Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-08

district OF virginia, WHOSE pi esouS0 nSio "'A0
mentioned in this correspondence of yester-
day, have returned to their homes. They
came 10 see if some of the lighthouse, light
boat and life.saving employees in their dis
trict, men who have been offensive Malone
partisans, could not be removed and their
places be filled with good and true demo-
Gratis.
Mr.. John Amber Smith says that Lieut.
Gov Lewis's expected visit here has been
nostponed, but that the Governor-who is
his fa!hcr-in -law-sides with him in his
difficulty with Mr.. Wise, and will, as he,
Smith. has previously said, not support
Mr.. Wise at the coming election.
Some of the delegates to the recent color
ed convention in Lynchburg were in the
CITY to day. They are taking steps to put
into practical effect the resolutions adopted
nv that convention, and with that object
will put some, if not corps, OF colored
speakers on the stump in different paris OF
the State, who will preach freedom from Inc
servitude Of Malone. They have also pre-
pared and forwarded to the Cincinnati En-
ouirer a statement rebutting Senator Sher-
mans groundless assertions about Inc
suppression of the colored vote in Virginia,
and have referred the people of Ohio to
Fred. Douglass and John M. Langston as
vouchers for their reliability and response.
bility as representatives of the colored peo-
pie of Virginia.
The appointment of Rev. DR.. Curry rs U.
s. Minister to Spain is one Of the best
Southern appointments that have been
made. Though the Doctor is not a native
Virginian, his home has been in Richmond
for some years and the State is pleased that
he has been credited to her. The Doctor is q
highly cultured gentleman, we'll qualified
for the place, and is rich enough to enable
him to enjoy the position.
Some Of the gentlemen who called upon
the President yesterday to invite him to at
tend the opening of the Virginia State Fair
say he gave no intimation that he would
accept the invitation. 1t was said in this
correspondence two weeks ago that it was
very improbable the President would go to
Richmond.
A democrat from Virginia here to-day
hearing it stated that in democratic esti-
mate of the result of the legislative election
in his State the counties of Rockingham and
Shenandoah were put in the doubtful col.
umn, offered to bet one hundred dollars
that both would 60 democratic.
A gentleman from Richmond here to day,
who has Just returned from an inspecting
tour through Southwest Virginia. says that
the enthusiasm there among the democrats
is unusual and that Gen. Lee will sweep
all that section. He also says that this will
be done by main strength and awkward
ness, as there is no organization there worthy
the name among the democrats, and that dur
ing the whole of his trip he did not see a
single democratic campaign document,
though the whole country was flooded with
Mahone's. He says the people there are
satisfied with their own prospects, but are
anxious about other parts Of tho State,
which they fear may be as devoid of organi-
cation as theirs is, without the enthusiasm
that will surmount all obstacles with them.
The private secretary of Senator Payne,
of Ohio, who is now here says the demo-
Gratis of his State are confident of Hoadly' s
election, and are hopeful of carrying the
Legislature.
The fact that Attorney General Garland
holds some of the stock in telephone com
pany that would be benefited by the sue
cess of the suit that has been instituted by
the Department of Justice against the Bell
Company, is commented upon adversely,
not only by republicans, but by some of the
democratic congressman now here; but as
Mr.. Garland had the stock long before the
suit was brought, had nothing to do with
bringing it, and as he is only one of the
many Interested in it, why he should be
blamed is hard to tell.
Senator VOORHEES,, in the speech he will
deliver at Leesburg on the 18th inst, will
pay more attention to national than TO State
politics. and will prove that the assertions
OF the Mahoneites to the effect that demo.
cratic national legislation is the cause of the
present depression in business are utterly
groundless. Mr.. VOORHEES, is silver man
to the extent that he thinks every owner of
silver should have the privilege of having it
coined for him free Of cost. Mr.. Voorhees,
will be accompanied to Leesburg by several
democratic congressman now here, among
them Messrs. Ward and Lowry, from his
own Slate.
Among the strangers in the city o.day is
Capt. Lynch, a true soldier in the old 18th
Virginia, and now the respected editor OF
that influential old newspaper, the flashing.
tonian, Of Leesburg. The Captain says the
democratic prospects in his county were
never better, and that the majority there
will be larger than usual.
Tt is understood to-day that the President
will make no more appointments in Ohio
and New York until after the election in
those States, for the very good reason that
to do so would naturally tend to diminish
the ardor of those applicants who may be
cleft" Immediately after the election APP
pointmcrts in the States named will, it is
supposed, be quite numerous.
The nomination of Mr.. Plummer to BIO
navy agent at Philadelphia, to-day, was
quite a surprise to some of the Philadelph.
ians here.
Mrs. Sarah E. Harcum has been appointed
postmaster at Mia, Northumberland county,
Va, vice Samuel Harcum, declined.
The old idea that white labor was una
yailable in Southern cotton fields has gone