Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-16
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Correspondence OF the Alexandria tIazet'el
w WASHINGTON d c. Sept lG 1874.

Va, yesterday, when he, Mr.. ri. ". Iiaugh-
ron and Col. AyIett addressed democratic
meeting, while Mr.. Louthan, a Mahoneite
from Clarke county, spoke to lew negroes
| and fewer sca!awags. Mr.. Barbour mas
been unwell for some time past, but 1elt
compelled to FL! his appointment yesterday.
He saws that his intelligence from all parts
| of his State is of the most favorable charac.
ter. and thai if the precinct organizations
get out the voters on election day in Fir
sinia the majority there will satisfy every
| democrat Of reasonable expectations. Re
spcctng the national situation, he says the
information received by the national com.
mitlee, of which he is a member, is to the
effect that affairs are progressing very salts
| factcrity, aud that the number of reputable
republicans who are manltestlng opposition
to Mr.. Blaine is rapidly increasing, while
the dem nrra:ic lisallrction, if any ever ex-
| isLed. is beil: gradually dlsslpated.
| Mr. Page, tx member OF the House from
California, Il republican, says there is great
danger OF Ohio, and that should 1t 60 demo-
cratic the Jig is up. There is danger, he
SAYS, bnt the republican managers don't
seem 10 recognize the magnitude of its i'm
portan,e, aud that il he had the direction of
affairs there and had the money at his dis.
pusal he would spend Il million Of dollars to
secure the success Of the republican ticket
next month.
| A letter received here this morning from
| Col. Eb. Henderson, chairman Of the Indiana
STATE democratic committee says the party
! IL better organized than it ever has been
since 1876, anA that should the republican
majority in O3io be less than ten Thousand
tine democratic ina ority in his State will
satisfy the democrats in all the other States
of the Union. Col. Henderson writes in
the most sanguine ten ms Of the prospect IN
| Indiana ami in the whole Northwest.
| Mr. Eustace Gibson, democratic member
Of the House from West Virginia, is in the
city to day. He says that his State is sure,
aud three of its four Congressional districts,
and that he believes even the fourth is safe,
~ his intelligence is that Coil, the present
republican member from the Wheeling dis.
trict is bound to be defeated. Mr. Gibson
saws The republicans have made dead set
o him. ana that he has not onlY to fight his
republican opponent, but the U. ). Depart
mrnt nf Justice rs Atkinson, the Z. s. Mar
shall, has instructed each of his deputies
never to come in without having secured a
voter. He says The fusion Of greenbackers
ard republicans in his State is repuda-
ted by many members Of both those par.
|
,.lats from that State tell him they will car
" it. hut that he does not believe they will
or can, aS the republicans can not afford to
lose it, and will therefore spend a million OF
money if necessary to keep it in the repub-
!can column.
A prominent New York republican, in the
city to-day, says the publication of the new
series Of MuiIigau letters has produced a
profound impression in that city, and that
he subject of rec,nvening the National Re-
Republican Convention, and substituting
another name for that of Mr.. Blaine on the
Presidential ticket is being seriously consid-
cred Ivy some Of the best and longest headed
men of the party. He says there is plenty
Of time to effect the required change in the
ticket, and that as it will be folly to attempt
10 elect Mr.. Blaine with the direct and pos
tive evidence CT his bribery and corruption,
aud the prostitution Of the Speakership of
The House, supplied by his own letters, the
change had better be made, especially as no
possible change could he for the worse. He
says there were thirty thousand republicans
in his State who intended to vote Tor Ceve-
land enrolled hefrre the publication of the
last batch of tho Fisher Blaine correspon-
deuce, and that the Lord only knows
how many there will be now and that he
|
the administration can not aud will not
now do any thing TO secure Mr.Blaine's
election.
:. Government officials are now engaged
here in testing The difference between the
Yale and the ScOville patent postoffice
| boxes. Tn" p0stollices throughout the
country are now furnished with the Yale
hoxe-, aud the Yale company has the con-
tract for supplying such new ones rs may
he required, but as these boxes can be open
ed with an ordinary screw driver, if the test
referred to result in favor of the Scoville
company, the contract will be transferred
10 them.
An Alexandria merchat, in the city to-
day, says the Wholesale business in lis CITY
is much better this year than il was last,
aud that Baltimore merchants acknowledge
that good deal of their trade has left there
and come back to Alexandria. He says
that all the leading houses there have
drummers travelling in the country through
which the railroads passing through that
city run, soliciting trade, and that as goods
can bought there at as low figures as in
Baltimore, as water ireights from New York
ale no more to one of those cities than to
the other. he thinks the wholesale trade of
Alexandria is bound to increase.
A letter received here from the editor of
the Indianapolis Sentinel, the paper against
which Mr.. Blaine instituted suit for DANA
ges for publishing the particulars of the
Blaine scandal, says he knows that what he
printed if incorrect, is libeous, but that he
can prove every specification of the charge,
and is ready and willing to do so just as
soon as the opportunity shall be afforded
him.
All the letters received at democratic
headquarters here to. day bring the crafty
ing intelligence that democratic prospects
are bright and Frightening, and most cf
them not on y report gains, but state the
numbers and names. Among the letter are
mauy of men who heretofore have been
prominent ard Influential republican polti-
clans.
The north wing of the new State War
aud Navy building has been completed at a
cost Of Sl,912,074. The estimated cost Of
the west and centre wings is s., Al, O72