Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria aa.ette.

The recent splendid democracy Nie'oiJ ~
Virginia has tended in no small degree 70
add to the chances that state mas IN Inc
person of Col. Nat. Tyler for the DooFkeep'
ership of the U. S. House of Representatives
made vacant by the death of Mr.. Winter
smith The Colonel, it is said, will have
The united support of the Congressional del
ecations from his own State and from Ma
rVland, in which State he resided ior some
time after the war. In this connection 1t Is
mentioned that as the Ohio democrats turn
ed ont so badly at the recent election IN
their State, there is some talk here OF taking
the place of Sergeant at Arms away from
Mr.. Leedom, who halls from Ohio, and CIV
ing it to democrat from some democratic
State; but it is not thought that such talk
will amount to any thing.
The fact that Mr.. Wise fell slightly be-
hind the vote of the other Malone candl-
dates in Rockingham county is said here TO
have been due to the open opposition or
lukewarmness of the Lewis family.
A gentleman just here from Oregon says
the called session Of the Legislature of that
State to elect United States Senator will
meet on the 9th instant; that it will only
last twenty days, and that balloting Tor
Senator can not commence until eight days
after it meets, so that there will be only
twelve days in which to elect one. He says
the republicans, who have a majority IN
Joint session, have not yet settled upon any
candidate. and that there are go many
asnirants among them, and so many diverse
interests, that it is extremely doubtful II
thew will be able to do so. In case OF
deadlock in the caucus, he says ex-senator
Mitchell may be selected as dark horse.
IF no agreement can be arrived at in caucus
it is possible he says, that the election VIII
90 over and be held by the Legislature to
be chosen next June.
Numerous dispatches are arriving at the
White House to day from all parts OF the
country, congratulating the President upon
the endorsement of the policy OF his admin
istration by the democrats of the country as
manifested by the result of the recent cleo
tons.
In the U. S. Supreme Court. to-day Mr..
Campbell of Louisiana, an ex-justice OF the
court, who resigned at the commencement
of the war, and went South, delivered an
able argument in railroad case.
A we'll known and we'll posted Virginia
democrat in the city to-day, when asked who
would succeed General Malone in the U.
S. Senate? replied that Mr.. Barbour would.
He said that if in any case success should
| be considered the measure Of Merritt should
| be in that OF Mr.. Barbour, as in that the
| fest had been made three times, and every
| time with the same result. Under other
previous management, he said, the State
had been lost, but from the time Mr.. Bar
bour took control of the State committee
until thepresent, during which there had been
three holly contested campaigns, victory had
ALWAYS perched upon the banner he bore.
In each and all of those campaigns many OF
the newspapers prated about the superior
skill and management of General Malone,
and said nothing about Mr.. Barbour, but
the result of each demonstrated in prac-
teal manner where the skill and the man
agement really lay. He said the people OF
the State realized all this, and would de-
mand that Mr. Barbour be requited for his
invaluable services by the Senatorship. But,
continued he, they will not have to make
such demand, for the members of the Leg
islature know this as we'll as their constit-
uents, and, besides, a majority of them
would be for Mr.. Barbour without
any such demand. He said he had
heard from the most reliable sources
that while some Of the members of the Leg
islature in Richmond and perhaps 10 sew
eral of the other parts Of the State had per-
sonal preferences for other well qualified
gentlemen, large majority of them from
all the divisions of the State-Tidewater,
Southside, Piedmont, Valley and the South
west-not only appreciated the full value OF
Mr. Barbour's work, but were personally
favorable to him. In continuance, he said
he had heard that General Malone himself
had said Mr.. Barbour had always treated
him fairly and courteously, and, as the dem
ocrats had succeeded, he thought Mr.. Bar
bour deserved his seat.
A republican politician from Connecticut,
here to-day, says if the democratic gains in
his State next November equal those made
on Tuesday last, the democrats will have q
majority on joint ballot in the Legislature
there, and will send one Of their own party
to the U. S. Senate to take the seat now
filed by Mr.. Hawley. Senator Hawley,
though q native of the South, is one of her
bitterest enemies.
Messrs. Edgerton, Of Indiana, and Tren-
holm, of South Carolina, the two newly APP
pointed civil service commissioners, will, it
was said at the White House last night, be
supplemented by Mr.. Eaton, who will be
reappointed. The commission thus reor
ganiZed will not commence active operations
for about two weeks, at least that is what
one of them who was interviewed on the
subject said this morning.
The following changes in the 4th class
postofIices in Virginia were made to-day:
Fair Oaks, Accomack county, Samuel G.
burlington, appointed postmaster, vice
Louis S. Beloat, removed at Fair Port,
Northumberland county, N. Fl. limbs, vice
George N. Reed, removed.
The William j. Best, who is now in Jail
in Boston on charge of embezzlng trust
fund of $4,000, is we'll known here, and is
the same man who upon one occasion at an
auction sale of the W., & o. R. R. at Alex
andria, had that road Knocked down to him
on a straw bid.
The plant Of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, which company owned a line from
here to New York, was sold this morning
by auction for 81, 900 to Mr.. Elliott,to satisfy
a judgment held by him for $4,000.
Milbank, Rockingham, county, Va, has been
embraced on tho mail route from Harrisonburg to
Elkton.
NEW CATTLE DIsEAsE.-We areinformed
that Mr.. Chas. T. Hawking, living near Oat
land, IN tbic oountv hoe durino tho Doct