Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria 6azette
WASHINGTON, j. c., Sept. -. 1854.

WASHINGTON, j. c., Sept. r. 1854.
The late removal of brother of j. Amber
Smith from position in the Internal Reve-
nue Service at Richmond, is looked upon
here as another blow at Ex-Governor Lewis
and the other old time republicans OF Vlr-
ginia who have failed to bow the knee to
Malone and. acknowledge him lord of all
in their State. A prominent and well-known
Virginia republican here to-day said he
really believed it was Mahone's intention to
drive away from the support Of his
electoral ticket Lewis, Dezendorf, Wick
ham, Callahan and the other straighlout
republicans, SO that there would be no
chance for the State 10 go republican,
As he knew that under Blaine he would
have no more influence than he would have
under democratic administration. Capt.
Asa Rogers, one of the few of the Generals
original followers who still stick by him,
is in the city to-day. He is severe in bis
denunciatons of Governor Cameron for
Joining the kickers, and says there are only
forty eight straightout republicans in the
State, and that they are Of no account.
Notwithstanding the denunciations OF the
Virginia republicans by Malone and his
head men, they will vote for his electoral
ticket, not of course, with any hope OF elect
ing it, but to show Blaine that they are
such true friends of his that they even sub
nit to DO: s-shipso degrading and debasing
as that of Malone. BY this means they
hope aud believe that if he be elected they
will be recognized as the republican party o!
their State. III view of what Blaine and
Malone have said OF each other IN The
recent past it is by no means improbable
that in the improbable event of Blaine
election their hope will be realized and
their belief prove true.
TIE democratic demonstration here last
night was really grand affair, aud showed
| plainly enough that Notwithstanding TWEEN
| tv-four years of republican sway, Washing
| ton is the same old democratic city she wa,
of yore. The Alexandria club was one o
the features of the immense procession
Among the speakers were Mr.. Fl. Q. Claugh
ton, of Alexandria, General Hunton, o.
Warrenton, Judge Goodrich, Of Freder
icksDurg. and Col. NJ. u. Ball, Of Fairfax
county, Va.
1t is currently rumored to-day that one o
the results of the reported deal between
Arthur and Blaine, by which the former i:
to be made Senator from his State by means
| of the latter's influence should he be elected
! President, will be the opening of the Trea
sury and the distribution of some Of It's sur
| plu; hundred million 10 the wholesale pur
chase of votes in Ohio as was done last Mon
day in Maine.
A letter received here to-day from Mr.. Z
| t. Weaver, Ii leading democratic politician
| in Giles county, in the 9th Congressional
| district of Virginia. says that democracy
| is booming there, and that that TriSs's ele"
ii N is certain. A letter received from Mr.
| +. B. Hutton, chairman Of the democratic
committee of Washington county, in the
same district, is to the same effect.
The democrats at their headquarters here
| to-day are soothing at the ridiculous asser
| ton of the BIainetes concerning Blalne's
and his party's recent professions of friend
ship for the foreign and Catholic elements
of the country, and point to the judicial
| murder of Mrs. Surratt and Wirz and t.
| the unconstitutional and unwarranted i'm
prsonment of Pat Woods, of Richmond, a
evidences of the real feeling entertained by
the republicans for the elements referred tc
The report that General Sharp, of New
York, will be appointed Secretary Of the
Treasury may be true, but that he has been
| commissioned or that any 1ntlmation OF his
appointment has been received at either the
Treasury or at the Executive Department
is emphatically denied by those now in
charge of those departments.
The fact that ex-Secretaries Fish and
Bristoe and W. S. Opdyke, of New York
have declared for Cleveland induced san
guine democrat here this morning to say
that too many republicans were coming
over, and that some Of them would be
wanting offices, and that as Cleveland
is civil service reformer, some oil
them, he feared, would get what they
desired and thereby take what belongs to
members of his own party There is nc
doubt of the fact that the democrats here,
as in New York, are confident not only oil
victory next November. but of the most
complete one they ever gained. They are
snatching at all the even bets they can find
fearing that in order to obtain bets at all
after awhile they will have to give odds
They say that Wisconsin, with her eleven
electoral votes, is as sure for Cleveland as
Virginia, with her twelve.