Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-03

FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., Sept. 5, 1855.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 8, 1855.
General Rosecrans, register of the Trea-
sury, has received letter from the chair
man of the democratic committee of Ohio,
requesting him to make some speeches i'll
that State, where so many members of his
old corps, with whom his influence is poten-
tial, reside, and telling him that the contest
there will be close this fall, but that should
the democrats succeed then, Ohio will be
democratic for years to come. The General
has replied to the effect that it is not pos
sible at present to give definite answer to
the request. 1t is understood that the let
ter referred to will be submitted to the ad.
ministration for its decision, so that every
man who holds federal Office under q
democratic administration may know
whether or not he has paddock upon his
mouth.
A dispatch received here says that
during Secretary Manning's recent WIS.,
it to Albany he asked the postmaster
at that city to remove republican
employee in his Office and appoint one
of his friends to fill the vacancy, and that
when the postmaster told him the man was
grand army man, and that his retention
was demanded by the grand army men, he
replied, grand army be damned; turn out
Zielman and put Mike German in his place."
The following changes in the 4th class
postofices in Virginia were made to-day {:
Stony Creek, Sussex county, G. R. Bobbitt,
appointed postmaster, vice ". w. Mayer,
removed Jarrett's, Sussex county, J. S.
Griggs, vice VIM. M. Jarrett, jr., removed.
Mr.. Eugene Higgins, or "Jim Higgins"
by which latter name he is better known in
Baltimore, says if the democrats of the
House elect him doorkeeper of that body
he will accept the position, as there is no
duty his party may assign him that he will
not perform. 1t is said by other people that
many democratic members of the House will
vote for Mr.. Higgins in order to show that
they agree with him that the civil service
law is q sham and fraud for the benefit of
the republicans.
A prize drill for handsome stand of col
ors will be contested for at the Grange ex-
hibition at Falls Church on the 18th inst.
All the Virginia volunteer companies who
may attend will be Hospitality entertained.
Governor Cameron, of Virginia, is here
to-day. He is said by those who have talk
ed with him to be reticent respecting politi.
cal affairs in his State, but he did say that
Wise would be elected. A short time be.
fore the democratic convention of Virginia
was held.the Governor, in the Metropolitan
Hotel here, said he would bet hundred
dollars that he could name the next Cover.
nor Of Virginia. A gentleman standing by
said he did not bet, but he would like to
know who would be the next Governor of
Virginia. The Governor then said, Fitz-
hugh Lee.
The proprietor of the Health and Home,
of this city, has sued the proprietor of the
Free Press for criminal libel, in that he call.
ed him ''Hudu" doctor.
Mr.. Beckford Mackey started from here
yesterday for his new consulate in Mexico,
to which he was transferred from the one in
South America, wherezhe shot and killed
man who had insulted some of bis lady
friends. Mr.. Mackey is republican, but
has no fault to find with the present admin
istration.
A democratic worker from Fairfax coun-
ty, Virginia, here to-day, says that, owing
to the loss of the votes Of the large number
of republican federal Office holders in that
county, the lukewarmness Of the colored
people there, who don't hone after the cleo
ton of the man who holds them in such
light regard that he will only receive the
legislators among them in his kitchen, and
whose father hanged their saint, John
Brown, and the disgust of the straighout re-
publicans at not having a single real repub:
lican on the Malone ticket, his county will
not only go democratic next fall, but do so
by a large majority.
The democrats of Virginia are complain
ing of the retention in the navy yard here
aud at Norfolk of republican employees who
have been conspicuously offensive in their
partisanism. They say that it seems to be
impossible to get q democrat into either one
Of the yards alluded to. They will appeal to
Secretary Whitney for redress of their grew
ance as soon as he shall return.
Burning of Flour Mill
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