Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-08-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence of the Alera. Gaz

DpGLNt correspondence " Hte dtt-LI CuZctF.
WASHINGTON, ID. g.. August 2l. 1880
The receipts at tho Treasury to day from Gus
tens amounted to SG77.294; from internal
revenue. $210,SI9. The amount Of national
bank notes received there for redemption to day
amounted 10 sos coo.
MIR. Bulchard, 10 conversation with Jour.
pals: to day. expressed the belief that tho pro.
duciiou Il SILVER in the Uoitcd States this
yer would be st least ten per cent. less than it
was LIST year.
Great preparations are being made for tho
grand Presidential junkeiog tour to commetc,
TO morrow. Invitations have been ended to
thirty persons to join it, all of whom have &C
ccpted tbom with tharks. Tho car will be-
supplied with everything that will tend to the
coaiiort of SIR Hayes AID his party. AS bero-
totore stated Mr.. Hayes and his family will bc
absent about Two mouths. Mr.. Hayes takes
with hiu to use in his speeches large amount
OF psrtlsany prepared statistical Information
relative to the production Of gold sod silver and
SIS 10 tho effects OF resumption. This nforma
ton will be used 10 speeches to DO delivered on
tic Pacific coas:.
General Myers COD Prohabilies') died
suddenly to day at Buffalo, N. Y, of which
town be was native. General Drum has teen
assigned to perform the duties of his o(fioo until
his successor shall be designated
General Sbcrmans SOD was one Of tho Jesuit
priests recently expelled from France lilo or.
| rived 10 this oily yesterday.
Tho Congressional R.c rds have beou exam
ined, and il has been discovered that tho kato
Dodson, about whose recent discharge from the
ladies' rcllriEg room 10 the Senate some rcpub,
| llcan newspapers have made such TO do, is
tho same Catharinc Dcdson who, 10 MIR. Gar
field report In the case OF the investigation of
:. NJ Clark. chlct OF the printing bureau Of the
Treasury, is shown TO have beon the c,lorcd
| pIrc1Ttss Tor that character i serallo.
Il meeting OF tho clerks 10 tho PUstofico
| Department vas held at half past two O'Clock
| this afternoon. at which resolutions of regret
at the retirement of Mr. Key, tho Postmaster
| General, were adopted. Tho meeting VS. not
| held SO much in con;equcrc, Of tho ability and
worth of Mr. Key, which aro generally acknowl.
edged, a. 10 show spirit Of reciprocity 90 the
part ii tho clerks for tho Uniform kindness aod
gcuIlctnaGIy oOnsid",a Luu with which tho re-
firing pDsIna!ter General has Invariably treat
cd them.
! DE-. Culver ihfOrmtl mo this norniog TINT
be would not BIZ surprised if 40 600 people at.
tended the grand democratic rally 10 tsko place
here Thursday nIg"t. lie says that among the
numerous organic nicus that will tuke part in
the proc, sson Will DO clshtccu clubs from Bal
! tlmotc, n:d that inouDtd CUBS from Falls
| Church, Va, and Snrrattsriu. Riadepsburg.
and Silver Springs Md. will also be 10 the line.
The heads O.! tho different bureaus in the
| tx cllivc departments havo been requested
| to prepare their anuual reports at as carly day
as possible. Tho Cabinet officers use these
| reports ss the bssis IL their own, but they can
be 50 &c orcd as TO mako gond partisan ospitol.
Tho commissioners Of tho Freedmens' Bapk
| have d,cGFod another dividend OF 10 per cert
| TO tic poor dciGGcd depo.itors in that bank,
| payable Oh the lst Of Of ks month, and say they
will d' caro- another ono of tho same amount
| when tho banks property shall be Sold
A letter received hero ircm Mr. Conkny
says the New York democracy will be upited 10
November, aod that it will takc hard work to
beat them.
1t is COW ssid that the reason lhs internal
reverue suit against Mr. Tden was postponed
| was that the government didn't want to i1jure
bis chsIco of nomination by the Cincinuati
convention, and desired to keep tho evidences
against him uoil after he had been nominated,
Mr.. j. d. Adams. the cxters;ve mail con
tractor, has Just arrived here from hrkansas,
lie says that the impression short timo ago
in that State wts that tho Fishback or repudia.
tioa amendment gould b. adopted, but that
DOW the prevailing opinion is that it will be
defeated by large majority end that this change
has been produced mainly the vigorous and
tho earnest ssppsgn q. S. Senator Garland
has made against it. Mr.. Garland, it may be
mentioned. in one Of bis stump speeches, called
the attention of bis audieno, to the condition of
affairs 10 Virginia. and said that les: yesr Gov.
ernor Holiday went to New York to raise
SlCo. 600 Tor his State. but that the bankers of
that city told him that though tho sum be
waited was nothing, they wouldn't lend him |
81, 900 on mortgage of the whole State
Among the postofioo changes to day way the |
appointment of L. Ii. Frankenberg postmaster
at Potomac Prince William county, Ve., vice |
Apson Bangs. decaased