Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-24
FROM WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. "a, 1882
\ gentleman here to-day from New Baltl-
more, Fauquier county, Va, says that the
like of frauds practiced there on the day of
the last election was never before known,
and that to his own personal knowledge one
mau was allowed to vote who had neither
a legal nor fraudulent tax receipt, and
another was permitted to vote who had not
lived in the county for six years, and did
live in the county of Prince William.
Another gentleman from Westmoreland
county, in the same State, who was IN cleo
ton clerk, and has been for years, says that
in all his experience he never saw such
frauds rs those committed at the late cleo
ton.
Mr.. John st. G. Brookcs of Alexandria,
who has Il law office in this city, has very
crcditable poem, "a toast to the memory Of
Robert Burns" in the last number OF the
american Register.
Senator Johnston is here to-day. lie has
come for the session, (which commences Mon
day week. In talking about the political
prospects in his State he says that the demo
that the democrats will have an easy Job in
carrying the State next fall
Governor Cameron has gone back to
Richmond, and several of the other promi-
nent Mahoncites Of Virginia who assembled
here during the first part of the current
week have also gone away. Mr.. Paul, Col.
Jones and Capt Rogers were among those
here who were Tot mentioned in this CORES
pondencc of yesterday. Some say that Gen
cral Malone was here, and that the gather
ing was ut his call and to consult with him,
but one of his particular friends denies this
and says he is at home laid up with the
chills. The rumor still grows that General
Mahonc's influence ut the departments is
not only on the wanc, but has evidently set,
especially at the treasury, rs Mr.. Folger is
becoming more and more convinced that
his defeat is generally attributed to the Ma
hone alliance.
The Garfield monument fair will COM
mencc tomorrow. Virginia. under the Ma
hone regime, which is anti-Garlicld, took
no interest in the fair and did not apply for
Il booth, consequently while nearly all the
other States have booths, she has none, and
so the mineral cabinet of the Virginia Mid
land Railroad and the Washington relics
belonging to the Masonic Lodge in Alexan-
dria, the principal Virginia exhibits, will be
exposed on tho general exhibition stands.
The exhibits take up so much space that
one thousand visitors will crowd the exhi-
tion rooms to suilocation
Prominent democrats here from Rich.
| mond and other parts of Virginia to-
day say that it is pretty well conceded that
the Malone returning board will give the
certificate of election in the 1st Congressional
district to Mayo, though Garrison was fairly
| elected both by the count and the tally
| sheets, and Is so shown to be by the official
returns of all the counties i'll the district.
They, however, think it is better to be SOFAS
1t will stimulate the democrats in Virginia
to greater efforts to expose the frauds COM
mltcd there at the recent election, and
stimulate the democratic majority in tho
House to act in accordance with those ex-
posilres and not only give Garrison the seat
that legally and justly belongs to him, but
also give Messrs Massey and OFerrall the
seats they were fairly elected to by a ma
jority of the legal votes cast Mt the election.
The investigation of the affairs of General
l.onsstreet, U. S. Marshal for Georgia. re-
vcals nothing against the General, but
shows that some of his Deputies are not of
the material that can resist pecuniary temp
tatlons. This is accounted for at the Treas
uary Department by the fact that the Adj
ministraton's ways have been so mean in
Georgia, as in the other Southern States,
that men of principle there will not accept
| positions under it.
In a conversation with one of the lessees
Of the Alexandria canal to day the Ga
ZETrE's correspondent was Informed that
that canal would be kept open until the 18th
proXimo unless closed earlier by the wealth
cr. He was also told that the Corporation
OF Alexandria had transferred to the Gov
crnmcnt all but ,220 OF $500 shares off canal
stock for which the L. S. recently got a
decree, and that he supposed if the Corpo-
ration would apply to the Legislature of
Virginia for that amount there would be no
| difficulty about getting it from the two
thousand seven hundred shares " hich the
corporation, without legal authority. sold
the state long years ago, and which the
state did not relinquish when it disposed of
its other securities after the war because it
was worthless. Otherwise the corporation
will have to buy the requisite amount from
individual holders who, though the stock is
worthless now, might in that case probably
be induced to ask a high price for it.
Eight thousand packages of dead letter
matter, in which all sorts of things from the
most delicate articles of ladies' underwear
to horned frogs from Texas, will be sold bv
auction "unsight unseen on the 18th proX.
The President, as is well known, will not
write one line Of his annual message, but
for all that he makes the preparation of
that document the excuse for not coming to
The White House sometimes until o'clock
in the afternoon, and for not receiving Wis
itOrs who call upOn Mt the Soldiers Homo