The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-10
Ri C Il II 0ND, VA:
FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 10. 1854.
FACTS FOR NORTHERN MEN TO cossIDEl

Ni" TUX NORTHERN MEN TO CONSIDER
saIPPlNG IN THE PoKT OF NEw ORLEANS, Nov.
- r M-The amount OF tonnage at this pnrt has
rarely oeen exceeded at this early stage of our bust
ness season. There are no less than one hund red
anu sixteen ships, most of which first class, aud
t"enty-one bsrks besides numerous smaller craft
~ port Freishts to-day were drooping, and three
e'gats OF penny for cotton to Liverpool was the
outsloe igure tor choice ships
we clip the above from the New York He
F0fd OF the 9th instant. 1t shows as clearly
as daylight the entire and complete depen-
dence of the Northern merchant princes,
ship-owners, marine insuran ce stockholders
and officers, ship builders, including the null
titudeS Of mechanics of various trades EN-
ployed in building and fitting out ships, upon
Southern labor.
Some idea of the annual business Of the
New York Marine Insurance Companies may
be formed from the following extracts from a
statement of their affairs, published in con-
formity with law of the State:
Premiums received by the New York Sun Mu'
tual Insurance Company for the year ending Oct.
18th, 1854
On Marine risks, 81 1855. Premiums on ma
rine risks received by the New York Atlas Mutual
Insurance Company for the year ending 3lst Dec,
St3I3l9 Total OF the two companies, 50 0Jl, ,3ll.'
Thus it will be seen, that two out of the
twenty mammoth marine insurance offices of
New IOrk receive premiums on marine risks
annually to the amount of more than two
millions of dollars, and it may lie assumed
that these twenty marine insurance compa-
MES receive fully million each per year,
making in the aggregate twenty millions of
dollars, an amount 7chich Is dralgn mainly
from tie production Of Stare labor. 1t will
not be regarded too high an estimate, when
we consider the premiums paid for fire and
inland insurance by Southern produce to
Northern Offices, TO say that $4,000, 900 for
insurance premiums are now received by the
New York offices, which would lie greatly, if
not entirely lost to the merchant princes and
their employees, if the mad fanaticism OF the
abolitionists should succeed in dissolving the
Union. Were we to add to this the amount
Of premiums and other charges for conmis
sions, &c, paid by Southern producers to
Boston and Philadelphia insurance offices
and houses, the annual amount would posi-
bly, not fall far short of the enormous sum of
SlO0,0OO,0OO.
Let the commercial communities Of the
North bear these facts in mind, and count the
cost of the measures which Seward and his
sectional party are seeking to fasten upon
the country. Let them remember that Cot
ton neUer has been and Rerer caR be raised
to advantage by free labor. Let the ship
rnerchapts and rpacbapioc of tbo Mouth IooI-
into these matters before tits too late
THE New YORK PULPIT.-The New York
much given to the consideration of political
matters. A large number of the parsons of
Gotham appear to be delighted with the op-
pOrtunity of escaping from the tedious duty
of preaching the Gospel, and are throwing
themselves into the political squabbles of
the day with perfect loOseness. Having
long labored in vain for the reformation of
their hearers, they have given it over at last
as a bad job, and are directing their attention
to field of enterprise that promises to be
more fruitful of results. 1t is lamentable to
witness such clerical backsliding. What
will become of the people, when their spir-
itual guides set them such an example In
former days, there was an idea of peculiar
sanctity and unworldliness attached to the
clerical character. The political parsons of
New York are lab0ring hard TO explode this
idea, and to satisfy the community that they
are as fond of the world, the flesh and the
devil as any of their hearers.
Although the number of these wolves in
sleeps clothing is large, it does not amount,
we are glad to believe, to a majority of the
clergymen of New York. The most of them
are content to preach the Gospel, and leave
politics TO politicians. But the whole order
is in danger of being brought into disrepute
by the excesses and follies of the clerical
stump orators. One worldly, mischievous
meddling parson will do more harm than
twenty good clergymen can repair. If the
recreant free soil apostles of New York had
as much grace as Judas, they would at once
hang themselves.
CUBA-By the latest arrival from Havana we
learn that the Supreme Government, has disallowed
the late ordinance promulgated by Gen. Pezuela,
in reference to the amalgauation marriages in the
island. The step has given general satisfaction to
he press and the inhabitants of the islands. The
Diario de Ia Marina inuates that i. Is to be regard
ed strong evidence OF the absolute want OF
foundation of the alleged abolition and negrophi-
listc tendencies of the Government
An old soldier amusing himself at the
Washington arsenel the other day by firing at a
target the other side of the river. bullet,
missing its mark, lodged in the side of horse,
with which farmer was pIoughing The farmer
aforesaid not hearing the report, was much aston
ished to his horse fall dead in his tracks The