Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandra dsre1'e
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Nov. Is. 1854


CONGRESSMAN Eustace Gibson, of West
Virginia, who is still in the city, says tna'
from what he can learn about the President
elect, his administration will be after the
manner of that Of the earlier and better days
If the republic. He says that he does not
beIieve in the talk about certain so-calleo
independent republicans benign MS caol-
net. as such thing would tend more 'nau
onv other to wreck his administration. De
was the nominee OF and was elected ny 1ne
democratic party, and the country wants 10
COO uhat a democratic administration will
do Then. too, he says, those republicans
ohio voted for him, did not do 80 because
thew like him more, but solely because they
liked Blaine less, and that had Arthur, bad
as he ia. been the nominee instead OF Blame,
thew would have voted for him to man.
Ahout the removal of Government en-
nloyees. he says, he believes the President
will act in accordance with the civil service
Iaw and will not obstruct business IN the
departments by wholesale discharge of the
| old clerks and the appointment OF new ones,
but that tie recent defeat of the repub 60 IN
party was caused by the corruption that
permeates all the departments, and that the
president is wise enough to know that COM
mitted frauds will not be detected and con-
templated ones prevented by the same men
under whom they have been successfully
| perpetrated in the past, and that conse'
uuently great many changes must neces-
sarily be made. About the new cabinet, he
saws. he thinks the South will be given her
| full share, and that Of all the Southern men
the one most likely to be offered place
will be MIR. John S. Barbour,of whose execu
tive ability Mr. Gibson speaks in the highest
| terms.
The court martial of General Swaime for
fraud and completely in fraud, is Still IN
slow progress. But one witness was exam
iued this morning. The present indications
are that the charges against the Genera
| will be sustained General Swaime, it will be
recollected. was the late President GaItield's
light hand man.
Col. A. w. Jones, of Virginia, General
| Mahone's candidate for the Senate of Vir-
pnia against General Wickham last fall
but who, ever since then, has been the enc
nv of Malone, against whom he brings the
worst sort of charges, was in this city last
nj rht. He says that Malone and his party
are gone forever world without end; that
Tue members of his party are leaving the
wrecke cd hulk by scores, each one grabbing
what he can as he goes that they are
weakened aud consumed by faction within
faction, from The fight between Cameron
and Mahone 10 that of the squabble between
| the cu,lpadore cleaners in the executive
mansion at Richmond; that the fight is like
that of the Kilkenny cats that they know
their fate and that each one still in office is
irving TO make the most of it before he
loses il forever, and that finally the negroes
| have lefC them and at the next election will
| he as Xix ely to 60 en- masse for the democrats
| "a thew have heretofore been Mahone's solid
SUPPORTERS. The Colonel, like many others,
| believes that tho entire destruction of the
| readiuster and republican parties in Vir-
ginia, which he says has already been ac-
complished, is due to 'Mahone and his
methods"
Among those who went into the general
office of the Western Union Telegraph
| Company, corner OF F and 18th street, to-
day, was sloyenly dressed man with red
face and long straight gray hair, who had
| lust emeI ged from a one horse carriage as
un,idy looking as himself, aud of which,
save the driver, he was the sole occupant.
| There was something so strange, yet unde-
Unable ABBOTT his appearance, that his name
was asked, and it was found that he was
Judge Holt the judge advocate who prose Gu
| ted The murdered Mrs. Surratt. The gentle
man who identified him said, Eyes, that is
Joseph Holt, the last Of the Surratt MUIR
derers, and, d--n him. he is afraid to be
alone, and takes what snatches of sleep are
allowed him at night with bright light
| burning in his room All the rest of the
court are dead, most of them meeting death
| by their own hands, but 1.-The worst of them
has his life preserved in order that he may
die thousand deaths"
A wel-informed republican politician
from Boston, here to-day, says that Butler
is not as dead as some suppose; that he
will keep up his organization in Massa-
chusetts, and that as he turned his entire
strength over to Blaine before the election,
the Blaneites will always hold him in
kindly remembrance and give him help
ing hand whenever they can do so without
injuring themselves. He says the demo-
Gratis have no use for him any longer, and
say that but for him they would have car
ried Massachusetts at the last election.
Though Congress will meet next Monday
week, only few members have yet arrived.
1t is expected that recess will be made in
order to allow the members to attend the
opening of the New Orleans exposition. So
far as the business of the session is con-
cerned the prevailing impression is that no
business other than the passage of the regu-
lar appropriation bills, and possibly some
bills for public buildings, will be transacted.
Indeed, it is said the members will have no
time to transact any legislative business, as
most of their time will be consumed in at
tending to the applications Of their respec.
tive constituents for Office. No one thinks
the new Congress will meet before its regu-
lar term, year from the first Of next
month.
Mr. Wheeler, a prominent republican pol
itician from New York, here to day, says
the Blaineites there want Mr.. Conkling to
60 over to the democrats, but that he still
has quite large following among his own
party, and that if the democrats support
him to man, and he consents. there is
chance for his return to the Senate, though
he, Wheeler, does not now know, and
therefore can't say how good that chance is.
A personal friend of the President elect,
in the city to-day, says the President thinks
the war is over and its issues settled; that