Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexsndri~ Gazette
WASHINGTON. d. g.. Oct. 81, 1855.

Lieutenant Governor Lewis, who is here
attending the races, has told friend since
he arrived here that he does not intend to
vote for Mr.. Wise, for the reason that he
does not think he is fit to be Governor; that
if Hancock had been elected President MI.
Wise would not have been n republican,
and that he has no confidence in Mr. Wise's
present republicanism. 1t is also said that
one of Governor Lewis's sons got seventy
FIVE republicans of Rockingham county 10
SIGN a paper stating that they would not
vote for Mr.. Wise and forwarded 1t to the
chairman of the republican committee OF Tue
county, and that thereupon that chairman
resigned and Mr.. Shelley Lewis. another
one of the Governors sons, was elected ID
his place, so as to dlsslpate Inc olSaiiec-
ton in the party's ranks If possible:
1t is said by parties here from kicnm ..
that the dispatches recently sent from that
citv TO the New York World reporting I'M
movement in the prospects of the Malone
ties and disatlection among the democrats
were sent by an agent of Malone during
the tenn porary absence of the regular cor
RESPONDENT of the paper referred 10, VINO
was on business in one of the counties IN the
lower part of the Northern Neck OF the
State.
The letter from Governor Cameron to
political friend in this city who had threat
ened to oppose General Mahone's ticket be
cause of the attacks made by the General
upon the Governor through the Northern
and Western newspapers that have espouscd
his cause, heretofore alluded to in this cor
respondence, says he has had an entirely
satisfactory interview with Mr.. Wise, whom
he will heartily support, and advises the
friend to do likewise and drop the subject OF
opposition.
Ex. Congressman Mayo, the Malone can
didate for the State Senate in Virginia from
the Westmorcland district is in the city to-
day. He says he will be elected, ana
that he thinks Curlett, the Mahone candl-
date for the House of Delegates IN the Lam
caster district, will pull through. A letter
received here to-day from an exMahoneite
in Caroline county, says that county will 60
democratic. Judge Mclaughlin, of Rock
bridge county, Va, here to-day, says that
county is all right and will certainly go
democratic. Congressman Libby, from the
Norfolk district, who is again here, says
his district will give six thousand Malone
majority if there be free vote and fair
count, but could not tell how, with the vot-
ers to make such majority, and with
white Mahoneites watching the polls,
the vote and count could be other
wise than free and fair. Several gentle
men from the "black belc' in the State
concur in the opinion that 1t is entire
lv useless for the democrats to try to make
the negroes in the country districts vote
the democratic ticket. They say that picket
posts of negroes half mile off will guard
every approach to the voting precincts, and
that every negro voter who passes will be
informed in way about which there will be
no mistake that he will be 'made hot'' if he
does not vote the Malone ticket. They say
that possibly some negroes may be induced
to remain away from the polls, but that
any attempt to make them vote the demo
cratic ticket will be utterly futile, and that
money spent in such attempts will be thrown
away.
A member of the Virginia State demo
cratic committee, in the city to day, says
that the Mahoneite report, published in
Northern newspapers, that at the last meet
ing of that committee the question Of the
withdrawal of Mr.. Ayers, the democratic
candidate for Attorney General was dis
cussed, is without the slightest foundation,
and that even General Malone has been
compelled to deny his libslous SANDERS re-
speeding Mr.. Ayers.
Democrats from the Portsmouth district
in Virginia here to-day say that while there
is q good chance Of electing Mr.. Callahan,
a straightout republican and anti-Mahone
man, to the State Senate, there is no possible
chance of electing democrat, but that the
leaders of the democratic party there, not
withstanding all their experience in that
and in the Petersburg district, will persist
in running democrat, and thereby will
lose five members of the Legislature.
Owing. to the rain of last night and this
morning the races that were to have been
run to-day were postponed until tomorrow,
and the meeting, therefore, be prolonged
until the evening Of Saturday.
The civil service commission is showing
up worse and worse. Mr.. Thoman, the one
member of it who has not resigned, has re-
turned, acknowledged that he bought a
house with fraudulent bonds and Immediate
ly mortgaged it, and tells the defrauded
owners to sue if they think proper. No
wonder the Commission was scoffed and
scorned even by the Arthur administration.
DR.. Curry is expected here from Virginia
against his appointment to the Spanish
Mission have been received at the Treasury
Department.
Congressman Foran, from Ohio, who has
just arrived, says he fears the republic
cans will have majority of one or two in
the Legislature of his State, but he thinks
it doubtful if Mr.. Sherman will be re. elected
Senator. Other and better informed demo-
Gratis from the same State entertain no such
doubt
Congressman Finley, protectionist demo-
crat from Baltimore, who is here to-day,
says that Brown, the Independent demo.
cratic candidate for Mayor of that city, will
be elected by ten thousand majority. Con-
gresham Cole, straightout democrat from |
the same city, says that Hodges, the regu-
lar democratic candidate, will be elected.
It is understood to-day that Gen. Don
Carlos Buel will be appointed pension agent
at Louisville, Kentucky.
General Farnsworth, of New York, is in the
city to-day aud was at the White House. The
rumor is revived that he will BIO appointed Mar
shall Of the District of Columbia. The General
says Hill will be elected Governor of his State,
but that the election of democratic legislature
is not so certain.