Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents OF tho Mera. eiAsEY
WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. %. 1889.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. %, 1889
Representative Breckenridge, of Ken
lucky, was at the Capitol to-day. He Gays
be thinks Senator BLACK burn, of mis- State,
will be re elected without much trouble.
Blackburn's defeat, he says, he thinks was
on the card come time ago, but that i1 ia
now too late; that the men who want hs
place and would fight for it are not the meo
the people of the State want, and that none
OF those who might De acceptable to the
people will fight for 1t. Mr.. Carlisle, be
says, is popular throughout the State, and
might have secured the Senatorship if he
had commenced to Work foz it three years
ago, blu. ihat he copldD't do it now. if be
we're to try, which. he understands, he bas
no intention OF doing.
prominent northern democrat hare to
day said that from what he heard from the
republicans Ia his section it WAS heir de-
termination to Go oil thai is possible to So
sist General Malone to carry Virginia next
fall; and that the General would be cup.
piled with eli the money that he may want
to accomplish that objs He said tbs
same curse toe General pursued 10 refer
ence 10 ne election of his delegates TO iha
Norfolk couyen ion, he would he expected
to attempt, wherever possible a. thu cleo
ton, aud tbat every effort kncwu tu aba, D
politicians would b adopted 5y tho General
next November.
It is reported here that tho x;|3s of the
western part OF Virginia did not suit Mr..
Butler Mahone's ideas of lfe-snmaiimes
checkered but always gay-aUd that eoass
quently he has declined the appointment Of
chief deputy U. s marshal for the western
district of Virginia, which was offered him By
Marshal Watts.
Senator Hampton, who is now here, says
the men President Harrison has appointed
to Office in South Carolina are not conducive
to the spread of repubicanism among the
reputable people of that State. as they ere
of the same old carpet bag. negro, aud seal
lawag kind, s1me of whom are already under
indictment and more ought to be-.
The following changes IN the class
postoficea Of Virginia were made to-ne7 :
Beaver Dan Depof, Hanover county, Ellen
G. Joneo sppoin'ed postmae'er, vice J. L.
Thompsnu, removed BotkiUs, S)u;hamp.
ton county, W. n Blanchard, vice W. N.
Beaton, removed Elrairgtou. Nelson coun
ty. 8. WY, sr., Jaa E : ehrick.
Gen. Harry Heth, of Virginia, who wEs
recently removed from the Rn0-rnm.nt po-
sition he held ip ne Wet. ~ now in his
city. 1t il rumored here that the Gar ersl is
in possession of some kno~,.dge Respecting
Gea. Mahone's militsty csrcer that does rot
agree with the prevailing impression on that
subject.
Representative Thompson. of Ohio, was at
the Capital to-day. He says he thinks Rep
resenta:ive Campbell will bs nominated for
Governor by The democratic convention Of
his Sie:e next ~eek. and thst Mr.. Camp
bells vctu ior the Mills bill in the lust Con-
g,ess will do him no harm.
Commissioner Tanner Of hia own srh!ira
ry will, hiss ordered that all 81 pensions be
increased by rsrating them whether asked
for by the pensioners or not, and that the
affidavit Of one man to an application for
pension, shall, hereafter, be sufficient to SO
cure that pension.
The late dispatches about the seizure of British
sealers by an American vessel in Behring sea has
made the State Department very anxions, lest
some ono of the seized vessels shall submit to the
one-man prize crew put aboard of her and come
into an American port, for in such case her i'm
mediate release would have to be ordered