Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria easst,o.


the condition of his forces in the Southamp-
ton district, his native county, is shown by
the fact that he is using the Philadelphia
Press, through its correspondent quartered
ut his own house in Petersburg, to silence
and call off Mr.. Bogart, one of his most ef-
fective opponents in that district, who is
the agent Of a Philadelphia company ope-
rating there. The General thinks Mr.. Bo
CART will be induced by the fear of The CON-
uany employing him, which has been APP
priced oil his opposition to him through the
paper referred to, to dcsist from that oppc-
sition, but people here from Jerusalem say
he is woefully mistaken.
Secretary Bayard says no protest has
been received at the State Department
against the appointment of DR.. Curry to the
Spanish Mission, and would not be needed
If were otherwise, that there is no religious
test in this country, and most assuredly
none at the department OF which he has
charge. Indeed, if q religious test were APP
| Dlicable in the case OF the Spanish his.
sion it should have been effective toward
MIR. Foster, the recalled minister, who filled
the place SO acceptably, though he Is n
straight-laced Presbyterian.
TLe rumor is revived here that Messrs.
sherman. Foraker and other Ohio republi
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there before the election. Some curiosity is
EXPRESSED rs 10 whether they will make
the saf,c bloody shirt speeches i'll the Old
Dominion they made in their own State,
and bets are offered that so far from doing
so, they will be as mild hammered as posi-
BILE. and sing as softly as cooling doves.
Congressman Barbour left hero this morn
ing for his two farms in Culpepor county,
Virginia. and to advise with the county
committee of that county concerning some
disatlection there. 1t is understood that the
report brought here week ago from that
county to the effect that Mr.. Lucian Wins
ton intended to run SIS an independent dem
ocrat in opposition to Mr.. Twyman, the
regular democratic candidate for the State
Senate in that district, YVES incorrect; that
the disafiection referred to above is con-
sideraby less than people outside OF the
county have been led to believe, and that it
will have been entirely disspolled by the
day Of election.
No matter what Governor Cameron may
or NAV not say about General Malone, it is
currently reported here and believed that a
letter has been received by friend OF his in
this city advising him to cease his opposl.
ton to the Malone ticket, and stating that
he, Cameron, intends to support it, and that
letter, it is said, was received here within
the last forty-eght hours. The Governor
may or may not intend to denouncc General
Malone, but how ridiculous will his de-
nunciations appear in tho face Of the fact
that he does as the General commands him
to do which is 10 support his ticket!
A gentleman Just from the lower end Of
the Northern Neck, in the city to-day, says
that from what he heard there he is Undue
ed to believe that Mayo, the Malone candl.
date for the Legislature in that district, will
be elected, which will be 10 loss, but that
Curlett, the Generals candidate for the
House of Delegates, will be defeated, which
will be gain, and that Oh the whole the
prospects of the democracy there are more
favorable than usual. He says, however,
that the General has his negro vote well in
hand and that it will probably be as solid
for him as it ever was, for the reason that
though many ofthe better class of negroes
would like to vote the democratic ticket,
they will be deferred from doing SO by the
fear of being made hot" by the ignorant,
preiudiced, vicious and thriftless majority
of their race.
In the L. S. Supreme Court to-day the
motion Of Mr.. W. l.. Royal to advance GER
tain Virginia coupon cases upon the docket
of that court WAS granted, and the third
Monday in November fixed rs the day upon
which those cases shall be argued Tho
motion for mardamus to compel Judge
Wexford, of the Virginia Circuit Court for
Henrico county, to obey the mandates OF
the u. S. Supreme Court was denied upon
the ground that tho same question involved
in that motion is included in one of the
cases advanced and will DO decided when
that shall be.
A gentleman here to-day from the Acco-
tink neiehborhood in Fairfax county, Va, a
neighborhooll settled chiefly by thrifty, in
dustrious, intelligent and highly respected
Northern people, Of republican pyocIivities
and Quaker persuasion, says he thinks tho
democratic candidate for the Legislature in
Fairfax, Mr.. Chichester, will be elected. He
says most all the people referred to will
either vote for or not vote against him, and
that even some of their ladies are election
eering for him.
There is rumor here to the effect that
Senator Sherman and Ex-Governor Foster Of
Ohio have smoked the pipe of peace and
made new DEAL by which the latter is to
have the Senator's place upon condition
/ that he will devote his influence and money
to the furtherance Of the formers now re-
vived ambition for the republican nomina-
ton for the Presidency Those who have
the slightest knowledge OF Mr.. Sherman
place no reliance upon 1t, Tor the reason
that he is not the kind Of man to give bird
in hand for any number in the bush, and es
pecially such uncertain ones rs Mr.. Foster,
who sold him out before.
People here to day from various quarters
of Virginia say there is nothing in the re-
port that the rivalry Of Messrs Barbour and
Daniel for the U. S. Senatorshp from that
State is injuring the democratic cause there.
They say that if any such rivalry exists the
gentlemen referred to and their friends
manage very successfully 10 keep all
knowledge of it to themselves, as the voters
seem neither to know nor to talk any thing
about it, and to be infinitely more interested
in electing democratic Legislature which
SHALL defeat Malone than in efforts to elect
his successor, and say that if there is any fuss
about selecting that successor from the two
gentlemen named the woods are full Of men
who will make just as good Senator as
either one of them In this connection il