Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-11-06
THE NEW DELEGA TON OF VIR-

the next (44th) Congress just elected con-
tains some exceedingly valuable men, some
Of whom will make national reputation
in Washington. In the lower House there
will be five new memberS-Messrs. Doug
lass, Goode, Walker, Cabell and Tucker.
Gen. Terry, who is elected in the Ninth
District, served there in 1870, and Hon.
.Jno. L. Harris of the Seventh, and Gen.
Eppa Hunton Of the Eighth, are the re-
elected incumbents. OF the delegation
Virginia now sends, eight are lawyers,
eight are original Democrats, two were
general and three were staff OF regimental
officers in the Confederate service, four are
graduates of the University Of Virginia,
one of William and Mary. and one of
Emory and Henry College. One has been
Governor Of Virginia, one Attorney Cen
eral, one 4 school teacher, one an editor,
and one bank president, and three have
served one or more terms in Congress. We
give brief sketch of the new members.
Major Beverly B. Douglass, who repre-
sents the First, OF Fredericksburg Dis
trict, is a native of New Kent CO., 81 years
of age. and a gentleman Of high culture,
having graduated at old William and
Mary, and subsequently gone through
course at Cambridge University in Eng
land, and at Edinburg, Scotland. His
first appearance in public life was as d
member Of the Virginia Constitutional
Convention in 1851, and he sub iequently
for many years represented the King Will
liam District in the Senate. He entered
the war as q lieutenant in the Lee Ran
eers.'' and became their captain when
Gen. w. H. T. Lee was promoted to the
rank of major in the Fifth Va Cavalry.
Since it's close, he has been practiclng law
in New Kent, and took an active part i'll
the election Of Gov. Walker and the forma-
lion Of the Conservative party.
The representative from the Second, or
Norfolk District. is Hon. Jno. Goode, IL.
Of that city. He Was born in Bedford co.
in 1929. and is a graduate Of Emory and
Henry College He entered politics in
1851. and was member of the Virginia
Secession Convention, where, after the
failure of the Peace Conference at Wash
inpton. he advocated secession. He and
seven brothers and brothers-in-law entered
the Confederate army at the opening OF
the war. but while in the field he was
elected to the Confederate Congress and
served there, though serving in the field
Oh Gen. Early7s staff during the recesses
of that body. He was a member OF the
National Democratic Convention which
nominated Seymour and Blair in 1868, and
is Il member of the National Democratic
Executive Committee. He was the third
strongest man in the Senatorial fight in
which Withers was elected.
fSince the above was written, the tele
graph dispatches render Mr. Goodies
election very doubtful
Ey-GOy. Gilbert G. Walker, who is
elected in the Third, Or Richmond Dis
trict is native Of New York State, a
LAWYER by profession, and was an active
participant in Democratic politics in his
native State and Illinois. In 1854 he came
. to Norfolk, Va, and shortly after took
The position of President Of the Exchange
National Bank there. In 1867 he took, i'll
addition the position of President of the
Atlantic Iron Works and Dock Co. Of that
city, and in the same year WAS defeated as
the white mans candidate for the Consti-
tutionaI Convention. In 1869 he took the
leadership of what was afterwards know!
as the Walker movement, and almost SIN
gle-handed rescued the State from the
Radical party, defeating Wells for the
Covernorship by tremendous majority.
He made an excellent Governor-one Of
the best Virginia has ever had-and OBJ
tanned . strong hold on the confidence Of
the people.
Col. Geo. q. CabeIl, the representative
elect in the Fifth, or Danvile District, is
native Of that town, 81 years Of age, re-
ceived a common school education, and
graduated in law at the University of Viz
ginia in 1857, Immediately being elected to
the place of Commemorative Attorney in
Danville. He entered the war at it's COM
mencement, and afterwards became major
i'll the; Eighteenth Va. Infantry, COM
manded by Colonel NOW Q. S. Senator
elect R. E. Withers. At Drury's Bluff, in
1864, he was desperately wounded in the
face andleg. Since the war he has resumed
the practice of law and been active in
politics.
.Jno. Randolph Tucker, the member
elected from the Sixth, OF Lynchburg Dis
trict, is native of Winchester, and 81
years of age. He is graduate Of the Uni
versity Of Virginia. In 1857 he was elected
Attorney General of Virginia, and re-
elected to that position in 1858, holding it
by repeated reelection until expelled by
She military in 1866. After the war he
practiced law in Loudon until 1870, when
he was elected Professor Of Law at Wash
ington and Lee University, a position he
held when nominated for Congress.
Gen Terry, the representative from the
Ninth, or Abingdon District, is a native
of Amherst, 50 years Of age. He is a
graduate of the University Of Virginia,
and commenced as a teacher in Wvthe-
zille, then becoming editor of the ''Wythe-
vile Telegraph and then a successful
lawyer. He entered the Confederate army
with the lowest official rank, and rose to
Brigadier General. After the Wal he was
elected to Congress in 1870, but failed of
denomination for the next term
EORANGE Blossom" got beaten gener-
allv at the Richmond fair, the last time,
in match race Saturday for $3.50, in
which LADY Patterson beat him in wo
straight heats.