Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-24
FROM WARRINGTON

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, D. c., August 24r 1882
1t is well-known that when Mr.. Blaine first
went into President Garfeld's cabinet he
was opposed to the Malone movement and
had no hestancy in saying so. 1t Is equally
well known that he subsequently Withdrew
his opposition to that movement, but. and
in this respect he was equally rs frank i'll
saving that he did so solely and simply be-
cause the President and all his cabinet save
only himself were in favor of THAT move
ment, and that as he was to remain in the
and for that reason, while doing nothing to
aid the movement referred to would do
nothing to oppose it. As the conditions
have changed, Mr.. Blaine. it is said has
changed with them, and intelligence from
various quarters in Virginia is to the effect
that the cx-Secretary is cXerting what in
fuence he possesses in that State in favor of
the straightout republican and debt paying
movement Ofcoursc his influence is only
operative upon those who think that he will
be either the leader or the Warwick in the
next national republican campaign, but its
effect according to the intelligence referred
to. shows that Mr.. Blaine in Virginia at least,
is still Il power in the land.
Mr. Richard Mcrrick commenced his
speech in the prosecution of the Star route
swindlers to-day, and the knowledge that
| he would do so attracted Il large crowd to
the Court House and rcawakcned the inter-
est in that trial which was previously
on decided wanc. He is making pow
| ri MT 1,n nj
must have immense effect upon the jury,
that is unless that jury has been fixed
with ginger as many suppose the grand
Jury was, which failed to observe anything
in Walch's testimony upon which to base
an indictment.
Mr.. Rodderick Butler, who formerly, rs
Houck and Moore are now, was scalawag
member Of the House from Tennessee and
who obtained notoriety by selling 4 cadet
ship at West Point in the open market, is
here to-day. but his society is not hankcrcd
after by the reputable men who formerly
associated with him. The republicans of hi:
county elect him to the Legislature of hi:
State, but are afraid to. put him up for Con.
gress again.
A naval officer who recently brought hi.
vessel into Hampton Roods will, it is under
stood, be court-martialed for employing
pilot, as such officers are supposed to bt
able to do without pilots at such open har
bours as that at Hampton Roads. 1t vii
be remembered that two naval officers were
disciplined for the same otfense at New
York some time ago.
Register Bruce, of the Treasury Depart
ment, is of the impression that the defect il
the transfer provision printed on the bacl
Of the new per cent. bonds is Il fatal one
| 49, .,
rotary Folger is responsible for the defec
, and its probable cost, forty thousand dollars
The Secretary has not yet arrived and ever,
day he is absent delays the exchange of tn
bonds.
The negroes Of this city, who know abou
as much and no more of what is going on II
Choctaw county, Alabama than of what
happening in the moon, arc to hold Il pub
lie meeting here next Saturday night m.
formally deny the statement that the mel
of their race in the county referred to ha
, conspired to massacre the white people @
: that county.
, Col Popham has returned to this city. A
impartial investigation of his case will sho,
that about half million dollars passe
1 through his hands during the time he wa
G clerk of the U. S. Court for the eastern dis
I trict of Virginia, that he had at his dispose
blank checks signed by the Judge of tn
Court, and that what happened TO hil
might have happened to any other man VIII
, after a twelve years term Of Office was sue
denly called upon to settle. After littI
= time he did settle all mis- accounts in maj
v ner perfectly satisfactory to the parties il
terested.
= Judge Hughes, of the U. S. Court for th
Eastern District of Virginia, has been II
quested by the President to hold the T. S
S Court for the Western District of that Stat
until the vacancy occasioncd by the retire
y ment of Judge Rives can be filled, whic
. will probably not be until the next sessio
y of Congress, and he will do so.
y 1t is reported from the Norfolk district, i
. Virginia, to-day that everybody there COZ
cedes the utter defeat Of the Malone move
: ment in that district. 1t is said that shoul
c Mr.. PhGbus agree to accept the nomin:
S ton abandoned by Judge Spaldng, NJ
4 Sam Shoemaker, of Baltimore, a nation;
bank man and Il prominent member of til
"high moral party, will advance hi
I $50, 600 in addition to the sum he will +,
ceive from c. Clark, of Richmond, and
Hubbell, Of Washington, with which
i prosecute his campaign.