Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-02
FROM WASHINGTON.


gentleman we'll posted in the affairs OF
this city says that Collector Cook will he
asked to resign during the current month,
and Mr.. Luttrel be appointed in his place;
that the resignation of Health Officer Town
shend will also BIO asked for during the cur
rent month, and Dr. Hammett be appointed
to his place also that of the commissioners.
Mr.. Wheatley is for removing the district
officers who are republicans, and Mr.. Webb,
for retaining them. He also says that de-
tectives Block and Ean will be- discharged,
and that detective McDevitt will be REIN
stated
The lobbyists engaged in pushing the bill
for extending the time during which the
Pacific railroads may pay their indebted
ness to the Government, have not yet ADAM
doned that schome, but, late az tho session
is, still hope 10 get it up anG pass it before
adjournment.
In the Senate to day tha bill to pay 4. ID.
Bsck!ey, coIored, Of Fairfax county, sos
extra pay for actiGg as docrkecper 0! the
House, though only drawing a laboreFs
pay, was reported fAvorably.
Ex-Governor Cameron, CT Virginia, passed
through here this morning on his way home
depot by his friend, Senator Ridd!ebefger
The Ex-Governor is no better friend Of Gen.
Malone than Senator Riddleberger is, and
when the laiter's name is mentioned in the
Generals hearing he draws q heavy sigh.
Ex-Attorney General Blair, Col. Jones in
deed, strange as it may appear, almost all
the men the General hes made, with the eX-
ception Of Capt. Wise, are now either pub
l;nI,. or pppnca1 tn him
Congressman Tucker, of Virginia, will
leave here tomorrow to attend the "bg
talk of the Tammany democrats, in New
York, on Monday next, at which he will
make speech. Congressman Barbour,
with the party previously mentioned in this
correspondence, left here yesterday evening
for New York, and will sail for England to-
morrow.
After the routine business in the Senate
was over to-day, resolution for reducing
the number of the employ Of the Senate
was taken up and debated at length, Mr..
Riddleberger being among those who OPP
posed it.
The resolution extending the present ap-
preparations for fifteen days, until the reg,l-
lar appropriation bills can be passed, hay
ing been adopted yesterday, the employees
discharged then we're re. EN- ployed to-day.
The bill recently reported i'll the Senate
in the case of the claim of Gen. Sibley, Of
Fredericksburg is look ed upon as victory
by the Generals frien DIS. The former re-
port in the CASE was adverse, and contained
a great deal about TRAITORS and rebels. "
But all that is left out in the one referred to,
and the report, as previously stated in this
correspondence, sends the case to the court
of claims to decide upon its equity.
A Virginia republican in the city to-day
says tho straightout republicans Of that
State are no better friends of Gen. Ma
hone now than they have bpen in the past,
and that the General pays no moro atten-
ton to them now than he ever has done, as
be knows they will support his ticket wheth-
or they want to or not, and that if they do
not their number is 50 small as to be almost
inappreciabe He says the General is not
enamored Of the Lewis family, and that a
newspaper that supports him has been
started at Harrisonburg where one of the
LeWis's prints newspaper ; and also that
ex-collector Craig is the Generals favorite
for Congress in tho Stanton district over
young Mr. iost, the republican candidate
last year
James Murphy, formerly keeper of the sol
cier's cemetery at City Point, Va. from which
and from thence to Beverly, \. J., has been
removed. He was strongly endorsed by
Congressman Brady, Of Virginia, in letter,
in which that Congressman speaks of him
as "bslonging to that anomalous class, the
Irish republicans" Thu record ia his case
shows that he was retained in Office for the
sole purpose of making rrcselytcs among
his countrymen.
The House having passed the Eundry CIV
il bill Yesterday evening, this morning tool:
up the conference report on the bill forfeit
ing the unearned land grantS to several
Southern railroads, cxemp:ing the Ship Is
land road, aud adopted it. 1t then took ur
the bill to repeal the timber culture act.
The bill to remove the political Gisabil-
tiles Of Gen. w. H. T. Lac having passed
the Senate, was yesterday reported favora-
bly, to the House by the Judiciary commit
tee of that body.
Mr.. Speaker Carlisle said to-day he did
not think tho House would take holiday on
Monday next.
Mr.. j. d. Penny becker, special inspector
in the service of the land office, has just re-
turned here from duty in the extreme
southwest. He saw Col. TON Smith, for
merlv Of Warrenton, but now u. 5. attorney
for New Mexico, at Sante Fe, end says the
Colorel has already made hosts OF friends
there. Mr. Pennybeekcr says bis position,
to which he was appointed last suIhner, is
BY no means sn easy or lucrative one.
A well informed Pennsylvania republican
politician here to-day says the result of the
coming election in that State will be the
success of the democratic State ticket, not
withstanding the fact that the State gave
Blaine eighty thousand majority: He says
that Chauncey Back will be the democratic
candidate for Governor, and that Wolfe, the
independent republican and prohibition can
didate. will carry oil enough from Beaver,
The regular republican candidate, to elect
Black.
President Cleveland. unlike his predeces-
sor, Mr.. Arthur, who vetoed it, has signed
the FitZ John Porter bill, so that General
Porter has at last been restored to the roll
of the army with the rank he held when he
was cashiered, more than twenty years ago.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for new
wharf at Old Point Comfort, which has
nassed the Senate, has been reported favora-