Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-07
FROM WASHINGTON


Mrs. General Lee arc sucing for the amount
fan appraised valuation of their property
in Alexandria county known as the Airing
ton estate, has been postponed in the T. S.
supreme Court from time to time until at
the last term of that court it was said it
would certainly be rendered at the next
term, which commences next October. But
1t will be again postponed, for as there have
been one or two new judges appointed since
the case vas argued, and rs the court does
not seem disposed TO make dicision with
out Il full bench, ii will have to be rearcued
before a decision is rendered.
Reliable gentlemen from South Carolina
well acquainted with both the principals in
the late fatal shooting affair in that State.
say Blair was II dangerous crank, who went
about armed with i rifle seeking fight, and
that the man who killed him was a very
inolicnsive man. as is generally the case
with those who resort to desperate measures
when occasion requires.
Intelligence here from Tennessee is to the
effect that the boiling democrats will have
but 4 small convention on the l1th inst, and
that their sole object is to carry some twenty
or thirty thousand democrats over to the
republicans for the purpose of rc-clcctinr
Hawkins. The republican Governor. with
the understanding that the republicans will
elect Mr.. Bailey TO the Senate in place of
General Harris. 1t is understood, however,
that / ne project will fail ignominiouslv and
that the democratic ticket will be elected
beyond pcradvcnture.
IT Isl noliccahlc fact that all the democratic
politicians from Virginia who have visited
inc city recently, among whom are many
who We're formerly old line wings, seem to
be not :" much opposed to the republican
party as I" the Administration wing of it.
ihry say that some of the anri-Administra-
'loh republicans and some of their measures
are not $" objectionable but that the Arthur
ring Is more corrlpi, more rapacious, and
more injurious TO the country, South and
North, than The Grant ring was even in its
most reckless days
Reports from all parts Of the country are
to the effect that the crops of every descrip-
ton are in an exceptionally Furnishing and
promising condition.
Among the distinguished strangers ON the
floor of The Senate to-day WAS Mr.. John F.
Massey, OF Virginia. Mr.. Massey will
llr"Mhly make Il speech in Alexandria
during the current month giving his views
upon the present condition of political
a!I;lIr% lii his state. He announced himself
Il candidate Tor COn4rcsSman-atl large to-day,
and will publish Il card stating the grounds
upon which he has done so before the time
for the meeting of the State Democratic
Executive Committee. He saws he WAS
perfectly willing TO serve in the ranks of
he democratic party if the people wanted
him to d" so, but that from observation in
and letters from all parts of the State he is
led to believe that more people want him
than anybody else. lie also saws that read
IlStmcnt has nothing TO do with Il mans
national politics, and that he has been a
democrat ever since the war, and cXpccts 10
be one always. He believes that with the
exception OF those among the Mahoneitcs
Wh" nave obtained or expect to obtain Office
or whose friends have gotten Office through
Nah"nr's influence, all the democratic re-
adluSlcrs will support him. When asked
about the probable strength of the straight
oUl republican movement, he replied that
that WAS an unknown quantity for in 1880 he
supposed the rcadj rIstcr movement would
draw Il large vote from the republican party,
but had been greatly mistaken Mr.. Masssev
says hcnorany dcmncratcr cadiustcr. likesto
hear about coming back to the democratic
party" a>' they have never left that party.
and arc Il, good democrats us any other Of
lis members. From the way Mr.. Massey
talks they will be strange sort of democrats
who Will either refuse TO vote for him or
iall TO vote III all nj the next election.
IN he Srnatc to-day Mr.. Vest when de-
lending Mr. HANSON from the charge of
negligence brought against him bv one of
the city lnpriS in reference to the bill for
the reclamation Of the flats, said Mr.. Ram
son had done all il WAS possible for man TO
dig +" push that bill, and that though the
commerce committee had refused to add if
I" The river and harhor bill because il WAS
NOT %rrllnln 10 that bill, I'LL the members of
that committeeman in favor of il and would
vote Tor II when ii shall come up as a scpa-
rate and distinct measure.
Argument in the contested election case
OF SluralI ". Cahrll, from the 9TH Virginia
ulSIrlrl. WAS commenced this murnn" before
inc ll"'sc Elections committee General
Hurhurt l.. Payne appeared as counsel for
thc r"nleSIre and madra long argument in
his favor. Thc case will Ir continued TO-
morrow. ilr. talkimS, the chairman orthc
committee. is absent. but when he returns
1t Is said IN effort will be made To obtain q
report giving the scat to the contestant.
The river and larbOr bill, SO fur rs relates
to Virginia, has been amended in the Sen
ate i'll only three particulars The section
about New River now reads as follows II
Improving New River, Virginia and West
NirGlnla: continuing Improvement from
mouth of Wilson, in Gnyson county. ia
mouth of Grccnbrar river, $12,O of which
81. 600 shall be expended between the lead
MINES, III Wythc county, and the mouth of
Wilson, IN Graysnn county. The appropri-
alton for AppomattoN river was incrcascdto |
500 t'o, and IN appropriation was made for
the survey OF l'iankatank, one of the pro-
posed terminal points of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Il. Il. Mr. Johnston offered amend.
mcnts providing for the improvement of the
Nlattaponi river, and for Nrabsco and Ma
thodock creeks, but they were voted down.
The House Commerce Committee agreed
his morning, by u unanimous vote. every
republican member voting aye, to sustain
Mr. Reagan, democrat of Texas, in the late
controversy that gentleman had with Mr.
IN Noorhis, republican from New York,
'cS2eclng the bill to regulate immigration,
ma TO send Il copy of 4 resolution to that
'f!Sct to each of the members named. It
Nlll be rprpllprt cd tbot NJ,