Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
FROM WASHlNuTUN.
,ssc,ol Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gasettel
WASHINGTON D. O. Oct g. 1885.

doubtful or as ManOnelto. MdJol he'0'
prominent merchant OF that county, ana pro
badly as we'll informed of its political condl-
ton az any other man in it, who was here
Yesterday. said it was safely democratic, and
would give democratic ajority of several
hundred. Fairfax county is also put down
in these estimates as among the douotlui
counties, but we'll informed people from that
county cay it will give a larger democratic
majority than it did at the last election. Inc
latest OF the estimates referred to gives tne
democrats 81 members of the House, the re-
pubicans &c. and - as doubtful:
It is reported at the Interior Department
this morning that an examination OF the nj;
records of the employees thereon VIII
be commenced next week, by which VIII
he shown the influences by which they
were appointed, their endorsers, their poll
tics, their efficiency, their moral oena-
yior, and their course as regards offensive
narlisanship. All the republican employees
have received letters urging them to come
home 10 work and vote for the republican
candidates and to contribute to the repuoll,
can campaign fund, but none have compiiea
with the latter part of the request lest IL De
the means of their removal, and 1t Is under
stood that few will even go home to vote.
1t has been published in some of the news.
Of Columbia democrats would not subscribe
TO the Virginia democratic CAMPAIGN fund
was not on account of their feelings toward
the administration for failing to remove the
republican office holders here. To show
how incorrect that statement is it is only
necessary to say that committee Of the
| Virginia democratic association of Washing
ton yesterday went out on collecting tour
| among the prosperous democratic merchants
here, and strange but true, returned without
having collected single cent, nearly every
| man, of whom the names are recorded, bas
| ing his refusal upon the ground of the ac
| ton. or rather want of action, ofthe admin
istratiou respecting the federal patronage.
The democracy of many of the Washington
democrats, like the republication of some
of the republicans of that city, has been
corrupted by the long. continued corrupt re-
publican sway, and has become matter
of self interest rather than of political prin-
ciple
Congressman Barbour chairman of LheVir.
ginia democratic State committee, who is in
The city to day, says that all his information
about the coming election in his State is
favorable. Respecting the report that Gen.
Malone has received large contributions
from the North, he says if it be true it will
only make it more incumbent upon the rich
democrats of Virginia to increase their sub
scriptions to the democratic campaign fund,
and to send them in promptly. Frequent
and urgent demands are made upon his
committee for campaign funds, and the
| democrats who can afford it should see that
the committee is enabled to meet all such
demands. Mr.. Barbour has issued call
for meeting of the State committee at
| ;obn an tho 18th ipctont
The Union soldiers from almost all the
different States engaged in the battle Of
Gettysburg have had their positions on that
battle field marked oil. Representatives of
those from New Jersey will do the same
| next spring, and will make the occasion
gala day, and they contemplate inviting
some of their Confederate friends to be pres
ent with them.
Rev. DR.. Curry, the recently appointed
Minister to Spain, has gone to Boston to
receive some information respecting the
duties of his position from Mr.. Lowell who
was U. S. Minister to Spain before he was
given the British Mission. Mr.. c. H. Sum-
ter, of Charleston, S. c., an old gentleman,
aud descendant of the famous General
Sumter, of his State, was an applicant for
the place to which DR.. Curry has been ap-
pointed, and who has waited here for it
long time, left for his home last night.
Mr.. +. G. Marshall, the democratic candi-
date for Congress in the Norfolk district, at
the last election, is in the city to-day. He
says the democratic prospects in his section
are favorable, and that he thinks Ports
mouth will give four hundred democratic
majority. His successful republican oppo-
nent Mr.. Libby is also here, it is said, for the
purpose of seeing that every colored man
who will agree to vote the Malone ticket at
the next election in his district shall be pro.
vided with the means ofgetting there. Mr..
Libby says the Mahoneites' majority there
will be six thousand, if they can get it, and
that to have it that much they will try very
hard.
Secretary Endicott has telegraphed Gen.
Newton, engineer IN charge of the work of
improving New York harbor, if it would not
be better to wait until Sunday, when there
will be fewer moving vessels in that harbor,
before exploding the dynamite that is to
blow up Flood Rock at He'll Gate. If the
suggestion be not adopted the explosion
will take place at II o'clock tomorrow
morning. 1t is said here that the explosion
will raise large column of white water
two hundred feet, on the top of which will
rest an immense mass of black rock. X
The Presidents former law partner, Mr..
DiSSSi1 was aSlS bo'ody Auu Aod al
view with the President, it is reported,
about New York politics. He says the
President is as anxious that New York |
should go democratic as any other good |
democrat, who has not bet upon the cleo.
ton, can be.
The President this morning appointed
Judge Thomas Smith, of Warrenton, Va,
q. S. District Attorney for the Territory of |
New Mexico. The Judge is the present
democratic candidate for the hoater dele
gate to the Legislature from the counties of
Loudoun and Fauquier in his State.
Mr.. Camp, the Philadelphia who WIS.,
here some time ago talking about leasing
and working the Loudoun granite quarry,
near Leesburg, is again in the city, but says
there is no demand for stone now.
A good many people attended the sale of
General Beale's blooded horses and mares
to day, among them being several Virgin
ians. The prices obtained were only fair,