Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-21
fafts aud figures,

Queen Victoria has direct annual in
come of 81. $40, 900; Prince of Wales
$500, 900; Princess of Wales, $50, 900; Duk,
of Edinburgh, S75, 900; Princess Royal Of
Prussia, SI0, 900; Princess of Hesse, $50
900; her eldest daughter, S25, 900; her sec
ond daughter, $25 600; Duke of Cam
bridge, $50, 900; making total of 81, ,735,
900 annually for the royal family Of
England.
According to careful estimate foreign
ers now hold Southern State Securities
to the amount ofover one hundred mil
lions of dollars. The following
are returned, as positively known to the
State authorities: Alabama, 81 ,4S3, 260;
Georgia, $4,000; Lor' a, s., ,235, ,6S3;
Virginia, 81, ,523 500.
PEARLS IN THE Gull CALIf )RNIA.
The revenue returns Ior 1859 show
that the catch of pearls and shell for the
past year on the Gulf coast of the terri
tory granted to the Lower California
Company" amounted to the large sum
ofS7S 900. This, of course, is the valua-
ton of the pearls given by the divers
and spectators, and is consequently
very much below the actual value of the
catch. A pearl is sold frequently for
$50, which, resold at Panama, at $500.
brings $1,000 in Paris. and in many
cases much greater profits have been
made on very fine gems. Not one hall
the catch is ever reported to the Govern
ment, and the yield of the Gulf for 1868
may be safely estimate at SSOO,OOO I'D
gold.
TIE COTTON CROP.-Estimates as to
the extent of the cotton crop last yeaI
I.l. t.sNV > Nl fn
OOO bales. The Daily Bulletin presents
numerous statistics to prt We that the crop
amounted to fully 3 900, 900 bales, =, ,406,-
OO3 bales having already come forward.
Reliable Southern advices represent
that the supply still remaining in the
central Cotton State is about the same
as a year ago while large quantities are
held in the country back of New Or
leans. 1t is safe, therefore, to assume
that the receipts from now until the hrst
of September will not fall short OF those
for the same period of 1869, namely,
595, 900 bales, so that the whole crop of
last year may be computed at 3,OOO,OOO
bales.
There are thirteen different branches
of the Presbyterian Church in this coun-
try. They are distinguished as the re-
united Presbyterian Church, the Cum
berland Presbyterians, the Southern
Presbyterians and the United Presby-
terians. These are all large bodies.-
The smaller ones, chiefly of Scotch ori-
gin, are the Old Side Reformed, or Gov,
enanter Church, with so ministers ana
S6 churches; the New Side Reformed, OF
Covenauter; which had until lately 90
ministers and 90 churches, but which
has been split in two by the expulsion
of Mr.. George H. Stuart; the Associate
Reform Synod of the South, with 6S
ministers; the Associate Synod of North
America, with Is ministers, and the As
sociate Synod of New York, with II
ministers. Also the Declaration ana
Testimony Presbyterians OF Missouri
and mall body of Old School Presoy
terians in the same State, who refused
to GO into the Union, and recent or
ganization in Charleston, South caro-
lima, whose name is not reported. Seme
progress has been made in Scotland to-
ward a union between the United ana
the Free Presbyterian Churches. Ihe
union, it is supposed, will bc effected ln
two or three years, on the simple basis
of the standards, rs in tho case OF the
American churches.