Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Dec. 2, 1885.
Congressman, both Senators and members
If the House, are arriving in large numbers
laily. and there is no doubt that quorum
Of the democratic caucuses Of both houses
will be here by Saturday night, when that
Of the House will be held, and that a major
ity of both houses will be here on Monday
next. when the session will begin. No more
of the Virginia members have arrived than
those previously mentioned in this cores
but all will be here by Monday.
Conversations with many of the demo.
cratic members of Congress who have ar
rived here induces the belief that. the silver
men are weakening, and that something
will be done to "lilt the pressure" as the
lost immortal J. n. used to say, caused by
the continued coinage Of the deprecated
and unwieldy silver dollar.
The first day of December and the second,
too, have come and gone, aud still the
hearts of the applicants for the District
Offices have not been made glad by any
changes in those offices. Long and YEARLY
and despondently and, it is not to be denied,
sometimes angrily, have they waited, Until
to them patience has often seemed TO cease
to be virtue; but the change comes not,
and the republican incumbents continue to
draw their lucrative salaries, while Inc
democratic applicants continue TO hope,
though the sickness OF their hearts has be-
come chronic.
The following change in the fourth class
postoflices in Virginia was made to-day :
Junkns' Bridge, Accomack county, samuel
B. White, appointed postmaster, vice Harry
| l.. White, It signed.
Private Intelligence here to-day from
Richmond is to the effect that the news
paper reports about the majority of the
democratic caucus of the Virginia Legisla-
ture being in favor of Mr.. Daniel for the U.
S. Senate are founded upon the talk of peo-
pie who are not members of that caucus ;
that some Of the members counted for Mr.
Daniel are Mr.. Barbour's staunchest sup
porters, and that when the caucus shall be
held MIR. Barbour will be nominated. Some
Of Mr.. Barbour's friends here who are kept
advised Of the proceedings in Richmond
are Just as confident that he will be the next
Senator from Virginia IS they were a month
ago.
Among the cases that will be referred to
the House Committee on Elections during
the coming session will be that of Mr.. Hurd,
the revenue tariff democrat from the Toledo
district in Ohio, who is contestiDg the seat
of the protection republican who holds the
certificate of election. Mr.. Hurd's counsel
is ex congressman J. L. Harris, Of Virginia,
who is unusually successful in similar cases.
1t seems now to be conceded on all hands
that all the officers of the last House except
the doorkeeper, who is dead, will be re-
elected. For his place the only applicants
talked of are Messrs. Donaldson, of Tennes-
see; Trainer, of New York, and Tyler, of
Virginia. MIR. Donaldson, as stated in this
correspondence months ago, has the show
in his favor. Mr.. Trainer, however, says
he will be the man; and Mr.. Tyler's friends
say that if the delegation from his State will
unite upon him and ask for the place as ma
tonal recognition of Virginias recent service
in securing the solidity of the South for years
to come, the caucus will be very apt to ac-
cede to their request. From present appear
ances, however, or rather from what one of
the Virginia delegation is reported to have
said, it is not likely that such unity will be
effected. Mr.. Tyler, in his circular to the
members of the democratic caucus, says the
election should indicate something; that
the triumphs ofthe democracy in New York,
Maryland and Virginia last month offered
the members an opportunity for that indi
cation that Maryland has no candidate;
and that the selection Of q man from either
New York or Virginia would be a compli-
ment to the party merited by the results in
those States.
In the case of Antonio Nardelo, the Ital.
ian charged with numbering a fellow coun-
tryman, in which the Criminal Court here
has been trying to get jury since Monday
last, another venire of fifty was ordered this
morning. Mr.. G.. S. Ramsburg, the first
man called, was excused because he had
formed an opinion from reading the news
papers. In reply to q question by the
Judge if he believed what he read in
the newspapers, he said he did, and that he
had found by long experience that such
belief was nearly always right.
Mr.. DUNCAN, one of the lessees of the
Alexandria Canal, says that as soon as five
boats now on their way from Cumberland
to the brick yards on that canal shall ar
rive the water will BIO drawn of. He does
not know whether it will be turned on again
next season. He says as the canal has now
no revenue, tho lessees will ask the COM
pany to relieve them of the forfeiture clause
in their contract for not keeping it in navi.
gable condition.
The presidency pro tempore Of the Senate
is in as much doubt to-day as ever. Some
of the democratic Senators hope the repub
lican caucus will select Mr.. Edmunds; but
why they should passes all except their
own ridicu!ously self-imagined superior
comprehension.
Exposing A WESTERN MEDIIJM-C E.