Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
,special Correspondence OF the Ale udri. tiasette
WASHINGTON. y. e.. Oct. 80, 1885.

WASHINGTON. ,. g.. Oct. 80, 1885.
State Senator Meredith, Of the Alexan
dria district, was in the city to-day. He
addressed meeting in Alexandria
county last night. He says the demo-
Gratis there are united and will be aid
ed materially By the republicans, and that he
believes Judge Stuart, the democratic can
didate for the Legislature, will carry the
county, though it usually gives large re-
publican majority.
A wel-known hotel keeper Of this city,
who has Just returned from visit TO inc
western part of Virginia, says Washington is
the only place where he has heard any doubt
expressed as TO the result Of tho election III
that State, and that if any body wants TO
bet it will not 90 democratic he will accom-
modate them. Bath, he says, he under
stands is put down as doubtful county,
but that he has been there, and it is as safe
as Loudoun.
From Fairfax, the adjoining county i'll
Virginia TO this city, it is learned TO day
that most all the negro vote will be cast Tor
Malone, and that many OF the negroes on
Seminary Hill, who voted against him Two
wears ago, will vote for him next tuesday.
It is also learned that the white democratic
vote will be larger than ever, and Will be III
creased by that Of the Quaker element at
and about Accotink, and By some OF the
large number of republican oiliceholders re-
siding in tho county. The county has been
"workedn better by the democrats than IN
any previous campaign, and the workers
express the utmost confidence IN the success
of their efforts. A large number of demo
Gratis entitled to vote in that county will be
sent from here in time to cast their ballots.
It is understood here that Mr. Farr, General
Mahone's superintendent of education in
Virginia, will speak at u negro meeting TO
| be held tonight at Herndou and that John
Syphax, the colored anti-Mahone republi-
can of Alexandria county, will be on hand,
and ask for division OF time.
It is reported here that the Austrian mis-
sion will remain vacant until Congress shall
remove the political disabilities of General
Lawton, OF Georgia, who resigned the Rus
sian mission, when it will he given to him.
From New York the intelligence to-day is
10 the effect that the democratic cause has
received boom there within the last day
or two, and that prospects there are consid-
erably better than they have been. One
reason for this is the fact that the labor
unions of both the city and the State have
come to the aid Of their natural friends, the
democrats, and will give them united sup
port.
Senator Sherman left here yesterday
evening for Petersburg, where he will be
the guest Of General Malone and where be
will speak this evening. 1t is the Senators
intention, should Virginia go democratic
next Tuesday, to raise the question of the
reduction Of Southern representation in
; Congress at the next session, not that he
hopes to succeed then, but to so ''lire tho
Northern heart" that should the republicans
obtain majority in the succeeding Con
gress they will be sustained in their eXclu-
sion of Southern representatives.
Congressman NIcGIillin, of Tennessee, who
has been stumping Virginia with General
Lee. arrived here this morning. He says
the General has made a splendid campaign
that his speeches have been plain, practical
and patriotic and have been decidedly eff
fective. Such meetings, he says, Tor SIZE
and intelligence, have never been eXcelied IN
any State. He estimates the Generals ma
iority at from fifteen to twenty-five thou
sand, and says the Legislature in safe. he
SAYS that General Lee tells his hearers that
it is infinitely more important to the people
of Virginia that they should have an anti
Malone Legislature than that he should be
elected, and that if either must be lost let il
be him.
The result Of yesterday election in Balti
more affords great satisfaction to the demo
Gratis of this city They say the attempt OF
the democratic mugwumps there to destroy
the party, because some of its leaders are
obiecti enable to them, was unustillabe, in
asmuch as those leaders, if Objectionable TO
the party, could have been deposed by The
party, and that those who got up the move
ment to defeat Mr. German would be rs OBJ
iectionable rs he is if they were in his place.
The result, as tits, secures the election of NJ r
German to the U. S. Senate. Congrcssm an
Gibson, of West Virginia, says the result is
especially agreeable to the democrats Of his
State whose relations with Baltimore are so
intimate that had the result been different
the democratic mugWumps there would
have adopted similar tactics to those adopt
ed by their congeners in Baltimore.
The resignation of Major Bartlett, 81
deputy commissioner OF pensions, just sent
in, was. it is said entirely voluntary, though
the Major is pronounced republican.
The following changes in the 18th class
postoflices in Virginia were made to-day ::
Mount Pleasant, Spotsyivania county, Mrs.
A. S. Tomkins, vice CAIRO j.. Wilson, re-
signed Lord Bridge, Princess Anne CO.,
Alex. S. Smith, vice j. =. Woodhouse, re-
| moved, laSlty, ACCuHniCN CouutS, 11u. ~
Johnson, vice T. III. Adams, declined Rock
Fish Depot, Nelson county, r. n. Ander'
son, vice G. II. Thurman resigned; Sparta,
Caroline county, Mrs. +. II. Ralph, vice
Phillip 3. Pitts, resigned; Marisonsville,
Northampton county, ]. II. Floyd. vice
Francis NJ. Sturgis, resigned; Leesvil!e,
Campbell county, V. Snow.
The news of the death Of General Mcclellan
was received here this morning with profound
sorrow. The General was true man in every
position to which he had been called, but luck
was against him, and judged by the unjust rule
that success is the measure of merit, he was not a
| great man.
| The office seekers and their advocates here
alarmed lest the Presidents order refusing to Sc
such people after the 1st of November be adopted,
as all his others have been, by his Cabinet. If
such be the case they will be really as those with
ont hope.
Mr.. WIsEs ANSWER TO A QUESTION
In speech at q democratic meeting in
Richmond, Tuesday evening, the Hon. B.