Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
II ec,sl Correspondence OF the Alexandra. Gazette.

tSr ecial Corresponoenceo OF tne hte1ShotiH sh-s''
WARRINGTON. D. c.. Oct. 81, 1850.
An impartial and intelligent gentleman
who has spent the last month IN the Vaiiey
Of Virginia, where he met and conVersed
with the best informed politicians OF DOM
parties in that section Of the State, says that
from what he saw and heard there ne Is IN
duced to believe that all the counties In the
Valley will certainly go democratic except
possibly Page and kockinsnam, aoouC
which there is some doubt, though the dem
ocrats resident therein think they are as
safe as any OF the others. He says that
Senator Riddieberger has ceased 10 be
factor in the political affairs even of his own
county, that his own party don't think him
of enough importance to consult with him,
and don't let him into their secrets, that
General Malone never notices him, and, in
short, that no body now pays any attention
to what he either says or does. The gentle
man referred 10 also says that the character
of some of the men now running Tor the
LEGISLATURE as Mahonetesle leads him TO doubt
the possibility Of the Generals reelection
to tho Senate even in the case Of his Obtain
ing NJ ity of votes, ofwhich, however, he
doesn't think there is the remotest chance he
SAWS Mahone's efforts 10 secure solid negro
vote in the Valley are as strenuous as else
where, but that as the comparatively few col
o1ed people of that section are more lnteill-
gent and have more interest in the welfare
of the State than their race in the eastern
and southern counties, those efforts WILL De
only partially successful.
It is understood that parties IN Phlla'
dephia and New York have become inter-
ested in the proposed Chesapeake and Della.
ware canal, and that at the next session OF
Congress they will ask that body to guaran-
tee their bonds for four million dollars for
the purpose Of constructing that long talked
of canal.
Mr.. P. w. Forney, nephew of the late j..
w. Forney, clerk in the Office of the 1st
Auditor of the Treasury, dropped dead at
the Sixth. street depot here this morning,
Just as he was about to take the train for
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to see his family.
Mr.. Randall is in the city to-day. He
has recently been in New York, and says
the democrats will carry that Stale, as they
will get sixty thousand majority below
Harlan bridge, and that the republican
| majority in the upper part of the State will
not be large enoug b to overcome that. Mr..
| Randall had an interview with Secretary
Whitney this morning, in which he urged
| him to have one or more of the unfinished
cruisers at Roach's ship yard brought to the
League Island navy yard and completed
there by the workmen Of his city. He also
wants some appointments at the League
Island yard given to his constituents.
Judge Goolrck, of Fredericksburg, reach
ed here last night after speaking yesterday
at Culpeper Court House. He says all the
little democratic disafIection in that county
has been dispelled, and that Twyman, for
the Senate, and Grimsley, for the House OF
Delegates, the regular democratic candi-
dates, will be elected
1t is understood to-day that a prominent
| official of the Government hailing from New
York is so much interested in the success of
the democrats in Virginia that he has made
liberal subscription to the campaign fund
of that State, and that a gentleman from
| Virginia, who is also prominent appontee
| of the new administration, has also made a
| liberal subscription to the campaign fund OF
the district from which he halls.
Mr.. Luttrell, the democratic candidate
for the House of Delegates of Virginia in the
district composed of Northumberland and
Westmoreland counties is here. He says,
Col. Mayo, his Mahoneite opponent to the
contrary, that he will be elected he also
thinks that Curlett, the Malone candidate
in the Lancaster district, will be defeated.
An immense democratic barbecue, at which
provision will be made for five thousand,
will be given at Farnham Church, on the
line of Richmond and Northumberland
county, next Thursday, at which Gen. Lee
will be present.
The Virginia Mahoneies are here in force
mastering up negroes to SO to Virginia to
vote at the election next Tuesday. They
held meeting at Perry Carson's colored
toc ninht Of xx,hinb nr
others, Phil. Keith, Ad Bowdin and Ralph
Singleton, were present. They expect to
send and take large number of colored
men to the adjoining counties in Virginia.
1t is reported that quite number Of negro
repeaters will be sent to Orange county and
many to Alexandria city and county, the
democrats of which should be on the look
out for them.
1t is understood that projects for further
Arctic explorations will not receive the sup
port of this administration.
Congressman William Hill, of Ohio, and,
it is understood, some other democratic Con
gressmen from his State, will make speeches
in Virginia between this and the day Of
election, to counterfeit the effect, ii any has
been made, of the speeches made by Cover
nor Foraker and Senator Sherman.
A commercial traveller, (they used to call
them drummers) here to-day, who heard
some of Governor Foraker's speeches in
Ohio, and also the one he made at Staun-
ton yesterday, says he was never more
surprised in his life than when he heard the
Governor yesterday compliment Lee, Jack
son Hood Bragg, and other Confederate Gen
erals, for he had heard the same mana short
time ago, denounce in the most severe terms
the South and everything connected with
it,except the negroes, and accuse the South
ern people of being bulldozers and murder.
ers, and say that their reverence for their
dead heroes was evidence of their persistent
treason.
MAHoNE's INsTRUCTIoNs.-The Philadel-
phia Record says:
Mr.. Mahone's election-day instructions,
which contemplate tho presence at each
polling place of two white republicans-one
to register the total vote and one the repuo-
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