Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WAau1NaroE. d. c.. Aug. 81. 1889.

Especial Correspondence of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. O.. Aug. q, 1889.
Senator Barbour left here this morning for
Lynchburg, where he expected to meet the
candidates nominated at the recent State
democratic convention of Virginia, and con.
sult with them about the management OF
the democratic campaign now commencing
in that State. The prevailing impression
here concerning the result OF that campaign,
among people who know anything ABOUT
the condition of political affairs in Virginia,
is that Notwithstanding the money Of the
n, national republican committee and the sup
mort of the federal administration, General
Malone will be eliminated next November
more effectually than he eliminated one
third of the Virginia debt when he was at
the head of affairs in his State.
Young Mr.. Popham, of Virginia, recently
appointed U. S. commercial agent at Pana-
on the 3lst inst. He did not intend to leave
until the 10Th proximo, and was rather sur
prised when he received orders that compel
him to leave next Saturday.
The demand for money in the commercial
centres is 30 great now and the accumula
ton of surplus in the Treasury 80 enormous,
that Secretary Window, 10 order to supply
the former and reduce the latter, must pur
chase bonds not yet due, and in doing that
is at the mercy of bond trust, which is
| looting the governments ccffers.
| All the required preparations are being
made here for the commencement OF an
extra session of Congress on the 2lst OF
October. The President has been supplied
with all the data requisite for the message
he will then send to Congress. which mes
sage be is now preparing and will have
completed by that time.
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson
gave the democratic 4th class posmssters
rest to day, and removed none OF them.
| An Alexandra republican here to-day
says the republicans OF his city and county
| have determined to re-DomiDate MIR. Cor
bett for the legislature, and that Mr.. Cor
bett Gays he will accept the nomination end
will be elected. The republican referred to
smiled when be told the GAzETTE's cores
pondent this, aud said Mahoneism was nc
where more thoroughly dead than in Alez.
aDdria.
People from Alexandria county, Virginia
here to day say nearly all the negroes on the
old Arlington estate in that county, who
we're disfranchised by reason OF that estate
becoming a government reservation, baVe
moved OF II, aud now i've on reuteu, ledsou
or purchased lots near by, 30 that they can
again vote, and send their children to school
and have their poor provided for and their
dead buried at the county's expense as o.
yore.
A gentleman from Petersburg, Virginia,
who arrived here to-day says General Ma
hone is at bis home there and has bis secre,
tary, Capt. Asa Rogers, sending out circulars
by the thousand to all parts of thu
State on the subject of the State
debt. but that they contain no plan
by which he proposes to settle that
debt. They also say that the feeling
against General Malone among certain
members of his own party in Petersburg is
as great as it ever was, and that Langston
the head of the negroes there, will not yet
say whether he is for or against the General
Mr.. Edmund Burke, a prominent repub
lican lawyer of Alexandria, here to-day
says the nomination of Mr.. Frank Hume
for the Virginia legislature by the demo-
Gratis of Alexandria will cut big slice out
of the Malone pet in that county.