The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-24
43,9O8 ,SG5
44,214,692

United States gold. 43,l46,S09 43l7s,955
Other gold. .......... 1862 .056 JOS ,737
Total. ............. 43,908 ,SG5 ~, 27I ,692
The deposits of gold at Philadelphia since the first
instant amount to 1892 900 against 81 $50 900
for the same time last year. Another steamer is
now due with large amount of gold dust, but the
total deposits for the year will hardly reach the
amount during the year 1851. .-...
IN that year the deposits Of gold for November
and December were gil 1862 ,669 of which $780,
l2l were foreign gold This amount will hardly
be reached for tho corresponding months Of the
current year So. -.
posits of foreign gold (chiefiy con) for the fret
ten months Of the Current year have increased,
compared with the same period OF 1851, 1888 ,6sf.
In domestic gold the deposits of California gold
have fallen off $SO,596, but the amount from other
States has increased $ll2,742. .."
We are indebted 10 Robert Patterson, esq, Of the
Philadelphia mint, FOR his assistance in compiling
our tables. For the last two months the New Or
leans papers have contained, far we can find,
statement in detail of the operations mt the
mint in that city. This has been serious embar
rassment to in our statistics Of the number and
description OF pieces coined in the United States.
JUDGE LEAvIrr's DEclsior IN THE MErHoDlsr
CHURCH CASE The following arc the points which
are elaborated at great length, contained in the
opinion Of the Hon. Judge Leavitt, and delivered
by him in the Methodist Church case at the recent
term of the United States district court for the
State Of Ohio. He says: 70.
GAS the result Of the views have attempted to
present, il follows:
81. That the General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church is delegated or representa-.
tive body, with limited constitutional powers and
possesses no authority, directly or indirectly, to
divide the church.
"2. That in the adoption of the plan of scpa-
ration in 1874, there was no claim to or exercise
90. That as the General Conference is prohibit
ed from any application of the produce of the Book
Concern. except for special purpose, and in a
specific manner; and as the annual conferences
have refused to remove this prohibition, by chang
ing modifying the sixth restrictive rule, the
General Conference has no power to apportion or
divide the Concern or is produce, except as pro-
vided for by said rule.
-. That said Book Concern ia charity, de-
voted expressly to the and benefit OF the travel
ling, supernumerary and supcrannuated preachers
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, their wives,
widows, and children continuing in it organ
ICED church; and any individual, or any number
of individuals, withdrawing from and ceasing to
be members Of the church, MS an organized body,
cease to be benefiCiaries OF the charity.
'5 That it is the undoubted right of any indi.
vidual preacher or member of said church, any
number Of preachers or members, or any sectional
portions divisions thereof, to withdraw from it
with pleasure; but in withdrawing they take with
themsnone Of the rights of property pertaining to
them while in the church; and that the Withdrawal
of the southern and southwestern conferences in
lS45 being voluntary, and not induced by any
positive necessity, 10 within the principle here
stated. .a.n.. o..
IS. That the defendants, rs trustees or agents of
the BOOK Concern at Cincinnati, being corporators
under a law Of Ohio, and required by such law 'to
conduct the business OF the Book Concern in con-
formty with the rules and regulations of the Gen
cral Conference in Withholding from, tho Church
South any part of the property proceeds of said
Book Concern, have been guilty Of no breach of
trust, or any improper use or application Of the
property or funds in their keeping .....
CIGAR MANUFAoTURING IN New YoRK.-Mil-
lions of cigars arc manufactured annually in this
city, mostly by Germans, in obscure and out-of-
the-way places, and afterwards passed through
different hands to the consumer and sold as the
Simon pure Havana. Recently we happened in at
one of these places, for moment, to see how the
thing was done. In q contracted, dingy-lookng
apartment, several men were indus riously
gagged preparing the article. Before them, on
small tables, were piles of the weed, principally
grown in Connecticut. The leaves, after being
sufficiently lnoistcned to become pable, were
drawn through and rolled in the palm Of the hand,
then wound round with perfect, good colored
leaf, called the cylinder" One end of this ia twist
ed, and the other cut off square; the cigar ia then
complete. Men are at hand to pack the same in
boxes, properly branded. One individual will
make three hundred or three hundred and fifty in
a day, and about twenty two pounds OF leaf make
a thousand cigars. Ten years ago the business OF
cigar making, conducted in this style, quite
profitable; but of late, large number OF Germans
have squated in various parts Of the city Till there
are probably between three and four hundred DIFF
ferent places of manufacture; and competition has
had tendency to reduce prices. More igars, too,
are imported from H,mburg, Bremen. and else
where, than formerly. This year partially in conee-
quencc of the large California demand, the busi-
ness has been better than last. .s..,. ....
..,. [Ne,o York Journal Of Commerce, 22d.