The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1853, Page 2

THE MADIAI FAMILY. The Report of the Madial Trial, TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. ‘The report of the Madiai trial, in the New Yor« WeRAvy, of the other doy is declared by you to be official,” and “ by authority.” I beg leave to cor- yect this statement, and to ask you two make the cor rection a8 publicly as you have made the statement. ‘The report; in the first place, does nut purport on Ks face to be either “official” or “by authority.” It iu not go stated anywhere in the article itself, Iu the next place, it is taken from the Buona Novella, ot Purim, as decided an anti-Popery and Protestant pa- per as the New York Evangelist or Observer—and you kiiow well enough bow capable those papers are of stating anything impartially on the subject. In the next place, the report is, evideutly enough, eve-sided and incomplete. It does not give the in- dictment, nor the testimony of the witnesses, nor the wumming up of the public presecutor, nor the finding of the court; and has, evidently enough, been far- nished by some of those ‘‘ English gentlemen” pre- sent at the trial, or on their one sided statement. That this report has none of the characteristics | ef an official document is obvious enough on | tte face. It commences with an eulogium on Professor Bolognini and on Count Guicciardini, for their Protestantism. It next speaks of the | witness Pasquale Asacci as “a traitor among the ‘Molian puritans.” It speaks of the presiding judge ‘as being, “during the whole trial, very bitter | against the culprits:” of Judge Cocchi as being ‘the game one who received a hard rebuke during the Btate trial of Guerazsi;” of the presiding judge as bidding Rosa silence, “‘with a stern look,” and then again as “appearing somewhat milder;”’ and of the | English gentlemen composing the audience as “being struek with the simplicity and sincerity of the Madiais. | Then, again, ‘the conduct of the Madiais during their | twial did them the greatest honor, and awakened the | admiration of the audience.” All these features, showing only approbation of | the Madiai, and only condemnation of the judges, with the suppression of the indictment and the testi- | mony against them, of the argument of the prosecu- | tor, and of the finding of the court, which is always | @ summary of the case, wether with the well- | kmown character of the Buona Novella newspaper— | which, if { mistake not, was itself lately condemned for some breack of the Sardinian laws on the same show clearly that the reportis ne more or by * authority,” than the proceedings an Hall were; and 1 hope. for the sake of you will have the candor to 80, now that your itteution has been called t nd tue more particularly because the real “ official’ report | bas been sent for to Florence, and cannot be long ia yo his country, , beyond all doubt, the fimal stopper will be p pon the already sufft ciently improbable story that the Madiai have been condemned for “ reading the Bibl and the whole bumbog will be fairly lai shelf, along with | Maria Monk, Kossuth, ammon, and other fonsils of that sort. OBSERVER. A Reply to Archbishop Hughes’ Letter. | Your Grace must not be surprised at receiving s0 | wench attention. It is one of the penalties of greut- mesa to be exposed to such things. If you had not made yourself so conspicuous for sims already grati- fied, and higher ones yet to be accomplished—for the Archiepiscopate in possession, and the Cardinal's hat in expectation—I am not sure that what you say na do would arrest quite so much of the public no- fiice as at present. In common with many others, I have read with some care your letter to the Free- | man’s Journal of the 19th inst., in relation to the “Madiai,” the ‘‘ meeting in the Metropolitan Hall,” “religious liberty,” etc., etc., and I must say that I was not a little disappointed. My dear Archbishop, Many more such “deliverances” as the one in ques- don, and that notable lecture on the “ Decline of Protestantism,’ made just as you were about to set eat on your late pilgrimage to Rome, will not aug- ment your reputation either for logic or prudence. The exordium of your Grace's letter was not hap- py. Toattempt to ridicule the meeting in Metro- politan Hall, held for the purpose of expressing sym pathy for poor and humble, but, nevertheless, very worthy people, who are suffering for doing what every man in these United States has the right to do —namely, to impart, by reading the Bible to his fa- wily and friends, and endeavoring to lead them to adopt, his views of the Gospel, and act according to their convictions—very ill became the high and sacred office to which you claim to have been called by the Suviour of men; and because similar meetings had been held in| England, it was poor logic to take it for granted that that meeting was held in imitation of them, and through admiration of the English aristocracy. was net prudent for you to talk in this way, because your enemies may justly say that in this you betray og cherished autipathy to everything at is Eng- i Your Irish origin will account for this. Had jon been cognizant of the facts, you would have own that to imitate the English in this matter, or to have anything to do with any movement because it was English, was the last thing that would have occurred to any of the gentlemen with whom origi_ mated the meeting. (n this point you are all wrong I beg to assure your ce. As to ‘ragged schools” for the poor children, which Ireland, not England, sends to our shores— which Romanism, not Protestantism, has made—our Protestant fellow-citizens, and among them the get- ters-up of the meeting at Metropolitan Hall, are not indifferent. They are doing much in many ways to eare for them, but in a more Christian manner than the creating of ragged schools. But all this is of ‘mail moment; let us advance to more important e meeting was called to promote and express pathy for the Madiai,and other sufferers, (for the be et of conacience in the matter of religion,) 1n the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, and for giving utterance to those principles on the subject of religious liberty which every true-hearted Ameriean both holds and feels, and which aloue can either create or justify pecnctiinh ell Nor can your Grace find any dis- cy een the objects set forth in the call for the meeting, signed by thirty distinguished Protestant perpen and the statement of pay Coane ae series of propositions, presented to the pablic on the occasion. The moots was called foe pur- just stated, and no other. As to what your ence says about the object being to abuse the Boman Catholics of this country, and excite prejudice and animority against them, etc., nothing more un- ‘true was ever nttered by any man, and I can scarce ly think that you believe the assertion. You have a marvellous tact for going off into whatever may di- vert men’s minds from the true state of the case, whenever by so doing you can strengthen your caure. Nor was there anything said or read at the meeting which could be justly considered as caloulat- ed to excite prejudice against the Roman Catholica @f this country. Noone dreamed of holding them recountable for the acts of the Grand Duke of Tus in relation to the Madiai. It is true that the | spin and history of Rome, or rather of the Roman lie hierarshy—for itis the Roman Catholic Church, the peo mg | nothing at all, and having nothing to do either in the determining of doctrines ar the administration of discipline, as you well know—were spoken of freely by some of the ge ers, who endeavored to defend the Grand Duke of ‘Tuscany, by seying truly that be is not so much to | be blanied, or held accountable, for the infamous acta | in question, as the priests around him, and especially | Pio Nono, who could by a word terminate all this | reecution. Some hard things were said about hierarchy of Kome, it must be admitted; but they | ‘were just. It is also true thet your Eminence was most | earnestly called on to join thia movement in behalf | of the ed sufferers, and exert your great influence | to incline—by addressing him yourself, his Holiness to do so—the heart of his di to leniency and grate. Surely there was all this like a premeditated plan, or an excite prejudice against our Roman Catholic fellow. | t& in foreign parts, because of hia having im- | citizens. ‘The expressions of Dr. Bethune in favor of | properly med tical affuirs, and endeavor. | them were of the strongest character, and they were | 4 to su + the constitution ! az real, as heartfelt, aw they mata strong. Your Grace cites, In proof of the interest which | No, sir; there was not a apeaker on that occasion @hurch takes’ in the people's posses who d d of holding up the Roman Catholics of 1 "tack th win, He this country Bae ee for the tyrannical acta of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. These gontlemen knew well that there are thousands among the Roman Catholics of t country, especisily among those who were bor this land, as well as thousands in France, Gérma y,and other papal countries abroad, who ¢ n this outrageous injustice as earn t meelves did or could. You ° y on your imagination, f eling aa e Grand the uthotic atholi aces.” Grace wilfully, for y Wem therefore, to'trest cwhlte \! Zs) the meeting, aud thove Wi sae As to your complaint, that?"t 0). | shot off * at the meeting, you ean fi aston was it ® well founded. Pyen your Beophyts peliewe that *wroteg’, | vahngh for the people to | reading the Bible, that they have been allowed to | the whole Bib) | seller—-his Grace, the Archbis the editor of ex that as the meeting was hour of half-past ten o'clock, would or \¢ . The meeting was a meeting of the ‘‘ friends of religious liberty,” to which Roman Catholics and all others were invited, and so they and all the world understood the matter. Your Grace knows enough of such things to be eonvinced that such @ me was not likely to be gotten up and carried on without some plan. And =. know well, thatif you and your Roman Catholic friends were to get up @ public meeting of any nature, you would view as an intruder any man who would come in and claim the right of speaking without an invitation; and most certainly it is hard to conceive how your friend, the editor relerred to, could expect to speak at the meet in question, after all the abuse which he had hea) on the poor Madiai in the colamns of his pene ut he and you, my good Archbishop, have it in your power to hold another public meeting, and set forth your views of religious liberty, and denounce perse- cution in Tuscany and everywhere-else as much as you please, and Protestants will be there to hear you. You are kind enough to say that you, too, would denounce the conduct of the Grand Duke of Tuscany it you could only believe that the Madiai have been imprisoned and made to suffer for “reading their Bibles.” You cannot believe that this is the onl cause of their being thus treated. Well, the case avery simple one. These people rgad their Bibles, Diodati’s version, a Protestant one, a translation from the original Hebrew and Greek, made a scholar, a better one than Martini’s, or any other Romish version in the Italian language—and in doi so they discovered the true Gospel, and abandor the errors of Rome; they read the Bible to others,and imparted their convictions to their minds, and they, too, turned away from the Romish Church. This was the head and front of their offence. This was con- sidered treason. Because they could not believe that the Virgin Mary is the mother of God they were charged with blasphemy. They were tried and con- demned on these grounds alone, and which two of their judges, (out of five,) and some of the ablest ad- vocates in Florence, did not believe to be valid, even by the laws under which their condemnation was sought. Archbishop Hughes, do you believe—can ou make this nation believe—that people were justly condemned? You affect not to know anything about the circumstances of this case. Well, if you will look into the Journal of Commerce of February 14, 1862, you will find the accusation brought against these people at the time of their first imprisonment, and it will enlighten you somewhat. And, further, Ihave to say that we have sent fora copy of the proceedings at the trial, published in Italian, and when it arrives, we will appoint one competent man, and you shall be invited to appoint an- other, and these two shall appoint a third, and this committee shall determine whether these Madiai were condemned for a political offence or for that which I have stated: the reading of their Bible, aud endeavoring to impart their convictions on the subject of religion to others—not guilty of any po- litical, or civil, or moral offence against the laws of th land. You speak of their being condemned as were asa police affuir, Yes, it was just such an af fair of the police as that which put ‘the Apostles in prison in Jerusalem, and which they Senay de- clared they would not, could not, obey. It was just snch a police regulation as Pretors enforced at the bidding of their imperial masters at Rome, and which ten times deluged the empire with innocent Christian blood during the first three centuries. You have given it as one reason why you cannot believe that the Madiai have been condemned for read their Bible since their imprisonment; and you ask whether criminals—forgers, for instance—are al- lowed to continue their work of crime in prison after their condemnation’ Mr. Moran, a Roman Catholic priest in Newark, N. J., has asserted the same thing, and also that that they are allowed the visita of an ecclesiastic. But what are the facts? They are not allowed to have their own Protestant Bible, (Dio- dati’s,) nor their Protestant religious books and tracts, (although their confinement has been solitary most of the time,) but the Romish version of the Bible and Romish tracts are alone placed before them; and as to the ecclesiastic who is allowed to visit them regularly, he is a Capuchin monk ! Your Grace goes on to argue that your Church cannot be—has never been—opposed to the reading of the Bible, because she has been,from the first_en- trusted with the pace boen, or at least the New Testament, which is, in fact, her exclusive inheri- tance! Thisisvery wonderful. Justas ifthe canon ot sacred scripture was not settled, and every book of the sacred volume translated into almost all the important lauguuges of Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa, long before the supremacy of the ops of Rome was establisaed, or the Roman Catholic Church heard of! Just as if the Greek Chursh, from the middle of the ninth century, and the five other Oriental Churches, had not the scrip- tures in their respective languages, and did not watch over them, and see to it that Rome did not corrupt them! There were other eyes than those of Rome, and other hands than hers, that cared for the precious treasure. 1 well know that a‘ter the art of printing was invented the Bible was published, not only in the original Hebrew and Greek, but also in the vernacular languages of Italy, Germany, Hol- land, France and England ; but 1 have yet to learn that this was not rather the work of ‘learned men,” than the result of the zeal of Rome, and her Popes, her Cardinals, her Archbishops and.her Bishops. In- deed, some of the men who were engaged in this good work had a hardtime of it. Even in the fif- teenth century, the era of which I am speaking, Rome had departed too far from the truth contained in the written Word to have any relish for the sa- cred yolume. The Reformation came, and it gave the Bible, in something like a>undance, to the peo- ple, inasmuch as the Protestants regarded it as “ God's Book for the People.” But as to Rome—I mean the Roma: holic Church, or hierarchy rather—she has nv. wone much. Into what languages of the heathen, among whom her missionaries have labored these last two centuries, has the Bible been translated ’ In what has it been printed by those missionaries / Not wany—I fear not one—I mean ? And where is there in all the world a Roman Catho- lic Bible society? If you know of one, pray tell me, my good Archbishop—tell me of oue. You say that an Archbishoo of Florence, Monsigneur Martini, translated the Bible into Italian in the year 1775. 1 know it. I have circulated many a copy of his New Testament, though I think it not equal to Diodati’s, by a great deal. Ihave done #0 on the Ree that an inferior translation is better than none. The Britizh and Foreign Bible Society have printed both Dicdati’s and Martini’s travslations of the entire Bible, as well as the New Testament by itself. Mr. Moran, a Roman Catholic priest, in Newark, New, Jersey, already referred to, has recently af- | firmed that the Bibie has not only been published in Italy, but that more than forty editions of Martini’s translation have been issued since it was first pub- lished, and that it is to be seen in the bookstores im every village In Italy, from one end of the peninsul: to the other. If this were so, one would think that far more than ia Mel fifty editions would have been needed. But it is not true. I know something of Italy; I have been there several times during the jast sixteen years. Until the revolution of 1848 pened the way forthe Bible societies to print the Bible at Rome, Florence, Turin and Venice, the book ‘was only to be seen in a few bookstores in the chief | cities, and then in an edition of several octavo volumes, with copious notes, and costing several dol- lars. It is in vain to talk about the Bible being ac- cessible to the le of Italy whilst published in thet form. An ough in 1848—'49, the Bible so- cieties did a good deal in Rome and Florence, yet as 300n aa the Pope and the Grand Duke had been restored from their flight by French and Austrian bayonets, everything of the sort was . In Rome every has been searched for the accorsed book; and many copies have been confiscated and destroyed, both at Rome and at Florence. This is Rome's way of taking an interest in having the people to possess and read the Word of God. But you will say that it was a Protestant version of the New Testament that was confiscated in these cities. And what of that? It was @ good version, and set forth the trath with great fidelity; bot then it had not the authorwed notes of the Church. Oh, yes; there is the pub. Rome is afraid to give the Bible, just as God gave it, tothe people. She must pat notes to it to interpret certain es as she thinks proper. Well, this Italian New Testament, with abundant notes, has been published, in two large editions, in a convenient | form, and at a comparatively reasonable price, at | furin, within the last two ay, but by a book- | hop of thateity, having rto doin the matter. Indeed, his Grace has n at home these two or three years, the gov- nt of Satdinia having given him permission to : Bible fact that some twenty or tions h published (of the Ro- , and r n vari American Bible have heen publiehe now two ¢ A rehbisl: Church fs c # which sender he permission of very iittle value. Let me aa* you vhether you have not, within 9 few month aa) sermon at Yonkers, N.Y., said to the people that | they ought not to read the Bible-—that they could | not understand it—that the Charch alone has the | ability and the right to explain the Bible—that it is | Tearn the catechism, an @ | took in considerable stock. naintance greatly misunderstood you. ae o your remarke pba “ liberty of conscience,” I bave ‘not much to say. You might well have red the little homily, every’ knows that erty of conscience does not mean liberty to hold and enjoy one’s conscientious opinions on the sub- ject of religion to one’s self, put the right to make them known to others. Thenature of truth is to seek to be known—in other @prds, to make prose- lytes. “A Catholic Layman,” in the New York imes of the 24th ult., has well stated that fact. He has also well distinguished between the liberty which is created by the constitution and laws, and that which prevails in the feelings and habits of communities. The religious liberty granted to all by our constitution and laws is complete; and yet occasionally popes excjtments may be gotten up, whcih, for a time, set aside the laws, and overthrow the liberty guaranteed by the constitution and the laws. You endeavor to throw dust in the eyes of your readers by Ghngeeding these important “distinctions; and would make them almost believe that we have not religious liberty in this land, because has been done, in popu- lar tumults, to a Roman Catholic, convent near and a church or two in Philadelphia. Because men cannot say and publish in South Carolina and Loui- siana what they please on the subject of slavery, you inginuate that there is not entire religious liberty in this country. If you will allew me to say it, I that it is altogether unworthy of you. You know that there is re! pone liberty in this land; that in no State in this Union is a man forbidden to buy a Bible, if he has the means; he may read it ifhe can; and if he is so unfortunate as to be unable to read, whether owing to any unwise laws in any State, or any other cause, he may hear it real, he may hear the Gospel preached, ve, and decide for himself what church he will join. Would that three was as much Teligious liberty as this in all Roman Catholic countries ! As to the religious liberty which Roman Catholics enjoy in this country, you seem to think that theyare in vo way indebted to Protestants for it—that they fought for it during the Revolution, and gained it by their good, trusty swords. This is also very wonder- ful. Just as if the Revolution, in which the Roman Catholics—though they were too few to have mach influence in that great movement—certainly bore their parts, (and some of them, such as Charles Carroll and a few others, a very honorable one,) gave religious liberty to this country. You must cei ly know, dear arshbaeR that all the colonies bi ht hither the Fane of religious liberty, whether they came from England, Scotland, France, or Germany, though in some it was more developed than in others. But all went on advancing in regard to this great subject, until the Revolution, when all the thirteen colonies, Protestant (even Maryland was s0) by an overwhelmingmajority, enjoyed a great amount of re- igious liberty, and some of them full measure. It was this fact which insured the incorporation of the prin- ciple of religious liberty into the constitution. Noth- ing is more certain than that all the religious liber- ty there is in the world is owing to Protestantism. Asto the statement which your Grace has some- times made, that we owe our religious liberty to the little colony which Lord Baltimore planted in Mary- land, it is hardly worthy of consideration. From the nature of the case, that colony could not fail to have religious liberty from the first; for a Protestant go- vernment in England never would have allows Roman Catholic colony to be pated here upon the principle of intolerance. But if, as you say, Rome is favorable to religious nee why does she not grant it in her own domain? Why does she not ? J cannot doubt the attachment of our Roman Ca- tholic fellow-citizens to our noble political institu- tions. And yet I could not read what Rin Bay about their ‘“well-poised: self-possession,” that kept them from being carried away by the influence of a “foreign demagogue”’ (Kossuth) who recently visited us, without something more than a smile. Oh, Archbishop! if Kossuth had been a Roman Catholic, or contending against a Protestant ced Fa would, perhaps, have thought differently of him. But he was a Protestant, who had tried to over- throw the despotism of the House of Hapsburg, (which has been a good servant and friend of the Papacy,) and in doing so he had the generous aid of millions of Roman Catholics of his country, far more than half of the soldiers and officers who fought in that war being such. But he fought againet Austria! That was enough. But let us look at the other side. “ well-poised self-poseession” of the Irish Roman Catholics in this country—where was your vwn, dearest Archbishop—in the summer of 1645, when the last rebellion broke out in Jreland? Surely, your memory cannot be very goad. Have you not forgotten those $500 which you gave to kindle the flame of civil war in your native land? But then it was to overtuow the dominion of hated Protestant Albion in the tuergiq [ale. That changed the whole affair. But let us wih ao mo; about the matter, for I greatly fear that it isnot agreeable to you. Noram I sure that the next topic will be any more so. You have berated Gen. Cass and others for endeavoring to secure the protection of our American citizens, in their religious rights, in foreign lands. Now, this measure is so just and equal that I wonder that a man of your penetration does not see that people will say to you: “Yes, you know that American Roman Catholics, as well as American Protestants, are protected in their rights in Pro- testant countries almost as much as they can desire, and that in most Roman Catholic countries, Ameri- can Protestants have not the right to have their own religious piel and to bury their dead with such ceremonies as prefer, and therefore you are uite contented with the present state of things— rum the feeling that Protestantism has something to lose, and Romanism nothing, through its influence.” This is precisely what every intelligent Protestant | will think and say about your conduct in this matter. And what do you think of it yourself, my dear Arch- bishop? Does it not appear rather too mean and contemptible? I feel concerned for you. Still further : what shall we think of your opposing the interference of Mr. Fillmore in bebalf of the Ma- ae een when you, and hundreds of others, asked this same President Fillmore to do precisely what he has now done in favor of Smith O’Brien and other Irish rebels—or “ patriots,” if you AS the word—that is, write a letter of intercession in their behalf to the Queen of England? What a “ degradation ” this, for our noble President and our immortal Webster, to be seen standing in humble at- tendance in the antechamber of Albion’s proud monarch ; and all this for a few Irishmen, for whom you would have seid, if they had been H ian, that “ hanging was too good for them.” sistency thou art a jewel !”"—but not, in this case, an Trish one. But you seem to make it a matter of reproach to our great meeting at Metropolitan Hall, that none of the great Protestant pastors of the city of New York took part in the speaking on the oecasion. The orators were all from such “ suburban Meee ‘¢ as” Brooklyn, Newark, and Elizabethtown. the hall could have been obtained for Monday night, inatead of Friday, it is quite probable that you would have heard, had you been there, (it is reported that ie were,) some gentlemen from the city, who were at night occupied with their regular weekly lec- tures. As it was, the meeting went off pretty weil. The “ suburbans”’ acquitted t! ves tly, all | of them. They are no mean men ; nor are they all % Dr. Bet if unknown to your Grace. thune made the audience feel that he was well able to grapple with the tiie Drs. Kennedy, Hague, and Cox, oer- tainly did not disgrace themselves. And as to “Kir- wan,’’ I think your Grace has some remembrance of him, unless Met “hegira to Halifax’ made you aa oblivious of past as is the “ Bourbon among us” of the occurrences of his early days. But, with your permission, 1 will stop here, at least until your Eminence favors the public with another “ letter ’’ on some subject or other. I am, your Grace's most humble and obedient servant, Simon Pare. Se SS SEES FINANCIAL AND OOMMERCIAL. MONEY MARKET. Tuvurspay, March 10—6 P. M. The stock market was active and slightly buoyant today. Atthe first board, Montgomery Mining im- proved 4 per cent; Nicaragua, 3; Cumberland, 1; Erie Railroad, }; Stonington, }. Florence and Key- port fell off 24 per cent; Phonix, };' Potomac, }; Chesapeake and Ohio, 1; Hudson Railroad, 3; Par- ker Vien, 4; Hanover Bank, 8. At the second board, the market waa pretty steady, and the bears It is for the interest of bears to let the market up a little, as 1t would not do to press the bulls too hard. Contracts made at prices ten and fifteen per cent above those now cur- | rent, must, at maturity, try the wtrength of pur- | chasers, and to prevent any ruinous consequences It | sellers are disposed {to let {ap the pressure. will enable them to strengthen outstanding con- tracts, and give them an opportunity to put ont new ones. The demand for money to-day was very great, and all sorts of shifts were resorted to to raire the needful. The demand is principally from the comm classes, and very heavy shaves were cubmitted to. Not one-half of the demand could he satiefied, and there are strong indications of trouble. ca. The offering for discount at the Metro- nk yesterday and to-day, amounted to politan I more than three hundred thoueand doliars, only about one thousand of which was taken. This show, the extent of the demand upon a single bank, and to what extent it was supplied by that bank. All the other banks are in the same condition. There has not been, for many years, so much difficulty Where was the | “Oh, con- | xper‘enced in raising money ag we baye poticed | today. There has been more and sharer shin- ning than Wall street has seen for many 4 day, ‘and the end has not-come yet. We have just entered upon the beginning of the end. It is the opinion of most of eur oldest and shrewdest capitalists, that April will be much worse than March. Much de- pends upon the movements of specie. If shipments increase, wo to those who have not their business matters pretty easy and ander control. We do not see how large exports of specie can be avoided. Real estate has become quite inactive, and has rapidly depreciated in market value. Productive and unproductive property has within the past day or two, been offered at prices twenty-five and thirty per cent below those current three week's since. More than three-quarters of the sales of real estate daily reported, are Peter Punks. There is no market, and property must go down. There are squalls ahead. The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of this port, to-day, amounted to $179,060 65; pay- ments, €45,731 28; balance, $6,233,697 37. The Atlantic bank, Brooklyn, has declared a semi- annual dividend of five; the New York Floating Derrick Dock Company, ten per cent. The revenue of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for February, was as follows :— Pe 5 Totals. Main stem, $28,018 65 $70,308 72 $00,017 28 Washington 94,462 10 6,385 75 20,847 85 Totals......+.--. $53,080 65 $75,784 47 $128,865 12 ‘The increase of business on the Ohio and Pennsyl- vania Railroad, for the month of February, 1853, is as follows :— Rectirrs OF THE OwI0 AND PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. In February, 1853. -$30,005 73 In February, 1862 « 11,197 61 TOCTORSC ce eseeesesecceees eeeeee cece ee eee 18,818 12 The Wellsville Coal and Land Company of Ohio are in the market for the sale of $80,000 of its first mort- gage convertible bonds, bearing seven per cent inte- rest, with coupons attached, payable semi-annually in this city—principal payable in 1862. The proceeds of this sale will be applied to the improvement of the company’s property, and to the developement of its valuable coal resources. This company has been organized under the general law of Ohio, with a capital of $200,000, divided into shares of $50 each The company own a valuable property, comprising:— Ist. Nearly a mile of the Ohio river frontage in Wellsville, giving a monopoly of the landing in the town. The wharfage is good, with deep water close up to the shore. The railroad track runs along the whole of this frontage, and their two depots are located here. 2d. One hundred acres of prime lands surrounding the village of Wellsville, of a character requiring little or no expense to fit it for house foun- dations, and affording a good material for building, either in stone or brick, 3d. One hundred acres of land adjoining the above, and extending up to the gentle acclivity which shuts in- Wellsville on the north. This land is covered with oak timber, and has yaluable quarries of stone, potter's and fire clay, mow extensively used for va- tious kinds of earthenware, and above all, immense deposits of bituminous coal. This is the re- nowned Yellow Creek coal, especially dwelt upon by Profcesor Twining in his report, as surpassing in quality and convenience of access all the coal veins between Pittsburg and Western Indiana. To enable them to open out the coal veins more thoroughly—to lay down their tracks from the wharves and railroad depots to the mines—and to work more extensively this Cleveland coal traffic—and, also, to improve the wharves and landing, the Wellsville Company now come into the market for a loan. They offer most ample and undoubted security, and they further ex-, tend to the parchasers of the bonds the privilege o converting them, at any time before 1st January’ 1858, into company’s stock. Simeon Draper will sell theee bonds at auction, on Friday, the 18th of March, at the Merchants’ Exchange. The earnings of the Michigan Southern and North- ern Indiana roads for February, were as follow PRABET February, Increare, 120 per cent, In the Miners’ Journal, of discover a few crumbs of comfort for the Cumber- land Coal Company—an increase in the mining busi- ness, “reported by themselves’? of about 400 tons for the week; and, in addition, we learn that the whole trade of the district, forwarded to the canal from the lst January to the 9th March, did not ex- ceed 20,462 tons—of which amount the Cumberland did not contribute over 4,000 tons. There are some ten companies mining near Frostburg, in the imme- diate vicinity of the lands ef the Cumberland Coal Company, each and every one of them running in competition with each other. It can, therefore, easily be seen that the few cents claimed by the re- port of the Cumberland compay as the profit on ita business, may be reduced to an unprofitable result. The price per ton in Baltimore has already fallen twenty-five cents, the depreciation being from $3 25 to $3 per ton. It is not, however, the rivalship of the Cumberland coal companies which solely produced the decline. The causes are deeper and more permanent—euch as cannot be gottenover; and, by way of illustration, we give the common opinion, that coal mined by the Cumberland Company can bear no competition with that of the Dauphin, which sells readily at $5 50, and is plaeed in Balti- more at $2374. Ifthen, the expense of production and transportation of Cumberland coal, in con- sequence of the strike, should increase the cost twenty cents per ton, which is a low figure, and then to this we add twenty-five cents decreased value of the coal, the aggregate being forty-five cents, which, deducted from the assumed profit of seventy cents, will leave but a mmall margin for the discharge of interest on $1,000,000 of indebtedness, independent of current expenses. The year, thus far, has not averaged 1,400 tons per week, an amount which is most likely to be decreased when the superior coal from the Georges Creek shall be introduced into market, which will be done in about thirty days from the rich mines of the Georges Creek Company. The mines of the Dauphin Company, now in fall operation, are sending to Baltimore a highly proved transition coal, and await a more decided policy on the pert of the railroad company, whereby adequate facilities will be afforded to extend their mpplies to an almost unlimited extent. In looking to the value of coal lands, it is somewhat necessary to ascertain whether the product of the mining can yield a profit, for should it not do so, then coal property must fall to the ordinary value for com- mon agricultural purposes. If then, the seven thou- sand acres owned by the Cumberland Company un- der mortgage, be worth nothing as coal property, the whole amount would not produce, at $20 per acre, the immediate sum of $140,000; and, on the same principle, the railroad and cars belonging to the company will be correspondingly depreciated. The annexed statement exhibits the quantity and value of certain articles exported from this port during the week ending and including Saturday, March 5th, 1853, distinguishing the destination and extent of shipments to each place:— Commence or 1H Port or Naw York—Wrexty Exronrs, LAVERPOOL, * Val. $06, Quant. Cotton, bales 2,105 Flour, bbls 3 Fal, $1,137 Reof, tierces Tobacco, hha Butters... .. Horn tipa,cks. Roots, bags .. Flonr, bbl. 3,904 Naval stores.4.144 300 Beef s..s ogee 405} Ten, pkgs .... 281 reel 600 Paintings, 100 ofl, bbls. 5 I. rabb'r goods #406 7,0 Corn, bushels 8,000 Bacon, Ibs, .15,512 HAVRE. Ashes, bbls... 16 $440 Hams, Ib Cotton, bales. 2,418 115,801 Wagon. 1 280 Grime ore, bois 100 1,400 Acorns, casks. 1 72 “leb'ne, Ibe 2,240 "825 Reeds, 1 8 Wa: 1,622 600 Logwood, tons.....+.++ ieaesaect cot ae Ol Fustie, to 38 $650 bi 1,049 $45,101 Pustic, 3 eee eatin 400 107 Lagwood 29 883 thoe nag 00 Extract 350 4,134 Mm’ 400 Drugs, phys... 84 1,100 160 Horn tip 2 "101 800 Wagon 1 320 860 1 240 28 Honey, caska, 49 1,800 512 Sogare, cases, 5 300 Wh’Bene,lbs 24,926 8,506 —— WERE Seen Coens eet a wast pa sasesesencessaises $68,542 LL, Carsia, Tbe,.7,865 $1,745 Staves, M..... 45 Total...... yore is Rae Be ristess $3,005 TERRAGOMA, SPAT Sia 08; Meas isanssorasneganeeagae Beats oT $3,107 bales, 45 $1,088 8. bread, kegs 202 Cotton, 8. a |, kegs 9 M.tod'eo, 1b.82,879 3,253 Do., bbla..... ma} $321 Wearing ap,cs 5 40 Clocks, cases. 10 250 Paintings... 1 20 Staves, M.... 26 1,401 Maps& charts 2 85 Fustic, tons.. 25 388 Panacea... 3 Mladic: <> cavscseststapnsipasaoantsenenateire NORTH AMPRICAN COLONIES. $420 Medicines, pks 16 212 Salt hides.... 48 380 OF yarn, Dalen 60 BRITIEH N, stores, bbls = BRITISH WEST INDIES. $18 850 652 68 140 250 Hardware. 148 Oil meal, cks . 653 Lard oil, bbls. 4 200 188 Guano, pkgs.. 21 101 306 Shooks, No... 203 204 1,500 Oars * 68 55 282 Furniture, pks 54 © 262 181 Marble, 8 190 432 579 Total re Pork, bbls Shipbread. Do. kegs Daguer. art Dry fish, ewt 197 Machinery, ps. 1 Rice, tes..... 31 684 Sarsup’a, brs. 18 Tinletters,cse. 1 150 Paints, es ; Iron & stecl... 260 Furniture salt, gacl Coal, tons 55 Shoes, & leath- 981 er goods, cases 246 Shipchan,cks. 3 2,137 Matches, 48... 1 ‘586 School globes. 1 Flour, b 109 269 $1,042 30 18 '535 30 1 19 30 U5 308 10 “4 353 260 25 ras 6 4 86 Pickled fieh.. 16 8 208 Sugar br. Ibs 4,215 1 py Molastes, bbls” 1 a “4 Dr’d fish, ewt 14 re sity “ fruit, pkga 12 30 37 Beef, bbls... 11 500 426 Hams, Ibs....1, 4 43 Lard ........2,007 8 82 Mf'rd tobacco "192 2 43 1,135 45 (405 110 Umbrellas, 5 7 573 Gr'dcoffee,bx 64 277 Tea, pkgs 140 Clothing, cx. 4 © 348 VENEZUYLA. Flour, bbls... 225 $1,280 D. fishewt'.. 5 $17 Furniture, pgs 31 150 Tin plate, bas 4 89 5 -- 182 1,170 ~Duumestice, pgs ov 2,812 ifs. bales:, 8 — '390 Motel cesses sere pavsecers Patho 100 51 Woodware ig, bbls 3 67 Saddle Candles, bxs.. 150 280 Hoops, M 7 203 Tea, pkgs 30 «612. Handspikes, bdls 37 80 Wine, bxs 19 342 Glassware, ca 2 101 Bark, bales, 27 113 Fancy goods. 9 73 Lard, Ibs... 6,068 529 Hardware 26 243 i Paint, pkgi 5 105 Drugs. 18 260 Total $8,450 REPUBLIC. B’ts & sh’s, es. 12 8,750 2 ‘152 19 2,067 Ass.dryg'ds,¢ 26 3.228 Shot, 2 ng Paper, rms... $82 "769 Furnit’re, pkg 108 5,382 Prints ...... 62 319 800 Melodeens. 6 407 14 818 Clocks, cs... 13 234 24 113 Carriages 2 600 3 105 Saddlery 2 16 26 62 Mats, bdls 3 (380 16 1,652 I. R.goods, es. 2 200 48 Hats ........ 1 218 sos 934,602 80 ($420 A. ‘ Butter, Ibs.. 9,873 $2,266 22 Cheese. 180 8,510 204 Rice, ts 100 2,352 jails, kegs. 50 300 2,882 Hardware, cs. 412 5,505 2 625 Irom safe... 37 2,361 ROR sa) once rdage, bs... 7 382 Do.. tierces.-- 7h 4,402 pistols, cases. 5 3,768 P'kied fish, bois 85° 5&5 Lumber,feet 65,000 1,300 Do., ewt,..... 300 690 Wagon, &.... 8 ‘921 D’d'fruit, pkgs 800 2,117 Olleloth, case. 1 55 Brandy, bble.. 20 Boots & 2 5 Rum, bhds.... 4 1 50 Gin, pipes. 1 1,988 Candles, 1 224 Ironwork, @s. Tron safe...... Blacking, pias 42836 Wicking, balex 104 708 Domestics... 226 13,210 Paper, reams, 26 81 Brushes, cases 1 42 ir. N. A. Colonies... $9,561 Br. West Indies. Cuba ’ Now Granaia, Voneruela.... 1... +. Danish West Indios. 2 Cisplatine Republic. . Mexie Australia, 2 Chili... Marreilles Torragona Gibraltar... Total value merchand Mareh 5th, 186: Total value specie, Total... @ exported week onding In the same week the value of merchandise ex ported was $4,380,735, showing an excess in tha; time of $3,142,462. At this rate the aggregate im. portation for the month and aggregate excess at the close, wil! be eqna] to those of the month of Febrna- 1 bundles tin plate; wine, 65: 200 Fdgew'th LCo bs0 6 | 100 New Jersey Zine. 11% | 200° “do... 1185 | 160 ry. ‘The bulk of the exports during the week ending March 5th was in breadstutffs. : ‘The impertations into this port to-day—March 10—~ have been as follows :— Beer, S42 casks; blenehing tons; ¢ 121 A Uble, berries: 4 boxes phosporus;' wood: dry goods, 88 pkgs . 395 per Hesper, 407 do. ; fruit aus oe eee) Dbls.; irony 610 tone pig Ta88 bare railioad izon, 0.027 bundles, 1,928 bare, 0.411 sheets; : Ml tal; molasses, 106 casks, 4 ‘112 cocks, salt. 600 snake: spirita, 10 casks gin: 43 cases, 232 bundles; sugar, 836 hhds. a0 exes plate, 1,000 boxes terne, 365 2 baskets; wood, 229 pieces powder, 200 casks; coal, 1,344 1, rugs, 75 casks soda ash. rteol, 500 baga; tin, 8,420 boxes tin \ogany. The following stocks were sold for cash, in Alex+ andria, on Friday last:— $3,500 Corporation of Alexandria, at $98 per share; 5@ ares Farmers’ Bank of Virginie, $1 063, a $107; O& k Old Dominion, $1 06 a $1 06%; 62 Bank Valley, $118; 100 Bank Pittsburg, £65; 562 Fire Insurance 4 Alexandria, $17 50; 50 Exchange Bank Virgivis, $107; 238 Georgetown Potomac Insurance Com; , $25 25; 66 Pank Republic, New. York, $105; 26 shares’ Alexandria Ravings Institution, $10; 86 Rank of Washington, $16.255 10 Manassas Gap Railsond, $28; 22 Orange rim, shares m and Alexandria, larine Insurance stock, 75; 10 shares Collyer and 8 George Ws 60 cent upon par value; 40 Mount voles Cotte pepe $17; 10 Alexandria Water Company, $45; 10 Canal stock, $6; 2735 Liste eee tarp ie 8 f} ete ae Marine. Railway, $50; 10 Snicker’s Gap Tura} ¢.; 25 Anhley'st do., 506; 1 Fauquier do., 1c.; 20 Leesburg. do., 6c.; & | Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, $1. Stock Exchange. $2000 US 6's, 67.... 120 100 shaParkerCoalCo 25 500 City 5’, 60... 1003¢ 26 Big 10000 Erie RConBs,’71_ 04 Erie RCo: "62 96 400 Portsm’th D Doel 5 100 do. 100 de 100 do. 50 do 250 Montgomery Min. M50 dO... eases 500 do #80 50 Florence &Key pt 50 do., . 100 500 do....,.b60 100 Cumber!'d Coal Co a0 do. ¢ 150 Hudsen River RR 621¢ 10 Madison & Ind R 10134 10e . 190 Mich Central RR 105 50 rot 10 Mieh § Railroad,. 120 | 850 re 30 Cleve Gol & Cin R 1273¢ | 160 bls 100 Little Miami R.. 1164¢ ose 20 do i BOARD. SE 4700 U £ 6’s,’67..b3 1203¢ 150 she Montgo’yMng = 2: $47 . ) she eae ng 1900 U S 6’s, '62 116 50 Nio Trans 36 250 100 150 % 260 . 1000 do.. , 98% 250 do. 80 2000 Erie RG Bds,’62 95 100 Camber Goal Go. 49 4000 do......... 91% 125 Parker Coal Co... 30 10 ahs Hanover Bk.. 92 300 Reading Railroad 883¢ | 100 Del & Hud Canal, 11934 120 Erie Railroad... 84 ; 200 do... 190" 200 dow... 460 Morris Canal.... 19% 100 Nor & Wor RR., | 100 do 90%{ 200 Harlem Rallread. 6334 | 350 Floren 11 2001, Island RR... .b3 250d 11% 58 NY&N Haven Sat 1073¢ | 97,7 | hous | abundant and depressed. Tuvrspay, March 10—6 P. M. Asurs.—Sales were made of 57 bbls., at $4 75 for pots, and $5 183 for pearls, per 100 Ibs. Breapsturrs.—Flour did not vary mueh. The home demand was good, and freely met at the annexed quota- tions. The day’s transactions comprised 12,600 bbls.—Su- perfine, No. 2, at $4 3714 a $4 50; erdinary to choice State, $4 75a $5; mixed to fancy Western, $4 8734 a $5 1834; common to good Ohio, $4 $5 Tag; mixed to 5 26; fancy Genesee, $5 12% a $6 Southern, § ney Ohio, $6 183 a $5 3134; favorite Southern, $5 Tiga $6 6214; extra Wentern, $5 50 » $> 8755; extra, Goncovr, 20 2) a $5 fancy Southern, $5 70 a $7; and extra Richmond City, $8 26 a $8 60 per bbl. Rye flour was in slack request at $4 3734 for fine, and $4 6246 for superfine, per bbl. Noth! new occurred in corm | meal, wheat, ryo, and barley, all of which ru'ed dull and | heavy. @ats were pretty extensively dealt in, at 4ic. = 46c. Tor Jervey; 45c. a 470. for Pennsylvania; and 47o. a 49c. for Western and State, per bushel. Corn continues he rales reached only 28,000 bushels, at 58e. a 60¢ for di ged, and 60c. a 66c. for. inferior to prime while end yellow Southern, per Corrox.—The market was better supplied by day, and prices consequently were no: so firm. were 1,00 bales. Corrgs was not very active. The sales ineluded but 100 bags Java at 113{c., and 200 Rio at 94c. per Ib. i Corr —Sales of 7,000 lbs.old were effected, at 83e. per . cash. Fine Chackens.—There have been 500 boxes Canton, 46 packa, disposed of, at $1 55 each. FreicuTs —To Liverpool, from 3,000 to 4,000 bbls, flour were engaged at (part to Gill up) 2s. 3d.; and 8,000- bushels grain at 8d. To Glasgow, 1,000 bbls: flour were engaged at 3s., and 2,500 bushels corn, in the steamshi; Petrel, at 9d, bagged by shippers. To London, 1,000 bbls. turpentine were engaged at 3¢.,6d. wre, rates were Cosas xc. for cotton, and at $8 a $10 for ashes and rice. To California, rates were steady, at 55¢. a 90c. The clipper ship Shooting Star was nearly full, and was taking measurement goods at 80c. a 85¢. per foot. There was nochange to notice in rates for Australis. aaa 5€0 boxes bunch raisins realized $2 80 pe 98 Xe. lors to~ sales r bOX. Hay.—We heard that 600 bales river were procured at ge. 0 $h 0634 per 100 Ibs, EY.—Some 120 tierces Cuba, in bond, were purchased for export at 42c. cash, per gallon. Hors.—There were 20 bales taken at 20c. a 22e. per Ib. Latne.—Fastern remained in very light supply, and ac- tive demand, st $2 60 per thonsand. market is very firm, and prices have ad- iced within a few days 3c. to le. per lb. on hemlock light and middle weights.) Some choiee pareela of emlock have been seld at 20c. six months, pt 12 “ “ “ “ “ “ « putts, for bands. . “ harness, finished. Offal leather scarce and in demand, Tanned horse leather, per side... ee ee ide : The stock on hand, of all descriptions, is very light, aod ae quite brisk, with @ decided upward bea- ney ic Lime.—Sales have been made of 600 bbls. eommom Rockland, at $1 per bbl. Motsais.—About 200 bbls. New Orleans, realized Se. 0 30c. per " Ons.—Sales of 4,500 gallons linseed were offected, at 8c. T4e. por gallon. Other articles were unchanged. Provierons.—Pork wan in fair demand. The day's bust- ness embraced 1 060 bbla., new, at $15 » $15 26 for prime; and $16 26 for, mess, por ‘bbl.’ There were 400 bbls. lard obtained, at Oe. a 9c per lb. Beof seemed inactive, though steady, The sales were confined to 200 bbls. country prime, at $660 a $6; city de. at $675 a $7; country mena, at 99 60 « $11, and city do, at $12 87% @ $13. No alteration occurred in butter or cheese. Reat Exrarn —Salea at Auction.—By Wm. H. Franklin— 2 lots on Tenth avenus, between Thirty seventh and Thirty-eighth streets, 26x100, $125 each; 4 do. on Second avenue, 25 8 fom Seventy-seventh street, 25.6x100, $41@ each; 1 do. on Second avenue, corner or ewite street, 25 8x100, $600: 1 do. on Serenty-eighth reet, 100 feet from Second avenue, 25x100.2, $225; 1 do. om Seventy-seventh street, 100 feet from Second avenue, %5x100.2, $225. By BH. Ludlow—1 lot on Seventeontle street, 485 feet from Fifth avenue, 25x02, $850; 1 do. om. Fifty-fourth street, 100 feet from Seventh avenue, 25x100.4, $840; 1 40. on Twenty ninth streot, $500. Brooklyn Property.—By James Cole—House and lot No. 8 Front street, 20.4x36.3, #3410; house and lot No, 134 Willoughby street, 18x64, $2,800; house and lot No. 412 Hudson avenne, 19x10, $2,700; frame house om Clermont avenue, 287 foet from on Atlantic street, (Ne. 26. 60; & do. adjoining. ( 7, 29, 41.) $6,000 each; ¢ ‘adjoining, (No. 43) 37,950; "house No, 1 Atlantic street, corner of South ferry, $0.50; Tastory on Furmaw street, between Atlantic and State streets, 20x80, $3,800; house No, 200 Jiicks rirect, near State street, 245x125, nt strect, comer af Pock atteek, on Cranherry street, corner of Hearyeatrest, Cranberry street, ouse adjoining, 22 et, 2b.70x87,10, $2,100, 10 of 150 tiercos fair to house 09 Ib na changed hands, at $00 a $95 per the Soar. per Ib, Sruar did not vary much: 100 hhds. New Orleans » Havana on terms not nade ‘Toracco.—Atout 60 hhds Kentucky found buyers, af 62¢0. a Xe. per Ib. RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE. t 150 boxes Castile brought 10%¢. The operations embraced ¢, and 400 boxes browa By Fre Rarnoap.—67 bbls. whiskey, 2,018 do, four, 1,087 pkgs. pork, 060 do. butter, and 6,887 sides leather. By New Haviw RAroan—210 pkgs, choose, 26 do. eater, and 2 do, butter,