Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, ID. C., Sept. 3, 1854


A gentleman from Norfolk, here to-day,
SAYS tha; if tho democrats there organize
their forces properly i'll The present CAM
puisn they will stand a pretty good chance
of c!ecing their candidate for Congress, pro-
vided they nominate the right sort Of man.
He says Mahoue's forces are utterly dis
organized and demoraized there, that Libby,
the Malone candidate, is of no account ex-
cept to put up money, but that he can't put
enough To buy the whole district, and that
now that Mahones break up has occurred
even those WIN may take his money cannot
be relied upon 10 spend it in his cause. He
saws that Mr.. Tom Tabb, Of Hampton, can
have the democratic nomination if he wants
it, but that he does not, and that probably
Mir. L. ID. Stark, of Norfolk, an excellent
stunper, will be selected. Libby, he says, is
no speaker nor writer, and will not dare
to meet Mr.. Stark in discussion:
Mr. Johu Randolph Tucker, of Virginia,
is in the city to-day. He has been speaking
in his own district in Virginia and in West
Virginia, and talks in the most hopeful
terms of the democratic prospects in both
those States. He says that recently while
speaking the stand broke down, but that he
caught hold of an upright and kept on with
his speech, merely remarking in parenthesis,
that no democratic platform ever hurt any
body.
A prominent Ohio democrat in the city
to-day, Just from his home, says there is no
doubt OF the fact that the democrats of their
Stale are eated at the bright prospect of
victory, and that the republicans are corre-
spondngly depressed and dispirited.. He
says that Governor Hoadly's management
of the Hooking Valley strike was eminenty
wise, is commended on all hands, and that
but for it there is hardly doubt that there
would have been bloodshed, and no little of
it either. He says that Blaine is large
stock owner in the mines there, ard that
though The tariff on the coal is seventy-ive
cents ton, the miners were only getting
seventy cents a ton for their work, aud that
they struck against reduction Of their
wages even lower than that. He SAYS that
by importing WEIGH labor three democratic
counties in that valley were made republic
can, but that at the next election those
counties, and by the very men who changed
their political complexion before, will be
made democratic again.
The Treasury department is closed to. day.
The building is being heavily draped with
mourning. and the flag is flying at half
mast, in respect to the memory ofSecretary
Folger. Arrangements will be made by
which such of the employees of the depart
ment as may desire can go to Geneva, N
Y, in special train the evening before the
funeral aud return Immediately after the
ceremonies The deceased is spoken of
kindly by almost every one, and though he
had fearful gang of young boon compan-
ions, the universal expression is that
he conducted the Treasury more in the in
terests Of the government than either of his
immediate predecessors. Who his successor
will be is 50 far nothing more than sur
mise Among those spoken of are ex-Secre-
tary Window, eX Assistant Secretary New,
and present Assistant Secretary Coon, Of
whom the latter is by all odds the best man.
and consequently the least likely to get the
place under this model civil service reform
administration.
A republican official of the House, Yer
monter, who has just returned from New
York, in talking with some of his frien6s
at the Capitol this morning, said that he
feared the worse, and mentioned among
other reasons for that fear, the fact that
while in New York he had called upon two
old republican acquaintance there, extern
sively engaged in manufacturing enterprises,
one employing six hundred and the other