Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-27
FROM WASHINGTON


Court House last Wednesday, where he met
Capt. Wise and demonstrated to the entire
satisfaction of all who heard him that the
Captain was q reckless talker. His proof
that the Captain had no foundation for the
assertion that he, Garrison, was hanging
around the hospitals while he, Wise, was
fighting for his country, was so clear that
the Captain himself was forced to acknowl-
edge that he WAS mistaken in the identity
of the man. and that the one to whom he
alluded WAS Mr.. Paramorc.
Major Hector Mclean, Superintendent Of
the Washington and Western Railroad was
in the city to-day. He says that a profile
Of the proposed extension Of his road from
Round Hill, Loudoun county, 10 Winches-
ter has been completed and is now on exhi-
bition at the Office of the company in Alex
andria. The road will cross the Blue Ridge
Immediately through Smokers Gap, and of
the Shenandoah river abouttw miles below
that Gap. The road will be q miles long
and will cast about $4,000 mile. The
grade on the cast side of the mountain will
be 96 feet and on the west 10. Only about
one Of the three miles Of the road-bed al
ready constructed beyond Round Hill will
be utilized and the charges orgoing through
Bcrryville have been put so high that the
line may possibly pass two miles below that
town.
The political campaign on the eastern
shore of Virginia will be pretty lively from
now until the day of election Messrs. Mas
sey. Garrison, Woltz, Bcckley and other
speakers passed through the city to-day for
Baltimore where they will take the steamer
tonight for Accomac. Judge Garrison is
assured of his election by plurality TINT
will not be much short Of three thousand.
Mr.. John Wolff is in the city to-day He
is the straightout republican candidate for
Congress in the LIST Virginia district, and is
thoroughly posted with regard to the
strength Of the straghtout movement, and
the fact that he is betting money on the
| election OF Massey is supposed here to mean
that the movement referred to has more
| strength than it is generally supposed to
have.
1t is now said that should the two new
proposed Government cruisers be construct
| ed, of which there is not much immediate
probability, the required steel plates will
have to be imported from France, because
the plant for making them is not in this
country, despite assertions to the contrary
The report on the bribery charges in the
Star route cases has been published and as
anticipated exculpatcs the officers ofthe De.
partment Of Justice and puts the guilt upon
the star reuters. 1t will be replied to BY
the counsel OF the star reuters, Mr.. Robert
| lngersoll writing the denunciatory part oil
the reply, and being particularly tart upon
General Wells, ofwhom either as man and
a lawyer he says he does not hold a high
| opinion.
Mr., Holyoke, the English philanthropist
is here, the guest of Mr.. Robt. Ingersoll
lie comes to induce the national govern
ment to prepare and issue such information
as will be useful to foreigners who contem
plate making their homes in this country
He says the information now sent out by
immigration companies or States is incor-
| rect, prepared in the interest of the issuers,
and calculated to deceive, but that if the
Government shall take the matter in hand
the true condition Of every State and Ter
ritory will be represented and immigrants
will know exactly what to find when thew
come to the country. 1t is expected that
the President will cnbody this idea in his
next annual message.
1t was reported here to-day on the au-
thority of q party in the case that one OF
General Nlahone's collectors who had an
assessment against 4 lady clerk in one OF
the departments told her if she would pay
one third of it he would be satisfied,
and would credit her Will! the whole amount.
This evidently looks as if what has long
been said about such collections is cor
rect, and that q large part of the enforced
contributions goes to the benefit Of the collec
tors. What with lcakings in the collections
and lcakinGs in the expenditures but little
of the money will be left with which 10 buy
voters, and in this. it is said. lies the Gen.
erals greatest danger
In the Supreme Court Of the United States
to-day Captain Blair, Acknowledgement of
Virginia, filed Il printed brief against the
motion to advance upon the docket the case
OF Antonl against the Treasurer Of Rich
mond, involving the constitutionaity Of the
bill passed at the last session of the Eirgini;,
Legislature known rs the coupon killer"
This is 4 case i'll which Virginia and every
body; i'll it, and great many people out oft,
arc deeply interested, and yet the Attorney
General of the State, at the command Of his
boss. is doing all he can to hinder, ohstruct
and delay its decision for partisan and, it is
reported, selfish purposes.
Many Eirginians from various parts OF
the State are in the city to-day. They all
concur in the belief that the only hone the
Mahoncites have lett is the solid vote of the
negroes, and that the probability is that
that hope will not he realized. Some from
Culpepcr county, which gave Malone ma
jorIty last year, say Massey will carry it by
a good majority. Some from Fauquier say
all the voters in that county will turn out
and that their majority of last year will be
increased considerably Some from the
southside section of the State say that near
~ all the democratic and most Of the white
republican clement of the Malone party has
left it, and that the remainder is com.
posed entirely of oiliee-holders, office
seekers, and negroes. Some from near
Norfolk say that Dezendorf says Dawson
will set 10000 votes in his district alone.
and some from the Fredericksburg district
say that Volt will surely receive 1000
votes in that district 1t is needless to saw
that this news is not only highly gratifying
to nearly all tho resident Virginians but to
most of the other people in the city, who
have become thoroughly disguised with the
little they know about Mahoneism.
Mr.. Callahan, the jockey injured yester-
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