Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria '4set'e'
INFLAMMATION d C. August u, 1854.

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ANY moment. Mr.. Ella will be remembered
i, VIRGINIA as the New Hampshire republl-
can CourrrssIuan, who, soon after The war,
c,,mmei..cd 10 canvass Virginia for the re-
pun;icaus, He made his first speech aL
S.auuton. where The late Johu Baldwin met
hi,o IN discussion and SO discounted hun
that h.. never made the second one.
While tne charges Of fraud III the medi-
cal bureau are still in progress OF investiga'
lion. charges of croUkeduess against the
ordnance bureau have beeu made, 1t being
stated that for years past contracts Tor re-
yolvers and Calling guns have been made
without proper advertising.
What added somewhat 10 the business
anpearance of some of the streets mere TO-
dav we're the large wagon loads of crude stl'
mac gathered in Virginia, on their way
(ro,n the Midland Hallway depot here TO
the establishment of Dreytuss u Co, IN
Georgetown.
Among The strangers in the city to day is
MIR Davies. ey. editor of the Manassas Gd.
-rtlr. He says that IL grand democratic
ratification meeting will be held at Manas-
yas ON Saturday next, nj which General
PAYNE, Mr. John s. Barbour, Capt. u. A.
Nushhach and others will speak. Mr.
Davies saws that there will be a large turn
out of the people. He is here to get brass
band Tor the occasion.
Gen. Manning, of Mississippi, is in the city
TO day. essays the republicans in his Stale
have put 81 eof their strongest men on the r
electoral ticket, but that the democrats Will
poll their usual majority. In his own con-
.sressional district, which is now represent
ed hv Chalmers, republican, he says Judge
Morgan is the democratic candidate, and
will probably be elected. He says that
Jetlords, the white scalawag, who repre-
sents the shoe string and black district of
the State, will probably be succeeded by a
negro. The negroes having Il majority OF
about 20 ,000 are very properly claiming the
position for themselves. The negroes in the
black districts of Virginia would do well to
profit by the example of their race in the
Mississippi district referred TO.
As the republican assessment circular
issued to the office holders here has failed TO
bring into the hands of the collectors any
thing like the amount that was expected,
the collectors are preparing another circu-
lar to the non-oilice holding republicans of
| the city, asking them to make up the deficit
| of the ungrateiul clerks. But this it is
thought will he even less effective than It's
predece- sor, as of all civil service reformers
| the most pronounced are those who are
asked to contribute to campaign funds.
Mr. Dezendorf is in the city to day. He
has Just received an invitation from John
G. New, who is managing republican affairs
| in Indiana, to come TO that State and take
part in the canvass. He will accept it.
Mr. DeZendorf says that the result of the
| recent Mahoneite conference in Richmond
on the subject of changing the republican
al ri .l- in nat
was expected, in ~ much as it was but the
expression of the will Of Malone, which
was known beforehand. He says that not
withstanding the conference declared there
should be no change in the ticket referred
| to, he will bet that change in it will be
made before the day of election. He also
says that while large majority of the re.
publicans of the 4th Virginia district are
| opposed to Brady, it is probable that the
"malign influence" of Malone will give
Brady the nomination, but that if that shall
| be the case Hooper will run as an indie
pendent candidate, and will receive large
vote.
a man Of affairs not a politician, Just
here to-day from New York, says that of
| the many large business men in that city
with whom he conversed yesterday, every
one, republican as we'll as democrat spoke
| in the highest terms Of Governor Cleveland s
| letter of acceptance. and said that the bust
ness int, rests Of the country, so far as a
President could affect them, would be secure
| under such an one as the author OF the letter
referred to.
The u. s. Treasury Department has pre-
pared a republican campaign document to
prove that the percentage of money stolen
from the government has been less under
republican than under democratic admins
trations. Even if that be so, which is doubt
full, it doesn't refllte the charge that monu-
mental frauds have been committed under
republican administrations and that more
money has been stolen from the Treasury
under those administrations than comprised
the whole revenue of the government under
some democratic administrations Under
the earlier administrations, when the rev.
enue was small small, theft would have
made Il large percentage, but under the
present enormous revenues it requires
very large theft to make perceptible per-
centage. 1t is the amount of money stolen
and not the percentage that interests the
people, and that demands II reform in the
government.
Senator Riddleberger passed through here
last night on his way TO Richmond, where,
it is said, he was summoned by order Of his
boss, who has SO little regard for him that
he doesn't even speak of him in respectful
terms. Malone, it is reported, is engaged
in connecting some new deviltry, for the
perfection of which he requires the assist
ance of all his .iackmen upon whom he can
still rely, of whom Mr.. Riddleberger not
withstanding all the rumors to the contrary,
is one.
A large and handsome Cleveland and
Hendricks banner now floats over Penn.
sylvania avenue. in front of the headquar-
tiers of the city democratic club, near 10Th
street.
A new and dangerous counterfeit has
been discovered. 1t is of the Sd National
Bank Of Cincinnati, series Of 1882, brown
back, never before counterfeited.