Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-06-03
FROM WASHINGTON.

w ASHlNGTON, -. T., Julc 81 uC OlCSoi
election will take place on Monday, but as
Washington time is good deal ahead Of
that of Portland news of the result is not
expected here until sometime during Tues
day State officers and member of Con-
gress are to be elected, and though the re-
pubIicans carried the last election the
democrats are hopeful Of success in the one
to be held next Monday.
Secretary Chandler has written letter
to the Chairman of the House Naval Com
mittee recommending an appropriation
sufficiently large to complete the unfinished
ironclads, and that, too, though the best
naval engineers say that these vessels will
be as lnserviceable after completion as they
are now. 1t was said when Mr.. Chandler
was first appointed Secretary of the Navy
that he would be a second Robson, and it
seems that time is proving the correctness
of the prediction.
The house in which Senator Mitchell, the
head Of the Pennsylvania half-breeds, has
rooms was on fire last night, but the Senator
proved real fire laddie, and by the most
active personal exertions succeeded in eX-
tingllishing the flames before the arrival Of
the fire engines. While he was resting
and regaining his breath at an open window
and looking ut four engines drawn up be-
fore the house, he was observed by stall
wart from the sidewalk on the opposite
side OF the street, who remarked to by
standcr, 'thc Senator has beaten the ma
chine this time, but he'll never do so again."
Rev. Mr.. Harold, rector of the Church Of
the Holy Cross, in this city, in the course Of
some remarks he made at the recent Episco
pal Convention here, startled the assembled
delegates by saying that he attired his altar
in vestments, used wafer bread at commu
Mon, prayed for the repose of the souls of
the dead, heard confessions and granted
absolution, and declared that the rtualsts
were the true interpreters of the Episcopal
Church. The presiding Bishop, who adj
monishcd him at the time has, it is under
stood, taken official notice Of the utterance,
and will bring it to the attention of the
House of Bishops, and it is probable the
offender will be tried for heresy. Mr.
Harold's views are the most advanced of
any ever taken by a prolesscd Episcopalian,
and are the accession Of no little comment
among the members ofthe Episcopal Church
! in this city
The L. :. steamer Dispatch, which has
been engaged in taking soundings in Sama
ma Bay, arrived here this afternoon Among
her officers is Ensign Lee Holcombe, former
! ~ Of Alexandria.
Mr.. Best the leading man Of the syndicate
! that has recently purchased the Washington
and Ohio railroad, has gone to Boston and
will he absent about ten days, during which
time nothing new will be DONE and no
changes be made with regard to that road
The surveying party that is to be put in the
field at once will cndeavor to find cheaper
way Of crossing the Blue Ridge than by IL
mile long tunnel at Smokers Gap, and it is
supposed by good engineers that by branch
ing off at Hamilton and going South those
mountains can be crossed without tunnel
and not bya very high grade either
The House to-day as soon as the session
opened, resumed the consideration Of the
Lowe-Wheccr contested election case from
Alabama, Mr.. Burrows, republican, OF
Mich, leading off in set speech in favor of
the greenback contestant, and reading OK
tracts from Mississippi and South Carolina
newspapers TO sustain his assertion that the
northern democrats are making their pre-
sent fight lest the southern democrats
leave them in all their numerical
insignifcancc. He criticised the Northern
democrats very sharply and was applaudcd
therefor by Mr. Lowe and the other South
crn grcenbackcrs and so-called independents
all of whom would join the republicans to.
morrow if they thought such Il course would
secure their reelection. At $50, by vote
Of 149 to 8, the House declared Mr.. Lowe
entitled TO the seat, and he was sworn in
taking the modified oath, after which the
House adjourned.
News from Richmond to-day is to the eff:
feet that the recent elections in Virginia
show that Gen. Malone has lost much fthe
little democratic strength he possessed, and
that Notwithstanding the lip service tho re-
publicans are still rendering him, as there
is no Presidential ticket to be elected this fall
they will let him see then, what they think
of the way in which he has subordnated
their one hundred thousand votes to his in
significant twenty thousand 1t lis also said
: as previously stated in this correspondence
that the MahOneits have not yet determined
} whether to run q candidate for Congress-
man ut large against Mr. Massey-whom il
is conceded the democrats will support-as
they dread the inroad he will make in their
ranks. but that if they are forced into q con-
test with him, less II failure to do SO be con-
sidercd IN abandonment of their cause their
candidate will not be Mr. John Wise. whose
letter on the subject of Southern re.
pubicans would tend to weaken him
III that quarter, but probably Governor
Cameron himself, who, it is said, claims to
pc VIC strongest anu most popular man IN his par
ty and is anxious to be an NJ. &. and thinks this
will be his last chance of ever again being candi
date for any office, rs his party is rapidly OH the
wane. Should he ny any possibility be elected, he
would not have to give up the Governorship fol
nearly two years, and would then turn it over to
III. j. +. Lewis, hoping thus to conciliatc some OF
his clamorous and disappointed republican allies
Edward +. Collins, Spout Springs. AppomattoS
co., and Chas. ii. Stevens, Arlington, Nelson co.
Va. were commissioned postmasters to-day.
1t is reported that during the recent visit Of
MessrS. Fowler Baily and Hurd to this city, who
arc friends Of both Gen. Malone and COL Fulker
son, the social relations that had been severed be-
tween the two last named gentlemen were restor
cd. whether there was u restoration Of their pc
litical relations remains to be seem
DIR. Gilmer, Postmaster at Richmond Mr. Elan
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia and
editor of the Richmond Wing, and other prominent
readiustcrs are in the city to day.
NEWS OF THE DAY
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