Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-06-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence o! the hlexandria tiaaeli*
W .crr-1........ - lime L. 1881

istration is doing very well, hut that he
thinks it might have possibly done better II
| n Southern man had been made Postmaster
| General, because only such 81 man could know
how the postoffices in the South have been
| prostituted to partisan purposes, and VINO
would therefore know that exceptions
| should be made in The civil service rules ~
regards that section. The Judge is IL pro-
nounced civil service reformer; says that
even in the times. when there were only
| thirty or forty thousand federal uflicehoiGcrs
wings were retained in office under demo
cratic administrations, and that oil all the
ueople in the world those who for consist
ency's sake should manifest lass opposition
to civil service reform are those OF the South,
who fought for the Montgomery constitution,
which prevented the President from re-
moving any officer except upon charges
which had to be sustained and reported TO
the Senate.
Solicitor-General Goode delivered q beat
tiful and appropriate address at the closing
exercises of the Norwood Institute OF this
city last night Many Firgnians were pre-.
sent. among them several from Alexandria.
The democrats of the Virginia Congress
sional delegation, who have been comforting
together here recently with regard to the
distribution Of the federal patronage in
their State, chiefly as regards that i'll the
4th district, which is represented by a re
publican, have about completed their bust.
ness, and have adjourned their conference.
Each one Of them will now individually do
what he can to get as many positions as Is
possible for his own respective constituents.
An Ohio democrat. in the city To day,
SAYS the nomination of Foraker by the re.
publicans is the weakest one they could
have made; that he was defeated once and
will be again next fall, easier than he was
before, as the whole power Of the admins
tration will not be thrown in his favor this
time as it. was the last time he was q -candi-
date: as no deputy marshals armed with
bulldog pistols will drive democrats away
from the polls; and that as the negroes of
the State have no love for him, and would
not vote for him before, they will not vote
for him in October.
! A prominent Nirg politician III the
city to-day says it was against the advice of
Mr.. Barbour that democratic candidate
was run in the Petersburg Congressional
district last year but that Mr. Barbour, un-
like General Malone, does not boss his par
ty, doesn't give his advice until asked for it,
and that when it is given it is adopted or
not rs the local leaders think best If there
had been no democratic candidate there,
the gentleman said, Malone would have
been defeated in his own district. Contin-
uing, he said, Governor Cameron will be
swallowed up in the Malone State convcn-
ton next month, but if he shall! have the
gumption and the nerve TO kick and bolt, he
can come to Congress from the Petersburg
| district at the next election without any
trouble, for though the democrats have no
love for him they have infinitely more than
IL. g. ,,I nt Gov
him to beat the General all the time.
But" said he, "l'm afraid he will again
submit to the same influence he once so apt.
ly described az malign.'"
During the Investigations by the electri-
clans and the preparation of the permanent
means they may devise for protecting the
| Washington Monument from lightning, Col.
Casey, now aware that the danger lies in
the incapacity Of the present conductors,
WILL as soon as possible, IA a temporary
protection, erect one lightning rod upon eac.
side of the top of the monument, each Of
which will be surmountcd with numerous
points, and all of which will connect with
the large copper conductor on the inside of
the shaft.
Senator Gibson, Of Louisiana, and most Of
the other democratic Congressman from his
State are now in the city, and will, it is un-
derstood, attempt next week to have the
federal appointments in New Orleans and
the rest of that State taken up and consid
cred by the administration. Senator Eus.
tace, as is we'll known, has broken with the
administration, refuses to have any thing to
do with it, and therefore is not all interest
ed in the appointment; it may make in his
State.
Ex.State Senator Smith, from Tazewell
county, Va, who is in the city to-day, says
the principal men spoken of in connec-
ton with the democratic gubernatorial
nomination there are Judge Staples,
Judge Harris, Gen. Fitz Lee, Gen. Walker,
Congressman Cabell and O'Ferrall, Major
Conrad and Mr. Henry Regarding Judge
Staples, he says, Gen. Whorton, the Judges
own countyman, told him he was certain
the Judge would not accept the nomination,
and that his name therefore might as we'll
be left out of the list.
1t is believed at the pension bureau that
many hundreds of men are drawing pensions
to which they are not entitled, that hun
dreds of women are doing the same, that
many pensions which have expired by the
death of the pensioners are drawn by other
| people, and that in the past a great deal of
republican campaign money has been OBJ
| tanned from the pension Office An investi.
CATION will be commenced at once to deter
mined this, and it is expected that extensive
frauds will be discovered.
A gentleman from Richmond here to-day
says that Col. Catlett Gibson, the new U. S.
attorney for the eastern district of Virginia,
qualified in That city yesterday before Judge
Hughes of the u S. District Court. He
also says that Mr.. Waddill, Col. Gibson's
predecessor, who was removed, has not as
yet received an answer to the letter he
wrote to the President asking for the rea-
soes for his removal.
Gen. Field, ex. doorkeeper of the House,
is in the city to-day, having just arrived
from Brunswick, Georgia.
A novel suit has been begun in the Chsuncey
Court in Louisville KY. by the filing of petition