Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-13

contingent fee for the collection, OF the
claims that will arise under the bill. as
there were about one hundred ana hlty
thousand conscripts in the Confederate ar"
nv. the Would.be sWindlers will reap q rlcn
harvest even if only q small percentage OF
them be foolish enough to be cheated cut Oh
the asked for IS.
The salary of the u S. Marshal Of the
District Of Columbia is now S6,Ooo, win ices
tbot NAV amount to an additional thousand
or two. certainly not more than four. Inc
office when tie Jail was its province was
worth q great deal more. The Jail has ocen
attached to and detached from The ONCE
MANY times, according to the popularity OF
the marshal with the members OF congress,
and if is thought an effort Will be MADE at
the coming session to have 1T attached again.
The Government would lose nothing by such
change, but the loot OF the marshal "oulu
be greatly increased.
II ia said here by some whose long expert.
ence in such matters entities what they say
to credit, that if the Virginia Congressional
DELEGATION unite in request that Col. Nat.
TYLER be elected doorkeeper of the House
the course of Virginia in the recent election
there, which, is generally supposed secures
a solid South for years to come, will add SO
much force to that request that it will
probably be granted.
A member of The Virginia Legislature
here to-day says the like of applicants fol-
the offices at the disposal of that body was
never before known, there being dozens iol
each place, with the exception of that Of
Auditor, now filed by Col. Marye, fol
which he has heard of no applicant excen
the efficient incumbent. He says that some
of the most offensive partisans among Ma
homes Judges, one who made himself con
spicuous in the reception of the bloody
shirter Sherman, have the etlrontery TO ask
for reelection.
! A gentleman, from Norfolk, here to-day
saws that General Groner, of that city, for
merly Mahoneite, and one OF the few reputa
bic men among the Generals followers, saic
before the recent election that the General:
vote in that, the Cd congressional district o
the State, would fall two thousand behint
that of Blaine. That congressman Libby
from that district, on the contrary, said thu
Wise vote would be about the same as tina
of Blaine. The result shows that Genera
Groner knew exactly what he was talking
about.
But few members of either house of Con
gress are in the city now, the notice on th
door of the White House excluding the ad
vocates Of otiice.seekers having driven then
homo. Letters received at the Capitol sa.
that only few Of them will return unit
after Thanksgiving Day.
Reports from the Valley Of Virginia ar
to the effect that it would not be at oil sur
prising if the legislature of that State re
Gently elected would have to elect two in
stead of one U. S. Senator.
1t is stated here to-day that the determi
nation Of the civil service commissioners ar
rived at yesterday in the case Of MIR. Ster
ling, the recently appointed and suspended
weigher in the New York customs house, BY
which the selection of a man to fill that place
must be made from all who have passed thu
examination, with preference for ex-UnioI
soldiers, does not necessarily exclude Mr.
Sterling, who is working democrat ant
who believes that the democratic party
should give its Offices to its working mem
bers