Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Ale1andrs Gazette.
WARRINGTON, D. c., Sept. 81, 1885

| WASHINGTON. D. G.. Sept 81, 1885.
A well-known and popular Southern U
S. Senator, Gen. Butler, of South Carolina
in the city to-day, in street talk with the
| GAzETTE'S correspondent, said he was
| induced to think The Presidents delay in
the removal Of republican Office holders was
rather a wise party policy than otherwise,
inasmuch as while no good and true demo
GRAFT would be driven by it to vote against
his party at the coming State elections, its
natural effect is to parayze large portion o!
the republican vote in those States. lie
had, he said recently been in New York and
because Of the very policy referred to the re-
publicans there were by no means confident
of carrying that State, and that some of them
| had so Informed him. AS relates to Ohio, he
said, he already saw by the newspapers that
| of the large number of republican employees
| here from that State, many, owing to the
| Presidents policy, would not SO home to
vote, aud none would be active political
| workers. That fact, he said, and the feel
ing it indicated, and John Sherman's bloody
shirt speeches, induced him.to believe that
the democrats had an excellent chance of
carving Ohio at next months election.
Senator Butler is delighted at the favorable
indications of q democratic victory in Fir-
ginia next November, and hopes it will be
decisive. The Senator will attend the Vir-
| ginia State Fair
The following changes were made in the
4th class postoflices in Virginia to-day !:
Slaughter, Nelson county, NJ. H. Bradley
appointed postmaster, vice S. p. Slaughter,
deceased Pleasant View, Amherst county,
Mrs. A. V. Harlow, vice Mayo c. Harlow,
deceased Churchville, Augusta county, G..
J. Hoff, vice Henry E. Rush, removed.
Major S. P. Bayly, of Virginia, is in the
city to day. He says he has not heard that
any of the statements made in his recent
speech delivered at Alexandria have been
denied, but that if they are he will not only
prove them, but give particulars that will
be much worse than the simple statements,
and that must be any thing else than agree
able to General Malone and to the parties
alluded to.
Mr.. Barbour, while not entirely we'll, is so
much improved that he was able to be out
to-day, and was at some of the departments
trying his best to get Offices for some of his
constituents.
Senator Riddleberger having denied the
statement that when here recently he had
said "FitZ. Lee would be the next Governor
of Virginia." has only added to the numer-
Gus instances by which he had previously
CSgoUllSutu tGS luCG VI HIS uLtcI uuEciidUlhtS
He made the remark referred to on the
night of the 18th instant, in the bar room of
j. r. Hickey, formerly kept by Shoemaker &
Hertzog, on Pennsylvania avenue, near the
National Theatre, when pretty we'll heated
with liquor and in the presence and hearing
of three reliable and disinterested gentlemen,
Major Blake and Messrs. Lew Washington
and ]. P. Rudd. This notice is totally unne.
cessary, but as one of the gentlemen refer
red to furnished the particulars, the GAZETTE
can print it if it can afford to throw away
the required space upon an object SO worth
less as the man who disgraces Virginia by
answering when her name is called in the
Senate of the United States.
Among the Presidents callers last Satur-
day was General Bethune, of Warren
ton, who called to tell the President the
true story about "Blind Tom" and to cor
rect the erroneous impression that may
nave been made upon him by the cock and
bull story told him by TOMS mother recent
~, under the tuition Of those who are trying
to take Tom away forcibly from the people
with whom he wants to live.
A gentleman here to-day from Roanoke,
Virginia, says the bottom has dropped out
of Mahoneism in that country, and that the |
there will all go one way. From
Madison Court House, where General Lee |
is to speak next Thursday, it is learned that |
two thousand mounted men will meet him |
outside of and escort him into the village.
A gentleman was at the War Department |
day borrowing U. S. flags to be borne in .
The procession. /