Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-11
FkOM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF tho Alexa GAZE1

WASHINGTON D. c., Sept II, 1856.
NJ. L. Hughes, esq, a leading citizen of
Hampton, Va, was in the city 10 day and
gives bit of interesting information per-
taing to congressional matters in the Nor.
folk district. He says Libhey was beaten for
re nomination partly by bad management;
that in making the violent contest he did
against his cOlOred opponent, who vas real.
ly never i'll tho race, he angered more or
less large negro element that in the end
was driven TO make 81 choice of Bowden
Libbey and friends are represented to be
sore but will support the nominee. Marshall
Parks will be nominated by the democrats,
he says, next Wednesday, and will make
vigorous light. Ills candidacy has already
the personal as we'll as official endorsement
of Senator kenna, chairman of the national
congressional committee. Mr.. Hughes
further states that it is the opinion of expe-
rienced republicans like John Callahan that
the detection amongst republicans in Ports.
mouth, Norfolk city and Norfolk county is
already large enough to make the election
of Parks g strong probability. The renub-
icana, however, so far as he is informed,
will not encourage the running of an indie
pendent candidate against Bowden. If one
should turn up in the course of the fight it
will only be to find purchaser and Their re-
tire from the field. Col. Clay, late collector
at Newport News and republican, is spok-
en- of az the knights of labor candidate, but
that organization is so small in that district
that Mr.. Il. thinks the project will not be
carried out. While Bowden will fight sys-
tematicaIly and vigorously the situation of
affairs is such as to give much encourage
ment to the democrats.
1t is not true as reported in O Rich
mond journal, that republican con.
ventlon has been called in the 9TH
district to meet at Stuart, in Patrick county,
on the 9th inst. Col. Sims said today the
announcement was rank canard, and that
1t was doubtful if any convention would be
ordered. Certainly, he said, mono would be
called earlier than the middle Of October.
He also said that Judge Blackwell, Of Dan
vile, who has been reported as unwilling
| lie become an independent candidate against
Cabell, is still being urged to DO 30 by the
dissatisfied element in the 9Th district. Sims
declined to say what lie thinks the repub-
lcaDs will do in the event of Blackwell's
candidacy.
republican from Fauqucr county, Va,
| here to-day, says the election of delegates to
| the democratic convention in that district
| will be held in his county next Saturday,
| and that be thinks Lee delegates will be
elected in all the districts in that county ex-
| cept Scott, which sent Lee delegates to the
last convention, but in which Captain Fos-
tors friends will make vigorous, and, he
| thinks,a successful fight next Saturday. This
| loss. however, he says, will probably he Off
set by the gain of Marshall district, which
| was represented in the last convention by
| anti.Lee delegates. He says that Mr..
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several letters from various parts of the dis
trict advising him to allow his name to be
presented TO the convention, but that if he
has considered the proposition. he has not
yet announced his decision
Gen. Dabney Maury, OF Virginia, is still
| in the city. His friends say that his appoint
ment IA o.. :. Minister TO Bogota, which
was not acted upon by the Senate, will be
| renewed soon after the Presidents return.
4 new order will be issued in the Treas.
ury Department to-day, revoking all special
permits to enter that department after , D.
M, except to members of Congress and
newspaper correspondents. The claim agents
were making such demands upon the de.
rartment for advancing special claims that
the work there was being transacted ut
night in order 10 keep up.
Dispatches received here from the city OF
Mexico are to the effect that the Americon
colony in that city substantate the truth Of
the report of the Sedgwck toot, and en-.
dorse the dispatch of Consul General Porch,
recommending Mr.. Sedgwick's recall. Ex-
animation has also discovered that what Mr..
Bayard insisted upon in his demand upon
Mexico is abhorrent to all the principles of
international law, and is specially provided
against in the penal code Of some Of the
States Of his own country.
In letter received here from Mr.. Butch
err, one Of the independent democratic can.
didates for Congress in the TIN district of
Virginia, hs says: II am busy with my
campaign, praying TO the eternal God that
my opponent and Cleveland, with his mug
wump policy, will be hurled into that oh.
livion from which there shall be no resur-
recton."
At the regular weekly meeting Of the
Virginia democratic association of this city
held last night, Mr.. K. G. Glasscock was
present, and, in obedience to an order of
the superintendent of the coast survey, in
which he is employed, was ready to de.
cline the vice presidency of the associa.
ton, to which he had been elected at the
previous meeting, but WAS prevented from
doing so by an intimation from the Treasu-
ry department that perhaps his acceptance
of that position might not, after all, be An
insuperable objection to the retention of his
place in the Governments service. The
superintendent of the coast survey, from
whom be received the order referred to, is
from Buffalo, New York, and was put in his
present position when the old superintend-
ent was dismissed for crookedness, but a.
many of the useless expenses there are con-
tinued, his removal is now talked Of
The plans for the new naval vessels have
been found to BIO so utterly worthless that
bids for the construction of those vessels |
have not yet been advertised for.
E. J. Creamer has been appointed postmaster at
Tanners Creek, Norfolk county, Virginia.
letter received here from Detroit says that |
Senator Jones has lucid interval. and is now
talking about returning To his home in Florida |
Albert Williams, Jr., of San Francisco, geoo |
gst in the Geological Survey bureau has resigned |
and David E. Day, Of Baltimore, has been appoint |
ed to the vacancy.
From Petersburg it is reported to-day that Gen |
Malone, seeing the uselessness Of kicking against
the inevitable, has invited an interview with Mr. |