Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of tho Alexsodrla Gazette.

FROM WASHINGTON.
,c,, Co-,ssnoudencc OF tho Alexsndra Gazettel
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Oct. 6, 1884;
Mr. Andrew Kelley. the Irish Cathonc
loader of Richmond, who says that "neh
he hears an Irish Catholic is going to vote
for Blaine. he thinks the good, tue biooa
that mau drew FROM his honest motner IS
onz;up ont through the soles OF MS ieet,
,,ass,d through here last night on bis way
r. Ohio where he will speak at different
nlaces irom now until to morrow week.
Congressional employees who are spend
;,u their vacations at home, in their letters
acknowledging the receipt OF their Septem,,
her nav, which has been sent them, All
sneak confidently of democratic success ID
heir respective States. One, writing from
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, says If that State does NOV
90 democratic to morrow week, the oesV
posted politicians in that State VIII Dc sau-
IL disappointed, and that, too. though they
know that the B!aineites have risked their
last dollar on that State anu VIII pay as
high rs $25 head for voters.
4 great republican demonstration is an
pounced on an island in the river near Har'
ner's Ferry. Among the speakers announc
I'd are Mr.. Blaine and Col. Ingersoll, neith
ar Of whom will be present. The chief at
traction. therefore, will be Mr.. Riddleber-
uer who, instead Of the game COCK OF the
V.llav, is now called "Mahone's dung
| hill rooster
Mr. Barbour is in the city to-day. he
| will leave for New York tonight or to-m NOR
row. to consult with the executive commit
| toe Of the national democratic committee
of which he is member.
4 martial examination of government re-
cords here shows that, leaving out the star'
route, naval, Howgate and other monumen,
tsl frauds, The government, under raoicai
rr,,ime has been robbed of scores OF
| millions. and that though it has instituted
suit for The recovery of seventeen millions
| il has only gotten back few thousand dol
lars. It's feared that when Cleveland Is
/ dence OF inc immense rvvuul ..,s -.a.sn-atian
the connivance Of republican Office holders
upon the Treasury of the people Of the
country.
The President has not arrived yet, but is
expected to be here sometime during the
current week. He is very fat now and
doesn't like 10 Iisk the malaria Of the ma.
tional capital during the prevalence of the
present warm weather. When he does
come he will decide whether or not Mr..
Frank Hatton, who has prostituted the
| place Of Assistant Postmaster General to
the purposes of his own personal pecuniary
profit, shall have the scope Of such work
enlarged by being promoted to the head of
the Post-cllice Department.
General Farnsworth, of Illinois, the Col
onel of the 9th Illinois cavalry which was
on duty in aud around Alexandria during
The civil war, was republican once, but
has seen the error of his way, and is now
democrat. He has just returned to this city
| from visit to his State. He was at demo
cratic headquarters here to-day and said
that Carter Harrison believes he will elected
Governor, and that he, Farnsworth, would
not he surprised il he should be.
Mr.. Z. w. Oyster until now has been one
of the most prominent and Influential re-
pubicans in this city, and has held MANY
offices of trust and profit under republican
administrations, but he, too, has seen the
handwriting ON the wall, aud at large
workingmen's meeting last Saturday night
he declared himself for Cleveland, and was
applauded therefor.
There is no doubt Of the fact, no matter
what the reason may be, that the demo-
cratic thermometer here has risen several
degrees doing the last few days, and that
democrats now crow who never croWed
before, aud those who crowed before now
crow the more. 1t is considered on all
hands that unless Ohio, with all the money
that mas been spent to buy voters in that
State, should go republican by less than
ten thousand majority, the jig is up with
the republicans, for they have risketl their
all upon the hazard of the Ohio die; but
bets were offered in vain to. day that the |
majority would not be that large.
Secretary Chandler is considerably alarm |
ed at recent intelligence he has received |
about the condition of political affairs in
New Hampshire, aud will start for that
State to night or tomorrow to see what
can be done to save her. His first step will
be 10 increase the number Of employees at
the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
The editor of the Lynchbnrg Adrance says
he alVays republshed the GAzE1TE's Wash
iugtou letter. This shows that that editor
knows what news is when he sees it, and
that he also knows where to find it. He
says this in reference to paragraph that
recently appeared in this correspondence
relative to a rumored bargain between
Blaine and the Louisiana Lottery Company.
WE'LL that WAS n rnmor, aud before this cor.
respondent published it he talked with ma.
or general in the late Confederate army on ,
The subject, and was informed by him that the |
only thing Generals Reauregard and Early ,
1ad TO do with that lottery was to see that )
Is drawings We're conducted fairly aud !,
honestly; but that with its management, or !,
What it did with its money, or what bar.
.ains it made, they had nothing more to do =
han the man in the moon. The ru. =
nor was reported to the GAzErTEs CORES :.
'ondent as rumor, and was so published. =
nd would be again under similar circum. :,
tances, as there is nothing either in the =
equation of Mr.. Blaine or of lottery COM o
anies that would tend to discredit it. .,