Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-09-27
FROM WdSHING1ON
Special Cor7espondence of the A7era. Gazette

Specldl Correspondence OF the Ate.cd. 0a@etIe'
WASHINGTON. D. O., Sept. 81. 1880.
The receipts at tho Treasury to day from Gus
toms amounted 10 $7l5 COS; tscm internal
revenue. 733 79I-nca.lg million aud o hslt.
and ycs Mir. Garfield says tho tariff, which coE
psl, people to pay twic, as much for lho neoes'
saries Of life as they should pay. must lot 10
reduced. A reduction of sl2,000,000 10 tho
public debt will bs made this month. The re-
Gently discovered robbery at tho Treasury is
reduced, by the assertions Of the officials OF that
department, TO the extent of $4,000. and tho
theft is attributed by them to Il. L. Herring,
deputy secood auditor, who is unable to de-.
feud himself. being dead.
The following changes w1re made 10 tho VIZ
gitia postoffices to day The Office at hlerelaOla
Dinwiddie county, discontinued for want OF g
candidate for the place Of postmaster; tho papers
that formerly went there TO 60 to Rsam's sta
ton. j. +. 1uscoe. Appointed postmaster at
Shiloh, king George county, VlCe Z. H. Jonee,
| resigned. Postofices Were established at
| Cumuor, King and Queen county. between
| StevensviIlo and Cartoons store, with Il. b..
| Hart IS postmaster at Crosses. Smythe county,
between White Top and Lovs's Mill, with H..
| NJ. Gross ts postmaster, and ut Cohoke, King
| William county, between Lester Manor Gud
Sweet Hall, with Edgar Z. HaviIaw es post
master.
Captain Howgate, 10 an Interview with tho
| Gazette correspondent this morning, Informed
him that his experiment with tho Gulnnre
proved that she was too small for her under
taking; that though small packages Of coal
we're slowed away in oil the spare spsoo on hor,
she could not carry enough fuel With the ether
stores 10 enable her to make tho trip. Tho
| Csptau is to day making arrangements with bis
agent at st. Johns, by telegraph, for hiring q
larger steamer-one of thoso used IN tho seal
| 6sbery-ard will have her ready to prosecute
what was the Gulnare's mission NIX; summer.
Tho Captain. while disappointed OF the mons
SUCCESS Of tho Guloaro, which, by tho by, he
speaks Of as on Alexandra vissel, having been
repaired and reftted at that port, is BY DO means
dispirtcd.
a we'll knowc, efficient and highly respected
agent of The internal revenue service. whose
field OF operations is in Southwestern Virginia.
was 10 the city to day and lniorued me tha'
neither BIO nor tho officer 10 charge ct that dis.
trict kcew aDythiog more about the recent ro
ported moonsLiners' Wfr 10 Floyd county than
icy from tie tfic, of tho Commissioner oil
Iaternal Revenue, and that no did not think
there was much 10 it, ss nobody was hurt.
though robably some shots might have been
fired over the heads CT the distilIery raiders 10
scare them.
A resident Of tie tiphth congressional distIc!
CT Virginia, who has jus; returned rem trip
throughout the western part ct that district,
and who. being o republican, is the moro likely
| to be impartial between tic Mahonics AID the
democrats informed mo this morpiGg that
while he thought Williams would get larger
vote 10 Madison c,uDty than was pe0eIa!Iy be-
lisved, Balbaur's vote in tho Valley would
greatly exceed even tho estimates OF his mes!
sanguro friends.
10 consequence Of the great danger tho re
publcans are 10 of losing the Btato OF Ohio,
Secretary Sherman has had 10 charge his
mind about remaining 10 The city, and
will return to that Slate OF orc,, to
which First Auditor Reyooas and Sixth
Auditor MoGrew will also proceed without
delay, luterual Revenue Commissioner Raum
and Comptroller Lawrence being already there.
Letters from Ohio represent the radical CAUSE
as on a rapid decline there. and the Treasury
being called upon TO do all II oau 10 save 1t. l:
responding 10 the fullest extont. Whtre, oh'
where is vii service reform?
Washington T. Peddr:ek has been appointed
Secretary OF the Spanish AmcIiosn Claims
Com mission.
Mr.. Bsrnum, chairman Ct tho d.mcotatic ia.
| iioual *! cutlvc committee. is 10 tho city to-
tay. lI5lko MIR. jewell. chairman OF the ma
;ional rorub ic,n committee, before he was
cauked up by tho moro discreet men CT hla
party, MIR. Barnum is neither garIulou5 nor q
bruggart, but from what be does say it cau be
easily seen that he i5 10 the best possibls cptis,
AID is perfectly Satisfied With the way 10 which
the campsign is being conducted.
| The republican bears o)u!d not keep Gown
the p,ios Of Sucks ard the recent letter OF
General Harcic Oh the sui Let Of Southern
| claims and rebel pensions hiss sent them up
again.
Having seen that Judge Critcher dcnifd q
statement made By General lIomay TO the ifeot
| that no relieved Cri,cher Of bis command at
Trevian's Station for iucomretet L asked
| General Fiiz Lee, who was 10 tho city TO day.
what he kutw about that affair The General
said ell be koew was that L)msX had told him
lust before the fight at Trevilliau's that if he
SAINT after NJ j,r Bob Mason, orc Of bis staff
officers, and tue Major didn't return ho needn't
think anything of that shcrt time after
General Lomax Cid send foi Msj II Mason. put
him in command of the regiment of which
| Gritoher was lieutenant colonel, and that the
Major led the regiment into the fl ,ht and cap
tured battery. All Of whiob proves that l.u-
max was correct in his atatement 10 Judge
Garrison aod that Judge Critcbcr il wrong.
l. is understood here that owlag 10 some
mistake the campaign documents Intended for
Asxandria By the democratic congressional
| c,mpaign toka nitteo. hsvs been sent to Col.
II. w. Asst by and r. Henry Simpson. leading
Mahonites of that city. Letters from Alexan'
dria. however, have informed the committee
Of their mistake aud no more documents will
| be sent to the parties named.
Messrs Williams and Riddleberger spent
yesterday in this city and started this morpiog
for Wsrrentcn where they are to deliver Ma
hopite speeches. 1t is said hero by those &C
quainted With the democrats of that town. that
10 the language of well known Alexardrian,
they will DE DANCED sorry they went there. " q
No detection 10 tho republican rabks that has
yet occurred has hsd suoh a dispiritog effect
upon the rndicalg here aS that Of Gen. sickles.
They look upon him ss the representative Of
tia. vast lumber Of lorthern' people who
changed their politics at the commencement OF