Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-09-25
FROM WASHINGTON.

loPecal Correspondence OF the alcSahurla uHet'e.l
WASHINGTON. d. c., September % lSS2.-
A New York politician. who arrived here !
this morning. says he Travelled the whole
length of the Erie Railroad from Hohoken
to Buffalo that at every station and cross
road he saw the liic-SiZc picture of ClcVc-
land, the democratic candidate for Gov
ernOr Of that Stale: that everywhere along
the line his nomination WAS received with
the utmost enthusiasm: that democrats
assert he will be elected by 10 900 minority.
and that the republicans quietly admit that
his popularity and the lukcwarmncSs Of the
Cornell men must necessarily cause the
defeat of Folger. Notwithstanding the power
of the Administration The two leading
republican newspapers in Buffalo and The
leading one in Elmira have already declared
for Cleveland: he is receiving republican
recruits every day. and his nomination has
completely restored. harmony in the demo-
cratic ranks Kelley giving him his entire
support and Tilden's son being the first one
to vote for him in the convention.
Col. Bright has gone TO Boston on bust
ness connected with the Potomac Manu-
featuring Company Of Alexandria. but will
return by the 18th, on which day the stock
holders in that company will meet i'll Alex
andria and reOrganiZc. Immediately after
that the erection of IL rolling mill will be
commenced by the company on their lots in
Alexandria,, which it is expected will be in
active operation before the close of the
fall
Mr.. Moore. the scaawag member of the
|. :. House of Representatives from the
Memphis district in Tennessee, who gratui-
tously rendered his incompetcncy and inet-
cheney glarinSly apparent ut the last session
OF CongresS-hlst first opportunity with
drawn from the contest in that district. and
thereby shown more sense than lac was
thought to possess. Mr.. Casey Young. The
democratic candidate. will, it is said. he
elected by Il large majority.
With regard to Folger it is understood
that the republicans are going 10 force him
TO resign his place as Secretary Of the Urea
sury Immediately and not wait until the
election. The assigned reason for this is
that the democrats will otherwise say he is
running the Treasury i'll the interests ofhim-
self instead Of those of the country, and that
the party cant stand that but the real one
Is that ConklinS owes Platt Il debt for fol-
lowing him out of the Senate. and wants 10
pay him with the Treasury Department.
and whatever Conkling wants Is law to
Arthur. The report that New is TO be APP
pointed Secretary of the Treasury is secuted.
for the reason that he is utterly without
potentiality, and that such III influential
place must be given to IL man with either
intrinsic or eXtrinsic power, and Mr.. Platt
possesses the latter in the friendship of Mr.
Conklng.
Engineer Melville, accompanied by the
other survivors of the Jeanette. called at
the Navy Department this morning to make
official report of his arrival. He and his
companions were ut once put on waiting or
ders, which entities them TO haf-pay. The
party had grand reception last Saturday
night, but for all that, right or wrong Mr.
Melville is not half the man with the public
he would have been but for what has occur
red since his arrival in this country
Intelligence from Georgia here TODAY j..
TO the effect that all but three ofthcncw
pcrs in that State which were supporting the
independent move there have come over to
Mr.. Stephens, that those three have begun
to sing low music. and that the majority bv
which Mr.. Stephens will he elected will be
between fifty and seventy-iivc thousand.
Letters received here from Mr.. Cabcll Slls-
tain the statement made in this corrcspon-
dencc several days ago, to the effect that
Mahone's substitution of Sims for Scott rs
his nominee in the 9th Virginia Congress
sional district, will add to Cabcll's majority
in that district
Under the law all officers Of the Navy who
hold what are known as soft places" will
be furloughed after the 1st of October I'M
less it be shown that they are engaged
upon necessary work. Furough means
greatly reduced pay. 1t is said that Army
officers holding similar positions will be sent
back to their regiments
Virginia is not the only Southern State
in which the President is setting his pegs for
1854. In Alabama he has begun to remove
the internal revenue collectors appointed in
1850 to work up the Sherman boom, and to
replace them with men devoted to his inter-
ests.
As Il result of emphatic protests against
the appointment Of Mr.. Paul Strobach as
Marshal of Alabama, the President has ss-
pended action in the matter for short time
at least, and Marshal Osborn will continue
to hold that office until furthcrnot The
appointments of Collectors Of Internal Rev
enue, Philip Joseph, Of Mobile. and VIM
loungblood, of Montgomery. have also been
revoked, and Messrs. Morgan of Mobile, and
Rapier, of Montgomery, have been reinstat-
| ed, pendin action in Strobachs case
There is gradual increase in the number
of canal boats arriving ut Georgetown with
coal for that port as well as for Alexandria.
The large four-mastcd schooner now living
at Georgetown is aground there notwith-
starding the prevailing full tides
Judge Lawrence of the Treasury has gone
to Ohio to help the republicans there and
Secretary Lincoln, to Chicago.
a. +. Stringfellow was commissioned post
master at Mormon, Culpeper Co.. Va, to-
day.