Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence Of the Alexa GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. II, 1856.

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that body are gradually increasing
Some fifteen or twenty are already iu the
city, and that number is being enlarged
daily. Most of the democrats among them
agree privately that the result of the recent
elections showed popular verdict against
| the administration, and was q warning to
the Presidents friends that they must accept
| him At his word, and be content with one
term. Publicly they moderate their ex.
pressions considerably.
| Some additional printers were employ ed
at the Government printing Office yesterday
and more will be employed weekly now I'm
til the meeting of Congress.
ExAuditor Allen, of Virginia, when here
the other day. anticipated the action of the
Circuit Court Of Richmond yesterday in reu-
derng verdict against him and his suretes
for the recovery of 81 500 paid to his broth
er in. law, J. E. Hamilton, for collecting tie
delinquent taxes on the B. & 0. K. R, but
said the case would be appealed to the Court
Of Appeals where that judgment would be
reversed.
A we'll known aud prominent Virginia
republican 10 the city to-day, in talking
about the condition Of his party in his State,
said they could not we'll get rid of General
Malone, as he wouldn't 60 and they
couldn't make him, and that for one he
would be willing to let him come back to
the Senate if be would allow them to have q
republican State committee presided over
by an original republican, and allow that
committee to have the distribution of the
State patronage. He also said he believed
his party would declare for the settlement
of the debt question upon the terms now
offered by the creditors.
MIR. Curtis, son of the head mugWump,
George William, has been appointed to
clerkship in the Department of Justice.
Congressman Collins, Of Boston, was at
the Capitol to-day. He says the democratic
| gains in Massachusetts were due simply and
solely to the fact that the gamers made
their fight in favor OF tariff reform, and that
! the question of endorsing the administra-
ton had nothing to do with the case.
A disiuterested officer of the House. be.
cause no matter what party is in power his
position is safe, as the House could hardly
get along without him, who Just arrived
here this morning from Michigan, saws that
from there to this city the impression con-
corning the recent election is, to use his OWL
expression, that it gave the administration
q black eye. He says he saw and talk ed
with Senator Jones in Detroit, and that the
Senator looked we'll and seemed to be in
his usual spirits, but that in his interview
he said nothing about his return. He seem.
ed to have no business, and was apparently
just idling away time. His aban donment
of an honorable and lucrative position is
the most remarkable on record, as so far as
known it was without any reasonable cause
An intimate friend Of Mr.. Speaker Car
Isle, in the city to-day, says there is moth.
ing in the report to the effect that that gen
tleman has no interest in retaining the Speak
ership, and would rather ba chairman OF
the ways and means committee, so that be
could head the low tariff move that will be
made III the next Congress. He says Mr.
Carlisle would rather be Speaker of the
House than U. s. Senator, and that he will
be.
1t ls current talk here to-day that the re.
publcsn', lacking assurance of the loyalty
, OF Senators Van Wyck and Rddleberger
have determined to make desperate effort
to retain their control of the Senate, with.
out having u rely upon both those Senators
and, as heretofore intimated in this col.
} respondence, have selected Indiana as the
place to make it. They will therefore at
tempt to GUST three of the democratic mem.
bers OF the Indiana Legislature and to fill
their places with republicans, and thereby
have Mr.. Harrison returned to the Senate.
1t is rumored at the Stale Department to.
day that Minister Phelps, who refused to
present Mr.. Rice TO the Prince of Wales, be.
cause that gentleman bad criticised the pub
lie acts of Secretary Bayard, mas been ''sat
upon" by the Secretary for running the De.
partment to great and unnecessary expense
by telegraphing accounts of the compli.
ments that are paid him, which compli.
ments he thinks show the wisdom of the
Secretary in appointing him.
dispatch received here to-day from, Mr..
Barbour says he will arrive here at eight
o'clock tonight, instead of four this even.
ing, as he telegraphed he would do yester.
day. The Virginia democratic association
of this cHy will meet at their rooms, No,
4l9 10Th street, and, with their friends, form
In line at half-past seven o'clock. Headed
by brass band they will march up 10th to
street, up L 10 10th, down 18th to Penn.
sylVanla avenue, down PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue. to the Is. 4 p. Il. L. depot, on 9Th
street There they will meet MIR. Barbour.
and with him will march down Peppsylya.
MIA avenue 10 d street, then countermarch
to the metropolitan Hotel, from the front
balcony OF which the formal reception cere-
monies will take place. During the march
from the E. Il =. depot to A. street aud back
to the hotel Pennsylvania avene will liter
ally be painted red. At the hotel reception
speeches will be made by congressman Gib-
son and Weborn, ex-Congressmen Goode
and Ellis, Congressman. elect Lee, and
Messrs. W. w. Garrett, G. S. Moore and
Linden Kent, to which Mr.. Barbour will re-
ply. A large number of Alexandrians are
expected up. Those who leave Alexandria
on the ! o'clock train will reach here in
ample time.
| Congressman Gibson of West Virginia who is
! here to-day, says tho democrats of his State are
not SO certain about having majority in the leg.
isature rs they would like to be, as late returns
show that three Of the men they have been count
ing on have been defeated and that there is doubt
about another one, which leaves them with no
majority to speak of.
J. j. Alley, of Scott county, Virgins, former
examiner in the pension Office, indicted for vic.
lation Of the postal laws in attempt to obtain
money from pcnsioner by making false repre-.
sensations of the condition of his case was tried
before the criminal court here yesterday and &C.
quilted, the jury being of the impression that the
department. detectives put up job on him to
SHOW their own efficiency and enhance their own
| wages.