Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-04
FROM WASHINGTON.

sreoisl Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gssetee.
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 4, 1875
Three delegations from Richmond are
here to-day, each in the interest OF dlher-
ent applicant for the postotfice IN that Guy,
one for Mr. Gilman, one for MIR. Carey anu
one for Mr.. Cullingsworth, and eacn seems
confident of the success OF IT'S own 1a'ori'e.
They are all at standstill, however, To-Day,
because the President and most OF Inc caoi-
net ministers have gone to Gettysburg 10
attend the celebration of the anniversary OF
Tho hattie that broke the backbone of the
Confederacy and presaged the success OF the
Union armies in the civil war. But they
will remain until to morrow, when the eX-
cursiopists will have returned, and then
thew will put in their respective work.
Most Of the democrats Of the Virgin
ia Congressional delegation are III The
CITY to day, and all will be tomorrow, when
thew will meet again, and do what they can
toward securing the places for which they
have recommended certain people from
their State.
It is said now that not only did Morgan,
the newly appointed consul TO Melbourne,
write the Blaine pamphlet after MIR;
| B.aiue's nomination, but that be distributed
| it during the campaign. But that as be has
married aud made other arrangements tor
starting for Australia, his commission Will
not be revoked.
Among the strangers in the city to day Is
an old gentleman from Pennsylvania whose
son superintended the erection OF the tele
graphic wires in this city at the commence
ment of the war, and made the telegraphlc
communication between the different COM
mands in and around the city with the war
Office here. He says that on the evening OF
| ;,b k.,H hal Manassas
was fought, and for two days thereafter, The
citv would bave been evacuated at the ap
pearance Of one regiment Of Contederates.
and that the only arrangement made
was for that evacuation. This only cor
roborates what every body else, military
man or civilian, here at the time, says But
il is entirely different from what General
Johnston, who was twenty miles away, says,
which is, THAT it WAS impossible for an army
to cross a river mile long aud twenty feet
Deep" and that, too. though there was no
body to burn the bridges across That river,
and that if there had been, the same army
waded across the same river few miles
above several times at subsequent periods
of the war
A Virginia democrat, in the city to-day, n
far-sighted man, and being fancy free, from
the facts of not being in active politics and
not after office, said TO the GAzETTE's COR
respondent that he did not know, could not
find out, aud was puzzled to discover,
through whose influence the federal patron
age belonging to Virginia was being dis
trbuted; certainly not, he said, by any one
who has the interest of the democratic party
at heart, that ia if the recall Of Col.
Mosby be sample of what is to follow.
Mosby, he said, is as much opposed to
Malone as any democrat in the State,
and being an influential man not only with
the republicans but with the young demo
Gratis who were led off by Malone, and be-
ing a man who had exposed so much ras-
cality among his republican predecessors,
why be should have been removed when
all his great influence would otherwise
have certainly been thrown against Malone,
is what no man who really wants Malone
defeated next fall can tell. He said he un-
derstood The recall of the Colonel was as
surprising 10 the Virginia Congressman as
it Was to every body else, and that it could
be only anct'er one of Mr. Bayard's re-
m rrkable strokes Of policy, the wisdom Of
W licb, though undoubted, could be appre-
ciated by no one exc pit the Delaware sta es-
man.
: The count Of the moneys and securities
in the u. S. Treasury is progressing salts
factorily. So far the only discrepancy found
was in the cash room, where there was a
shortage of two cents in So package of
pennies. 1t was Immediately made good
by the cashier, who said that recount OF
the package would show chat it contained
the full amount. 1t is expected that the
count will be completed during the present
week The examination of the reserve vault,
containing about Sl65, 900 900 in gold, began
, this morning.
The reports of disagreement between
the Secretary of War and the General of the
Army, though still denied, continue to be
believed by many. Nothing has yet
been done in the matter Of the orders
already issued, and though the time for
them to take effect is rapidly approaching,
nothing, or ut least Adjutaut. General Drum
says so, will be done.
A difference has occurred in the affairs of
the United States Democrat, among the pro-
prietors of that paper. Mr.. Pomeroy, the
editor, claims entire ownership, but Mr..
!, Aleck Hunter, the associate editor and Mr..
Hervey, the business manager, deny his
claim, and will apply for receiver.
The appointment Of MI. Goode to the
place Of Solicitor-G General is said at the De-
partment of Justice to preclude the appoint
ment of anybody else from Virginia to a
place in that department, no matter how
: insignificant.
1t has been determined at the Pension
Office that Miss Sweet, of Illinois, like
Mr.. Craig, Of this State, is not able to with
stand the whole power of the administration,
and that she also, not only must, but will
ego"
Why WERE the Jews forbidden to eat swine?