Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-24
LETTERS FROM NEW YORK.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria GAZETTE


NEW YORK, Sept. %, 1Ss4.-Coi John Il.
Fellows, the distinguished orator, has just
returned from a tour Of this State and West
Virginia. He reports most favorable con-
dtion of affairs and says that never in 1876
did he witness such cordial support of the
candidates or such enthusiasm for the party
as abounds in the rural districts. He says
that West Virginia is as sure for the democ-
racy as the Old Dominion.
On Friday night the Cleveland and Hen
bricks Legion Of the 18th and 18th assembly
districts paraded The men in line were
about 200 strong, handsomely uniformed.
This is the first time Blaine has visited
New York since his nomination and it has
always been customary for the republican
nominee to receive great ovation from the
Union League Club, and yet Blaine is re-
ceived by the republican committee, is serc-
naded within q few blocks Of the Union
League Club house, and no notice is taken
of his presence. This club has been the
buwark Of the republican party in this city,
and without its aid no republican can ex-
| pect TO win.
Governor Cleveland will not be in Phila-
delphia at the big meeting, as he has fully
the canvass. He will probably be in this
city at the monster democratic meeting to
| be held some time next month.
| Mr.. Blaine's visit, 80 far as enthuslng the
! populace of New York is concerned, is a
failure, and he will next try his hand on the
Quaker City.
A gentleman who has recently paid Wis
it to Mr. Goulds home on the Hudson was
delighted with all the appointments of the
great house, and says that in all his travels
he has never seen more domestic happiness
or greater attachment in family. Mr.
Gould's children look up to him in the most
deferential way and his slightest wish is sa-
cred law with his whole household.
The family have very primitive habits, as
| they retire at 9:3O p. N. and breakfast at
6I5 a. IN. The visitor has Travelled The
world over and lived in almost every cline
and he said be had never tasted choicer or
rarer viands than he found on Mr.. Gould's
| table
Mr. Gould tells joke on his daughter
which is very much TO her credit. When
the stock market was at its darkest, the
young lady in question had read various
predictions in the papers about the failure
of her father. So she went to him and told
him that she wanted to learn something
hat would enable her TO earn her living in
case of necessity, and upon her father in
During what she had decided on she told
him telegraphy. Mr.. Gould had her in
structed in the art and she is now en- ELI
cient operator. So much for American
pluck. ALTAR
NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-The republicans
are Boosting that they will carry Ohio with
the sinews of war, aud that if it costs fabu-
lous sums to attain the result desired they
will be obtained and expended. The repuh-
licans are making frantic efforts to transfer
the fight to Ohio and to impress the country
at large that it is The pivotal State.
Uuion League with its | 400 members can
only boast one hundred votes for Blaine,
and the committee who waited on the Plum.
ed Knight yesterday represents Mr.. Evarts
and the minority
Capt. Jordan, of the New York club, who
has been consistent republican all his life
and never voted any other than the repu1-
lican ticket is pronounced Cleveland man.
Mr.. J. B. McCuIloch, the editor of the st.
Louis Globe Democrat the largest republican
paper in the West, informed me that his
Sf t. ell Mr. Mccn e oeG
called on Mr. Blaine and notwithstanding
the savage attack of the Globe. Democrat he
was received with open arms and consulted
as to Ohio and the West generally.
The Cleveland and Hendricks Club of the
Produce Exchange will have grand ban
ner raising and opening of their club this
afternoon, and the elect will he magical as
it is the very first campaign in which the
business men have done anything but vote
The club was organized by the republicans
of the exchange and they will conduct its
operations in the interest Of the democratic
party.
When Mr. Blaine left the Fifth Avenue
Hotel yesterday there were not one hundred
people to witness the sight. ALTAR