Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-26
FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria uaselte.
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Sept. 26, 1855.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Sept. &c, 1855.
At the regular meeting of the Virgi nia
democratic association OF this city held last
night the officers elected at the last meeting
we're installed, several new members were
admitted, and q room was engaged in the
Metropolitan Hotel for the headquarters of
the association from the first of October
until after the election. Previous to ad-
tournament, General Payne's speech 10 the
Virginia democratic convention four years
ago when nominating General Fitz Lee for
Governor, was read and applauded.
Colonel A. w. Jones, of Virginia, passed
through here yesterday, on his way to New
York. The Colonel says the democrats
have wary man in Malone to light against,
and that if they want to defeat him they
cannot afford to thrown away any OF their
strength or to refuse any assistance that
NAV be offered them. After the Colonel
left it was stated by one ofhis friends that he
who after promising to reimburse him for
the large expense towhich he was subjected
by his unsuccessful campaign against State
Senator Wickham, in the Hanover district,
had refused to give him one cent.
Ex-senator Jonas, of Louisiana, now col
lector of customs at New Orleans, is still in
the city. He says there are four hundred
Offices under him, in eighty of which he
made vacancies within a short time after
he was sworn in, but that under the civil
service rules he could not fill the places
with such men as deserved them, but had
| to take tho men sent to him by the civil
| service board.
Among the strangers in the city to-day
is Capt. Aleck Payne, of Warrenton, Va.
The Captain says democratic prospects
were never brighter in Fauquier county :;
that the only thing to fear there is the loss
of votes by over-confidence, but that means
will be taken to bring out all the VOTE He
says the support of Major S. P. Bayly will
add no little to the democratic majority
and that he does not believe the negro vote
will be as solid for Malone az it has been
heretofore.
The interposition of the President to pre-
vent the removal of the republican chiefs
of division in the Office of the Register of
the Treasury, whose resignation was re-
quested by the democratic Register, has so
braced up the thousands of other republican
of1iceholders here that they are as chirpy
to day as they were before he was elected.
The Court of Alabama Claims, which has
afforded luxurious pickings for many repub-
lcans ever since England gave this country
ullSeu uOlIalS, JOl udll VI WulCl
there was no just claim, has been prolong.
ing it's existence for several years by inten-
tionally delaying its own business. It's
recently discovered crookedness will, it is
thought, be the means of abolishing it OF the
expiration Of the present year.
Mr.. Randall is still in the city, He, Con-
gresham Dunn, from Arkansas, and, indeed,
all the prominent democrats in the city,
approve the civil service plank in the plat
form Of the New York democracy
1t is rumored to day that some Of the Iu-
diana democratic Congressman have init.
mated to the President that he will meet
with strong opposition in his own party, in
which that of their OWE State will take part,
unless he shall reform the civil service by
removing some Of the thousands of republi-
cans now in Office and replacing them with
men of his own party.
A strong effort is being made here to have
the Congressional Library, the National
Museum, the Capitol, and the Smithsonian
Institute and the art galleries opened on
Sundays. There is law for it, it is said, if it
can only be made operative.
The mail ronte from Verbena to Furnace,
Page county, Va, has been extended so as
to embrace and begin at Mines. The mail
route from Buckeyes Mill to Trammel
Creek, Russell county, Va, has been re-
duced from twice TO once week.