Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-06-22
FROM WASHINGTON

was more than offset by the number ofdemo-
Gratis Senator Johnston induced to vote for
the bill, and SO it went through without
much difficulty. Whether it will go through
the House as easily is a different thing, but
it is hardly possible.
Mr. DezendCrf has returned from his re-
cent visit to his district and was in his seat
in the House to-day. He addressed the re-
publicans of Southampton county while he
was gone. There was as large a meeting as
usually attends June Court in that county,
and q large majority of those present were
in his favor, many of the leading men as
surfing him that they fully endorsed his course
and would support his reelection. Some of
Mahone's strikers, including his postmaster
at Norfolk, were present and attempted to
interrupt Mr. Dezendorf, but finding the
sentiment ofthe crowd emphatically against
them, soon dcsisted and acknowledged that
things were not as favorable in Southamp-
ton as they had been led to believe.
There is bad news here to-day from Ten
ncssec. 1t comes ina private dispatch to the
Tennessee members, and is to.the effect that
General Bates was nominated for Governor
on the 9TH ballot in the democratic conven-
ton to-day, whereupon Il number of the
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Bailey, General Jackson and others, left the
convention and retired to another room for
the purpose Of making another nomination.
tating terms to the hondholders, while the
seceders want to accept the lowest terms the
| bondhoders may propose.
| The House Committee on Patents agreed
this morning TO report 4 bill for re-organiz-
| ing the Patent office and for increasing the
salaries of many OF the chief officers of that
office.
Rev. Mr.. Hicks, Guiteau's spiritual adj
wiser, says to-day that he almost despairs Of
| the prisoners condition, rs he cannot make
! him realize that he has committed Il crime
or been anything else than az instrument in
the hands of God for the removal Of Il great
danger not only to the republican party, but
to the country He says that Guiteau's
mind is apparently insusceptible to the idea
that he is criminal or has done anything
! that deserves punishment, and that the diff
Guilty of producing any such impression
seems insurmountablc. \ delegation of
New York scientists, among them Professor
Beard and Doctors Hammond and Hamilton,
will call upon the President this afternoon
and urge him to prevent the hanging of an
insane man.
r..
| Massey ut charlottesville yesterday. He
says MIR. Massey had just returned from his
visit to Rockingham and expressed himself
as more than gratiiied with what he had
seen and heard there, and is convinced that
the entire Malone strength Of the Valley
now lies in the negroes and a few men who
have heretofore been democrats but who
now either hold Office or expect to, under
General Malone. Mr.. Massey knows moth
ing about the reported illness of Mr.. Hale,
except what he had seen in the newspapers;
he was on his way, however, to Grayson
county, where lie had an appointment with
Mr.. Hale, and he felt assured, notwithstand-
ing tho report referred to- that Mr.. Hale
would meet him. He also had assurances
from reliable sources in Grayson county that
Of the seventeen hundred voters in that
county he would receive fifteen hundred
4 conference Of the leading democrats Of
the House WAS held last night to consider
what course the party as Il whole should
pursue with reference to the internal rev.
cnue bill now before the House, but there
was such an apparent difficulty in reconcl-
ing the diverse opinions expressed that
nothing definite was determined upon.
Mr. White the Kentucky scalawag, Sc
lcctcd the internal revenue bill now before
character Of the white people of his State in
a speech made Oh that bill this morning, but
he is Of SO little account that even the re-
pubiicans paid no attention to his ratings
1t is reported to-day that the split in the
New York republicans has been healed, that
Governor Cornell will be their candidate for
Governor, and I. = Senator Lapham for
Lieutenant Governor and that Mr.. Lap
ham. who in case Of election will resign his
seat in the Senate, where he is painfully
aware Of his insigniicancc, will be succeed
cd by the appointment Of Mr.. Conkling,
who will subsequently be elected.
Mr.. Van Voorhis, republican member of
the House from New York, has been de-
tected in another scandalous affair. 1t has
been discovered that the passage of the
wrong bill to regulate immigration was due
to him. He was directed by the committee
on commerce to report Il bill for the pur-
pose indicated by the title, with certain i'm
portant amendments, but instead of doing
so he took the original bill, without the
amendments, to Mr.. Reagan and asked him
to report it. Mr.. Reagan being familiar
with the bill and noticing the omission of
: the amendments, added them from memory.
but discovered that he had forgotten some
Of them ITS soon as he read the printed bill
and Immediately notified the House of
the mistake. Mr. Van Voorhis says he
knew the bill was not the one agreed upon
in committee, and that Mr. Reagan was
aware of that fact when he reported it. This
Mr.. Reagan cmphatically denies, and the
talk to-day is that the Commerce Committee
will pass u vote Of censure upon Mr.. Van
Noorhis for wilful deception.
\ farmer from Prince William co., Va. here to-.
day, says that while the track of last Monday 5
hail storm through that county was not continu.
Gus, the injury to the wheat and rye OH some
farms upon which the hail did fall was serious
Among those whose crops reported as almost
destroyed by the storm, is Mr.. Hugh Hammill.
In the Star-routc trial to-day while the
examination of IL witness was in progress,
defence called upon Mr.. Bliss to produce a
certain paper which they asserted was ne
cessary for their defence. Bad feeling was
Immediately engendered, rs has invariably
been the case when these papers have been
referred to-
Mr.. Merrick declared that in view of
the inuendocs and dscourteous treat
ment INDUCED in by the defence towards
one OF his associates Mr. R1isc\ tho proso