Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-04-28

District. A customs house officer here,
man who has held his place ever since the
commencement of the republican admins
trations, was notified this morning that his
services will not be required after the end
of the current month.
The work of clearing the Norfolk navy
ward of Mahoueites has commenced and
will be prosecuted vigorously until the last
one is removed Seven of the Generals
strikers there were discharged yesterday,
and the names OF others are already down
to keep them company. But for General Ma
homes threats to remove these men If they
refused to work for him, they would have
been safe in their positions for years to come.
Mahoueism is turning out to be almost as
disastrous to those who adopted it as it was
to the State it blighted.
MIR. Bennett, member Of the House from
South Carolina, now here, said this morn
ing that the people of his State and of the
whole South are not pressing the President
for office; they have confidence in his dem
ocracy and in his patriotism, and are per-
fectly content to await his action, knowing
it will be wise when taken. He says the
men of the South are the conservative peo-
ple of the country, and will be its stay III
time of trouble.
Mr.. ONie!, who is now superintendent
at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
will take entire charge OF that bureau on
on the 1st Of July.
A Northern democratic Congressman,
on good terms with the whole admins
tra,ion and on familiar terms with some Ct
its members, said to-day he had assurances
that tidal wave would overcome the fed
eral officeholders in Virginia next week,
when five hundred Of them will be swept
out of their places and set adrift to make a
living by The sweat of their faces as the
democrats have had to do so long. The
removals will be made upon the ground
that the mere fact that man was
appointed to Office by General Mahoue
is prima facie evidence that he is unfit
for the position, aud the admi stratiOr,
it is understood, is unit in hat respect
and also in the belief that the whole coun-
try, North as we'll as South, republicans as
we'll as democrats, will sustain that action.
So far as Virginia is concerned, au excep-
ton will be made in the generally accepted
idea of civil service rules, aud those rules
will be carried out in their true spirit, which,
instead of compelling the President to re-
tain federal office holders in their positions
until the expiration of their official terms,
force him to remove them at once.
The Secretary of the Treasury this morn
ing ordered all the telegraph and telephone
wires running over the top of the Treasury
Building to be removed at once, because
they not only irjure, but deface that build
ing.
1t having been urged against Mr.. Claugh-
ton, whose friends are asking his appoint
ment as Judge OF the District, vice Judge
Wyie resigned, that he lost his citizenship
by accepting office under the British Gov
eminent in Guiana during the cival war in
this country, Mr.. Claughton says that when
he was offered that place by the Governor
of that province nothing was said about
naturalization, and that his status as citi-
zen of this country has never been affected.
General Grant is now the monthly re-
cipient of 81, 1873 33 from the Government as
his salary on the retired list of the army, for
which the only work he has to do is to sign
receipt.
The Treasury Department decided yester
day that al army officers who held a brevet
rank in the Mexican war are entitled TO
three months extra pay. md that if the
officers be dead their h.i.s go" ""'''