New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-20
THE LATE COLONEL ALEXANDER


Colonel Alexander, the defunct, who left
the City Hotel Loan last year, and
dropped letter announcing that he would
at once drown himself in the muddy Mis-
sissippi, is as big blower as ever. He has
actually made the Boston Herald believe
that he is brother-in-law of Vice Presi-
dent COlfax, whereas there is no relation
ship whatever between them We copy
from the Herald:
The case of Julius Fl. Alexander, charged
by the State of Louisiana with obtaining
money from various parties in New Orleans
by falsely representing himself as revenue
officer and holding them in fear, has been al
ready mentioned. He was again brought
into the United States COMMISSIONER 8
Court to-day and the case continued in $4,000
until August l6. ..'
This man Alexander is about fifty years
Of age and of good personal appearace and
is brother-inlaw OF Vice-President Colfax.
We understand that he was once in the
| custody of the United States government,
but escaped about year since. On the
| tenth of June he turned up at the Bay State
House in Worcester and registered himself
as from Havana, Cuba. .... w.
| 1t is related that while there he talked
Spanish occasionally, and put on numerous
airs. While there he was recognized by a
| gentleman from the Crescent City as being
| man wanted" by the Louisiana authOri-
ties. and the City Marshal at Worcester,
ON being informed of this suspicion, COM
| municated with Washington, and also with
| New Orleans. and on the twenty-seventh of
| June information reached Worcester that
| Alexander was wanted 1t was then
| found that he had left the hotel two days
before, S25 in debt to the proprietor. He
| was sought for, and found ON the eighth in
slant in North Brookfeld, where he had
| registered himself at the Batchelder House
as Cosmopolitan He was brought to
| Boston, as before mentioned. He has wife
| in New York. The Worcester Spy says OF
| him:
| Alexander protests that he is innocent of
| crime, and says that the government offered
| him an appointment as special agent OF the
| Treasury Department for the purpose OF
| detecting large smuggling operations in su-
| gar, coffee and molasses. from Cuba; and
the receiving of money from smugglers. as
charged, was for the purpose OF getting
| evidence for the government: but before
his plans matured the other parties turned
the tables, and made a complaint against
him for receiving the money. Not having
money to fight against the ring, and contra
ry to the advice of his friends, among
| " HOiu uc lutullOuS iut HdulCS VI oCA-
ators Yates and Wilson, General
Banks, and others of similar stand
ing, he left, and has since been getting his
living as above. He is a Prussian, tall and
distinguished looking. was in the army.
colonel of three different regiments and
received a wound which still troubles
him. He also says that he was a pro
vost marshal under General Rosecrans.
and acting in that capacity hung two rebel
| spies, for which he is hated by the people i'll
New Orleans, who, he thinks, laid this trap
for his apprehension as a swindler. His
statements to the City Marshal accord
well with what has been learned OF
him, and he was recognized i'll Boston
by General Andrews, with whom he
was at Port Hudson. He paid his
bill at the hotel and took his baggage with
him, but is not possessed of much money,
being dependent upon his practice as a
chiropOdist for somewhat precariOus live
! lihOOd. He said that he walked from WOr-
cester to North Brookield, and feels very
badly over his hard luck, coming in addition
| to pecuniary difficulties, which he considers
| discOuraging in themselves to man OF his
| years, suffering from wound received Ill
| the army.
The resurrected body of the late Colonel
Alexander, which floated down the Missis-
sippi, and thence through the Gulf Stream
and into the interior waters of Massachu-
setts, is inspired with the old spirit OF
shameless falsehood, braggadocio and NJ
ured innocence