Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-06-08
FROM WASHINGTON.

tSpecial Correspondence of the AleX'a Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, D. c., June ST. G. Tay-
lor. G.. NJ Weber, James Frazier, j. G.
Watts, Mcssrs. Gibson, Pompherey and
other Malone leaders in their respective
counties, have been sent for by General
Malone and some of them are now here, to |
consult about the approaching Congressional |
campaign in Virginia. The General, it is
said, has about perfected his plan to defeat |
Fulkerson in the 9th district of that State.
That plan is understood to be to run Messrs.
Wood, of Scott; Bowen and Barnes, of
Tazcwcll; Pendleton or Boyd and Pat Nc
Caull and combine their votes in the con-
vcntion after the manner Of the Holiday
nomination. McCaull, who lost his own
county year or two ago, is said to be the
Generals choice, and it is also said that
Wood, Pcndleton and Bowen are willing
to get local delegations for themselves and
deliver them to McCaul in convention
This information comes from those who
don't talk with their tongues and effectually
puts to rest the recent current rumors about
Il reconciliation of the political difference
between Gen. Malone and Mr.. Fulkerson;
and it may be said that such rumors were
never believed by those who are aware of
the implacability of the Generals DISPOSE
| ton.
Gentlemen living along the line Of the
Virginia railroads leading to this city, and
| in the counties bordering upon the Potomac,
all concur in the opinion that the wheat
| crop looks better than at any corresponding
period for many previous years.
The House to-day, almost without oppo-
sition, passed bill to amend the pension
laws by increasing the pensions of soldiers
and sailors who have lost an arm or Il leg in
the service to $40 month. 1t has hereto
fore been $24. Senator Johnston, when
asked if he thought the bill would pass the
Senate also, replied, eyes, | suppose so,
anything passes that is nominaly for the
benefit of the soldiers" The pension list is
now the heaviest expense the country has to
bear and this bill will increase it greatly.
At the caucus of the republican members
of the House held last night Mr.. Page, of
California, threatened to bolt on the question
Of the internal revenue bill, and being
called to task for his threat by Mr.. Baync,
told that gentleman that he would not be
lecturcd by any one, and especially not by
one who was in open revolt against his own
party in his own State. Mr.. Bayne is Il
prominent member of the half-breed and
anti-Cameron party in Pennsylvania.
From Baltimorcans well posted in the
affairs of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company it is learned that those affairs
could not be in IL worse condition than they
are. The company, it is said, has not paid
its EMPLOYEES for the last six months, all the
money it has, $1,000, has been attached in
the Baltimore banks, tic third default in
the coupons on the $4,000 loan will occur
on the LIST of next month, and rs the mort
gage is then liable TO foreclosure, and as
most Of those bonds are held by the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, and as the inter
. cStS of that road are Numerically opposed
to those OF the canal, it is not improbable
that that foreclosure may be effected and
the canal also be closed
Private dispatches from Cumberland are
to the effect that the prospect is exceeding
~ poor for any coal business this seas on,
but exceedingly favorable for Il disturbance
nj the mines next week between the strikers
and the new hands, rs the former seeing
more of the latter coming in and working
steadily. are thinking about resorting TO
more active means to stop them than they
have hitherto been employing: 1t is also
said that so far from the strike being con-
| flict between labor and capital, it is one be-
tween capital and capital, as the strikers
are supported from the treasury of a hun
drcd thousand Knights of Labor, have plen-
ty of money, and that when they went to
pay their house rent last month almost all
: Of them produced iitty-dollar bills.
I Mr.. Buell. the editor of the critic and Cap
iim Of this city, who was summond to APP
pear before the Senate WhiSkcy investigat
|. ing committee to-day and substantiate the
charges he had made in his papers against
certain parties in connection with the pas
sage of the Whiskey bill by the House, sur
prlscd the committee and all the spectators
by denying all knowledge of the subject and
saying that he did not write under 9th, but
in Il pickwickian sense. Mr.. Hawley, a
member of the committee, asked him if he
thought it \ joking matter TO be publishing
people as thieves and liars, and if somebody
were to publish him as thief and liar would
, he consider it in the light Of a Joke? TO
this he replied that he imposed he would
Mr.. Hill, the correspondent Of the Louisville
Commercial, WI ose letter originated the af-
fair, endorsed every word he had written,
: said he had heard it all, and that the men
, who had told him must bear the blame OF
their vain prctcntion to important influence.
The following Virginia postmaste"s were
commissioned to-day: Sarah A. Humphrey
Ashland, Hanover CO.; w. Taylor, Dover
Mines, Goochland co., and c. w. Greever,
Baptist Valley, Taswel co.
} A caucus of the democratic Senators has
been called to meet Immediately after the
Senate adjor"ns to-day for the purpose it is
stated of considering what is best to be done
: in regard TO tie Tariff Commission
1t is stated here by Marylanders that at
the last meeting of the stockholders of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company the
proceedings could not have been more
satisfactory to Mr.. German ifhe had planned
them beforehand