Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-09-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Alera. Gazette.
WASHINGTON, D, c., Sent, %. 1850,

Special Correspondence OF the Ate1G. Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. G.. Sept. IS. 1880.
The receipts OF the Treasury to day from Gus.
toms amounted to $7jl.770; from nterna
revenue. 1922 O45-nearly million and a guar,
ter. bat sill Mr.. Garfield says tho tariff must
not be removed from salt ard sugar. Twenty
Eve thousand dollars in fractional silver currency
is now being sent from tic Treasury daily to
the South and West TOR tho purpose OF moving
the croys-dGublc tho amount recently sent
over.
LISTERS received here from Ohio static that
Messrs Hendricks and Voorhees,. bsiag o1If
dent Of democratic success 10 lodlana have
come to that State and will add their efforts TO
that of the many others who arc now working
to obtain victory there also, aud. what IS par
| lculary gratifying to tho democratic Ohlans
here, with bright prospects OF SUCCESS.
A private letter from MIR. Goodies district rO-
csved here this moroing. says Mr.. G.is rcceivlag
ASSURANCES Of support from all parts Of his di5'
| trict, that tho prospects OF his election arc
Frightening daily, and lie Is more confident OF
SUCCESS than ho has been si1oa the commend
mant OF tho canvass
Dr. Culver, clerk Of the l0u.o Committee 90
| Coinage, Weights aud Measures, and prOmi-
nens democrat Of this city. is extremely i'll Eith
| typhoid pLcunoala. IL this connection II may
BIO mentioned that maIarisl fc7crs ere prevailing
| to q greater e ont here than ever before. by
somo this is attributed to the rapidly Increasing
fats n the liver jIst south OF the city, aud the
hope is general that Congress, st lis next sos.
sion, will fill up cod reclaim oil tho flats roth OF
straight limo from Elsby' 3 Point TO the Arse.
nal
The meeting of tho Virginia democratic
| campaign cub lss night was numerously
attended. Several speeches waro mado aid
somc letters received, the former CT the most
character Mr. S. G. Neale. Of Alexandria,
vas elected president, receiving all tho votes
except four, which were cast for another Alex
adrian, Mr.. Il. q. CsughtoD, so tha: Alexan'
dria's Gains to democratic honors, if DOT emcl'
umenIs, arc recognised, ct Least, by tho Virgin
| ians here. La io1kirg ever the names OF tho
| honorary members of this club Vas surprised
| 10 fed among them that of General William
Malone. and that, too, though the Gepenels
paper, the Richmond Wing, says tic club is q
set CT dead beats. Mr.. Neale had written
letter GeciiLiug the presidency, but the cub
elected him Notwithstanding, but it ia under
stood Mr.. N. will not accept the posltoa. His
political engagements already contracted render
lit impossible for him to give to tho business OF
the club the time lis importance deserves.
Rats do lcnve sinking sbips and time servers
do desert falling polil;cll parties As iIlustra-
lions of this. it may be stated that Alfred Nor.
ton, judge in Richmond when Virginia was
distric: No. /, aud subsequently, u. s. POSTAL
agent through tho il aIe1c, OF his friend, Som
tor ConkIing. is now tho chairman Of the demo
cratic committee of tho town OF Shc!doD,
| ~ lotFn fr,r krr
statos inst though Iowa Of Bcc;siiy must 30
Republican at the mex: election, it will do so by
q maority 80 much reduced that subsequent
elections there will be Doubtful Mr.. Ike Co.
hep, too, the great labor riormsr and work.
ipgmsn, has also 1i5cd tho demcc:atiO hes,
and IS now doing tho only sort CT work ho ever
did-pol;tica Wolk-l0r Hancock. who, he is
sharp ooou2h TO see, is bouaG to b0 cltc.cd.
Gen!onen Just from kiohmoEd rNpor; That
while tic lcsd :rs of tho MahCnitcs who come
.to.c-the mca who are mskiDg speeches aud
whose names are continually 10 the nalers--
continue 10 profess tho utmost corh icnc1 IN
their clusc, and even 20 80 far ~ TO Soy that
tho Increase .bcy will &c ,eVa in The Alex indrla
district will moro thsn compensate Ter any lts'
they may sustain 10 tho other districts, tho
democratic leaders are perfectly saogu!no ct
SUCCESS, and that tho mpn not N politics. tho
| wholesale merchants Gnd Cat ker5 VINO nave
trustworthy correspondents ID ell sections OF tie
State, balioyc that tho estimates OF tho latter
orc correct. With regard to tho congressional!
election in tho Ki,hmcnd district, they say that
| Mr. George u. Wise. democrat, will not oriy
carry Richmond by 1000 maj GRITTY, bu. will
como TO that city With msjori'y from Tho
coua!ry pcron Of Tic dis;!lo., which has hoe
tolcrc been republican,.
Among The candidates for Positions rs c.dat
engineers 10 tho tIoitcd States navy Uho
havo Just pOss satisfactory tx'minstlors. ia
Lawreooe \. Weddcrhurn, son oil Mr. George
g. Wtdisrturp, formerly Of Alexandria, VITO
| entered at the head Of lis CLASS.
Gen. Hancock and the War Claims.
General Hancock has written q letter on the
subject of war claims in reply to letter from
Theodore Cook. Of Cincinnati The corFoa-
pondence is as follows:
| CINCINNATI, Sept %, lS3O.-GeneCal ". :.
EanCccs, Governors Island, n. i.-EeaT Sir:
| I enclose slips cut from tho Gazette and Com.
mercisl, Of this city, both of them newspapers
| of large circulation ard influenza IN Ohio and
Indiana, referring, as you will soc. TO ,ho nluch
hsrped upon subject in our politics of rebel
clsims. These newspapers and republican
stump speakers are constantly asserting that II
| you arc elected President the claims CT dsioy.l
| people OF the South for Losses sustained in the
war will bs allowed and paid by the United