Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-31
FROM WASHINGTON.
IS; ecial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., july 81, 1880.

Notwithstanding contrary statements,
Congressm 80 Bliey Brownies denomination
Ia assailad with an obstinate, If not a dsh-
gerous opposition 10 the person OF Capt.
s ubbs OF g OF 'ster. now the delegate from
that county to tie Virginia Legislature. Ii
Is false, eaid Delegate Stubbs to the GA
ZETTE's correspondent, that Browne will
have walk over" at the convention just
called In our district. l am candidate and
have come to stay My nomination ia al
most a certainty. As az old democrat, and
resdjus' er and Confederate soldier, have
mauy f lends outside the ranks Of my own
party. am sleo representative OF Inc
Alliance, and they number fully 5000 mem
bers In our district They are power, and
7 was recently honored by an appointment
In their order. Candidate Stubs also re-
ferred In an implied deprecatory and suppll'
cstory sort of way, to the alleged important
alliance, offensive and defensive, which is
said to'obiain Just at the present between
LAWYER Browne and Editor Wolff OF the
| ede,icksburg Free Lance On the az
sumption that they were conspiring to har-
mcnjze things 10 that district, Delegate
Siubbs was fee to intimate that If Browne
we're less q lawyer ard Wolff were more a
farmer, their reported copartnership would
wear more formidable look. AS to the
edi.or. be said there was not to be found q
single hay ssed In either his lu1nriant shock
of hair or graceful whlskers, while aB to
Representative Browne, bis profession OF
| LAWYER placed him without the possibility
of any support from the "horny handed sons
of toll" 10 the First Virginia district.
Senator Hoar has gone to Massachusetts
knowing that bis election bill will not be
called up Immediately. His friends here
cav no did not make the speech be is re-
ported to have made 10 the republican eau
Gus in favor of the Force BILL but that he
did say that bill WAS of more importance
than the tariff bill, and that a way should
be found By which 1t could be passed with
ont delay.
Ex-Governor Cameron, of Virginia, has
left the city. He was here. 1t is under
stood, In the interest of W. F. Humphrey, o.
Ashland Va, who is an applicant Tor the
position of guager in the Internal revenue
service a. Richmond, and who has some rel.
les OF the Confederate Statee, among them
the pro eedinss of the executive sessions Of
the Confederate States Senate, which he
wants to sell 10 the Unted States. But as
it would require congressional action for the
accomplishment Of the latter OH sot, and rs
such action is never speedy, negotiations
have been opened with the Historical Socie-
| ty Of Massachusetts for the sale OF the arti-
eles referred to. Ex-Gov. Cameron, while
talking about Virginia affairs, said 1t was
owing to his recommendation while Gov
| ernor that The money for the Lee statue 10
| Richmond was not sunk In McOulloch bonda,
and that as it was. the horse of the statue
was made without eyes.
The impression seems to be increasing
that the republicans have abandoned their
| scheme for pushing their Force bill through
| the Senate at this session, and that both
parties In Congress will now do all they can
to make an adjournment practicable b. the
last week in August.
Among the strangers atthe Capitol to-day
was Col Wolff, OF the Fredericksburg Free
Lance. The Colonel says be thinks Mr.. Hume
viii be an independent candidate for Con-
gress, not from any thing Mr.. Hume says, but
because he doesn't say be wont be, and for
the, ..ceasoushe, Wolff does not feel at..liberty
to mention, but that II he shall there will
not be single republican In Stafford county
who will not vote for him,
Lang3ton the colored contestant for Mr.. Vena-
bes III the 30 SO, WIS at tn Capitol to-day. Ho
is by no means as gamey as ho was some time ago,
has evidently become little "timid, )" and wont
even say now whether he will DO candidate at
next falls election.
The split between Secretary Blaine and his
party is evidcntly widening. The President has
advised the republican managers in Congress to
pay no attention to Mr. Blaine's suggestions about
reciprocity, but to 20 ahead and pass the ts'if
bill rs soon as possible ard leave reciprocity to be
PROVIDED for By subs quent treaties, and there is
no doubt of tho fact that majority of tho repub-
licsns in Congress on this question agrcc with
Mr.. Harrison.
Tho following is tho only change in the 4th
class postmastcrs in Virginia that wa' made to-
day King William C. H., King William county,
NJ. C. King appointed posim sster, vice Mrs NJ c..
Taylor, resigned.