Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. so, 1886.


WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. so, 1886.
Col. Jack Brown, the counsel Swallow
the swindler employed here to obtain his
release on writ Of habeds corpus, says ne
would have succeeded had there been
Judge in the city, but that as every one OF
them had gone OFT it was impossible for him
to do 30. Swallow, he says, finding that
no Judge was here to issue writ expressed
himself as perfectly willing to be surrender
ed on the requistion of the Virginia au-
tborities. and said he had no fears of convic-
ton, as he could become totally insane in
ten minutes. and that, too. without the slight
est difficulty.
Secretary Bayard, when asked to-day
about the report that Mr.. Sedgwick, his spe-
cial enyoy to Mexico to investigate and re-
port upon the Cutting case, had, at dinner
of the Jockey Club of the City of Mexico,
imbibed too much wine, and while under its
influence accompanied some Of the wild
oats sewers of that city on their visits to tho
leaders of the demi monde, replied that it
was silly and anonymous lie, not meriting
the dignity of an investigation. But, for all
that, it is generally conceded here that Mr..
Sedgwick is another one of the Secretary's
many fiascoes.
The republican congressional campaign
committee is considering the ACCESSIBILITY OF
expanding some of the large surplus in their
hands in colonizing several of the close
districts in the Northwestern States with
negroes from the Southern States.
From Indiana it ia learned here! to day
that while there will be only one democrat
ic candidate for Congress in any OF the dis
tricts in that State by election day, the dem
oc. att c party there is in great danger OF being
= boz h1-f q "a
ment, and that its spirit has been greatly
depressed by the mugWumpery OF the al
mpistration.
The receipts from internal revenue for
last month amounted to nearly ten million
dollars, nearly n million in excess of those
of the same month last year.
In the just published statement of bal
ances due by and to the government, alluded
to in this correspondence of Saturday last,
the charges against the collectors of customs
at Alexandria are given % follows: John
Fitzgerald, on account of collections prior
to 1916, $30,072; Charles Simms, 1871. $50;
Humphrey Peake, 1911, 81 ,5SS. Geo. Brent,
collector in 1915, is credited with having
paid into the Treasury S2.l2 increase OF his
collections.
It is now said that the democratic con-
gressional campaign committee did not can.
eel their contract with the Gibson brothers
for printing the democratic campaign book,
as heretofore reported, but allowed them to
print two.thirds of the edition, and gave
the printing of the remaining third to Polk
inhorn, union printer, who stamped the
volumes he printed with the union stamp.
A democratic politician from Louisville,
XIV, here to day. says that the mugwumperS
of Mr.. Willis of that district will prevent his
re nomination for Congress. He says that
several thousand good and true democratic
voters of that city have signed paper re.
uuesting Mr. Ashur G. Caruth, prominent
Jacksonian democrat there to become
| a candidate; that the request will be com.
piled with. and that Mr.. Caruth will be
elected. The chief complaint against Mr..
Willis is that he recommended that Mrs.
Thompson, the republican postmaster at
| Louisville, be retained. In this request he
was sustained by Senator Beck, but was OPP
posed by Senator Blackburn and the Louis
Vile Courier Journal.
Among the strangers i'll the city to-day is Mr.
Aleck Wedderburn, who is interested in the great
Grange meeting and exposition to commence on
| the line of the Washington Ohio and Western
| Railroad, few miles above Falls Church. next
| Wednesday week. He says a large attendance is
expected, and that exhibits will be there from all
sections of the country. Tin-roofed buildings for
the accomm odation of visitors and exhibitors arc
| in progress of rapid construction, and viii! be
| completed by opening day.