Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-07-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
special correspondence 81 .hs \ erandra Gazette.

WASHINGTON. y. G.. July e. 1856
4 coiored delegation at The head Of which
was K. d. Buckley, Of Alexandria, and in
which were Dr. Pnrvis, Charles Lamar and
W. r. Laws, Chilled upoa the Secretary of
Stale to DAY, and urged him to appoint
J,hm ". Clumwell, the coored editor Of the
Pcopie's Adrocafe Of thia city, as y. S. minis,
ter TO Liberia The delegation was received
very con tenuSly, and was told that its re-
quest would be duly considered. Mr.. Bay
ard informed the members Of it that he
would he as careful about the appointment
of the Liberian minister as about any other,
and would endeavor to select for The places II
diplomat as we'll as a statesman.
Judge Henry w. Thomas, Of Fairfax CO.,
Va, eX-Lieutenant Governor and ex-Seclnd
Auditor of the State Of Virginia, is in The
city to day, on his way to the democratic
convention of his State, which will meet in
Richmond to morrow. As the conntyman
of General FitZ. Lee, he will second tho
Generals nomination for Governor, which
will be made by Maj or Conrad, of Winches-
Ter. The Judge in his speech will say Moth
ing of flashing swords or waving p!umeS,
but urge the Generals nomination upon the
practical ground that the democrats desire
success, and that the Generals popularity
in all sections Of the State will be most con-
ducive TO that end In talk with the GA
zErTEs correspondent the Judge said he
had been struck with his winning ways
at elections by an incident that occur
red under his own Immediate observa
ton. Among the crowd at his own voting
pteciuct he once saw five democrats who
had been led of by Mahone's readjustnent
mirage. These men being pointed out to
General Lee, he went 10 each of them, and
after Il short talk every single one voted the
democratic ticket. The Judge says the
debt question is with the courts and should
he left there, and that if the democrats at
tempt to fool with it as party matter they
will be Defeated every time; that the trueis-
sue Of the campaign and the one they
should make, is the preservation of the
moral and material interests of the State,
the very civil cation of Virginia, by
defending her from the seizure of men
who have endeavored to force negro equali-
ty upon her, and who, if they succeed, must
of necessity divide the offices with the men
whose support keeps them in poWer-the me-
groes He, like every other man who knows
anything at all about negro character,
knows that the policy of giving Office to
negroes by democrats, or of democrats re-
tanning negroes in Office, is the silliest that
could be adopted as a means of breaking
the solid negro vote in the South, as every
single negro there knows that his own race
would make it hot" for him if be should
vote the democratic ticket, and is too much
afraid of that heat to run the risk of it's ap.
plication.
Young Mr. Popham, son of COL John, and
formerly weli-known student of st. Johns
Academy in Alexandria, is very ill in this
city of typhoid fever.
There il great trouble among the clerks
in the Land Bureau of the Interior Depart.
ment, as Commissioner Sparks has decided
that every days previous absence on &C
count of sickness shall be substracted from