The New York Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1849, Page 1

NO. 5447. ONE WHEK LATER FROM EUROPE, RECEIVED BY THE STEAMSHIP AMERICA, AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, FROM WHENCE BY SPECIAL OVERLAND EXPRESS TO §t. John, New Brunswick, AND THENCE TELEGRAPHIGALLY TO THE N. Y. HERALD. Armed Intervention of France to Reinstate the Pope. Continuance of the War in the German States, Danish Blockade of the gua Ports. THE WAR BETWEEN NAPLES AND SICILY. ~ Jmportant Commercial and Financial News, Fall in the Cotton Market. ARRIVAL OF SPECIE, &e. Ke. Kev At four o’clock yesterday morning, we received a telegraphic announcement that the steamship America, Captain Harrison, arrived at Halifax, about 10 o’clock, A. M., on Thnraday, after a pas- sage of twelve days from Liverpool, which port she lett on Saturday, April 21st. By this arrival we are placed in possession of one week’s later intelligence from all parts of the Old World than was received by the Cai! iia Our express immediately start verland with the news to St. John, N. B., fro h point it was transmitted by telegraph to B | thence to this city. We are informed that the utmc was made to get the news through in tin. orn- ing edition, the run of 146 miles by lanu caving been made in the extraordinarily short time of eight hours and twenty-five minutes. Our correspondent at Halifax was informed that the America had on board, for the United States, £200,000 in specie. We understand that among the passengers in the America, is Mr. Joshua Bates, of the house of the Messrs. Baring, of London. The intelligence, in a commercial point of view, will be found to be of a very important character. The following is our telegraphic synopsis of THE NEWS. Sr. Joun, N. B., May 4—3 A. M. The America has sixty through passengers, and may be expected to arrive at her wharf, at Jersey « City, at a late hour on Saturday afternoon. CY The Canada arrived at Liverpool on the 19th ult., in fourteen and a half days from New York. It will be noticed that the French government has come to the important resolution of an armed intervention to reinstate the Pope at Rome. A force adequate to the emergency has already sailed for Civita Vecchia. The warlike contest between these severa States ef the continent continues with unabated fury, and with the most disastrous results to all the parties engaged. ‘The Danes are now enforcing a strict blockade of all the German ports, and it is stated that emi- grant vessels will not hereafter be allowed to pass unmolested. The Markets. Owing to the unfavorable accounts from the con- tinent, cotton had further receded one-eighth of a penny. - The stoppage of stpplies of breadstuffs from the Baltic is beginning to have a favorable effect upon the markets. ‘The actual advance, however, dur- ing the past week, owing to other adverse influ- ences, has been slight. Money continues abundant, notwithstanding a heavy drain of specie. Consols, during the past week, have fluctuated from 91j to 92}, closing on the 20th at 92. The commercial accounts from the East Indies by the last overland mail, are regarded as very satisfactory. The accounts from the manufacturing districts are less encouraging, though there has been no diminution of employment. The result of the last week’s operations in cotton is rather lower prices by about jd. per pound, though this applies more to the com- mon qualities of the American than to any other. A public sale of Sea Island, on Friday, was a dull affair, and sold at jd. decline. Long stapled of all kinds are dull, and the common and ordinary qualities are almost unsaleable at the lowest quo- tations. Fair Upland and Mobile 4jd. Fair Or- leans 4jd. Middling Uplands and Mobile 4d. Mid- dling Orleans 4}; ordinary 34d. to 83d. per lb. The business for the week amounts to 32,210 bales, of which 2,300 are on speculation, and 4,850 tor ex- rte i the Jatest accounts from Havre the cot- ton market exhibited symptoms of an increased activity, but no essential alteration was quotable in prices, and a good business doing. Considerable sales of Philadelphia Western Canal flour were made at the market, on the 17th, at 24s. 6d.perbbl. ‘The article has, however, become dull again, and has declined to 23s. 6d., at which it was offered, on the 20th, in quantity exceeding the de- mand. Wheat is dull at our last quotations. In Indian corn, however, we have had a fair steady demand, at rather better prices; white selling at 3ls. to 31s. 6d., and yellow at 32s. to 33s. per quarter, Indian corn meal Ms. to Ms. 6d. per barrel. ‘There is no improvement in beef; the im- ports are fully equal to the demand, and the stock on hand is much larger than usual. In bacon the demand is decidedly good, at prices ranging ftom Sls. 6d. to 40s. The stock in first hands does not exceed two weeks consumption. Hams are dull, and common qualities are forced on the market at 30s to 32s 6d. The finer qualities sell at 40s. There is a very limited inquiry for Pork, which is lower by fully 2s. The demand is confined solely to the best brands of prime mess for ship stores, which varies so much in quali- ty that it is offered at from 51s to 68s. ‘There have been several arrivals of lard, which has influenced the market. Sales at 38s to 33s 6d for average quality ia barrels. ‘Tullow in good demand, and at advanced prices, from 6d. to Is. per cwt. The demand for cheese is exceedingly limited, dund prices range from 57s. to 438 for best qualiti in boxes. There is a very heavy stock on hand. There is but litle inquiry for linseed cakes, at from £5 to £5 10s. per ton. Good soft quatity of turpentine has been sold at this effect :—Windischgratz, at 7s. per cwt. In tar there is nothing doing. Rosin has further declined, and the common qualities are now selling at 2s, 11d. to 3s., and choice parcels of fine, at 4s. 6d. to 10s. Sales 260 tierces Carolina rice at 16s. 6d. to 17s. 6d. There is less active demand for sugar, but no ma- terial alteration in prices. Sales of tobacco had not exceeded 100 hogsheads, at former prices ; there is little doing. In the foreign wool market the stock is very light, and full prices are paid. ‘The affairs of the continent are still ina very distracted state, though there are some bright spots in the general gloom. Intervention of France in the Affairs of Rome. In the National Assembly, on Monday, the Presi- dent of the Council of Ministers, made a commu- nication relative to the intervention of France in Italy. Ile stated, in substance, that the contra coup of the victories gained by the Austrians over the Piedmontese, would be felt throughout the whole of Central Italy ; that a crisis appeared to be imminent in the Roman States, and that France would not remain indifferent to such a state of things; he added, that the protection of natives of France, resident in Italy, the necessity of main- taining the legiumate influence which France no longer possessed in Italy, and the desire which the French government felt to contribute towards ob- taining for the Roman people a good government, based upon. liberal institutions, rendered it a duty of the cabinet to make use of the liberty which the Assembly had granted to it, by its vote of the 20th of March, to occupy temporarily the territory of that peninsula. The Minister gaid that it was impossible for him to enter upon further details. Out of the intervention of France would arise effica- cious guaranty for the interest of their (the French) policy, and for the cause of liberty. On finishing his speech, M. Odillon Barrot read a project of law granting a credit to the government of 1,200,000 franes, to meet the additional expenses required for the support, on a war footing, during three Months, ot the troops forming the expedition. At the nest of th ister, the Assembly imme- ym s bur to appoint a committee to keareporton the urgency of the projet of law ‘The communication ef the council in question. to by the Assembly with profound was listened silence. M. Jules Favre presented the report of the com- mittee, which was unanimous, of the urgency de- manded by the government. _A debate ensued on the projet of law proposed by M. Odillon Barrot. The first clause of 1,200.000 francs, to enable the government to meet the expense of putting the expedition to Civiti Veechia on a war footing, was passed by a vote of 395 to 283, making a majority In favor of the government of 112. _ The second clause was passed without a divi- sion of the Assembly. On the final division—for the bill, 393 ; against it, 106—making a majority of 287; but on this occasion the “mountain” having abstained from voting, the total number of votes was only 499, which is one less than the number required by the regulations. The vote was conse- quently null. A second vote was taken on the question on Tuesday, when the measure was car- ried by a majority of 388 to 131. It appears from the accounts from Paris, that the government have determined to send an army of 14,000 to Rome to assist the Pope, Lenore l’Oudinot to command. The President of the Council says that care will be taken to secure a free and liberal government tothe Roman people. Rumors were in circula- tion in Paris on the 18th ult., of the modification ofthe ministry. General Lamoriciere is spoken of for the Ministry of War, and Gen Bedau for that of Foreign Aflairs. The French Republic. The cholera is largely on the increase in Paris, and many persons of opulence have become its vic- tims. Up to the 19th there have been 1,762 cases, of which 1,022 had proved fatal. The clesing prices of the three per cents was 96f. 10 c.; the five per cents 88 15. Interesting from _ Germany. Germany is still in a state of great contain: The Prussian government is said to have obtained the as- sent of a few of the small States, such as Hesse Cas- sel, Brunswick, and Weimar, to the assumption of the aie dignity by the king, but these form only a small part of the States of Germany. Austria is. of course, violently opposed to a plan which would transfer the imperial dignity from the house of Hapsburgh to that of Brandenbergh ; and Bavaria, the third State in Germany, for py ats and in- fluence 1s scarcely less so. Both France and Russia are strongly opposed to the change. _ All these dif- ficulties may, perhaps, be got over, if the smaller States of Germany were unanimous in favor of the union with Prussia. But this is not the fact; Ha- never, whose assent is essential to the carrying out of the scheme, is not likely to give it; and Sax- ony has too strong a sense of what interests it has in the way of reconstituting the German empire on the basis proposed at Frankfort, and even it they could be overcome, it is doubtful if she would as- sent. The following significant paragraph appears fe te second edition of the Cologne Gazette of the th — The Austrian bai 7 alae Hangartan ‘ar. , “Anew Prussian note, bearing date April 13, and intended as an answer to the Austrian one of the &th, has, in the clearest and most unequivocal manner, declared to the Olmutz cabinet that the Prussian government will not be deterred by,the opposition of the Austrian ministry from assisting, with all its power, in a speedy formation of a Union Confederate State, and it is firmly resolved to uphold and protect the work. This will be ac- complished with the concurrence of the German princes. In a word, the relations of Austria are assuming a more warlike appearance; and however desirous the German court may be to keep on good terms with the Olmutz cabinet, public opinion is too unanimous and strong in this case to_allow of the popular demands being disregarded. The Aus- trian empire is in as great difficulty as ever; for it is clear, from the retreat of all the divisions of the Austrian ara, towards Pesth, that they have been repulsed by the Hungarians. The great struggle now is for the position of the Hungarian fortress of Comoen on the Danube, which the Austrians have besieged for several, weeks, and which the Hungarians are endeavoring to relieve. If they should succeed, the cause of Austria will be despe- rate in Hungary. “Charles Albert, though he could not resist Ra- detzky, inflicted a great injury on Austria, by com- pelling the Austrian government to detach an army of 20,000, from Croatia to Italy, at the breaking out of the Sardinian war. This army is now hastening back to Hungary, and may perhaps arrive in time to check the Hungarians. e imperial army be- seiging Comoen, is now exposed to a three-fold attack—from the north, the south, and from the garrison of the fortress itself. The counuy sur- rounding Comoen is all but in the hands of the Maygars, and Comorn is but twenty leagues dis- tent from Vienna The imperial party amongst the inhabitants of Pesth, are quitting the Hunga- rian capital, and flying to Gran and then to Raap and Presburg.” Vienna papers of the 1th, furnish positive infor+ mation of the occupation of the important, position taken by the Hungarians. The details of this ac- tion are given by the German parers, and are to the head of his best regiments, oppose? the progress of the Hungarians in the direction of Comoen. A fierce engagement ensued, in which the superior tactics of the May- gars proved irresistible. Affairs of Italy. , Italy is still in indescribable confusion. The republicans have been putdown in Genoa, after having had the command of that beautiful city for nine days. In Tuscany there had been a general rising in favor of the Grand Duke, and the man who was recently dictator is now the prisoner, ‘The landing of the French at Civita Vecchia, will doubtless put an end to the Roman republic, and be followed by the restoration of the Pope. Venice is besieged by the Austrians, by sea and land, and ust surrender The latest accounts from Florence leave no reason to doubt that the Grand Duke of ‘Tuscany has re- turned to his capital. It is reported that the revo- lutionary government of Lagiora has been over- turned by the people themselves, as that of Flo- rence bad been before it. The War between Nap! and Sicily. In_Siewy, the struggle has commenced with dreadful fésocity, and a desperate battle took place on Goed Friday, between the Neapo- litaps and Swiss troops and the people of Ca- tania, which corsinued all night, and ended in the defeat of the Catanians, A great number was af- plundered. The terror caused by this defeat, has caused the city of Syracusefto surrender without resort to arms. Pa- lermo is now the only place of much strength 1n the hands of the Sicilians. A desperate resistance is expected there, but with very little chance of suc- cess. Information has been received by the Obe- ron steamer, that, on its leaving Catania on Satur- day evening, the city was in flames in three places. The most beautiful edifices were a heap of ruins, and the renowned library and museum of natural history entirely destroyed. Denmark and Germany. On the 8th, the Danish Minister of War pub- lished the following order of the day :— and sovereigns are daily sending troops ) hies, to second the efforts of the rebels against their legitimate sovereigns. The combats which daily take place against superior forces pro- duce only an efiusion of blood, without decisive results. “The army has, in, consequence, received orders to quit the Sunderwirt, and to return to the nd of Alsen, to await there the moment when x will be possible to attack the enemy man to man.” ‘The Danish entrenchmentsnext Dupell have been attacked and carried by the Saxon and Bavarian troops. Loss of the Germans in this aflair is eal- culated at 150 to 200 men. Several additional cap- tures have been made by the Danish vessels, and it is stated that German emigrant ships will not be exempted. of them were killed, and the cit terwards sacked an England, In the House of Commons, on the 19th ult., the Navigation Laws Bill being under consideration, Mr. Gladstone moved a clause empowering the crown, on application of any colony, to sanction a conveyance of goods and passengers from one part of such colony to another, in other than British ves- sels. The proposition was adopted, and the bill was ordered toa third reading. On Monday, in the House of Lords, in reply to a question, Lord Lansdowne said that the British government, though aware of the intended French intervention in Home for the restoration of the Pope, had taken no part in suggesting or promoting it, though he acknowledged that they did not disap- prove o} Jenny Lind has been married at Bath, to Mr Harris, and retired from the stage. It is stated that a commercial treaty is about to be formed between England and France, the lead- ing features of which will be the free admission of brandy, wine, and fruit from France—coal, iron, and twist from England. Whatever advantages may Le conferred upon French vessels by the alter- ation of the navigation laws, are to be liberally re- ciprocated by the government of that republic. Ireland, From Ireland we have the usual quantity of misery and crime, but there is nothing of special importance. ‘The jury, in the case of Me. Daily, of the Nation, have again disagreed, and he has been set at liberty on bail for his appearance at the next commission. India. The details of the battle of Goojerat confirm the report by the India mail of the 17th March, of the vietory gained by Lord Gough. ‘The. British ey tured 58 of the 59 guns which the Sikhs brou, ion, together with all their camp, magazine, J ion, d ‘The loss on the part of the Bri- tish was five officers and 92 men killed. The war of the Punjaub is considered as at an end. China, | The news from Hong-Kong is to the 27th of February. The dispute about opening the city gates at Canton was going on, but there was a general confidence that the stipulations of the treaty of Nankin would be enforced. Two British officers were missing, and it was feared some ca- tastrophe had happened to them. Trade in India and China was in a satisfactory state. | Shipping Intelligence. There is but one vessel reported from Boston, and but a very few from New York; as none of the names are familiar, we do not think best to attempt to send them. The Pagoda, Capt. Brown, American whaler, has been wrecked on the coast of Japan ; crew Kept prisoners by the natives. The Washington arrived at Southampton on the 17th, from Bremen, and would sail on the 20th. ty aly at Liverpool were steady, and passen- ers talerably abundant, at fullrates, to New York. ad weights, 15s. to 17s. 6d. per ton; fine goods, do. do.; hardware, 16s. 6d. Boston, dead weight, 20s.; hardwere, do.; earthenware, és Passengers by the Steamship America, Mr Levy; lady, and maid; Mr Bailey (perhaps Mr Joshua Bates), lady and two sorvants; Miss Ericsson and maid; M'me Potthausen, two child: id; Th Mrs Gaskill, Messrs Mild ‘unningham, King, Park: McKay, Judkii Green ing, Torrey, C 8 Rollin, , Lines, Joly, Wainwright, Hillhausen, Johnson, Smith, tants, Beck, Hocksmith, Partlin, Senskett, Legh, Riley, Murphy, Drykes, Bockler, Chisholm, and Cragg; M dames Cragg, Stephens, and Mrs Peterson and child, ‘an, Pemberton, Mot ‘olbui A Hiss, Bruyere, J and H Strickland, Rys Benson, PI ‘ost, Draper, Our Willow Grove Cerrespondence. Wittow Grove, near E Hilaielphies May 1, 1819. T have been residing in this pretty little village for several days; and a more delightful spot, a milder climate, a more galubrious atmosphere, a more beautiful budding landscape, I have never seen on this side of the Atlantic. This region of the country is indeed regarded as one of the healthiest in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. The village, Willow Grove, received its name from a little clump of willow trees growing on the margin of a small and limpid breok that run: through the valley, meeting other, streaum, anc making several acquaintances on its way, till it reaches the Delaware. It is what 1s called a “roll- ing country” of height and hollow, hill and dale, streamlet and brook, all intermingled together in most interesting order and disorder. I have said that this region is extremely ny and itis s0; for in the morning when you take a walk, the balmy breathings of the vernal air which come down from the rising ground,’ and across the fra- grant meadows, and through the clumps of trees all covered with the opening buds, are so healthful and refreshing that even the most debilitated frame must be inspired with new life and vigor. Willow Grove is about midway between the city ot Philadelphia and the Delaware, on the highest ridge, and about fourteen miles from the former place, on the old turnpike road, over which a century age, and during the revolution, the mail was conveyed. in three days between New York and Philadelphia. This road is one of the finest in the neighborhood of the city, and affords a truly pea ra) drive. On each side of the turnpike are numbers of beautiful country residences, belonging, to the * quality,”—old families and aristocracy ot Philadelphia. ‘One of these places, about six or seyen miles from the city, and on the left hand in driving to the village, is_the residence of Mr. P. Butler. It is an ancient family mansion, in which his uncle, I believe, resided for many years; and it and the grounds are altogether in the old Eng- lish style. There are fine parks around the dwel- ling—numerous clumps of venerable trees—hedge- rows in the fine old English style—all looking so different and so picturesque when compared with the usual careless and slovenly manner in which many of the country residences of the gentry of this country are laid out, as if they were got up in a hurry, anid were intended to last only half a wee neration. It was here, I believe, that Mrs. Butler resided so long and sour leony, with her husband, before their final separation. Mr. Butler lived in the old mansion near the road, and Mrs. Butler occupied a little farm house at some distance from it, at the other end of the park. Other residences of more or less beauty line the road on both sides; and at this season of the year, asthe trees an shrubbery begin to put forth their buds, which are ay elng into leaves, look very charming and agree- able. _ The only annoyance which I have experienced in théce drives, has resulted from the overcharges which the toll keepers on this road exact from strangers. ‘Chere are no less than five or six toll ates on these fourteen miles of the road, and thus the annoyance becomes somewhat provoking. It seems to be the practice of these toll keepers to charge strangers double the usual rates. I should think it would be of some interest to the manager and secretary of the road—whose name I forget, But who resides in witli dst correct those charges of his keepers, and make them adhere to the legal rate, not exacting double toll from any poor stranger who chances to pass over the road. But I must not forget Willow Grove, and the scenery around that delightful village. It contains three hotels—ull very comfortable and good looking houses, with a very tolerable cuisine, and other ar- rangements for the accommodation of visitors. One of these hotels has the proprietorship of a mineral erring ata short distance from the build- ing, at which baths and other conveniences have been fitted up, for the accommodation of visiters in the extreme heat of summer. There is also a charming promenade through the old woods, and along the willow groves by the brook, Tere, too, you are shown a pleasant, secluded, shady spot un- der the tree a phere they get up a danee SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1849. ally, when there is company sufficient from Phila- delphia to improvise that species of amusement. he business of farming is here actually poetical, realizing all those delightful pictures of rural feli- city and plenty, which the poets of the earlier and best days—Virgil, and th f ‘Merrie Eng- land,” ‘are so fond of d . ‘The eye ison all sides refreshed by the sight ot highly cultivated fields, and sbady lanes, and substantial granaries— the whole picture being enlivened by flocks of cat- tle, and groups of agricultural laborers pursuing the various avocations of the thriving husbandman. Most of the farmers are quakers—some of the Hick- site branch, and others of the old parent stock of that respectable family. Yet, [can assure you, so far as I hear, there is no great brotherly love sub- sisting between those different sections of the “friendly” persuasion. Then, what life 1s given to the road H the continual travel of the farmers and their well filled wains, laden with the varied products of this fertile region!) Wagon after wa- gon, with its jocund driver and its handsome team, passes along the road the livelong day, between *hiladelphia and Willow Grove, and Willow Grove and Philadelphia, continually reminding you of those delightful rural scenes which have been so happily caught by t neil of Gainsborough. and others of that old English domestic school. One of the chief inducements for strangers to visit this place, is to be found in the erection re- cently of a water cure establishment, on the plan of those so successful in Germany, under the sys- tem of the celebrated Vince sj i Th is establishment is about one mi llage, on the bank of a little rivulet, and in the centre of a fine agricultural region, with some fine woods around it.. Dr. Charles Scheiferdecker has erected this building at his own expense, and he has al- ready upwards of a dozen of patients. It is un- doubtedly the most complete establishment in the country, and is conducted on scientific principles. Dr. Scheiferdecker, who 1s, | am told, a native of Saxony, is quite an intelligent and accomplished man, ‘He studied the whole system of hydropathy in Germany, under Priessnitz himself, and his practice is marked by sound sense and d As you are aware, this system of tre eases by hydropathy has excited a great deal of attention, not merely on the part of the non-pro- fessiol public of Europe, but on that ef the most distinguished physicians. Fortunately, blesse myself with excellent health, being in the habit ot rising early, and taking plenty of exercise in the open fields to preserve it, I do not take so much personal interest in those water-cure establish- ments as an_ invalid might; but yet I have been a good deal interested in studying the modes of treatment recommended, and the mechanical means and appliances which the ingenious advo- cates of this new system have employed. The other day Ilooked over Dr. Sheiferdecker’s esta- blishinent, with, its baths—* cold fall baths,"— *douches”—* sitting baths’—and | its * warm, extracting, and cold cataplasms,” and really I could not avr the conclusion that the system appears to be admirably adapted to the cure of many chro- nic disorders. Perhaps a great deal of the benefit which results from this treatment, is to be attri- buted to the salubrity of this region—to the pure water—to the invigorating character of the atmos- phere—and to the ample exercise in the open air. fut 1 cannot go into any particular description of the establishment, or the mode of treatment, till I have seen more about them. " Near this establishment is a beautiful and abun- dant spring of the purest and most delicious water. It is situated im the midst of a little wood, which will soon be, all covered with leave’, and the supply of the limpid element is sufficient for the whole establishment. Here there are also elegant walks, on which the patients take exercise at appropriate hours. All around a charthing rural landscape spreads iteelf, and at this delightful season pre- sents every day a new, and if possible, more en- chanting appearance. Indeed, it must have been in just Hose a region as this that those pastorals were written, which are, after all, among the finest things in the whole glorious world of English poetry! Our Philadelphia Correspondence: Puscapetrnia, May 4, 1849, The Effect of the Foreign News—Forgery—The Delaware and Hudson Canal. ‘The foreign nows was received here about half-past eight o'clock this'morning, and issued in oxtras at 11. ‘The news has unsettled the market for cotton and aE eiaiatitén (who has a number of aliases.) was arrested at Norristown, yesterday, for forging a mort- .000. Bae tor aim Harrisburg, that the case of the Com- monwealth vs. Delaware and Hudson Canal, has been decided by the rendition of a verdict for the defendants, agreeably to the instructions of Judge Pearson. The amount involved in the issue was $84,000, The defence assumed the grounds that,the State had no power to tax dividends declared by a company incorporated by an ad- joining State, although a portion of the works may be located in the State so taxing, as that would be an in- fringement of a compact between the two States, Purcaprnrnta, May 4, 1849. Examination of Carroll for Killing his Wife—Mysterious Affair—Attempled Suicide—Markets, $c, Patrick Carroll is to have a hearing this afternoon, on acharge of murdering is wife Jane yesterday. The facts are pretty much as you were advised by telegraph, ‘The different families living in the same house with him heard the noise occasioned by his brutality, but as he was quite a dissipated man, and she also given to ocensional intoxication, and frequent quarrels occur- ring, the noise did not excite much notice. The hus- band was about 35 years of age and the wife 40, and both had children grown up, having been previously married. The wife was in the habit of visiting hor son's house, in the Jowor part of the county, and had tho previous night been absent from home until one or two o'clock inthe morning. He was jealous of these visits, and had evidently been out searching for her, as he returned home but a short time after her, Between 10 and 11 o'clock a noise was heard, as if both were tumbling down the stairs together, and from the words used, she was apparently struggling to get away from home, probably to go to her son's again. The injuries that caused her death were given at this time. A post mertem examination of the body was made, and it was found to be bruised all over, and marks about the neck—evidently made by throttling her—inducing the belief that she came to her death from suffocation, pro- duced by the violence of the husband. ‘A mysterious affair occurred late last night, of which you was also advised by the wires. Mr. McCandless, a very respectable man, keeping a grocery store at the corner of Twelfth and Marion streets, was the sufferer, by an attempt at aseassination, for which a motive can only be conjectured. He was visited by @ stranger, who drove up to the door in a vehicle, and tried to in- duce him to go down the road below Gray’s ferry, for the purpose of looking at a farm he was desirous of selling to him. Mr. McCandless, being a cripple from the effects of a railroad accident some years since, of course refused such a request at thut time of night, and his visiter got up, as if togo, The interview had taken place in @ room over the store, and Mr. McC. was rising to see the stranger tothe door; the latter slipped the bolt, fastened it, and then drawing a dirk ienlfe, commenced inflicting the most furions stabs upon’ the person of his entertainer, When about a dozen wounds had been given, the latter, by a despo- rate struggle, wrested the weapon from the grasp of his sailant, who was no sooner disarmed than he unfast- «ned the door and fled, The cries of murder had brought Mrs. McC, to the door of the room, which being locked, she was unable to get in until the stranger made his escape, passing her and a boy, her son, Who was also hastening up, in consequence of the cries of murder, The assailant jumped into his vehi- le and drove off immediately st a rapid rate, nearly overturning while passing the corner. The wife, it teema, twelve years. ago, while unmarried, in freland, had discarded ‘an admirer named Douglass, and mar- ried her present husband, A year or so since this man came over to this country, and renewed his soli- citations to the wife, which she of course rejected in- dignantly. The villain who made this attempt at as- sassination is, from these circumstances, supposed to have been hired by the desperate man to remove the impediment to his hopes of happiness. ‘Mr. McCandless bad received, a few days since, a let- ter signed by James M. Gartland, relative to a farm in Delaware. and a request made that he would meet the writer ata hotel in Race street, at 7 o'clock, on Mon- day evening, but as no attention was paid to the re- quest, the visit was made to his house, and the attempt there made to astassinate him, ‘The condition of Mr. MeCandless, this morning, was favorable, and his phy- consider him to be in no danger. Y y was a prolific day in horrible scenes, for, in addition to those mentioned above, Mr. Jacob Ris- tine, elerk to the Board of sioners of Kensing- ton, Jest evening nade an attempt to commit suicide, by shooting himself. in the yard attached to his dwell- ing, Second street, above Otiar. He fired a ball from a ‘x barrelled revolver into his left breast, which lodged in the lung. narrowly missing heart. He remains in a yery critical condition. unfortunate man bad. for several days, been in an unhappy state of mind, for which there seems to have been no assignable enuse. Markets AND Srocw Sarrs.—The receipt of the European prices brought by the America has complete- ly unsettled our markets tor stuffs and cotton, Buyers and sellers have, as usual, withdrawn from the market, determined ¢ wait the arrival of their pri- vate letters. Before the arrival was generally known, {ils morning. 2600 bushels corn were sold at 58e. Whirkey continues quoted at 220, for bbls, First Eoard.—$200 War Bounty Serip, 101; $200 U. 8.6 7,112; 100 Girard, 124s; 60 Union Canal, 11's; $1000 Wilmington Railroad 6°, 86; 7 Mechantes! Hauk. 264; $413 Pennsylvania 5° 832; $270 dy., 8544; $2,000 Cincinnati 6’, ¥1; $2,600 Penneylvania 5°, 25% 2600 Cherupeake & v7, 8514; $8,800 U. Ge, 67, 112, Second Board. —3.500 Chi sapeake Delaware Canal 6's, 86); 100 Morris Canal, 04 Harrisburg Railroad 6°s, 8834; 3,000 State 5's, 8314; 282 do, 8334; 1,800 Wilmington Railroad 6's, 85; 50 U. 8. Bank. 3; 7 Mechanics’ Bank, 26. 500 U. S. Loan 6's, 56, 1064; 1,000 Reading Bonds, 50 Reading Rail: road, 1574; 1,000 Cincinnati Bonds 6's, 91, Our Baltimore Correspondence, Battimone, May 4, 1849. Non-arrival of the Steamer—Disappointment—Large A- rival of Emigrants—Baltimore Ovfice-Seekers—The Markets, §c. ‘The non-arrival of the steamer is quite a disappoint- ment to our merchants, as the premature announce- ment of her arrival yesterday, caused a general suspen- sion of business. The number of foreign emigrants that weekly arrive | at Baltimore is becoming very large. Three vessels, the ship Rebecca, with 161 passengers; the Albert, with 183, and the ship Adlen, with $01, making 541 in all, arrived here yesterday from Bremen. ‘The British bark , Captain Johnson, from ‘Tralee, Ireland, also brought 161 passengers, thus i lation nearly seven hundred in on in good health, however, and the German passen the better class, farmers of some means, and pi pared to settle down in the West as tillers of the soil, Most of the Baltimore office-seekers are again at | Washington, and the anxiety they are in fs shorten their lives, and bring on a galloping consump: tion, ‘The fact of those who are most deserving the ap pointments remaining at home, is truly exemplitic, the case of Baltimore. One of the pr cants for the Post Office, Lam confident, has paid $150 to the Railroad Company for fare alone—no, [ forgot, he is a director, and travels free over the roud, The Viennoise Children made their first appearance F Theatre last night to a crowded greatest improvement is visible in all r movements, and little Fanny Prayer has grown and improved so much that her New York friends will know her. She is the bright and particular star of the bevy, Mrs, Howard is drawing good houses at the Museum, where she has been for yeurs a great favorite. nding to in nent appli- Mankers ano Srock Saues.-The flour market is unsettled to-day. A sale of 200 bbls. Howard street at $4 8755, Some buyers were unwilling to give this pri City Mills held at $4 a rale of 200 bbls, Corn meat and Rye flour unchi Grain is Red Wheat isselling a $1 06 Sales of white corn at 60 8 62 cents, and yellow a 05 a its. Oats 25028 cents, Rye 66 cents, At auc- ‘o-day, 25 hhds. Porto Rioo sugar sold at $4 25 a lon; 16 tierces do. do. at 254%, $13 50,and prime pork at $9 at5a5\, cents, for should hams; assorted 534 cents. cents per gallon, Stock Board.-$8.000 U. 8. 68, 08, 112 t time. shs, York and Wr. R. R’, 734; 8 do., 74 Intelligence from the Pacific. [Correspondence of the New Orleans Delta. Acarurco, April 1, 1349, On the 28th March, the British sloop-of- war Calypso anchored in this harbor to take in water, direct from California, She had on board half million of Califor- nia gold, [The Calypso is not from California; she is from Mazatlan, where she took in this $500,000—only $80,000 of which is California gold.—Ep, Henaip.] Sho Teports that provisions were scarce in the gold regions; that much confusion and robbery existed; and that there were more than one hundred Americans remain- ing at Mazatlan, whose means had given out, and were Unable to pursue their journey further on, On the same day, the British bark John Ritson, Cap- tain Kennedy, entcred this port, forty-three days from Panama, having one hundred and fourteen passengers on board for California, short of water and provisions. Three of her passengers had died on the passage, She takes on board twenty passengers who have been wait- ing hero for the March steamer, of which there is not yet any account, No yessel but the California, on her first trip, has as yet called here, ‘The Collector of the customs, at this port, has madea most oppressive and vexatious abuse of a discretionary power, that the forty-ninth article of the aranceles gives him, in exacting ftom the bark John Ritson, tonnage duty amounting to $497 50, before she could’ take om board the few passengers that were waiting the steamer, ‘Asa matter of course, the passengers themselves had to bear this enormous expense, which, together with their passage money, amounted to $130 each. ‘The 28th of March wasa gala day in this declining and decayed port, on account of two vessels entering the harbor in one day, and another, a trading schoo- ner, being in sight outside, but which did not enter, ‘The Calypso, on the morning after her entrance, gavo the national salute cf twenty-one guns, whieh was re- plied to from a dilapidated Spanish fort. shots only were fired by the fort, the powder having given out. ‘Three Americans arrived from Mexico yesterday, from whore baggage the sum of $450 was stolen on the road, whichthey bad not missed until their arrival here. ‘They go on the John Ritson, Their names are Gardner, McCarthy and Whittaker, of New York.— ‘They relate that the American minister at Mexico had | received information that one of a party of Americans, | on their way to Mazatlan, was shot by a Mexican guard, at some place, four or five days’ march from | Mexico. [The porson ehot, here alluded to, was Dun- ham, and was a member of Capt. Hutton's company.— Ep Henaty.] The cecurrence took place in a posada or cating house, where the man had eaten, and too high a price being demanded, he wished to escape without | paying at all, and the woman laying hold of him, he presented a pistol at her, upon which one of a Mexican guard, who was standing outside the house, shot him dead,’ It appears that the occurrence excited no sym- pathy amongst the Americans in the city, for # inan who was capable of drawing a pistol on a womau. A rumor has been put affoat hore, although I have not been ablo to trace it to any respectable source, that aship from Panama, haying on board a large number of passengers, was burnt at sca, and but a few souls saved from the burning wreck, in a small boat. T hope that some of onr go-ahead steamboat proprie- | tors will send around afew good boats to trade on these waters, which are peculiarly adapted to steam navigation, on account of the continued calms that prevail in ‘the Pacific. A good business could be done carrying freight and passengers, calling at the different ports, The annoyance of tonnage duty could be got rid of, | think, by an application to the government, ‘American vieo-consuls certainly ought to be appoint- ed at the different points on this coast where the steamers have to call, to protect Americans and Ame- | rican interests. ‘The celebrated coward, assassin and Commandante General of the South, is still in campaign against the revolted Indians in the mountains of Tenango and San Geronimo, It appears that this dark General himself, by his machinations, has driven the deluded Indians into revolt, that it might serve him as a pretext to levy contributions for suppressing it; but anomalous may appear, the general government furnish him means at present, although sufficiently in possession of a knowledge of bis villany and deceit; but the general government have no power in this quarter, Alvarez reigns absolute, and gets his own terms to keep him quiet. ‘The government could send no force here, ns the roads are impassable for artillery, and cavalry could only appreach in single file, and that over moun- tain fastnesses and frightful barancas, to say nothin; of the insalubrity of the climate, for those accustome to the mild temperature of the city of Mexico. [From the Boston Tray May 3.] ; We have been permitted to make the following extract from a letter from Capt. Leach, of ship Chile, of Boston, dated San Francisco, 6: J arrived here on the 6th Feb. from New York, via Valparaiso, Dec. 21, and Monterey Jan. 20, All the vessels in port are laid up, the crews having deserted. All sailors go up to the mines as soon as they get on shore, Seamen’s wages are $6 per day, or $100 per month There ix great temptation for a man to go and dig. by which he can obtain one, and even two ounces of gold per day, Here a sailor is as good as his master, and those who come from the mines with money will not work until it isall spent, There is no law or justice here, Every one for himself, All go armed for selt- defence.” United B States Commissioners’ Office, efore George W. Morton, Ex, ha Dangerous Weapon.—Geo. Ja- (colored,) was brought up this morning, on a charge of having assaulted Win. ©, ‘Thompson, master of the ship Missouri, on the yoyago from Hayre to this port Carrais Thorson examined—The vessel arrived at this port yesterday; the prisoner was first cook on board; I shipped him in New York, on the last outward voyage; on the voyage home, there were difficulties with him; they occurred om the 18th and 19th April; first occurred | was standing aft, on x deck; I sung out to him and he paid no n; 1 then went to him to the galley, and ordered him to take some kids, or small tubs, and put them in the galley; he refused, saying “It was none of his business, and the galley was already full ;” I in- sisted that my orders should be obeyed, and that they should stowed away there; he still po- , took up @ kid and flung it at me; he came out and took up a club and struck me with it on the head, behind the left ear, knocking me down; I sung out for help; he threw himself on me, fastened in my hair, aud bit me; the first officer and anothe came, succeeded in taking him off; before he w: ay he bit the fore finger of my left hand; wit! him to be putin irons; he was then put ina house in deck; be- tween nine and ten o'clock that evening, he broke out of the deck-house, and went back to the galley; upon hearing this, witness called the carpenter, ‘and his first and recond officers, and went to the galley and found that he had got back to the deck-house, and had him- self fastened in; witness does not know how he got in or out, ae the window through which he must have got Out, was not large enough for @ cat to get through; {bere then had the door forced open, his irons knock- Wand other irgns put on; witness examined him, ea Mound a dirk knife in his bed; took the knife, and then Jeft him; he remained there util morning; about Cight o'clock. the first inate came to witness, who was in his ptate-room, and told witness that prisoner want- ed to get ont; witness raid he must wait until witness wi ed ‘Sules Of mess beef at 5; 200 tierces pickled hams sold at 6%; cents Ib., dis. off; 6,000 Ibs. Shoulders at 43 cents; 100 bhds, do., time, aud 100 hhds, Sides Sales bacon at 444 a4%{ cents x. Scents for sides, and Ga 8 cents for Whisky is selling at 21 a 22 1,136 Md. 68, 9934; $1, 10. 99%; $1,557 City 64, 790, 1001; 419 Penn, 58, 8234; £250 Md, St'g. 68., 8234; 6 sha. B.’ and O. RK. R,, 40; 80 sha, do., 4044; 25 sha. do. , bAVd, 40, 5 it | put his clothes on; the mate came down and told witness that prisoner was breakiug hin geen door; witness eame on deck, and found the done hak been’ broken, and he was forward near the. gale ley; one of his handcuffs he contrived to knock off; ess had a pistol in his hand. and showed it to him, and said, “Be quiet, my good fellow; if you come aft, you will surely be adead man;” he then went to the alley, and filled a saucepan with hot coffee, and threw the contents of the saucepan on the side of witness's head, scalding witness severely, insomuch that he is not well yet, saying, at the time, “I guess you are not | ready to fir witness turned round to the stew- ard. and said he *was scalded; he then began to fight with the men and passengers; they were going to throw him overboard, but witness’ prevented them; witness | had him put in irons again; put him below, and kept | him there until he was taken charge of by the United States Marshal; the crew, all told, was 26, including rs remined.—1 did not throw the kid at him in I threw it into the galley; never had er he used it on me; | don't believe I hand until after the affray was over; ch he was confined below was large the club ever had it in my he place in. wi nigh for two m » prisoner's yunsel said they had no defence, stion was as to the amount of bail, ce of witnesses, It turned out that prisoner could not procure bail in $500, and. was committed Theatrical and Musteal. Boweny TueatKe.—The audiences at this very fayor ite house have been so much delighted with the splen- did entertainments which have been given of the ster ¢ drama that they continue to crowd there every ning, as the manager keeps up the excitement by ightly producing some of the most admirable ps 3 ever written. During the engagement of the Wall eke the members of the company had a fine opportunity of displaying their talents in the higher walks of the dra- ma, and since the termination of their engagement, “Evadne” has been played—Miss Wemyss taking the principal part; some time since when Miss W, first ap- peared in this character on her benefit night, we be- ieve, we made some remarks on the admirable manner in which she played it, and her rendering ot it since has been no less great, McFarland, N. B. Clarke, Jordan, and the rest, all did themselves much credit in their parts, and we may, in all truth, say that whilst the stock company can perform such pieces in such splen- did style, the manager need not be afraid of any com. etition from other houses, To-night, Romeo and Ja- ed, with an admirable cast ; Miss rformance of Juliet on Thursday iet,” willbe play Wemyss, whose $515 per 100 Ibs.; 46 bbls, do, at $4 35 a $4 40; 41 | evening last, was so enthusiastically applauded, will hhds. New Orleans, common, at $3 40 a $365, Also, 65 | again appear in the part; McFarland will be the Ro- hhds. Porto Rico molasses at 243, a 2544 cents per gal- | meo of the evening; Stevens Mercutio; Gilbert Friar Lawrence ; Mrs, Gilbert be the Nurse. Weare sure with this cast the play will be most splendidly per- formed, and anticipate a delightful evening's enter. tainment. The funny farce of “Slasher and Crasher,” the drama of the “Wandering Boys,” in which the lit- tle Denins act so prettily. and dancing by Mr. G. W. Smith, will make up the bill. We perccivea new drama is underlined for epeedy production. Broapway Taratne.—Mr, Forrest, during the past week, has been playing in some of his finest parts, and the immense audiences which have boen gathered together on each evening, is proof enough of the high estimation he is held in’ by our most intellectual and prominent citizens, As Othello, Spartacus, Juck Cade, aptista Ferrero, he has successively delighted hun: dreds—nay, we may say thousands, at the Broadway, as every evening the house has been filled to its utmost capacity; and whether as the noble Moor, driven to desperation by the wiles of the villain Iago, the it Spartacus, ever mindful of his native Thrace and eager for liberty, or in any other parts, his acting has been applauded tothe echo. Mr. Forrest may well be proud of the distinguished position he holds as the great American actor of the age; and we are glad to see that the manager of the Broadway theatre announces that the engagement with him will be continued for a further period after this week, To-night he will appe as“Richard the Third,” a part he is eminently gres in. Mrs. Abbott and’ Miss F, Wallack are to. play Queen Flizabeth and Lady Anne; Mr, Dyott as Rich- mond. Mr. Forrest as Richard is most splendid, and we doubt not the house will be as full to-night as it has Deen all along during his engagement. ‘The farce of “Who Speaks First?” will conciude the entertainments. Nattoxat TueaTee.—Mr. Seymour had e great house last evening, at his benefit, and the various entertain ments passed off most. racily—as, indeed, they always dio, ‘The local drama which has so long proved « per- fect gold mine to this establishment, is to be withdrawn after this night, wo understand, never to be re-pro- duced again; at least, so say the bills. Never has any style of dramatic composition and acting ever attained fuich popularity in such a short time, as did the “ Mose”? dramas on their first production. Though mere local rketches, illustrating common every-day scenes and characters which every New Yorker is familiar with, from daily observation, the truthful and natural man- ner In which Moso and Sykesey—the types of a cortaln class of young men in this city—have been played, by Chanfrau and Seymour, seemed to have some charm about it, to attract hundreds upon hundreds to see them again and again, Everybody could understand the al- lusions; every one could appreciate the peculiar local hits. We have often wondered that more advantage is not taken of the local drama by managers; even with- out introducing Mose, there is ample space and room enough for the construction of amusing pieces, in this country, without cramming the London farces on the audiences; and we hope that the great success which hasattended the * Mose” dramas will stimulate mana- cers to seek for other local farces, Meantime, to-night Kfore will make his last appenrance at the National, in “New York as It Is:?? and “Jack Sheppard,” and ‘the amusing farce of “ Who's My Husband?” will form the rest of the bill, On Monday, a grand Oriental specta~ | le, which has been a long time in preparation, will be produced, with every splendor, Burton's Tueatee.—The spirited and talented man- ner Mr, Burton exhibits toward the public in his never tiring genius in catering for the taste of his numerous admirers, by the production of pieces which never fail to delight the audience, meets with the ap- probation he so justly deserves, in filling his house with the élite of New York and all the strangers who | are now thronging our city. Last evening the per- formance began with the famed “Dombey and Son,’? a piece which has always been a favorite, and \Sauleh wow a every week performed, at least onee, at | the fine theatre of Chambers street. This play is put | upon the stage in excellent styleand we much doubt if any one could personate the rdle of Captain Cattle like Mr. Burton, who is the “old tar’ to perfection, Mr. Brougham, as Major Joe Bagstock and Jack Bunsby, is most excellent; and his slegant wife, as Susan’ Nipper, represents with great fidelity those lizettes maitresses, 80 well known in the French come- dies, The play went off with unbounded applause, to & very numerous audience, The entertainments con- | eluded with the “Capture of Capen Cuttle,” which | excited much laughter, and in the hands of Burton and Brougham it sustained its full character. Nino's Taratne, Astor Piace.—Arrangements, on the most extensive scale, are being made, by Messrs. Niblo and Hackett, in order to the production of the English drama, on Monday evening next, under the leadership of Mr. Macready, the great tragedian. As this will be the last engagement of this eminent actor revious to his leaving for Europe, his best pieces will e selected, and the most talented artixts ure secured to sustain Maeready in his rdle of characters, Among those already mentioned as forming part of the stock company, are the names of Ryder, C, W. Clarke, Ar- nold, Wemyss and Andrews. ‘The’ stage ‘management will be under the direction of two favorite and distin- guished comedians, Messrs, Chippendale and Sefton. | The Know nothing of, but the play-golng folks | may take it for granted, that’ Niblo will, as he has al- ways done, suit, by not only the pieces selected, but also by the actors chosen to represent the characters of each drama, the taste and refinement of the generation in which we live, Arouto Roons.—-Monday evening next, Desire kelheimer, the eminent violinist, assisted by Miss Va- tini, Sig. Corelli and Taffanelll, and Max Maretzek, the distinguished leader of the Italian Opera Company, will give @ concert at the Apollo Rooms, The pieces selected are from the works of the most approved masters; and from what. we ean glean, those who pa- tronize this youthful, but truly eminent artist, will re- tire highly delighted’ with the rich vocal and musical treat they will receive on that evening. | Cunusty’s Minatnets,—To-day the Christys will give their usual Saturday afternoon performances as well | cs their regular evening ones at 8 P.M. They will, no doubt, have a crowded house at each hour, a4, since their return to head quarters, the excitement to hear them bas been greater than ‘ever, They are as amusing and scientific a band of minstrels as ever puG | black on their faces, Their burlesque, the “Voyage Musicale,” will be performed at both concerts, as also a great variety of their best songs, dances, Ke. Casrur Ganoex.—This delightful summer resort will en to ‘wy ovening, with @ sacred concer Sreccalugiy pisenut tu epend the Sabbath ev. in peholding the most beautiful scenery in the world, in- alig the purest air,and listening, at tho same tme, ta rncved preces which must bring the mind to reflee on the power tbat placed such enjoyment within its reach. Museust,—Never has such a perfect collec. tion of Chinese articles of every description been col- lected together in any country; and the admirable manner in which they are arranged in the exhibition room, shows them ail to the best advantage, The life fixe figures, (to the number of sixty,) dressed in all'the various costumos of the different classes of society in the celestial empire, are alone worth the price of ad- mittance to see, without speaking of the thousands of curiosities also to be seen in the exhibition, The rooms are open from 9 A, M, to 10 P. M., daily. | New Oxtrans Senesavens—To-day, tho Serenaders will give their patrons a double chance to hear their ex- cellencies, as they give their afternoon concert at 3, and their evening one at 8, P.M. They have selected such admirable programmes from their long list of songs, that no one can heat them and leave, dissatisfied with either the quality or quantity of the entertain- ment. They will give their * Panorama” and Italian burlesques at both concerts to-day. Mr. R. Ryan, an Irish comedian and vocalist, from the theatres Royal, Haymarket, and Adelphi, will fol | low Mr. Forrest's engagement at the Broadway thea- tro, It is said that Mr. Ryan performs in the dashin rédé of Irish characters, sings well, and dances # g Irish jig. Nous verrens,