Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
,snecial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gaze'


WASHINGTON, D. g., August IL, 1884.
A Virginian who holds clerkship in one
of the government departments here says
that he has not, and that all his fellow
clerks with whom he has talked upon the
subject SAY they have not, paid any atten-
ton to the political assessment circulars
sent to them by the republican national
committee. He says that the clerks who
have been promoted have paid their assess
ment. but That most of the others have not,
and that they feel safe in the assurance that
the civil service law will protect them, and
that their removal because Of non-payment
would give the democrats campaign ammu-
milton that would be used with terrible ef-
feet upon the republicans.
Intelligence here from Maine is to the eff
feet that Mr.. Blaine, while not suffering
from "bran fag," is really in bad health,
and is respondent about himself and about
the result of the coming election, and that
his dependency has had a depressing effect
upon his partisans at the North.
Railroad people here say that the springs
business this year has been unusually light,
so far at least as relates to the Virginia
springs, and that at none of them is the
evening says that Mr.. Blane's SON arrived
there to see Mr.. Elkins just after Mr.. Elkins
had started Tor New York. He also saws
the feeling among the republicans there
about West Virginia is by no means as hope
full as it was some time ago, and that though
they intend to try to carry that State, they
realize the magnitude of the job they have
undertaken, and are by no means sanguine
| Of success.
| Senator Harris, Of Tennessee, is here to-
day. He says that his own State and the
whole South will be solid for Cleveland, and
| that the democrats Of the North must be a
very poor set if they can't rake him up the
remaining forty eight votes he wants in all
that section. He is scoher at the report
| of detection among the Irish democrats, as
to believe that, he says would be an impu-
| tation upon their common sense. The Sena-
tor is confident that the next administration
will be democratic.
Miss Emily Chubb daughter Of the late
banker of this city, and who had many &C.
quaintances in Alexandria, died here of con-
sumption this morning.
1t is said here that the relief party, who
rescued the survivors Of the Greedy expedi-
ton, and who, in rendering that service,
were in no more danger than they would
have been in making any ordinary voyage,
have been, and will be, treated with more
apparent consideration by the government
than the men who really braved the terrors
Of the polar regions. Commander Schey,
it is said, will be made chief of the Equip
ment Bureau of the Navy.
A gentleman here to-day from North Car
Dina says that during discussion between
Scales and York, the respective democratic
and republican candidates for Governor of
that State last week, at town in the west
ern part of the State, where there is large
white majority, the former, after trying in
vain to make tho latter define bis position
upon the negro question, just before the
meeting adjourned, said: Fellow citizens,
you have seen how hard have tried to
get our friend to say what must be done
with the negro, and how sigually I |
have failed. You do not know what he
would do, and confess that I am unable
to understand his answers to the questions
I have asked him. But before we leave the
stand will again ask him what he would
do with the negro?" To this York, who
had become irritated by the persistence
with which his democratic opponent pressed
him for an answer, replied. 'et him go to
hell" YES" said Scales, land that is
what all the republicans would do if it were
not for the negroes VOTE"