Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Iarooaal Gorreunondenca of the hle1andrR Gazette.

General Marcus Wright, OF the e1.Con-
federate army, who is now engaged IN pre-
pairing matter from the Confederate archives
for the History of the Rebellion" has re-
Gently come into possession OF daguerreo-
type likeness of General Stonewall Jackson,
taken when he was first lieutenant IN the
q. S. army, after his return from the Mexl-
can war.
Mr.. It. Humphrey Brooke, of Caroline
county, Va, we'll known republican OF ms
State, says that the colored people OF his
county will not vote as unanimously Tor
General Malone this fall as they have mere
tofore; that he knows several IN ana near
Bowling Green who intend to- vote the
democratic ticket this fall, and that he
thinks General Lee will be elected, but not
by twenty thousand majority.
A number of delegates to the colored anti
Malone convention to meet in Lynchburg
on Wednesday next are in the city to-day.
Tbev saw the convention will be success
as regards both numbers and the character
and influence of the delegates, and that 1t
will show General Malone that some, at
least of the colored voters of Virginia know
thew are as free to vote as to do any other
legal act, and that they mean to exercise that
freedom. They say the colored people have
voted like sheep long enough, and that
hereafter they intend to vote like men, and
free men ct that.
Mr.. J. w. Hummel, who lives near
Dranesvile, in the upper part of Fairfax
county, has received an appointment in the
Patent Office.
Ex-senator Fowler, Of Tennessee, who
now lives here, has recently had his jaw ex.
cised for cancerous affection, and is recoV.
ering.
The transportation of the silver coin that
reached here last week from the ships in
which it came to the Treasury vaults in
which it will be stored was commenced to-
day. Large and strong wagons have been
employed for that purpose. But no guards
are on the wagons, as each of the boxes in
which the coin is packed would be good
load for four men, and consequently could
not be easily stolen. The idea of such
guards was silly, and was wisely abandoned.
A good many New York democrats are
in the city to-day, some of whom had
long interview with the President this
morning before he received bis other visi-
tors. Among them is Col. Fellows. 1t is
reported among the newspaper people that
they came to consult about Mr.. Flowers
refusal to accept the democratic nomination
for Lieutenant Governor of their State,
which refusal, it is said, was induced by
Mr.. Flowers belief that he was nominated
for the purpose of having him open his
money bags.
A masters mate in the navy was dis
charged by the captain of his vessel in 1864
to go back to New York and work for the
reelection of President Lincoln. As such
discharge WAS utterly invalid, and as the
man to whom it was granted would in the
regular course of promotion be lieuten.
ant commander by this time, haprepared
claim for pay from the date of his discharge
to the present, and, dressing himself in an
old faded naval uniform, called upon Secre.
tary Whitney last week, presented it, AID
reported for orders.
A Southern Senator, now in the city, who
antagonized Senators Voorhees, and Brown
in their opposition to the civil service law,
and helped Mr.. Perdleton to pass that law,
in talk ing to q friend this morning said the
Senators who voted for that law were earn
est'y in favor of civil service reform, but
that the civil service commission had done
all that was possible to be done to make
them regret their success.
gentleman in the city to day who was
ct Warrenton last Saturday and attended
the meeting Mr.. Wise addressed says the
larger part of the crowd was composed of
negroes, and that of the white men who
were present not more than twenty were
Mahoneites of Fauquier county, the few
other white Mahoneites present having
been summoned from the surrounding coun-
ties He also says the speech did Mr.. Wise
more harm than good, and that he pro.
voked the Interruptions to which he was
subjected
Democrats from Falls Church, Virginia,
here to-day, say that x.Congressman E. ].
Ellis, of Louisiana, will deliver democratic
speech in that village tonight.
E. w. Farinholt was to-day appointed
postmaster at Freeport, Gloucester county,
Va, vice Thomas w. Rowe, deceased.