Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-05
FROM WASHINGTON.

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazettel
WASHINGTON. D. c., October 5, 1882
Tn the Buzzr case, which threatened COM
plications with Spain during the Garfield
administration, on account of the right
claimed by the Spanish Government to
decide upon the legality of an American
citizens naturalization papers: the State
Department has just determined that there
are such informalities in the Buzzy papers
as to justify the action of the Spanish Gov
eminent in disregarding them.
1t is reported here that as Mr.. Folgcr has
stood the nomination he has received he
can also stand the retention Of his office as
Secretary of the Treasury during his candi-
dacy for Governor of New York. 1t is re-
ported that the personal relations between
Mr.. Folgcr and Commissioner Raum are so
disagreeable to each other that the latter
will not come back TO the Department as
long us the former remains there.
General Malone has made several de-
mands upon the War Department, but as
most of the employees there are ex-Union
soldiers, both Mr. Lincoln and the Presi-
dent think it would do their party harm to
remove such employees and give their
places to the Generals ex-Confederate
friends
The Mr.. Marshall who has been nomina-
ted for Congress by the democrats of the
Norfolk district in Virginia is a son of the
late Col. Lewis Marshall ofFauquier county
in that State, and is now the Common
wealth's Attorney Of Portsmouth. He will
make good run, and WILL it is said, bring
out the full democratic vote Of the district.
Tbn ~ ok
more and more apparent and more and more
injurious every day The President has
been absent for months, there are but two
Cabinet officers in the city, and a chief Of
bureau is hard TO find indeed many of the
clerks in the departments are gone. With
| the nominal exception of the President,
they are all away clectioneering for the
Arthur wing of the republican party. and
the business Of the country has to suffer in
| consequence andits expenses be increased, as
messengers have to be sent in all directions
with papers that require the signatures of
the absentees.
An Indiana politician here to-day says
that the Congressional district in that State
now represented by Orth will certainly
elect democrat this fall, and that the
democrats will certainly gain two other dis
tricts in that State and will probably gain
two others. The delegation now stands
| four democrats to nine republicans, but next
| year. he thinks it will he reversed
The close shave by which the democrats
have just saved Delaware, it is said here,
was due to voters who were carried to the
State from Philadelphia by Mr. Richard
Harrington, the chairman of the republican
executive committee of Delaware, and that
rs they will be required ut home next
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not be so hard pushed then.
\ gentleman who heard the recent discus
sion between Messrs. Riddleberger and
cambridge at Winchester, Virginia, says the
latter produced Il telling effect and that the
discussion greatly Strengthened the anti Ma
hone cause in that town.
| \ corps OF negro speakers is being organ
lied here to proceed to Virginia and urge
| their race in that State to preserve their
solidity and vote for Malone to IL man. The
corps will be composed of negro strikers
from the far South who hnve been brought
here by those for whom they work and Civ
EN- government offices.
| n republican Stumpcr who has for q
month past been canvassing Ohio, returned
from that state this morning, and says to
his political friends that the republicans
there will be very well satisfied if they elect
eleven of the tweLty-one congressman to
which the State is entitled. They now have
| sixteen.
Navigation on the C. & O. Canal was sus-
pended yesterday by Il sunken boat about
one hundred miles up the canal and by Il
slight break just above Georgetown, but the
boat has been raised and the break mended.
and navigation will be resumed to-day.
J. 4. Williams WAS commissioned post
master ut Brandon Church, Prince George
county, Va. to-day.
People from New York here to-day saw
that Folgcr will be defeated by not less
than fifty thousand majority and probably
by double that number. They say that re-
pubicans are vieng with democrats in their
efforts to make his defeat overwhelming, so
that bossism may be eliectually squelched
and that the former have no doubt that
what they are now doing will tend to
strengthen their party in 1854
From Virginia the intelligence here to-
day is to the effect that the democrats there
are sangune of Succcss"in all but two Of the
| Congressional districts of that State, the I'd
and 18th, and that in the formerif their NOM
inee is defeated they will not lose much, rs
DeZendorf will be elected, and he is rs much
opposed to Malone as they are. Their
only anxiety seems to arise from Il fear.
supposed to be uniounded, that there
may be some men in the State who while
calling themselves democrats will endanger
the success Of the party by failing to vote
for Mr.. Massey, and that thus while the re-
publican States Of New York and Pcnnsvl-
vania will crush out bossism within their
limits, democratic Virginia will sustain it
within hers. Virginians here republicans
as we'll as democrats, flout such an idea.
The MADISON TRAGEDY-The report of
the shooting of a mans wife and the subse-
quent suicide of the man himself in Madison