Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
rsreeisl Correspondence of the Alexs. GAzETrE.]

GSreeial Correspondence OF the Alexa. GAZErTE.1
WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. 10, 1856.
The proceedings of the recent democratic
convention in Delaware indicates, it is
thought here, the complete political death
and burial Of Secretary Bayard. In that
convention the Bavard faction was disas-
trously downed by their Salisbury oppo'
nents after fight on strict faction lines.
This defeat means the election o MIR. Lore,
the present representative from Delaware, a
Salisbury man to the Senate in place of MIR.
Gray, Bayard man, who is filling the va
cancy in the Senate caused by the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Bayard. Mr.. Bayard was once q
sort of demigod in his State, but the course
he has pursued eince he has been member
of Mr.. Cevelands cabinent has been so re-
markably Objectionable to his party that it
has cost him all his popularity there as well
IS that which he had i'll other States OF the
Union. His airs are so offensive IN
his Office that some of his old Senatorial COL
leagues have been grossly offended by them.
Senator Salisbury, from his own State, has
avoided them by never going there. Mr..
Bayards defeat at home and his ridiculous
Mexican fasco combined, have, it is said by
those who have called upon him recently,
increased his deafness to such degree that
conversation with him is really as disa-
greeable to them as it apparently Is 10 him
sell, and to have augmented his previous child
ish petulance 10 such an extent Is to make 1t
positively unbearable, were it not for its
amusing absurdity.
Intelligence here from Mexico IS to the
effect that the law officers of that country,
after careful revision Of the decision in
the Cutting case, have affirmed it in every
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wise, but that the comfy of Mexico to-
ward sister republic, and with no refer
ence whatever to the vain and ridiculous
bulldozing attempt of Secretary Bayard,
will Induce the Diaz government to pardon
Cutting, and expel him from the country.
Now that it has been determined to abol-
ish the navy yard at this city and establish
a national gun factory in its stead, many
persons here say that Alexandrans should
bestir themselves to have yard at their city,
where such naval work as should be under
the immediate supervision Of the Navy De-
partment and the naval officers on duty
here, should be DONE. Such project, it is
thought, if properly planned and pushed,
would succeed, Notwithstanding the fact
that there is already one navy yard 10 Nir-
ginia.
A gentleman from Alexandria here to-
day says that 10 matter who may be nomi-
mated for Congress by the democrats in that
district, there will be an opposition candi-
date, and that among those spoken of as
likely to concentrated he opposition strength,
is Mr. l. c. O'Neal, of Alexandria, of repub-
lican antecedents, but never, it is believed,
desperately enamored of Mahoneism.
1t is currently reported here, and many
of the other actions Of Secretary Lamar give
credence to the report, that though it is
against the rules of the Interior Department
to allow book agents to solicit subscriptions
in that department., the agent for General
Grants autobiography was permitted to ply
his vocation there, but that when the agent
for the sale of the life of General Lee asked
the same favor it was denied him. The
President must have demoralized his entire
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