Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-30
FROM WASHINGTON.


The appointment of q negro TO Il position
in the signal corps by Secretary Lincoln is
the subject Of no little comment in army
circles here, and the general tenor of ex-
nression, seems TO be that it was utterly
unnecesaar. and is calculated to do, no little
harm. 81 at course calls in question the tit.
ness Of & M lincoln for the place holds, and
the opi.T......un that subject is that he is just
as fit aS1 A. filter than the lowest salaried
clerk g:iSSdepartment, and that he is ig-
noranl .tnaa,pig headed.
SomGtEale storekeepers of this city say
that tf;su Business is fifty per cent less now
than it?%S';his time last year. They at
tribuIt..i7fe decline to the fact that the
PresiEr;. y campaign is in active progress,
and HS5Sshe Government employees are
drainS,,9. nof all their money by the repuh-
lican "a . offices in order to carry OH that
Ap.:spH;ate friend of John Kelly, the
Tam,rs. o. %lieftan, in the city to-day, says
that $50 Mr.. Kelly said, as he did in
New -esl. last night, that "rammany in
tend,ti g. give Cleveland full, fair and
honc!, %. 'upport,n he spoke in good faith
and ybf.rt every word he said, and that
Kel'yM cad do all that is possible to have
a bgS.& Gland majority waiting at Harlem
brid(s q receive the big majority that the
rest @tAe State will send there for him.
Up't.r.. NO o'clock to-day no commission
as Ttsyacster General had been received
by e sstrut Postmaster General Hatton,
who s. *:os.en longing for aud expecting it
ever Si'r$e Mr. Gresham vacated the place
in ofs::s 10 take charge of the Treasury,
wheH.2shere is q surplus of hundreds Of
MILL "a OF dollars, a large share Of which
can tsStr5cnt for election purposes with per.
feet hlSAunity from even detection, letalone
punissitent
Mf. :Nalson, the democratic candidate for
Cone,'~ss in the Cumberland district Of
MarrIMbd is in the city to-day. McComas
the present republican member, was elected
by ele..,n hundred majority, but Mr.. Nelson
saws he:thinks the indications are that he
can overcome that majority, aud thereby
make TIE Maryland delegation in the next
Congress solidy democratic.
When General Malone was in the city
last week, on his way homo from his visit to
Blaine:at Philadelphia, he had al Interview
with ex Commissioner Raum, from whom
it is learned that the General was promised
some money if Ohio shall 60 republican,,
but on condition that he shall recognize the
small white republican element of his party
by giving it place or two on his Presidential
electoral ticket. The General it is under
stood, has already commenced his cam
paiyn, which will be on the plan OF still
hunt, so as to lull the democrats into apathy
by fancied security, and then by throwing
against them the solid negro vote of the
State, brought out TO the last man,
and such white votes as he can buy with
money, Office or promise, prevent the dem
ocl ats from gaining some of the Congress
sonal districts upon which they are now
counting. It would be wise for the demo
cratic county and city committees TO- pay
attention to this, for the Generals straits
have rendered him almost desperate, and
he ives not particularly scrupuous in the
means hs employed to gain his ends when
in mach better condition than he is at pre-
sent.
A letter received here this morning from
Mr.. Hill, democratic member of the House
from Ohio, says that he will be reelected by
three thousand majority. That will be
gain of one thousand on his last majority,
and indicates that the Cleveland boom is
on the rise in the country as we'll as in the
city districts of his State.
In letter received here this morning
from Senator Vance, Of North Carolina,
who is at home, the Senator states that the
democrats there are all workingmen, and
therefore can't be kept down, and that they
will make gain of one Congressman there
in November. They would make an at
tempt at the only other possible Congress
sional gain in the State, he says, but the
negro majority there is so overwhelming
that it would be disagreeabe to tackle.
The private secretary of Senator Fair has
Just returned from summer vacation spent
in Western New York. He says that the
St. John vote there will be surprisingly
large, and that men heretofore leading re-
publcans will not only vote for ST. John,
but are subscribing literally to his election
fund. The Irish there, he says, will vote
the democratic ticket as they have always
done heretofore.
Major Thomas Moore, prominent lawyer
of Fairfax county, Virginia, and well in
formed concerning the political condition OF
affairs in that county, is in the city to-day
He says there is no doubt the county will
90 democratic at the coming election, and
by larger majority than that of last year.
The reason of this is the fact that many of
the democrats there who went off after Ma
hone on the debt question have come back
to their old party now that that question is
settled and that Malone has Joined the
rump of the republican party
The report of the Springer committee
appointed at the last session of the House
to examine the accounts of United States
Marshals has been printed, and shows that
the department of justice, which is presided
over by Mr.. Brewster, is rotten from base
to apex, and that from polluted head all
the stream that flows from it must be foul.
Among hundreds of other Instances the re-
port says: SIN the western district of North
Carolina the testimony, while not developing
such glaring faults, certainly shows that Mr..
Robert N. Douglas, as marshal, and Some
of his deputies have run their offices with
the view of making it pay all that was pos
sibIe. OF the accounts of General Long.
street, ex-marshal of Georgia, covering
about one year, 1.-THE department has dis
allowed about 81 900, as being illegal and
excessive"
1t is currently reported here that large
numbers of negT oes from this city have been
sent into Virginia recently and been regis
tered, SO that they can vote for Blaine in
November.