Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-03
FROM N-ASEESEGTOS.
lolesial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE !
WASHINGTON D. c., Sept. ;, 1856.

WASHINGTON D. G., Sept. 5, 1856
Among the officers of the U. S. ship Tren.
ton which arrived at Old Point Comfort yes.
| terday, after q three years cruise, is ensign
Lee Holcomb Of Alexandria.
The friends Of General ". H. F. Lee, one
| oi the prominent candidates for the demo
cratic congressional nomination in the Alex
aEdrla district, in this city, where he has
| many, are very we'll pleased with tho op-
position the newspapers of Washington and
| the Washington correspondents Of newspa.
pers IN other parts of the country, are MAX
ing to the General, and say nothing could
possibly conduce moro to his nomination.
Secretary Lamar in talking to gentleman
here day or two ago in reference to the re-
movals OF clerks in his department, said he
was making none, but that some changes
were being made by his subordinates at the
| instance OF congressman. How such
thing could be strnck the gentleman referred
to 81 passing strange. But the vagaries Of
civil service reform as at present con-
Quoted. SIRE past finding out.
| Senator kenna, chairman of the democrat
ic congressional campaign committee, is still
in the city. He says the republicans arc
making strong effort to elect Dir. Golf to
the Senate from his State in place Of Mr.,
Camden, the present democratic Senator,
but that he is by no means fearful CT such q
| result.
! The defeat Ex-senator Mahone's candidate
Tor Congress in tho Petersburg district yes
| terday and the nomination of the Generals
open enemy, Mr.. Gaines, are looked upon
here rs indicative of the entire loss of the
| Generals influence. Mr.. John Amber
Smith, whose father resides in that district,
says Gaines is sensible, bold aud independ
cut man, and that the best evidence of his
sense and boldness are the facts that he
knows General Malone to be unworthy of
support and proclaimed that knowledge
from one end of the district to the other.
Mr.. }. Amber Smith, counsel for Mrs.
| General Carroll, in her suit for divorce, in
! answer to question, received reply from
the war office this morning, stating that
! General Sprigg Carroll's address is Bright
wood, ID. Q. General Carroll q major gen.
eral in the U. S. army in the suit referred
to, denies the jurisdiction of the courts of the
District of Columbia. and swears thst he
lives in Maryland
| The trains that left hera fer the South last
night and this morning had among their
| passengers many people Of Charleston, who
had been sojourning in the North. They
were in very anxious and depressed con-
dltlon, and, though hurrying home, dreaded
reaching there lest their worst fears should
! be realized.
Daniel Teoford, of Alexandria Charles
II. Mcintosh, of Warrenton, and Charles w.
Turner, OF Eikton, have been appointed
gaugers for the Sixth Virginia internal reye.
nue. distric
W. Il. Swallow, the man recently arrest
cd here and sent to Fredericksburg for
sWindIiug, has written letter to Col. Jack
Brown, his counsel when in this city, in
which he Gays the only money he got was
fifty dollars from Father Donahoe and ten
dollars from Mr.. Maupiu, that all the other
accounts of his swindling operations are lies,
and that against that truth the gates of hell
and the devil combined cannot prevail. He
also says he taught school in King George
county, thirty years ago, and is we'll and
favorably known to all the older people of
| that county.
Wilson, the postmaster at Savannah, who
| refused TO surrender that Office to his sue.
cessor, Is carpet.bagger, was q delegate to
the national republican convention, and was
| appointed by President Arthur under the
terms of the bargain he made for the yota
| Of the Georgia delegation in that hody.
The Treasury Department has issuaa or
ders to ali the employees in the service Of
that department, warning them Of the pen
| atty of disobeying the Presidents last civil
service circular prohibiting them from TAX
ing any active part in politics. 1t is under
stood that all the other departments will do
| likewise. In other words no man who hoidsa
federal Office shall, after Office hours, at
| night, and during vacation, BIO allowed the
privileges granted to all other American Cit
lzens Mugwun,pery is great, and Cleye-
lard is its prophet.
MIR. J. Cnlhcart Jones. Of Louisiana, who
has been here for = year past seeking q per-
sonal quarrel with Congressman King OF
MS state, has now published a pamphlet
charging King with all msaner of crimes
and da:ing him to attempt to resent what
he says.