Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alcxa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c., Sept. i 1856.


WASHINGTON D. c., Sept. i, 1856.
Therepublican ma GRITTY in the Senate now
is eight. Well informed democrats bore are
of the opinion that that majority will be
overcome next winter and that the demo.
Gratis will have a majority in the Senate af.
ter the 18th of next March. A change of four
will make tie, and FIVE will give them
majority. One change, Malone, has already
been made, three certain ones are said to
be Harrison, Hawley and Copger, and the
fifth is expected to be supplied from some
one of the other States in which elections
arc to be held. The republican majority in
the present legislature Of Michigan is only
four and in that Of Connecticut fifteen but
in both the labor, temperance, anti-monopo-
~ and revenue tariff movements are conf
IDENTITY expected to destroy those msjoriies
Senator Plumb and sergeant. alarms Cana.
dy Of the Senate have gone TO the latter's
home in North Carolina. Ex-senator
Hearst went there q month ago. 1t is un-
derstood that the gold mines Of That State
are the attraction.
Complaints have been made to the Inte-
rlor Department here by hotel and boarding
house keepers just outside The government
reservation at the Hot Springs of Arkansas,
that while the water from those springs is
wasted, they are not allowed to have it
brought to their houses lest the business Of
the hotel on the reservation he injured
Strange as it may seem, Mr.. Brennan, Sec
rotary Manning's private secretary, says 10
physician has ever yet said that Mr. Man
ming has been paralyzed. Mr.. Mauning's
joints, he says, are still, but his limbs are not
Iifeless
Democrats from Richmond here today
say that if the labor men of that city DO not
endorse Mr.. Wise, they will not oppose Eim,
and that his election is considered certain.
From Petersburg ii is learned that by election
day there will only be one republican caudi-
date FOR Congress in that district, notwith-
standing The existing divided state Of tho
party there, ana That General Malone find
ing it useless 10 obstruct the inevitable
will withdraw his opposition to Gaines aud
at least give him bis nominal support. PEG.
pie from the 9th district here to day say
that Mahoneisln is in as dcmoralized condi.
ton there as elsewhere in tho State, and
that Col. Henry, the democratic candidate,
will be elected by larger majority than
Mr. Trigg, the present democratic member
The renewed seismic manifestations in
| Charleston constitute the chief topic Of con-
versation here to-day. a private telegram
| from Charleston reports shower of stones
| there this morning, aud says that The Wash
| ington correspondents who went there and
tainted the Charestonians about their fear
| OF sleeping within doors, were the first ones
| to rush out OF their hotels when the shock
| of last night was felt; have not yet gone back
into them, and now concede that the fears
alluded to were justiiiable.
From advanced sheets of the democratic
| campaign book it is proved that every state
ment made by Commissioner Black with
| reference 10 the running of the pension bu-
J reau by bis republican predecessor Dudley
| IN the interests Of the republican party is
not only entirely correct hut il suhstantiated
| by documentary evidence.
Employees in the Government Printing
| Office here say that Mr.. Rounds has run that
office, except during the period extending
from the election of President Cleveland to
the time when he was informed that his
resignation was expected in his own inter-
est and that of the republican party.
The Virginia democratic association OF
this city have elected the following officers :
II. l.. Biscoe president; R. G. Glasscock
FIRST vice president; N. L. Vowles, second
vice president; j. r. Fisher, recording sec
rotary; W. II. Monroe, financial secretary
J. J. Vowles, corresponding secretary; z. G.
| Hupgerlord, treasurer; G.. A. Lyon, SER
gesnt.at arms. Executive committee Messrs.
| Il. w. Hunter, Il. ]. Luttrell, j. Il. Fisher,
Il. Bird Lewis, Il. ]. Elan.
The Virginia delegates to the recent national
| farmers convention at st. Paul among them
Messrs. Beverly, Lewis and Burke, stopped here
| last night on their way home.