Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-05

Fearful TRAGEDY IN OrRngcJ New jersey
A RIan sets His uouse or Ftre---FOur
ChiIdrsn Fatally Burned.
About 4 oolooh yesterday afternoon, the
building occupied as dwelling and black
smith shop by man named Hobbs and standing
iu the lane of Main street, near the market, 10
Orange, was discovered to be on fire. J he
alarm was given and the people hastened to
the place, and found Il impossible to save the
premises. They forced an entrance, went mp
stalru. and succeeded in extricating Mrs Hobbs,
her Eve children and a little girl, the daughter
Of a neighb5r, from the burning house. They
were Ill badly burned, but i is thought that
Ms Hobbs and two Of the children viii recoy-
CT, the remaining three, and also the other lit
tie girl, died from their injuries.
The snspioions Of everybody was directed
to Hobbs, the husband and father, as the au.
discovery Of the fire, he was seen by several
persons TO hasten from his dwelling, aud make
his way out of the village toward Bloomfield
As he was often in difficulty with ais wife, and
Of knowa incorporate habits, this occurrence
was not calculated to create attention The
neighbors had repeatedly been called to bis
house 10 separate him from his wife, whose life
he frequently threatened. For ten days past
he had been several times attacked by delrium
tremens. He was followed TO Bloomfield, dis
covered and arrested
Mrs. Hobbs is described by her neighbors as
quiet and Peaceable, though ilnorant Womaa;
aud her situation, coupled with a drunken man
msnseing her and brutally beating her upon
slight prov0catiOn, has excited general com
miseration.- Y EVeRiRg Post.
The Results of the West india Emancipation
The following article, written by one who
processes to speak of what he knows, will be
read with interest," IN view Of tho recent uli-
mltum of the London Times. The statements
of the reviewer are in direct contradiction of
those promulgated by the Thunderer, and de-
cision upon the truthfuness of the reports will
carry viii. it convection as to the results of the
act of emancipation
The Methodist Quarterly Review has in the
April number an extensive article on the Ire
suits Of West India Emancipation" in which
we find tabular view of che comparative con.
dition of the British western slave colonies in
1888 and in 1872. From this il appears that
in eighteen years, since the emancipation, the
population of these colonies went up from S27,
224 to LOGS, $685. an increase Of over 80 per cent?
and every single colony had increased, except
the small islands of Anguilo, Monserat and
Nevis The yearly revenue increased from
f492 .999 to f7l5, ,729; the value OF imports
from fS, 2O5, ,529 to "a, ,727, ,295. Shipping in
creased from 473,09l tons to 65I, ,B9s. The
sugar exported to the United Kingdom had
gone down from 3,646 966 TO 340s, ,637; fall.
ing of Of less than s per cent, while the home
con umption had become immense, besides
considerable export to the other coQntres -
The writer of the article, Rev Henry Bleby, an
English Wesleysn clergyman in Barbados,
who has resided also in Jamaica for fourteen
years, adds the following remarks:
The statistical view which we have given Of
the colonies in 1872 exhibits the results of
emancipation under the most unfavorable as
pect; for that, as already shown, was the period
when the affairs of the planters were at their
worst, and the financial condition and prospect
of the colonies most dark and discouraging. -
Since that date vast improvement has taken
place in the West Indies Sugar having risen
in value, an impulse has been given to its cul.
ture and manufacture. The planters, adopting
modern improvements, find the cultivation Of
their estates highly remunerstive, and the
proftablenesS of free over slave labor is no
longer a matter OfquestiOn or experiment, but
Of demonstration and certainty.