Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-09-26
FROM WASHINGTON.

there rs in Virginia, were until recentlythe
most proscriptive of all the democrats, and
Leach the ''libcral'' candidate for Congress
in the Ashville district, and who recently got
$4,000 of Hubbell's fund, which it is said he
spent in paying his personal debts, is on rec
ord rs saying THE leopard cannot change
his spots nor the Ethiopian his color, but, my
God. how soon white man gets to be Mig
ger when he he joins the radical party
The reported proceedings of Il reported
meeting of the Malone committee of the
9th Congressional district in Virginia on the
Goth instant, with the letter of Mr. Sims,
dated Chatham, 2lst instant, accepting the
Congressional nomination reported to have
been given him at this meeting, are pub
lishcd in General Mahone's home organ of
yesterday. On the dates referred to Messrs.
Sims, and Scott, and nearly all the members
Of the committee alluded to were in this city
and were SO stated in this correspondence
at that time.
\ gentleman who was at Orange Court
House yesterday says that if what he saw
there be an indication of the political pulse
i'll Virginia, Malone is already defeated.
He says that while Mr.. Barbour and Judge
smith, democrats, had large crowd, COM
posed of all the clean looking white people
and the intelligent negroes there to hear
them, Mr.. Farr, a short distance off, had
small assemblage, composed almost entirely
of negroes TO hear him. and that when Mr.
Barbour finished speaking manyofhis hearers
who had voted for Cameron last year shook
him by the hand and told him they intended
TO do all they could to help his election. He
says that from what he saw all the intelli-
gent and industrious people in the county
were opposed to Malone, while his sup
portcrs were an insignificant number com
posed almost entirely of lazy and thriftless
negroes.
From New York the more news that
comes the more cheering is the prospect for
an overwhelming defeat of the Arthur wing
of the republican party. In the Buffalo dis
trlct, 1t is said, the campaign has lost its po-
litical complexion, many republicans there
seeming to be as much interested in the
success Of Cleveland as the democrats are,
and the leading republican newspaper in
the district says that though the district
usually gives the republicans majority of
seven thousand, it will give Cleveland fit.
teen thousand majority next November
All the independent newspapers in the
state are supporting Cleveland many re-
publican newspapers, among them several
OF the most influential, are doing the same
and many of those that support Folger are
doing so in II ha.Ehearted manner and with
such an apparent foreboding of defeat that
their support does his cause more harm than
good. Mr. Folger is aware of all this, and
Is consequently by no means sanguine in
his hopes of success, and, what seems strange
to some, he has not yet signilied his accent
ancc of the nomination
Intel lirappa horn from, Vast
the effect that all the five members of the
House to which that State is now entitled
will be democrats. In one district alone is
there the slightest doubt about this, and that
doubt is only entertained 10y those demo-
Gratis whose livers are out of order. The
candidates there are Goodc. democrat. and
cN-Sccretary Coil, republican, The latter
Is rlch ana there are some greenbackers in
ncctioIi rntl eng itiG, trom- these conditions
hackers. and how their cOeXistance in that
district is the occasion Of the doubt alluded
to, no body says, though all seem to know.
Mr.. Adams, cN-Clcrk of the House OF
Representatives. who has recently been
nominated for Congress by the democrats of
the Kentucky district. now represented by
the scalawag White, is in the city today.
He says Kentucky will have solid demo
| cratic delegation in the House next year,
and that no matter what may be the result
in Virginia the next House will certainly be
democratic.
Costigini who is completing the work
of frescoing the doom of the capitol. will re-
sume that work in few days.
Ex-senator Dorsey, of star route notore-
ty, has been appointed chairman of the re-
publican executive committee Of Arkansas
He is also secretary Of the national repub-
lcan executive committee. Mr.. Richard
Harrington, Of safe-burglary fame, ii need
not be forgotten, is the chairman of the re-
publican executive committee Of Delaware
But, then, republicans are not proud.
From the Norfolk district in Virginia, il is
| learned that the democrats in the respective
counties of that district are appointing del
egatcs to district convention and instruct
ing them to nominate a candidate for Con-
gress, and that a candidate will not only be
nominated but will probably be elected
will certainly beat the Malone candidate if
not Dezeadorf, the straightout republican.
From the Lynchburg and Danvlle districts
the news is that Tucker and Cabel will be
elected by greatly increased majorities the
votes that Riyes and Sims will get being
chiefly those of the negroes who are drill
led BY the internal revenue officers, as most
all the democratic and many of the white
republican readjusters declare that they
will not be led by Malone into the Arthur
wing of the republican party In these dis
tricts as well as in the Sth it is understood
that Massey will lead the democratic ticket.
Dispatches from Pensacola report so new
cases of yellow fever and two deaths there
to-day.
George >. krousc was commissioned post
master at Culpeper, Culpeper county, Va,
today.
1t is rumored here, though the report was prob
ably started in Richmond that General Malone
Is to Withdraw Mr.. j. Amber Smith and run an.
other candidate in the Richmond district. Voters
propose, hut the General dcposes and his right
there is none to dispute-n his own party.
H. s. Lttlepage, of Virginia, who was lately
removed from his position rs messenger Of the
Senate has had the misfortune to lose two of his
rhlldrcn from diptheria, in Clarke County, where
his family was spending the summer.
SINGULAR PREMoNITIoN OF DEATH.-One
of the most remarkable cases Of Fremont.
ton of death which verified itself with an