The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-13


n,.rs~u,ruupyp uTLITARY-MEEIiNo OF
TUT vxrcrfIyr COMMITTEE OF THE STATE
.ap,c,r, rr,At. socfkrr--PERs0NAL' -,-.,-i
80. 49,, derce OF the Richmond Oispstchl
tco're'p'"'' " AUGUST IL, 1880.
r.oro h,s hardly ever been so large o
.rowd here' and never greater average
a,norrt nj beauty and talent. i say TINS
asssr ne,nc visitor for more years tnan l
HE n acknowledge. The report Is tnat
ihare are seyepty.nve guests from LOUIS.
VILE and have met persons from many OF
mo wcstern states. Virginia Is, as usual
iar,eIv renreseuted, and Richmond mas
moro Than its customary share. EVERYBODY
seems delighted at the improvements wnich
add greatly 10 the beauty and cemlort OF tn,s
famous watering.place. your reaoeis VIII.
not be SURPRISED at this, when sta'e ',"'
yas. naint. and the architects skill IN re-
modelling the hotel have made IL 'ook 'ike
a nalace. while its parlor has been trans
formed into one of the handsomest assem-
bly.rooms In all the country. It's dining
room. one OF the largest In the wor'd, anu
| the SPACIOUS ballroom, now 100 sliai' ior
the demands made upon 1t, nave also Dseh
renovated and ornamented, until even bu-
ronean travellers are forced to admit that
thew have seen nothing handsomer or more
spacious across the waters.
THE WHITE FROM A POLITICAL STANDPOINT
There are few men here OF national repu'
tation. hui find large number OF VIRGIN.
jans and others whose Judgment IN poiiticai
| matters Is entitled to the highest credit.
This morning | went among them anu
talked freely i'm regard TO the situaIlOn.
Said I TO General Bradley johnson, w nat
do YOU think OF the condition oil Things 10
Vtrpinia?v He replied, "You can easily
carry The State for the regular May ticket IL
Won will cease talking about General Ma
hone and the debt question, and devote
Yourselves 10 the real issues-vlz., the de.
| feat of Garfield and radicalism. You must
moi IGNORE the fact that there are Just as
good Democrats among the Read listers as
among the Dsbt-Payers. They hate radi-
caI,sm and appreciate the great wrongs IL
has done the South, but you cannot Dv
abuse bring them to a sense OF their dutv."
next approached one Of the wisest Judges
IN Virginia, and put the same question 10
him. He replied that the regular ticket
will win in Virginia IL systematic ana
thorough canvass Is made. Said he, You
must not forget that there are ne1fly twenty
counties in the Commonwealth wh'ch pc"
thirty thousand votes in which there Is now
no division on the debt question" he
nromptly named these, and showed
that he was speaking by the card.
Major Wiliam A. Burke, OF Staunton,
who was member OF the last State Com
mittee. here came up and joined in the con-
versation. His opinion was that we must
hold big meetings and secure the services
Of such eminent speakers from abroad as
will draw ont the people. This. be thought,
|
were TO put up giants against pig.
mics 10 discuss the debt question ana
other irreleyent issues. He wanted political
camp.meetincs such as were held In 1862
| He stated that the Democrats OF Augusta
are OF his opinion, and have invited Senator
Bayard. General Pryor, Senator VOORHEES,,
and other distinguished speakers to address
| n mass.meetiug to be held in September. L
| then turned to Colonel Robert Beverly and
asked what news he brought from Fauquier.
He reDlied that the Democrats OF that blue
grass county are nearly unit IN support OF
The regular Hancock ticket. Mr. Menifee
reported the same in regard TO Rappahan-
mock, and Taylor Berry made like report
rs TO Amherst and. Nelson. Dr.. Southall
could not give so Tutoring report from
Albemarlc. Mr. Tucker had very good
rjdinps from his district, and outsiders
informed him that Mr.. james Frazier, and
no, Colonel Wyatt NJ. Elliott, will contest
his return TO Congress. afterwards. talked
with Sneaker Hanger and host OF other
prominent Conservatives, and they all agreed
that 10 secure The State certainly TO Hancock
his friends will have tn work with energy
and Judgment until November. The TACT
is that those who think the task is an easy
one. or that the Cincinnati ticket Is to have
| had hpftpr hp :. a.
bused at once, for it will require strong
null. LONG pull and a pull altogether. A.
w. Wallace reports all well In SpOtsyyania,
and Major Anderson is hopeful OF Rock
bridge.
WHAT Is SAID OF INDIANA AND MAINE.
The feeling is that Blaine Il Co. will at all
hazards carry Maine next month, but II Is
agreed that il they fail that II Will be death
blow to the bloOdy-shirt cause. On the other
hand, il is admitted by Democrats that II we
lose Indiana at the October election there VIII
be repetiton OF the Greeley flasco. IKE 10
see. politicians look the situation square IN
the face and anticipate consequences. After
this expression in regard TO the pNotal
State OF the West I sought we'll
known citizen OF Indiana who is here and
asked him what chance the Democrats had
Of carryjng his State. He smiled conn.,
rdently as he replied, I'VE will win as GER
tain as fate.v He spoke just a. VOORHEES,,
Mcdonald, and other distinguished MEN,
hers OF Congress from Indiana did month
or so AGO. OF course the Republicans will
spend money by the thousands and leave no
Iexpedjent untrIed to defeat the Democratic
State ticket; but they did so four years a.
and were defeated, although Morton man.
AGED. The Democrats OF Indiana and the
Union are aware OF this, and will be pre-
pared to give them blow for blow, and stall
wait ones at that.
Personal NEWS ITEMS.
Major A. ID. Banks is quite sick here, and
has been confined TO his bed Tor fourteen
weeks. DR.. Cullen is one Of his physicians.
One not a Virginian asked me last night II
| ever saw ut a watering-place bandsomer
married ladies than Mrs. Judge Ould, Mrs.
Philip Haxall, Mrs. James SOuthall, and
Mrs. Charles DaveDport-aI OF Richmond.
Miss Sallie OuId and Miss Emma CARING
ton 1.-THE latter OF whom is strikingly like
Mary Andersop) retain their supremacy
this season In the parlor. They ignore
the ballroom. and prefer whist to
"The Racket" Fredericksburg is repre-
|, scented by Miss Lucy IIerndon, the Misses
Rennolds, and Messrs. a. w. Wallace,
Charles Tackett, Marshall Hall, and John
Ficklen. They are having charming time.
: DIR. b. s. Uerndon and wife, OF Savannah,
} and James ID. Hunt, OF Coyington, Nv,
, former Fredercksburgefs, are also here.
Messrs. Page McCarty, Cuthbert, Ryan.
and other newspaper people have been Do
ing credit to the press. Major Tom Bran
der came near having n duel to-day because
a gentleman asked him If bis wife was his
: daughter. Gordon McCabe is keeping VI