Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-02-22
. FROM WASHINGTON.
"a pscial Correspond enqe of the Ale1s. GAZETTE
WASHING Tor. D. c.. Feb. %, 1850

RI pecial Correspondence of the Ale4s' HASETfAI
WAsHrNer or. D. c.. Feb. %, 1850.
Jndpe Nowlin, of Virginia. has been ap.
pointed to an 81 500 position In the govern
rnent printing otfice. he left the democrat
ic Marty in last falls campaign. he was
driven out to the printing Office by General
Malone. who Introduced him to the puoilo
printer and had DO difficulty In getting OIL"
the place a -
Assistant Surgeon W J Pettus, OF Vir.
oinis has been co, Il med as past asslstsnt
SURGEON. and Hnn-ford Arderson, U. n.
ss Dostmsc.er 81 West Point, Va.
Persons decreased III the proposed new
line of steamers to ruo between this city aud
Norfolk say the president OF the company
will be Washington man and the; as eoon
as the company shall be organic d, "hich
will be early NEXT month, the four ne"
steamers hat will be required WILL De OF
dered.
The 22i of February being a legal holiday
in this CITY, all the government ana uisIricl
Departments and all the national backs here
were closed 10 day, and their employees
turned loose upon ne streets.
Senator Chandler hurried TO the several
press associa, ions to-day with dispatch ne
had received from the partisan republican
clerk of the federal court of Florida, Ia
which that person says that bis lie anu tha1
of other members # the court are not eafe,
and that If elections there we're conducted
us the, are in Vermont and Kew Hamp
shire all the Senators and Representatives
from that State would be republicans.
The Chicago people here are 10 good
snirits to-day, for the first TINS, on the mat.
ter of the Worlds Fair. Tney say 1t will
be a sectional matter, the dividing line, how.
ever. being longitudinal instead of latitude
nal. and that on the foa vote all the con.
| pressmen from west of the Allegapies will
vote for their city. But the New Yorker-,
ara still bouyant and cav the fair Can be
held nowhere elee In 1892 except 10 their
city.
| Though the 30 called examination OF VII
ne eses 10 prove the established fact that Ger.
| ainVirpjnia federal off1ceholders here assess.
! ed and collected none, from other firginians
holding Office in th,s city for election pur
DOSES last fall stopped some time ago. moth
| mo has been heard OF the result, and 1t ls
probable the matter will be allowed to drop,
or that, il report be made, 1t will be to
whitewash the guilty parties.
I General KIRBY Smith Ia now RueSt oil
the metropolitan Hotel here. Barring the
white hair spd beard which years have civ
en- him, be looks es we'll as he did wher
twenty FIVE years ago, more sapguiDe Con-
federstes east of the Mississippi, looked
upon him, who was west of that river as
still affording them chance OF success.
| 1t ia understood that MIR. Lee, the latter
day republican who has been appointed
postmaster at Berryyile, Va, got his place
through the influence of Senator Higgins oil
Delaware, who is an intimate friend of bis
fsther-in-law.
Among the strangers in the city to day is
ex-congressman Mayo of Virginia. Col
Mayo says the republicans of his district
and, indeed, of the whole State, 30 far as he
learns, are by no means pleased with the
President or with the administration. They
think. he says, that $50 900 republican voters
| in Virginia are entitled TO as much consid
Grafton as an equal number ofrepublicans in
any other State, and that they naturally re
sent the fact that they don't receive it. he
says it Is the Impression In his, the first,
| congressional district of his State that MIR.
Mcdonald of Northumberland county is
Gen. Mshone's candidate for the republican
nomination for the seat now held by Con-
gre ssman Browne. Col. Mayo says the diff
GUILTY between Messrs. r. J Washington and
st. George Fiizbugh. incident to the famous
suit about the Mary Washington monument,
has been amioably aud satisfactorily settled
to both the principals and to all tbeir rs-
spective friends.