Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence o, the Alexandra Gazetsel

WAsEEGToS, Sept. 10.
The Treasury Department was in
farmed this morning Of the failure Of
another national bank in New Orleans,
the Mutual. The cause couldn't be the
dread Of silver coinage, for the subsi-
died presa Of the goldites say Mr. Bry-
an Will be Overwhelmingly defeated.
Dispatches received here this morning
from London cay the Bank OF England
haa raised the premium on gold aud its
rate of interest TO prevent Englishmen
from sending gold to the United States
fox investment. This shows that Eng
lshmen, unlike American plutocrats,
don't think ruin and destruction will
be the necessary consequence Of the re.
sumption Of silyer coinage ia this coun-
Try.
An immence crowd IL expected here
Saturday week, " her Mr. Bryan will
speak, not in Convention Hall, IS pre-
Yiously arranged, but on the base ball
grouodg, where there will be room for
al who may wisb to see and hear him
He will be the guest Of Major Selden, Of
the Metropolitan Hotel, Virginia
democrat, and Mr.. Honey. also Vir-
ginian, has offered him the uae Of a fine
carriage and four splendid horsea during
bis stay.
Mr.. Howell. who is in charge Of the
Washington branch Of the national
democratic headquarters, sayg all the
information received there il not only
favorable, but Of the most encouraging
character, and that j. comes from the
most reliable sources, and that, too, in
the states Of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois end
Iowa, where tbs s;lyer feeling il grow
iug not only among the farmers, but
the working men in the cities.
Mr.. Rixey, democratic candidate for
Congress in the Alexandria district, ia
here to-day. He will speak at Ball
ston tonight and at Leesburg next
Monday. He sayg the democratic pros-
pect in hia district is yory favorable
and that the gojditea will cut no figure
in the election there,
The cotton report Of the Department
OF Agriculture for September shows
decline from the August condition of
the crop which was 80.1 to 64.2 per
cent, decline Of l59 points. This is
the lowest September condition re-
ported in the Last tweaty-aeyen years.
The average for Virginia is 20.
Mr.. A. z. Rowe, Of Fredericksburg,
who was present at the political discus-
sion at King George court house last
week. told an acquaintance here yea
terday that nearly all the white peg
Pile he saw there were free silver men.
1t ia said here that many people Of
this city were seriously inconyenienced
yesterday by the fire in Alexandria.
The hose was laid acrosa the atreet there
on which the Mt. Vernon electric cars
run, and though the superintendent of
the road offered to raise them on tri-
pods, as is done in other cities, the city
officials would not alloy him to SO.
So the trains were considerably delay
ed and caused those who were on them
a great deal ofinconvenience, and some
of them much trouble.
The whole history Ex-senator Palmer,
the boilers candidate for President,
while Military Governor Of Kentucky.
after the close of the war, is being pre-
pared from official documents, and
when published will not be likely to
make him any votes in Kentucky or in
any other Southern State. His order
to arrest ex-Confederates and their
sympathizers If seen near the polls,
which has already appeared in
the GAZETTE, is not circum-
stance to some of his other acts,
and he, too, 6 Southern born man.
He made speech la convention
there in which he advocated the right
OF free speech to negroes, but advised
against it to ex-Confederates and those
who countenanced them. He hanged
Southern men and made all transpor.
tetion lines carry negroes on the order
OF any of mis- subalterns So outrageous
was the exercise of his brief authority
that even rank Union and renubl;oon