Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-16
FROM WASHINGTON.

| FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, ID. c., October 1G, 1882
"Col.' Bob Harlan, the famous colorcd polti-
clan and sporting man of Ohio, is here to-
day. and in conversation with his rcplbli
can friends tells them they NAV as we'll
brace up to meet the sure defeat that awaits
them next month, for that PENNSYLVANIA is
bound to go rs Ohio did, and that the next
House of Representatives is already demo-
cratic.
Mr.. Paul Jones, one Of the financial clerks
OF the Senate, has just returned from visit
to his home, in Tennessee. He is a high
tax democrat, and is in favor of the settle
| ment OF the debt of his State upon the terms
agreed upon, and on which Il large palt of
that debt has been refunded; but he saws
that the indications are that General Bate,
| the low tax democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, will be elected, and that that wing of
the democratic party will elect enough
members of the Legislature to secure the
reelection of General Harris to the Senate.
To-day was the time appointed for the
trial of the Arlington case by the Supreme
Court Of the United States, but as there
were two cases on the docket before it-a
patent case and an Erie Railroad casc-it
WAS not reached. Among the counsel in
the case who were present were Judges
Sheppcn and Robertson, and Col. +. l..
Smith, Judge Field having arrived, there
was full bench to-day for The first time in
| several years.
Three ofGcncral Mahoncs candidates for
Congress, Messvs. Mayo, Smith and Rives,
though it is generally believed that he will
not cry if the two latter are defeated, are
in the city to-day. The county committees
OF the Generals party make their reports to
MS headquarters i'll this city; hence his can
dldates for Congress have to come here to
| see what IS going on i'll their respective dis
trcts and TO get their orders The Gen
erals Governor was also here, but went to
Harrisonburg, where he is to speak TODAY
for Mr.. Paul, whose chances of reelection
have grown much smaller since the Ohio
election, as the democrats of the Old Tenth
Legion are not going to desert their shin
just when she is on the point of gaining a
victory that will redeem themselves and
| their State from the ignomnious thraldom
that was imposed upon them by Il few dis
appointed politicians and needy office seek
crS with the aid Of the entire negro vote
Secretary Folger still continues to run the
Us. Trersury and his campaign for the
subernatoral chair Of New York, and when
asked to-day whether he intended resign
ing the former he declined to answer. lie
has got to resign the Treasury however. for
his party will force him to do so.
prominent republican politician from
North Carolina in the city to-day, being
asked if the tclegraphic dispatch from Re.
leigh stating that the negroes there had re-
nounccd the scalawag coalition in that
State, replied that every word of it was
true, and that the republicans there say
when they shall be forced to vote for demo.
Gratis they will make their own selection.
Capt. Wise failed to meet his appointment
mt Lcesburg last week and telcgraphed there
that he had lost his voice. II is just as well
he didn't, for two of the &C d tundcrs'
whom he sworc should not get on the stand
at Herryville, were waiting for him there.
\ gentleman from Richmond here to-day
says that Mr.. Dodson, chairman of the Ma
hone committee Of that city, told him on the
authority of the Postmaster at Alexandria
that there was but one straightout republi-
can in Alexandria. People here from Alex
andria say if all the Malone news that goes
to Richmond be of the same character the
Mahoneites will be us sadly disappointed as
they were two years ago. Mr.. CHM, who
was postmaster ut Winchester bv appoint.
mcnt of General Sheridan. and who is an
old and consistent republican, is in the CITY
to-day. He says that the republicans of his
section of the State have determined to do
all they can to defeat Malone
Mr.. Speaker keifer has left the CITY for
New Jersey, where he is to speak in favor
OF Mr.. Robson, who made him Sneaker
and inspired his ruling on every important
occasion during the last session..
Lieut.. DanenhoWer resumed his Testimony,
before the Jeannette Board of Inquiry to-
day. The gist of his evidence was that. all
things considered, he deemed the Jeannette
staunch and sea-worthy.
Mr. John G.. Thompson. of Ohio ex-
Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, and who |
Will probably fill the same office in the next |
House, is here to-day. He says the result |
OF the recent election in his State has elimi-
mated the Sherman, Foster and Deacon
Smith element from the republican party in
Ohio. He says that New York, Pennsyl
vania. Indiana and Connecticut will GER
tainly 60 democratic next month"; and that
there will be large democratic gains in
Illinois and Wisconsin. With reference to
the republican talk about republican offsets
in the South, he says it is ali twaddle. that
every district in the South has been care
fully estimated, that the democrats will
gain IN that section also, and that in Vir-
ginia there will be but two anti.democratic
candidates elected, and one of them will be
as much opposed to Malone as the most
pronounced republican could possibly be.
WITH hardly an execution every hody have