Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-15
FROM WASHINGTON


Special Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette. !
WASHINGTON. d. c., August 15.--The
owners Of Wizards Hotel have determined
to tear down the front of that hotel. extend
it fifty feet and rebuild it two stories higher,
but will not commence the work until next
spring.
Col. Boyd Edelin,. Of Prince Georges
county, Md, formerly of the L. S. Army
but more recently of the Confederate service
year or so ago got Il position as engineer
in Rocky Mountain surveying expedition,
but becoming invalided there by reason of
an attack of rheumatism, he has been ap-
pointed post trader nj the Brooklyn Navy
Yard.
Washington City. though denied repre-
Sentaton i'll Congress, is likely to have more
representatives; in the next Congress than
New York City, for among the candidates
for the next House are Messrs. Blair, Hutch
inson, Bcalc and Smith. who live here: be-
sides Mr.. Townshend, 4 Washington boy,
and McSsrs trncr, Barbour and Chapman,
who live in districts adjoining the city.
The contract for the granite work on the
Jefferson Monument. at Monticello. Va,
has been awarded to Dominick McMenamin.
Of Washington, d. c., at $500, and the
contract for the iron work for fence etc, to
the Manly and Cooper Manufacturing Com
pany. Of Philadelphia, at So, 44O.
The days of the National Board ofHealth.
of which DR.. Cabcll, Of the University of
Virginia. is President, are apparently draw
ing to Il CLOSE. The Attorney General has
decided that the money appropriated for
the suppression Of epidemics shall be cxpen-
ded toy the Marine Hospital service. The
daily health reports from infected parts are
now sent to the same service, and at the
meeting Of the Board to-day two of its most
prominent members Drs. Billings and Tur-
ncr resigned. Some of the other members
also think, rs previously stated that the
same law that took away from them the ex-
pendlturc Of the epidemic money also depri-
we'd them Of the money requisite to the
maintenance of the organization.
Two of the itraiyhtout Virginia reuubli-
cans; now in this city most intent upon
having Mahonr'S scalp are John Volt, of
Fredericksburg, and Il. ID. Bccklcy, colored,
of Alexandria, the former lately removed
from the Interior and the latter from the
Postoilicc Department for no other reason
than their refusal to support Captain
John Wise, General Mahone's candidate for
CongrcSSlnan-at large from his State. They
are havin" daily conferences with the dis
affected republicans Mahoneitcs from other
districts, and say that the General has run
his party in the ground, and that his treat
| mcnt of the only men who gave him any
real strength has been an outrage which
they are determined to resent. They say
that the bargain between Malone and
Arthur requires the former to give the vote
of Virginia 10 The latter in the next Ma.
tiona Republican Convention, but that that
requirement will never he complied with,
and that it IN attempt be made in that
direction there will be two State conyen-
tons. With regard to the lst Congressional
district in Virginia, Wolff says Round will
gel the Alahomcitc nomination on the first
ballot, though Malone wants Mayo OF
| Wcslmorcand, to have il. He also saws
that the :;traightout republicans of the dis
trict will follow the example Of those in the
I'd and 9th districts and not only nominate
a candidate but give him so large vote
that the President will see how egregiously
Malone has deceived him respecting his
strength.
From The Sth district in Virginia it is
learned that two counties Fauquer and
Rappahannock, have already elected Bar
bour delegates to the district Congressional
Convention to meet in Alexandria on the
9th proNimo, that Alexandria will do the
same next Thursday, that Fairfax county
will do likewise, indeed that all the counties
in the district will probably do so except
Clarke and Frederick. which will give Mai.
Conrad, = resident Of the latter, compli-
mentary vote.
Major p {. Haynes, who has been order
ed to this city TO take charge of the work to
be done in the reclamation of the Potomac
flats and the improvement Of the harbors of
the District of Columbia, has been for some
time past engaged in the work for the LIGHT
house service, and is said to Be Il skillfu and
accomplished engineer.
II. b. Littlepage, of the first congressional
district IN Virginia, Il messenger in the Sem
ate at salary Of 81 400 has been removed
because he WAS personally Objectionable to
another mess enger. though he was endorsed
by both the Senators from his State.
Col. Plato, who may be remembered by
some people N Alexandria, where he was
Post Quarcrmaster during the war, has
been appointed Collector of the Port at Cor
pus Christie. Texas.
General Swain, who was President Gar.
fields most trusted friend and who was
with him during his whole STAY at Mentor
after his nomination and previous to the
selection of his Cabinet, has been interview
Ell upon the subject OF the Dorsey letter and
doesn hesitate to say that the President
never received such letter, and that it is q
poSlmolt IN atlair,"otten up for the purpose
o: affecting public sentiment in favor of the
star reuters
Geo. NJ. Hall, Beaver Dam Depot, Hanover co
Va was commissioned postmaster to day
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