Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
ISneciAl Corre5pOndence OF LIIb zAIo4Hh11'1
WASHINGTON. D. O., Oct. "A, 1850.

FROM WASHINGTON.
,sr.o,., to,,as,ondsnce OF the Alexandria aasettel
WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. "A, 1885.
Mr. George c. Rounds, of Prince William
county, Virginia, who is here, and whose
onnosition to Malone was mentioned IN
this correspondence yesterday, has he says,
himself as an anti-Mahone IN
dependent candidate for the Legislature IN
his county. His vote will probably show
the strength Of the anti-Mahone republicans
in Prince William.
From Madison county, Virginia, it is
learned to day, that General Malone is
sending registered letters to every proml-
nent local colored man in that county.
Whether these letters contain money or the
Generals loud colored badges is unknown;
nossibly the latter, as the colored folks are
easily caught with such children's toys.
The vacant lots just south of the Capitol
are the dumping grounds of the dirt OF the
CITY. and there, any day, may be seen hum
dreds of colored men, women and chlidren
raking and scrapiug over the dirt dumped
bv the carts for scraps Of paper, rags,
iron and such other trash as they can sen
and for which they receive when it's "asneu
about five or six cents day. Ihey WIZ
do this daily and live in squalor rather IMAM
oo to work on the farms in Maryland anu
Virginia. where their labor is IN great de,
maud, and where they would be lea ana
housed com fortaby and be paid good wages.
Senator John Sherman arrived mere Q, tni Is
morning and is stopping at Inc Eoolt!
House. He says that he and MT. MCKINNEY,
republican congressman from his state, VIII
make speeches in Petersburg next Tuesday
afternoon. When asked what would be the
character of his speeches in Virginia, he re-
nlied the same as that of those he had made
during the recent campaign in Ohio. He
said Governor Foraker and other Northern
republicans would also make some speeches
in Virginia. If any democratic canvasser
wishes TO question Mr.. Sherman, let him
read the Senator's speech on the Blair edu-
cationa bill, to be found in the Congressional
Record of March 10Th, 1884.
CONGRESSMAN LeFevre, democrat of Ohio,
saws the democrats OF his State lost the Leg
islature there by local dissentions and by
reason of the opposition of the people TO the
coal oil monopoly Legislature. They lost
If however, by not more than three. 1t
would be we'll for the Virginians to recollect
this and not let Malone capture their Leg
islature BY any lukewarmness or local dis
satisfaction on their part.
The recent Depew cock and Bull story
about President Johnsons attempt to es
tablsh dictatorship with the support OF
Southern representatives to be admitted IN
Congress, recalls the fact that Judge Under
wood went from Alexandria in 1865 to Nor
folk to consult with Attorney General
Speed in reference to the indictment for
treason of Gen. r. E. Lee, Gems. Longstreet,
EWell, Corse, ex.Governors Smith and
Letcher, Messrs w. G. Cazsnoye, and W..
n. McVeigh and about forty others
Among the passengers on Pennsylvania
avenue street car this morning was Fred.
Douglas, the notorious colored republican
of this city. He has grown fat, and his long,
white, shaggy hair, eye broWs and whiskers,
which almost conceal his sensuous eyes, and
his now short neck give his head and face
some what the appearance of those of an opos.
sum. There were many white ladies in the car,
who, knowing that he has a white wife,
pazed at him with that sort of attraction
possessed By other horrible objects. He is
an intelligent man, but has strong race an
tipathies and vainly thought he would
shame the whole white race by marrying
one of its members.
Judge Westel Willoughhy, of Alexandria,
leading Virginia republican, practicing
law in this city, when asked to-day about
the political situation in Virginia, replied
that he was out of politics in this election,
and that all he knew about the situation in
his State he learned from the Washington
correspondence of the GAZETTE. He said,
however, that while he was by no means
enamored of the Virginia democrats, they
certainly had not treated his party as badly
as the Mahoneites had. He also said the
Virginia republicans he had seen here re-
Gently talked to him in the same line in
Il I'D inf hp A.
ZETTE.
A Northern man who called at General
Mahone's home in Petersburg recently says
the General has we'll organized election
bureau there, and that one of the chief
clerks in the correspondence division told
him they had positive assurance there that
the General would have fifty seven mem
bers of the next House of Delegates. A
member of the dem ocratic association of this
city, who is just from the headquarters of
the State democratic committee at Alex
andria, says the information there is that
the democrats will have working majorities
in both houses of the Legislature.
Several Virginia democrats here today
agree that their party will lose some members
of the Legislature in the Norfolk district by
persisting in running democrat for the
State Senate in Norfolk county, there
by forcing Mr.. Callahan, straight
out republican, and as much opposed
to Malone rs any of them, and who
could have been elected, to withdraw.
The election of an anti-Mahone Congress.
man in the Petersburg district, they say,
was defeated last year BY just such extraor-
binary proceedings.
A wide awake republican, who has spent the
last three or four days in Culpeper county, Vir-
ginia, viewing the political situation there has
turned and says he is induced to believe that
Grims.ey, the democratic candidate for the Leg
isature, will be elected, though Malone is max.
ing a strong effort to defeat him.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The State Fair at Richmond closed yes
tardar on which GaN the attendance was