Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-19
FROM WASHING7 ON.
Special Correspondence of the Alera. Gazette


WASHINGTON. D. O.. August 10. 1880.
Senator Harris. of Tennessee who has been
n the city for day or two, will leave TO day
fer bis home, and enter at obos upon an active
canvass of his State 10 favor Of the debt paying
wing of bis party. Lilo says that therc is no
fear about tho electoral vote of the State. as
both wings have agreed to support the national
democratic ticket, and that there can be no
fusion or coalition between the repudiating wing
and tina republicans, for that the latter, unlike
thoso in Vireinia. are IS much opposed to re-
| udiation as the most pronounced debt psyi0g
democrat. lilo is not 20 c>Lfdent. however,
about tho State ticket, aud seems to think that
should tho regulators succeed 10 dividing into
anything like equal portions tho democratic
g, artY the republicans may set possession Of tho
State government
Among tho numerous Cvidelc,s of tho decay
and disintegration Of tho republican party now
patent mono is moro convuciog TO people who
| live hero than tho detection that exists among
| tho men in the departments who have formerly
| acted With that party. Tho bureaus arc rotten
| to the core, somo CT tho chcts even acknowl
| edging to those upoa who's, fidelity thcy cau
| rely that they arc Hancock men. OF curse it
| would DO both unwrss and improper to mention
| names 10 this cont cc:lon, huc tho fact is we'll
known that no little part Of tho moanS and 10.
| fucDce that will BE- employed 10 The election of
| llanctck will be furnished by men now holding
positions under tho government. some Of them
| prominent ones, and who have heretofore beeu
coed republicans. These mon koow that the
Handwriting is on The wall, and arc wiso enough
not to shut their eyes to it.
Judge Field has returned to the city from bis
summers recreation. 10 speaking of him,
Judge Sunderland, Of California, how here,
says that bis decisions 10 The Chinese cases
would have lost him tho vote of the Pacific
Statcs had he been the nominee of tho Cincin
natl convention. A prominent young lawyer
from California also hero ssgs tho democrats of
his State arc tottcr cr1an;z,d than they ever
wcro before. and that Hauccoks rtc,rd being
blank Oh tho Chinese question, and Gar6sld's
| so pronounced 10 favor Of tho Chinese, that the
former is tho favorite of all tho anti Chinese
element, and will carry tho State by Q largo ma
iyrity.
The receipts at tho Treasury to day from cus
toms nnCuoted to $69l.745; from internal
rcvsnue, 1891 ,S29. Tho amount Of national
bank notes received there for redemption TO day
amounted to Sill, 600
| Postmaster General Key informed q visitor
this morning that ho expected fis successor,
MIR. Mayard, would take charge of tho depart
mont carly mex: week, ard that ho would make
no more appointments.
Mr.. Henkle, OF Maryland. is 10 tho city to-
day, aud expresses the belief that though he
vi have strorg opposition no will secure re-
Goa iaatioD.
a letter received here to day ronSenstor Stat
or. OF O!cgon, says that be will commerce an &C.
tive CANVASS Of hesitate esryntx week that the
| Oregon democracy is better organized than is
has been for years past, and that III, State will
| bs better oanvsssed for the democracy than it
every has been before.
The democratic congressional campaign com.
mittee is now buslly at work, and emphatically
rushing things" in tho way of distributing
| campaign documents. Their tex! book is
printed AID will DO ready for distribution early
ntxt week. Senator Wallace, their chairman,
il In tho city. and their secretary, General
! Walker, who is in Now York superiotondiog
| the publication Of the text book, will be back
| by Monday, if not csrli:r. Among tho COM
mittce's recently appoioted clerks is Mr..
| Trcu'. Of Judge Harris district in Virainis
| The State ticket nominated By tho Come Gil
cut democrats yesterday is said to be tho strong
| est that cSu'd possibly have been sell ed. Mr.
Eogsh. the nomineo for Governor. has filled
the oflico sevtr.l times before. being tho first
democrat elected after the war, when he beat
Geocral lla~ley by 500 volts He bias beaten
the strcnscst men among the republicans Of his
STATE, umoog thom Mr.. Jewell, whom he do
frstcd twice. MIR. PoLd. the cludidsle for
Lieutenant Governor. sod all the reat of the
| ticket aro also we'll known and popular men,
and I OF oily know how 10 win. but have tho
means TO mske that knowledge effective, and
what's moro TO the purpose, will employ them
to tho utmost required extent. The ticket. it
is said, will 81 cure The Stale to HaDctck.
lnteigoroa from Georgia is to the ciFect
that the republicans will coalssc, with tho anti
| Co'quitt demt Gals Of that State and support
cx Senator Norwood for Governor. but TINT
Couuitt will beat hin by lingo majority, and
that tho Legislature to be elected, will. with
tho Coquitt and Brown influence combined,
elect the latter to the u. s. Senate.
Tho republicans will hold ratification moct.
ing here 10 Light. but. as it ia known that it
vii! DO overshadoWed by the grand democratic
demonstration to be made next week, it has 90
casioped but little talk.
| Hairs In Ireland.