Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-06-06

that if the notice referred to shall come IL
will not take them unawares. Indeed 1t ls
known that there are at least fifty clerks
in the departments here who expecting re-
moyal as soon as the new administration
came into power made arrangements Tor
going into other business, and who, though
retaining their Offices, SO far from 1usslng
and Tuning about their removal, would not
object to it in the slightest degree provided
they were not removed upon charges.
A strong protest against the continued
coinage Of the silver dollar was received at
the Treasury Department to day from
Charleston, South Carolina, signed oy many
of the leading men of that city and by some
of the highest officers of the State govern
meut. 1t is understood that similar pro
tests will come from all the principal bust
ness centres in the South, and that they
will be used to add strength to the admins.
traton's proposed intention to recommend
TO Congress the suspension of the objection
able coinage. It is understood that the
silver men, as means to prevent break
with the administration and to do as
much for silver as possible, will agree
to a compromise by which the COIN
age of the present silver dollar may be
he suspended, but silver certificates be Is
sued upon bullion of standard tineness, so
that ten dollar certificate will represent
len gold dollars worth of silver.
Notwithstanding the arrival of the warm
weather, large number OF Senators ana
Representatives are in the city, either to
obtain Office for some of their constituents
| or to avoid the opportunities Of others.
A gentleman from Westmoreland county,
| Virginia, here to-day, says the mental alb
erralion of ex- Congressman Mayo, of that
county, is of religious character, and that
he is conti ually preaching He also Gays
that his friends hope his malady is only
temporary, aud that they think it may be so
because il manifested itself after some
what prolonged indulgence in mental slim
| ulants.
| A strong effort is being made to have MIR.
Dumont, Supervising Inspector General of
Steam boats, removed. He halls from Troy,
New York The most prominent applicant
for his place is Captain E. w. Gould, of st.
| Louis.
The Cabinet ministers having followed
the recedent set by the President OF re-
ceiviug no callers on Saturdays, the Chief
clerks in their departments have also adopt
ed that rule, so that the departments to day
were As dull as any other parts OF The city.
The civil service commissioners, in re-.
Spouse to q direct inquiry, say that when u
Mahoueite hailipg from Virginia is removed
from his place in the departments here the
vacancy can not be filed by democrat
from his State, as Virginia already has
more than her quota.
| Col. Edward Daniels, of Fairfax county,
Va, who is in the city to-day, says the peo-
pie of his county are more interested IN the
subject Of taxes than politics now, and will
t'y TO elect u man 10 theLegislature who will
endeavor to effect reform in that matter.
He says the taxes of those who pay are made
double what they should be by those who
donot pay and that.if the laws were changed
with regard to tax sales 80 that the collec
ton of taxes could be enforced, the tax rate
could be greatly reduced. The Colonel was
once pronounced republican, but he is now
as much opposed to Malone as any demo
crat eau be, and says that the republicans
in his section are not followers of the boss.
| A Virginia lawyer here to-day in talking
about the Cluverius case, the decision i'll
which he by no means approved, though
| he thinks it will be sustained by the Court
of Appeals, said "A great fault in the Grim
inal law of Virginia is that it prevents a
prisoner from testifying in his own behalf,
either unsworn, when he would not he
subject to cross examination, or under oath,
when he would be-"
| Tho New York Heralds correspondent in this
| city, says "Virgiua has two candidates for the
| place Of Public Priuter,-State Printer Derr, who
is pressed by Representative Daniel. and Mr.. But
ton, Lynchburg publisher who is pressed by
| Representative Barbour of that State
|