Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazeitel
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. %. 1884.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov %. 1884
Senator NJ. C. Butler, of South Carolina,
arrived here last night, and was at the Capt.
tol this morning. In short talk with the
GAZErTE's correspondent he said that the
result of the recent election had been most
beneficial in his State. 1t had made the
white people there feel as though they were
once more the fellow citizens of the people
of the North, and had shown the negroes
that they had heen grossly deceived by
their white republican leaders, that they
had nothing to fear from democratic success,
aud that they, like their white neighbors,
could vote as they pleased with impunity.
He SAYS that in bis own county some of the
most Objectionable negro republican politi-
clans of former years went to the polls and
forwards asked him for his influence in get.
ting them Offices He says the great danger
TO The South now is that all the negroes will
thew are now, as always, apurchasable COM
modify. it is by no means improbable that
democratic candidates for Office will com.
pete for their votes, thus weakening the
party by endangering the success of the
regularly nominated tickets, and that
thus the negro will realize his power
and really have his day. With regard to
Mr.. Blaiue's late speech, he says he has
heretofore liked Blaine personally, but that
the speech referred to shows him to be
Cheap spaniel who whines at his defeat !;
also. that if all that Blaine said about the
increased power of the South by means of
negroes who are bulldozed be true, it only
proves the criminal recklessness of Blaine
and his party in forcing suffrage upon the
negroes Of the South against the protests OF
the white people of that section, who were
perfectly content to remain without the in
creased congressional and electoral repre-
sentation to which they are now entitled by
negro votes.
MIR. Blaine has rented for the winter the
Window house, pictures of which extensive
~ circulated in Mr.. WINDOWS State were
largely instrumental in defeating that ex-
Senator for reelection. In talking about
Mr.. Blaine last night, Mr.. c. l.. Magee, a
prominent Pennsylvania republican poll
tician, now here, said that Blaine's Augusta
speech came nine years too late to do
Blaine or the republican party any service,
and that the day for sectionalism is past.
General Sprigg Carroll, from whom his
wife lately sought and obtained d.
vorce, recently walked into the Office of ex
District Attorney Corkhill, through whom
the particulars of the charges upon which
| the divorce Was granted were made public,
aud having locked the door behind him,
drew his chair up to the table at which the
alarmed Mr.. Corkbill was sitting, and emov-
ing two pistols from his pocket laid them
on the table and told him to take his choice
as he had come TO kill him or be killed
But instead Of selecting one Mr.. Corkhil ex
hibted such ahject evidences of mortal
dread that the General told him his life was
not worth taking, but to keep the pistol as
his anger might get the better Of him one Of
these days, and if it did he wanted him to be
prepared. A night or two after this the par
ties referred to met again, and the General
struck Mr.. Corkhill three or four times on
the head and shoulders with his cane, but
be made no resistance, contenting himself
with getting out of the Generals rec ch as
rapidly as 10 sib!e.
The Swain court.martial was again in
session to-day at the Ebbitt House, with as
large an audience, chiefly of army people,
was brought against Swain to-day. General
Wilcox, in talking to the GAzErrE's CORE
spopdent to-day about this trial. said lie
did not know the character of the evidence
against Swain, but that he had low tastes
and was utterly inefficient. and should be
cashiered for those reasons if for no other.
The General also said that in the old army of
which he was a member, the idea was that
if man was guilty he should be convicted,
if innocent, be discharged; that army off
GERS prosecuted and defended the accused,
and that acquittal and conviction depended
upon the evidence adduced, and not upon
the bubbles and techncalites Of the law;
but that now all is changed, and lawyers
play prominent parts in court martial trials
Ex-senator and present Register of the
Treasury Bruce, coored Mississippian, says
he thinks he ought to know something about
his race in the South, and that Mr.. Blaines
assertions of intimidation and violence at
the polls there are absolute and unqualified
falsehoods.
The arrest of Prof. DeWolowski, fash
ionable music teacher of this city: for an
unmentionable crime upon his own daugh-
ter, has produced the most intense excite
ment among the families and friends of his
pupils, to many of whom he gave private
lessons.