Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-09-13
ALEXANDRIA, GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
FROM WASHINGTON.

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette!
WASHINGTON. ID. c., September Is, lS62.-
y gentleman who was at the political meet
ing at King George Court House last Mon
day says the white people there evidently
have no liking for Malone, and that the
negroes were so amazed at what Beckley,
one of their own race, said TO them about
the General that they were i'll doubt wheth-
or to hurrah for Mayo or Wolff, but that as
far us he could Judge the feeling among
them when the speaking was over was de-
cidcdly in favor of Wolff and Dawson.
What this gentleman says Is the more rell-
able from the fact that he is not Il Virgin
ian, is not at all interested in the politics of
the State, and is not iavorably disposed to-
ward her because, us he says, he was put to
bed in Il barn at the Court House, where he
had gone on private business; and had to
ride thirty miles in the rain to reach tcle-
graph station.
The counsel for the convicted star reuters,
made motion in the Criminal Court here
this morning for Il new trial. and that the
convictS he baicd until the motion was do
cided. The grounds upon which they apply
for n new trial are the charges of bribery
against the jury and the assertion that some
of the jurors have never been naturalized.
The motion will be argued on Friday. The
counsel for the Government present. asked
that'an early day be set Tor the retrial Of the
parties in whose cases the jury failed to
agree Hardly any body doubts that brh-
cry was rcsorted to in the case, but it is
equally as hard to l'3.l man who believes
that the Govcrnmcu. was the hrber.
Gentlemen from Richmond here to-day
| IL. ..l. q a..
terday was owing to the fact that some
| body informed the parties who were on the
| bond of Mr.. Davis, as security for the
States money deposited there, that he was
largely indebted 10 the bank, and that
they had, therefore, declined to renew the
bond. They also say that the banks of
only ones in the city that had personal or
business relations with General Malone.
The excitement in the city when the failure
was first made public, they say, was in.
tense. 1t is understood that the bank will
pay dollar for dollar.
y party interested in the vapor fuel COM
pauy, but not in the Potomac Manufacture
B. ing Company ut Alexandria. says that the
works had TO be established ut Alexandria
in order TO show the advantages Of the pa
| tent. but that those advantages having now
| been demonstrated to the satisfaction of all
iron makers. and the patent being in sue
cesstul operation on Il large scale in Boston
the Alexandria Company are now enabled
to prosecute their plans and will proceed to
do 50 III IN early date.
\ Northern democrat here who has read
the speech Of Mr. Fulkerson as published in
the GAZETTE, says one of the strongest points
in il. is the reference il makes TO the decep
ton praclircd upon him in regard to the
Administration libcrality Ia the South
and mentions the facts that OF the fifty odd
House committees only four We're given to
the South and that Of three hundred and
thirty odd Presidential appointments the
South received but twenty six. and that the
most of those 10 whom these and the four
committee chairmanships were given arc
either negroes or haterS Of the people among
whom they live.
The new book of General Bethunc Of War.
renton on the mistakes of lngersol, it is I'm.
crStood is having wide circulation
People who went to Baltimore yesterday
say the Drolc is Il great success. The crowd
WAS SO great there that many came here
las, night for accommodation and returned
| this morning.
Il. l.. Nmmo. WAS commissioned post
master ut llardy'S Ford. Franklin county.
VA. to-day