Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
IspecIsl Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette

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committee of the City Council of Rich
mond, and members of the business assocla'
tions of that city, aud of the State Agrl-
cultural Society, accompanied by Congress
men Barbour and Croxtop, called upon the
President at orc o'clock this afternoon to
invite him to attend the Virginia State
Agricultural Fair. Mr.. Gaines, one of the
delegation, told the President it was es'
sentially requisite and necessary that he
shonld come South of the Potomac, so that
some of the people in tho North should read
and learn that there is country on that
side of the river, footing place for man
and beast that had not been wiped out by
the war. The President said he would con-
slider the matter and let the delegation
know his decision in few days.
delegation of democrats from the LIST
Virginia Congressional district is in the city
to day to see if any thing more can be done
toward increasing the changes in the teder-
al offices in that district.
A committee of the Mozart Musical Asso-
citation of Richmond is here to-day to make
arrangements with parties here for lease
of q part of the handsome building they are
now erecting in their city.
Mr.. Randall is still in The city, but will 60
to-day to New York to attend a meeting of
the ordnance committee of the House, OF
which he is a member.
A clerk in one of the Government depart
ments here was removed yesterday for public.
" abusing the President. Some of the news
papers of this city have said that it is only
the PEOPLE out of Office who abuse the Pres
ident. but here is q case in which the abus-
ing is done by men in office; and the case
referred to is not the only one by any
means, though it is the only one in which
the offender has been punished.
Among the recent removals from the
coast survey bureau is that of q clerk named
Barr, fror1 Pennsylvania, through whose in
strumentality all the crookedness in that
bureau during the republican regime was
disclosed Some Pennsylvania democrats
were at The Treasury Department to-day to
try to have him reinstated.
Secretary Whitney is not in the city. He
is expected during the week, but the day of
his arrival is not known at the Navy De-
partmeDt.
A gentleman from Fairfax county, Va, in
the city to day, says that Judge Sangster,
the apti-democratic candidate for the Legs-
lature in that county, since his endorsement
by the republican convention, has refused
to say publicly which of the two State
compelled to do so before long, when his
antagonsm to the democratic State ticket
will be made manifest, and the result be
that he will share the fate of the last Ma
hone candidate for the Legislature in that
county.
Among the strangers in the city to day ID
Judge Stuart, of Alexandria, Speaker of the
Virginia House of Delegates. The Judge
SAYS ex-Congressman E. John Ellis, of Lou
isiana will deliver democratic speech in
Alexandria on the night of the 10th inst.
The District democrats will, it is said by
some of the newspapers here, refused to
contribute anything to the Virginia demo-
cratic election fund, because the President
has not filled the District Offices with Dis
trict democrats. Well, that will be only
what they have always done. The District
democrats, in Presidential elections, the re.
suit Of which affects them directly, do SUBJ
scribe to the democratic national campaign
fund, which is always expended in close
Northern Statesmen cent ever coming to
Virginia. The Virginia democrats sojourn-
ing here, on the contrary, have always sub
scrbed literally 10 the Virginia democratic
campaign fund in State elections, and many
of them have already done so this fall, and
all tho others who can afford it will do so
before the day of election.
Assistant Secretary Of State, Mr.. Porter,
left for New York last night to attend
meeting of the Peabody fund board, of which
be is member. The meeting will fill the
vacancy in the board occasioned by the
death of General Grant.
Senator German is in the city to-day.
When asked why Mayor Latrobe had with
drawn from the contest for the democratic
Mavoralty nomination in Baltimore in
favor Of Mr.. Hodges, he replied that he
really did not know; that he did not have
anything to do with local politics in Mary
Baltimore were managed by the younger
men, He had just come from New York,
he said, and though it was too soon for
definite representations to be made con-
corning the result in that State, all the
democrats he saw there seemed to be in eX-
celleut spirits and confident Of success.
Senator Sherman has written to some of
the Ohio clerks in the Departments here
urging them to come to Ohio to work and
vote for his party at the election to he held
next week, and assuring them that he and
the other republican Senators will see that
they are rainstated if removed for so doing.
All the clerks from all the States in which
elections are to be held will be informed
that they will be allowed to go home to vote
if their absence will not retard the transac-
tion of the public business, and that the Gov
eminent has nothing to do with the way in
which they may vote. Many republican
clerks say they will SO home and vote the
republican ticket. and that they would
rather do so and run the risk of removal, if
there be any, than have it said they re-
manned here for fear of losing their places.
The Superintendent of the Government
Insane Asylum and the Government Deaf
and Dumb Asylum of this city, have made
no report of the large sums they have re-
ceived for the care of pay patients for years
past, contenting themselves, when asked
about such funds, with saying that they have
been expended upon repairs. This is another
one of the crooked things that will be made
straight by the democratic administration.
Many of the people of this city are so
mean that they nominally transfer the own.
ership OF property to members of the foreign |
legations here, in order to avoid the pay
Inent OF the taxes thereon.