Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-04-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Alcx'a. Gazette.

FROM WASHlNGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the .Alcx'a. Gazctte.]
WASHINGTON, D. c., April Is, 1882.
Messrs. Garrison, Wise. Dezendorf, Cabcll
and Jorgensen of the Virginia Congressional
delegation, were before the Committee on
Commerce this morning advocating appro
priations for the Improvement of the nav
gable streams in their State Among the
appropriations the committee seem disposed
to make are the following: James river,
100000: Rappahannock river $15, 900; York
river $4,000: Norfolk harbour, $4,000:
North Landing river, $4,000; Archcr's
Hope, 5000: Chckahominy, $1,000. APP
preparations will also be made for Apo
mattox river, New river, Dan river, Pamun-
| ky, Nottoway Blackwater and other rivers
! in the States. The committee seem indis-
! posed to give anything towards Improving
! Neabsco Creek. in Prince William county.
but MIR. Garrison hopes to induce them to
change their minds. The committees pur-
pose apparently is to cut down all the engi-
:. neers estimates from 10 TO so per cent.
Intelligence from Richmond here to-day
is TO the effect that the Mahoneites are pre-
pairing Il new apportionment bill, but that
no matter what its character may be it is
bound to meet the same fate of the one that
has been defeated. 1t is also said the ties
which have bound the Virginia republicans
to the Mahonetes heretofore have weaken
ed considerably Of late and that before very
long the former will boldly repudiate the
coalition and declare themselves straiehtout
republicans and in favor of the binding obi
cations Of pecuniary contracts
The witness Shipherd was again before
the House Foreign Affairs Committee this
morning, and submitted to II rigid cross-ex-
animation. but nothing new was elected
from him, his testimony being only repc-
tition of that he had previously given. \
letter was received by the committee from
Mr.. Blaine asking them to summon him AS
4 witness. and his request was granted.
Nothing new about the whereabouts of
Captain Howgatc has come TO light, and
while many think he is still concealed in the
city Others believe that he is now on his
way to foreign parts 1t is known that
for q week or two past he has been borrow
ing money in such small sums as five dollars
from those who were his friends when he
was in prosperous circumstances.
The House Committee on. Civil Service
Reform met this morning and considered
the bill for creatingan executive department
out of the present agricultural bureau Of the
/, Interior Department, but nothing was done
save to refer the bill TO Il subcommittee of
One Mr.. kasson for report.
There is no doubt about the fact that the
. democrats are in better spirits than they
have enjoyed for 4 long time past An
Ohio member OF the House says their show
j. in his State is better than it has been at any
5 previous time since the war; that the reap
y portionment bill there will fail, and that the
I've, L., Al,
Congressional delegation as the liquor pro-
scription Of the republicans has not only
: driven away from there all the liquor sup
port but that of nearly all the liberal men
n III the State. Reports from the Pacific
II States are to the effect that the veto of the
Chinese bill has made all those States demo
cratic. and the nelariouS coalition of the
= republicans Of New York with the Tam
t many democrats and that of those in Viz
: ginia with the repudiators has seriously in
$ jured their prospects all oyer the North.
= The National Republican committee met
i'll the room Of the Senate Committee on
Rules to-day. Virginia was represented by
Major lost OF StauntOn. The subjecl of the
party interests i'll the Southern States was
fully discussed and the members expressed
. themselves earnestly in favor Ola Union OF
y the Republicans ofthe Southern States with
e progress in the direction ola liberal national
e sentiment and broader political ideas that
will insure free ballot and an honest
count :" that in national affairs will antago.
# nlze the principles and policy Of Barbour
II Democracy. The matter of determining the
: manner Of eecting delegates to the next
e National Republican Convention was post
> poned until next January.
Mr. Camp. who waved the bloody shirt in
the House Yesterday, and thought a Southern
g man was only tit to be hanged and to have
+ his property conliscated, is one ofthe leaders
. OF the New York republicans, who though a
bold warrior now, never smclt powder dur
ing the time tine country was paying large
IL hounties for soldiers.
The Republicans OF the House seem to
have special objection to fellowship with
the cavalry generals among the eX-Confrd-
It crates. They determined last week to Dust
c Genl. Chalmers. Of Mississippi, and to give
# his seatto negro, and now they have agreed
that Lowe the grcenbacker of Alabama
shall have the seat that belongs to General
:. Joe Wheeler.
v No matter how much Attorney General Brews.
r. ter may he to blame for his course with regard t,
Il the election in South Carolina 50 far IS lh,
e. star route cases here concerned he has GER
: talnly managed affairs so well that it seems now
y impossible that the indicted parties can escape
conviction.
: General Malone seems to have q spite arains t
: the University Of Virginia. He is now urging
n upon the Postmaster Genera: the ACCESSIBILITY OF
h abollshng the posloticc at the University and
compelling that institution to get its mail service
= through the Charlottesville Office
, The wharvcs nj Georgetown present even q less
active appearance than those Of Alexandria, owing
to the suspension of the coal business by reason OF
: the strike of the Cumberland miners With re.
s gard to that strike 1t is said now that unless it
ends during the next week the probability is that
1t will not end this summer and that the rcsump-
ton of the coal business will not take place this
: season. The Alexandria canal is not vet ready
for navigation. but will be by the time there is
$ any business for it,
9 DEATH OF VIM III. WADE.-Mr. VIM. II