Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Aesanorla GahettcI
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 2S, 1854.

Sherman ''DaQVllle massacre EeSoluLlob
Several democratic Senators have expressed
a willingness to refute the false charges con-
tanned in the resolution, and the reported
false evidence Malone is to bring to sustain
those charges but some Of the democratic
Senators doubt whether it is advisable to
dignity the matter with much consideration.
Among the strangers in the city to-day
are J. G. Watts, u S. marshal of the western
district of Virginia, who is here to settle his
accounts with the Government, and G. G.
Watts, attorney general of West Virginia,
who came to expedite tax case of his State
against the c. &; y. r. r., in the q. S. Su
preme Court.
Mr.. McComas, republican member of the
House from Maryland, was on the Senate
side of the Capitol on Saturday last asking
that colored man to whom place there
had been given at his instance might have
light work, as he was attending college and
couldn't spare much time at the Capitol
Rev. DR.. Curry, Superintendent Of the
Peabody Fund, an exmember of the House,
was on the floor of That body to-day The
Doctor is here to urge Congress 10 expedite
action Oh the bill granting governmental
aid to educational purposes.
4 Meeting of the republican caucus COM
mittee of the Senate was held last Saturday
night, at which the wholesale and arbitrary
removals made by Sergeant. alarms Cana
dy were considered criticized and disap-
proved The removal Of the bookeeper of
The folding room, of the assistant librarian,
of the messenger Of Senator Platt's COM
mittee, and Of other employees was especi
ally criticized, complained or and ceIsured
Some of the republican Senators say that
good and true republicans have been re-
moved to give place to men who until q
year or two ago were rank democrats, and
who changed their politics not from principle
but solely in order to obtain offices.
A sub.com mittee of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee to-day reported favorably
to the whole committee the Henley bill,
which while it permits the Chinese now in
this country to remain here, to practically
prohibits any more from coming.
1t is reported that most CT the affidavits
which General Malone is to append to the
bloody shirt speech he is make, were pre-
pared in this city, and not in Virginia.
The Senate Committee on Finance this
morning ordered a favorable report on the
House bill making an appropriation to pay
the tobacco tax rebate. The Committee
on Public Buildings and Roads ordered a
favorable report on the bill providing that
puC GIeCtlOl vi l'ooliS SHdll pC lSl
to the lowest responsible bidder.
There Is considerable talk among the
democratic members or the House and Of
democrats not in Congress, about making
Mr.. John S. Barbour chairman of the demo-
ocratic Congressional Committee
Both Houses of Congress adjourned to-
day after a sholt session in consequence of
the death of E. W. NJ. Mackey, republican
member of the House from South Carolina
His death was sudden and unexpected, as
he was in the House OH Friday last. In the
House the announcement of his death was
made by O'Hara, the colored member from
North Carolina, who was appointed nlem-
Der of the funeral escort.
Major Snowden Andrews, of Baltimore,
has recently, by q decision of the Court of
West Virginia, come into possession of two
thousand acres of as fine and finely located
land as there is in that State. 1t is his pur-
pose to make it summer resort for his ex-
ten>ve family connection.
Mr. George Wise has prepared preamble
and resolution reciting some of the various
illegal acts Of the federal officers in Virginia
and in Washington in the matter Of the late
election in Virginia, and calling for an in
vestigation thereof. He will introduce them
into the House at the earliest opportunity.
They are more than an Offset to Sherman's
resolution because they contain facts.
General Porter was here last week, but
has returned to his home. Mr. John Wise,
of Virginia, on Saturday last made a speech
in the House which, if the newspaper re-
ports of it be correct, was wordy but indefi-
mite. He is supposed, however, to have in-
tended to say that the Southern members
should not vote upon the Porter bill. But as
the bill is before the Congress of the country,
and as that Congress is composed of South
ern as well as of Northern members, and as
the bill is national biland is intended to do
all that is now possible to correct national
wrong, the refusal of the Southern
to vote upon it would imply that
they do not consider themselves national
and place them in all anon
alous and decidedly equivocal position
Ex-Speaker Keller is getting further and
furtherinto the mire. ExCongressman and
committee on accounts this morning, and
his evidence only added to the ex Speakers
trouble.
Mr.. II. 0. Claughton, formerly of Alex
andria, now prominent member of the bar
of this city, says that General Mcclellan is
the strongest man the democrats can nomi-
nate for the next Presidency; that during
the excitement of the war he carried three |
Northern States, and only failed of carrying
New York and Pennsylvania for lack of a
few votes, and that as a wrong was done
him, the desire of a fair and Justice loving
people to right it would create an enthusi-
asm that would secure enough Northern
States, with those of the South, to elect him.
There was report in circulation at the
Capitol to-day to the effect that Mr.. Cork
ill, late U. S. Attorney for the District of
had died suddenly this morning.
J. W. Rae, of Virginia, has been appoint
ID messenger of General Mahone's commit
zee.
The leave of absence granted Captain F. ".
1lbrey, Assistant Surgeon q. S. A., now soiourn.
ng in Alexandria is extended six months longer
large crowd was in the Senate gallery to-day
Expecting to hear a debate on the Sherman bloody
hirt resolution. but the early adjournment of
hat body delayed that debate until tomorrow,
r rather delayed General Mahone's speech until
hat time. !