The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1853, Page 6

"NEWS BY THE MAILS. aes Phe Insane in New York and Ponnsyivanis. REPORT OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUM AT UTICA. The Lunatic Asylum at Utica contains about four ‘hundred inmates. Three hundred and ninety were received last year, and minety-seven who applied for admission were refused because there was no more room. The report by the managers and officers of the asylum of its operations during the last year, contain gome interesting information. It seems that of the four hundred who have been discharged in that time, 165 are pronounced recovered, and only 152 unim- proved. So large a tion of recoveries is a rallying proot the asst of the treatment pur- Of those admitted, 243 were in indigent circum- stances. Nine were criminals. ‘There were 39 deaths among the patients from va- Tious cauees. None however were by suicide. By far the greater of the e Gated more or less. Upwards of 300 had received instruction in schools, academies, and , While ‘26 were unable to read or write. : age most liable to insanity, it seems, is at- tained between 25 and 30. Under 15 the cases are very few ; from 15 to 30 they increase rapidly ; from that time to 80 they decrease gradually and regu- fore of the women are married than single; more of the men are single than married. Of the whole number in the Asylum 202 are married and 188 un- ‘There are 57 farmers, 47 laborers, 10 merchants, 10 schoolboys and 9 shoemakers. Most of the other occupations average only one or two apiece. Of the women 109 are set down as housekeepers, 53 as | housework. Other employments average three or four apiece. As to the causes of derangement:—Intemperanoe is held accountable for 46; popular errors for 29; wes rappings for 18; domestic trouble for 26; ive for 10; grief 8; business perplexi- | ties 7; excessive occupation 7; want of occupation 4; religious excitement 4; destitution 4; disappoint- ment in love 7; too much study 3; fright 2; temper 2; 2; disay tment 2; imprisonment 2; pe- Buriousness 1. e rest are ly from diseases or physical causes. The patients find varied employment and amuse- ment in the Asylum. There are workshops, one of which has ten work-benches and a lathe, and has tarned out during the year upwards of a hundred pieces of furniture. The tailor shop has produced some six hundred q@arments. And the Matron ray ler that the number ‘of garments and articles of iture made by the female patients under direction is 5,576. The “Opal’’ printing office mene employment for many, and reading for the whole, through its et and ex- Sours newspapers and magazines. Daily ser- vice held at the chapel at 7 in the evening, at which a choir of patients assist. The Hutchinsons, Ole Bull, and several other musicians, have given musieal entertainments at the asylam, and a number ofthe nts attended the lectures, exhibitions and State Pair in Utica. | The report shows an efficient and praiseworth: ce of difficult duties by the Superintendent, , and other officers. Of the $80,000 ex- only some $8,000 were received from the | | and promises o! paged Counties and towns have paid $36,000, and private patients $29,000. The very reasonable re- quests of the peenatcr for sop eget in regard to | and ventilation, and for separate depart- ments for criminals and drunkards, are entitled to be considered by the Legislature; as well as their gestion of the growing necessity of a new hospi- The money spent in these charities will never break the State, even if it were a hundred fold as great an amount as their present economical expen- PENNSYLVANIA LUNATIC HOSPITAL. The following interesting statistics are taken from the last annual report of the trustees and officers of | the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum. Although | the report does not show that any of the inmatesare _ affected by the spirit rappings delusion, we cannot but think that this fruitful cause of insanity bears at least ita proportion among the causes which have brought these unfortunate individuals to the mad house. It will be seen that in over one half of the whole number of cases,the cause of insanity is not stated:— | CAUSHB OF INSANITY IN THOSE ADMITTED, SO FAR AS THEY Males, Females. Total. Ot health..... .6 10 16 7 16 1 i 1 se lilestconmtaw i 1 can z 1 30 66 Extreme difficulty is found in tracing the causes of in. senity. It will be seen by the above table, in how large a number no cause was assigned, and even in those caxes whore the cause is mentioned, it is very doubtful if itis correct. Too often some effect of the insanity is looked ‘pon as the cause, the friends having been unwilling to | admit the fact of the insanity, until forced upon them by | evidences not to be resisted. | ‘Tho exiatenes of insanity before admission into the hos- | pital is shown by the following table: — | Maier. Females. | -40 20 8 ‘One year aad less. years... Twenty-three yea: Thirty-five years. Total. SOCLAL CONDITION. Males, 0 OCCUPATION. Males. Lawyers... Stone cutter. Printer ... Carpenters... CUPATION. Females. 2 Wife of Mason 2 1 1 + Mii 1 Domestics 2 Daughte 1 Teacher, 7 None 1 Total. New Browswick.—Tar. Fisnenres.— The pro- eincial furnish ua with the particulars of a sharp debate on the subject of the fisheries, which took in the Honse of Assembly of New Bruns- | wick, on the 26th ult. From the tenor of the speeches | it appears that much apprehension exists in the pro- vince that the fishing privileges will be granted by the British government to the Americans without ‘any adeq: compensation to the people of the provinces. Their views on this subject are not indi- cated with perfect clearnese, but their talk runs upon « free trade” and ‘reciprocity.’ Some of the Mpeakers recommended that the provincials should the matter into their own hands, as one which not to be controlled hy the home government. | a step, however, for which the provincials do spe to be ripe. An amendment to an ad- op gmealle a A consentof the inha- | province’ arrangements respect- fisheries, was voted down. Occupied by the A: ‘arpet Lone $15, to have F # Li r3 i & § ? 3 is 5 i 1 | to the shedding of blood. | pled and remorseless government. In Europe and PY» | seriae afttata to exticnatatsiavens anditeayerinecy, | | mities, and the Chinese government may be called | on to make restitution for this loas of «' | the bridegroom | births have been registered in Boston during the | thirty-six deaths have been registered in the | bein 1 | nearly as can be ascertained. | ers (omittin; | Value of real estate in towns, i ‘ot phan in the e) G ¢ - its pkg ley outside in, whereby it can oe by for ever gazing at its own te idea, ad of being compelled to take the broken images of things as they are;) and the substitute has proved so ingenious, that even the st planters of Cuba have almost come to the con- clusion that it is cheaper and better than the original. It has accordingly thrived wonderfully, under the ag countenance of philanthropy and the “dealers in human cattle.” r P Our attention has been drawn to this subject by the California papers received by the last arrivals. From leading ports of India, and more especial, from China, it would appear that the Coolie has been filly cancion on a grand scale. In a single Calcutta paper there is a notice of ten ships taken up for the transportation of Coolies to the Bri- tish West Indiee. Many thousands are every year carried to the Mauritius, where they are worked to death, and thus room made for more. But the trade in China is most remarkable, in con- sequence of i nies finally come athwart the in- tense nationality of the Chinese, and thus led, not only to a variety of petty tragedies and explosions, but to an exposure of the true character of the traffic 80 gracion smiled upon by Exeter Hall, in the midst of its denunciations of slavery. ‘The Hindoos are a patient race, used to be con- cuaied, trampled on, skinned and sold by ers. it seems to have become part of their nature to take all this as a matter of course, and without complaint. | The Coolie trade has therefore flourished with them, | and gone on increasing, without murmur or ques | tion. But the Chinese are a different sort of animal —vain of their national name, despising and hating foreigners, and as turbulent and mobbish as the Mexicans themselves. Greedy of gain, and sin- | gularly unscrupulous as to the means, there was not | the smallest culty in engaging any amount of | Chinese brokers in the business of selling their coun- | trymen—the difficulty was to get the “cattle” into the market. 1t appears that a sound Chinaman, de- livered at the British agency, was worth a hundred | doliars, and the cattle, as we said, not being pleased | with the process of transfer to the outside barba- | rians, it was necessary for the agents to resort to | cunning devices, and when these failed, to plain Kidnapping. ‘The result bas been anything but pleasant. In a | case not very long since, the Coolies rose against | the officers of the ship at sea, and murdered them, | The Alta California intimates that the example has | been abundantly copied since. It says:— ery | arrival brings us aceounts of vessels putting bac! without officers, and in the utmost distress, the re- sult of disaffection and mutiny on the part of the in- jured and deluded passengers, who were Ren ene in- duced to take passage under false representations, | f a speedy passage to California, or | some other country where they might earn a sub- | sistence.”” This is not all. The Chinese population at home tised on them, and in the cities where the system has been most extensively set in force, have mobbed the British traders, and put to death their Chinese agents. At Amoy the crew of a man-of-war was | called on shore to defend the house of one of the dealers in “human cattle.” Bat it is not called the | slave trade, and therefore is honest in the eyes of all the motley tribes of mouthers and pharisees. But | the real character of it may be determined by the | fact that the Cuba planters have begun to look to | it = a profitable substitute for the African slave- | trade. [From the Mereury, March 2.] We publish from the Alta California the article | we referred to yesterday relative to the new species of slave trade commenced by British subjects in | China, and sustained by the British authorities even | In what an attitude of hyprocrisy and cruelty does it place that unprinci- | America she is vaunting her pretended philant intermeddling in the affairs of other governments | with that pretence. The coasts of Cuba, Brazil, and | Africa, are kept under the strictest surveillance by | her cruisers, for the suppression of the slave trade, and the barracoons or slave pens on the coast are destroyed, and the ne; berated. While at Hong Kong British subjects establish their slave pens, kidnap the unoffending Chinese, and when | their countrymen attempt to liberate them, they are slaughtered by the marines from @ British man-of- | war. But this may be only the beginning of the enor- | ritish pro- | gS ’ a8 they were formerly, when the opium, il- ay introduced into their ports, was destroyed. They may have to submit to invasion and outrage, the ‘sack of cities, and the massacre of thousands, because they will not consent to be kidnapped into slavery by British merchants, as Sevan when they attempted to prevent them from Ro ning them with opium. Divided and paralyzed as she now is | by internecine war, China would fall an easy prey, { | and British rapacity might readily extort another large subsidy of Sycee silver, and the cession of other eligible and commanding ports, so as to place her at the mercy of her usurping neighbors. Such a policy would not be more surprising, or more iniquitous, than what we have already witnessed in that quar- ter, and it would be in admirable keeping with British threats and abuse of the Cuban authorities, for countenancing the introduction of negro slaves, for which these Chinese slaves are intended to be the substitutes. | | | Interesting State Statistics, MASSACHUSETTS. | MARRIAGES.—It appears from the report of the | City Registrar in Boston, that two thousand eight | hundred and seventy-seven intentions of marriage have been issued in that city during the year, of whlch 1,356 males and 1,347 females were of Ameri. can birth; and 1,521 males and 1,530 females of | foreign birth. The number of marriages actually re- corded is 2,866. The oldest bridegroom was a widow- er of seventy-six to a widow of forty-three years. The couple of the greatest united ages is an Irish | widower of sixty-five years with a widow of sixty years. The couple of the least united ages are Irish, ing eighteen years, the bride six- teen years. Biatus.—Five thousand three hundred and eight year, namely, 2,661 males, and 2,657 females; chil- | dren of 1,681 American fathers and 1,733 American mothers; and 3,479 fathers and 3,451 mothers of foreign nativity—the birth-places of ninety-six fathers and seventy-two mothers being unknown. DeaTHs.—Three thousand seven hundred and Boston; namely, 1,902 males and 1,834 female: of American and 2,168 of foreign ori; BSS Crime.--The abstract of the returns of the keepers of the jails and the overseers of the house of correction ‘in Massachusetts, shows this re- sult:—In the jails, the whole number of prison- those transierred to the house of | as been 7,688; of whom 6,606 were correction) | males, and 942 females; 6,188 adults, and 1,364 minors; of the whole number, 273 were colored per- sons. ‘The number of debtors was 1,363; charged with murder 19, arson 23, highway robbery 10, as- saults 630, burglary 104, torgery 15, homicide 2, in- temperance 2,361. “Inthe houzes of correction 3,157 persons have been confined, of whom 2,464 were | males and females; adnits 2,565; minors 522; colored 159; committed for larceny 614; intempe- rance 1,580; vagrancy 195. Number of natives of | other countries, 1,942. OHIO. The following table is taken from the Anditor’s re- Fen of the State of Ohio: hole value of all taxable duplicate for 1852 Total taxes on the Acres of land in the State.. . 273,378,773 00 Value of the same, i 91,658 374 00 and 152,644,763 00 402,695. 284 32,415 pianos P 2781 Total value of domestic animal $33,750,797 00 “ watcher 676,982 00 | 405,738 00 2,494,068 00 121,629 i 675 | “taxes of plankroads, taxable valuation turnpike road taxes of turnpike roads... Estimated receipts for current year Stare Denn, Foreign debt, payable in New York Domestic — and trust fi own from U, Sta enue | S741 96 ‘The surplus revenue from the Uniied States will prod: Total debt $19 tly with the State. Dedueting this ites, febt in $17,381,481 41, The irredu- | cible trust funds are not designed to be rE id. The anm foterer’ ia all that is wanted. Dedueting ihis, x6 lave | the auin of $15,042,649 05, a tho amount of our public debt which we shall, in due time, be called upon to pay. | | cei | improvement in cane-j | in splints for fractures, Lawes of the United States. AMENDMENT TO THE LAW BELATING TO SUB- vayORs. the Senate and House of “= inited States of America, in Con- ‘That in all cases where, as provided the first section of the.act entitled “An act for the discontinuance of the office of Surveyor-General in the several districts, sosoon as the surveys therein can be completed, for abolishing land offices under certain circumstances, and for other purposes,” ap- roved the twelfth of June, eighteen hundred and the field notes, maps, records, and other pa- 3, AP} to land titles in any State, shall ve been, or be turned over to the authorities of such State, and the same authority, powers, and duties, in relation to the survey, resurvey, or subdi- vision of the lands therein, and all rs and things therewith, as previously exercised by the Surve: neral whose Gistrict included such State, shall be, and they are hereby, vested in, and devolved upon, the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That under the authority and direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, any Deputy Surveyor, or other agent of the United States, shall have access to any such field notes, maps, records, and other papers, for the of taking extracts the or mak- ing coplaa Gareet, ithout charge of any kind. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fleld notes, maps, records, and other papers mentioned in the first section of the act to which this is an amend- ment, shall in no case hereafter be turned over to the authorities of any State, until such State shall have provided by law for the reception and safe keeping of the same as public records, and for the allowance of free access to the same by the authorities of the United States, as herein provided. Approved January 22, 1853. EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WASHINGTON. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- ES assembled, That the sum of fifty thousand dol- is ney epoeopriated. to enable the President of the Unit ites to employ Clark Mills to erect, at the city of ‘ington, a colossal equestrian sta- tue of Cage ‘ashington, at such place on the pub- lic grounds in said city as shall be Aeaiaciatedl by the Erencent of the United States. Approved January 5, . PUBLIC EXECUTIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of sentatives of the United States of America in gress assembled, That persons now under sentence of death, or who shall hereafter be adjudged to suffer death, within the District of Columbia, shall be ex- ecuted within the walls of some prison in the said district, or within a yard or enclosure adjoining such prison, and not elsewhere; and it shall be the duty of the marshal of the district, or one of his deputies, with such officers of the prison, constables, and other peace officers, as such marshal or erety, may deem necessary and proper to attend at such executions. Sec. 2: And be it further enacted, That the said marshal, or his deputy, shall invite the District At- torney and the counsel of the prisoner, two or more | have become bitterly exasperated at the frauds prac- | DByASians, Hold “Gtelyo, respectable, ectiaana, £0) Ue present at every such execution; and, at the request | of the person to be executed, shall also allow any ministers of the gospel, not more than three in num- ber, and any of his or her near relatives, to be pre- sent thereat; but no person or persons, other | those in this act mentioned, and no person whatever under the age of twenty-one years, shall be allowed to witness any such execution. Approved January 25, 1853. Claims Before Congress. Wasninoton City, March 5, 1853. 10 THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Sir—In your paper of yesterday's date, notice is | taken of the paasage, on the 3d instant, of a bill for my relief, under the heading of ‘‘ Extensive Revolu- tionary Claims Granted,” and the notice ends with the following paragraph :—“ It is said the bill covers up an appropriation of $170,000.” Couple the above | with the remarks of Mr. Allison, of Pa. (given in the same notice), to wit :—‘‘ Asked whether the bill was of such a character as would not bear inspec- tion?” Now, sir, this notice of the matter is Fee unjust, and conveys an impression of fraud, which the Hurap ought not to have uttered (without some foundation or upon some evidence) in the face of the fact that the bill was argued at length in the Senate, avd throughout its course in Congress received the ardent support of every member of both houses from | the State of South Carolina; and members from that ; State are known, the world over, not to be abettors of frauds upon the public Moreover, the appropriation is less than $50,000, and is specific, in stead of covering up $170,000, as alleged by your cor- respondent. Butto explain the matter more fally, I beg you to give an insertion to the enclosed article, taken from the National Intelligencer of this city, and I will conclude by era | the votes on the passage—Nays 46; yeas 122—for an index of the truth and fee! ie excited in favor of the cases, to which I will add that I never feared, but earnestly desired, discussion, and there were members in the House ready to argue the case, whose arguments it would be difficult to answer. I remain, with pis al your obd’t svn't, ILLIAM Hazzarp Wiaa, of South Carolina. P. §.-I omitted to mention one fact, which proba- bly might have led to the error stated above, con- the amount of the a) Teh Hoo The re- port of the committees of both houses, recommend- ed the payment of interest. This—except from the | first day of the present Congress—was stricken out, | and the amount of interest would have been about | $170,900, ‘The Sugar Maple and Maple Sugar. (From the Boston Mail, March 8.} This tree flourishes throughout the most of North America. Its height is sometimes 100 feet. It is highly ornamental, and loves a cold climate. It makes the best of fuel. Its great excellence consists of maple sugar in the country ducing the months of spring. An open winter, constantly freezing and tha 1, is a forerunner of a bountiful crop of sugar. An orchard of ae trees is almost equal to a field of sugar cane of the same area, in the production of sugar. This tree reaches the age of 200 years. The statistics of the United States census for 1850, show that about thirty-four millions of pounds of maple sugar were manufactured in that year. Of the twenty-seven States in which this sugar is manufactured, Maine produced 1,392,427 lbs.; Ver- mont 5,159,641 Ibs.; New York 10,310,744 1bs.; Penn- sylvania 2,218,641 Ibs.; Virginia 1,223,908 Ibs.; Ohio 4,528,548 Ibs.; Michigan 2,423,997 Ibs.; Indiana 2,921,638 Ibs. These are the largest producers. Ver- | mont makes by far the largest quantity in proportion to its territory. In addition to this large yield of maple sugar in the States, the Indians east of the Mi ppiriver make annually 10,000,000, and those west of the river 2,000,000 Ibs. The maple sugar product of the Canadas, in 184! stated as follows :— Upper Canada. 4,160,667 Ibs. Lower Canada. aes - -2,303,168 Ibs. Besides the above ais cropthere was a yield by the sugar maple in the United states, in 1850, of 40,009,000 gallons of maple molasses. ‘This is good maple sugar weather, and the sap is running freely now. The fresh article will soon be in market, American Genius, List of patents issued from the United States Patent Office for the week ending March 8, 1853, and bear- ing date March 8, 1853 :— Seth Adams, of Boston, ore presees. lenry Bessemer, of Baxter House, England.—For ice evaporators. Patented in Mass.—For improvement England, Veb. 24, 1852. Henry Bessemer, of Baxter House, England.—For improvement in filters for canejuice. Patented in | England, Feb. 24, 1852. Stillman A. Clemens, of Springfield, Mass.—For + | improvement in machines for breaking and dressing flax. Samuel Gardiner, Jr., of New York, N. Y.—For improved magnetic machine for washing and sepa- rating gold. I. F, Mascher, of Philadelphia, Pa.—For improve- ment in daguerreotype cases. Lysander provement in machines for moulding in flasks. Thaddeus A. Smith, of mia fhe Y.—For im- provements in moulding for cast i dovetailed recesses. Joel Tiffany, of Cleveland, Ohio.—For improve- ment in machines for dressing shingles. John J. Wagener, of Charleston, 8. C.—For im- proved cannon sight. RE-IS80R. Adam Hays, of Pittsburg, Pa—For improvement Patented August 13, 1460. Re-issned March 8, 1863. List of patents issued from the United States in yielding sap for the manufacture of vast quantities | | | A. Orcutt, of Albany, N. Y.—For im- | iron plates with | Patent Office for the week ending March 22, 1863, | and bearing date March 22, 1853 :— Horatio N. Black, of Philadelphia, Pa.—T'or im- provement in hydraulic steam pumps. John ¥. Comly, of Dayton, Ohio.—For improve- ment in separating pepet by single sheets. Roswell Enos and Belta T. Hunt, of St. Charles, ii!,-or improvement in tanning. Mills A. Hackley, of Belleville, N. Y.—For im- ovement in cheese presses. Wm. Mansfield, of Dracut, Mass.—For improve- | ment in knitting machines. James Riley and Wm. Allen, of Southfield, N. Y.— For improvement in processes for distilling rosin oil. James Stanbrough, of Newark, N. Y.—For im- provement in harness. How Moxry was Con.ectep To Pay ror Seth D. Tripp, of Rochester, Mass., assignor to Finuve a Satore.—A_ man in Natchee, while col- | Edward L. No of Salem, Mass.—For improve- lecting funds to defray the e¢: of @ salute in ment in machines for pegging boots and shoes. honor of the inauguration ef dent Pierce, called upon the whigs as well as the democrats, represent- Florida has a white population of leas than fifty ing, to the former that the mover was to be cxpeates thousand—emaller than any other of the thirty-one in firing a salute in honor of Mr. Fillmore's cotire Doles Boeke ine fs the oldest town ia the maou from office. Velted ) baying keen foupded in 1564, Appointments of Cadets. OUB MILITARY OORRESPONDENOB. ‘Warr Pours, N. Y., Maroh 21, 1853. The following is the official Ust of appointments of Cadets to the Military Academy—the appointments to take effect on the first day of June next :— . Cong. ue mM OBeme om ona BE Sam comm Bae mon SBEERR mow em en se Guorau. a 12 AndrewJackson Fosgrave 13 William Sinclair. . weed Abram Wildrick. Charles W. Canfield NRW MEXICO, Don José Ynos Perea. AT LARGE. J. L. Kirby Smith, Army. 8. 8. Hetzel, * Henry W. Fowler, Presley 0. Craig, Edwin Turner, Navy. Thomas W. Thornton, N. J. Andrew Jackson, Jr., Tenn, “ « Charles C. Amory, Mass, Jona F, Mager, Vi fol a uder, Va. Charles Merck. ‘*Robert Andrews. D. K. Stevenson, . 6 *Clarence Derrick. ‘The above a ita are Official, and made by the out-going administration. They are required to report at ‘West Point on or before the 20th of June next, at which time the examination for admission takes place. Those who pase that and the next succeeding examination, receive their warrants, as cadets, after the first of Februaryjof next year, the warrants to take effect on the first of June preceding. Yours, &c., LEM, * Appointed conditionally, to fill any vacancies which may occur before the first of June, ‘VALENTINE Burke, ALias Dick Torpw.—Dur- ing the absence of this notorious character he passed through adventures that would have done honor to Dick Turpin, a brief account of which we will nar- rate. Soon after the grand jury was empannelled, Burke, suspecting that an indictment would be found against him for Eanes Layman, thonght Pragend to leave the city. The police anticipatiug this, watched his movements closely, and on o) a ing him go on the steamer L. M. Kennett, followed. He discovered them, however, and he wisely betook himself to the hold, where he hid himself among the freight until the boat had taken her departure. At Cape Girandeau officers came on board, having been pvneae by telegraph that Burke was probably on e boat. He, however, discoveringjthem, again hid himself in the hold, and being observed, efforts were made to find him, but he managed toelude them. The boat landed during the night atthe Illinois shore, and Burke came fromhis hiding place eatranped ashore. He was observed and pursued without success. He went to a point on the Ohio river by land, where he took a steamer and was again on his way South. He stopped at Mem; and putup atthe Union Ho- tel, where he was ol ed by some members of the Memphis police, who also cted him to be Burke, from the descri given. sy came in the bar- room to learn definitely whether they were right, and he, anticipating their object, took off his over- coat and asked the Sas! if his room had been prepared for him, which ig answered in the af- itive, he took off his coat and said he would lee a short time, and went into the hall, slipped aieoaigt the rear door, jumped on board a boat and started South. He landed at Napoleon, in Arkansas, where he was Aa Sees by a gentleman, and arrested. After being held in custody for three days, he was | releaged on a writ of habeas corpus, and he started for New Orleans. He was arrested there soon after his arrival, but subsequently eseaped from the cala- boose Sages the walls. He proceeded to Mobile, thence to Baton Rouge, and returned to New Orleans, where he was again arrested, heavily ironed, and broughtto this city on the Atlantic.— St. Louis Intelligencer, March 8. Srantuixa Discovery—Secret Socrery.— During the late trial of Archibald, Seaman, and W: ter Barnes, on a charge of burglary, in the Lorain county Common Pleas, the existence of a secret so- | ciety was discloced, the designs and tendency of | which one or two extracts from its preamble and constitation will aol ae In the first pledge, the member binds hi If to secrecy under a pledge of his ‘goods and chattels, lands and tene- | ments, and his life and body.” The preamble re- | cites that “Whereas, all governments are instituted and controlled for the sole purpose to aid the learned against the unlearned, the strong against the weak,” &c.,&c. Pledge the second cont the followin; clause:—I pledge further, that I will disregard State or national law that has a tendency or will even permit the designing knave to rob the honest or ears sapere , and as my influence shall be against the wealth of the aristocrat, so it shall be in favor of the laboring poor.” A pamphlet copy of the consti- tution of this diabolical confederation was taken from the pocket of one of the defendants, after he had | broken jail and been Hard The following certificate was also found in Barnes's pocket: — PROTECT THY BROTHER—SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. Know all whom it may concern, That B.€. Chsoft is duly authorized to institute Grand Division No. 3, accord- ing to the constitution and rules of the order. And the said B. C. Cbsoft is hereby appointed foreman of said di- vision, and is to preside over said division, until his suc- cessor is chosen and qualified. Given under my hand, and the seal of the order, this 12th eat October, 1852, G. SNLRM, a It will be perceived that the names are in oF her, the key of which was discovered during the trial. It consists of adopting the letter in the alphabet imme- diately succeeding the real one used in spelling. This communion of Veta Sid the germ of whic was brought to light in Lorain county, was to have branches in every State ofthe Union. It is said that @ gentleman who has been a representative in the Ohio Legislatare was at the head of the band in this State—Sandusky (Ohio) Register, March 11, Svurcipe—Derioras_e TracEepy.—On Friday night ‘ast, at about one o'clock, the inmates of the St. Charles Hotel, in this city, were startled by the heart-rending screams of a female, whose husband had fallen from the window of the third story, and ‘was a corpse beneath it. It seems that this unfortu- nate man—Mr. Edward Snyder, of Dubuque—being atly depressed on account of business reverses, find become partially deranged, and deliberately pur- d to commit suicide. On the day preceding his | melancholy death he had procured a razor for the uurpore, but his wife, discovering it, concealed it be- ween the beds. On Friday he obtained another, and at about one o'clock, while his wife was sleep- ing, slipped to the window, opened it, leaned far out, s0 as to be sure to fall, and then plunged the razor into his throat, throngh all the arteries, nearly to the spinal bone, and fell upon a shed below, and thence to the ground, babies j himself and everything around him ina pool of gore. The frantic cries of his wife, who, awakened by the falling of the win- dow, was soon by his side, with bare fect, and in her night clothes, gathered heats a number of per- sons, who bore the corpse into the hotel, where the coroner's inquest was held early in the morning. Their verdict was that he came to his death by cu’ ting his throat with a razor, owing to mental de- rangement. Mr. Snyder was of the firm of Snyder & Turner, of Galena, residing lately at Dubuque, en- gazed in the lead trade, and on his way to St. Louis. le has been a man of considerable property, and re- turned, two years since, from Califorma, where a great portion of his means were swept away ‘in the flood of 1851. He had been married about three weeks to a lovely and intelligent wife, the feelings of whose lacerated spirit are not to be deacribed by lan- gnage, or alleviated by human sympathy.—Keokwk (lowa) Dispatch, March 8. Naval Intelligence. Movements at Tm Brooxiyy Navy Yarp.—The ehip Macedonian, Captain Abbott, moored in the stream, to join the Japan squadron, is walting for a few seamen only. ‘The abip Vincennes, Lieutenant Commander Budd, the brig Porpoise, Lieutenant Commander Pavis, end schooner Fenimore Cooper, Lieutenant Commander Stevens, were fas in commission on Monday, under fhe command of Jommander Cadwallader Ri Nd. The store and surveying ship John P. Kennedy was token Pg of dock on Monday, and the steamer Vixen taken Lieutenant Miles K. Warrington, U. 8. N., has arrived here, and reported for duty on board the steam frigate Saranac, which vessel, we are infc ins ordered to the Mediterrancan, to yin the squadron on tthat station.— Pensacola Gazette, {2/h. palphaue Puten eon prwiding--a ta eenaee i Harriers, MONEY MARKET, Tuvespay, March 24—6 P. M. There was greater activity and a better feeling in the stock market to-day. The transactions were principally on time, buyer's option. The indications to-day were decidedly more favorable than wo have noticed for some time, but it is our improssion that the improvement in prices for fancy stocks is a little premature. The state of the money market will not justify an advance of avy importance. A few weeks may ease up things sufficient to give a moderate rise in prices, but we must not look for any great specu- lative movement this season. The commercial classes have passed through very trying times, and they have been obliged to help each other liberally. But for facilities privately provided, there would have been much embarrassment, and perhaps many fail- ures. This is freely admitted. In stocks there is nothing doing except among brokers. Outsiders are scarce and cautious. The bears are free sellers, and put out contracts without hesitation. They are avail- ing themselves of the advance, and probably will turn it to profitable acoount. At the first board to- day, Florence and Keyport went up } per cent; Nica- ragua, 4; Cumberland, 13; Phenix, 2; Erie Rail- road, 14; Harlem Railroad, §; Norwich and Wor- cester, 3; Morris Canal, 4; Reading Railroad, 4, Michigan Central Railroad, 3; Panama Rail- road, 1. New Jersey Zinc fell off } per ct.; New Creek; +; Michigan Southern Railroad, 3. There was very little enquiry for railroad bonds, but prices remain without alteration. At the second board the market was buoyant, and better prices ruled throughout. Morris Canal went up 4 per cent; Nicaragua Transit, 4; Cumberland 3; Parker Vein, 4; Phenix, 1; Panama Railroad, 2; Hudson River Railroad, 4; Erie Railroad, }; Stoning- ton, 4; Harlem, }; New Haven Railroad, 4; Reading Railroad, 14. It is our impression that the let up in the stock market has been too rapid. The move ment is, we fear, premature, and operators must look for a reaction. ‘ The receipts at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of this port, to-day, amounted to $144,080 00; pay- ments, $25,359 18. Balance, $7,104,279 61. There will be a large sale of stocks, by S. Draper, at the Merchants’ Exchange, to-morrow, (Friday,) a half-past twelve o'clock, immediately after the ad- journment of the Board of Brokers. Among the stocks to be offered are shares of the Empire City, East River, Shoe and Leather, Citizens’, Knicker- bocker, and Farmers’ and Citizens’, of Williams- burg banks, and of the Commercial, Lorillard, Hano- ver, Howard Life, Continental, and Nassau, of Brook- lyn, insurance companies. The North Carolina Copper Company will sell at auction, on Tuesday, the 5th of April, through S. Draper, two hundred tons of copper ore, similar in quality to that sold a few weeks since. The compa- ny are actively engaged in getting out the ore, and will shortly send fifty more miners to the mines. It is estimated that the production of copper ore during the summer will be equal to three hundred tons per month. In relation to this company, the Raleigh Register of the 23d inst. saya :— ‘Wo understand that the mine becomes richer as the workmen go down. Between the different tunnels or slopes cut in the vein, there is now ascertained to be cop- Per ore sufficient to bring into market one million of dol- lars. ‘Ibis sounds like an astonishing yield, and we should almost hositate to mention it, were it not for re- liable assurances of the correctness of the estimate. And yet, at the bottom of the last and deepest shaft the yein is thickest and richest, promising a remuneration to enterprise and labor valuable beyond precedent in the annals of mining in this country. The report that the New York State Canals would be opened on the 15th of April, is without founda- tion. No time has been decided upon; but it is scarcely to be anticipated before the 20th or 25th of April. The Legislature of Massachusetts has under consi- deration a proposition to change the time for the payment of notes, or, rather, an alteration of the days of grace. It is propoced that when the last day of grace falls on Sunday ora holiday, the note is to be- | come due the day after, instead of the day before, as at present. It has received the sanction of the House and will probably pass the Senate. Among the applications filed with the Auditer of the State of Illinois for new banks in Chicago, we notice the following:—The Branaganta Bank, capi- tal $3,000,000; Garden City Bank, $600,000; Ex- change Bank, $1,000,000; Butchers’ and Drovers’ Bank, $1,000,000; the Bank of the People, $500,000; American Exchange Bank, $500,000; Farmers’ Bank, $150,000; Merchants’ Bank, $500,000. Appli- cations have also been made for a bank at Beards- town, capital $5,000,000; at Ilinoistown, $5,000,000; Pekin, $1,000,000; Decatur, $1,000,000; two at Peo- ria, $1,000,000 each, &c., &c. The total indebtedness of Tennessee at the close of the last fiscal year was $6,066,856 66; on the 16th of August, 1852, the total was $3,901,856 66—showing an increase of $2,165,000 since that time. The Miners’ Journal of the 12th inst., (the last re- ceived,) represents the following statement of the coal business ef the Frostburg section of the Cam- berland Coal Field, by which it appears that the en- tire trade from the first of January, to the week end- ing the 12th of March, did not exceed 28,473 tons; and if we may estimate by analogy from the last week’s business, it is fair to presume that the Cum- berland Company did not contribute more than 9,000 | tons, equal to 30 per cent, inthe whole period of ten weeks ; thus the week ending shows that there were sent from all the Frostburg companies, including the Cumberland Company, but 8,549 tons, of which the Cumberland furnished 2,862 tons, as follows :—To the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1,470 tons, and to the Ohio Railroad, 1,382 tons. We would now ask, what foundation does such a business afford for mak ing a dividend on a capital of $5,000,000, and paying interest on a debt of $1,000,000—taking the calcula- tion made by the report of the company, and allow- it to be correct, that their net profit per ton was 70 | cents, not one half of which is believed to be profit, inasmuch as the company have underrated the cost of mining and bringing the coal to market. The annexed [statement exhibits the production of iron in the United Kingdom of Great Britain during the year 1852:— ‘Tim Ikon Traps OF Great Brrrain—Present Propvcri — Furnacea,— Estim’d Mak In Out of Blast. Blast, Total. 113 31 144 136 27 162 Do. Anthracite 12 28 85 South Staffordshire,. 127 32 159 i By 4 21 6 7 13 Shropshire , a7 13 40 Durham , 18 8 ws Northumberian i 6 13 , Yorkshire and J 7 150,000 158 656 2,701,000 The recent rise in the market value of iron must give a great impetus to its production, and we have no doubt the returns for 1853 will show an important ‘Increase. In this country an impulse of some conse- quence has been given to the business. In Essex county, of this State, particularly, the manufacturers are quite active. The fires which have for several years been extinguished in the furnaces and rolling mills have beon re-kindled. There is a brisk ‘de- mand for ore and ore beds, and high prices have been demanded for favorable locations. A report of the Committee on Mining and Smelt- ing was recently made to the Wisconsin Legislature, from which we find that the average amount of lead raised annually, for eleven years, from 1841 to 1852, inclusive, was 41,727,025 pounds, according to the following figures: — PRODUCTION OF LeaD IN Wiscowsix. ef ina" 29,420,529 Ta the mining covatics, with @ population ¢ enly 03 | plank road, $300 45,229, and with s taxable property valued at! less than four millions of dollars, the lead prodec! the year 1861 was valued at $1,380,015, while average lead product for the last twelve years, in same counties, has been $1,669,080. Should present price of lead continue through 1853, amount received for the product will far exceed t of any previous year. The report concludes witl recommendation for the appointment* of a St Geologist. ‘The London Economist of the 5th of March, the annexed statement relative to the position of Bank of England, and the probable movement in” en market :— 13 21008 a a Leap fone 8 decrease of cirenlati Files Zour DIas a daoreass ot by of rent, £68,773; and a looking close at the poved than 48,012. That Pore es demand the bank for money at ite present rate of in ‘ agrener it in net lowering the rate, pe pears 5 An announcement was made on Tuesday, that the c tomary advances made by the bank, on The shu Sane oes Taman niet nec tt per cent 8 jum rate o that rate, or three per cent. As it has nals to lend for short periods at less than three | cent, no reduction om those terms cam be till after the commencement of the payments Wf { dividends a month hence. On the contrary, ite 5 gent resolution is looked on as a probable forerunner -* further rise of one-half per cent in the minimum r: of discount. If the demand for money in the 80 great for all the new companies thet are 1 new loans that are negotiated, and the great amount very profitable business that is carried on, that a furtl || rise in the rate of interest is warranted, and money ¥ | be readily borrowed of the bank at a higher rate than. present, there is no good reason why it should net ‘vance its rate of interest. the course of the weck the arrival has been : hoe, with 63,716 ounces. i ports by these voxsels amount in value to rather m in £1,000,000, But all thia gold does not re England. A part of it is sent to France and Germa: Of late many bills have aprered, in the market, dra from the wine districts of Spain, which, it is understo are on account of very considerable shipments of | wines to Australia. They are at short dates, anda Preserit payments, while the retu: must be necoasarily delayed for ms one of the circumstances thet has m. tageous for the moment to remit gold to theo , and made it be conjectured that a further c will take place in the rate of interest.’’ Stock Exe! et Mie bd 11034 2 8 is 11634 2000 Erie Ino bis... 98 8000 do do 1000 F Con bis 62 53 9634 2000 H 2d Mtge bds. 98 1:6 shs Bak Com... 106 650 do. 1000 Mtg’y Zine 100 lo 100 Ports’h D Dock. .. 200 Penn Coal Co... b3 45 do 4 535 110 do, . Harlem Railroad, 6¢ 110 Alb & Scheneot’y 10 New Jersey RR.. 1 100 Nor’h & WRR b’ 100 do 50 do. 40 Mich 8. RR.. 5 Panama RR. 8) $1000 sha Erie Inc Bds teas 122 Chatham Bank, 101° $00 do... jorris Canal.p ke 21% 900 Montgomery’ Min! 50. do, p&e 21% 100 Panama Bi. S Beek. t 200 do 100 Nor & Wor RR b60 100 do., +,b3 30 N.Y. & N. H. BR 300 Reading RR. b60 stageeeseeaaer CITY TRADE REPORT. ‘Tuurspay, March 24—2 P, M. —The day’s business embraced 68 bbls. at ¢ 244 for pearls; and $4 84; a $4 8734 for pot Rl .—About 1,500 Ibs. yellow wore taken, at 28 per Ib. Breapstvr¥s.—Flour was plenty, and in good demar at The saiet sacepiee tod: aN ; fine rye 1 Hs: 3; rdlanse bs clieed eaten @ gerd Ont 9 Sis0 tae " de prelate io a! a G i $4087 0 $4 007; superfine (Conadiay nd $4 6824; f $5 7 & $5 6234; y Southern’ at $5 37% 9 $650. Some 200 bt Jersey meal changed hands at $3 63; 0 $3 12% per bb. Wheat varied ag little; about 10,0¢0 bushels Wester whito were cold on private terms.’ Rye fayored buyer ‘There have been 4.000 bushels disposed of, te arrive, ¢ 88. 290. The sales of barley reached 7,500 bushels, 6 65e. per bushel. Oats remained about the same. “Cony was more saleable and uniform. The transa, tions included 25,000 bushels, at 66c. a 50¢. for dam and 59e. a. 66, for inferior £6 prime’ Southern white a yellow, per bushel. Corron.—The market continues steady, with sales: 1,600 bales. ive and firm. Sales were made ¢ Corrxr continued a 200 bags Java, at 11% a 113Z¢.; 60 do. Iaguyra, at 10e racaibo, ¢ 1,300 do, Rio, at 934 0 924c.; and 500 do, 9. per Ib { FRe1oHT#.—To Liverpool about 1,000 bales cotton, pur Laine were engaged at 3{d.; and about 4, G 5,000 bbls. flour, at 2a. 94.; grain was at 734 a 8d.; am €4 tierces beof were ongagei at 5s. 6d. To London, abou 1,600 bbl. flour were engaged, at 34. A Bremen vess | was taken up to load with 2,600 bbls. flour and 6,00 bush at, in shipper’s bags, at 83, 500 boxes sugar were ¢1 |, at 30s. fornia rates were at 65 a 85¢,, and ra was nothing new in rates for Australia or Havre. Frvrt.—The day’s business embraced 100 cases ginger at $6; 600 boxes bunch raisins, at $2 80; 600 do. cluste do., at $1 80; 300 do. Valencia do., at 91;0.; rants, at Llc. ; and 50 do. Peoan nuts, at 7c. HAY was rotailing at 8734c. a $1 per 100 Ibs. Hora.—The operations wore light, at 19 a 2ic. por th. Lrve.—Rockland was less abuadant, at $1 for common and $146 for lump, per bbl. Navat. Stonss.—Canads tu er Boe, per Ors.— Som 4 0c; per Large . t of 300 bogs Sumatra, in bond, way for export, at 10c. per Ib. 4 shi ses Provimions.—Pork was in better supply, an 13 tine was worth ¥ 98: bbls. apirits do, obtaihad, d_cheay Sales have been made of 400 bbls. mow, at $13 871;0 $14 for prime, and $15 25 for mess, per bbl. Pickled’ meat bout the same, The transactions in lard con at Yc. a 91c.; and 600 kegs at 10i0) per Ib. Beef was more extensively dealt in. The day’ operations comprived 1,000 bbls. at 5 6246 for coun try primo; $6 25 a $675 for city do. country meas; $12 76 $13 for city do.; $13 repacked Chicago do., and $140 $14 25 per lb. Butter and cheese did not vary much. Rea Estate.—Sales at auction—By Cole & Chilton--! lots on Ninth avenue, 46.4 feet from Thirty-first atréet each 24.8x100, $2,400 each; 1 house and lot on north ald: | of Fort ird street, 100 feet weat of Tonth avenue, $6,400 1,775; 1 lot 60 fect west of the above | $1, il lot No. 84 Thirty-first street, men Sixth avenue, $6,400; 1 lot on Forty-first street, nortl side, between Bighth ‘and Ninth svonues, $1,850; 2 lot east side of Ninth avenue, between Thirty: Thir ty-recond streets, exch $2,400. By A. J; Blgeokor—Pre on ry .J.—4 lots on Bergen Box100.5, each $115; 4 do. on Jersey City plank Bergen road, $140 each: 1 do. on Be $300; Gdo. on Jersey City plank 140 each ;4 do. south side of Jersey Olty h. By Wm. H, Franklin—Brooklyy Proverty——d Tote on Warren street, 173.14 from Colum in street, 22,034 atreet, 21 $1,0K ench;'1 lot on Warren street, 103.6 feet from Colpmble street, 26 44582.6, 216, Rick.—150 tierees, fair to prime, changed hands at 6 a $4 50 per 100 Ibs. jenn Oem of 80,000 Havana were offected at $28 ¢ per tl Scoara were not very brick. The sales consisted of 20 hhds. Muncovado a a 5)¢0., and 200 Texas, on private torms. Tonacco.—There were 100 balos Havana sold at private Bales have been mado of 600 bbls. at 2140 for Jersey, and 22340. for prison, per gallon, Markets. Camnespon Carne Manxur, March 23.—At 06% qattte, about 060 beoves, nad Of stores,