New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-04
MAIL GLEANINGS.

MAIL GLEANINGS.
We gather the following Prison statistics of
the United States from the Annual Reports ofrhe
Institutions named, and other sources. In New
Jersey, the number of prisoners received In the
State Prison during the year 1850 was l22. These
are sentenced for terms vary ing from nine months
10 fifteen wears OF the whole number, 90 are
entered as persons of " no trade The Prison is
full 10 OVERLOOKING, unusual increase having Oc-
cured curing the year; with every probability
(savs the Report that it will continue. 1.-The
w arden of the Ohio Penltentlary, Mr. Laurn
Dewey. has made an able and interesting Report
TO the Legislature OF the state on the subject OF
Prisons and PrisOH Discipline. Mr. Dewey was
commissioned by the Legislature to examine aud
report upon the modes of discipline adoptedin the
different States OF the MON, aud gives the results
of his mission in a vOluminOus Report. IL appears
from these statements that the Western Peniten-
tiary OF PennSy lvduia was erected IN 1917, and
that the whole number OF prisoners received rom
that period TO the present ia 1870 The Eastern
Penitentiary of the sane State was erected IN
1929 total number OF prisoners received not gwen
number now In confinement, 3l3. The Virginia
Penitentiary was opened in 1900, and is now the
Oldest in the United States contains l9s prisoners
The Maryla Penite0tisry has been completed
forty years has - officers, and 22s prisoners.-
The Sing Sing Prison was erected ia 1925 ; con.
tiary was erected in Wethersield in 1927 hiss
l6l prisoners. Ia Massachusetts,. there were In
October last, $50 State Prison cOnvicts. In Mlchl
gan there are l3l convicts being sa increase OF
% during the past year
New Orleans is brilliant this season. The
Delta saws: There is scarcely any trade which
is not now doing three times as much business as
il did last wear. Our hotels and boarding houses
are all crowded The restaurants swarm with
Ia nd sro
with gay attire and places of amusements are
crowded all the time. IL would be an interesting
calculation to examine into the effect produced
upon various departments OF human industry IN
our city, by the single fact OF Jenny Llnds pres
ence and Concerts. Ii would not be eXtravagant
to estimate the number OF persons who have
come here mainly to attend these Concerts, az
twenty thousand There are two Thousand present
every night of her Concerts. IL would be pretty
fair calculation 70 put the amount expended, by
these persons in ornaments alone, including Jew
elry opera glasses, gloves, &c. at seven thousand
dollars"
"A new wing is in progress Of construction at
the Cambridge Observatory, to be devoted to
astronomical and meteorological purposes 1t IS
TO contain a comet seeker constructed upon
new plan, by which it is expected that the labor
of searching for these transient visitors will be
considerably diminished A set Of self register
ing Photographic instruments will be placed n
the basement from which important results may
be expected. In the remainder OF the building
there will be a computing room and library, 70
the collection OF which a very liberal sum can
now be annually devoted. If it is deemed ad-
visable, other instruments can be introduced The
expense of the building is betrayed by sub
scrption raised through the efforts of j. Ingersoll
BOwditch, Esq. of Boston.
Some interesting relics Of the Revolution have
been discovered at savannah, Geo. in the excava
tious for a new Depot of the Central Railroad
The site of the Depot is tho ground formerly occu
pied by Spring II Redoubt before which PU
IAsKI fell IN 1878. The labOrers were excaveting
along trench, three feet deep, in which 1t Is sap-
posed the dead of the British were buried. Bones
and skulls almost returned again 20 dust, mushet
bullets bair Of yellowish color pieces Of clothing
buttons &c. have been disinterred One of the
buttons bears the number 90, and another go
probably indicating the numbers OF Regiments.
In the clothing an occasional button hole may be
detected, worked with great nicely.
"A Correspondent of the BgBaiO Commercial
AdUertiSeT furnishes detailed account Of the Com
merce Of the Empire OF Morocco during tne year
1913 and lei9. The vessels engaged In the trade
were British. Moorish, Austrian, Dutch, French
Portuguese, Prussian Sandman, Spanish and fus
can; 10 American vessels The contraDand trade
is stated to be double the value of the lawful In
ports and Exports, which for the years above
named were as follows Imports in 1913, 81, $685.
254 81 in ls49, 81, 759 s27 Exports in lSlS
81 70l "a in l649, Sl,939,0l2 "a.
The Third Annual Report Of the Board Of Ed
ucation of Syracuse shows that the whole amount
expended in that city for educational purposes
during the past year. was Sl4,l06. The total re-
sources of the Board in 1850 were Sl9,729. There
are 10 Schools under the care Of the Board, with
30 Teachers. The number Of volumes purchased
during the year was $40, making the aggregate
number of volumes 1889.
The First Commencement of the Homeo-
pathic College at Cleveland, o., took place on the
10th inst. The degree of NJ. ID. was conferred
upon II young men, 3 Of whom are New Workers.
The friends Of the School are highly geatiGed by
the success of their frat course of Homeopathic
Medical instruction.
The valae Of imports at Montreal for the sea
son of 1850 amounts 10 S8,564,0s5. This value 10
principally for goods from England, By way ot the
st. Lawrence. The amount Of exports from the
same port was 100000.
The number of Immigrants arrived at Boston
during the last ten years July 1870 10 July 1907
was l32,903-excusive OF those " no were aimee
leans. During the twenty years previous, there
were only 1889.
Nathaniel Childs Jr, the defaulting c ashcroft
the Bank Of Missouri. has been suspended from
his official relations with the NJ. Z. Church South
in st Louis, until aicer the final decision OF the
civil suits nov pending
The Hemp crop il Missouri has fallen Off IRON
last ear at the rate Of 20 10 25 per cent? and il
is said that the crop gathered Will b. Of dark
leaden color, consequent upon the FAN rains and
the absence Of snow
The steamer Magnolia hss been chartered for
the sum Of $4,000 to convey JENNY LlSD and
cutie from New Orleans to ST Louis 81 Gays
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