Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 16, 1856.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 16, 1856.
The President to-day appointed Mr.. Fol.
som, hie wife's cousin, the young gentleman
who was her escort while on her European
tour, and who is her favorite relative, U. S.
consul at Sheffield, England one of the
most lucrative consuates. This is all right
and just as it should be, as the appointee
will probably make competent and eff.
cient officer, as the fact that he is Mrs.
Cleveland's cousin should not be sufficient
reason to disbar him from the public service;
and nothing would be said or thought about
it were it not for the fact that when General
Shelley recently went to the White House to
recommend the appointment of Senator
Pugh's son, of whose efficiency he was per-
soually aware, the President told him that
such an appointment would be nepotism,
which the Government could not afford to
stand, if Senator Pugh could
MIR. Montgomery, commissioner OF patents,
informed Secretary Lamar to-day that he
was going to his home in Michigan, and
that while there he would make a few
speeches for some of his political friends
who We're candidates for Congress- Mr..
Lamar told him such course would be an
infraction Of the Presidents civil service or.
der. 1t will be remembered that COL Will
son, Of West Virginia, one Of the assistant
attorneys general, was informed to the same
effect yesterday by Attorney General Gar
land. Now, this may be all right, as there
is at least plausible ground for refusing to
allow man receiving pay for Government
service to 90 electioneering; but it is only
Datural that the fact that Mr.. Villas. mem
Der of the Presidents cabinet, and who is
supposed to have senatorial aspirations, and
| therefore to be personally interested in the
election Of the Legislature of his State,
when at home, less than month ago, made
political speeches, should suggest the idea
Of gross Inconsistency.
The President returned this morning from
his hunting and fishing trip to West Fir-
ginia, bringing with him four pronged
spotted buck, ten pounds of bass, four squir.
rels, six cartridges and wild duck. The
deer was brought down by shot from Mr..
| Bevius, the private secretary of Com
missioner Miller, of the Internal Revenue,
at the imminent risk Of the latter's life.
Nobody objects to these little excursions of
the Presdent indeed, the general opinion
is that it would be better if he would make
more of them and extend them to various
parts of the country, and homologate more
with the people of all sections; but when be
does make them it not unnaturally reminds
many people Of his remark last summer, that
a vacation OF thirty days in the year was
all that was allowed Government employees,
and that ne would not take any more than
the other servants Of The people. Facts are
facts, and people will talk about them.
It was stated al the Office of the Solicitor
of the Treasury to-day that nothing so far
as that office was concerned had been done
in the matter of the Alexandria Canal Auue
duct, but that it was understood the essees
and the directors Of the canal had agreed
upon terms which would enable the Govern
ment to obtain good title to the piers OF
the aqueduct, and that the construction of d
free bridge thereon would be commenced at
an early date. 1t is said outside that the
agreement referred to involves the removal
OF the aGueduct and the entire destruction
Of the Alexandria Canal.
Tamany democrat here to-day says their con-
gressional nominees will be Bourke Cochran J.
B. Fellows, A. j. Cummings, Tim. Campbell, Gen
eral Spinola s. 5. Cox, L. A. Norman and FRED
Conkling.