Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents OF the Ale1andIiH uAset's
WASHINGTON, D. G., Nov. 10, 1855.

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria aaset'ei
WASHINGTON. D. g., Nov. 10, 1850.
Solicitor General Goode, who is a Vir-
einian, when asked this morning what he
thought of the Mahonites' assertion that
General Lees election as Governor of plr'
einis is invalidated an account of his position
as a member of the Board Of Visitors OF
West Point, said he had not thought.ot it at
all blu; that he supposed the State lawapplled
rather to the holdingsof an. office than to
election to one; that then, too, he said, be
was not certain that the General as MEM
her of the board of West Point Visitors was
not tunctus oilicio, his duties having expired
after his visit to West Point last year. How
ever, said he, even if the law should apply,
the Legislature meets one month before the
Governors Inauguration, time amply suth-
cient for it to amend the law in any manner
it may think proper.
congressman Croxton from the first and
Cabell from the fifth district Of Virginia
are in the city to-day, and both, of course,
are delighted with the result of the election
in their State, and both regard it as an eff
fectual elimination of Malone from Vir-
GINA politics. Col. Cabell says about sixty
negroes in Danville voted the democratic
ticket, and that great many did in Halifax
county.
There is rumor current to-day to the
effect that the proposed effort to have the
regular appropriation bills reported early in
the session will be made matter of demo
cratic caucus action, upon the ground that
| it is really tariff question, as the delay in
reporting such bills is evidently device of
the protectionists to prevent tariff debate
and tariff legislation, and that should the
caucus decide in favor of an early report of
the bills referred to Mr.. Randall and the
other political anomalies, democratic pro-
tectionists, will withdraw from it and act
with the republicans, as they did on the
Morrison bill in the last Congress.
| The failure of this Government to follow
the advice contained in General Washing.
toms Farewell Address regarding entang-
ling foreign alliances is again shown in the
| Colon case. It is now intimated that an at
tempt will be made to hold this Govern
ment responsible for the losses occasioned
by the attack made upon Colon by the
rebels last year.
The appointment of General Don Carlos
Buell. to be pension agent at Louisville, KY,
is said by the Kentuckians here to be the
third lucrative place in their State that has
been given to ex Federal soldiers, the sur
veyorship of the port of Louisville and an
internal revenue collectorship being the
other two.
Mr.. w. Z. Smith, the newly.apponted
I'd Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, took
possession of that Office to-day, Mr.. Coon,
his republican predecessor, retiring. Mr..
Coon would doubtless have been retained,
notwithstanding his offensive partisanisin
during the last Presidential election, had he
not obtruded his partisauism again at the
recent elections. Mr. Smith is a real party
worker, and his appointment affords much
qualification to the democrats of that class
throughout the country.
The prevailing impression about the Bell
telephone patent case, now being argued
before the Secretary of the Interior, is that
by the decision of the Secretary the matter
| will be referred to the courts, and that the
courts vii! decide adversely to the Bell
patent.
The regents of Mt. Vernon are consider
| ing proposed plan for parking that place
with trees from all the various parts of the
country.
1t is said at tho Treasury Department that
| the charges preferred against Mr.. Graves,
superintendent OF the bureau Of printing and
engraving, amount to nothing.
The new National Theatre, as was antici.
pated, has regained its position as the most
attractive place of public amusement in the
city. 1t was crowded last night, upon the
occasion Of the reproduction in this city Of
the "Rag Baby" the deafening laughter
evoked by which showing plainly enough
that the management knows how TO cater to
Washington taste.