Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
.,recial Correspondence Of the Alexandria aasette

WASHINGTON. D. c., July Is, 1855.
Mr.. Windsor, the recently suspended
Nos, aster st Alexandria, was in the city
In day. He says he will not be able TO turn
over his Office 10 Major Herbert, hi. success
SIR, until Monday next. Mr.. "lndsor
laughs at his removal, and says II VIII DO
The means of defeating the democratic eau,
d;date for the Legislature in bis city, anu
that the appointment Of his successor VIII
never be confirmed.
Intelligence was received al tDe D1phlS.
ment of the Interior this morning TO me ei-
fect that another stoppage bad been maze
~ the MASSAGE Of cattle from Texas to the
North This time, thirty thousand bead on
their way through the Cherokee strip OF the
Indian Territory, by rival cattle men.
snecial agent of the Department was ordered
70 the scene of the obstruction TO remove IL
at once.
Cong. ess,nan McAdoo, OF New Jersey,
wos led Nv his Efforts to obtain positions lor
democrats ia the Life Saving Service TO III
vestigate that service, and the result OF tnaI
investigation has induced him to believe
that it was reorgunizsd IN the Blaine IN
terest. and is now part of the republican
machine.
Congressman Warner, Of Ohio, who OF
iected 10 the recent appointment OF MI.
kellar. republican from his State, TO
clerkship in the Treasury Department., says
that in Ills talk with the President 10 rela,
ton 10 that appointment yesterday, ne 'o!o
him he believed it was Impossible LOT
democrat 10 go through the present repuo
Ican civil service machine and come out
headed toward an office. Mr. Warner says
that while Mr.. kellar will probably remain
in office, his appointment and the fuss II mas
| kick cd ND will, he has been assured by Inc
President and some members OF lie Caoi
net, be the means by which that nlhciine
will be altered so as to make IL WORK nlo'.
in accordance with the letter OF the c''li
service law As at present rum Inc ooti'
mission makes the law, not congress 10,
though Congress does not limit the age OF
the applicant to forty.fve years, the Com.
missioners do; aud though Congress author
ICES the appointment Of any man among
those who have passed the requisite exarnl
nation, the Commissioners pick out their
friends from among that number and send
them up for appointment. The Assistant
Secretary of the Interior yesterday sent to
the Commissioners for the list OF those VINO
had passed the required examination, IN
order to select clerk, but the Commission
ers, instead of sending the list, picked out
four men and sent them up to the Depart
ment. Very properly, no selection from
them was made, and the request for the
entire list was repeated.
Congressman Croxton, of the first Vir.
einia district, who has been here for day
or two past trying to turn the rascas OUT
in his district, started for his home this alter
noon. Before he left lie put into the hands
of the President, with the request that he
would read it, a strong protest against al
lowing Clay, the offensive partisan, to re-
tain any longer the colectorshp at New
port News. Congressman O'terrail, OF the
Valley district, also left for his home to day.
| In note to IL friend lie said, having clean
cd UP MY d strict" there was no necessity
for his remaining here any longer.
One great trouble with the Sth Cougfes
sionnl district, so far As obtaining office Is
concerned, il the fact that So large num-
Der o! ferl.rul rtice holders are charged 10
that district. The other fact hat N ost of them
are neither natives, citizens nor even resi-
denis Of the Safe, much less OF the district,
makes no difference. They are in office,
aud ~ uuder the G,vi! service rules they ca u
| not he iu:nei ont, there are no places for
people. " 10 really live in that district.
Secretary Endicott Of all the members of
the Cabinet j. generally supposed TO be the
| especial fri.,l # the mu2wumpS, bnt so
late IA this week he told friend that the
mu.wumps had been so pressing, if not &C.
tually aggressive. that they had injured
,hemselv Ives. and that hereafter the policy of
| the administration would he more demon
stratively democratic.
Having failed in their efforts before the
Virginia and the U. :. courts to take Blind
Tom away from his old master, with whom
he wants to stay, and by whom he is well
cared for, the white men engaged in that
effort sent his mother, with whom he posi-
lively refuses to go, 10 the President yes
terday, to see what she could do with him
| in the matter.
Among the pos!ofliee changes in Virginia
announced to-day are the appointment of
Charles Arundel, at Farmwell, Loudoun
county, wiz Vanderbilt Quick, removed, and
John W. Patton at Middlehurg in the same
county, vice G. w. Schuman removed. a
eautract has been made with the Old Do.
minion Steamship Company TO carry tri-
weekly mail between Norfolk and Hicks
wharf