Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-15
FROM WASHINGTON.
rs,,c,sl Correspondence OF tho Aie1sndris Hasette

WARRINGTON. II. ", oCG, ~, Aooo'
Among the members of Congress in the
CITY to day is Mr.. Eustace Gibson, OF west
Virginia. Mr.. Gibson was originally from
Virginia, and expresses great interest IN the
result of the coming election in that State.
When asked what he thought that result
would be, he said that though he heard much
he hardly knew what he did think about 1t,
but he feared that while there was not 100
much hurrah there was too little real al
fective organization and house-to-house
work, such organization as Malone mao
and such work as he was actively engaged
in, He said, for instance, that in his old DIS
trict ,Culpeper, he heard Mr.. Lucian Winston
would be an independent democratic candl-
date for the State Senate against Mr..
Twyman, the regular democratic nominee.
Measures, he said, should have been adopl-
| ed to prevent such thing, and should no"
be adopted to effect his withdrawal linen,
too, he said, while there was no occasion
for democratic meetings in Loudoun, where
the Legislative ticket is safe, Senator Voor-
bees was sent there but that in close
county, like Culpeper, where all sorts OF
work and great deal Of it would be nece5
sary to carry the county, nothing, he under
stood. had vet been done, and that though
he had heard accidentally that he was billed
for speech there next Monday, he had re-
ceived no official invitation, nor even notit
fcation. These things, he said, induced
him to fear that affairs were not going on as
favorably as they might be.
A democratic politician from Alexandria
county. here to day, says that though there
has been some white disaGection there, he
thinks it will all be over by the day Of cleo
ton, and that the desire to beat Mahone
will be sufficient TO overcome all dissatisfac-
ton, and give the democratic ticket more
votes than usual.
The Ohio defeat has lessened democratic
confidence here in the election of Lee in
Virginia. Senator Sherman, Ex-Governor
Noyes, Representatives Butterworth and
Mckinley, and perhaps Judge Foraker him
self will 60 10 Virginia Immediately to help
Wise. The democrats say that all the money
that can be raised in Ohio and elsewhere to
contribute to the election of the republican
ticket in Virginia will be promptly for.
| warded.
Senator Logan, after call at the White
House day or two ago, was asked by o
friend what he really thought of the Presi-
dent? He replied that he thought the
President was an honest man, and believed
! he was doing what was right, but he stood
more in need of information than any man
with whom he had recently conversed. If
| what Mr.. Logan says be SO, Mr.. Logan would
be the last man in the world from whom the
President could increase his stock of infor-
mation-that is, of the kind that any repu-
table man would like to have.
Elk. Congressman E. John Ellis, of Louisi.
ana, will make democratic speech in Alex-
andra, to morrow night. Mr.. Ellis is one
of the best and most attractive stump speak
ers in the country, and those who bear him
will have treat. Mr.. Ellis is suffering
| from sore throat, but his interest in the
success OF his friend, General Lee, and in
| the defeat of that unnatural enemy of Vir-
ginia, General Malone, is so great that,
though sick, he will gil his appointment.
A dispatch was received here this moril-
ing FROM Mr. John Mclean, editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, stating that the Legis-
lature of Ohio had democratic majority of
two on joint ballot, and that the defeat of
Mr.. Sherman for the Senate was assured.
Republicans here doubt the correctness oil
Mr.. McLean's information, and say their
news, which is more reliable, confirms the
reports of republican majority in the
Legislature, and the consequent re. collection
of Senator Sherman.
A well informed gentleman from King
NeOIRS COuulS hClC GO>uuS says
the democratic prospects there are better
than usual, and that the impression there is
that the republican majority will be either
wiped out OF so reduced that it will not off.
set the democratic majority in Stafford,
which county and King George compose
one Legislative district He says grand
democratic oyster roast will be given at
Nominy, the county adjoining King George
On the south, next Saturday, at which Col.
r. J. Washington and other speakers will
make speeches, and that in that county,
also, the democratic prospects are bright
and frightening.
It is reported here day that member
of the Cabinet has said the Ohio election
will have bad effect upon democratic
prospects in New York, and that Col. La
mont, the Presidents private secretary, says
he thinks New York will go republican.
Democrats here who know Judge Vim
cent, recently appointed Chief Justice of
New Mexico, and just suspended for ap-
pointing ex-senator Dorsey commissioner
to draw jurors for that territory who will
try land cases in which he is personally in
terested, say they can not understand why
the Judge made such an extraordinary APP
pointment.
News here from Richmond, strange as it
h1oJ oSSAAf 40 w tAO CnCCg Ouhu you. u1duOu6
is grieved at the result of the Ohio election.
The reason of his grief, however, is not
strange when known. He hoped the demo-
Gratis would carry Ohio, or at least the Legis.
lature, so as to defeat Sherman's reelection,
as thereby the necessity for his own re-
election, to maintain republican ascendancy
in the Senate, would induce the republicans
of the North to send him all the money he |
might want with which to buy the close
counties in his State. The General too, it |
is said is disheartenad at the unexpected |
enthusiasm created by Gen Lees triumphant |
tour through the State; angry
with Cameron, Groner and the other lead
ers of the detection in his own party, put
out with Wise for the njudicious way he has
conducted his canvass, and disguised with
Riddleberger and some of his other Jack
men, who, he says, have done him more
harm than good. 1t is also said that
though the General may get q