Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-14
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Special correspondence oil tue Ale4anoria Sn@estS'l
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. IA, 1882
Rumors OF Cabinet changes arc increasing
1t is we'll known that the President has
never been in thorough accord with the
members of his Cabinet, though they,
with degree of subserviency incom-
patibc with true manhood, have strlv-
en- to be in accord with him. They were
appointed with Il view TO reconcile the two
wings of the party, and it was impossible
that the President ever could be intimate
with some of them. Chandler, for instance,
was put in to conciliate BlainCs personal
followers, andhc asalways been looked up
on as Il traitor in the camp. 1t is now said
that Folger will resign about the hrst ofthc
year, and some credcncc is attached to this
from the fact that New, the Assistant Sec
rotary, still holds on, for he regards his pres
cnt position as no better than that of
clerk. Bat the inner tubmen say that though
Folger may go, New will never take his
place, as there is no help in him. Seven to
eight Bradley will resign on full pay
about the first of February and
Foiger, it is thought, will get his place on
the Supreme Bench. Howe will 60, and
homes chief alder and abettor in the De-
partment, Mr.. Frank Hatton, but here, too,
the inner tub men interfere, and say that
he is too light weight for the postotiice,
and that such an appointment wont do.
Mr.. Lincoln will also retire, it is said, and
be Il candidate for the Senate from his State,
and his place be flied from the South, as
the President, having lost his grip in the
North, is now fully determined to endeayor
to retrieve his losses by striving for gains i'll
the South. Frelinghuysen, according to
the latest rumor, is the only man in the
Cabinet the President respects, and he and
Teller. who represents the extreme West,
will probably be retained. Such is the gist
Of the multitude of rlimors a1oat, and some
of which, if not all, may have thread upon
which to hang.
Senator Vest, OF Missouri, who is now in
the city. in an interview this morning, said
that if he had the organization of the House
he would make Carlisle, of Kentucky,
Speaker Stcnger, Of Pennsylvania, clerk !;
| Thompson, Sergeant ut Arms; Field Door
keeper. and give the Postotlice to the Pacific
slope. With regard 10 the next Presidency,
which every one now comedies to the dem
ocrats. he said that if Cleveland shall make
good Coy crnor and show that he can
maintain the restored union Of the several
wings of the democracy in his State, he
would be the most available democratic
candidate for President, and should have
Mcdonald, Of Indiana, on the ticket with
him for Vice President.
Judge GarriS on arrived here this morning
from Accomac county, and went on through
to Richmond. He says he is not only fairly
elected, but is elected by the official returns
Of ali the precincts in his. the first, district
in Virginia. He doesn't think it possible
for the Malone returning board to refuse
| him the certificate, but if they do he will
have no difficulty III obtaining his seat, for
he has proof of fraud in one district alone
sufficient to give him the scat, and then,
too, MI the pardoned negro convicts in his
district voted, though their civil disabilities
ha,i not been removed.
| Fostmastcr-G General Howe has ordered
that free delivery system be established at
| Lynchburg, Virginia, on January Isl next,
to begin with six letter carriers
From All quarters Of Virginia reports are
pouring in Of frauds committed by the Ma
honcitcs at the late election in that State.
Thousands Of votes it is said were cast upon
illegal tax receipts, and hundreds by non
residents, convicts and other per-
SONS not entitled to vote, and in
Vulnerable frauds it is said were
committed in the counting, as proved by the
fact that the returns from some precincts
make no mention Of ballots known to have
been cast at them. The proof of fraud is
said 10 be sufficient to give Mr. Massey his
scat with the counted plurality against
him ten thousand instead of thirty-ive
hundred. Mr. Massey is looked upon here
as member elect of the next Congress, and
but few people think he will have any
trouble in having the scat awarded him.
Sir. DcZcularf SAYS that from what he knows
OF the methods employed by The Mahoneites
in his, the I'd district, he has no doubt that
Masscy's contest will be successful.
Recent investigations commenced in the
Land Office have revealed the fact that the
public lands in Dakota Territory are now,
and have been for some time past, in the
control of land ring that has several inner
| rings: and that thereby the Government has
been swindled TO an enormous extent.
General Malone is still in Petersburg.
and will probably not return here until the
commencement of the next session Of Con-
grcss In the meantime he will visit New
York.
The President has not yet returned, but
though he knows that Spencer ran away to
avoid telling what he knew about the Star
route swindlc, and that Miller told what he
knew to the swindler's counsel instead of to
the Government, he has said nor done any
thing that even suggests the idea Of the re-
moval of either Of those parties from the
places they fill
The official returns of the recent election
in Maryland show the rather remarkable
fact that outside Of the city Of Baltimore
that State is republican.
Instead Of gaining in the South at the re-
cent election, the republicans have lost two
members Of the House from that section.
They have twenty-five Southern members
of the present House, but will only have
twenty Of the next
Mr.. Willie Peachy, formerly of Alexan-
dria, but more recently of Shenandoah
county, Va, has gone into the wholesale
fruit business in this city.
c. P. Snead, was commissioned postmas-
ter at Etna Mills, King William Co., Va,
to-day.
The Grand Jury this morning indicted B F
10 l-ynp, and D.