New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-21


provide for the payment BY the State Of the expenses
OF their Delegation to the same Convention, and
indefinitely postponed by a vote Of II to 81.
servsdit right.
kY Mr.. Lucius B. Golden, hotelkeep-
CT in South Twelth-st, Philadephia, has, under the
influence OF the present temperance movement, be-
come consistent teetotaler, and resolves to
sell no more of the "srdens." TO show that
he really is in earnest he made a general
crash and smash Of his liquor utensils Wednes'
day morning, on the pavement before his front
door. Casks Of Jamaica, apple-brandy, old rye
and pleolan whisky bottles Of prime Cogniac
port, ciaret and champagne decanters, dsmf
johns, tumolers and wine glasses, with everything
else breakable, were reduced to fragmentary or
atomic condition Such scene of destruction, says
Tie Psr'Hsyirdnian, naturally attracted crowd OF
spectators, some Of whom showed the deepest con
Gem, SORROW ard indignation, while beholding what
they considered a walton waste OF the precious IL
guilds Some OF the old soakers were seen licking
the pieces of broken bottles with an eageness which
showed highly cultivated taste fer stimulasve bev-
eragef Others were fortunate enough to secure a
good dram for IN several instances, the bottles
eecansers were not thoroughly demolished, and
portion OF the liquor remained IN the unbroken bot
toms. The sharp edges and angles of the fractured
glass made the act Of drinking little hazardous,
but the love of liquor, like the love Of woman,
comes all sense of danger. We saw one red-eyed
old gentleman, whose personal dignity, the want
Of personal activity, would Het allow him to engage
in the scramble for the necks and bottoms OF bottles
which were not quite emptIed, looking on with as
melancholy a countenance as he would have worn
had he been attending the funeral OF his best friend
His appearance reminded US Of the ancient warrior
who mourned over the ruins of Carthage.
"a The Annual Report of the Pennsyl.
vania Hospital for the Insane states that during the
year 1851 there were S0i patients admitted into the
Hospital, and POI discharged. OF these l07 were
discharged cured 10 much improved 3aimproved;
% stationary and 20 oied. With the commence.
ment of the last year there 213 patients;
sequenty GIG remained on the LIST of January 1852.
The highest number OF patients at any one time
during the year was 243 the lowest 2O6, and the
average 223 Two of the persons who died during
the past year had been residents of the Insane Hos
pital for thirty six years; one for twenty-five
years, and eight died before fortnight after their
admission. The Report represents tho farm and
garden to be in high state of cultivation, and states
that 400 pounds of native grapes were produced
from the vines in the garden last summer and usedn
the Hospital. The introduction Of Libraries into the
several wards since the last report has
greater usefulness than at first anticipated, and
the computation is, that four times as much reading
is done by the inmates as before. The receipts OF
the institution for the year $i5 800 90 expsn.
oituYes, ,OO2 81.
q A bill has been introduced into the
Mississippi Legislature, proposing to sell $4,000
~ Oh mt cd In ~
improvements, at a minimum price Of 81 per acre,
distributing the sales through De Soto, Tunica, Goa
bona and Bolivar Counties. 1t further proposes to
issue scrip to these counties, and to Issaquena and
Washington for COG, 900 acres of swamp land, also
granted to the State by the General Government to
be sold by the Levee Commissioners at so cents per
acre. The bill provides that after the LIST Of Octo
ber 1853, the residue of the swamp lands is to be
brought into market at 81 per acre, and from the
proceeds of which the internal improvement fund
arising from the sale of that part OF the 100000 acres
provided for in the bill shall be reimbursed with In
terest at per cent per annum.
~ In New Jersey, at the commence
mept Of the present year, there were Ill Divisions
of the Sons of Temperance in operation, comprising
1851 members amount Of funds In hand or invested,
s27 ae3 65 money received during the year, 49,
the dead, s77s2 II number Of members died, %, or
OF every 25. Partial returns show there were dis
trbuted curing the last months, 5,O40 Temperance
tracts, and ll9 public Temperance meetings were
held by jhe Divisions during the same period.
EY Much excitement has been caused in
New. ans by the discovery of murder, in which
the wife of the deceased is implicated. 1t appears
that Mr. Ransom, a halter, disappeared very sud
denly last Summer. His wife, and his partner, a
man named Duree, alleged that he had ran away A
few weeks since Duree and the wife were married,
which aroused suspicion and it has now been ascer
tanned than Ransom was murdered, aud II IS aueSei,
by Mrs Ransom and Duree and they have Doth
been arrested.
~ The Rhode Island House of Repre-
.entatives passed the Maine Liquor Law by vote Of
"a 10 &c. ON Tuesday. The amendment adopted BY
the senate to submit the question to the people
stricken out, and an amendment adopted fixing the
fourtb Monday in May as the day when the law shall
on into operation Tne Providence Journal says 1t is
mnossble to sedict the fate u the bill in the Senate
" The warehouse and cotton shed be-
longing 10 A. c. L. Hill, at Champagnolle, Union
County. Ark was totally destroyed by FIRE on the
nsh, OF the 18th ult The estimated loss OF proper
~ i, about $45 900, including about 800 bales OF
cotton belonging to over one hunaIeo planters WAC
adj stored il In the warehouse for Shipment 10 New
Orleans.
~ The Brainard House, at Elmira, has
iss, been opened under the management Of Mes'rs
Coleman & Pike. These gentlemen graduated at
me A,or House in this City, and therefore it may be
nresumed thai they understand their business. The
borse.wa,nipg was signalized BY dinner and ball,
which, according to the Elmua papers, passed on
with de cided eclas
TIt is said that Judge Bronson, in
consequence of the position taken by Attorney Gen.
Chatheld declines being associated with that gen
,emsn IN defending the State against the suit OF
Mr.. Yates, who applies for mandamus to compsi
The Canal Board to give him contract, as he was
one of the lowest bidders.
q After years of mathematical labor
mechanical results, Prof. Willis, OF Rochester,