Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria aazette.l
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Oct. IA. 1884.

FROM WAod1NU1VN.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria aazettel
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Oct. IA. 1884.
In the Supreme Court of the United
States Mr.. William l.. Royal to-day pre-
s-u,ed nei,iops for writs OF habeas corpus
in the case exparte Crouch and William L.
Rpyal No. /. He also presented petition
for writ OF certorari IN the case oil VII
liam ]. Royal! NJ. . AT the same time he
moved toe cvntJ to advance the cases OF
Moore vs. Gr-enaow, Peasants VS.. Green
how, aud While VS.. Greelhow, Carter VS..
Gree ho8 and poiudexter Va. GreenhoW, to
,e heard a;oug with the haoeas corpus
CASES all these are coupon cases. MT
Royall also submitted the Attorney dener-
al,s brief opposing the advancing ofthe cases
There was something in the nature of a
c, Il =, b-ioeen Royal No. and Royal
NJ. . i waicn Mr Royal made the follow
i-f ,aDianaliun to the court: In Royal
No. /, Mr. Royal was Indicted for selling
e, uDnbs without having paid the special
,icens. lax Of 81 900. He applied to Jud ge
Hu.bes for writ cf habras corpus on the
u,..ufd that the law was unconstitutional
Judge Hughes granted the writ, but when
tbe case came on to be heard he held the
Lave constitutional and remanded the
prisoner. On Mr.. Royal stating to him
hat he proposed to appeal from his decl'
sion. he haiivd him 10 appear at the SUI
irene Court Oh the first day of this term
and on each succeeding day until the
court made some order in his case
In ROYALS No 2 Mr. Royal was indicted
for bringing n suit under the coupon killer
acts on coupons without having paid
the special license tax of $3.50 required
by The act OF Assembly, and was out
on bail. He applied to the Supreme
Court for a writ Of babeas corpus
to discharge him from this prosecu-
ton on the ground that the law was uncon.
stilutional. But it was obvious, Mr.. Royal
explained TO the court, that if they awarded
u writ Of habeas corpus in the second case,
aud be complied with the condition of bis
bond in the first case, the State officers
could not comply with the requirements OF
the writ by producing bis body before the
c ,urt because he would be in Washington
attending the court. He, therefore, moved
the court TO admit him to bail in Royal No
to appear there some day week or two
hence, that he might return to Virginia to
be brought up by the State officers in case
thu court s~ar,led writ Of habeas corpus
in Ruyal NJ 2 The court took the motion
under consideration. Crouch was indicted
for selling goods by sample without
license after having rendered coupons
in 1ayment of his license tax.
The talk of the town to-day, as it was yes
terday, is solely about the election now in
progress in Ohio. No business is being
transacted at any of the departments, and
the few clerks LETT there are spending their
time to day in figuring upon the probable
result So intent was Mr.. Gresham, the
Secretary of The Treasury, upon carrying
Ohio, that he actually closed some Of the
rooms in his department, sending ell the
occupants TO Ohio, and Offering as an ex-
cuse therefor the necessity for repairing the
rooms referred to and putting them in or.
der for the winter. Congressman Hopkins,
of Pennsylvania, democrat, arrived here
yesterday from Ohio, where he had been
campaigning in the very country through
which Mr.. Blaine has been giving exhibi
tons. He says he can't see how the State
can go otherwise than democratic. Mr.. A.
A. Wilson, who has just returned from New
York, where he carried the democratic
campaign money collected in this city, says
that while the national committee do not
count upon Ohio, they say that with any
sort of fair vote it is hard for them to tell
why they shall not carry it. Mr.. Bayard,
who has been speaking in Ohio, in letter
to friend here says: "Ohio looks demo
cratic and really feels 80, but the OPP
porluni,ies for fraud are many aud the
enemy dies hard" Mr.. Oliver Payne, son
ex-senator. elect Payne, of Ohio, made bet
last night of S. 900 that Cuyahoga county
will 60 democratic That county has hereto
fore been largely republican, land ifthe demo-
Gratis carry it, aud no one is better judge
of that than Mr.. Payne, it will tend 10
show that they will carry the whel.
State. Allen o. Myers, prominent sporting
man of Ohio, telegraphed to his friends here
last night to bet all they could on demo-
cratic success there. Two young democrats
with two thousand dollars took a hack last
night and drove to every place in the CITY
where bets were likely to be found but
dred dollars. They chen teleeraphed to
New y ork to place the remainder, but up
to two o'clock to day had not been able
to do SO. Republicans here, as well as
democrats, up to this hour, p. M, believe
the State will 60 democratic, and the for
mer will be as much disappointed as the
latter if it shall go otherwise. Among the
disappointed, too, will be some of the
sharpest" aud best "posted" democratic
politicians in Ohio, and the only thing that
can upset their calculations will be such a
wholesale purchase of votes as will greatly
exceed their most liberal allowance.
A prominent Virginia republican 10 the
city to-day says he would not be surprised
if, owing to over-confidence on the part of
the democrats and the consequent failure to
bring out the full democratic vote there next
November, Malone, by getting out every
negro voter in the State, would succeed, as
he did in 1882. This gentleman also said
that of all the Virginians who had left the
democratic party he knew of but one who
had lost, aud that one was Capt. John Wise,
who had something when he left the party
and who would have been a prominent man
in the party if he had remained in it.
Among the strangers in the city is Mr..
Vim. E. FendaIl, Of Alexandria, who is on
his way to Maryland to act as best man for
Mr.. Frank Addison, formerly of Alexandria,
who will be married 10 Miss Bowie, of that
State, to morrow.