Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-04
FROM WASHINGTON.


ity that Langston, the negro who is now
drawing $4,000 year for salary as L. ).
Minister to Hayti, and who started this
morning for Virginia, in which State he
will deliver twelve speeches, advising his
race TO maintain the color line and vote
solidly for Malone, has been paid $500 by
Malone for the latter work, and, in addi-
ton. promised the Generals influence in his
effort to obtain the appointment Of District
Commissioner vice Major Morgan to be re-
moved. Malone has long had his eye upon
the numerous Offices in the hands Of the
District Commissioners, and if he sue
ceeds in having Langston made one of
those commissioners he can give many
of the negroes i'll his State Offices I'M
der the District government and thus full
fiji many of the innumerable promises he
has made to them, and by which he got
their united support last November But
his action in this respect will make him as
thoroughly detested by the readjuster white
people Of this city, whose dislike the negroes
have already engendered by their forward
ness, rs he is by the same class in his own
State.
Mr.. Dezendorf is here to-day on his way
home from short visit to New York. He
says that the Arthur wing of his party, the
wing that is opposing him, will be utterly
defeated in both New York and Pennsyl-
vania, and. with a sly wink, he said II
don't think it will be much better for them
in Virginia" With regard to his own cleo
ton he says he has things exactly as he
wants them; that the Administration is
| fighting him in consequence of the bargain
it made with Malone, hut that with all its
| offices and with all Nahonc's and Hubbell's
money he feels perfectly assured of his cleo
ton. He also says that Dawson will get q
large republican vote, and that Malone will
be thing of the past after the election next
| month.
The political assessment business has been
| carried to such an extent that new ap-
pontee has hardly received his commission
before demand is made upon him for a sum
almost if not quite equal to month'ssalary.
The objection to paying this is so great that
the opportunities of applicants for offices
has abated, and will SO continue until after
the election.
The ghoulish, sectional and bloody shirt
contents of the Hubbell republican cam.
palgn book are so conducive to the oblitera-
ton Of war memories and to the restoration
of amicabr feeling between the people of
the North and South, which Gen. Malone
processes to be so anxious to bring about
that some curiosity is expressed as to the
number of these books the General has
ordered Of his friend Hubbcll for circulation
! in Virginia
| ms IS the first year since 1862 in which
the Postoilicc Department has been self
sustaining. It's profits this year were over
million and a half dollars The condition
OF affairs in 1862 has been attributed to the
exclusion of the Southern States, in which
the service Is said TO be non-paying, in that
| year, but Mr.. Reagan, who was Postmaster
General Of the Confederate States, saws that
that year was the only year of the life of
the Conitdcracy in which its postal service
also WAS sclt-suStaining. There will be All
attempt nj two-ccnt letter postage next
year, but the PoStoIlice officials say that if
such Il rate OF postage had existed this year
instead of surplus there would have been
il deficit of ten millions in the PostolIice fund
The stalwarts are ASST gning all sorts of
private reasons for the detection of Curtis
Bccchcr, Woodford and the hundreds of
other prominent republicans who say that
defeat is better than compromising with
fraud and bossism, but for all that the de-
lection. like grace. grows day by day, and
| rs a Blaine republican from New York said
| to-day. will develop into such grand swell
by November that the maioritics against
Arthur in his State and Pennsylvania would
he overwhelming He asked how it would
be in Virginia, and when informed that it
depended on the solidity Of the negro vote
there, replied, swell, with the two greatest
States in the Union gained, we can afford
to lose NirSinia.' He counts Arthur's losses
as true republican gains
The demand at the Treasury for fraction
al silver currency is greater now than it ev-
er has been. 1t is chiefly from the South
and Yves! and it is caused, it is supposed, the
increased business that has sprung up in
consequence of the increased number of
farms in the former section and the new
towns that have sprungup along the rail
roads there and in the West.
| Ella Jones' Lnwrcnceville, Brunswick Co.
Va, j. b. Brubaker, Massanutton, Page Co.
Va, Miss i. r. O'Connor Anandale, Fairfax
Co, Va. and NJ. G. Stayman Kernstown
Frederick Co., Va, were commissioned post
masters to-day
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Mr.. \. II. II. Stuart, of Staunton, Va, who
was Secretary Of the Interior under the
Fillmore administration.
| liz IcIlOlllllillOH Ol MT. chapman III the
Prince Georges congressional district III
Maryland is very gratifying to that gentle
mans numerous friends in this city.
fleet oftwenty-two sail ofthree- masters,
bound to Georgetown and Alexandria, is re-
ported in the river
The steamboats, carried but few people to
see the boat race to-day, but quite a large
crowd witnessed the race from the banks of
the river.
A Washington correspondent for West
ern republican newspaper, who has just re-
turned from note.taking trip throughout
Virginia says that Hooper in the 4t6 and
Paul in the eth districts of that State are
the only Mahoneites who will be elected
that Massey will be elected by large ma
Jority, and that Wickham will make clean
sweep of Malone. Firginians from the two
districts referred to say neither of them is
safe for Malone, that O'Ferrell puts his ma
Jority at fifteen hundred, and that straight
out republican candidates will run in both
the districts, A Washingtonian, who has
recently been in Lynchburc and Farmville