Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Aexanorls 9azettel
WARRINGTON. D. c.. July 81. 1884.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81, 1884.
A democratic member of the Virginia
Legislature, who stopped here to-day on his
way home, during short talk with the GA
ZETTE's correspondent about the business
likely to be transacted at the coming extra
session of that body, said he thought only
three things would be done-correct any
defects that may exist in the act redistrict-
ing the State, provide for the additional
elector to which the State is entitled and
re-enact the election law with the word
"freeholder" stricken out, so as to remove
from it the objection found by General Ma
homes Court of Appeals. When asked if
legislation upon the latter subject was not
prohibited under the agreement made with
General Wickham, and by which that gen.
tleman agreed to sign the request for the
call Of the extra session Of the Legislature?
he replied, "unquestionsbly not, and the
election law will be repealed just as surely
as the additional elector will be provided
| for, that is, if the democrats deem such
action expedient, as and others know do"
Mr.. Post, secretary of the congressional
democratic committee, who has returned
from Albany, says that all the people he
met there are confident that Cleveland will
carry the State by a large majority, to which
Tammany will contribute no little. He
says that John Kelly and Mr.. Hendricks
are old and close personal friends, are now
at Saratoga together, and that at the proper
time Tammany will wheel into line, and do
her duty nobly In the work necessary to
obtain great victory. Mr.. Post says
every one who meets the Governor is
struck by his plain, unosteutatious, social
and popular manners, and that so far as
personal magnetism is concerned he is far
ahead of Mr. Blaine. With reference to the
baseless scandal against the Governors prl-
vate character. he says it will all be disprOv.
ed satisfactorily in time and that though
he hopes and trusts not, he is fearful
that crushing retaliation, with names
and dates to substantiate it, will be inflicted
upon the man whose partisan friends
have been so indiscreet as to provoke his
enemies TO adopt such terrible measure.
| Among the first documents that will be sent
out by the democratic congressional COM
mittee will be Mr. Blaine's know nothing
record from the time he commenced pub
fishing know nothing organ down to his
opposing 81 candidate for the Maine Legis.
latnre for the reason that he was an Irish
Catholic, and including his defense of the
mob who tarred an feat hered an Irish Catho-
lie priest.
Mr. Cubertson, the republican member
of the House from Kentucky, who made
such bad job in his attempt TO shoot him.
self yesterday, is doing well, and to-day his
friends say he will recover.
Intelligence here from North Carolina to-
day is that while that State has two repub-
lican congressman now, it will only have
one after the next eection-O'Hara, the
negro, in whose district there is negro
majority ofaboutseventeen thousand. York,
who is one of the two referred to, is the
republican candidate for Governor. He, it
is said, will be defeated by twenty thousand
majority, and the democratic candidate for
Congress in his district be easily elected.
Mr.. Randall has returned from Albany,
where he had long private interview with
Governor Cleveland, with whom he is much
pleased, and of whose triumphant election
he speaks in the most sanguine terms.
A gentleman who arrived here from
Richmond to-day says that at the congress
sional convention there yesterday Mr.. Hig
gins, an Irishman, and president of two
Catholic societies in that city, offered the
resolution, which was unanimously adopt
ed, pledging the votes of the democrats of
| that district to Governor Cleveland.
The Secretary of the Treasury has decided
that the printing of certain monthly state
ments relating to the imports and exports
of the United States to immigration, &C.,
would have to be discontinued under the
provisions of the sundry civil appropriation
bill prohibiting ''the printing of any matter
whatever except that which is authorized
by law and necssary TO administer the pub
| lie busip ess."
From Mississippi it is learned that Judge Nor.
| gan. democrat, who is opposing General Chalmer
of Fort Pillow memory, who turned republican
| because the democrats in Congress would not give
him the seat to which Lynch. the negro, had been
elected, aud who is now the republican candidate
| for Congress in his district. will be elected not
wthstanding the fact that the administration
| Is throwing its whole weight in favor of his OPP
ponent. General Manning, General Chalmers
old opponent not nominated it is said because
| he wears broad-coth and drives in q two horse
buggy, wearing white kid gloves.