Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-09-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHING TOE. D. O.. Sept. b, 1851.


WASHING TOE. D. O.. Sept. B, 1851.
Admiral Gharidi has arrived here and was
at the Navy Department this morning. Hs
ssys that revolution Ia In the air at Hayti,
will soon develop iteel?. and that Managat
will be at the head OF the next government.
Mansgat Is full blood negro, as the negro
majority there think mulattoes ara no good
hating their white fathers aud despising
their negro mothers. The Admiral would
not talk about Admiral Walker.
The work of making the bed of the Wash
ington and Arlington Railroad has pro-
gressed from the sopth end OF the Aquedoctt
Bridge as far as McLsughlin's house. Until
the plan OF the bridge at the Three sisters
has baen approved by the War Department,
no work on the road cen be done Withln
the limits Of the Arlington reservation
Among the visitors here day is MI Ike
Hill. well-posted Ohio democratic poll
ticiao, and deputy sergeant-at arms OF enc
II. &. House of Representatives lie ssys
Campbell will be elected Governor beyond
doubt. and that the talk about bis defest
has nothing 'to" 1t. Es says the people
OF Ohio want low tariff end free silver,
and are going to do all they cen to crafty
that want. He says the Farmers' Alliance,
called the third party there, will cast eighty
thousand bsllots and elect forty-hVe mem
bers of the legislature. and that whether
that body be democratic or not, Senator
Sherman Is bound to be defeated. He also
saws that Ex-Governor Foraker Gays that
Mr.. Sherman has forced fight on him, and
in such manner that he cannot refuse to
accept the challenge.
8, E. Rhodes was to-day appointed post
master at Air Point, Roanoke county, vice
N. G. Powell, resigned.
Alexander Fortune was to-day appointed
Q. 8. gauger at Montreal. Mellon county,
Virginia.
People from Georgia here to-day say that
ex- CONGRESSMAN Clements, of Georgia, de-
feated by the Farmers Alliance, stands
good chance OF being appointed Interstate
commerce commissioner, vice Bragg, de.
ceaeed.
Nj. ]. c Clements OF Alexandria coroty,
who is here to-day, Gays his business Hs
real estaGe agent Will not permit hin TO BE-
come candidate for the Legislature In his
county. He says the county democratic
committee met last Thursday end resolved
to meet The city committee at noon next
Mondey in alexandria, for the puposa Of &C.
teruinine upon the mode and mnuDes Of
nominating candidate foE the House OF
Delegates.
MIR. Ctounse, Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury, who has been to Roanoke and
Stsun;on, Va, to inspect proposed elites for
public buildings to be erected liz those
| towns, says the selection Of the sites will not
be made until next week, and that 1t Ia
probable sites nearer the business centers In
both towns than those heretofore proposed
will be eelscted, If the price thereof be not
too exorbisant.
1t is understood here that the fear OF the
loss Of the negro vote In OHIO was the sole
cause OF the appointment of negro as U.
8. Minister 60 Hayti. 1t wss said at the
State Department only two weeks ago that
Prince as the consul there could dc oil that
vas necessary, and yet the urgent necessity
of one Is nov assigned as the re- son for the
appointment. To the meantime news had
come from Ohio 10 the effect that the los7 OF
the negro vote there would defeat MIR. Nc
Knley.
A Baltimore republican, io the city TO.
day, says that Westcott will not resign the
craftsmanship Of the Maryland republican
committee, and that unless he shall. Vsnnot5
will surely resign the eroernstorinl nomina-
ton. He says the f1ght In the committee
was between thu Harrison and Blaine men,
and for the control Of the delegation to the
next natioDsl republican convention, and
that the Blaine men having won the victory
are not going to rslinqRish It's epoils &C the
Whim Of Mr. Ysnnort
II Is rurored as the State Department to-day
that she Prosideat, without consulting Secretary
Blaine, hiss directed Mr.. Esgsk U. S. Minister TO
Chilli to recognise abe new government there at
onco.