Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. 4, 1885.

Ex-Postmaster General Creswell is one Of
the special attorneys of the Alabama Court
of Claims, attached to which position there is
a large salary. AS Mr.. Creswell has gone
out of his way to defend the Court referred
to from the charges that have been made
against it, and which the more they are in
vestigated the more crooked they appear,
Comptroller Durham, of the Treasury, this
morning came to the conclusion that the
best, and, under the circumstances, only
thing that could be done in the case of the
ex-Postmaster General was to suspend the
payment of his salary as Attorney of the
Court of Claims, upon the ground that in
stead of devoting his attention to the duties
of that position, the most of his time is
consumed in attending to his private bust
ness as president of q national bank.
Some of the friends of General Lee in this
city are talking of getting up steamboat
excursion party, among which there shall
be several attractive speakers, to stop at all
the river landings on the Virginia side of
the Potomac, where thespeakers referred to
shall address the crowds that may have as
sembled, by previous notice, to hear them.
Mr.. William Fletcher, whose homo is
Poplar Hill, Fairfax county, Virginia, the
residence of the late Commodore Jones, but
who is extensively engaged in contract
work in this city, says the democracy of his
county is all right, and will give Gen. Lee
for Governor and Mr.. Chichester for Delegate
to the Legislature good majorities.
Major S. P. Bayly, of Fauquier county,
Virginia, is still in the city. He says he
has been invited to address meeting of
anti. Malone republicans in Alexandria, will
accept it, and will probably fix upon some
night about the middle of the month as the
time for his speech. He says he does this
not that he loves the democrats any more,
but that he loves Malone the less, and that
able republican that Malone is not entitled
to republican support.
John B. Hull, of Virginia, is one of the
seven candidates for appointment as cadets
in the Revenue Marine Service who passed
such examinations as entitle them to COM
missions; and Of the seven he passed first.
: Attorney General Garland, who is now
spending his vacation at his home, log
cabin in the wilds of Arkansas, is not ex-
pected to return to the city before the last
of the month 1t is said by the knowing
ones that though the President and all the
members of the Cabinet will return before
the end of the month, but little, if any,
Presidential patronage will be dispensed be-
fore the middle of October.
Governor Cameron, Of Virginia, with his
family, left here yesterday evening on the
Norfolk boat. 1t is said by Virginia repub-
licans here that though the Governor when
talking to strangers says the Malone cause
will succeed in Virginia, he not only doesn't
really think 80, but that his heart is not in
the cause. 1t is also said that he and those
who think with him had laid their plans for
kicking at the late Malone convention in
Richmond, and would have executed them
but for the emotional vacillation of Senator
Riddleberger, who was induced to desert
them, and go over to the General, by the
kiss the latter bestowed upon both his
cheeks in the presence of the convention.
Congressman Barbour was in the city yes
terday, and, with some of the other mem
bers of the democratic committee of his
State, called at some of the departments to
see if any thing could be done in the way
of securing federal positions for democratic
applicants in his State.
1t is said here that Mr.. Foraker, the re.
publican candidate for Governor of Ohio,
wants to see Mr.. Coon. the republican As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, removed,
as, in the speeches he is making, he is quot
ing from the cooked statements prepared by |
Mr.. Coon during the last Presidential cam
paign for partisan service and to make it
appear that though the world knew other
wise the republicans had conducted the
financial affairs of the Government with |
honesty.
Congressman Cabell, of Virginia, left here
for his home last night; Congressman Dan
iel, of the same State, is still in the city,
and Congressman Croxton is expected here.
The work of removing republican post
masters is still in rapid progress. Eighty
of the 4th class ones were removed to-day,
but none of them from Virginia.
gentleman who attended the political
meetings at King George Court House, Vir-
giniaa; Yesterday, says that by actual count
the Malone meeting was attended by forty
whites and one hundred negroes, while the
democratlc meeting was composed of about
three hundred of the reputable white peo-
PIE OF the county. He also says that Mr..
Blair being rendered joint discussion, refus-
ed to accept any terms offered by the demo-
cratic committee, though one of them was
to determine by lot who should open and
close.