Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-12
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isrecal Correspondence OF tho Alexandria 1aAettei
WASHINGTON. d. c.. Nov. y, 1888.
General Cresswell, who was Postmaster
General under President Grant, votcu Inc
democratic ticket at the recent elect'oh III
Maryland, in which State he ls Voter,
though he is president of natona! bank 10
This civ. The General is stalwart repub-
lican, and showed what he thinks OF mug
wumpsm, even When IL Is oe'noe' ''V''' ~
the vote referred to.
No matter what the members OF Congress
nav tell the President about their approval
of his civil service policy, they tell each
other an entirely different tale. Some OF
them formed part Of group i'll the postoi-
fec of the House this morning, engaged
with zest in mock civil service examina'
tion that was eXtenlporized there, and we're
unanimous in their dsapproval of tho ser
vice as now conducted, and by the rules oil
which practically nine tenths OF the people
of the country are excluded from The cilices
of the Goyernment-all, in fact, who are not
qualified to he accomplished school teach.
ers.
A Northern republican, and one Of GEN
eral AIahone's working supporters in the
late election in Virginia, who has just re,
turned from Petersburg, says the General
has no idea of running for Congress in that
district, but that he will continue to live
there, if for no other purpose, to prevent
Governor Cameron from being elected if nc
shall be a candidate.
People here who made bets that General
Lee would have twenty thousand majority
as Governor of Virginia say they have reila,
BILE information that they have won, and
have more than hundred votes to spare.
A delegation, composed in part OF Con-
gressmen Croxton and Barbour, OF Virginia,
was at the Postoflice Department. yesterday
in the interest of Judge Goodrich, of Fred
ericksburg, in their State, who is an appli-
can't for the position of Sd Assistant Post-
master General.
People from Norfolk, here to day. say
that Governor Lee of Virginia will be
urged to appoint Capt. Charles Pickett, a
younger brother of the late General Pickett,
to the position of flour inspector at their
city.
1t is understood here that Governor Lee
of Virginia, who is member of the Board
| of Visitors of the West Point Military
Academy, will be advised by his friends to
resign that position, not because they think
his holding it at all invalidates his election
as Governor, but simply and solely to re-
move every possible ground the Mahoneites
may vainly imagine they have for their
wild project of contesting his election.
| Col. Chapman, of Alexandria, one of Col.
Mosbys most trusty and efficient officers
during the civil war, for a long time past in
the internal revenue service, has been en-
trusted by Commissioned Miller, of that
service with, the work of suppressing illicit
distilleries in the States of Tennessee and
Georgia. He will be supplied with all the
! means and men he may require. Those &C
uuainted with the Colonel know that the
| work could not have been put into better
hands.
Passengers from Richmond here this
morning say that as they passed through
Fredericksburg the could could hardly see
that town for the flags and banners that
were waving from almost every house, and
that they heard the town was to be painted
red to night, when its citizens will celebrate
the recent democratic victory.
Among the Presidential appointments
made yesterday was that of DR.. ]. G. Lee, of
Philadelphia, to be secretary of legation at
Constantinople. Dr. Lee is relative of the
family of the late Col. R. B. Lee, of Alexan-
dra. 1t is reported here that he is re-
publican.
Marshal McMchael had an interview with
Gue EeSIueHt ycSlciuayi ~ 10 SuPPoSCu Ia
regard to the time he shall vacate and his
successor tako charge of his office, but
whether so or not neither he nor the Presi-
dent had told any body up to noon TO day.
Among the callers at the White House
yesterday was Mr.. Joseph Settle, of Kappa
hammock county, Virginia, who showed the
President curiously carved cane which
the President examined minutely.
| A gentleman from the North, here to-
day, says that once while he was in Alex
andria during the war, he attended meet
ing of the Union Association OF that city,
and that among its proceedings he rccolects
the unanimous adoption of a resolution
approving of the outrageous conduct of
the military than in control of the place in
dragging an Episcopal preacher ont of the
chancel of church and through the
streets to the Jail, dressed in his sacer-
dotal robes, bare headed, and with his
long gray bair waving in the wind. lie
says he had witnessed the outrage, and was
surprised that it should be endorsed by peo-
Pile whom he understood were old residents
of the city in which it occurred.