Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-22
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence Of The dlero. Gazette.
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60" propGssy, ard are WHllcg 10 Ilsk tneir
money or, tie tiuu phart election OF Hancock.
Th;y say. among othsr things. that Mcfsrt.
English aud B,ruun haze now. 10. only their
party, but their personal feelings aud rrIds To-
tercsted 10 clrHi'g their respective States. and
that they have the means to secure Tbs accom-.
p!ishment OF their respective purposes.
With ragsfd to Virsioia, tho feeling hero TO-
day an Dog democrats is better than it has been
for moths past, tho recognition Of tho regular
democratic ticket by the national executive
committee being supposed to DO all that was
wanted to put that ticket out 81 danger. As
relatss to the congressional delegation from that
State, it is confidently believed that oil bat two
of tho districts are ssfe-the 4sh, in which the
Mahonites have cot Iomi5ated candidate
against tho republican. Jorgenscp. who says
that 10 hia district rosdiustcrs and republicans
are ell the same, and The Oh district, il which
FuIkersoo, Mahooite, hiss chance Of election,
though Trigg, democrat, will ruo him close. 10
tho S.h distric: Williams. The MahGni;e, Il IS
estimated, will not rrc,ive 5 coo votes, ADD 10
the lst, Critcher's also Matonite, os stated by
General Beals. anu published ia his o1rT s2on-
denco yesterday, will not reach thousand.
Goodies prospects 10 the 2cd aro improving
every day, and Ills election is confidently relied
upop. Letters received hero to day from the
5th district, Cahell's say that &c will cirry
Honry, Patrick, Fltyi and Groyson counties by
large us jofiliee, and that the partIsaus oiStcvs
the Mahopitc, havo lost hear. From the Oh
aud TIN districts eli sc,,uo.s ara favorable to
the elec.icn of Tucker add Allen over their
Mahcnite opponcots, FrszioF and Paul, By re-
special, mti ,Iiiss. Indeed tho IMPRESSION
OF all tho Virginian. who COMO hero scans to TO
that tho eco,i,n OF both democratic Presdcnt
and democratic Congress depends upon tho vote
CT their State, and that they c'D not sford to
cndsnpcr either By allowing diff.rencss co q
State qu2a.ion to di7ido, AID thereby weaken
tho party.
Mfior S. 7. Blyly, ranubI;c.u candidate Cox
Congrses 10 tho eighth Virginia district, il in
the city 10 day. The Msi " vii get al! the rs.
publican vote in his district but tia. Ct tho
white republicans who orp)std bis domination.
Speaking Ct then IN says, POLITE, make
strange bedte|loWs. L; has made 80 sliisuco
between tho Hong Kong brigade and the c'rpct
h.g2crs, though the latter did, t hclc after 1t.
b. the Hong Kong brigade ho meant the
friends cf Colone Mosby aid By tho carpet
borscrs Judge WiIloushby and hi. fseuls.
General j oe Jah5ston is s'so 10 the city. tie
lost fsith 10 the c!tc;i9n Of Hancock. Speaking
Of tho papers hero which give lugubrious &C.
counts of dcn ooratio affairs 10 Virginia, he saya
''thoy know DO moro about mo trus c)nditlAn
CT tho Virgioia democracy than tho Chinese
ias; landed 1t San Francis CO." AID CT tho &C.
spcndercg that existed hero uEtl recently.
ever; body is confident ezcopl WASHINGTON
democrats, aud they havn no votes.
rhn 20 her
oueotIy, said, when lest talked 10 about bis
chaross CT election, tia! no VAS perfectly safe,
az there were enough democrats 10 Si5 districs
10 cltc; him. Now this may only have b2ea
gable. bus if not, what sort Of democrats osn
they bo Of whom be speaks? As the Mahooites
hay, net set dominated candidate to run
against him aud IS be promised them 10000
votes for their electoral ticket it they wouldn't,
the democrats be lofers to must be Mabsntcs,
and precious sort Of democrats they AFRO 70 DO
sure
FRIENDS YEARLY MEETING. AT Tie gosfy
meeting of Friends (orthodtx braDchl, OF the
moctios hors, on E1:sw street. Baltimore. ycs
tcrdsy, the report upon Icdiau aG.irs was pre-
scntcd cpi;lles to corresponding yearly meet
logs Ct London. Dubliu, Canada, NcS England,
New York, N;r;h Carolina and Osio read and
uried With, and j,int committees on education,
homo spd foreign missions appointed, etc, &C.
Tho Iodiau report is always ojrs;dsrcd of much
public interest, aod tho iolOEiog synopsis will
eivo fair idea of the work of the FreIds So
cisty: Two sstns formerly Lancd By the
Fricnds) coulinue to give excellent SERVICE, viz:
John d. Miles, Of tho CheYorncs end ATapa-
hoes AID L,bnn j. Miles. of the Usage aeenc7.
They nave uader their charge s, n l1dans.
There are six schools, with GO children. with
three women Frcuds 10 the Wichita and k;oSa
schools. All srs aided 10 clothiGg sad apple
acos F0u. Friends ard their wives reside
emopg Tho IIliacs as missionaries. Tho Modocs
hav, mission moetiog CT fifty menb.rs. Drac
lioal3 Friends meeting. Steamboat Frank has
been acknowledged miais:eT, end two other
indians aro o1erseer5. Asa aud Eneiloo !ul!le
are the shepherds Of this 1)cS. A Friends
meeting il c0udrc,ed among tho OitaTa5,
with twenty members Of the Timbered
Hill manlhlg meetiD9, Kansas. A mission
church has te,n form 0 / q. Wyaadotte mission
school, with thirty eight members. Jeremiah
Hubbard holds meeting emopg the S,oecas,
Indian Territory. They refused TO ombcac'
Christianity uall! tho Friends Tcn; there. The
WeellDSS ara laTEciy atteuusu aou "iO ' ~
solemn occ.siors a school hGus, aud msetiog
house bes been built among The Shawaets a
mee,ug is held among the Pottawa.omies. with
Thirteen members, and MIR. +. EIiotrs work
among tho Absentee ShaWDecs is baelnnl7g to
bear fruit. Two cf their young men, chosen BY
them fer their future chief aud interpreter, Here
sent by tho Friends 10 Hampton. AID both have
professed Christianity. Two o:tcr boys we're
taken to Hampton by Agent Miles. jonathan
Osbuu and wifi, are among the Osagcs, and
visit tho Usage and KaW schools a5d preach.
They sro we'll received by the wilder bands.
The Ks#s Lave q weekly meeting. They were
formerly very degraded, tut po# cypress de-
sire to lend bstter lives. All these lodians
ara steadily progressing in Industry, haul
supplies With their owo ponies, put up hay for
the government, make brick, aud. to Sumo ex'
tent, ill tho ground. Three thousand five
hundred dollars WAS distributed among the
various charities 10 Balt!mcr, AID v!cicity dur
Jog tho official year.
RAILROADS Col. j. B. Yates. engineer 10
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