Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-10
FROM WARRINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. 10, 1856.

FROM WASHINGTON.
rsneeisl Correspondence Of the Alexa. GAzETTE.l
WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. 10, 1856.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Mr.. J. II. Van AukeD, an ex Office holder,
and prominent Mahone republican OF re-
tersburg. Va. MIR. Van Auken says strong
and earnest effort will be made by the lead
ing men in Gen. Mahone's party to induce
The General to allow himself to be nomina.
ted for Congress in his district, and that II
he will consent he will be nominated with
out opposition, and be elected by an in
mense majority. He says that Mr.. Brady
will not be renominated unless Gen. Ma
hone shall indicate a preference Tor MIN,
and that that he will not do; that II General
Malone will not allow himself to be nom
mated. neither Brady, Gaines, Boiling, nor
T,anpstop will be, but dark horse. so GER
tain il he that Brady will not be renomIna-
ted that he is willing to back his opinion to
The extent of a small bet
The only members of the Virginia Con-
eressional delegation in the city today are
Senator Malone and Representative George
Wise. The latter expects to 60 to Rich
mond this evening. He will it is said, have
considerable opposition in his efforts to oh
tain a denomination. The former remains
here to attend to private business, but still
gives the necessary supervision to the al.
fairs of his party across the river. He and
his friend, and partner in some real estate
speculations in this city, ex-pestmaster
Windsor of Alexandria, drove down Penn
sylyania avenue this morning in bis drag,
on their way to inspect the site OF large
investment they have made on Moth Cap
itol street.
ar OIL. r.,,n,;,,;o,ar re oriruIIura
has appointed his republican predecessor,
DR.. Loring, the American member OF the
iury to award prizes at the coming exhib-
ition of the American Percheron Horse
Breeders Association, to be held in Chicago
next month.
The chief topic of conversation here to-
day il the removal of Collector Hedden of
New York, and the appointment of Daniel
McGone to his place. Mr.. Hedden is q
democrat, appointed democratic subordi-
mates whenever it was in his power to do so
without an infraction Of the letter OF
the civil service law, and does not think the
possession OF a federal Office deprives free
born American citizen of the liberty OF TAX
ing an active part in politics when that &C.
tirity does not interfere with, or consume
any of the time required for, the proper dis
charge of his official duties. The civil ser.
vice commission demanded his head, and the
President gave it to them. His removal
affords unalloyed satisfaction to both repub.
liceps and anti administration democrats
Mr.. McGone, who has been appointed to
the place, is not O resident of New York
CITY, and therefore will not, it is supposed,
provoke any antagonisms among the several
factions of the party in that city. His Sc
lection is said to be the joint work of the
President, Col. Lamont and Secretaries
Manning and Fairchld.
It is currently rumored and generally be.
loved that Commissioner Black, by his evil.
dent desire to appoint democrats to posi-
tons in the Pension Office, has made him.
self Objectionable to the administration, and
that an excuse is being sought for removing
or transferring him.
The President has reappointed Peter F.
Coghill collector Of customs at Petersburg,
Va. His nomination was ono of those not
acted upon by the Senate.
The nomination Of Mr.. Dorsey Claggett to
the position Of register of wills for the Dis
trict of Columbia seems to be satisfactory to
most all the democrats here, chiefly for the
reason that Mr.. Claggett is, and always has
been, working democrat, and because his
appointment tends TO change the prevalent
DhIleI 0LQOup ueiuOCTdlS tudt dCLiNo WI n III
the cause of democracy is au ehectual bar to
federal office The reappointment OF Mat
thews, the colored New Yorker, TO the place
of recorder of deeds is, however, anything
else than satisfactory, and is harshly critl-
cized by republicans IA we'll as democrats,
and, most of all, by the colored people of the
District The Presidents reasons for max
ing this appointment are like those of many
of his other actions past finding out.
The Mexican minister, Mr. Romero, hav-
ing prepared a statement OF the Cutting
affair. Secretary Bayard is now engaged in
formulating the American side of the ques
ton, and it may be sure will do so in the
way he thinks best calculated to show that
the war he tried to get up with Mexico
would have been iustifiable, though every
reasonable man knows it would not have
been.
A local republican politician from Alexandl ia
in tho city to day says his party will have no
candidate for Congress in that district at the com
ing election and that its individual members
will be at liberty to vote for whom they please.
He says instructions to that effect have already
been issuod and that they will be obeyed.
General DAbuey Maury, of Virginia, whose
nomination as U. s. minister to Colombia was
not acted upon by the Senate, and therefore fail
ed SAYS he does not anticipate any trouble about
a reappointment, but that no does not expect to
start for Bogota for two or three weeks.
MR.. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
yu;,1;o,, To,ae oditor IF tho Co,yyL