Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-05-31
NEWS or THE DAY.
''7o show Mevery age and body of tie Times.


There are twenty-three savings banks in
Rhode Island, and the official report shows that
in November last there were IS. 5l4 depositors,
and the aggregate deposits amounted to SIS
5S3,502. Over one fourth of the inhabitants
Of the State are depositors, and the average of
deposits to each person is about $500
The New York Express, whose editor ought
to know, says that Thad. Stevens religious be-
lief is at a very low ebb indeed. The Radical
leader of the House of Representatives, ac-
cording to the Express, is an Infdel, Uni
versallst and Nationalist rolled into one, and
believes in nothing!
The steamship Peruvian arrived at quaran
tine, New York, yesterday, from Liverpool,
with seven hundred and fifty eight passengers,
She lost thirty-fve ofherpassengers by cholera,
during the voyage, and reached quarantine with
twenty -eight others sick Of the same disease.
President Benjamin S. Ewel, Of William and
Mary College, Va, has declined the professor
ship at Hampton Sidney College: to which he
was recently elected, being unwilling to leave
the institution with which he has been so long
identified, during its percent difficulties.
Since the 1st of May over ten thousand vol
unteers have been mustered out of the U. 5.
service; but nine thousand now remain, and &C.
partmental commanders have received orders to
discharge the men as rapidly as the exigencies
of the service will permit. ..,..-.r
President johnson has approved the order
directing the Secretary Of the Treasury to assist
the State authorities in making such quaran-
tine regulations us may serve to guard against
the Introduction of cholera into the ports of the
u. S. ......
The steamship Union has also reached quar-
antine at New York from Liverpool with some
four hundred passengers aboard. She lost
thirty-one passengers and two Of her crew by
cholera On the voyage, and had some twenty
sick on board.
The Italian adventurer, who some years ego
married Mrs. Eaton, in Washington, and has
since run off with her granddaughter, has
robbed his wife of all her property. He de-
camped, it is said, with SAC, 900 in gold.
The bankruptcy bill now pending in the
English Parliament provides for the abolition
Of the barbarous law of Imprisonment for debt
that now disgraces the statute books Of Eng
land
The Supreme Court Of Louisiana has decided
against Moses Fox, claimant of $500, 900 under
the will of John Mc-Donogh. The defendants
are the cities of Baltimore and New Orleans.
The Louisiana country papers give sad &C.
count Of the floods and distress. Provisions
are constantly forwarded The corn, care and
cotton in twelve parishes are destroyed.
Last week 1873 canal boats left Cumberland,
Nd, with IA ,G3l tons Of coal, making for the
season 5l,9l9 tons shipped over the Chesa-
peakc and Ohio canal. ~." ..s
COL e. Y. White, lately elected Sheriff OF
Loudoun county, Va, is in Washington, ap-
plying for pardon under the amnesty procla.
nation.
The ''loyaI' people Of West Virginia have
followed the example Of the 'Unionists' Of
Tennessee in ''disfragchising the returned
rebels. -
Two deaths from cholera are reported as hav-
ing occurred in New York, yesterday-one in
Cherry street. the others in Sixth avenue.
Reunion committees have been appointed
by both of the Assemblies of the Presbyterian
Church sitting in ST. Louis.
Parties Of Fenians are moving eastward
through Ohio, in tho direction Of the Canadian
frontier. ... .El,.:
There is another reported 'rnovment Of the
Fenians at the North.