Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-23
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER

It is reported here from Alexandria that
he Maboneites of that city have decioeu
mon Mr.. Lewis Mckenzie as their canol'
late for the Legislature at the election 70
be held next fall. ,sod
A delegation of Ale1andrlans, composer
IF Messrs ]. W. Burke. 2. B. Hooe, fete5
Wise, J. M. Johnson, Peter Aitcheson ana
Geo. Fisher called at the Postonce DePaie
ment this morning to urge upon tne UsIula
ter General the claims of Maj. W. w. deroel'
for the nostotfice of their city. They were
s by the Major, and by Con.
FRESHMAN Barbour, the latter of whom went
to introduce them. Mr.. Villas, however,
was going to New York, and so ola noI
have time to see them, but had them III
formed that he would see them MONDAY
week.. on which day he will also receive
delegation in the interest OF Mr.. eaton VINO
ia the other most prominent candidate lot
the Mace. The incumbent, Mr.. Wlnosoi,
was also in the city to day. He says ne Is
preparing respectful letter to the fresl-
dent, in which he will inform him that ne
has been refused permission TO see the
charges that have been preferred aga,ns'
him. and asking him if he thinks it right TO
remove an officer upon charges witnouC az
least giving him chance to retute taem, !,
that he possible. Mr.. Windsor says he SAID
to the Postmaster General when the iaCtel
refused TO allow him to see the charges
sgainst him that he could buy democratic
affdsvits at $3.50 piece, and that since then
he has heen informed by wholesale mer .
chant doing business on the lower epo VI
King street in bis city that his estimate was
far TOO liberal as he could get them ior nj"
at $24 dozen.
from Nelson county, Virginia, out no" d
resident of Smyth county, In tnat S'ate, 10
in the city to day. He says that the most
available democratic candidate 1or OoVeilo'
of his State is MIR. r. R. Henry, prom.
nept lawyer of Tazewell county, ana mos
popular man throughout the entlre sou'n-
western portion OF Virginia:
The appointment of the internal revenue
collector for the San Francisco district OF
California has cooled considerably the ar
den, admiration previously entertained LOT
the administration by both Justice FIELD
and Cougr ssman Henley, each OF whom
had = candidate for the place, and Dotn OF
whom have been disappointed by the ap'
pointment of an obscure man.
A report reaches here from Petersburg
Virginia. that the two positions OF tobacco
iuspectors in that city now filled by Messrs
Van Auken and Bayly are to be consoii'
dated. So that one man may bill them DON
and draw all the pay attached to them. In
ouiry AS to its truth was made at the Treas
ury Department oday, but no body there
had heard Of or knew anything about 1t
the i'm, ressiou heiug that it is not probable
any patronage will be abandoned IN Vlr
ginia, at least yet awhile.
Gentlemen from Warrenton, Virginia
here to day say the appointment OF Mr.
Caldwell, The well-known editor of tht
} Warreuton linden, as postmaster at that place
, affords general satisfaction to the people o
that town. The administration IN scatter
ing its favors has been very liberal TOWARD
the press of the country.
Prominent Southern democrats now II
tho civ saw their section would have farce
Detter. as regards federal patronage, If tn
places in the Cabinet, now filed by South
ern men, had been given to leading North
, orn democrats for the reason that Messrs
Garlaud and Lamar have either developed
a surprising degree of mugwumpism, or els
are so enamored of their places that the.
Z demand for their section It
| lection in the North.
People from Alexandria here to day sa
u report is in circulation there to the etfec
that Congressman Barbour is having color
f ed men appointed to subordinate posi-
8 tons in the departments here, thougl
white men from his district arc applying
for the places. If such report be il
circulation it is entirely incorrect. Th
only cases to which such groundles
report could have reference were the fol
lowing: Congressman Wise, of Virginia
E was promised a place. He sent to BIZ
district for man, but when he car
ried him to the Department he wa
tod that colored man had been removed
, and that colored man must Fl the vacancy
and also that it must be filed at once. A.
Mr.. Wise had no colored man at hand b.
transferred the place to Mr.. Barbour, who
had score, to one by whom the place was
given. The other case was that in which
colored man named George Preston, from
Alexandria had been removed, and his place
filed, at Mr. Barbours instance, with =
white man. but one whose complexion is 81
dark that Mr.. Barbour was joked with bS
the Chief for appointing him.