Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria aasette

Among the strangers in the city is Major
S. P. Bayly, of Fauquier county, va. Inc
Major saws he has forwarded his reply to
the Willoughby letter of four years ago,
published Immediately after the latter was
written, to the Richmond Whig,With the re-
quest that as it has reprinted the letter
referred to, it, in common fairness, repuo-
fish the reply. He says he believes the let
ter was sent TO the Wing from Alexandria
with the date changed to suit the occasion:
The Virginia democratic association OF
this city will hereafter until after the elec-
ton in Virginia occupy parlor NO. Il, IN tne
Metropolitan Hotel, where Virginia Demo
Gratis visiting the city will be welcome, Inc
association hopes and expects to be able to
help the cause in their State By hunting up
and forwarding to their respective voting
nlaces. on the day of election, Ylrgnlans
entitled to vote.
Among the ladies who saw the President
in the East Room yesterday, after his inter-
view up stairs with the politicians, was one
from New York State, who told him she
Wauld return in six months, by which time
she would be disappointed and grieyed if
she did not find mistress of the White
House. The President asked for more time,
and seemed amused at the earnestness with
which she made the remark.
The democrats here from New York say
that so far from making any trouble, the
declination of Mr.. Flower, provided General
Slocum fill his place on the ticket as is
now probable, will rather benefit the party,
as the Generals name will attract support
from quarters that would not have supplied
| it had Mr.. Flower been the candidate.
It is understood here that good many
delegates to the colored anti-Mahone con-
vention, TO meet tomorrow at Lynchburg,
have already left for that city that more
will leave on the trains tonight, and that
quite large and representative body of the
free thinking and free acting colored men
of Virginia will be in attendance. It is also
understood that General Malone has be-
come convinced that il will be useless for
him to attempt to capture the convention
his usual method in previous instances
and will content himself with trying to
make as little Of it as possible. Some of
the delegates say it will be a big affair, and
that its proceedings will have great in
nuence upon the colored vote of the State.
A gentleman here to-day from Fairfax
county, Va. says the dissatisfaction among
the democrats of the Herndon neighbor
hood in that county, in consequence of the
retention of the offensive republican post
master at that place, has reached such pro-
portions that an agreement has been pre-
pared and is being numerously signed, by
which the signers pledge themselves not to
vote at the next election unless the obi &C.
tionable postmaster referred to shall by that
time have been removed.
In reference to the ado kicked up in Alex
andria short time ago by the appointment
OF two colored men from that city to labor
ers places in the Government printing Of
fee, it is learned By INJURY at that Office
that the men referred TO, Charles Jackson
and Henry Wilson, were appointed at the
instance of Maj S. p. Bayly in the places Of
two other colored men Gaines and Allen, also
from Alexandria, who had been appointed
by Malone, and that as the latter two had
been removed, their places could be filled only
by other colored men, as under the order in
force at the office when colored men are
removed their places must be filled by men
of their own race. And thus again is shown
the folly of complaint unless those who
make it are sure of their ground.
A well-known and sensible Virginia DEM
ocrat here to-day says that the federal pa
tronage in Virginia, instead of strengthening
the party in that State, has been either en-
tirely wasted or else so distributed as to
have seriously impaired its strength and
that with few exceptions the men who
nave lcSSlSCu ZIG appointments nave Aoo al
the past, do not now, and never can have
the Influence necessary to add one single
vote except their own to any party to which |
they may be attached, and that it is the
Congressman from the State, the men the
President has to rely upon for advice in |
such cases, who are to blame, and not the
President, and that it is to the numerous
mistakes the President has been led into by |
such advice and the fear of making others |
upon similar advice that his delay in re-
moving republican Office holders is to be
properly attributed, and not to any disincli-
nation on his part to appoint democrats.
1t is understood that Mr. T. J. O'Sulivan
of Alexandria, for a long time an efficient
clerk in Coast Survey Bureau, will be pro.
noted to the position of chief of division in
that bureau.
The regular meeting of the Cabinet was
held to-day. All the members were present
except the Secretary of War and the Attor-
ney General.