Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispccial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
NJ Lr-rrn1c,rou u q SAINT 30 1850.

FROM WASHINGTON.
,specal Correspondence OF the Alexandria aarsttel
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Sept. 80, 1856.
It is reported here that General Mahone,
through his newspaper at Richmond, per-
sists in asserting that Senator Sherman was
in favor of the Blair educational bill. The
GAZETTEs correspondent has hunted up
the report of the debate on the bill referred
to, when it was before the Senate, and has
found that Mr.. Sherman expressed himself
as follows upon it. IF what he said shows
that he favored the bill, then his accumula-
ton of an immense fortune on a small
salary shows him to be an honest man
Mr.. Sherman said: What kind of educa-
ton, what kind of ideas, are to be promul-
gated? Who is to control that matter? 1t
seems to me that it is unfair and unjust,
and that when the people of the country
understand that this disposition is to be
made of their money there will be pro-
found feeling of discomfort. l know there
is a general desire to cure illiteracy in this
country, to help to some extent the South
ern States TO grapple with great evil; but
it seems to me that no provision could be
made more unjust than this. am not pre-
pared to vote to the Southern States money
from the public Treasury for any purpose
until we have better signs than We have
had for the last year or two that they are
willing and feel bound to respect the rights
of citizens of the United States. If had
no other reason for voting against the bill
at this time, am frank to say should do
so because l am not satisfied that if this
money werc placed in their hands it would
be properly used for the education of all
classes of the people of those States, and
am unwilling to trust them to disburse the
money Of the United States until they re-
spect the acknowledged rights and consti-
tutional privileges conferred plainly by the
Constitution of the United States upon all
The citizens of this country alike"
The case Of Mr.. Clark, the architect of
the Capitol, against whom the greenback
ex.Congressman Murch and others brought
charges of various kinds, is still undecided.
The examination of witnesses was conducted
by Mr.. Jonas, of the Interior Department,
and when his report shall be ready it will
be submitted to Secretary Lamar, and when
revised by him be sent to the President, to
whom the charges were first presented.
The whole evidence against Mr.. Clark
showed that it was trumped up and of no
account.
A good many democratic congressman are
in the city now and have been recently.
They all profess to be pleased with the Pres
ident's civil service policy, but it is observ-
ed that while they do so, they at the same
time are loud in their praise of Mr.. Steven
son, First Assistant Postmaster General,
whose action is directly opposed to that pol.
icy. They also commend the platform and
the ticket of the New York democrats,
which are as much opposed to that policy
as it is possible for them to be.
: A letter received here to-day from Taze-
we'll county, Va, says that of all the coun-
ties in Southwest Virginia, it is the only one
about the result of the election in which
next November there is the least doubt, and
that in reality there is not much uncertain
ty about it there, as the voters seem to have
become utterly disguised with Malone and
his methods. From Clarke county, in the
lower portion of the Valley, intelligence is of
the same tenor; not only the democrats, but
the republicans, and even large number of
the colored voters of that county supporting
General Lee with enthusiastic fervor. They
say that the time for squelching Malone has
come, and that they intend to make his last
state worse than his first
Major Henry Heaton, State Senator from
Loudoun county, Virginia, had an interview
with Senator VOORHEES, after the latter's
breakfast with the President this morning,
and obtained from him promise to address
the people of Loudoun at Leesburg on the
18th of October. In his speech the Senator
from Indiana will show up the record of
Mahone's supporters in the Senate on the
educational bill, and will also show that so
far as national legislation has had any thing
to do with the late depression Of business,
the blame cen be justly attributed to the re.
pubicans.
The resignation of the architect of the
Treasury having been accepted, and his first
assistant having determined to engage in
other business, two lucrative places have
been created, for which, it is needless to say,
there are already numerous applicants.
Mr.. F. E. Corbett, of Alexandria, was in
the city to day. He is the ex-deputy col.
lector of the port of Alexandria, and is now,
and has been ever since he could vote, q
But he is no Mahoneite; and
says that at the coming election he will
vote the democratic ticket. believing that
such vote will be conducive to the peace,
order, prosperity, happiness and general
welfare of his State, and that he is of the
opinion that most all the other original re
publicans of Virginia will do as he intends
doing.
As previously stated in this correspon.
dence good many democratic Congress
men from Missouri are in the city. They
are urgent for the removal of the republican
postmaster at st. Louis, among other desired
changes, and say that the people of their
State, SO lar as federal patronage is concern.
ed, as yet fail to see that there has been
change of administration.
Ex. Congressman Dezsndorf has gone to
Norfolk and will taken an active part in the
canvass in that district But
this is by no means strange, as nearly all
the real republicans of Virginia are opposed
to Malone.
The delegates from Norfolk who, with
Barbour, called upon the Sec.
rotary of the Navy and urged him to appor.