Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria dsse'te.l
WASHINGTON. d. c., Oct. 20. 1854.


WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. 20. 1854.
In the U. S. Supreme Court to day all the
motions to advance the Virginia bond ana
counon cases were denied except that in the
Reconsideration case, which was grant
ed under the 32d rule.
Congressman Foran, Of Ohio, is here to-
day. He SAYS the democrats Of his State
are not at ali disheartened by the result of
the late election, which they attribute to
money and U. S. deputy marshals, Dut tnat
on the contrary they are picking their Hints
for the 4lh proXimo, and that II they don't
win then they will at least give the Nalne
q, there use for all their men and money.
Congressman Dowd, Of North Carolina,
says tina, bis Safe is rs safe for Cleveland
as Kentucky, that the majority Will depend
uDon the :! Iii iency Of the democratic party
in hrin.ny uut the voters on eectl0n DAY,
and That The republicans there know this
rs well as any body else and their talk to
tie contrary i, merely to get republican
campai=n money, which those who may get
mold Of it Will keep in their own pockets
From lrs, Isl Eirs mia congressional dis
trict j, is learned here to day that Mayo, the
anti. Malone candidate, is doing little
or MOTH" g,aGd spendingn no money, While the
democrat, are making an active campaign,
having appointments for fifty meetings in
one COUNTY alone, Accomac, between TINS
and election day aud that they are conf
dent of eetiing C:oN'on by large MAORI
inv. Way any body in that district should
want IL eli, ct Mayo DO one familiar With
the i.roceed,ug- OF Congress can tell. AS
amp's of his uuli ness for the position OF
Co.. g. sum il may be stated that OF the
f ry.,n:e. aya uau no Votes taken Ia the
RI u.e ,iurin- he 'ime he Was allowed L"
Do.I MS i,le.a! seat thare last session, he
us. .; iiuui -rvr"iern.
f'ro:r, the eish district In the sault
State l. i le Iru.l Tat 1aternal Revenue
e. .,.c,ur Graz and Postmaster Windsor
cI!r., ur,n ". j P Asnew, after the
sta. & va, rc :istrlcled, aud offered him the
u,al,iOu OF p e>i !entiAi eleciOr 10 place OF
l. u:fan, vines. county had been taken OUT
of thu ds trlr.; thu Mr.. Agnew agreed to
a.:cep:, bat upIh the express condition tnat
be wa to rem ,u st:aightout republican
aud not become NH ,ncl:e that u 70 O
COT d ton ". not agI Q a lie To Malone, WIN
wants slaves for his agents, aud that Mr..
Lewis Mckenzie was then selected, Col
lector Of Customs Gray being the medium
through whom Mr.. AgDew was informed
that he wouldn't do.
Numerous copies Of the circular the adj
min,st;a;inn has issued as campaign matter
for Genera! Malone, shaving the amount
each county in Virginia would have been
entitled 10 under the Blair educational bill,
have been forwarded to the democratic
committee by the parties to whom they
were directed. Every we'll informed man
knows that the democrats in Congress not
only voted for this bill but spoke i'll favor Ct
it, and that Malone did not speak for it
and did not vote for it when it was put up
on its passage.
Everybody knows that Col Robert Inger
coli who did so much toward the election
of Garfield, is now, like MIR. Edmunds, out
of politics this year, but few know the
reason; which is that MIR. Blaine grossly
insulted lady to whom be had been in
troduced by Col. Ingersoll.
Congressman Phil. Thompson, OF Ken
lucky, says the result of the Ohio election
shows him that the result of the Presidential
election depends entirely upon the nerve OF
the democrats of the North, and that if
they intend to allow imported negro roughs,
armed with pistols by the Government and
acting as U ). deputy marshals, to bulldoze
and shoot down democratic voters, as was
done in Cincinnati last Tuesday, they may
as we'll give UP the contest.
A letter received here to. day from COL
Henderson, chairman of the democratic
com mittee of In1iana, says the democrats
of his State are greatly elated at the result
of the Ohio election, and will stretch every
nerve from now until the 4th proximo TO
defeat Dudley aud his methods.
Congressman Gibson, from West Virginia,
says that SO far were the republicans from
gaining any thing in the counties of his
State which had the most soldiers in the
Confederate army, as stated by one of the
Blaine papers of this city, the reverse is
there next month will greatly exceed that
of Tuesday last.
Major Jack Palmer, index clerk of the
House, has just returned from visit to his
home, in South Boston, Virginia. He says
that in his district Daniel, and in the ad-
joining district Cabe!l, the democratic can
didates, will be elected without any trouble,
and that the Blaiueites in those districts
concede the fact that their candidates have
no show.
The latest estimate of the result of the
approaching Presidential election gives
Cleveland 230 and Blaine III electoral
vo,es, aud this estimate allows Blaine the
votes Of such doubtful States as Michigan,
Wisconsin and Ohio.
A gentleman from Bedford county, Vir-
GINA, here TO day. says that by the recent
fire at Liberty the registration books of the
c. ulty were destroyed, and that a new
r.sl ira ion has been ordered and is now in
progress.
. etters here from Wisconsin to day, say
the inEe endent republicans there are as
we'll organized rs in New York and Massa-
chus.tts, and that they will give Cleveland
a large vote.