Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-02-03

The A1exauar1a Gazet1f
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3.
The National Inteligencer says There IS.
a well-accredited rumor that General Sherman.
has addressed to the PresidentSa letter, IN.
which he explains the circumstances and pros
poets with respect to which he issued his ia
nous order Setting apart The Sea Island cotton
lapdsto the negroes. His views are said to
have been followed by General Howard IN the
EATERS communications to- Congressional COM
mittees. &c.. and which we're thought to be too
tolerant of rebels. General Sherman says that
when be issued the order he intended it for the
practical benefit of aged and jmbecile' negroes
and children, who having followed him, could
not be otherwise disposed Of, and that he had
no expectation that the rebellion was SO near
ats end. Heti sin:fa Of making restitution
of the islands to their owners"
The Fredericksburg Herald says 1.-The pa
pers are publishing a story that Mr.. Jas. Pey
ton, formerly of Fredericksburg, who has just
been sent to the Alms-house at Washington,
was worth 800, 600 before the val. This is a
mistake. MIR, P. may have been worth six Or
eight thousand dollars on the breaking OF hos
t%ilities.' l.As
Tie Legislature Of Virginia on Thursday,
elected James F. Pend|eton, of Smyth county,
to the office of Superintendent OF the Peulten-
tiary for the uexttwo years, and John B. Cary,
of Elizabeth City county, General Agent and
Store-keeper Of the Penitentiary for the same
period. =
The "bil| for the protection ofthe civil rights
. of all classes of citizens, being tie supplement-
or successor of the measure for the enlargement
of tbs powers of the Freedmen's Bureau
passed the Senate yesterday, by the great vote
Of thirty-three ayes to twelve noes.
FROM misunderstanding nce to a late date
has been received from Liberia. The Il. p.
Russell, which left Baltimore November 4 with
one hundred and seventy-two OF the freedmen
from in and near Lynchburg, Va, under the
auspices of the American Colonization Society,",
arrived at Monrovia about the middle of De-
cemher. Letters from some of these emigrants
state that they had a pleasant voyage, that ali
had enjoyed and we're in good health. and that
they were delighted with their "fatherland."
The health Of the large company of Barba-
dams. who reached that Republic in May last,
had greatly improved, and they we're generally
employed in clearing land and in commencing
business operations They promise to be a valua-
bic addition to that interesting country, The
Liberia Herald of November l reports a large
increase in the exports Of the country. with
IN the ioct foo p,nDthS Hv, vo.ralu b.uo lc,Iol
with oil, chiefly at the Liberian ports Of entry.
They took on an average sixty thousand gallons
of oil. This does not include the oil taken of
by TRANSIENT traders"
GROWTH IF THE CATHOLICs.-The Ca1ho-
lie World saysthat within the last fifty years no
church has been SO prosperous in the United
States as the Catholic church, and adds:
about two thousand churches and chapeIs
have been built an increase of one Thousand
and eight hundred clergylnen-mostly from
abroad-oue hundred and sixty schools estah-
lished for the Catholic training Ct $4,000 boys
and $4,000 girls. Moreover, there existed in
1857 ~sixty-six asylums, with 1868 orphans Of
both sexes: twenty-six hospitals. with three
: Thousand beds tous> insane asylums, besides
: many other charitable institutions, all establish
ed and supported by the private charity Of
Catholics"
Il was currently ru,nored in Washington
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