Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette
w ,n1r1NnnoN u e. AnulSt is. 1854.

WASHINGTON, -. ", August TO- LOOT
Payments of political assessments by the
federal employees here are increasing, anu
more money was taken i'll at the republican
collection room to day than on any previous
day during the present campaign. In con-
sentence of this the collectors are In Detter
spirits than they have been in heretofore
and take decidedly more cheerful look at
nolitical prospects than they have preVi'
rusly been taking. They say that every
Government employee will pay before eiec'
ton day, Grand though they don't men
ton the alternative. they wink k, and Wlnk'
is as good rs a nod 10 the initiated. 1hey
are probably correct, so that that portion ol
the republican election fund collecteo lloin
otliceholders will doubtless be as large Vhls
wear as ever 1t is reported that the demo
Gratis have watchers at the republican coslec.
ton room, who take down the name .,
every federal employee who pays, and that
every such one will be reported TO the evil
service commission, rs such payments are
snecially prohibited by the civil service
law. 49,,
Senator Jones, of Florida, a native irlsh-
man passed through here yesterday on MS
way home from New York. lie Is III very
cheerful spirits at the bright prospects oil
the democrats in that State, which, ne says,
will no democratic by large majority. he
saws there was uuquesticnabiy some irish
Catholic detection there at one time, but
for what reason no body could tell, except
the sIlv one that the Blaireites kept on say
;nu ,i,ot Blaine WAS in favor OF Ireland, but
that it is being rapidly dssipated by the
publication OF Blaiue's true inwar'iness On
the Irish Catholic Question, aud that ii will
have disappeared entirely by election day.
| The friends at Governor Cleveland, he says,
| promised the Chicago convention 10 carry
New York if their iavorite were nominated,
and that lie has 30 doubt they Will make
| their promise good.
| we'll Informed democratic politician
| from West Virginia, here To day, says there
is no more doubt of his State going demo-
cratic than there is about Texas gong that
| way. He also says the talk about the re-
publicans making any extra effort 10 carry
| the State is nothing but wind. as they have
good Use for ali their lnonry and men across;
| The river, in Ohio, where The State election
occurs the same day, and can not afford TO
be wasting any in an impractical effort to
carr a state that has been democratic ever
since: her citizens could give expression TO
their political opinion The result III ONO,
he saws will have an elle"l uI:on the national
| election. white chat in West Virginia will
h,v, none. and that therefore The republic
cans are not going 10 be foolish enough to
| reduce their effective means iii the formcrln
order to eXpclId them upon the latter.
Among the strangers in the city to-day Is
Mr.. Robert Campbell, Of Fauquier county.
| who was once one of the most Influential
of Mnhone's leaders there. But Mr.. Camp.
bell, like many another young Eirgiuian,
was deceived in his opinion of the General ,
and ~ soon IA he discovered that fact he
left him. Mr.. Campbell is a republican,
but not being blinded by his politics, says
that ii there be any change in the vote OF
his county next November it will be in IA
yor of the democrats.
| Senator Conser, of Michigan, who resides
here permanently, accompanied by his wife
and Il lady relative, went over to AleXan-
dra in hi, own carriage, which he drives
himself this morning, TO look al the objects
of interest in that city and nelghbulhood.
| The senator l. Il very domestic man, and Is
rarely 20, " unless accompanied by his wife.
Mr. Ham Shep2crd, who is in charge of
| the headquarters of the Virginia democracy
which are located at Alexandria, says that
intelligence at those headquarters from the
| Valley Of Virginia is TO the ELECT that the
| election there next fall will show large dem
cratic gains, and that the counties OF Rock
| insham, Shenandoah and Page, which went
| oil OH the Malone craze, will come back to
| their first and old love.
General Logan, now that he is cand-
| date for Vice President, can't abide his old
| boarding house, where he became acqnaint-
| ed with, and the friend Of Guiteau, and so
| he has bought him a liue house on Capitol
| HILL where he will in future reside.
n arrival hpr,. n .Iav
the steamer Lady Of the Lake from Nor
| folk saws that about two o'clock this morn
ing, when oil Matthias Point, man was
seen TO walk forward to the bow of the
steamer, climb upon the anchor and plunge
| overheard. The boat was stopped imme-
diately and search made for him, but if he
ever came to The surface nothing was seen
of him, and it is supposed he was struck by
| the wheels Of the steamer as she passed
over him. He was resident of this city,
| having lived on the upper end Of eth street,
| and had gone down the river last Saturday
night.
DIR. Bland, whose mission is to defend the
Indians, publicly accuses Senator Dawes, Of
Massachusetts, the originator Of the famous
"gray-haired mans" story, of crookeduess
and of being the especial friend of those
Indian agents who manage TO make from
thirty TO fifty thousand dollars year out of
| q two thousand dollar office.
| A gentleman from Alexandria here to-day says
| that the lcssccs of the new opera house there,
which, he says, will hold seventeen hundred peo-
pie Messrs. Hill & Brill, made proposition
to Boothc. the actor. to open that house. but that
his terms fer doing were u 800 for four nights
and matinee, which they thought was too
Steep
LOGAN AND THE NEGROES.-Governor St.
John, the prohibition candidate for Presi-
dent, in a public address thus spoke of John
A. Logan, republican nominee for the Vice
Presidency:
There was a law once in force in Illinois
to the effect that any white person caught
in the act of giving aid or sustenance
to any colored man. woman or child
should be arrested, and upon proof of
the charge, should be thrown into pris-