Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-04-27
Letter from Fauquter.

ICorrespondeuce of the Alexandria Gazette.
WARRENToN, VA, April 26. Il have not
written for some time and Iii tell you for Why.
I've gone into the candidate business up here,
and | fnd that besides being profitable and
elevating occupation it is exceeding y engross-
even forget for time his dearest friend. Let
this then be my excuse for not having reported
more regularly the actlugs and doirgs of the
men of Fauquier | have seen q good deal OF
the county lately-about sixty miles by fifteen
of it. and SO feel that what don't know about
its mountains aud rocks and swamps and
marshes, It's rolling blue. grass lauds and its
ben-grass fats, amt worth knowing.
In the Blue Ridge Mountains the people are
much stirred up by the discovery Of copper.
Oue mine has recently been sold and others
are being bargaioed for, and We nave good rea-
son for our hope, that this valuable mineral
development will be new source Of wealth to
the county. In the lower end Of the county
they are finding gold in encouraging quantities..
A company from the North is now actively and
successfully working gold mine in that section,
and Mr.. Bennett near Morrlsve, showed
as nugget which he had picked up on his
farm the other day, worth upwards OF eleven
dollars, and with copper 10 the upper end and
| gold 10 the lower end, ADD fine wheat and corn
and glass md all over it., ;h,reis 40 wo0tcr that
! there should be twenty candldates for the
| Office of Commits soner Of tn: Revenue of such a
| cJunty. Aud cvillz, ion is advancing rapidly
too; and now the backsn.ishs all paper The
walls of their shops with candidates cards, and
there is large demand i;rr mucliage and tscks.
A merchant at Bristersourg makes HJur paste
specially, and know farmer who has a
| plank fence at the forks Of the road, near
-, who rents it to the candidates at five
coats PANEL to post their cards Oh. Nobody
ever reads these cards. it ls true, but 1t IS a
qualification to their authors to see themselves
before the public, and to have an excuse tor
| lounging about the county groggerles - eec-
| toDeerDg, and although somewhat reVers-
ing the order of things, man feels grand who
can say that his headquarters are 10 the sud-
| die. The issues at stake arc as various and
numerous as the candidates. Questions OF per
| soual political, historical ami imaginative are
canvassed by these champions. 1t don't make
o particle of difference that all any one OF them
may say, might be true, and still he be unit
for the office he seeks. For my part base my
| hopes on sustaining the annexation OF Cuba
| scheme and intend to make that test question.
We tried to get a negro TO run tor CoulnlSsloo
err but the fellow would Mt stand fire. 1t ne
| had VIC might have fixed up little radical par
ty up here aod then VIC candidates you'd have
had something to talk about, without drawing
e,eruully on our lmaginatious; but We have to
do the best We Gao, though we've got up lit
tie primary election, and maybe that will fix
things so that We will have something to fight
next time. | think myself, u man who is run-
Mug for an Office, which will pay him money
and advance him in his profession must be DO
ing it entirely for the good OF the party, cspe-
cialy if he has no political opponent
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