Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-28

;, m in German by Rev. J. A. Scbwoy.
Iouag Mems Christian ASsociaiiOn.-pray
.r meeting at the Jail at 3 y. IN. Aims
House at $50 p. III. Second Presby terrain
Church al 400 y. m.
SWALLOW. swallow alias Law who was
arrested in Washington and taken to Fred
pricksburg on Thursday on the charge Of
syindling Father DonOhoe snow in jai! in the
latter place. Letters have been received at
fredericksburg written by Col. Jack Brown,
Of Georgia. asking the attorney to defend
Col. Swallow before the courts and request
ing the newspapers to be charitable in allu-
Suns to The Colonel Col. Brown represents
col. swallow as an exceedingly cratic indi
yiIual who rendered eminent service to the
C.nieeracy, during the war between the
States, and that he contributed greatly to
the comfort of confederate prisoners who
were confined at Point Lookout. Colonel
Swallow succeeded. says Col. Brown, in pro-
curing and distributing to prisoners 6OO
suits of clothes and 500 blankets and that
he was in various other ways instrumental in
serving suffering soldiers of the Confederacy.
Col. Brown pronounces Swallow monoma-
MAC on the subject of swindling and hopes
that the court and Jury will so regard him.
an inmate of lunatic asylum and
that such an institution would be more ap
propriate for him than the penitentiary.
Swallow, with all his aliases, has adj
mitted to a Washington reporter that his
right name is 4. II. ]. Porter. He has
many relatives living through the Shenan-
doah Valley, in northern Maryland and
southern Virginia. In speaking of his own
life Just before leaving for Fredericksburg,
Va, where he will be tried on a charge Of
obtaining money under false pretenses, he
said "As soon as the war broke out | was
one of the first who helped to organize the
Missouri State Guard. l served in the con.
federate army in the Missouri State Guard
until the battle of Springfield and then
Joined the army of Virginia and remained
with it until the end Of the war. AT the
breaking out of the war | was practiclng
law in ST. Louis. After the war for eighteen
months represented the st. Louis Times.
Journal as its correspondent in Washington,
which position I held until it was merged
into the St. Louis Republican. "If you con-
suit LAWYERS Political Encyclopaedia you
will find that have there contributed an arti-
Gle on The Political History of the United
States to which | signed my right name,
f. H. J. Porter. have also written book
entitled old Europe in Its New Suit which
has been published by Carlton & Co., under
the name of w. H. Swallow. l contributed
articles to McMillan's magazine of Febru-
airy, March, and April, 1871, to Scribner's
during 1878, and to the Magazine Of Ameri.
can History of June last. l also published
in the International LaW Rcricw on article
on the authorship of Junius's letters in re-
ply to Alexander H. Stephens, who settled
the authorship of the letters on Lord Little,
aud brought the authorship back to where
it had always been accredited" Col. SWal-
low says he has articles now accepted for
publication in leading magazines which will
shortly be brought out. According to the
laws of Virginia, his otfense in procuring
$50 under false pretenses from Father Dono-
hoe, CT Fredericksburg, is felony, and pun.
ishable with not less than one nor more
than five years in the State penitentiarv
As the case is now in the hands of the State
government, no loophole for escape from
this penalty is anticipated.