Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-30

81 W g. were grained TO ind IQa EorteI Of
1ouisiana in this seq yeste ilIlprov-s
lie has been ior Sine days una IIle care Of
l9r. Harris. He was called up b. q passing re-
inarkso Mr. w ilkins. of Pennsy lVania, upon the
subject Of public opinion in oujsiana, and stat
sd that many of those who had been most ops
POSED % bis election On acc count Of his opposi
dion 70 the measures Of the adiministrat ion had
written to him approving Of his course in the
Senate. - Telegraph.
Gentlemen who have traversed our State With
ia the few weeks past, and some who have pass
ed the winter at Harrisburg, express to us POI
sltive belieffhat there cannot fail to be strong
Anti ackson or Wing majority in our next LEI.
gislature Phi. Ma. GaS.
New OHLEANs, APRiL IL, 1884. The popular fu-
~ which We briefly adverted to in our paper yes
ts,rday, as consequent upon the discovery of the
barbarous and fendish atrocities committed by
the women Lalaurie upon the person of her
slaves, continued undated the whole of the
evening before last and part Ofyesterday morn
ing. TWAS found necessary for the purpose of
restoring order for the sheriff and his officers to
repair to the place of riot and to interpose the
authority of the state, which we are pleased TO
notice proved effectual without the occurrence
Of any ofthose acts of violence which are COM
mon upon similar occasions. We regret, how
had been shown to judge Canonge, who ven
tured to expostuIate with the assailants upon the
propriety of ceasing their operations, and that
during the same, deadly weapons were in the
hands of many persons a resort to which at
one time was seriously apprehended Nothing
of the kind happily, however, transpired.
Nearly the whole of the edifice is demolished,
and scarcely any thing remains but the walls
which the popular vengeance has ornamented
with various writings expressive of Indignation
and the business of their punishment.
The loss of poperty sustained estimated by
some at $40 900 but others think this calculation
exaggerated. 1t must, however, have bean We
Try great indeed, as the furniture alone was Of;
the most costly kind, consisting of pianos, ar
lmors, &c. &C., which were removed to the gar
|, ret and thrown from thence into the street for
| the purpose of rendering them of no possible
value whatever.
| This is the first act al the kind that our popu-
| lace have ever engaged in; and although the
provocation pleads much in favor of the ex-
cesses committed, yet we dread the precedent.
To say the least of it, it may be excused, but
can't be justified. Summary puniShments, the.
results of popular excitement in government
of laws, can never admit of Justification, let the
circumstances be ever so aggravating Bee.
It is rumored that Mr. Kemble and his daugh-
ter Fanny intend to spend another year in this
country 1t is also rumored that Mr. K. has
some legal difficulties to contend with In this
city, growing out OF his engagement with tor
mer Manager ofthe fremont theatre. The sum
at stake is said to be rising $4,000, which the
aforesaid Manager, with good intentions, and
! for iustifable ends sues to recover of Mr.. KEN
bic at the hands Of an intelligent jury. If MIR.
X. loses the case it is said other suits OF SINH
lar character will be commenced forthwith by
other Managers. As Uncle Toby says" an
overreaching disposition is worse than the itch"
| We will only add, that the affair made consider
| able talk in the fashionable circles.-BoSt. Gaz.
| Saping'S BankS.-The invention Of Savings
Banks has been attributed, in late number of
the London Quarterly Review, to George Rose,
a Scotchman, who attained some celebrity as
! one of the ableSt and most active members OF
the administration of William Pitt. 1t appears,
! however that the credit of the invention really
belongs to Jeremy Bentham. His plan of Fra
| gality banks, as he termed them, was promulga-
| ted in the year 1897, and was from time to time
! pressed upon the attention Of practical men but
! rejected as visionary.
! In the year 1911 a work containing the plan,
with several other publications of MIR. Bentham,
was laid before Committee of the House of
Commons; and by the influence of Mr. Rose
who was well acquainted with Bentham, an act
of parliament was passed legalizing the estab-
lishment of savings banks. But part only of
Bentham's plan was adopted.
His Frugality Banks comprised system OF
annuities which has been partially adopted in
an act of Parliament lately passed, and were al
so to be so constituted as to afford the same
banking facilities in every respect to the poorer
classes, as other banks afford to the wealthy.
particularly in enabling them to transmit funds
to distant places by orders upon other savings
banks
A late London paper estimates the amount
now deposited in Savings banks in Great Brl-
tain and Ireland at Siateen millions of pounds
sterling; the number of savings banks is pro-
badly about five hundred. In this country, &C
cording to the Encyclopedia Americana, the
first savings bank was opened in Philadelphia
in November 1916. The number is now rapid
ly increasingly the Northern and Eastern States.
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