Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
,sn.c,a, Correspondence OF the Alexandria 1a.ettei

MIR. Bell, OF georgia, VINO WIS uotnihateu
by the negroes in his district for Congress,
left his place in the Agricultural Depart
to enter the campaign last fall, was hea'en,
and. after the election, resumed hls duties
ma clerk in the Department, and is there !
now.
Mr.. Robt. Sims, Il brother of AIR. W. + !
Sims, of Virginia, who is reported To have
been an applicant for agovernmentpts'tion
under the Arthur administration, has been
appointed land agent in Utah, AMI Put III
charge of Government reservation there.
Tho impression of well.informed Virgin
ians, in the city today, either going to or
coming from the watering places, is that NOT
uithstandiug the talk 10 the contrary, the
political campaign i'll their State will be slow
aud unexclling, 1T least until near It's close,
and that The democraswiil certainly succeed
and that in the latter event, the people VIII
feel 50 grateful tn Mr.. Barbour that they
will give him the U. $. Seratorship without
any great difficulty. Some OF tho friends OF
Mri,r Daniel will undoubtedly do all they
eau lvgiiilnn,cly To secure that honor LOT
that gentleman, hut j. seems to be generally
uudeIs TODD thar Tho place mas Dech pre-
| enptrd by Mr.. Barbour. .
senator Ransom, OF North Carohna, VINO
has bern here a good deal during Tue sum-
mer, went ONE last week perfectly con-
tented with The administration and with the
way il has treated him. He got everything
he wanted ia his State. The last federal
appointments he looked after were those Of
his wn district. The day before he left he
went TO the Postcilico Department with n
lis, of appiicans for every postollice in that
district, and they We're every one appointed
on that same day. Among them was the
postmaster at the town in which O'Hara,
the colored republican Congressman from
that district, resides. The latter being in
formed of what the Senator had done, call
| cd upon him to demonstrate against the re-
mnval Of the particular postmaster referred
10. aud said he had supposed the usual
courtssy III such cases would have been ex-
tended TO him. and the postmaster AT bis
! town been SLOWED to reclaim his position.
The Senator told him there was no courtesy
| in the case, and that as good and true old
democrat had applied for the place he had
given it TO him. Senator Ransom is firm
supporter of the administration. While no
be dy has right TO say that his colleague is
mol, Mr. Vance has been here very little since
he new q ADMINISTRATION came into power. In
this connection it may be mentioned that
though the postmaster at Petersburg, Va, is
retained out IF courtesy to Senator Malone,
no such courtesy was shown by the republi-
| can NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~ duCC.
When Senator Riddeberger was in this
city be snid if all the republican Senators
though as me did, the next session Of Con
gress would be q long one, probably running
into Sel 'mber, as he would make pro.
lou.ed liaht over the confirmation of tho
Presidents appointments. With regard to
| The posmaster in bis own town, Woodstock,
he said he did not regard his retention in
lha light o! courtesy to himself and would
rather ne wonld be removed han not.
Mr. james Fl. Devine. Of Loudoun CO. va,
m ante a. VIII aI post war democrat. and
whose business cnTre!s him 10 visit all
parts of his Sia.e, Is in the city To day. He
says hc WAS at August court IN his county,
ana at an i:mmcIisc bush meeting" in
| Ftuu,ii.r county last week and that ut both
all inr white men he saw were firm sup
H.0rcr. Of tle democratic S!nte ticket. and
: were sauguine of It's election. He says be
has lately seen Mir. Stubs, q prominent
| democrat nj Gloucester county, on iitlewater,
| and Mr. Miller, II well informed democrat
| from Pulaski in the Southwest, and from
| them harms that tbs. democratic pros
poets in their respective sections are bright
| anh hi hi cnn", Regarding the politics in
his "wu County h. says Dir. Heaton will
| prri,ahlv lie renominated for the State Sen
ste fitin tn: district OF which Loudoun
| f.rmi: ,n:i. hat that there is some talk of
Illuminating Mr. Robert Beverly, and that
| the latter viii accept if nominated.
| Mr. 3 lord, brother Of tho OK Congress.
mnn frutn Colorado, consul ut Levuka, Fiei
| Islands, las been suspended, but refuses to
| urn the Office over to his successor, the vice
| consul.
| An applicant for an outdoor position in
| the Treasury Department., who during the
| whole ol he last Presidential campaign,
made stump speeches in the open air and |
in Mi sorts Of weather, and who is noted for
his lung power, making people on the out
side Of the largest crowds hear him dis
;iuc.Iy, was recently rejected by the civil
serrice board npon the ground that his left |
luns. WAS weak.
Gentlemen from the Eastern Shore Of
Virginia here to-day say that the democrats |
1T that distric, have nominated Mr.. Wescott |
FIR the House of Delegates from Accomac,
Mr.. wilkins MS the floater from Accomac |
and Northampton, and Mr.. Blackstone for
the State Senate, and that the ticket will be
elected by an increased majority.
AT McGaheysvile. Rockingham co., Va,
Richard L. Hopkins has been appointed
postmaster, vice J. S. Russell, removed for
offensive craftsmanship.
Senators Eustace, Harris and German
were in tic city to-day.
CLUyERIUS HoPEFUL-A prisoner who