The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-23


STATISTICS OF INsANITY.-We have derived con-
siderable interest (says the Harrisburg Union)
from an examination of the annual report of the
trustees and superintendent of the State Lunatic
Hospital OF Pennsylvania. Contrary to the gener-
ally conceived idea that the "mental occupations
are most conducive to insanity, we find from list
OF 7O5 inmates of that institution, embracing every
avocation of human industry, that the farmers
make much the heaviest proportion, and the labor
ers next. There are 226 farmers, $50 laborers
to % merchants and those of other trades and pur
SUITS ranging in number from l to Is. In the list
we find but printers-a class of men who undergo
more brain wear" we suppose, than any other.
In list of 4S7 females, too, we lind that next to
housewives, the daughters of farmers form much
the largest proportion. Is outdoor work condu-
Give to insanity? If not, why is the preponder-
ance SO largely against the agricultural and labor
ing classes?
The CRoPs.-The Houston Miss Petree of the
7th says:
awe learn that the late cold weather not only
destroyed the wheat but all the vegetables
Spring has been very backward, and we have had
enough of cold and rain to last three winters"
The growing crops in York county, Pa, present
more hattering appearance this spring than for
many years past.
A Pittsburg paper says:-We passed over good
part of Washington and Allegany counties dur
ing the latter part of the past and the beginning
the present week, and were much gratiied to find
the wheat looking so well. Almost every field
that came under our notice gives the finest pro-
mise We saw none winter killed, but all the
helds are presenting vigorous growth, and if no
thing untoward in the way of or drought, or late
frosts, should overtake them, the yield will be
abundant The surface sown, too, is large.
A DETROIT BREACH-oF-P PRomsE CAsE-The fol-
lowing from the Detroit Free Press goes little
Louis. woman made her appearance at the of
hce OF the police justice day or two ago for the
purpose of entering a complaint against man for
breach of promise. She said she had devoted her
self to him long time, under promise of marriage
and all she ever got from him six little pigs,
which, in momentary burst of generosity he pre-
sented her with. She nursed and fed the diminu-
tive porkers until they attained goodly size and
gave promise, when, in characteristic fit of mean
ness, he drove the pigs away and deserted her for
ever. The loss of the pigs and the abandonment
was double blow, which led her to seek revenge
The churches of Worcester county, Mass, con-
tributed during the past year to the support of
foreign missions as follows: To the American
Board, SIS, 1894; to the American Missionary
Association, So 9l2 SO; to the Methodist S739 So
The churches Of the city of Worcester gave to the
American Board 81 ,03456; to the Baptist missions,
S5Sl.l7; to the American Missionary Association,
S4l4.50; and to the Methodist missions $780, 70;
two legacies have been given during the year, one
of $500, and one of S400.
The Senate of Pennsylvania has unanimously
passed joint resolve authorizing the Governor to
appoint three Commissioners to confer with the
Commissioners from New York, Marylan and other
States interested, to agree on such action as may
be deemed proper with reference to railroad
charges for carrying freight. The avowed object
of this movement is procure the establishment of
the pro rata principle, which cannot be adopted by
any one State alone without injury to her interests.
The Hartford Courant states that the manufac-
ture OF odometers, for measuring the distance
travelled by any vehicle, is now carried on some
what extensively in that city. Livery keepers use
them considerably, and in many cases the indivi-
Viduals who go off for drive Of five ten miles,
and take twenty, are brought up "with round
turn by the contriVance, and often to their great
astonishment.
The Auburn IN. " State Prison, which in
1858 was a drain upon the State to the amount OF
S50,000, exhibited surplus for the last year
of more than $4,000, and for the first month OF
the present year the earnings have exceeded the
expenses by $4,000. In the other State Prisons at
Sing Sing and Clinton the result is said to be
equally satisfactory.
Miss HosMER's STATUE OF "PUCK.'-Miss Harri-
ct Hosmer, now at Rome, has completed, for gen.
tleman in st. Louis, statue of Puck, the fairy
messenger of ''Mid-summer Nights Dream;" and
Miss Hosmer is said to have treated it so exquisite
ly that she has been compelled to multiply the
statue six or times over, to meet the orders
for it. The statue has been received at ST. Louis.
The Newark Mercury says, that of the New Jer-
sey delegates to the Chicago Convention, a consid-
cradle majority of the delegation undoubtedly pre-
fer the nomination of the Hon. Wm L. Dayton, but
gard him as the strongest man that can be present
ed from this State.
The New York Independent complains of the in
creasing tendency which merchants manifest to buy
at the wholesale auctions instead of purchasing at
the regular houses. This tendency, it remarks is
particularly observable in the line of imported
goods, especially French
The twenty-third of April is the birthday of
Stephen A. Douglas. On that day the Charleston
Convention will meet. The birthday of William
H. Seward is the sixteenth of May. On that day
the Chicago Convention will meet.
1t is said that the Massachusetts strikers have al
ready spent as much money in their public demon
strations for music banners, collations, meetings,
&c. as the increased wages would amount to in a
whole year.
The latest news from Theodore Parker is that he
was at Rome, February 22d, looking verv we'll.
and chad strong hopes of himself" which. the Ros
ton Post wickedy adds, is more than any one else
has.
Certain benevolent ladies in Philadelphia pro-
pose to estaollsh In Philadelphia a Home for Indi-
gent and lntirm Old Men, somewhat on the plan OF
that useful institution, the Asylum for INDECENT
Widows and Single Women.
In the year 1858, 81 suicides occurred in Massa-
sachusetts, and the number has not greatly varied
for the past five years. For the seventeen wears
and eight months ending December 81, 1858, l 3O9
persons have taken their own lives in this State.
Mrs. Mary Fulton Ellis, of Topsham, Me-, died
at Saltwater on the llth inst at the age of ninety
one. MIS-. Ellis had read the Bible through no
less than eighty times!-averaging once every year
for four-ttths of a century.
On Friday last, about SIS 900 were stolen from
express packages of $l3 ,000 in Attica, N. Y. The
packages were sent from the Wyoming County
Bank, and the money was taken while it awaited
the arrival of the cars.
The Cleveland Plaindealer says that the New
York Seventh Regiment will probably be invited
to attend the inauguration of the Perry statue, in