Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-16

FRoH WASHINGTON.
lspeclsl Correspondence OF the Ae1andria Gazette
q Cat LIZ 1874

FR0H WASHINGTON.
lspecsl Correspondence OF the Alexandria aa,e'se.'
WARRINGTON. D. c., Sept. l6, 1850.
AS it is understood here that General MA
homes speakers in Virginia are attempting
to make political capital out of the failure
Of the democratic y. S. House OF Represent
atives to pass the Blair educational Dill at
the last session of Congress, the GAzETTEs
correspondent being at the Capitol To-Day
asked the assistant clerk of the House why
If was that the bill referred to failed to pass.
HE renlv was as follows 1.-THE bill! known
&C Senate bill 3S9 1.-THE Blair bill was report
ed on the next day after its passage by the
Senate to the House of Representatives and
by the House ordered to be printed. From
that time to the close of the 4Sth Congress
it laid upon the Speakers table, and no &C
ton was ever taken looking to Its passage.
The large amount of accumulated biils IN
advance of the Blair bill always prevented
any effort which might have been made TO
pass it, as there were quite number OF re.
publcans who were ready to antagonlze IL !,
with some other bill which they preferred"
Among the strangers in the city to day is
Congressman Clements, of Georgia, who de-
feated DR.. FELTON,, the famous independent
from the same district in his State. MIR.
Clements says the democrats of his district
are we'll satisfied with the administration,
and really have no cause 10 be otherwise.
He saws they believe the President intends
to do what he conscientously thinks to be
right. and that, with the exception OF the
nostal route agents and the Presidential
postmasters. nearly all the republican fed
eral officeholders in his State have been
removed.
The Office seekers may be rs numerous as
formerly, but, if 80, they are pressing their
claims from afar, but as few Of them are now
seen either at the White House, the depart
| ments, or at the hotels.
police officer here named Sheehan,
while in citizens clothes, recently shot ana
killed a rough who resisted arrest. 1t Is
said by some that the fact that he was not
wearing his uniform at the time he made
the arrest, will go hard with him, as his vic.
tim was & negro.
DR.. Toner, of this city, who occasionally
goes over to Alexandria to look through the
Junk stores there for ancient relics, and
sometimes finds most valuable curos
there, while at the Capitol this morning ar
ranging the library he has recently present.
ed Congress, found New Jersey paper oil
| 1855, containing an account of the first
meeting OF the Virginia and Maryland In
| USTudl SOupauy, luO plSoS0
cessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company, which was held in Alexandria,
and at which General Washington was
elected president of the company.
There is nothing like a candidacy for
office for bringing to light q mans delin-
auencies and imperfections. The fact that
Mr.. Wise is General Mahones candidate for
Governor of Virginia has induced an ex-
animation of his congressional record, and
it has been discovered that though there is
an unrepealed statute prohibiting members
of Congress from taking any part in
the passage of bills in which they are
personally interested, and though Mr..
Wise took an oath to observe that
statute, he was active, when member
Of the House, in securing the passage OF a
bill for the payment of the claim Of Hugh
Douglass, in which he was personally and
directly interested. The claim was valid
one; the wrong thing about it was Mr.
Wise's active efforts to have it passed.
About seventy five people, among them
Senator Riddlebeger, went from here over
to Alexandria last night to attend the dem.
ocratic meeting there. They say the meet
ing was success in every particular, and
that it was evident from the appearance OF
the crowd that it represented the BUSINESS,
industry and enterprise of the community.
In the Supreme Court of the District Of Column
b:a yesterday, General Eppa Hunton moved that
Cynthia L. Cleveland, of Dakota Territory, be adj
mitted to the bar. The motion was referred to
the examining committee.
Joseph Palmer was to day appointed postmaster
at Heathsvile, Northumberland, Virginia vice
| NJ. B. Cralle, removed.
1t is learned at the Department OF Justice here
TO day that the case of cx-U. S. Marshal Hughes,
of Virginia, who was short in his accounts, has
been settled, as the friends of tho exMarshal ad-
vanced him tho requisite amount to make the
shortage good.