Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-03-26

o-day and Mr.. Merrick for the State.
When that case shall be concluded the Par
ons case, which is for mandatory inJunc-
ion to prohibit the collection ofhcersfrom
efusine to receive coupons, will come up.
4 prominent and able Virginia lawyer, VINO
1as been an attentive listener to all the ar
,ument in all these cases, in talk with tne
GAZETTE's correspondent to-day, expressed
a directly contrary opinion as to the prop
ab|e decision of the court from that OF the
other Virginians whose opinion was men
toned Yesterday. He said that the glst OF
the cases was the question whether or noI
the supreme Court of the United States
would by q decision deprive coupons re,
ceiyed in good faith of their validity, ana
that he did not believe it would. An ex-
nudge from Virginia, who was also in the
court to-day, said that while the court could
not compel the State to pay her just DEBTS,
it could render rightful decision and leave
the execution of it to the honor and honesty
of the people of the State.
Another error, owning to the hurry ID
which the bills had to be eDgrossed during
the closing hours of the last session OF Con,
qress. has been discovered, but Richmond
is the gamer by it. A bill was passed ap-.
propriating 100000 to the enlargement OF
the Customs House at Richmond, But IN
addition to that a provision was allowed 70
remain in the Sundry civil bill appropriat-
ing $4,000 to the same purpose. 1t IS De.
ieyed, however, that the whole sum'ls not
a cent too much for the required object.
1t is rumored to-day that the soilclSor
Generaship lies between ex-senator Johh'
ston and ex-Congressman Goode, potn Iroin
Virginia; that ex-Gov. Jarvis, OF Nortn
Carolina, will get the Brazilian mission,
$4,000 year; and that ex Senator Jonas
will be made collector OF the port OF Ne"
Orleans.
1t was stated in this correspondence yes
terday that the radicals were very much
nut out at Secretary Lamar's order closing
the Interior Department to-day in respect
| of the memory of the late e1-Secretary ia
cob Thompson. Since then the dissatlstac-
ton has increased to howl, which has
spread through the whole republican host
| Thew say that the act referred to is an out
rage upon the loyal people of the coun-
try. inasmuch as Mr. Thompson not
only tried to burn New York and other
of the larger Northern cities, and en-
deavored to infest the populous cities OF
the North with smallpox, and had never
asked to have his political disabilities re-
moved but that by closing the Interior
Department to day worthy manned soldiers
were compelled to wait another weary day
icr their pensions. They also say that Mr..
Jefferson Davis cannot live much longer,
and that when he dies, under the prece-
dent established by Secretary Lamar, not
only will the War Department be closed,
but the flags at every fort and bar
racks in the country be lowered at half
mast, and the officers of the army be coin
PEELED to wear crepe on their arms. They
say, in short, that the Secretary's act is aD
outrage, is almost more than flesh and blood
can bear, and that strange as it may seem
| in only two decades after the close of the
war the rebels have seized and hold posses
sion of the Government. Northern demo
Gratis chuckle at all this as much as those
| from the South.
It is understood that Senator Riddle
| berger, after the close of the extra session
of the Senate, will go on lecturlng tour
| through the larger cities of the North, his
subject being the unAmericanism of Secre-
tary Bayard.
Mr.. Joslyn, ex.Assistant Secretary of the
Interior, and Mr.. McFarlane, ex Commits
sioner of the Land Office, left the city to day
| for their homes without waiting for their
successors to take their places.
Another caucus of the republican Senators
| was held this morning on MIR. Sherman's
resolution for resembling all the legislation
since the 4th of March providing for extra
clerks and extra pay for the clerks of the
Senate's, committees, but as many of the
Senators would be personally affected by
the adoption Of such a resolution, and as
thsy threaten to relaliaLe upon the others
if such action be taken, there is little if any
pr liability that the resolution referred to
" II be adopted.
Among those who called upon the Presi-
dent to-day was Representative Barbour.
One of General Mahone's followers who
was at tue Capitol to-day, in talking about
the prospects Of the Generals reelection to
the Senate, said his plan was to make a
fight in every couaty where there Is the
slightest chance of success, to resort to the
use of the money he has saved from his politi-
cal assessments and from the contribution of
the national republican committee, and to un-
limited promises, and to contest the election
of every member of the Legislature where
ground for d contest can be conceived. BY
these means he hopes to get enough of his
followers into the Legislature to expel 8
sufficient number of democrats to secure
his reelection, and after that to allow right
fully elected democrats to take their seats,
if the can, and thatrh he says such proceed
ing will be justified by the action of the
democrats in the last Legislature who ex-
PEELED number of Mahoneites.
All the nominations of postmasters so far made
have been to supply vacancies made by the ex-
piration of commissions under the four years law
but all the nominees are true blue democrats.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Mrs. Ann Bell. wife of Major 81. NJ. Bell