Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON

Is becoming more and more the impression
in and about the Treasury Department that
Secretary Folger is to he the republican
candidate for Governor Of New York, and
that one of the Presidents personal friends !.
is to have charge of the Treasury.
General Malone is still in the city, and
occupies his apartments in the Portland
Flat. He can work his wires here as we'll
as he can in Richmond, and besides when
here he is near my dear Hubbell 1t is I'M
derstood, however, that he will 60 to Rich
mond in few days.
John Syphax, Of Alexandria county, Va,
the colored candidate of the colored people
for Congressman-at-large in his State, was
in the city yesterday. He says he intends
to make thorough canvass of the State,
that there is much dissatisfaction among the
colored voters in all the Congressional dis
tricts thereof at the manner in which their
race has been treated by the politicians, and
that they are tired Of furnishing all the
strength and renping none of the benefits.
Mr.. Rives, collector of internal revenue
and Mahoneite candidate for Congress in
the Lynchburg district Of Virginia, is here
to-day. He says politics are considerably
mixed in his State and that majorties there
at the next election arc unknown quantities.
1t is understood that he is here to smooth
things down with General Malone, whose
candidate for the Congressional nomination,
General Elliott, he defeated, and to see how
much of the money Mr. Hubbell has exact
ed from the government employees he can
get with which to prosecute his vain cam
paign.
1t is believed here that Senator Kellogg
will be nominated for the U. S. House Of
Representatives by the republicans of the
Donaldsonville district, in Louisiana, to-
day. He has been the Malone of Louisi-
ana for year past and all the federal APP
pointments in that State have been made
with regard to the help they would afford
him. 1t is believed he will be elected, as
the negroes have large majority in the
district, and his opponent is Mr.. Acklen, of
unsavory remembrance, who convened some
sort of q democratic convention as early as
last May and had himself nominated
1t has heretofore been the custom for the
furniture on the Senate side Of the Capitol
to be replaced instead of repaired. But Col.
Bright believing old furniture to be better
and more serviceable than new has changed
this custom and now has q force of uphol-
sterers at work at the Capitol repairing all
the furniture that needs repairs and will it
is said save the government ten thousand
dollars in this item alone.
Intelligence from republican sources in
Virginia is to the effect that the republicans
there have, after mature and deliberate re-
Election and with liberal estimate of the
cost, determined to defeat Malone, as the
only means by which their party can be
maintained as an effective political organi-
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the most influential men in the party, "they
will leave no stone unturned to effect that
object" They are quietly organizing in
every county in the State and will be able
to cast so large vote next November that
the President, they say, will have power
full realization of the deception that has been
practiced upon him by General Malone re-
speeding the latter's strength. From the
9Th Virginia district it is learned that the
republicans Will follow the example OF some
of the other districts in the State and run q
candidate for Congress Mr. Dotson, of Lee
county, is said to be the man they have
selected. The democrats there, it is under.
stood, are as yet undetermined as to whether
they will endorse Newberry or Fulkerson
or run candidate of their own, but there is
said to be an understanding that all the
elements Of opposition to Mahoneism will
unite in opposition to Bowen, General Ma
homes candidate.
From North Carolina it is learned that
the negroes there as we'll as in Virginia are
dissatisfied with the limited amount of pat.
ronage they have received from the party
they have heretofore unanimously supported
and that though some Of the kickers NAV
be bought off, the money will not hold out
F to buy off all the opposition, and that con.
sequently the 'liberal" movement there is
destined to ignoble failure. The disposition
Of the two thousand dollars given by Hub:
: bell to Leach, the Liberal" leader in the
Ashville district, and which he is said to
have spent in paying individual debts has
had the effect of shutting off to some extent
the flow of money to the Liberal" candi,
dates in the South.
Among the three and ahalf per cent
bonds that have been received in exchange
for the threes are few from abroad, though,
none such was expected With regard to
the new threes it is said that they are de.
fective and that they will have to be re-
printed.
MIR. Jorgensen, Of the 4th Virginia dis
trict, is in the city to-day, and will, it is un-
derstood, soon announce himself a candidate
tor reelection as a straightout republican.
he says he has been badly treated By the
great and noble Virginian who had done so
much for free vote and fair count"
Mr.. Windsor, the new postmaster at Alex
andria, will take charge of that office on
Thursday morning 10 ~
General Malone will go to Richmcondiin 4
few days, but after Spending week there
will return and direct his campaign from
his headquarters in this city. 1t is Said that
he will have list of the voters Fof every
precinct in his State, will know how each
one of them will vote, and consequently
how much money will be required to pay
their capitation tax, and that he will have
one hundred thousand dollars to expend for
election purposes If he be a wise man he
will keep that money, for. from the most re-
liable accounts from his State he has reach
ed the zenith of his greatness and is now on
decline that increases as the days roll by
COURT OF APPEALs.-McDanie vs.. Com
monwealth. Petition for writ of error and
supersedeas. Writ Of error allowed by
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