Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. July II.

Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. July II.
Half million gold was withdrawn
from the sub.treasury in New York
and almost that muchLin New Orleans,
to-day, for boarding, and two million
from the treasury for export. One
million more would have been with
drawn for the latter purpose if Ger
man steamer had sailed. The gold re-
serve has now been reduced to ninety
four million, six million below the re-
quired legal amount. Another bond
issue is expected at the Treasury De-
partment, where, it is also thought,
there will be some difficulty in dispos-
ing of it on favorable terms. Such a
call before the election would do no
harm to the democratic ticket.
Solicitor General Conrad seems to
have set the pace for government Off
Gals, under the rank of cabinet minis.
ters, in the matter of giving true faith
and allegiance to the rightfully consti-
tuted authority of their party. Mr..
Murphy, the commissioner of pensions,
has now also announced his intention
of supporting his party's ticket, and
several more of the higher government
officials here have been independent
enough to do likewise.
The following changes in the fourth
class postofices of Virginia were made
to-day At Elba, Pittsylvania county,
T. LaF. Watts was appointed post
master, vice G. G. Shelton, dead;
at Leeds, Amherst county, A. E. Nc
Craw, vice Mrs. 81. M. Johnson, re-
signed.
During the last fiscal year 343, 267
immigrants arrived in the United
States, of whom 212,466 were males
and 0,S01 females.
Secretary Carlisle, wife, daughter
and grandchildren left here last night
for three days outing down the Poto-
mac river on government lighthouse
tender. As the President does so, why
not his cabinet officers?
Senators Jones and Harris are both
here to-day. The former will leave for
his home in Arkansas this evening. He
says there is every prospect of the cleo
ticI of the democratic ticket by large
majority in all parts of the country, and
not single Indication of any thing else
than success. The latter says he is as
sure of Bryan's success as he is of any
thing that has not yet occurred. and that
the detection of ex-Secretary Whitney
or of any other Wall street man, so
far from harming the democratic ticket,
will do it good, as every one of such de-
serters will add ten recruits to the
party.
1t is reported here that the feeling
of the employees of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, among whom there
are not less than twelve or fifteen
thousand voters, on the silver question,
has been enquired into, and that it has
been found that they are practically a
unit for the white metal. This tends
to sustain Senator Cameron's expressed
belief that his State will go for free sill.
yer by fifty thousand majority.
New Workers here to-day say the
meeting of the democratic convention
of their State will be called at an early
day, lest the free silver feeling, to the
spread of which the ferocious opposi-
ton of the Wall street bankers and
brokers has given q great impetus,
reach such proportions that the con-
vention will not only endorse the Chica-
60 ticket, but the Chicago platform also.
Business of all kinds is as dull here
now as it ever was before, and natur-
ally the free silver feeling is not only
generally prevalent and increasing, but
it has affected all classes of people, the
workingmen saying their condition
could not be worse than it is, and that
any change could only be the better
for them, and those better off that
more money would naturally make
business more active and therefore re
move the existing stagnation which is
ipjuring all interests. The presidents
of at least two of the banks here, the
Columbia and the Lincoln, have an
nounced themselves unequivocally in
favor of free silver.