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Show 1'olltlcs Doorkeeper Field Boo lb. New Yort, 13. The political cauldron begins to boil, in the long anticipation of the next congressional elections. The democratic leaders claim that they can increase their majority in the house to twenty four. This calculation assumes that all se members elect by the nationals will vote with the democrats ou party issues. On the other band, some republicans claim tbat, with proptr activity, the democratic majority in the houae may be obliterated, chiefly by the republican gains in Ohio, Indiana, In-diana, Maryland and Pennsylvania, Secretary McCrary even anticipates gains of republican congressmen in tbe eouth, basing bis opinion on tbe supposition that now there is quiet in that section, the blacks will generally vole the republican ticket, without a revival of the former fierce raee animosities. It is now said for Doorkeeper Field that he never was a willing rebel, but joined the southern army on tbe persuasions per-suasions of his wife's Virginia relatives. Edwin Booth was to have appeared on Wednesday last ns Bertuccio, in tbe 'Tool's Revenge," at tbe Pitta-burg Pitta-burg opera house, but owing to tbe non-payment of an old gas bill by tbe management, tbe gas company cut ofl the supply suddenly and the theatre was closed. Actor George Hartley Gilbert, son of Mrs, Gilbert, actress, died yesterday, yester-day, aged 27. |