Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-01-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispocisl Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
n ~ Ion ID 1854

iSpoual Correspondence OF the Alexanuria SaxoLool
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. %. 1856
Anew York democratic newspaper has sent
a special correspondent here to Interview
the leading democrats in Congress on the
subject of the next Cabinet. After con-
GLIDING his work here he will 90 TO Ohio
and Indiana and interview Messrs. Thur
man and Mcdonald. As the editor Of the
paper referred to is on intimate terms with
the President-elect, it is supposed by some
that the correspondents work may supply
the latter with some required information.
In this connection it may be mentioned that
when Mr.. Barbour was asked this morning
about what Mr.. Cox had said concerning
him, a. stated in this correspondence yes.
terday, he said he had not talked to Mr..
Cox upon the subject. He also said that
though he bad been talked 10 on the subject
several times ny his friends he had inter-
tionally refrained from saying whether he
would accept a Cabinet position or not, as
il was very delicate subject, aud it would
be time enough for him To answer such
question when the place was offered him.
That his idea on this subject is correct
everybody who reads this will agree.
Strange as it may seem, in view of the fact
that there is no doubt if Virginia be offered
q place in the Cabinet Mr.. Barbour will un-
questionably be the recipient, there are
other people from his State who think the
lightning may strike them, aud whose few
supporters, in an effort to have it do so, are
yainly trying TO get up boomlets for them.
With the testimony brought back by the
committee who went to Cincinnati to in
vestigate the Ohio election there, and which
will be presented along with the report, is
one of the pistols with which q. S. Marshal
Wright armed his deputies. 1t is self
cooking revolver, stamped British Bull
dog" a formidable.lookiug weapon, and
we'll calculated when aimed at the head of
the average voter to induce him to conceive
doubts about the inestimable value of suf-
frage.
The Virginia democratic association of this
city and some invited guests were address
ed last night by Congressman Eustace Glib
son. of West Virginia, upon Reconstruction
in Virginia. The address was able and Ell.
oquent, with just enough humor in it to salt
the unpleasant remembrance revived by the
subject, and is spoken of in the highest
terms by all who heard it. Mr.. Gibson was
introduced by the president of the associa.
ton, Col. l.. Q. Washington. Col. Wash
ington says Senator Voorhees, has accepted
an invitation to repeat his lecture on JEFF
ferson to the association about the middle
of next month.
Mr. Massey is at the House to-day ready
to plead his own cause. When asked about
his case this morning, he said that owing to
the laek of interest taken in it by the mem
bers of his own party he had abandoned all
hope of winning it, but that ''by the grace
of God" if he had an opportunity he would
tell the House what he thought of it. His
case will be called up this afternoon if the
House shall by that time have completed
the consideration of the Indian Appropria-
ton bill, with which it is now engaged.
In case General Mcclellan shall decline
to act as chief marshal of the Inauguration
there is some talk of offering
that position to General Averill. Such q
is BY no means satisfactory to
some of the democrats here, who say that |
at the Cleveland ratification meeting here
the General was asked to allow his name to
occupy prominent place in the programme,
but that he declined upon the ground that |
\ bill was before Congress for bis benefit,an
hat If he took prominent part in politics