Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-12-17
Letter from Richmond,
Correspondence Of the Ale1sndris Gsz
RICHNOSD Va n n

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RICHMOND. Va, Dc. l6.
A number of prominent Republicans were
10 the city yesterday and endeavored to bresl
| up the coalition between Malone and tn,
negroes, but without success The Admins.
tration wanted Gen. Wickham, as it though
General Mshone's conversion was too sudden t.
| be relied Oh. The Conservatives held aloo
| from aoythlog like conbira ion and, standipf
! TO their colCrs, they went DIVA with banner.
lying as true Deo ought TO 20 down. Thei,
| hrmness and manllness ard opeoness were oon-
splouous when conlrasted with mst9 lyring
| midnight caucuslog policy of The ether side.
he voter Ia Alexandria and Fairfax, had be
bern Present, would have been proud of the
Conservative party. The Conservative party
| INF airfax, however, must be in hopeless miuor-
Ivy, That IL, II her representative reflects her
views, for he voted and acted with and indeed
WAS aggressive in the service of the new Radical
party. Until today Gen. Payne had been look.
60 upon rs one OF the friends Of Gen. Malone,
and at the time of his election it was even az.
serted thst he would vote for Malone in prefer.
| ence TO Wlthers. THIS was the rumor that
reached Richmond with the rumor thst MIR.
Strother had written q letter to Malone vouch-
Ing tor his own fs!thfulness TO that party. Of
Knew
Gen Payne we'll, but yet it shows that Gen.
Fsyne certainly must have been kindly disposed
towards Malone Therefore Gen Payne's cues.
lions to-day were significant He fer the tnird
time asked, what will be Gen. Mahones posi
ton IN CongresSf Which party will he act WITH
the Democratic or Republican? And will he
endesVor 10 carry his views in regard to the debt
into ConGr IS and endesvor 10 res6i lust the N at.
lonal debt" Now here was 8 man who had
been friend to Gen. NJ ahone, and wss kindly
disposed 10 him. He wanted to bring out his
position, hoping that it would be in the right.
And General Mshones friends persist
emily declined to answer the questions And
then It was that Gen. Payne said, '"rhen I un-
deIstsnd tina! Gen. Malone goes to the Senate as
Republican" and there was no denial
One OF his friends here to-day stated that Ma.
hone would be- liberal Republican
Inns is the trst instance on record since the
war where man has been elected to sny Office
IN Virginia and has declined to state his position,
The House will probably Tomorrow adopt the
resoi utIon scjourning on the 2O!h to me,t on the
9TH OF January.
Mr.. q. Gibson. Of Cuipeper, made q speech
To-Day n the house IN seconding the nomina.
ton OF Col. Withers. 1t was Certainly one of
the most original speeches ever heard in the
Legislature, and the hits were as keen as knife.
lie handled General Malone pretty rouphly
his closing proposition to the effect that "Gen'l.
Mahone will 60 to the Senate TO represent no
party, no Stste, no principles but simply to rep.
resent Bill Mshone" Was received with much
applause. The speeches on the Conservative
side this year have been the best heard in the
Legislature siEce the war-thst is We have had
more good speeches. a gentleman from the
North, MAI Of culture and extensive travel,
who heard Daniels speech, remarked that it was
the grsndest effort he ever heard, snd he thought
it was the third grandest specimen of orstory in
the English language ranking Burke's Warren
Hastings trial speech and Websler's reply to
Hayne as the two others
Major Daniels second speech (the reply to
Elddleberger) WIS better than the first, and it
was, OF course, entirely impromptu 1t created
such Stir IN the ranks Of tue other side til Vt an
er must not give any more speeches to the pa
PERI. VI course this means Conservative
speeches 1t is 4 remarkable fact that no Read.
Iusters have 'ked to have their speeches written
Out YET. STRoEsBow