Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-27
FROM WARRINGTON
Especial Correspondents Of the Alexandria aa.eI.e'
!. WASHINGTON. D. c.. May q, 1850

WASHINGTON. D. c.. May 81, 1885
A letter received here this morning from
San Francisco states that intelligence mere
rom Hong Kong is to the effect that Coi. !
Mosby during the French Tonquin war was !
offered an important position III the Chlnese
service, with permission to send 10 thlS
country and employ one hundred e1 Cop-
federate officers at high salaries 70 com-
mand Chinese troops, but that the OoionIi,
though be expected bis reca!,, oeciineu .u I
oHar Tor the reason that while he and all
o,her q, Confederate officers would fight to
the death for honor and principle and 1or
cause in which their sy mpathies or feelings
ware interested, there was nothing IN the
war referred to that merited their appropa-
t;on or excited their feelings, and tnat
neither he nor any of them so admired tne
character of Captain Dalgetty as to be Will
limo to hire themselves as human slaugh:
terers. In this connection it is mentioned
that Col. Withers, Col. Mosby successor as
Consul at Hong Kong, will start for that
nlace on the 10Th of June, and that If Col
Mosby, as is probable, will wait tor MS
arrival to turn over the office to him, ne
cannot possibly come back here before Oc'
tober.
Among the strangers in city to-day IS Mr..
Marshall, the democratic candidate for Con-
oress in the Norfolk district at the last cleo
lion. It was determined by the conferen,
of the democratic congressman from VIZ
einia that all the applications for Office sent
to them should be referred to MIR. Marsnall
for recommends and that gentleman Is
now here on that business. :,
It is understood that the President VIII
leave here for New York on Friday, but
will return ON Monday next. The quid-
mines saw that first Secretary Whitney went
ON to New York TO make the democracy
there solid, that he was followed by Secre.
tary Manning on the same business, ana
that now the President will go on to com
nlete the work aud make it binding, 80 that
The State will go democratic next fall, and
thereby sanction the policy Of the admins
tration.
A republican Senator now in the city says
the administration has been unWlse In re-
moving republicans from office upon
charges. for the reason that It has afforded
republican Senators all The opportunity
| thew want for examining the charges, either
| for the purpose of delaying the confirmation
| of the appointments until they expire py
| Limitation, or to. show the frivolous nature
| of most of them. He says the administra'
ton should, as it had right to do, nave
| made lis removals upon the ground tna'
The incumbents were opposed TO It's princi'
pies aud policy but that as 1t removed them
upon charges The republican Senators VIII
he bound 10 see what those charges are and
to examine them critically.
No more changes 10 the fourth class post
Offices in Virginia were made to-day. "
toe 24O postotticesi in the 7th, MIR. OFerrall
district, that gentleman has had 80 changed
already.
Among the callers at the White House
| this morning were Congressman Barbour, O
| Virginia, who was accompanied by General
w. r. F Lse, and Mr.. Nash of Richmond
1t is stated here by the friends of Con
gresham Trigg, of the 9th Virginia district
| that he has been detained at home By PR
vate business, but that be will soon be here
to lock after the postcftices in that district
II is currently rumored and believed here
that ninety changes will be- made IN the
Treasury Department on the lst ofJune.
oThen lR1fssi6rnt. ates.dfs, Rgffste1s of Iand
offices and receivers of public moneys in
Idaho and Dakota.
Among the numerous applicants for the
postmaster ship at Danville, Virginia, is the
incumbent, who is carpet Dagger from,
Buffalo, n. Y.
A prominent Virginia democrat in the
| city to. day says be really believes that in
stead Of giving strength the disposition oil
the federal patronage among Virginians has
| weakened the democratic party in his State
for the reason that as a general thing The
Offices have been given to men who have
not been party workers, and that those
workers, as is not unnatu ral, will not be as
active in the future as they have been in the
past
1t is reported to-day that the subject OF
the disposition of the offices of the District
of Columbia will be considered by the Pres
ident next week, but that it is by no means
made.
A democratic citizen of Fairfax county,
an ex Union soldier, is here to-day, an ap.
the national cemetery at Alexandria, now
filed by Capt. ]. V. Davis:
The President has. discharged ex Presi
dent Arthur's' French cook, and has en-
ployed In his place young Irish girl who
came here from Albany with him.
The stud of ex. President Arthur, among
which was splendid pair Of perfectly
matched Hamiltonians, was sold by public
auction here to-day.
Naval Cadet John W. Wedderburn has
resigned.
great cause of complaint among those inter-
ested in the discovery of the numerous frauds of
the last and previous administrations is the fact
that as soon as the attention of the departments
is directed to these frauds and Investigations in
stituted, the parties who have been benefited by
them are at once informed by the republican
clerks in the departments of what is in progress,
30 that they can take the necessary steps to con-
ceal either the part they took in or the money
they made by them.
A DAMAGING RAIN.-Continued rains