Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
1Speeial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETT


WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. 16, 1886.
Among the late dismissals in the Land
Office of the Interior Department were
Judge Horace Stiles, an original out and-out
Cleveland man, and Richard Pardee, gal
liant ex-federal soldier. These removals
created considerable surprise, as there are
80 many republicans to choose from.
COL w. II. Webster, the new civil SER
vice commissioner, has heen for years chief
in the Pension Office. He was known to be
such bitter partisan that in days gone by
he turned out every democrat in his office,
and used to boast that he had the most stall
wart division in the Pension Office. General
Black tried to GUST him, but he appealed to
the President, who retained him in defiance
of the commissioner, and now rewards BIN
with gift of great importance.
Senator KeDna, of West Virginia, chair
man of the democratic Congressional cam.
paign committee, was at the rooms of that
committee Oh 81 street this morning. The
news the committee receives is very meagre,
but from that which has reached them they
are induced to anticipate losses in Indiana
and Ohio, and probably in other parts OF
the West, but expect to hold their own in
the North and South, and to have about
twenty or twenty. Eve majority in the next
House, instead of forty, which they have in
the present House. The committee have
so far received no money, but hope to get
enough from voluntary contributions to pay
for their campaign book, which thcy say
will be issued in about ten days or two
weeks.
The Capitol to-day was crowded with col.
ored people, most of whom were excursion.
lists. One OF them, very we'll dressed and
genteel looking man, was thrown into a
wild state Of excitement by being told in
the dome, by one of the employees there,
in response to an inquiry as to how he could
get down, to Jump over" When he did
get down he attracted considerable atten-
ton by raving, foaming at the mouth,
stamping his feet, and expressing the hope
that in no other civilized country could the
like of the man who had suggested the ex.
peditious mode of descent be found.
General Auger's surgeons report no
change in his condition to-day. They say
that so far no unfavorable symptom has pre-
sented itself, but that at present it is i'm
possible to tell what may be the result of
his wounds.
A member of the executive committee OF
the State democratic committee of Virginia,
in the city to-day says that committee will
meet in Richmond tomorrow and determine
upon the ACCESSIBILITY of attempting to con-
duct the coming congressional campaign in
their State. Some of the committee think
such an attempt should be made, while the
others and probably the majority think it
best that each democratic candidate shall
direct and manage his own Individual cam.
paign.
There is rumor ahoat on the streets here
to-day that Secretary Bayard intends to re-.
sign; but such good news is not credited
The State Department is as reticent as
ever respecting the Mexican affair; all that
could be gotten from any of the officials
there this morning being to the effect that
they saw by the newspapers that Mr.. Sedg.
wick was on his way to Mexico. The whole
affair is now thought to have been tenn
pest in teapot, and only in Mr.. Bayards
teapot at that, and that Sedgwick has been
sent to Mexico solely for the purpose of
making report that will give the ill-in.
formed reason to believe that Mr.. Bayard
had some excuse for his vain and silly at
tempt to bulldoze weak sister republic.
The Presidential party left to day for the Adj
rondacks where they expect to sojourn three or
four weeks, if not longer. Secretary Bayard loft
for Annapolis to attend the Inauguration Of the
DeKalb monument