The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-04

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lation does not hold the sterile lands which are
adjacent to the frontier.
The largest city In Mexico is the city of Mexico,
which has lS5, 900 inhabitants. Puebla is the next
with 10000. Next follow in order, Guadalajara,
$4,000; Aguas Calientes, 3O,O99 Guanajuato, &c.
92l; Colima TIA; Queretaro, 1856; Oaiaca, u.s.
600; Merida 3,575; Moreia %, 600. No other city
reaches 10000 in number. The aggregate popula-
ton of all the capitals of all the States and Terri
tories is $780, 44 The increase Of population in all
Mexico since 1917, is estimated at about 1000 600
The number of foreigners who took out permits for
residence, letters of security, from the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, during the year 1855 was 234
of whom l4l were old Spainards, 2,04S French
6l5 English, 5S1 Germans, 444 Americans, and 4OS
others. The amount of land which has been put
under cultivation is SMALL not one-eighth part of
the arabic soil.
The yield of agriculture, which was estimated in
1917 at $l39 100000 is now put by M. Lerdo at
$3.50, 900, 000
The estimated product of the gold and silver mines
IN Mexico on the basis OF the returns of coinage in
1885, is $24,00O,000 per annum-more than two
thirds of which of silver.
The annual value of manufactured articles is set
down at 800, 600, 600. Wine and brandy are made
in Chihuahua. In the Middle States there are 46
manufactures of cotton and eight of woolens
and there are silk manufactures in Puebla and
Guadaaiara.
Lerdo estimates the annual commercial move
ment OF the country at about S400 000 900 and the
specie at about 500 600 900.
The foreign exports, few years ago, were
S26,0 900, and the imports S2S,0OO,O 0O-a very
small amount for so fertile region; but CAPABLE of
great expansion under better system and in quiet
times.
The imports were from foreign countries in the
following proportions Great Britain nearly one
half, France and the United States about one-6ftb
each; the remainder were from Germany, Spain
the East Indies, Belgium, and the neighborinr
States Of Central America.
In 1854, the number of vessels from foreign coun-
tries employed in this trade including vessels
riaAO mi u Io+t
was 4s4, having tonnage of Sl9l 1923.
In 1854, the public debt was SIT ZOO, 0OO The
national revenue was Sl5,000,0O0 per annum, and
the annual expenditure s24, ,2O3, leaving an an
nuai deficit OF something near nine millions.
The army numbered, at the same time, IL IA
men. of these the retired and halfpay list
amounted to $500, and the number of officers in
active service to 1000. The troubles since have
doubtless augmented the numbers and the cost
The navy is reported fifteen vessels and forty
guns.
The church property in Mexico is estimated at
between $3.50 200 900 and $500 OOOO 600. Their pro-
perty In the city of Mexico is rated at $50 900 600
Adding to the income derived from contributions
from tenths, parochial dues and fees and religious
services, and sales of devotional articles the total
annual income of the church is estimated at eighty
millions OF dollars, of which more than seventy is
derived from capital and fixed endowments.
From the Montgomery Ala.) Advertiser, Dec. Isl
The SLAVE TRADE.-We learn from private sour-
ces that subpoenas have been served upon several
planters in Georgia suspected of having purchased
portions of the recently landed cargo of the yacht
Wanderer. These gentlemen are to appear at Sa-
vannah witnesses the trial of the crew of the
SLAYER. We hope that the affair will be ripidly in
vestigated, and that all those who NAV prove to be
directly engaged in the landing of the Africans
may meet with the punishment due to their infrac-
ton of the law. We candidly confess that when
the revival of the African slave trade was first api
tated, we were indisposed to condemn the measure
with the severity to which we now believe the
scheme to be justly entitled. Smarting under a
sense OF Northern injustice, and viewing with
mourntul feelings the unequal struggle between a
handful OF Southern heroes and the hordes of North
ern marauders upon the plains of Kansas we were at
first disposed to give atavorabe consideration to any
scheme that promised relief from the numerical
inferority under which we labor in contendine
with the free soil hosts Since then, a mature and
careful consideration of the subject has convinced us
that the revival of the African slave trade would
be death blow to the vital interests of the South
Weoppose 1T upon grounds of humanity as well as
policy.
That it would be better if every African had a
Southern master all admit; better for him in
this world and the next But that it is ustitiabe
to encourage the murder of one hundred Africans
In the endeavor to bring dozen of them under a
masters care is an absurd and inhuman idea The
advocates of the slave trade contend that to brin
cargo OF Africans from Congo is precisely the
same as to bring the same number from Virginia
And yet in bringing negroes from Virginia we
transfer them from the hands of one kind master to
those OF another, while in the other case we en-
courage the destruction of three human benps for
the gain of the services of one. One is rational
wise, humane and legal barter, the other is murder
We are not willing to encourage bloodshed, even
among british savages, for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
few ship owners. We are not willing that those
crueities that we have enumerated should be car
red on in the name of the South and for the osten-
sbe benefit of Southern interests. In the name of
Southern civilization and enlightenment we pro-
test against the slave trade and its concomitant
In tha nf l.
and all powerful Southern confederacy of States
we denounce scheme that is traught with every
mischief that can degrade and weaken nation.
In review of the matters which will come before
the New York Legislature at it's approaching ses-
sion, the New York Herald says of two of the ques-
tons:
The success which has attended the republican
party IN their experiment of uniting several
counties under one police head, will give encour-
agement to proceed farther in the same direction.
The democratic party, which has been endeayorinp
TO make party capital for itself account of the
Police law enacted for this locality have failed in
the endeavor 1t is not strong in the city of New
York by many thousands as it was previous to the
passage of that act 1t shows great falling off on
every trial. The attempt to procure repeal of the
law may as well be abandoned for the present be-
cause it cannot be accomplished until the democrat
&c party shall obtain complete ascendancy at the
State capitol; and Judging from the experience of
the last dozen years. there is no probability that
future. Instead, therefore, of repeating the law in
existence, others of a similar character will be
enacted. Already we learn that it has been decided
upon to add the county of Putnam to our present
Municipal police district. Albany, Troy, Lansing
burg, Waterford, Cohoes, Watervliet and Science
tady, will form police district for the protection
OF the capital of the State and the suburbs around
it. The plan is to be extended to all the cities in
the interior, through the centre and southern tier
of the State.
Petitions are being circulated in every part of the
State, which will be presented to the Legislature
at an early stage OF the session, praying for the re-
peal OF the law of 1885, called the Church Property
Law. The act in question was intended to take
from Catholic priests certain secular power with
which they were invested by the church. This
consisted chiefly in the power of the bishops to hold
an cile.cn property IN their own names, rrespec
i've OF trustees, deacons, elders, or other descrip-
ton OF members. The law, as passed few wears
since, gave certain other officers of the church the
right and authority to purchase, receive in trust,
sell and dispose OF real estate, such as churches
nunneries, hospitals cemeteries, &C. The petition
ers, who are exclusively Catholics now demand of
the Republican party the prompt repeal of the law
and to restore the bishops and priesthood to the
rights and privileges heretofore enjoyed by them
This will prove very embarrassing matter, as the
Republicans will be under the necessity of deciding
between the Protestants and Catholics
New YEAn's DAY IN NEW YonK.-Earlv in the
morning quarrel arose between Patrick Lane and
Daniel Cunningham, two of party of drunken
serenaders; Jeremiah Looney interfered in behalf
OF Cunningham, and was stabbed to the heart by
Lane, and died Immediately. Loonev was 10 wears
of age; Lane is 20, and both were Irishmen
Massino De Sautez and Jean Bosquet, two Ital-
ians, got into dispute because De SauteZ refused
to treat, and Bosquet stabbed him twelve times
De Sautez died during the day.
George Carter, runner, beat John Brusinhan,
an engineer on board of the Empire City so badly
that Brusinhan died on Saturday.
Lawrence Callahan shot Hugh Slavan in the