Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-06-29
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Special Correspondence Of tie Aleua. Gasctts.
WASHINGTON D. c.. Jnne 90 1880

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Special Correspondence Of tie Alero. Gasctts.
WASHINGTON. D. G.. June 90, 1880.
ln!e.ligtnco h,r, .rJm Vngiaia is 10 the IF c:
that the readjusters' convention will meet 10
Rich nond Oh The lib prcximo, the State 70
publican committee ca The S.h, and the STATE
conservative Committee 90 tho l5.b; that the
former will be attended By maty republicans :;
that i! will endorse The Cincinnati nominees, but
nominate 40 electoral ti,ket entirely different
from that Of The regular democrats that tvsry
rel ubicau 10 the State. including tbcs, who
attend the reatius!trs' convention az delepatcs,
will vote the sta eht republican ticket next
NoVcmb Der; that witbou. tho aid of tho repub
licius the ticket the reat justers will nominate
clnnot possibly rtcove more than twanty five
Thousand votes, and finally that the consetva.
llvee, with tho new voters and tho aid they
Will rec'l7o from the Independents and the
Gtant meo, can afford to lose that number and
s III GARY the State By handsome msjcrity.
Inc decision OF the c)uIt here yesterday to
the ell, c. that the wharf owners along he Dol tn
bark OF the Potomac have no riparian rights
taat tho Government is bau,d to respeot,
but that all such tights belous to tho Govern
ment, will remove the objections that Mcs:rs.
Aldrich, kolz aud IIimap, members of tho
House Dlsric: Committee, urged 10 the bill for
the improvement Of the barbor of the District
and tho reclamation OF the fl us. upon the grouc
| that these wharf oWnals would claim immense
damages.
1t Is III u.rs'ood that several Of tho tmrl 1yees
10 Il C departments hero have positively re-
fused to pay the otic,l assessm ,nts against
them, believing that if turnod out Of GfEio, for
that reason, they will DO rrius.atcd by tho
democratic administration. wi ioh, they roel as
| sur1d, will succ ,ed the present one.
Letters have been rcocived here from Colonel
Is Ill of date as lato ns the Sh instant. The
Colonel Is Strengthening up tho affairs of his
| office &C collector ut Silke, which had gotten
| IN very tangled condition duriog his visit to
this city, owing to the illness Of his deputy. Dr..
Doany. and to tho fcct that the man the ID. c.
| to: rut 10 charge OF it went entirely oriz,.
MIR. Cooper, tho gentleman to whom Mr..
Ferry owes tlick eye, has retulnod 10 Wesh
too add is stopping at the National lie doesn'
like to talk much about the CAUSE Of his assault
upon tho Michigan Senator, bu; says that under
| similar circumstances be would 60. only repcat
| It, bat push it TO greater extent.
Tho Treasury statement for the month Of
Juno will show litllo CT 10 reduction Of Il c
public deb. TIE reason assigpc for this is tho
| decreased expenditures and tho availability Of
tho money provided for ia tho appropriation
bis. Dsmccta however, attribute it 10 ott CT
aud less legitimate causes.
Tho Increase Of receipts lr1m intcrot rovo
| nue fer tho year ending 10 morrow viii be ten
| millions over those OF last year. nod this, too,
! be it remembered. Notwithstanding the fact
| that Commissioner Rsum and the republic 10
| congressman said tho reduction CT tho tax on
tobscc, would greatly losscn these receipts.
The Iumcr about tho withdrawal Of Garfield
! aId Arthur, mentioned 10 this ocrrcspopdcrcc
yesterday, has d,vclapcd to day into o report
that Grant and Fish will be substituted for
| thtm. VI course this is not crodittd. but there
can DO no doubt that something IF tho sort his
been talked about by prominent mon in tho
| republican party.
Tho receipts OF the Treasury 10 day from
customs amounted 10 $4S7, 63l; from incraal
revenue, $376,l3l Tho national bank po,es
received for redemption amounted to 1902 600.
lntcIllgeLco was received at tho Treasury to
| the Ctfcct that Themes Fosttr and Charles
Johnston had been arrested 10 Pbiiadsl phia TOR
making and issuing counterfeit money. Amorg
the receipts at the Treasury to day wcre several
counterfeit 500 Doles sent there by banks that
had received them. Oac of them emo fr6m q
Baltimore bank.
The eltc!iooeripg documents that the repub-
| llcaos arc now having printed 10 this city AID
distributed through tho doubtful congressional
| districts OF the Unioo, aru made up almost Gu
| tlrely from the speeches madc by indisceet
democrats dutiog the unfortunate extra session
! ct this Congress.
The congressional dc nocraio campaign CON
mlttee, OF which Senator Withors ard Repre-
sentative lluntoo arc members, will moot 10
New York 90 the IL h proxino. ADD tho demo.
| cratic national executive committee, of which
MIR. CoRh, of virginia. is o memb,r, will
meos there to organic, on the following day.
18th these coDmitoss work together and their
Gens nra executed uoder the supervision of
camna, Walker. who is organizing .ystem of
beai ,fperaIi ms that will brog the pnty j
muoic,tion Into direct add immediate com.
ton in eyerv c,5nly with democratic organ:z,.
Union but 10 evervV Of every Sale OF the
county. Virgsia i g;stcliai dsliot OF every
party 10 the State will r crowded for and tho
tho nations crgauz ,ton CAD e all tpe ss'ls'ane'
General Garield's conduct affs at terdrr u:
Chieamsugs has been alluded to b. g. pa,'.c u
10 THIS correspondence. and 10 90 inSsaul un:s
complimentary terms. What has here's. lh
been said Of it, however. YVES partially 81
Eoboratsd to day by 40 entirely new witness
who states that General Garfield wss 10 Chat,
taoooga at two o'clock on tho day of that bat
tic. reporting that all vas les, whom il is wei
kno"h that the federal route did not take MAC:
till toward night.
Professor Baird, U s. Eth Com missioner
has tmpoyed MIR. Wesley Avery, of Alcxan
d1Ia. TO Prepare for him tho statistics of the
Potomac fisheries for the season Just over.
MT. Beck. fJrmerly of Alexandria, but now
O: this CITY. has just returned from q business
visit 10 Kansas and Nebraska. lilo is q GOOD
republican aad says he hopes Garfield and Ar
thur will DO elected, but that there i, no US,
deoylns the TACT that all the democrats he met
are DOT ony confident of sucnsl but think they
will have walk over.
=, IL Was reporcl hero yesterday that Mr..
Hugh latham. of Atxsodria. who is tho con-
tfic or Tor carrying the Capitol mail, was OK.
ireme'y Ill. hut that gentleman WAS at tho
House posoffco this morning.
Judge Hugh Shelly. Ct Virgins, WIS ia tn,