Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

John A. Campbell, WHO resigned at Inc
outbreak of the war and became Assist
ant Secretary of War of the Confeder-
acy, subsequently resuming the prac-
tice Of law in New Orleans. Judge
Campbell was really appointed from
Alabama, but all his intimate associa-
tons were with New Orleans, where
his tall spare figure and bushy over
hanging white eyebrows were COL.
spicuous in the courts in ali cases OF
great importance for many years after
the termination of hostilities. Judge
Campbell ~concurred in the celebrated
bred Scott decision of Chief Justice
Tanev. so often enormously quoted as
LAYING down the dictum that a negro
had no rights which a white man was
bound to respect. Chief Justice fancy
was the only member Of the Catholic
cl urch appointed to the Supreme bench
before Mr.. White. The new justice Is
q man of handsome physique and am
pie private means. He is unmarried
and lives in modest bachelor quarters
at the Richmond, n of the apartment
houses of Washington. His nomina-
ton and confirmation are looked upon
by the democrats as a happy issue from
the trouble that had arisen in respect
of the nomination, and, by those from
the South, in the light of a blessing, as
they now have one real representative
in the highest court in the land. AS
the court now stands. of its nine mem
bers, two hail from the South and three
are democrats. Mr.. Justice White was
in the Senate to-day aud was warmly
congratulated by the Senator'S of both
political parties.
Miss Anna Ella Carroll. se%venty-nine
wears of age, eldest daughter of the late
Governor Thomas Carroll of Kingston
Hall. died here yesterday. She will
be buried tomorrow in the grave yard
of her family in Dorchester county.
Maryland.
Colonel White and Captain Lynch of
Leesburg, Virginia, having agreed to
examine the applications Of Messrs.
Harper and Norris for the postotlice in
their town and report 10 Congressman
Meredith which bears the signatures Of
the greater number Of democratic
voters, will execute their trust to-mor.
row.. III Nllt DlcStuCC " / -nI. -NOl1l5, LII
Mr.. r. n. Harper Of this city.
The office of the L. 5. Fish Commits
>iou was moved to-day from the old
Armory to the second and third floors
of the Atlantic coast line building. cor
ner Of Pennsylvania avenu and 9th
street.
The following changes in the fourth
class postoffices Of Virginia were made
to-day: Big Island, Bedford county, J.
p. Cox appointed postmaster, vice r.
L. Wilson, removed Letcher, Bath
county, Nancy G.. Bradley, vice Miss
Maggie s. Greerer, removed Waskey
Mills. B~otetourt county, Mrs. Ollie a.
Martin, vice Lillian j.. Bruins, resigned.
Among the bills introduced in the
Senate yesterday was n by Mr.. Sher-
man which provides for the appoint
ment by the President of a commits
sioner to locate and mark the site Of
all battlefields, earthwortks, redoubts,
forts, Notifications, or structures built
or occupied by the American forces
during the war Of the revolution.
Apparently the tariff bill is as far
from the Senate chamber as ever. The
| subcommittee TO whom the free list
was referred, after an interview with
the President yesterday, reported 10 the
the President advised them to report
the bill at one with as few changes in
the House bill as possible, and that if
there were any items on which the COM
mittee could not agree, to let the Senate
settle them. About II other democratic
| Senators, led by Senator German, told
them such a course would not do, and
that they must report 81 bill that would
be al least acceptable if not agreeable
to all the democratsi in the body. This,
Of course, put the whole matter where
it was at first. There was no meeting
Of the committee this morning,and now
nobody knows when the bill will be re-
ported to the Senate, or what changes
will be made in the Wilson bill when it
shall be.
First Lieutenant Robert r. Stevens,
9Th Infantry, was to-day appointed
captain and assistant quartermaster.
Captain Stevens was born in Texas, in
1865 and appointed from Mississippi.
He has served II years and 8 months in
the army.
Col. Anderson and Mr.. Reed. of the
Washington, Alexandria and Mt. Yer
non Electric Railroad, and the engineer
of that road, appeared before a sub-com-
mittee of the House District of Column
bia committee this morning in behalf Of
the bill for a ferry across the Potomac
at Arlington on which cars can cross. A
number OF amendments were suggested.
They were requested to prepare a bill
concerning those amendments and pre-
sent it at the next meeting of the COM
mittee. The section relating to the
landing place of the ferry boats on the
District side of the river will have to be
submitted to the War Department.
Ransom S. Dudley was nominated for
postmaster at Pulaski City, Va, to day.
The Court of Claims to-day handed down a
favorable decision in the famous ship Tom
case, making awards in forty-two claims and
dismissing three others. These claims were
among the Oldest and most important Of the
French spoliation claims.
A special meeting Of the House committee
on merchant marine and fisheries has been
called for Tomorrow, to consider the bill
which has already passed the Senate to pro-
hibit fishing in the waters Of the District Of
Columbia, so as TO afford shad and herring a
spawning ground.
RICHMOND TERMINAL SToCK.-The
fact that Richmond Terminal stock
holders will not pay up their assess
ment and in many cases have charged
their holdings to profit and loss account,
is said to be the real reason why the