Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-10-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

Special Correspondence Of the Ate:rd. Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. G., OFT. IS. 1880.
The receipts at tho Treasury to day from Gus
toms amounted to $4350S2 from internal
revenue, $733.G79.
Though everybody else here has settled down
to tho belief the. tie radicals have gained a
crost and totally unexpected victory, The repub.
licsu oficehoders ere sill keeping up their
ioifca,ions aud have done literally no work
tits week. Their spirits. however, we're con-
!ider6bly GampcDed 10 day By another call OF
tho parry a.s.fsor crd COLLECTOR. whose presence
is as effective with them as tho sight OF Captain
SCOTS iamCu7 riffs Was upon the 'cooDs OF bis
neiehborhood. They paid ko little mer, bat
groaued from tho pits of their stomacbs when
they did SO. The collector was wise 10 his
generation; he struck wbi!o the iron was hot,
and the X suit was lie exacted large sum.
Tho democrats aro doing the best they can 10
possess each others souls With patience and
hops, aad arc succeeding pretty well. They by
20 m,are eive up Indiana for Harc,ck. but ac'
count for the recent dcfes! by macy plausible
ressona, and ss ert with stemiog confidence that
i. will 20 tho other way next month, and say
that tho North must ard will do what it can to
retain the Sjushtro trado which the bate Tor
tho Sortacrn rc,ole naoifts Q BY tho reccLt
eitcioas will ted greatly to drive away from it
10 f,:eieu cJurtrita.
The fight in tbs Norfolk ais!rics, in Virginia,
is tctnoa!ds'h 10 he between MIR. John
Gaece. drmoe;.t. st 4 Dir. D. zsrdorf, repubii-
car, Mr., Lacey, itr ,lahoEi:e candidate, being
general, cor icrcd out the racs, but Tho kind
OF msn the rcrut li,ohs arc running is shown
By tho fact that lie wSs Glsbarred from pracllciog
liz tu.io, s. IS claim sSent here, AID Was not
permitted to resume i. until alter be became
the r,uubc,n candidate for Congress-; disbar.
red F,b;uary G. 1880. and rHlnstated last Sep
tcnbtr.
hnrrc SIC other husinors fer which Judge
lis!.'s has .oan 10 New Ioik ID 10 ioduos Tho
n,iiorsl ,mcc;at:c executive committee to
c,n'ri!ule 20 the tand bling raised to pay the
.itlit qnant cap!alioa tax CT Flrt nla demtcrafs.
l"trllivcDae received Ut the rot ms OF tho fir
eias d, nrc.ato C4npsisu Cluh hcro to day
is 10 the ,ff,c: that tbs vjto 10 R1ppabannock
o,uptg would be 800 democrats. l15 MahoDites.
and 3G0 republicans. and IL Madison coulty
S3'3 democrats, 500 MahoDie' and 1853 repub
icacs Both :hcse counties nre IN hlr. Bar
bonr : tlStic'.
Co!coel I. /. F,unlietcy. Secretary Of the
State Of Virgiais, End nrcmineDt Msh0nite,
viii address iis party 6; FAr!ax Q. H.. x!
Monday.
From a caicIu! examination ef tho lists OF
deitqlcct clpith,oo tsx.s iD tho several large
couu,es in Mr.. Goods dislric: it has bsen as.
cer,siEtd tha. large number Of the ucgrOcs
thus returned oeDnot DO found, for several rea
sous. ticcpsliy !rcm change OF residence.
In msuy counties tie negroes were assessed by
lists Copied from the registration books, though
10 large lumber of cases they really had moved
away or disappeared from various Causes. The
G fort DOW being made by the republicans 10 pay
up their lists will BE- closely watched end al at
tennis at fraud tipped 10 tho bud.