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Show WASHINGTON. Political FlftshoH I.oiiisiunn i- .Sound iiiitl K ill tio Iemo-crtUic. Iemo-crtUic. Vulttau Dldu't Transit. Chicago, 2 Tribune's Washington: Washing-ton: Jt is rumored that letters have been sent from hero urging Governor Hayes to request Senator Conkling to immediately take part in the cam ass in the west. U is said that Homething of this sort was necessary to relieve Conkling of certain sensitiveness he has had since tho Cincinnati convention. conven-tion. - Alter the October elections several northern speakers will go south. Stewart L. Woodford has already gone, and General McDougal representative Irom New York, has agreed to slump South Carolina. .. ,j Congressman Levy, democrat, ol New Orleans, is in this city, and predicts pre-dicts confidently that tho democrats will carry tho entire s:ate and cou-gressionabficket. cou-gressionabficket. Congressman Casey is hopeful that the electoral voto will be fur Hayes, and thinks this is certain cer-tain if peace is maintained in three or four parishes. There seems to he some foundation for recent rumors ot a proposed trade in Louisiana, by which the more respectable demo cralic element and thu republicans are to elect Nichols, democrat, for governor, while the electoral college snail go for Hay es j and theru is certainly cer-tainly an arrangement as to New .Orleans, .Or-leans, that the straight democratic fo'tet, nominated by tiie short hairs, will be approved by the silk stocking democracy and tho republicans. It is intimated that Fresidout (Irani may possibly countermand the secretary oi the navy's order placing olncers on waiting orders on furlough pay. It is said that the amount saved by this order will be small, and a deficiency de-ficiency will be inevitable on the navy appropriation. Tribune's Washington : Professor Xewcombe, of the national observatory, observa-tory, has watched in vain for the transit of Vulcan predicted lor to-day, and is more than ever convinced thai Lavcriier's theory was utterly baseless. |