New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-05-21

COMMERCIAL - ADJOUNMENT OF LEGISLATURE =
TUNKERs-MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT or TIN
INsANE-RAPID TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT
RESULT or sTRIKEs-BAPTIsT CONVENTION.
Correspondence Of tbt grfstfut.
BALTIMORE, May "A
A moderate degree of activity has prevailed
in commercial matters this week The exports
reached S197 ,593 in value and comprise II $50
barrels of -four 424 barrels Of corn meal, y. "A
bushels of corn, s,987 bushels of wheat, and
1858 hogsheads of tobacco. Among the imports
has been about 1000 tons of guauo, the want Of
which has been much felt by our agricutur-
lists. A large business is still doing in tobacco
and nearly 1000 hogsheads have been inspected
during the week
The Legislature of our State after session
of five months, have agreed upon u final adj
iournment at the end of the month The MON.
bers of this body were elected as the special
friends of the new Constitution and of reform
and yet it would be hard to point to Legisla-
ture which has consumed more time in the trans
action of very slight modicum, or which has
proved more neglectful Of the interests of its
constituency. thus it is with locofocosm every
where-loud mouthed in its professions Of reform
once in power it becomes yenial timeserying and
demagogcal.
Quite number Of the singular religious body
known as the Thinkers, Dunkards, or Eleventh
Day Baptists, by all of which names they are
called, have been in our city during the past
few days, on their way to the Beaver Dam
Church, Frederick county where they hold their
great festival, which occurs but once in fifteen
years. on Monday, They have attracted much
attention by their singular appearance The
men wear the Quaker garb, but are distinguished
by long boards, cut in quite peculiar fashion,
and which gives them rather mock -sanctimo-
NOUS appearance. The sect was founded at a
village called Ephrata, in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, by Conrad Beissell, a German
minister, and there are now several small settle
ments OF them in Pennsylvania and Maryland
They are an industrious and harmless people,
for their rigid adherence to and lit
cral observance Of the precepts and ordinance Of
the New Testament, though they observe the
seventh day as the Sabbath. Their mode Of life
is rather Socialstic, all eating Mt a common
table and sleeping in small dormitories rescm-
bling cloister cells. All their settlements are
IN secluded portions Of the country, and except
IN occasions like the present, they rarely come
INTO public notice
Quite an important, as well as interesting
meeting Of the Medical Superintendent OF Amer
can Institutions for the Insane is at present in
session al the Eutaw House, in this city. Dr.
4, T. Stribler, of the Western Virginia Asylum.
oresides, and the principal institutions in the
country are represented BY their Supcrintend-
,nts. This is the eighth annual meeting of the
Association, and much good has already been
accomplished by the interchange of news and
experience among its members, which these as
'emblages facilitate Three important Insane
asylums arc now in progress Of erection in the
United States, viz The Alabama State lnstitu-
ton, at Tuscaloosa; the United States Hospital
or the insane Of the Army and Navy, in the
District of Columbia and the State ASYLUM of
Mary Wand, located within six miles Of this citv
The plans of all these institutions have been
TO the Association and though differ
ng in their details, the general character Of all
exhibit the vast improvements which
nave been made in the mental and moral treat
nent Of the insane. The members of the Asso-
'iation have been received with great hospitality
~ the medical faculty of our city aud un-
Ter their guidance have visited all the public
Institutions in our vicinity
Freight is now forwarded over the Baltimore
md Ohio Railroad to Wheeling in three days,
lnd thence to Cincinnati in two mora dis
latch that has heretofore been unexampled,
md which proves the advantages Baltimore has
Is the nearest Atlantic city to the Ohio valley.
The first lot Of Indiana flour that ever reached
our city came over the road the present week.
cotton from Tennessee is also reach
ing the seaboard by this route, but has gener-
'liy, SO far, gone on to New York
Inc Directors Of the Baltimore and Ohio