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

toPeciai correspondence OF the Ae4anolh HhIeIle.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. IL, 1SS2.-
Regret about the now generally conceded
unfortunate result of the recent election in
Virginia IS expressed by people of all par
ties mere, many republicans saying their
only consolation for the sweeping defeat
that has overtaken them was the hope that
Aahoneism bad been cleauedup i'll Virgins.
The failure to beat Malone is rightfully at
tributed to the one hundred thousand ne
groes from whom the General said he could
get any majority be wanted.
Mr.: Dezendorf the defeated straightout
candidate for Congress in the End Virginia
district lis in the city to-day. He says he got
about four thousand votes, and that it is
wonderful he got that many, as his negro
ticket holders were bought up openly and
negro voters paid so much head. He says
that Malone spent one thousands dollars in
Norfolk alone on election day. He is per-
fectly satisfied with his own action, would
repeat it tomorrow. says he has the ap-
prevail of his own conscience and he beliveS
that Of every true republican in the State.
The Secretary of the Treasury is consid-
ering the issue Of another call for the re-
demption Of bonds without rebate Of inter
est in order that the demand for money
with which to speculate may be supplied.
The immense surplus in the Treasury,
caused by the excessive revenue exacted
from the people by the high tariff and oner-
Gus internal revenue, stimulates and fosters
the desire to speculate which the Secretary
is forced to CRAFTY or risk a general crash.
The subject Of the election of Speaker
| of the House is now beginning to be talked
about by the democrats here. Some from
the North seem to think that Mr.. Randall
should have it, but there are others who say
that as the party has always lost by half
way measures it should pursue decided
course this time and organize the House in
accordance with straightout democratic
ideas on the subject of the tariff, and that
for that purpose Mr.. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
q loW-tarif revenue reformer, should be
elected. Mr.. Blackburn, who was Mr..
Randall's competitor for the position before,
is now supporter of Mr.. Carlisle, who says
he will be a candidate if personalities be ex-
Guided from the contest. Mr.. Converse, OF
Ohio, an old member and a .Jctfersonian
democrat, is also spoken of for the place.
and it is said will have no little support
Al the recent election in Tennessee, the
democrats carried every Congressional dis.
| Iiit' III "hlCll liicS Iali ~ regularly HOul-
mated candidate They beat Moere,- the
Memphis scalawag, who made himself
ridiculous at the opening Of the last session
by his hombastic protest against the admis-
sion of Chalmers, whom he and his party
have since adopted. with Casey Young
thereby gaining a member. In two Other
districts the republican majority was so
heavy that they ran no candidates in them.
In the Legislature the high-tax democrats
who two years ago had majority in that
body and elected L. S. Senator Jackson
have not Il single member.
The recent secret meeting of naval officers
here is the subject of no little talk, and is
generally looked upon as an attempt to in
iluencc legislation. 1t is stated that since
the navy has gone back" on Mr.. Robson.
he intends to get even by SIGNALLING his
last year Ill Congress with an attempt to re-
ducc the salaries of naval officers
Engineer Melville is continuing his story
Of the trip from the Jeanette to the land
before the Jeanette Board of Inquiry TO-
day. 1t is interesting, but varies lite from
that told by Dnncnhowcr.
NJ. f',,", ~" 1'.." n.oii nuiuiiiS un " ms
place as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for months past, with the idea that Mr.. Fol
ger would resign and he be appointed in his
place, having become satisfied that now that
the Secretary has been defeated for Govern
or of New York no such idea finds Il lodg-
ment in his head, deems it hardly wortl,
while 10 hold Oh amy longer and is consider
ing the ADJ stability Of resigning at once.
+. NJ Perry, Wittcn's Mills, 'Iazewell CO.,
VA, WAS commissioned postmaster to-day