Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
,anoc,al Correspondence OF the Ale1andris 1asette

WASHINGTON. y. c., August 20, 1855.
MIR. Clark, chief clerk of the Revenue
Marine Service, when asked this morning II
there was any thing new about the reported
fiibustering expedition from Florida 10
Cuba. replied no, but that the bureau would
see that there would be enough revenue
cutters on the station to prevent the schooner
containing the filibusters from capturing
the u. S. naval vessels now in those waters.
Judge r. II. Cockerille, of Fairfax county,
is in the city to day The Judge says Gen.
Lee is exceedingly popular in his county,
in which the General resides, not only with
the natives, but with the large number OF
reputable and thrifty Northern people who
have settled there, and also with the col
ored people, and that he will so out OF the
county with q good majority.
One of the callers of the colored State
convention of Virginia, to meet IN Lyme
burg on the Both proximo, to determine inc
best course for the colored voters to pursue
at the coming election in that Stale, Is NO"
here. He says the convention Will De large
and representative, that every county WIZ
DO represented, and that he thlrk5 the
convention will recommend that the colorea
men of the State vote in accordance with
their individual opinions and not as tney
NAV be directed by any one man or set OF
men in other words to be freemen political
ly as we'll as nominaliy.
Mr.. Gallaher, from southwestern Virginia,
whose opinion of the probable result of the
present political campaign in Virginia was
mentioned in this correspondence yester-
day, is still here. He said to-day there is
no truth in the reported dissatisfaction OF
Mr.. keliy's friends in Washington county
because he was not renominated for tho
Legislature, and that no body would give
the ticket nominated more earnest support
than Mr.. Kelly and his friends. Mr.. Gal
laher also said that the anti-Mahoneites in
the southwest district OF Virginia have
pulled off their coats and are bound to win
q decisive victory next November.
A gentleman here to-day from Orkney
Springs says that when Senator Riddle
berger was there recently his unseemly con-
duct Disguised every body about the place,
and that some Northern gentlemen who
had expressed q desire to be introduced to
him changed their minds after witnessing
his behavior, and said they were not only
disappointed in the man, but in the party
that would elevate one so unfit to the eX-
allied position of U. S. Senator, and that
Mr. Riddleberger should know that indi5'
cretions that might be condoned in younger
men in private station, assume the proper
tions of gross and ineXcusable crimes in
men occupying his position, especially when
they are paraded, rs was done in his case.
A gentleman living along the line of the
W., o. & w. II. r., here to day, says that
sixty odd republicans, living along that
road, hold federal Offices IN Washington,
and that when they draw their pay on the
1st of every month, as they step of the
trains when returning to their homes they
shake their crisp greenbacks in the faces of
the hungry democrats standing around, and
say: SHOW do they look, boys? we get
more than we did before, because there are
no political assessments now"
Mr. James Devinn, of Leesburg, here to-
day, says Mr.. Ryan will be renominated
unanimously for the House of Delegates by
the democrats OF Loudoun county, Virginia,
to-day, and that Major Heaton will be re-
nominated for the State Senate at the dis
trict convention to meet on the 18th prox. He
saws the temperance men will probably run
a temperance democrat, but chat if they do
the Major will gain more than enough re-
publican votes to Offset any loss he may re-
ceive from that quarter.
Mr.. Barbour has gone to Culpeper county,
but will return this evening, and will prob
ably be in Alexandria on Monday.
Mr. Blair telegraphed here last Thursday
that owing to loss he had sustained he could
not fill his appointments to speak at Alex
andria and Falmouth on the 2Sth and Goth
inst. But it seems that the loss referred to
did not prevent him from speaking at
Wythevills on the 2Sth inst.
Congressman Latloon, Of Kentucky, who
is here to-day, says that though not.a single
Presidential postollice change has been made
in his State except in cases of death or res
ignation, the democrats there are well
satisfied with the administration, for the
reason that its every action shows it to he
and not sectional one, and that
in the matter of the Offices it is carrying out
the letter and spirit of the civil service law,
rs it is bound to do under the oaths it has !
taken.
\ copyisl just removed from
the Quartermaster Generals office,
named Virgins, who had been q
school master in Texas, having resorted to
the newspapers to redress his grievance,
Quartermaster General Holibird said this
that Mr.. Virgins may be well
qualified to teach the young Texas idea how |
to shoot or for that to be a Congressman,
but that as copyst he had proved himself
TO be a conspicuous failure, and was there
ore removed.