Alexandria Gazette

On a test vote between the Grant and anti-Grant men in the Chicago convention last night, eight of the Virginia delegation cast their lot with the General's opponents, and this, too, notwithstanding the instructions of the Staunton convention and the letter of District Attorney Lewis to the contrary. The latter now probably entertains similar opinions of the recalcitrants to those the right thinking people of Virginia entertain of him. Before the Staunton convention he went to Washington and informed gentlemen there that he was in favor of a straight-out ticket, and yet he hardly reached Staunton before he was advising a coalition with the readjulsters. But little confidence can be placed in politicians, less in republican politicians, and none at all in Southern republican politicians.