Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria dszette
W .sHINGTON. y. c., Oct. IS. 1884.

WASHINGTON. y. c., Oct IS. 1884
Mr.. Barbour WAS disappointed in his ar
Engagements about goiug to New York, and
has been compelled 10 postpone his visit to
that CITY until next week, as he has an ap.
poiutment az CuIpeper Court House on
Monday, which he must fill. Mr.. Barbour
is induced ny the intelligence be receives
| fr Din all par Of Virginia 10 b. leve that the
democrats Thea will have about as large
| majority his as they had last fall, when
they made IL supreme effort.
Mr.. Watson Boyle, one of the assistant
secrei aries OF the national democratic com
miltce. is in the city to-day. He says the
members OF that committee are more than
pleased with the result Of the Ohio election
and are sure that New York will give Cleve-
land IN immense majority. He says they
know that u hard fight will be required 10
secure Indiana, but that such fight will be
made, and that they have the assurances OF
such men rs Senator VOORHEES, and ex-
Senator Mcdonald that the democrats will
carry the ) at". They are certain of New
Jersey AID Connecticut, and have good
grounds TO hope for success in Ohio. They
know that the republicans are alarmed
about Michigan, Iowa, New Hampshire,
Wisconsin, Nevada and other Northern
State, and say that Baine's anxiety about
Michigan is What carried him there, and
that The republican committee has been
called uponLior funds for use in Iowa. They
are not only confident Of Cleveland's cleo
tiou, but believe that his majority will be
phenomenal.
Al democratic headquarters here to-day
the returns of the Ohio election were anal
yzad, and the republican majority as deter.
minci by the Congressional elections found
TO be only eight thousand. AS the election
for Congressman Involved national issues its
result alfJrds the truest basis for an esti-
month. Every body knows the republicans
bought more than four thousand votes
there last Tuesday, but change of that
many viii give the State to the democrats.
!. IS reported from that the true reason"
and "nlke I'd truth of Mr.. Dana's present
support Of General Butler is the knowledge
the General has Of large certain transsc-
;lnu he mad in cotton when he was an of
tic.r OF the Government.
A gentleman from Fairfax county, Fir-
GINA. in the city 10 day, says that newly all
The reputable democrats of that county
who |, # their patty on the debt question
have returned to ii, and that the county
next :nunth will give Cleveland q satisfac
tory rnsj 'rity.
NJ. L s.atr Glib san, member of the House
from IVES; Virginia, j. here to-day. He
SAY. that not only will bis State go for
Cleveland next mouth, but that democrats
sill re eleciri in all four of her congres
sunal districts II the only one of those
districts now repre- .euted by republican
;n, Democratic majority on Tuesday last
vas over thirteen hundred. In his own dis
| trict, which was considered close district,
the democratic msj pity was over two thou
sauh. Tine ma jorty of last Tuesday in the
whole State, be says, will be increased
greallg at the Presidential election.
Intelligence here to-day from Blainete
sources in Virginia is to the effect that the
Mahoneites in that State have fighting
chances in only two Of the Congressional
districts, The 2 | aud 4th, and that those
chances are by no means favorable, as
MITCHELL the negro candidate in the q,
will probably carry off enough votes to elect
Marshall the democratic candidate, aud as
Evans. the negro candidate in the 4th, will
probably beat Brady. In the other districts
the democrats will have almost walk over.
1t is reported here that tho Malone speak
ers in Virginia are deceiving their negro
followers into the belief that the democrats
in Congress defeated the Blair educational
bill. OF course they could deceive no one
else, for all We'll informed people know that
in the Senate that bill received the support
of Lamar and the most pronounced demo
Gratis in that body. and that the reason it
did not pass the House was that owing to
the press Of business in that body after May
it could not be reached before the day of
adjournment
Mr.. E. John Ellis was at democratic
headquarters here to-day arranging his ap
poiutments for Virginia. for which State be
starts next week on a campaigning tour.
Mr.. Mott, chairman of the republican
committee of North Carolina, is in the city
to day. He says that while the republicans
there talk about chance of carrying that
State, they really have no hope Of doing So
and that the State is hopelessly democratic.
Intelligence here from New York to-day
is 10 the effect that the late elections have
upset all the Blaine calculations there, and
that whereas before those elections the mana
gers of Mr. Biaine's campaign had promised
money aud speakers to their friends in the
South, they now say the South is Joined to
her idols, and that it would be waste DINA
terial 10 send it there if they had it to spare,
but that they have urgent need in the North
for all they have. This will be sad news to
the Mahoneites in Virginia.
Mr. Clapp's rel ublican squeezing commit
tee has issued new circular to-day impor
tuning the Government employees to pay
their political assessments. Ga Wednesday,
under the Influence of Mr.. Gould's cooked
dispatches, many of the department clerks
paid mp, but the true returns so dampened
the ardor fthe others in that respect that
no payments have been made since. The
circular referred TO urges the delinquents TO
settle at once if they would retain their posi-
tons and save the country from the hands
of hungry and savage rebels.
The President, whose attention has been
called to Dudley's gross and open infraction
of the civil service laws, will take no notice
of it, but Mr.. Clark, the Deputy Commits
o;onar If Pensions and acting commissioners