorney General.
Ihe lstts! resp;c lag the Presidents relations
with the Mahooitss is that be is still friendly
toward them, hut inst as Mr. Blaine is urquts
tlonally power with him. whether be controls
him or no., end as Mr.. Blsioe. Mr.. Dsfrees
aud others of the tioIds upon whom he relies
are uttery opposed 10 Malone, and gro con.
| santly advising & inst gvrg him any asss-
tauce, lis Iraseut leaning toward him must in
the end be changed. The republicans will ce:-
talnly held cluVention, tu. probably not until
after the democrats have held theirs in Au.
gast, and will then b. tho better prepared to
determine Whistler OF rot TO adopt the Malone
ticket. A largo and il 6uential number of them
| ere uttolly opposed 10 any coalition or afilia-
tloo With hlahooe, now or at soy other time,
| and. unless the Administration snail Instruct
them otherwise, viii nut q sraig ht ticket 10 the
field and keep il theirs irrcl ,cive of oouse-
quences, deemlr 6 it tho better polio, to be des
ieated 10 Whatthey c)rceive to be good course,
rather than lad what, at best, will be forlorn
hope. IN what every right thinking man Of al
parties is c'nvicocd is a bad ono.
Mr.. 5. n. Gar%oOd is another Alexandria
who has lost his posi- len as clerk ia the Census
bureau.
1t is ruuorcd to day tia. 10 oopst 1cucc Of
the testimony eiveo By otcamholt captain 10
the employ OF the Alexandra L Try Company
sgalrsi the Efficiency OF the goverpm aut iuspec.
tors the latter have put the c)mpauy to some
expense by directing hem 10 have UNNECESSARY
work done on one of their boats. There Is
another luuor 10 the offci that some of the
iospe c:ors of this dis rc: nre 10 dsrg OF losing
their plnoCs.