Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-10-25
FROM WASHINGTON.

el Tue government from collecting money
from fellow officers for election purposes,
ana rs such law is not unconstitutional, it
is hard to sec how the court can do ANYTHING
else with the case but affirm the decision of
the court below, which convicted Curtis.
If it shall DO this, aud the U. S. Attorney
for the Eastern District of Virginia will do
ms DUTY, there will be several Curtis cases
in his State
There was good weather for the races
yesterday and better to-day, and the at
tendance is pretty fair. Among those
present yesterday was Senator Johnston, of
Virginia. Among the crowd today Mr.
James Chatham, of Alexandria, seemed to
oe better known and to have more friends
than anyone else.
A battalion of Knights Templars of the
District of Columbia marched down Penn
sylVanla Avenue to-day, headed By band
OF music, to the railroad depot, where they
took the cars for Philadelphia to attend the
hl-centennial ceremonies of that city. St.
Andrew commandery of Richmond, Virgin
Ia, numbering about fifty, not one of whom,
an enthusiastic democrat said, is q Malone
lie, passed through here an hour or two la
ter, bound Tor the same place.
Inc polltlcal campaign is so near its end
now that but few letters come to democrat
&c headquarters, but the few that do come
represent the prospect ofsuccess next month
as most promising, and that in the North as
IN The South the people are tired, not so much
OF inc republican party as of the Arthur or
ahtl-Garleld wing of that party, and are
going to show the country that they are.
There are several postmasters in Virginia
whose commissions will soon expire: among
them those at Staunton, Harrisonburg,
Abingdon, Wytheville, Liberty and at the
University of Virginia. 1t is reported here
by Virginians that each of these places has
been promised to at least dozen different
applicants upon the condition that they
snail work Increasingly from now until the
election for General Malone. After that it
is SAID they will be given to the Generals
special iavorites, and that among these are
not included many old time republicans.
The recent letter of Governor Cameron to
Governor Hamilton, of Maryland, upon the
subject OF fishing and oystering in the wa
tiers OF the two States is the subject of much
comment here. The Court of Appeals of
Virginia had before them last winter the
case OF Hendricks VS.. the Commonwealth of
Virginia, where the defendant Hendricks
sought to evade punishment for illegal fish
ing upon the ground that he was citizen of
Maryland. The Attorney General of Vir-
glnia admitted that this was good ground
for reversal, and but for the argument of
Mr.. Edmund Burke, of Alexandria. the
cause would have been dismissed. The
Court of Appeals held that this was no
ground to escape punishment When Gov
ernor Cameron next desires to show his
learning he had better consult some one
more learned in the law than Attorney
General Blair, who, if he furnished the Gov
ernor with the information upon which he
wrote the letter referred to. shows that he
Is ignorant of decisions rendered during his
term of office, and Of cases presumably ar
gued by himself
A well informed Firginian from the 7th
district stated to-day that O'Ferrall would
certainly be elected over Paul, unless the
democrats of Augusta and Albemarle failed
to come up to their promises Every indi-
cation from Augusta points to an increase
over Daniels vote Of last year, and to this
county they were looking with much inter-
est. Bath and Highland he said were all
right.
The Virginians who went from here to
Alexandria last night to hear Mr. Massey
say he made a telling speech to a crowded
house, and that hundreds more would have
heard him if the hall had been larger.
secretary trelinghuysin entertained the
President and the members of the Cabinet
in the city at dinner last night It is I'M
delstood that the unconcealed and public
way in which Mr.. ITubbcl had robbed the
Government employees for campaign pur
poses, and thereby produced public
| scandal was thought to show pfainlv
enough that he is not the right
man in the right place, and that, there
tore, he must contine his future atten.
tons to Michigan, where he is candidate
for T.. S. Senator. and turn over all the
other business to Mr. Chandler The fact
that Mr.. Chandler is a member of the Cabi
net did not seem to strike any of them ms
at all incompatible with the new work that
has been assigned him. The fact is that the
leading idea of the Arthur administration is
to so run" the Government as to secure
Mr.. Arthur 4 second term.
a gentleman from Leesbnrg here to-day
says there are but two white democrats in
Loudoun county who will not vote for Mr.
Massey, but that he knows many" repubIi-
cans who will vote for him, and that ne
gro hacked the Malone postmaster there
with an offer to bet ten dollars that Dawson
than Wise
Payne, one of the parties implicated in the
bribery charges in the star route case, was
arrested to-day. Shaw, another one is still
in the city. The others have fled. 1t is
stated that Shaw has said that one of the
jurors told him it was reported that Dick
son had been offered $25, 0O0 and asked him
II he heard of any more money being atloat
to let him know, rs he would like to have
some of it. The star reuters have succeeded
in getting. their case pretty we'll tangled up,
but everybody believes they are guilty and
most everybody hopes that the heads of the
gang, Dorsey aud Brady, may yet be brought
to justice.
sr. NICHOLAS, for November, has been received
from Its publishers, The Century Company, New
York Many youthful reader of this magazine