Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-07-20
FROM WASHINGTON


telligence to-day from the Petersburg dis
trict, in Virginia. is to the effect that there
will be five candidates for the Malone NOM
nation for Congress in that district, Harris,
Stephens and DeMortcr, negroes, and Hoop
er and Jorgensen, white, and that the last
one named notwithstanding his advances,
which have been carried to the extent of
cringing to the General, stands the least
chance ofsuccess. He has lost caste with both
the whites and the blacks, and will 60 into
the convention not only with the smallest
number of delegates in his favor, but with
determination among the delegates in favor
of all the other candidates to unite upon
anybody to defeat him. The Harris refer
red to is A. w. Harris, formerly Of AleXan-
dria, and he, it is said, at present stands the
best chance Of securing the nomination.
1t was stated in this correspondence yes
terday that there was Il possibility that the
President would veto the river and harbor
bill That possibility is strengthened to-
day by a report to the effect that personal
friend in talking to the President last night
remarked that he was glad an appropria-
ton had been made for the reclamation of
| the Potomac flats, and that the President
replied he was sorry the appropriation was
included in the river and harbor BILL
The subject Of the wrong count in the
House yesterday by which quorum was
announced was brought up in that body to-
day, but was allowed TO drop after a some
what spicy talk between Mcssrs Blackburn
and Reed.
A good many Mahoneites are in the CITY
to-day, among them several from Culpeper
county. They are here, it is said, in the in
terest of young Mr.. Bell, who wants Mr..
Cochran's place as postmaster at Culpeper
Court House. 1t is reported that General
Malone is favorable TO Mr. Bell for the
reason that he, the General, was committed
TO Mr.. Bells father for the judgeship of that
circuit and subsequently for Judge .Keith's
circuit, and that as Judge Bell was success.
full in neither, the General thinks the least
he can do now for him is to give his son the
place he wants. Cochran was a republican
but joned-the Mahoneites rs soon as theil
potentially became apparent, but as the
Bell influence is stronger than his, it i.
thought that he, too, will have to 60.
1t is said here to-day that, contrary to
Muhoneite reports from Richmond, the
nomination of Mr.. John Wise for Congress.
man-atlarge by General Malone is so dis
tasteful To the republicans of that district
that they have lost heart. and that theil
prospects of success are SO slim that no one
tain the Malone nomination for Congress
Messr5. John Amber Smith and judge
Gregory. Of Chesterfield, would accent j,
but neither, il is said, will take any trouble
to obtain ii.
The House having seated Smalls, the
negro convict, yesterday, is proceeding to.
day TO Gust Mr.. Shelley, from Alabama
whose contestant is dead. The republican.
are inspired in their work of orstimg legally
elected democrats from the South by thu
erroneous belief that such action will be the
means Of stimulating opposition to dem
ocracy in that section. Every man the,
eXpel will be reelected next fail by greatly
increased majority.
When the vote was taken in the Senate
yesterday on an amendment reducing the
tax on tobacco to - cents pound, Genera
Malone with the other radicals voted no
Hc assigned as his reason for doing so hi:
desire to have the tax reduced to cents
but he must have known, what every body
else did, that such a reduction is at present
impossible. II seems that he cannot vote
against his party. Mr.. Pugh was right whel
he said Il year ago that "other radicals
might fail but that Malone would always
be Charley nj the cat hole"
Mr.. ID. a. Windsor's nomination as Post
master ut Alexandria has been referred tc
the Senate committee on pOStofceS anC
postroatls, of which General Malone is q
member. 1t will, Of course, be reported ia
vorahly, and lis no charges have been pre-
terred against the private character Of the
nominee Mr.. Johnston will make no obiec
ton TO it, confirmation. and it will therefore
be confirmed as soon as the committee act:
upon it and il shall be reported TO the Senate
MIR. Barbour has changed his seat in the
House, and now occupies the one from
which Mr.. Iillman was ousted yesterday
and which is near the door Of the main aisle
In the Senate to-day llringa debate upon
the order of business, Mr.. Bayard made 8
centre shot ut the republicans by saying tina,
after they had forced through tariff com
mission, by bringing in bill to alter the
tariff just upon the eve Of adjournment they
had done more harm to the business inter
ests OF the country by the feeling of uncer
tainty and instability they had produced
than could be offset by all their proposed re-
auctions in the tariff, even supposing those
| PioPo9itioi' were Hlaue III SoOu latin.
Notwithstanding the newspaper reports
to the contrary, it's affirmed here by parties
who ought to know that Mr. Best purchased
the Washington and Ohio road for himself
and his associates, and not for the B., c. &
| W. r. r. Go. 1t is also said that the
charter of the E., c. & w. road does not
allow it the privilege of purchasing other
roads, but the stockholders in one company
are also stockholders in the other, and that
Mr. Best personally controls 4l-5Oths of the
stock of the W. 4. W.-the new company
"A gentleman here to day from Harrisonburs
Va. business man. and not personally interested
in politics, says that if Mr.. Massey has as many
t!iends among the readjuSters of the other por-
lions of the State as he has there he will be cleo.
It'd by all immense majority. From Loudoun
county it is reported that there is great defec-
ton among the Mahoncites there, and that Col
l.orman Chancellor, lately one of the Generals
champions in that county, has come out squarely
for Massey.
CRISIS IN FRANcE.M. de Freycinct's Minis.
istry is threatened with an unexpected collapse