Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-15

The FISHERIES Mr.. Sabine Of Framing
ham, Msss.,) who has been writing long doc
ument on the subject Of the fisheries, has sent
an estimate to the Gloucester Telegraph of the
cod, mackerel, and herring fisheries Of the
American seas. The number Of American
vessels engaged in the business is 100 Brit
ish, 3,775; French, $50 The capital invested
is American, SO 6200l5 British, $50, 900, IT'S;
French, 81, 1856 600; while the value Of the an
nual products Is: American, $4,0lS 030; Brit
ish, $8,690,O00; French, $l,840,0OO. Mr.
Sabine adds.
at will be seen that, while the capital in
vested in the British possessions is about the
same as in the United States the value Of the
annual produce is more than double. | should
have guessed at result something like this be-
fore entering upon calculation, item by item,
for the figures agree with my personal obser-
walton for q series Of years SO much for
cheaper colonial vessels so much for boats in
stead of vessels; 80 much for proximity to and
ownership Of fishing grounds and the exclu-
Hve use OF the narrow straits and the shore
and boat fisheries
DEsPoTIsM.--A private letter from Florence,
Of the 9th January, says:
Our Government is rendering itself per-
fectly ridiculous by its persecution all those
who speak in favor Of Turkey. Two boys were
arrested, some days SINCE for having given an
Oriental salute, by crossing their arms on their
breast, and bending their head The word
Turkish has been erased from the signboaId
OF the Turkish Coffee house, and the word
sCohee-house remains. Crowds assemble FREE
quently before the house. and laugh immod-
erately Several children amuse themselves
with wearing crescent on their breast, to an
noy the police.n
A letter from Milan, of the 9th January
states that the inhabitants are forbidden to quit
their houses, or to walk the streets without
pass from the Prefoct Of Police otherwise, they
are imprisoned and fed on bread and water
KENTUCKY SLAVES IN CANADA.--The Rev.
n. Il. Hawkins, colored preacher, now re-
siding in Canada, formerly the slave Of Gen
Taylor, Of Newport, visited this city last week,
and while here made some statements that will
arrest attention. He states that there are in
Canada West four hundred slaves who alb
sconded frem their masters living in Kentucky,
within distance Of one hundred miles from
this CITY. Hawkins himself ran away from
Gen. Taylor, but his colored friends here have
since purchased his freedom from the heirs of
the estate
There are in Canada thirty five thousand
fugitive slaves who are represented as in o
very fourishing condition just now, owing to
the high prices paid for labor on the lines Of
railway building in the Provinces. In the
town OF Chatham alone there are seven hun.
bred and thirty fngitives, who are rapidly ac-
curing property in land. In the new abolition
town of Buxton, there are one hundred and
thirty families OF colored people--escaped
slaves-who own tract Of nine thousand
nj nvxA L. -L-I- n
Canada West owned by the fugitives is stated
70 be twenty-five thousand acres--Cinesnnat
Commercial
THE Coal FIELDS OF AMERIcA.-Hitch-
cocks Elementary Geology gives the area Of
the coal fields of America as follows:
"The great Appalachian coal field, extending
from New York to Alabama, covers nearly
$4,000 square miles; the Indiana field 35 900.
Add to these fields, Michigan, Rhode Island,
Missouri, Iowa, and Virginia, and we shall
have surface more than twenty-seven times
as large IS Massachusetts Ii we suppose
the average thickness of all the beds over this
surface to be only twenty-five feet, then the
whole amount of coal in solid measure, in this
country, would not be far from LOO cubic
miles. Estimating the yearly consumption of
coal in this country to be 1000, 900 tons, this
immense body Of fuel would keep the hearths
bright and the furnaces s-glow for more than
a million Of years"
IT is STATED that Mr.. George Law is rapid
ly dspoeing Of the two hundred thousand guns
he come years since purchased of the Govern
ment and is getting for them quadruple the
sum he paid for them. Tho demand from
abroad for American manufactured muskets
and other firearms is represented TO be far
greater than the supply.
The NEBRASKA BILL IN New YoRg.-The
Evening Post says: @One Of the best tests Of
public opinion in this metropolis is the voice Of
every shade Of opinion, Wing Hard, Soft sport
ing papers Sc and ,oifhom sreeption fhes op-
pose the bill Of Mr.. Douglas The Sunday alias
it is true is not so earnest in it's opposition as
it was at irst-possibly its article OF the 18th
inst. may be regarded as friendly TO the bill
But the Sunday Courier, Mercury, Times, and
Dispatch, oil take strong ground against the
BILL and there are not two harder papers in
the State than the Mercury and Times
THE BRITISH Provinces north Of us are SO
scarce Of silver change, that storekeepers i'm
port it from the United States and the Bank
Of British America has issued FIVE and ten
chilling bills The whole amount Of revenue
collected in New Brunswick, during tho year
1853, was about $4,000 Of which over
100000 was received at the port OF st. John
Or THE STEAMER SAN FRAScIsco's passen-
gers who were rescued by the ship Antarctic,
fifty died on the voyage to England.
A Massachusetts, State Convention has been
called at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 10th of
February, for the purpose Of protesting against
the Nebraska measure.
The distance from the mississippi to the Pa
ciic by the Northern lGov. Stevens's) route, is
eighteen hundred miles. BY the Southern, il
is upwards Of $500
The administrators Of MIR. MoCloskey of
Pittsburgh, who was killed in March last by o
collision, while on q car OF the Pepnsvlyapia