Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-07
EEesb9s WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the hlexa GAZETTE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct, 7. 1856.

tom so old that it has the force of prescrip-
tive law, the most effective Of all law, aud,
notwithstanding the civil service rules,
many Of the thousands OF the republicans
who are retained in Office are sending what
money they can afford TO the republican
campaign finds in their respective congress.
sional districts. II they are discovered of
course they will be removed, but they are
smart enough not 10 be caught. So inehec.
tive is the civil service law in this particu.
lar that it is common talk that there is q
regularly organized republican association
in the patent office to further the election Of
republican congressman.
The appointments made by the commits
siorers Of the District Of Columbia throw rs
much discredit upon the prevailing civil
service reform as some Of those made by the
administration that appointed the District
commissioners. Mr.. Hayden, whom they
have lately made water register Of the city,
was removed from position at the Capitol
for gross improperly, and is such e pro.
rounced republican that lie took the trouble
to SO all the way to New York to veto for
Mr.. Blaine.
4 clerk in the city post Office here named
Otis +. Ham, alias Franklin Cook, was de.
tectcd last night in roborg the mail After
arrest be confessed that he had been ritiing
letters ever since his appointment. He was
appointed under The civil service rules and
after competitive examination.
\ letter received here this morning from
Congressman Blanchard Of Louisiana says
thu delegation from that State in the next
Congress will beaolidly democratic, ard will
he quite en- improvement ia several re-
spects upon tho present delegation.
Z -, hn t,1l- i L,t ,,,l c.
rotary Lamar was recently demonstrated
with FOR the retention OF Chief Clerk Lock
wood and numbers CT other offensive parti.
SAP employees in The Interior Department,
he replied in effect that he had too much
heart to remove them. In other words that
he had more heart than democracy.
Late private intelligence from New York
,, to the effect that the several different demo.
cratic organizations Of that city, realizing
the danger OF the George movement, will,
as stated in this correspondence yesterday
! probably unite for the coming municipal
coatest in that city on Mr.. Cooper for mayor
! ana hat such unity will necessarily help
| The democratic congressional candidates.
! 1t Is lntima:cd to-day by people who are
| in position 10 know that the signs Of anti
administration feeling, cropping out all over
! the South, have induced the President 10
| contemplate seriously the ACCESSIBILITY al
| visiting that section of his country a. q
means to Obstinate that feeling, and thas
| therefore, after AL he may really go 10 the
| State fair at Richmond, and also to the State
| fair Of Alabama, and indeed visit other
places in the South during the present fall
and tie coming winter
President Wheat Of the Alexandria Canal
! Company, Mayor 5moot Of that city, and
| Mr.. J. Nj. Johnston, attorney for the canal
company, called upon Mr. McCue, Solicitor
OF the Treasury to-day, and presented the
| side OF the canal company in the matter OF
The proposed free bridge across the Potomac
upon the piers OF the canal aqueduct They
| told him they were perfectly willing to let
the Government have the piers for a bridge
provided the money be Dot paid to the les
sees of The Canal, ard provided the right OF
tho company to maintain its agueduct there
he secured, as the canal though improbable
for some years has great possibilities. The
Solicitor told them the Government had no
desire to in are the company, but it was a
large share holder in the company, and
thought the regular yearly meetings of the
stockholders should he held rs required by
| the conIpnDy's charter, and that when that
| meeting wac held and the matter discussed,
| they might rest assured the Government
would do what was right in the matter. IL
| q subsequent talk with the GAZETrE's cor
respondent tho Solicitor said they seemed
| TO be under the impi essicn that the Govern
| ment had designs upon the company, of
! which he had endeavored to disabuse them
! that they lef5 him under the impression
| that they would do what they could to have
stockholders meeting; that their call was
a very agreeable one, and that he hoped it
would result i'll good to the company, to AL
exandsia and tc the Government.
The Presidents wife, accompanied by her
mother and her cousin, Miss Folsom, with
Secretary Lamar as escort, went to Mt.
Vernon this morning ca the regular trip of
the steamer w. W. Corcoran.
An intelligent gentleman from Richmond
here to day says the attempts Of the North.
ern knights OF labor now in that city 10 en-
force social equality will DO the means of
breaking up The order in the South, as the
laboring white men of the South and their
| families, as general thing, are just as much
opposed TO such equality Us the few white
| capitalists Of that section. He says the Of
feet will be to make nearly if not ali the
native white members ofthe order withdraw
from it, and that with no white men to man
age it and its control assumed by the ne
groes, it will soon become utterly ineGec-
live in the South
democratic employee at the Capitol who
has just returned from his home, Phladel-
phla, where he went to assist in securing
MI. kanGail's denomination, says the ap.
pointment Of republicans and negroes to
federal positions il that city has so disgusted
the working democrats there that half of
them will not vote at the coming election.
The President and his cabinet after de-
liberate consideration have determined that
democratic Z. S. district attorney, who isa
candidate for Congress. must resign his fed
cral position. Aud yet it is well known
here that Mr.. Stone, The republican U. g.
district attorney for the western district of
Pennsylvania, is now accompanying General
Beaver, the republican candidate for Cover
nor of that Stste, on an electioneering tour
in his district and making speeches with and
for him. Even some of the most conserra-
tive democrats here, when talking to their
political friends, say that the present admin
istration stands up so straight for civil SER
wi fhot ice k,o