Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette,l
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 81.

CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette,l
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 81.
A dispatch was received at the State
Department from San Salvador to-day
to the effect that Sacasa resigned the
Presidency of the republic of Nicaragua
last night and signed terms of peace.
L. S. marshal Watts of the western
district of Virginia, who is here to set
tie his accounts with the government
preparatory to his expected removal on
the lst of July, says he doesn't know
that his party in his State will run a
candidate for Governor next fall, but
that if it shall he will certainly vote
for him, as when he left the democratic
party he left it for keeps. He is not at
all interested, he says, in what the
democrats are going to do there, but
that from what he hears he supposes
that his (the 9th) congressional district
is solid for Lieut.. Gov. Tyler. Proml-
nent democrats from the 9th, 18th, oth
and 10th districts here to-day, who Ter
various reasons don't want TO be quoted,
say that, Judging from present appear
ances, the majority of the delegates 10
the convention from their districts VIII
be predisposed 10 either Tyler or Bu-
ford. Colonel Watts also says ne ex-
meets visit from General Malone at
his home in Tazewell county at an
early date, but it will be on business,
not politics. and that the General would
be a great deal better off if he had let
notifies alone several years ago.
The rule prohibiting the removal OF
fourth-class postmasters except on
proved charges is becoming more and
more Objectionable. A gentleman from
Westmoreland county, Virginia, here
to-day. saws there is republican post
master in his county so Objectionable,
bv reason of the negro loafers constant
" in and around the office, that many
of the people supplied with mail there
are deferred from calling for their pa
pers and letters, and have to send IN
for them. Mr.. Kent of Louisa, &. H.,
father of the late Linden Kent, is here
to see about the appointment of dem
ocrat to the postoflice at his home, but
SAYS it seems impossible to do SO, as
nothing can be charged against the in
cumbent except republican partisanlsm.
Congressman Meredith was at the Post
office Department this morning to urge
the removal Of other republican post
masters in his district, and to find out
what sort of partisanship would be con-
sidered a sufficient ground for removal,
but he received little satisfaction.
Two applications for office from llr-
einia were filed at the Treasury De-
partment to-day, the first, that of T. A.
Marshall of NIanch, ster, to be inspect
or of steam vessels, and The second, that
of James p. Martin Of New Castle, to
be chief of division in the internal rev.
cnue bureau.
Secretary Carlisle, before he left the
CITY to visit Senator Gibson of Mary
land. said the President had been urged
TO call an extra session of Congress be-
fore the middle of September to do
something with the currency question,
but that the reasons adduced had not
been sufficient.
Representative Meredith was inform
ed at the Navy Department to-day, as
he had previously been at all the 9th
ers, that if he should succeed in having
a republican from his district, now in
the service of that department, remov-
ed, the vacancy would not be filled
from the same district, which already
had more than its quota of such places.
Mr.. Meredith says he intends to with
draw the papers in the Yardley Brown
case from the Office of the District Com
missioners and hand them to the Presi-
dents secretary. and that if Brown be
still permitted to retain his office, when
Congress assemblies he will Withdraw
them from the White House, and bring
the case before Congress, when the pa
pers referred will be printed.
Many postmasters were appointed
lust previous to the expiration of the
last republican administration, whose
terms ofofiice will, therefore, last near
" as long as President Cleveland's,
that is if the new rule on the subject
be not changed. But strenuous effort
will be made to have it changed, and to
effect that object the records OF the post
mas ers referred to are being hunted W
and prepared for presentation.
A dispatch received here to-day from
Cape Charles, Va, says the President
reached Hog Island safely this morn
ing.
Representative Tucker of the Staunton dis
trict is here to-day. He was at the Postoffict
Department urging the appointment of dem,
ocrats to postotfices in his district now held
| by republicans.
By ruling of the Postofiice Department
to-day mail carriers are only to be paid fol-
the hours they are actually engaged in deliv
ering and collecting mail, and no "waits" vii
be included in their eight hours day.