Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-04-22
FROM WASHINGTON


proilts the few Mahoneites who had money
have made by means of the Rddlebergcr
Dill and the coupon killers, AMI that the re-
lllsa! OF their party to submit that bill to
the people, as they promised, was delbe-
latcly advised means to that end. Coupons.
rs is we'll KNOWN Went down in anticipa-
ton OF the passage of the bill referred to.
and the reports arc that the few pccuniary
Alahoneites bought them up. knowing that
the consututlonal!ty Of the bill would be
decided not by their court, which does not
go into office until next january. but by the
present debt-paying court, which has al
ready practically decided that the bill is
unconstitutional, and that under its dcci-
sion the coupons will go up and they can
unload at greatly advanced figures. After
the passage Of the bill old consols went
down to 80; they now sell at 20. Tcn-for-
tics fell to 80: they now sell at IS. and cor-
pons which fell to 50 now sell ut 10. 1t
will thus be seen how profitable Mahonism
has been to some people,
Senator Harrison is in favor OF appropri-
atlng millions of money for retaining the
Potomac flats off Washington, but is OPP
posed to the appropriation of Il cent toward
repairing and strengthening the leveeS on
the lower Mississippi. The geographical
position of the place where Congressional
appropriation is to be expended has pre-
ponderating influence upon the mind of the
average republican Cons gresham.
The MahoneiteS here who have not al
ready obtained either Il State or federal of:
flee are in the slough of dcspond over the
disastrous asco their leader has sustained
by his recent silly attempt TO carry his party
over to the republicans and The equally
foolish course he has pursued toward Mr..
Massey. They say they are disappointed in
him, and that he is not half the politician
they thought hr was There are none who
can sec the real impcricctons Of II political
leader more clearly than disappointed
oflice-scekcr.
The one hundred thousand dollars yer(lc,
in the Ilallett Kilbourn case is the chief
topic OF conversation ut the Capitol this
morning, and the almost unanimous opinion
with reference to it seems to he that it is
excessive to an outrageous degree. Kilburn
was one Of the ring which is moi only openly
asserted but confidently believed by many.
acquired immense fortunes BY excessive and
fraudulent charges for street improvements
here during the Shepherd regime and when
required to exhibit the books OF the real
estate pool to IN investigating committee
OF the 44th Congress cOntcmptuously refused
to do so. The Sergeanr-at-Arm Of the
House then, under orders Of the House,
committed him TO Jail, where he had apart.
ments luXurously iittedup andwhere he Jared
sumptuousy Oh the most expensive viands
ordered by himself from the best restaurants,
all the bills Of which We're paid by the Gov
eminent. TO give Him one hundred thou
sand dollars now rs damages for what other
men, for the same reason, have been sub
Jected to and have borne on prison fare and
without any sort OF compensation. is gene
rally thought TO be IN outrage on Justice
Many OF the democratic members of the
House are in favor, if the Judgment is sus-
tanned, of paying it, but some of the republi-
can members say they will not agree that
the House shall pay a cent of it, and That
eN-Sergcant- ALARMS Thompsoh shall nay
the whole amount
Mr.. W. W. Kerr, the Philadelphia law
yer who was sent by Attorney General
Brewster to South Carolina to prosecute
citizens Of that State in order that the re-
publcans in the L. S. House of Representa-
tiyes might be sustained in their proposed
attempt TO give several seats in that House
now occupied by legally elected democrats
to republicans, has just arrived here from
Charleston. He is Ion spree" which he
commenced before he left Charleston. and
which is supposed to have inspired the fol-
lowing story which he tells in the most cy-
cited manner and with great ampliGcation
~ gang OF rouGhs whose habit il is 10 in
suit and bulldoZc federal officers. and who
arc shielded by the police and have the SYM
pathy of the people of the city, surrounded
the hotel at which he stopped the night be-
fore he left and stoned its windows. hut that
when he rushed out on the portico. brand
ishing 4 cooked revolver, and called them a
set of d-S- his and dcficd them sim
gly or collectively they. like the craven
towards that they are, alarmed by hs bold
spirit and the brave determination il cvinced.
retired with few faint shouts and left him
master OF the situation.'' Mr.. Brewster
should send this rooster home to ''sobcr up.' y
Amongthe visitors to Gliteau this morning
was another praying negro, but his PRAYER
was so long that Glltcau rose before it was
completed, and told him that he. Guiteau.
was 4 praying man and was known as such
but that he did not have time to be PRAYING
with every negro tramp who chose to come
there. His sister, Mrs. ScoviIlc; also called
to sec him this morning to induce him TO
let her manage his worldly affairs. With
the sale Of his clothes, his autograph and his
book he is now in possession of five or six
hundred dollars.
Nothing definite can be learned about the
rumor to the effect that Senator Davis. of
West Virginia. cN-Sccretary Blaine, and
General Ewing, of Ohio. have formed q
syndicate for the purpose of buying the
Washington and Ohio Railroad. Mr.. Davis
isat his mines in West Virginia, Gen. Ewing
is in Ohio, and the ex-Sccretary of State is
preparing for his examination by the House
Foreign Affairs Committee next Monday in
reference to the Peruvian Company. No
information, therefore, can be obtained from
them, but those most familiar with thciraffaiIs
are disposed to place no credi, in the rumor
referred to. 1t is reported, and that, too. it
is said, on the authority Of Lewis Johnston
& Co., that the fifty thousand dollars con.
ditioned for the last purchase of this road
had been raised and had been or would he
rendered to the Circuit Court of Richmond
Capt. Bassett, Doorl;ccper of the Senate,
has heard nothing of the bible that was
stolen from the drawer in the desk of the
President of the Senate day or Two 400