Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
rsDoo,.l Correspondence of the Alo1s. GAZETTE

WASd1NdlONs As Sss July ~ AOoo.
Secretary of the Interior Noble has very
recently urged the President to appoint a
Commissioner of the Land Office, and sub.
mitted the following names, any one ofwhich
he says will be satisfactory. Either Stone or
umm, of Pennsylvania, or Thomas, of
thought that an early appointment will be
made, and Thomas, of Illinois, stands bet.
ter chance than either of the o;hers.
Brumm being an eastern man, will hardly
be appointed.
Secretary Tracy being asked to day II
there was any truth in the rumor that he
was to be offered the place on the U. s.
Court made vacant by the death of Associ.
ate Justice Matthews, said there was not.
and that he was perfectly satisfied with his
present position of ruler of Mr.. Harrison's
naVee.
Mr.. Charles Lee, son of Mr.. Richard Hen
ry Lee, of Clarke county, Va, said to be the
only Mahoneite Lee in Virginia, himself an
applicant for the postoffice at Berryville, IN
this county, was at tbe-P ostoffice Department
to-day to request Col. Clarksor to expedite
changes in some of the smaller postoffices in
this county, at least it was 80 reported
among the Virginia republicans at the Da.
partment. Mr.. Park Agnew, of Alexandria
was also at the Department, to have the
name of the postofice at Franconia, Fairfax
county, changed to Garfield, and to have
| John Taylor appointed postmaster at Fair
fax Station, Fairfax county, in the place OF
Mr.. Swetmau, the present postmaster Their.
| Col. Owens, from one of the lower dis.
tricts of Virginia, and Mr.. Crush, from the
| Lynchburg district. who were on the watch
mems roll at the Treasury Department, have
been removed.
A Texas democrat here to day, in talking
to some friends about the recent appoint.
ment of a negro to the place of collector OF
customs at Galveston, said the white people
of his State looked upon it as deliberate
and gratuitous attempt to degrade them.
They had, he said, DO more obi scsion to the
one appointed than they would have had to
any other, but every white man born and
raised in the South. now resident in Texas,
viewed it In tho light OF premeditated and
unproyoked insult Texas, he said, is an
empire, large enough for FIVE large States.
and to put the most important federal tiice
in that State in the hands OF negro, showed
q disregard for the feelings of the white race
OF that immense territory a5 void OF sense
as of decepcy. He said it is impossible
for Mr.. Harrison to believe that General
Sam Houston and the other brave men who
shed their blood to gain the Independence
of Texas, would have done So or that the
heroism of the Alamo would haVe been ex
hibi!ed, if he heroes had deemed it possible
that the result of all their bravery and gal
lantry would be to put negro over The
white men and women employed In ths
Galveston customs house. But, he said,
there is little evil without compromising
good, and the appointment referred to will
tend greatly to make not only the white
people of Texas, but those of all the other
southern States, even more solid than ever
be fore, for no self-respeotiug southern white
u1an will be subject to negro, or wants to
see any OF his race in that condition.
1t Ia currently reported here and believed
ii al Burke, who keeps clothing store 10
Austin, Tex, aud who was recently appoint
ed internal revenue cole ctor for his district,
obtained that Office through the influence
of Postmaster General Wanamaker. at
| whose houee in Philadelphia he had just be-
fore purchased large bill Of goods, and
made arrangements for dealing there regu-
larly hereafter.
, The following changes in the 18th class POI T.
Offices in Virginia were made to-day: Belle a.
| ven, Actonack equity, j. Ward, appointed
| postmaster vice M. A. Ashby, rom ov6d kesWics
Albemarle county, P. B. Hancock. vice h. Z: Mead;
| Hoffman's wharf, Accomack county, Alce nj.
| Lytle vice n. C. Walker, removed Louis /, Louisa
/ county, II. j. Vale, vice Luty A. Goodwin, re-
| moved Mount Olive, Shenandoah county, Sarah
| A. Bitman, vice E. Baker, removed.