Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-04-07
FROM WASHINGTON

! Especial Correspondence Of the Ae1andrs Gazette
| WASHINGTON, D. c.. April 7, lSS3.-A
we'll known South Carolina republican in the
! city to-day says that Judge Bond has sane
toned such arrests as were recently made in
that State, fer the last twelve years and that
his present isapproval ofthem, taken in con-
neclion with his other recent constitutional
decisions, is considered there to be solely
due to the reformatory influence of the
next democratic House Of Representatives
which has inspired him with the fear of i'm
parchment He also says the latearrests there
were the more outrageous from the fact that
| the parties arreSted-one hundred and thirty
OF tho citizens of the State-were seized
and dragged from their homes on charges
presented by the clerk of one of Mr.. BreWs-
ters assistant prosecutors who had only ar
rived in tho State one day before, and who
could not possibly have had probable grounds
for such charges, though the constitution pro-
| hibits arrests unless there be such grounds.
He also says that Mr. Brewster employed
as assistant counsel for the prosecution four
Philadelphia lawyers, thing never heard
! Of before. The gentleman referred to is, as
stated above, . republican. but is opposed to
negro supremacy in his Slate, the white peo-
| pie of which pay 90 per cent. of the taxes
|
recent arrests because among them were two
of his tenants, to whom he has been CON
PEELED TO make larger advances because they
were taken out Of their fields in the midst of
their work and kept away from their homes
| for two weeks.
General Stone, the ex-Confederate, but
more recently of the Egyptian army, has,
through the influence of his friend, General
Sherman, been appointed to superiutend
the erection Of the statue of Liberty In New
York harhor, from the top of which an cleo
tric light is to illuminate the whole of that
harbor. The appointment of an Tex rebel" t /,
50 important a place is the cause of good
deal of dissatisfaction to the ultra radicals.
Among the most attractive places in the
city now is the studio of Walker, the artist,
in the Corcoran building. Walker is said
TO be the painter of the picture which
Batchelder is now exhibiting in New York
as his own. His painting, the Battle OF
Chapultepec, Is one of the most admired
paintings in the Capitol. He has painted
an artillery picture for the Government, and
Is to paint one of each of the other two
branches Of the army service.
Mr.. Butler Malone, son of the General,
arrived here to-day from Petersburg. His
father was expected but could not come,
him in the Mexican silver mine will have to
60 to Petersburg to see him. The season is
so far advanced now that the proposed
visit OF the General and party of his
friends to Mexico will probably be aban-
doned. The Generals Sunday dinner was
sent to him this morning by friend ia
Alexandria 1t consisted of quarter OF
spring lamb, green peas and asparagus.
The German Government having pro-
hibited the importation of American pork
into that country, the State Department
here is engaged i'll devisng ways and means
| by wi ich effective retaliatory measures NAV
be adopted.
Lee. the negro contestant in the Lee
Richardson contested election case from
South Carolina in the last House, has been
given sine cure place in the Interior De-
partment at IS day in order that the re-
publicans may remain solid with the
negroes.
The Jeanette Board of Inquiry to. day
decided that they would not PROFOUND the
Collins questions to the other witnesses be-
fore them. From what has been educed as
evidence by the board, it seems that all the
officers OF the Jeanette except Melville,
and most OF The crew were at one time or
another under arrest, and that charges had
| III,
1t Is said, were among the papers recovered
and now in the hands of Secretary Chand
ler
The rice growers and the rice importing
merchants had hearing at the Treasury
to-day, the former wanting all imported
rice classed under the head of rice on which
the duty Is high, and the latter wanting it
classed under the head of rice meal, on
which the duty is low.
A female was arrested here last night ON
the charges OF drunkenness, and though she
stated at the police station that she BELONGED
TO the Portuguese legation, she was locked
up 1t has subsequently appeared that
what she said was true, and her arrest NAV
give rise to an international question.
The funeral of the late Surgeon General
Barnes, L. S. A, took place this afternoon.
The military escort comprised all the regu,
lar and volunteer troops in the city.
Both the Alexandria ferry boats were at
the wharf here to-day, and both will com.
mence running tomorrow
Comptroller Lawrence, OF the Treasury,
who has been so particular of late in the
matter of double payments, did, il has inst
been discovered, for time draw double nav
himself-one as judge and one as an officer
of the army.
1t is not improbable that the case OF AL.
len vs. McVcigh, which was argued ia the
I. S: Supreme Court last week, may be de-
cided next Monday. 1t came up on an ap-
peal from the lower court, which had twice
decided in favor of Mr. McVeigh.
The gold, silver and L. 8. notes In the
Treasury 10 day amounted to 1864, 2S5 357,
;. The mortgage OF ST. 900 on the National Reppb.
| acan newspaper of Thu city Is not lien on the
valuable press Of that paper which is the inIi
vidual property of Secretary Chandler.
ELOPENENT.-The greatest sensation that hos