Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents OF the ALEXANDRA Gazette
WARRINGTON. d, G., july % 1894

WASHINGTON. ID. C., July 22. 1884.
1t is understood here to-day that Judge
Stuart, Speaker Of the Virginia House of
Delegates, will 60 to Richmond tomorrow
and present the request of two-thirds Of the
members of both houses of the Legislature
of that State for an extra session Of that
body to meet on the 18th pro1imo, the I'M
derstanding being that no legislation will
be attempted except the perfection of the
election laws.
Postmaster General Gresham will leave
here tonight for Indiana, where bank has
failed in which he was interested to no little
extent. Mr.. Gresham is stalking good deal
about taking an active part in the Pr,Si.
Dental campaign, and if he shall carry ont
such an intention, which, however, is by no
means certain, he may possibly SO to Mis-.
sissippi and make some speeches there.
The Peruvian Minister, Mr.. Gilmore, has
left here for his own country. His depar.
ture was sudden and unexpected, and while
not looked upon in the light of recall, has
given rise to some speculation.
A well-known Virginia democratic r.aJ.
juster, in the city to. day, acknowledged TO
the GAzETTE's correspondent that Malone
had no chance of carrying Virginia at the
next election. He said that none of the
men of his party with whom he had talked
were going to vote for Blaine. He also said
that Malone had lived like a king here
during the last season, aud by his excessive
exclusiveness had alienated many of the
most influential men in his party.
Mr.. Converse, member of the House from
Ohio, and chairman of the committee on
resolutions of the national democratic con.
vention, is in the city to-day. He is Just
from Ohio, which State, he says, is just as
certain to 60 democratic as that it has
place on the map of the country.
Mr.. Dezendorf, in a talk with the GA.
ZETrE's correspondent this morning, said
that he believes there is some chance o.,
carrying Virginia provided all the elements
Of opposition to the democrats can be
united; that he thinks every other opponent
of democracy in Virginia except Malone
and Brady are in favor of such unity and
will make any reasonable personal sacrifice
to effect it, but that the two men referred TO
will have their own way or none at all, and
that their insistance upon the present Ma.
hone electoral ticket will surely give the
State to the democrats and lose the republi-
cans from twenty-five to thirty thousand
votes, as at least that many repub.
cans will refuse to support that ticket
He says that Senator Riddleberger and ex.
Senator Lewis proposed that new eecto-
raj ticket, which would have been satisfac
tory to every republican in the State, should
be named by the Congressional districts,
but that that proposition, like all the others,
was rejected by Malone, who will have no
other ticket than the one he has put IL. the
field. He also says that the Congressional
mi onpnintol h,, Gaparo1 ar IL,
at his State convention have given general
dissatisfaction throughout the State, and
will probably result in two anti.democratic
conventions in some Of the districts his
own, the Norfolk district, for instance
A New York republican, in the city to-
day, one Of the inner tub, says that the ma
tional republican committee, whose head
quarters are in New York, have no hopes
of carrying Virginia anyhow, aud will
certainly send no money to that State until
they are assured that the two wings of the,
party there have come together and that
there is much better prospect for success
there than is apparent at present. He also
says that Malone and his methods Pro
hardly more popular there than at J. ,ome
and that though he will be allowed r. RIM
the machine in Virginia, as he ls the ne.
groes in his control, he will hs~ ;, 70 sunplv
his own grease.
A democrat wha was A. tho late Chicago
convention Gays that ' ,eneral Rutler told
people there that IL p', shonld RIM for Presi.
dent be would rece I'VE a LARGE negro vote in
.ne ;Ioath 10 "Jnsequence of the friendly
Par1 n0 ', pau " me by the negroes during the
war war. ms .ows that the General knows as
lttie aee ut the negro rs other Northern
Psopie do. Gratitude is a quality of
s an'e' the negro is not possessed. Hor.
az ace Greeley labored for the negroes all
" - life, and yet not one of them would vote
for him. And it would be the same way
with General Butler. If he were the re-
publican candidate they would vote for
him to man, but on an opposition ticket
he would receive no more support from
them than would Mr.. Jefferson Davis. And
General Butler, as smart" man, should
have known this.
Intelligence at democratic headquarters
here to-day from Maine is to the effect that
the detection in the republican ranks has
extended even to that State, and is SO ex-
tensive there that the democrats are grid
ing up their loins for the conflict, and are
sanguine of success
Gentlemen here to-day interested in the bus-
ness of the c. & o. canal, say that Mr.. Mertens
to the contrary the late summer and fall trade of
that canal will be good as that of some previous
years.
GENERAL PORTER After a laDse ofthirtV-