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Curious Statistics.

--We glean from the annual report of the New York Metropolitan Police force the following items:

Actors arrested during the year 1860, 58; artists 201; alderman 1, (only one!) bar tenders 114; clerks 1,491; custom-house officers 9; deputy sheriffs 6; editors 5; (bad men!) hotel keepers 641 (awful!); printers 54, (very moderate!); proof readers 2; reporters 11, (fair;) servants 3,598; lawyers 80; (more than all the editors, proof readers, reporters and printers combined;) telegraph operators 5, (exactly as bad as editors;) vocalists 4. The total number of all sorts and conditions of people arrested by the police during the year was 65,809, of which over fifty thousand were under forty years of age, and twenty thousand of them females.

The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 12, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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