Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-07

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Professor Hilgard, of the Coast Survey, !:
he affairs of which bureau, under repuoll-
,an administrations, have just been found to
have been conducted in The most disgraceiui
manner has at his request, been allowed TO
resign rather than to be dlshonoraoiy us
charged. -, 1e
Secretary Endicott has informed the Jei-
ferson democratic club, of this city, which
clnb ia engaged in collecting and formuiat-
;ng charges against republican office hold
arc that no ex-Union soldier will be re-
moved upon charges of offensive partisan
ism no matter how substantial may be the
grounds on which those charges may be
founded. a..
Among the war trophies stored in the
War DEPARTMENT Isl the little fancy rifle
with itg leather strap carried by the Presl-
dent of the Confederate States at the time
of his capture. Until recently card was
attached to it, giving its history in terms as
Objectionable to Southern sympathizsrs as
could have been conceived. But since the
inauguration of the national boom and the
era of restored good feeling promoted by
The diving words of General Grant and the
consequences thereof, the card referred to
has been removed, and one substituted tor II
which simply states that the rifle belonged
to Mr.. Jefferson Davis.
The course pursued by Mr.. Stevenson,
First Assistant Postmaster General, IN re-
moving republican postmasters by whole
sale. and for the good and sufficient reason
that they are republicans, is receiving CON- :
mendations from his party in all sections OF
the country, and has done more 10 alss'I'iIe
the dissatisfaction in the party tha' Was
rapidly growing before he came mo oLlGe
than ANYTHING that could have happened
indeed marty man from the West, now III
ths citv. goes so tnr as TO say that Steven
CON hoo saved the administration.
Gentlemen from Loudoun County, Va, in
the city to-day, say that MI. Ryan will
probably be the democratic candidate for
re-ele ction to the House of Delegates from
that county, and that Mr.. Heaton will be
the candidate for reelection to the State
Senate from the LoudoEn district.
The GAZETTE'S correspondent is told
almost daily by democrats from Northern
and Western States, who come here on bust.
ness or pleasure, that the present political
campaign in Virginia creates more interest
among the party in their respective States
than that in New York and Ohio combined
They say, too, that many republicans III
their States believe the defeat Of Mahoue
would be the best thing that could happen
TO the nationn! re publcau party.
| A gentleman here to-day who lives along
the line of the W., O. & W. r. r., says that
after talking with some voters FROM West
morelsnd county, Virginia, who went oil
with Malone on the debt question, but who
told him they Intended 10 vote for FitZ.
Lee next November, he slroled over to the
railroad depot, feeling i'll excellent spirits,
but that when the train on the road referred
to arrived and he saw sixty-ive OF the most
offensive sort Of republican partisans get oil
aud proceed to the different departments i'll
which they are employed, his old feelings
came back and bis heart sank within him.
| Ex-senator Mcdonald, who, with his
wife, is COW at Deer Park, was recently in
vited here by the President for consultation.
He came aud had an agreeable interview.
The Senator is said to be perfectly satisfied
with the nanucr lin which the administra,
| ton is progressing.
A gentleman from West Virginia In the
city To-day says the postoitices have settled
every thing in his State, and that whereas
there was some mutter .ngs Of dissatisfaction
| there short time ago in consequence Of the
re entiun of republican poslluasters, since
all thu most offensive Of those postmastefs
ty is running smoothly again.
Mr. Randall was still in the city this
morning He is reported as saying that the
| policy TT removing republican Office holders
upon charges was the most unfortunate that
could possibly have been adopted, and that
| be is uiNd TO sea it has been partially, If not
| wholly abandoned.
Au office seeker, who for months past has
almost daily, when he met the GAzETTE's
| correspondent, poured into his ears doleful
representations Of the ruin aud destruction
of the democratic party owing to the course
| of the administration, was informed yester-
| day hy his congressman that he would be
given a yo:iiicn on the first OF next month
| Upon meeting the correspondent this morn
ing, he said things are looking decidedly
| better"
All the department clerks hore will have
! holiday from three o'clock this afternoon
until Monday morning.
The President, all the members Of the
Cabinet and large number Of other people
| will leave here this afternoon for New York,
either to take part in or to witness General
Grants funeral there tomorrow. As TO
more Presidential appointments will be
made until after the President shall return,
applicants for such appointments who have
been watching and waiting here for months
experienced severe heart sinkings when the
White House closed to-day.
Among the recently appointed Virginia
postmasters commissioned to-day is Ethel
bert Milburn, at Round Hill.
mr. Kelley, will, it is said, return home,
and be given another place When Con-
gress meets the correspondence in his case
will be called for, and Austria will not ap-
pear in favorable light, as it is certain
that his wlfe's nativity was one of the OBJ
jections to his acceptance. His successor
will not he appointed Immediately.
THE OATS NINE LIvEs.-As to the popu-