Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-08

| did not arrive at New y ork yesterday even
ing as expected, nor had her arrival been
reported here by telegraph up to o'clock
to-day. 1t was expected that Mr.. Barbour
would reach here this evening, and in the
program that had been arranged for his re-
ceptioo his congressional successor, Gen.
Lee would have made the reception speech.
The General was here for that purpose, but
as he has to go away to. morrow congress-
man Gibson, of West Virginia, will make
the speech when Mr.. Barbour shall arrive.
When informed of the hour of Mr.. Barbour's
arrival here, the Virginia democratic asso.
citation will assemble at their rooms, and
with 9 band of music march to the depot,
meet, and escort him to his residence on
Capitol Hill, from the front steps Of which
Mr.. Gibson will make the reception
speech.
A Virginia banker, in the city to- day,
when asked about the possible settlement of
the debt question in his State, said he knew
nothing moro than what he saw in the
newspapers, except that he had more calls
for coupons with which to pay the next
State dues than he had had for several
years, and that he understood such was the
case with ali TIE other bankers in his State.
Coupons, he said, were now selling for forty
five cents in the dollar, though for the pay
ment Of all State dues they were worth a
dollar.
The worthy triumvirate known as the
Commissioners Of The District of Columbia.
who are On trial before the bar of public
sopinion, seem to have acted upon the Span
ish pToverb: He that is on trial should in
wife the judge to supper" They gave en-
Saturday night an entertainment at the res
idenca OF Commissioner Webb. 1t is pleas.
ant to know that the s!iair was purely so.
cial and non-pclit!cal, az it is assured
1t might from the political character of the
guests have been deemed otherwise. The
executive was sacdwitched between Mr..
Webb, moderate republican, and Chief Justice
Richardson, radical republican. With O self
abnegaiion worthy of the highest common
dati0n, the following republicans conde-
scended to confer honor upon the democrat
ic President Justices Macarthur Hagner,
Mott and Davis. Col. Enoch Totten, attor.
ney for the Washington and Georgetown
street railway, republican, also coerced
time from his professional engagement to be
present. =teT Webb, by succession,
attorney for the Washington Gaslieht
and Coke Company, and son of the
!, host, filed the seat left vacant by
the absence Of Chief Justice Carter,
republican par excellence, upon compulsion n,
to avoid the fatal number thirteen. 1t seems
that the democracy was only represented by
the Virginia "Blue point on half sheln and
the kentucky bourbon. The moral to the
story in nut she'll "Gen. Grant frequent.
Iy dined with ex-Gov. Shepherd" SAYS the
reporter for the Washington Post. It goes
without saying that democracy was as con-
, spicuous by lis absence as at the recent
Virginia elections. 1t is hoped that the
: tins will come when even democrat will
DO permitted 10 play the humble part of
: Lazarus ut ali entertainment given to q
democratic President, and if he be denied
the crumbs may a5 least partake of the At
tic wit, supplied for four long hours by "a
f most enjoyable companion aud good con
veIsationast."
(Which made some take him for tool
, That knav.s do work with, called fool"
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Mr.. Brown Allen, who was auditor of Vr-
ginia during the Malone regime. He saws
that with Tie exception of Mr. Brady, Mr..
Riddeberger, Mr.. D>Zendorf, and probably
ex-Gov. Lewis, and half dozen lesser lights
among the Virginia republicans, every one
OF them considers General Malone the bend
OF the party and will support him o. such,
and that leaving out of view all the demo.
Gratis who left The democratic party with
General Nahone ninety.nine out of every
hundred of the original republicans will sup
port him for Senator, and that should the
republicans carry the next Legislature the
General will certainly be Mr. Riddleberger's
successor in the Senate. Regarding the State
debt, he Gays that if the republicans have g.
mnj GRITTY in the next Legislature, speaking
however, only for himself aud with no au.
thority to speak for any body else, he thinks
it would be wise for them TO accept the late
favorable terms proposed by the bondhold-
ers, and that they would do 80. When
asked what he thought Of the report that
Mr.. Riddeberger would make O tie in the
next Senate by voting with the democrats,
he said that no man on tho green or grav
earth could tell what Mr.. Riddleberger
would or would notdo.
Senator Kenna, chairman of the demo.
cratic congressional campaign committee,
has returned and was at the rooms of that
committee this morning. The democratic
majority in the next House will, it is said at
these rooms, be twenty-five. Mr.. Clark,
clerk of the House, puts it at nineteen,
thirteen, giving The republicans all the un:
certain seats.
Senator Vast had long interview to. day
with Attorney General Garland with refer
ence TO the suspension of q. S. District At.
: torney Benton in his State for having made
political speeches during the last campaign.
1t is understood that Mr.. Garland agreed
with him that Mr.. Benton should be rein
stated. But az the President takes no body's
advice except that of his private secretary,
what may be done in the case is not yet
known.
Owing to the PEACEFUL condition of the
country since the close of the republican
regime, fewer deputy, U S. Marshas were
engaged at the last election than at previous
one, and those that were engaged were
kept on duty only half tho customary time,
80 that the cost of the elections was only
about one half of those of 1854.
There is good deal of talk here to-day
about change in the organization of the
next House. Some of Mr.. Carlisle's friends,
some who want him to be the nominee of
the next national democratic convention,
say that gentleman does not want to be