Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gasettel
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. l. 1884.

1t was stated in this correspondence, on re-
liable authority, at the time Mr.. Gresham
was appointed Secretary of the Treasury,
that he would remain in the Cabinet until
the 4th of March. That that authority was
reliable is proved to.day by the fact that
Mr.. Gresham has already commenced the
preparation ofbis annual report as Secretary,
to be presented to Congress when 1t shall
assemble on the first Monday in December.
Mr.. Gresham was appointed upon the adj
vice of Mr.. Chandler, who thought the ext
gencies of the campaign required such man
at the head of the Treasury.
It is rumore ed here that not only Governor
Cameron and Senator Riddleberger will
stump the Petersburg district for Evans, the
negro republican candidate for Congress
there in opposition to NIahone's white can
ddate Brady, but that even Mr.. John Wise
also favors Evans. This reported descrtion
of the General by Dir. Wise results, it is
said, from the Generals pledge to support
his Attorney General, Blair, for Governor,
the position upon which MIR. Wise has set
his heart, but which he cannot get if Mahoue
remains the political boss he has been of his
own party; and it is not to defeat the repub-
lcans but to depose Malone of his ill-con-
Quoted boss ship that the prominent leaders
of his party, the men he has made, have now
deserted him.
From West Virginia the intelligence to-
day is that the democratic majority there
will be from eight to fifteen thousand, and
that the republicans there have abandoned
their efforts to carry the State and arc now
combining their work TO two of the congress
sional districts, Gibsons and Colts
1t is said here to-day that though ex Com.
missioner Raum is the authority for the
statement that Malone would get some
money from the national republican com.
mittee, be has not received single cent,
and, what is more, is not likely to receive
any.
Mr.. Dezendorf is in the city to-day. He
SAYS be doesn't know whether the change
loral ticket will or will not be satisfactory
to the straightout republicans of Virginia,
but that the State central committee OF that
party will meet in Richmond on Wcdnes-
dav next and determine that question. The
change the General has made consists in
the substitution Of two Democratic scala
wags for two others Of the same class, and
of man who was elected to Congress once
by democrats, and who voted for Greeley
over Grant, for another democratic scala
wag. Though the Generals only effective
strength is derived from the negroes, of all
the twelve Presidential electors he has APP
pointed, not single one is a negro. Such
ticket could not possibly he satisfactory
to his party if the members of it could thin k
and act like white men--but they can't.
Mr.. Bentley, of the Department of JUS
tice, to whom the papers in the case Of the
proposed free bridge across the Potomac
at Georgetown have been referred, has re-
covered, but has such press of previous
business that he will not be able to examine
them before the middle of next week.
During the 44th Congress there was an
attempt in New York to have the school
appropriation Of that State distributed
to the schools in proportion to the number
of the pupils, the object Of which was to
allow the Catholic schools to have their
share of the money. To prevent this Mr..
Blaine, member of the Congress referred
| to, introduced resolution TO amend The
national constitution so % TO prevent New
York or any other State from distributing
| its school appropriation in any such way.
And yet Mr.. Blaine, in order to get the
Catholic vote, now poses as the great friend
of the Catholics, and there are Catholics so
| i'll informed as to believe him.
Intelligence here to-day from the Norfolk
district in Virginia is to the effect that
Libby, Mahone's candidate for Congress
there, is very much alarmed, has good
cause to be, has begged straightout republic
caus TO write letters endorsing him, and
thai MITCHELL his colo"ed republi an oppr
nent, will get five hundred votes in his own
county. From the lst district it is learned
that Mayo, the Generals candidate there,
though Mayo denies it, has been to New
York to get some money for his campaign,
but did not get cent. In this connection
the fact may be recalled that but for Ma
hone, Round, Of Prince William, would
have received the nomination for the Con-
gress to which Mayo was admitted, and the
| Colonel would never have even heen q
transient member Of that body.
The republicans here are becoming more
and more alarmed about the condition of
Ohio Secretary Chandler and Ex-Governor
Foster tell them that Ohio is safe for fifteen
or twenty thousand majority, but they re-
call the facts that the former told them
Arthur would be nominated for President,
and that the latter told them Foraker would
be elected Governor of Ohio, and Consequent
ly don't place much reliance upon what they
say now. A prominent republican official
here said to- day that he feared Ohio would
6o uOuOSid VlSi hbu q t~ouluClu lCl'uoiiSoh,
now in the city, who has been comforting
with leaders of his party here. told per-
sonal friend that he was very much of the
same opinion.
Mr.. Barbour left here this morning for
King George Court House, Virginia, where
he will speak to morrow.
Mr.. J. Q. Jennings, of New York, who
was the clerk of the late well known Mr..
Scott, who had the cigar and ticket stand
near the main entrance to the House of Rep
resentatives, has been allowed the use of
that stand by Mr.. Speaker Carlisle.
1t has now been discovered that though
Mr.. Blaine has positively denied that be
ever bad any interest in the Hooking Valley
Mines he really is interested in them to the
extent of fifty thousand dollars. The
plumed knights reputation for veracty is
now SO bad that nobody would believe him
on oath.
RAIN MAcHISE.-After great battles violent
rain storms are Of very general occurrence.
This is due, it is now known, to the agitation