Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-03
FROM WASHINGTON.


another well-informcd politician of his State
he went over the estimates of every district
and county in that State last night, and
after most liberal allowance for the repub-
licans, he and his friend were both satisfied
that the indications of democratic success
there next month have never been better in
recent years.
That Virginia is not excluded from the
Improvement that has taken place generally
throughout the country during recent years,
Is apparent in various ways; among them
by the rapid growth of the new towns of
Roanoke and West Point and by the in
crease in the receipts of her railroads. For
the third week of September the earnings
OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad were
S39, 900 in excess of those Of the correspond
ing period Of last year
North Carolina politician who has Just
arrived here from his State saws that the
so-caled liberal" movement there is rap
idly turning out to be, next to MahoneisIn,
the greatest political fizzle of the age; that
Leach who essayed the Malone role, has
been rcpudiated by his own party; that the
republicans say the movement has done
them grievous injury and will be as disas-
trous to them as the Greeley movement was
to the democrats, and that the democrats
are confident OF carrying the State by
greatly increased majority.
Judge Garrison arrived here this morning
from Spotsylvania G. H., Va, where there
was large political gathering yesterday.
several persons who were present report
that the feeling amongst the democrats was
that OF confidence. The party is united and
harmonious in favor of the ticket-Garrison
t1I praE L., \
debate with Col. Mavo, his opponent. after
which Mr. John W. Woltz the republican
candidate for Congress, took the latter. the
Mahonite, in hand and left but little of him.
| Sergeant Mason having been denied dis
charge on a writ Of habeas corpus in New
York yesterday, to-day Secretary Lincoln
wrote to the President recommending his
pardon, and it is understood the President
Will give this letter his immediate attention,
and that he will probably grant the request,
not because the Sergeant's conviction was
not in accordance with the laws of the
army, but for the remarkable reason that he
and the Secretary think his punishment has
been sufficient for his oflense, and because
they think the prevailing sentiment of the
country is in favor of his pardon.
The veterinary surgeons appointed by the
government to examine and report upon
certain reported cases Of splenetic or Texas
lever among cattle in West Virginia and
certain other parts ofthe country have made
their report, which is to the effect that the
disease referred to is generated in Southern
cattle and that when it attacks cattle in this
part of the country it can always be traced
TO cattle that have been brought from Tex
rs or other portions ofthe far South. They
recommend that no cattle from the section
referred to be brought north of a certain de-
gree OF latitude, and say that as the disease
Is caught from the ground over which the
diseased cattle pass the only safe guard
against 1t Is to drive no cattle on the roads
over which Southern cattle have been driven.
a. Nj. Howard was to-day commissioned
as Postmaster ut PowhatanC c. H.. Powhatan
county. Va
y Northern democratic uul,i... r,ho
mas been spending the summer in Virginia
and is now stopping here or his way home,
When asked this morning what was his
idea about the result of the political contest
now in progress in the Old Dominion, re-
piled that he thought the democrats would
win, though it would be by dead weight, as
there was no semblance of organization
among them, and that their leaders did not
KNOW as much about the condition of their
party rs he stranger, did. He said the
democrats among the Mahonetes had come
nack TO their Old party, and that the repub-
leans were now as anxious to defeat the
boss, rs he had heard they were for him TO
| succeed last year, and that he believed that
Mahones sole strength now consisted of the
othceholders, supported by nearly all the
negroes in the State. He then gave a strik-
ing account of the advantages of orranza-
ton, and said that in his State the unit of
organization was the road district. and that
county elections there had been carried by
such simple means us inducing men to post
pone contemplated visits until after the
election.
A gentleman who heard Mr.. Massey at
Lexington yesterday says it was as effective
a. speech us he ever listened to, and that
Massey will stump that part ofthe State.
The friends OF Captain belong have re-
quested that his remains be buried in the
naval cemetery at Annapolis, and their re-
quest will be granted
small and by no means enthusiastic
Mahone meeting was held at Manassas YES
terday, Peter Carter, a negro making the
speech. 1t is said that there are no Ma
honeltes III Prince William county, as the
republicans there are for Dawson and Wolff.
That the lot of Department clerks is an
unfortunate one is generally known, but it |
was never rendered more apparent to
some Eirginians here to-day than when
one of these clerk, hailng from their
State, who had lost his place some months
ago and has been trying to get anoth-
err one ever since, told them that he
and his family were reduced to their
last cent, that the man from whom
they rented room had notified them
that they must vacate it by night for
non-payment of rent, and that they didn't
have enough to pay for moving the little
furniture they had left.
All the employees, white and colored. in
the Treasury Department and in the bureau
of engraving and printing, who hail from
Alexandria county, have, it is understood,
been granted furlows, and are now engaged
in electioneering in that county for General
Malone. There is u large negro majority
in that county, which until recently was OBJ
posed to Malone, but how it will be after the
General has brought his ways and means to
bear upon it will only be told by the result of
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