Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

session io Danvillo yesterday, to m,et 10 WHO
chester NIX; yea.
Ga the general election day vote il to be
regard to Ito sale Of liq1crs in thcs, counties.
Cbas. Coleman, psutentiary convict, work
ing at Chimborsz, Hospital. Richmond at
tempted to escape Tuesday. when he WAS tired
at by one CT tho guard and killed.
The larees. crowd ever seen 10 Lynohburs
attended the fair there yesterday Tho gate
recsipts indicated 10000 people present. The
exhibition is tho largest and best ever made
there.
A letter from Mr.. Willism G. MacDoIell,
treasurer of the Shenandoah Valley railroad
Company, states that the trcstle on that road,
Sboh was recently blown down, is located on
the unfinished portion Of the road now uoder
construction.
GARFIELD AND CHEAP LABOR The follow
ing is the text Of Tho letter. marked "persooal
AID Confidential" which Dispatch from Men
tor. Oaio, states Gen. G,risld has proDourc;d
q stupid t;rgery:
"House of Representatives. Washington.
D. T., January %, 1SS0-Dsar Sir : ours 10
hand tsbe it that the question of employees
is ou'y a qlestitn of private and corporate
,cJncmy, and individuals or companies hava
The right to bay labor where they cln get it
cheapest. We bsve treaty with the Chinese
government. which should be religiously kept
uutiI is provisions are sbrcgated by the &C 100
cf thu eeotral goreroment. and am cot pre-
pared to y that it should bs abrogated uoil
o,. orook np fao,O,ino infnresta afa oonsnrV.
ed 10 tho matter Of labor.
Very truly you.s.
III. L. Marcy, Euployors' UOiOD, Lyon,
Massachusetts,"
It il stated that Mr.. Mercy was member OF
the Employers Union Of Lynn, Mass. and the
New York Truth asserts that a. his deatA, which
recently olc1rred, the orieinsi OF the letter was
found among bis effects. 10 an envelope which
bears the Washington post mark OF Jaruary
90, 9 r. 10. Notwithstanding General Gar
fields denial CT tho authorship OF the letter,
the New York Truth of yesterday said {:
1.-THE letter. after having passed through the
hands of private experts. before publlcs ton,
was this morning laid before tho national dem
ocratic committee. There was q large atten.
dance, smopg them several congressman AID
Senator'S familiar with General Gar6eld's writ.
log. After passing q critical examination it
was unapi mousy pronounced to be genuine.
Speaker Randall, who MAS present. said its
did net have the possibility OF
doubt Ex.ConRressnen Meade smalley, Hew.
it and others were equally decided. Photo
graphic copies of the letter have been made,
and 30 far no one who has seen 1t has Yentured q
doubt"
In this connection it may be stated that hon.
a. g. hewitt, in speech in New York, We'd
nesdsy evening, said he had seen the letter, that
he was familiar with Gen. Gsrfeld's signature,
that he had compared it with some OF Gsr6eld's
letters in his possession, and that he had no
doubt it is genuine, He further said that the
letter accords with the course which Gep. Gar
field always took on questions affecting the in
terpsts Of employers.
The Boston Traveller says: Inquiry among
leading business men in Lynn Shows that no
such man as d. l.. Morey, to whom General
Garfield is alleged to have address 8 letter on
The Chinese question, ever lived there sine O.,
1878, nor has such labor union - tbs employ.
srs' Onion ever existed there"