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them to be silent; though residing there a century, quiet and free from intermeddling, they are maker becoming objects of suspicion; they consequently increase proselytes, and in such a community do not in numbers. Indeed the opinion begins to prevail that their mission, as a religious people, is accomplished among the slaveholders-the door is closed, nothing more can be done by them-and it is time for them to retire. They have long since disappeared from South Carolina; and from Tennessee, where now only three monthly meetings exist, they are rapidly removing. In North Carolina their numbers are greatly reduced. Even in Delaware, but one monthly meeting remains, while Virginia has but three, and Maryland two, though the time was that all these States contained large bodies of Friends. It thus appears that good men are hastening to leave regions where the curse of Slavery prevails, while other denominations are forcibly driven out, so that the time is coming when they will contain a compact population of slave owners and their sympathizers. The ravings of some of your city papers against the tariff, excite among us pity for their impotence and contempt for their maliciousness. They produce no effect here, as we thoroughly understand the gaine of brag and bully they are playing. We look upon them as being inspired by something else than patriotism. But how Republican journals which only a few weeks ago urged on Congress the passage of this same tariff, can now turn round and denounce it in the terms we see used, passes our comprehension. We are abundantly satisfied with it, and in three months will see substantial evidence of its healing tendencies. I hear of one or two idle factories being put in order for full work, and of some others taking on additional hands. This law will be most useful to the glass works of NewJersey, which for years have been abandoned to utter idleness. The perjury practiced under the ad valorem tariff, in relation to glass, was frightful. A box worth $5 was usually sworn to be worth about $1, No home manufacture could live under such fraud as this, and hence it died out. But the hour for revival is at hand. It was currently reported a week ago that the peach crop in New-Jersey and Delaware had been destroyed by frost and snow. Later and more reliable news, received here from those regions, deny the report. The crop will be a full one, as far as present appearances go. But the nurserymen were 80 taken aback by the countermanding of distant orders for trees, owing to the state of the times, that they are now selling them at $4 per 100, the usual price being $8 to $10. This low rate has brought a new circle of customers into the market, who are planting large peach orchards all over NewJersey and Delaware. An intelligent nurseryman informed me last week that not less than 600 acres would be planted in these cheap trees this Spring. A good business will be done this year in building houses, even better than the last. The number of permits for new buildings taken out in March amounted to 254, which is 18 more than in the same month last year. This shows that we are very far from stagnating. No public work has been stopped for want of funds. Rents have not generally fallen, nor are there more empty houses than usual. There is DO stampede from costly houses to cheaper ones, such as marked the panic of 1859, no families going in double and treble, or spreading out into the 80 country towns to save rent. The building of many new houses is a sure index of prosperity. The cotton movement here is truly remarkable. Last year the Pennsylvania Railroad brought 77,000 bales from Pittsburg, an increase of 70,000 bales in three years. Special local facilities are being organized here to encourage a greater increase, and the road has recently reduced the freight. Trains loaded with this cotton are going night and day over the Camden and Amboy Road to your city. Shippers are beginning to understand the value of the overland route. It brings the staple cheaper than by sea, saves 30 days' time, and in other ways of is a more satisfactory channel. This reversal trade was predicted months ago as inseparable from Secession. More emigrant travel has passed over the Pennsylvania Railroad last year than the year previous, 11,831 in 1860 against 10,761 in 1859. Of emigrants last year, 6,500 were from New-York, and 7,193 went to points west of Pittsburg. The Allegheny Bank of Pittsburg has been proceeded against under the Suspension law, with a view to annul its charter. A party who presented $50 of its bills, demanding specie, was refused. The penalty is forfeiture of the charter. If the suit be pressed, the bank must go into liquidation. It is the first of the kind instituted since the late suspension. The steamer State of Georgia, plying between this city and Savannah, has made her last trip. Freights fell off so largely that she did not pay.
