Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-10-24

From Washington
Special Correspondence OF the Ale1s. aAhzlT'

From Washington
srec,sl Correspondence OF the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHING ron. D. c., Oct "a. 1888.
As it is learned here thet General Lee,tne
representative in Congress from the Ale1an-
dtia district, has been charged by the re-
publican managers in that district with
gross dereliction of duty for not having
snooks protected by the tariff, tue
correspondent went to the
Treasury Department to-day and en-
onired ut the customs division there
Of tho rate of protection SHOCKS re-
oeiye by the existing tariff Mr.. McGTegorr,
the chief Of the division, picked up oook
living on his desk, and looking at schedoie
D of the tariff act of March. 1883. the act es-
tablishipp the existing customs duties,
answered at once that the present rate on
shocks was thirty per cent. how much
more protection do the shocks Shippers
want? c.,,.
The Young men CT the Deaf Mute College
at Kendall Green near this city ARE active IN
poitics. They have organized CLUBS anu
hold fire. meetings Oftimes JOINT dis
cussions are held uuder the auspices OF theif
literary society. a large number OF city
mutes 90 out on these occasions. Inc dem
ocrats have small msjority, and bets are
freely offered ana Gade, and they are OF all
sorts. Among those recently made Is one
that the loser shall leave there at certain
hour and walk 10 Great Fails postoihce ara
back. IL is said that DR.. Galaudet, presi-
dent Of the college, intends soon 10 resign
and enter the political arena. He Wants 10
he a u. S. Senator from Connecticut.
II ia understood here that while many re
rublcans. white aud black, who left Virgin
ia as far back az ten years ago, and who
never EXPECT to go back there TO live, who
even have no relatives living there, lave
gone from here to Alexandria and been reg
istered there recently, aud will 90 there TO
vote at the coming election, many Alexan
dria democrats residing he'e temporarily,
and y ho have MAYER ceased 10 claim Alex
audris as their home, have been deferred
from registering there by reason Of recent
judicial decision.
The rumor that the British Minister here
will be given his passports because he wrote
a priyate letter TO friend in California to
the effect that the anti English feeling here
vas created for political effect, and that
after tho election it would subside, is denied
at the State Department. where, 1t is stated,
/ the government will take no notice OF the
| letter referred to.
Whether from the Presidents expressed
confidence in his own luck, or from some
other cause, there is no doubt OF the fact
that not only the resident democrats, but
those from distance who visit here are IN
much better spirits than they were month
ago. and that now the prevailing opinion
| among them is that the President Will te-re-
elected. The generally qualify their ex-
pressons to this effect by the remark Tat
unsatisfactory as his second administration
NAV be, it viii certainly be better and
safer one than would be that Of the high
tariff and South hating sectional party.
Reports here TO day from West Virginia
are 10 the effect that while the State may
90 for Cleveland, there is great doubt OF the
legislature, as tie sane democratic element
that defeated the re cleo ion OF ex-senator
Camden is now opposing the re election OF
Senator Kenna. Gentlemen from Loudcun
county, Virginia, here to day, estimate the
democr &c majority 10 that county at from
seven to nine hundred.
A Virginia democrat, here today, who
left Petersburg yesterday, says General Ma.
hone speaks in the mot confident terms of
carrying Virginia for Harrison at the com
ing election. He says the General doesn't
partcularze in respect Of the several con.
gressiona districts, but says the State will
90 republican. The gentleman referred to
SAWS there Is great uncertainty about the re-
suit of the congressional election in The Pe-
ter. burg district but that it is the current
rumor there that Lspgston, the colored re-
publican candidate, will be defeated {,
even ii to accomplish that purpose Vena-
Die, the democratic candidate, be elected
He also says that Mr.. Agnew, the republic
can candidate for Congress in the Ale1an
dria district, has not yet accepted General
Mahone's invitation TO visit him and confer
upon the management of the campaign IN
his district, and is not now expected to do
Sc, aud will therefore receive no assistance.
pecuniary or otherwise, from the General,
but be left to paddle his own canoe, and
that the Generals choice for the nominee in
the district was ex-postmaster Windsor, OF
Alexandria.
It is rumored that the President is by no
means pleased, rs might we'll be surm;sed,
at the latest manifestation of the i'll will his
Secretary of the Inteiior Mr.. Villas, nurses
for ex-Confederates that he thinks, and
naturally, that the Secretary might just az
we'll have postponed it until after the cleo
ton and that in case of his election, among
the vacant chairs in his Cabne. will be that
| OF tl6 man WGo uhtts oA-SOuieVeio'oS ."
much that as Postmaster General be de.
clared that ex-Confederates holding minor
positions in bis department should not he
promoted, and who, as Secretary of the In.
rior, declared they should not he appointed
to such positions in the Interior Department
az long as he should remain ct the head
| thereof
Senator elect Barbour left here for Richmond
last night to attend meeting Of the Virginia
State democratic committee, OF which he is chair
mau.
The wind anu sunshine dried tho race track
here to-day, and large crowd, including many
la lies WAS in attendance
YelIOw-Fever Sufferers.
To The Editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
The following letter received from for
mer Alexandrian speaks for itself. shall
be happy to receive and forward in response