Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-20
FROM WASHINGTON


WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 20, 1852
Among the members of Congress who ar
rived here last week is Mr.. Emory
Specr, Of Georgia, who has just been de-
frated for reelection. He vainly imagined
that the democratic party was doomed to
dissolution aud assumed the independent
role a Il preliminary step to repu5llcanlsm,
which be was silly enough to believe was to
prevail over the entire country, and fondly
hoped that he would be the Malone of
Georgia. Senator Joe Brown, it is reported,
bad Il quiet talk with him III which he
admonishcd him about the foolishuess Of
the course he was pursuing, concluding
by tapping him gently on the shoulder and
saying: Emory my dear boy, this won't
do in Georgia" Emory, to his great sor-
row, has found out that it wont do, and,
what's more, that there is no probability of
lis eyer doing and has, therefore, issued an
address to the people Of his district advising
them to let bygones be bygones and to come
together again as members Of the grand old
democratic party.
From Tennessee it is learned that there is
talk about requesting Mr.. Jackson, who Is Il
high tax democrat, and whose party did
not elect Il single member of the Legislature
at tho recent election, TO resign. His party
held the majority in the last Legislature.
Mr.. Manning, who was defeated for Con-
grcss at the recent election by General
Chalmers, whom The republicans ousted
from the present House for bulldozing, but
whom they supported at the recent election
upon Senator Sherman's principle that any
thing is iustiliablc in law and morals that
will beat down the democratic party, is here.
He thought last week that Chalmers, his OPP
poncnt, was to have the certificates of cleo
ton, and accounted for it upon the ground
straightout republicans in his district, and
when he received the telegram stating that
the certificate had been awarded to him,
but ho doesn't see how it could have been
a majority of the votes cast
Hon. George d. Wise, II. c., and member
elect OF the next House of Representatives
from the Richmond (Fa.) District, was in
the city yesterday, fresh from the field of
his recent splendid victory He is pre-
pairing and will introduce, at the first oppor-
tulity, a bill for the repeal OF the whole
internal revenue system.
In case the returning board ut Rich
mond should give certificate to Mayo in
stead of Garrison. who was legally elected
it would make very little difference, rs the
former could not draw one cent of pay and
would not hc sworn in on account of OBJ.
lection that would I've Immediately raised in
the House. 4 precedent is the case oil
Cannon vs.. Campbell in the last session, be-
sides various others
Col. Milton Cosswcll, retired army officer,
and Deputy Governor ofthc Soldiers Home
near this city. dropped dead there this
morning.
Col Swain, Judge Advocate General OF
the Army, rendered his decision this morn
ing in the test case involving the question
whether there is any provision il the army
regulations compelling an officer to pay his
legal debt. He decides that the Glst
article of war, the only one that could
possibly apply to the case, does not do So
! and that 30 far Us mere army regulations
are concerned army officers can continue to
disregard their debts as long as the civil
law and Their own consclcnceS permit them
to do so. He says the question has been
before the War Office for Il long time, and
that Congress should pass law that will
| settle 1t permanently.
al The meeting of the Jeanette Board Of
Inquiry to-day Engineer Melville gave
his story OF the escape Of his party go,
ing as far as the point ut which he found
belongs records, when his men objected tc
going any further in that direction
The rnmo: that the Chinese embassy is tc
be with,!rawntrom this country in conse.
qucncr Of the passage OF the Chinese bill
| Is not credited here, though it is the
| general opinion that such action would not
be Il; ali extraordinary.
y" decisions rendered by the Supreme
Court to-day in the Arlington and Curtis cases
Their. WAS no meeting 81 the House Ways ans
MnH,is EniiNiiii, n to-day I'D ulluruln pnnna rinn