Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-10-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Tsrecial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHING TON, D. O., Oct. Z, 1890.

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Especial Correspondence Of The Alexandria Ga=ette
WASHING roN. D. O.. Oct. Z, 1880.
Some OF the tony negroes of this city,
Douglass. Langston, Wormly, Purvis and
others, being de.ieous of having cottages at
some one Of the summer resorts on tne 70
tomac, applied 10 Mr.. Renneeer, pre-
prieto. OF CnftoD Beach, on the Maryland
shore, for that purpose. At hrst Mr.Renne'
ger was disposed to accede to their request
and sell them lots, but hndteg that that
would be dissgreeahle to the people llVi1g
near by, he declined to grant it. The ne
groes of this city areLow talking about his
refusal, and cay that with few more Lang
stons In Congress no more such lndi2nlties
will be pied upoo them.
Senator Hiscock and ex-senator Plat are
irving to arrange a scheme by which Secre.
tary Tracy OF the Navy will be elected U. s.
Senator from New York in the place OF MI.
Eyatts. who has declined reelection.
Mr.. Lyons, who has sued Langtou for
81 600 for counsel fees 10 the contested cleo
ton cs SO o; Langston vs, Venable, says the
reason he brought the suit in Petersburg and
not here was the fact that the court docket
here is go full that the case could not have
been reached In years, whereas In Peters
burg, where he did bring 1t, 1t will be
tried at the next term of the court.
Ex-Congrs ssman Yates of North Carolina,
now here. says that Lindsey, the chief North
Caroliniau engaged in the recently detected
Mot By which to COLOMBIA close northern
States with negroes from North Carolina, Ia
a political desperate, and is the man, dull
ing the famous Kirk-Holden fight In that
State in reconstruction times, whom the
late Senator Pool suggested as the one to
beat down democracy by shooting the leac-
ere: and that Huston's statement that the
proposed colonization was phianthropic
movement is absurd, as the devil himself
| wou lust as soon engage 10 philanthropie
movement es Lindsey. Lindsey is here also.
He SAYS that Huston has 40 regard for the
truth when he says that when he proposed to
| Law he scheme bfore the President he meant
| the president of g local club, foP that huston
told him he would lay 1t before the Attorney
| Genera! end the President of the United
States. Senator Faulkner Of West Virginia
is also here 10 day. He says the white
| working nsn OF his State are considerably
sxcited by the disco very of the PLOT referred
o 81 the Intention oft was not only to o.
taiu republican msj ority in the State in
1892, but 10 make the negro colooi5ts clti-
zsns and permanent residents OF the State,
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other white aborers there.
The recsipts at the Treasury Department
to-day from customs alone amounted to
| more than million and a half dollars.
They will be more than that day when
| collected under the new tariff bill which
| went into effect yesterday. The worst OF it
ia that az the heaviest tariff tax is laid upon
such articles rs poor people uee, the most Of
| This customs money is exeCted OF poor pee
pie.
but whose democratic news about his Stale
has always, heretofore, proved reliable, say
he does not think General Gordon will be
elected Senator, nor does he think Smith,
Hsynes or Norwood will be, but he does
,hiok that either Congl sman Crisp or Mr..
Pat Calhoun will be.
The Comte de Paris, the Due de Orleans,
their suite, and the following gentlemen ae
an eecor', Gen. 0 o. Howerd, Gen. Butter
field, Co. Copps niger and Col. Nicholson,
arrived hera this afternoon and put up at
the Arlington Hotel. They are On their
way to Richm md.
! A VirginiaD here to day, an ex-othcer OF
the Navy, n talking OF the proposed enter
| tainmenj OF the Comte de Paris at Rich
mond, suid Virginians were formerly the
highest, bus be feared they were now the
lowest people in the country. he said the
count had Dot ouly volunteered 10 come
over here TO fight against them, the weaker
| parry, in cause in which he was
not interested, bot that in his book on the
war between the States, he had invariably
.aksa the northern eide and always attribu-
ed Confederate victories to overwhelming
numbers" when everybody else knew that
vas not aud could not have been go. he
said the beat lart of Virginia now seemed
to ne her relics and her memories, but ne
supposed the cause of her fall is the fact that
her old time people are not as the head oil
affairs 10 the S ate now.