Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-05-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
,sneota Correspondence of the Alexandria dasette.

upon the people of Georgia, to allow !. =.
BRYANT TO remain y. S. Marshal of that State
any longer; that Bryant had said, In
sneech. # he wanted to find virtue among
the women of Georgia, he would look LOT
it among the negroes, and that Bryants
charges of bulldozng and political murders
against the people ofGeorgia were d1sproVed
by the fact of his being alive to abuse anG
yilify them as he does, for, said the General,
such man would not live tweAty-four hours
in any other State. The cry that is Is no"
opening upon Bryant and Wilson, the post,
master at Savannah, who is almost ms bad
as Bryant, will, it is supposed, soon become
so general throughout the State that the au-
ministrstion will be forced 10 comply with
its demands. Bryant got General Long
streets. and Wilson, General McLaws' place,
and both were appointed as pay for their
treachery to Blaine and support OF Arthur
in the national republican convention.
So MANY endorsements of Dir. Eaton's
application for reappointment to the posi-
tion of Commissioner of Education nave
been received from the school masters III
Virginia and Maryland, and 80 few from
other States, that some curiosity was ex'
pressed thereat at the Department until II
was discovered that the Commissioner,under
the impression that the subject ola change 10
his position would soon be considered, nad
printed circulars, asking his retention, sent
to the school teachers in the two States
named for signatures, as those States being
near the circulars might be returned IN
time to be effective.
The spring races commenced here to-day,
but the crowd at the race course was not d
large as was expected, probably on account
of the weather. Among those IN attend
ance are many from Virginia, the people of
which State still retain their love for the
sport.
II is understood that all the democrats in
the Virginia Congressional delegation are
in the city to day, the time appointed tor
the reassembling of their conference, for the
purpose, it is said, of urging upon the adj
minlstration the Importance of turning out
the rascals" in Virginia.
Mr.. Rollins, working democrat OF Fort
ROYAL, Va. has been appointed mail route
agent from Fredericksburg to Baltimore,
via the Rappahannock, vice James Lane
Green, renewed, as stated in this correspon-
dence yesterday. This appointment it Is
stated BY gentleman from one of the boat
landings on the Rappabannock, will be more
effective rs a means of letting the people
along that river know that General Mahone
mas ITO IOUSGT Iu6 WuOIC ntioh CIV
his back than that of any of the real impor-
tapt appointments made by the new admin
istration.
A northern democratic Congressman, the
same one who informed the GAZETTEs cor.
respondent two weeks ago that five hum
dred removals would be made in Virginia
the following week, when asked to day
what had become of those removals, said he
d d not know. that he had been given to uE-
derstrn by those who could make the re-
moyals that they would be made, but that
he was fearful the administration is being
influenced by certain New York uewspa
papers, though even they, he believed, had
nothing to say against the removal of the
Mahoneites He was in hopes, however, he
said, that there would be change in the
administration policy before long.
Before and after. An Intelligent Vir-
ginian, who mas been carrying on the house
painting business in this city for some years,
says that during the Hancock campaign,
while engaged in painting house. he said
something favorable about the General to
the lady of the house, who interrupted him
by saying, "Oh, please don't mention that
mans name" He says he painted the same
lady's house recently, and when talking to
her about Cleveand's election, was sur
prised to hear her say "Well, my SOP
who went North to vote, when he came
home, said at the breakfast table that he
had voted for Cleveland and my husband laid
down his knife and fork and after moment
said, I don't care a id if you did,"
Delegations from Norfolk and from
Hampton, Virginia, are here to day, looking
after the federal Offices al those two places,
and also to ask that Mr. Marshall, who was
the democratic candidate for Congress in
that district last year, be consulted by the
administration about the distribution Of the
government patronage there.
A delegation of Mo.mons bearing the pc
ttion OF the people of Utah for relief from
the oppression to which they are now sub
iecsed by reas,n of the outrageous conduct
of the federal Judge of that Territory. They
were politely but coolly received, and ex
press themselves as by no means favorably
impressed with their reception, nor as at all
sauguine of favorable result of their mis-
sion.
In the Washington correspondence of to-
days New York Herald appears the follow
ing paragraph, under dale of yesterday -
Thomas A. P. Champlin, of Alexandria
Va, had short talk with the President, so
hat the President would not forget him.
He added to his card the fact that he for
merly resided in Buffalo"
gentleman familiar with the affairs of
the G. s. o. Canal, in the city to-day, says
this will be the last year of that canals ex-
istence. He says he supposes the George
town level, or enough of it to supply the
mills Of that place, will he kept up by the
millers, bur that that will be all. The clos
ing of the canal, be says, will close the lime
and cement business of both George.
town and Alexandria, and, Of course, rem
der the Alexandria Canal worthless. The
latter canal, he says, is just seven miles
and quarter long, including the George
town aqueduct, and that. when the G. &
o. canal is converted into a railway,
as it will be, at least that part of it from
the Point of Rocks to Geo rgetowp, AL
exandria should be wide awake enough
to have that road produced to its wharves, along
the bed of the Alexandria Canal, az in that case
Alexandria would attract all the coal trade, as
vessels receiving cargoes there would not only
save ten miles, but the dangers of draw bridge
and of narrow and shallow channel
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