The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1849, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD. Rorthwest corner of Fulton and Nassau stay JAMES GORDON BENNET?, PROPRIETOR nee DAILY HERALD—Three editions, 3 THE MORNING EDI ts pub Se sieokr a, Mand distributed breakfast; (OG BDITHON van be had of the mete” Le’eleck: and the second at 8 o'clock, P. Wi LY HERALD, for esre on this Lon- 1a published every Saturday, ot Oi cents per per i fer etre rope, and . to be post VOLUNTARS CORRESPONDENCE, omtatning fms Coreen ah clio any quarter of the world: f sid for. ‘ EAPABLISHMENT te open throughout ommnunicatrions. sor Wkatonded for insertion oust be a vated See ret ol nay of Ms jood faith. We tam— ted inteatrons. == = = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory—Wittiam Tait—Your Livs’s in Darors, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Fourrra—Wirtcn or Winpramene. NATIO} THEATRE, Chatham Square—Cuiio oF ar—Buax ro Goon Lux Harry Mam. MECHANICS’ HALL, Broadway, noar Broome.—Cmnis- ‘vr's MimerRace. APOLLO SALOON, (In the Parlors)—Stamusn Twine, Bto 6, 8 te 10. MENERVA ROOMS, Broadway—Monet or Naw Yorn. New York, Wednesday, May 30, 1849. News from Europe. ‘The Niagara is now due at Halifax. We may expect to receive her news over the wires at any moment. It is looked for with the greatest inte- | rest. Very Late from California—Astounding News from the Gold Region. The most extraordinary and astounding intelli- gence that we have ever received from the gold region of California, will be found on the first page of this day’s paper, announcing the arrival of Lieut. Beale, the United States government despatch agent, who has made the voyage from the port of | San Francisco, round by the {sthmus of Panama, and reached New York in the brief period of forty- four days. By a piece of remarkable personal en- terprise, he has come ahead of the mails which ar- rived at Panama, in the steamer from San Fran- cisco, bringing with him, of course, only the go- vernment intelligence relative to the condition of that country, and the new discoveries in ita won- derful mineral wealth. The mails, containing letters, papers, and packages of all kinds, will pro- bably not reach this city for ten or fourteen days to come, and that will be by the next steamer from Chagres to this port ; or, perchance, some part of them may reach us by the way of New Orleans. The particulars of this intelligence are truly in- teresting, although only of a general character thus far. The richness of the gold mines of Cali- fornia, as heretofore represented, are more than realized by the accounts furnished us, and the evi- dences exhibited by Mr. Beale. This gentleman carries with him to Washington a lump of virgin gold, weighing eight pownds, and valued at more than two thousand dollars; and he is a living wit- ness of the existence of another lump, in one native mass, weighing twenty-five pounds, valued at upwards of seven thousand dollars! All the accounts heretofore published in our columns of the wealth of California are thus more than real- ized;—they are miraculously surpassed by this latest and most wonderful intelligence of the most reliable character. The emigration to California from all the ports of the Pacific is astonishing. It is calculated that during the present summer there will be at least six umes, if not seven times, as many foreigners col- lected in that region as there are Americans. Now, as we know that about fifteen or twenty thousand emigrants have already departed from the Atlantic coast of the United States, for that terntory, it is reasonable to suppose that the whole active popu- lation engaged in digging gold during this summer, in that rich country, will be at least equal to one hundred thousand men. The arrival of vessels, goods, provisions, and merchandise of all kinds at San Francisco, and other ports in California, is equally large and extraordinary; and the mania has spread to every port on both sides of the Pa- cific, including the jslands, reaching down, it is said, to China and the British provinces in the East. Now, with euch a force of actual diggers in that region during the summer, it is easy to calculate what amount in value of gold dust and solid Jumps of the same valuable mineral, may be produced during the next season. Two or three hundred millions of dollars may be as natural a result as that two and two make four. But if we underrate the ability of the numerous emigration, and stop short of the capacity of the mines, it would be mo- derate to estimate the result of the labor of the summer now beginning at one hundred millions of dollars. That calculation is, in our judgment, considerably below the mark. But we have no time now to calculate the result of the gold digging in that region, or its effects upon the commerce of this country and that of the world at large. A commercial revolution, of a more intense, a deeper, and more extraordinary character than has ever yet been experienced in the world, is now before ue—a revolution infinitely more influential and extensive than that which followed the first discevery of the golden treasures of South Ame- rica, three centuries ago, when the chivalry of Spain entered upon that new and dazzling field of conquest. Lieut. Beale will be in Washington to-night, with his official despatches from the highest autho- rities in California, confirming the accounts which we now give, including all preceding ones. We rust that the government will at once give publi- city to these statements, for the benefit of the com- mercial world in both hemispheres. Our own more special and private accounts will reach us as soon as the mails brought by the last steamer to Panama can reach this city. In the meantime, Mr. Beale’s statement comes justin time to kill the alarm about the cholera. A New “ Sentimental. Jounney”—Our amiable neighbor, and genuine triend of humanity, Massa Greeley, of the Tyibume, has been edifying his readers by an eleborate narrative of his adventures on the road to Cincinnati, whither he had journey- ed, in order to attend some great gathering of the philosophers and philanthropists of the Mississippi valley, who might be much more profitably eim- ployed in trying to stop the crevasse that has been producing so much desolation. The philosopher encountered all sorts of terrible disasters—such as Getting wet to the skin, and going to bed without any supper—all of which romantic incidents he de- tails with a prolixity and naivete quite characteris- hie, and infinitely amusing. Massa Greeley was awfully shocked, he takes care to tell us, by the naughty expressions with which sundry stage- drivers on the route, interlarded their agreeable conversation; and the use of tobacco and whiskey, by many of his fellow travellers, inflicted innume- rable wounds upon his pure and suffering spirit. But, ‘Spparently, the chief aim of the philosopher in peaning this new “sentimental journey,” 1s to convince the most sceptical that he is a perfect muracle of punctuality and patience. Notwith- standing all sorts of mishaps, he came in true to time, at the end of the heat; but the cholera had dispersed his fellow philanthropists, and Horace was about to start home again. Thereis a fidgety restlessness and an excessive modesty about these founerite philosophers, quite odd m their way. “War, Pestilence and Famine.” ‘The Asiatic cholera is the great topic of the day. It is one of those subjects which affect all classea and conditions of society—the over-fed inhabitant of the lordly dwelling in Fourteenth street, and the starving wretch ia the hovel of the Five Points. Meetings are held about it in the streets and pub- lic places. Sanitary committees issue their bulle- tins about it, and medical boards, grave as owls, and about as wise as those agreeable birds, illumi- nate the public by innumerable cautions, hints, directions, and blundering of all kinds. Of course there is great apprehension, great uneasiness, great alarm; not a little fear and trembling on the part of Dives, who does not wish to exchange his palace for the grave, and very little on the part of Lazarus, who heeds not, when, he and his rags are trundled off the stage in an almshouse coffin. Now, all this feeling of alarm and terror is the result of ignorance. Just as the progeny of rich men and wemen, whe are consigned to the tender mercies of barbarian nurses, behold a frightful ap- parition in every object which presents itself in a darkened room, so your “children of a larger growth,” left in the dark on the subject of the pestilence of modern times, readily become alarmed by the phantoms of their own imagina- tion. The world and all that it contains—that solar system of which our planet constitutes so insignifi- cant a portion—together with all those other innu- merable systems which fill the immensity which we call space, are governed by one infinite and im- mutable Omniscience, who regulates, directs and controls the whole system, or system of systems, by general and unvarying laws. Thus, the death of an insect, the extinction of a world, and the ex- plosion of a planet, are controlled by the same im- mutable principles. Nay, more—it may sound startling alike to the unsophisticated to whom “ science did ne’er unrol her ample page,” and the | philosophers who have go patiently followed in the | beaten track of their predecessors ; yet it is highly probable that the same great principles, to a greater | or less extent, regulate the intellectual and physical | phenomena of the habitable worlds. The great | agency of the Almighty, in producing the pheno- | mena of the physical world, is electricity ; and some of the most acute and philesophical minds of | this age are now gradually yielding to the convic- tion that the same occult, mysterious, all-pervad- ing influence or essence, exercises a controlling power over those moral and intellectual phenome- na which have adorned or disgraced our dirty planet, from the first appearance of the devil up to the present time. This is by no means a fanciful philosophy. The pages of history, from Moses to Macaulay, show that war, pestilence and famine have devastated the globe at certain intervals, and apparently in ac- cordance with some fixed laws; exhibiting, too, a remarkable coincidence. In whatever form pesti- lence has appeared—whether as the “plague” of early times, the *‘black death” and “‘sweating sick- ness” of a less remote period, or the ‘small pox” and “cholera” of these latter days—it has moved from east to west, observing pretty much the same routes, periodicity, and disregard of all quarantine regulations; never going south of the equator, and evidently originated and controlled by telluric and atmospheric electricity. Singularly enough, these pestilential visitations, as we have just hinted, have been marked by a wonderful synchronism with great moral and intellectual agitation and convul- sions, and also with desolating influences affecting the vegetable world. So uniform, indeed, has been this coincidence of extraordiuary moral and physi- cal phenomena, that it has become fixed in the popular vocabulary of many nations, and in our language is recorded in the popular phrase—‘‘war, pestilence and famine.” But it is most important to notice that the phenomena have not always pre- sented themselves in the sequence stated in this phrase. The common explanation of this extraor- dinary fact in history, is that wars have naturally produced the pestilence and famine. To a certain extent this has been the case. But frequently the order has been just the reverse. We have seen the hopes of the husbandmen blasted throughout vast regions of the earth, and, about the same pe- riod, totally unexpected revolutions break forth, followed by a train of most extraordinary intellectu- al, political and social phenomena; the pestilence coming in the train of all, and completing the ex. hibition of the power of that occult and subtle agency to which we have ascribed them, and which we denominate electricity. There is not the least doubt in our mind that the Asiatic cholera is traceable to certain electrical in- fluences operating on the crust of the earth, and in the atmosphere. This opinion is entertained by some of the most intelligent and reflective medical men of the age ; for there are some medical men jntelligent and reflective. Sir James Murray, in a very elaborate article, which was published re. cently in London, enters into a very extended ex- hibition of the results of the experiments and re- searches which have led him te the belief that all those pestilential diseases and epidemics which have appeared amongst mankind have been solely the result of electrical phenomena ; and, by a sin- gular coincidence, the very sume views were pre- sented to the public in this country, by a writer in a medical journal published in Boston, who could mot, by any possibility, have been aware of the labors, in the same direction, of his professional brother on the other side of the Atlantic. The doc- trine of the contagiousness of the cholera has been completely exploded, by really scientific physicians. It depends on certain electric influences, which operate with greater or lesser violence, according to circumstances. In the present abominably filthy condition of ‘this metropolis, with a ‘ Medical Board” and ‘ Sanitary Committee” who exhibit all the ignorance and imbecility which usually cha- racterize such organizations, the visitation of the pestilence is, indeed, to be dreaded. The superla- tive ignorance, or folly, or recklessness, or all com- bined, of the authorities of the city, in this busi- ness, must fill every intelligent mind with dissatisfaction and indignation. They are quite prepared, quite alert, in the settlement of a question between two disreputable play-actors; but they are at their ‘wits’ end” on the approach of the great plague of modern tmes. If the cholera could be subdued at the same cost that a riot was quelled, there would be no difficulty in banish- ing alarm from this metropolis. In that case, un- der the advice of a brilliant chief magistrate, the military could be ordered out, and the tell monster could be driven from our midst with twenty-three killed and fifty wounded, and no more. But this calamitous visitation of the pestilence, originating in and controlled by the laws which regulate electricity, must be met by men of intelli- gence, prudence and discernment. New York was never worse prepared for such a visitation. Yet the facilities for cleansing and purifying this metropolis are unparalleled. A river flows through our streets, pouring its purifying and healthiul waters into every lane, and bye-way, and thorough- fare. But notwithstanding all this, the city of New York is, at this moment, probably the filthiest city in Christendom. How long are the comfort, health, lives of great communities te be placed under the guardianship of ignorance, imbecility and folly—deaf to all instruction, and hardened against allrebuke? Are all the talent and energy of our authorities exhausted by the heroic effort of killing twenty-three and wounding fifty quiet citizens, merely to decide a quarrel between two miserable play actors? Movements of viduals. Arrivals, yesterday, at the Asron.—Dr. Randolph, St. Louis; 'W. Curtis Skinner, Mexico; Nat. Childs, St, Louis; Judge Marvin, Key West; Mr. Benton, Wash- ington; San. Southard, Itio de Janeiro; Dr. Dowling, Royal Mail Steamer, Canada. Jnvino Hovsy.—W HH. Benton, St, Louis; Cozens, West Point; Captains Sherman and Lathrop, Lake Champlain; Messrs Moring, Winehfeld, and Melebers, Mazatlan; Germin Stahion Tora, Ra Mexico; Colunel Craig, U. 8. A.;, Major Porter Capt. MeCietan, do; Hon, John Collier, Albi Lewiston King, Ohio; Thos, byer, Chicago aie Tux Gop Dotan ann Gop Curaencr.—The delight with which the new iasue of the gold dollar coin was Universally received, on its ance, has been followed by deep coca- sioned by a rumor that it is to be withdrawn. Nothing of the kind. ‘The secret reasons why this firet issue has nearly disappeared, and that the supply is so inadequate to the public wishes, are leaking out. It seems that the officers of the miat at Philadelphia, have set themselves against the issue of such a currency, and that these mere agents of a popular government, are more under the influence of the bank directors of that city, than that of their own masters, the people of the federal; government! The banks there, and elsewhere, are very hostile, in a secret way, to the coinage of gold dollars, because if the cir- culation of such a currency should become general among the people, it would put an end to the rags issued by them for one, two, or three dollars. It is a feeling of personal interest, entirely, which ac- tuates the banks and their agents in Philadelphia, to the same extent probably which it did during the struggles of the old nutional bark, when ma- neged by the unfortunate and unhappy Mr. Biddle. If Mr. Meredith, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the other members of the cabinet at Washing- ton, do not mind their p’s and q’s in relation to this matter, they may get into the same difficult dilemma, as regards public epinion, in which the late Mr. Biddle found himself, and which led to his early and lamentable death. Mr. Biddle was a most amiable, accomplished, intelligent man, and naturally, free from external influences, was a man of popular tastes and impulses. The people of this country, particularly since the discovery of the gold mines of California, and and returned upon the banks. With regard to the mint at Philadelphia, the conduct of its officers, if correctly represented, is outrageous, and demands the immediate attention of General Taylor himself. They ought to be re- moved, from top to bottom, instanter. Not a rag, not a soul, not a splinter of a soul, ought to be left of men who, under the corrupt influence of bank- ing corporations, would dare to throw obstacles in the way of coining a gold currency for the use of a free and independentpeople. The law authorizing this issue remains in force only two years, and the effort is to make it as ineperative as possible. Within the three or four months in which it has been in operation, only about one hundred thousand of these gold dollars have been coined. Now, we want at least ten millions of this popular coin. Let us have a mint in this city, by the next Congress, and we will soon pour over all the country this golden tide, and let the Philadelphia mint, if it chooses, run the course of the old United States Bank—agony, death and burial, without means to pay the funeral expenses, An American Firet rn THE MEDITERRANEAN.— On a pleasant morning, a little more than two years ago, while sojourning at Meurice’shatel, in the Rue de Rivoli, we were amusing ¢urselves by listening tothe commentaries of the reading room on the announcement of the arrival of General Scott and the American army at Vera Cruz, which had just been made in Galignani’s Messenger, together with extracts from the London journals relative to that event. English and French, the latter in particu- lar, were very loud and very confident in the ex- pression of the opinion that Brother Jonathan had made a terrible faux pas, and would be sure to get adreadful drubbing at Vera Cruz. The French- impudence in the Yankees attempting to emulate the great achievement of their wonderful admiral, Beaudin, including Prince de Joinville, who had taken the Castle of San Juan d’Ulloa; and were quite earnest in their predictions of a horrible fail- in our sleeve. dle-aged Englishman gentleman, who had some- cer allover the world. From some remark which had been made by us, he had ascertained that we came from America, and with an evident interest, he inquired— Have you heard the news from Mexico ; your people have captured the castle, the city of Vera Cruz and all?” “Oh! yes!” we replied, “and feel better to-day.” ‘‘And yet,” continued our neighbor, ‘these egotistical Frenchmen fan- cied that Scott and his troop would be beaten! Bah! I know you Yankees better than that!” “Indeed!” we replied, ‘‘have you ever visited the United States?” “That I have,” he returned. “ You have a Captain Stewart in your navy?” ‘Oh! yes —Commodore Stewart—a most accomplished gen- tleman, and a brave and excellent officer.” The same,” said our neighbor, “I was his prisoner once. Ie captured a vessel, of which I was one of the lieutenants, and let me tell you, I had a de- vilish good time of it while I was his prisoner! I am still in the service, and have got at last my rank asa captain in her Majesty’s navy. So you see I do know the Yankees, and d—n me, they’re of our own flesh and blood, and will always accomplish whatever they set about in right earnest! These Mexicans ag miserable devils, and you'll conquer the whole of their country. Let us drink to the health of your Commodore Stewart!” The toast was duly honored, and the English captain kept up the theme almost till the moment that we quitted the table. This little incident has been vividly recalled to our mind by recent reports with regard to the send- ing of an American fleet to the Mediterranean. Unquestionably the United States should be at this time represented on those waters by an appropriate force of men and guns; and we do not know any more appropriate selection of the officer to take the command, that could be made, than that of Commodore Stewart. He is, indeed, just the indi- vidual who should be chosen for this responsible and important position. One of the finest vessels in our navy—the Pennsylvania, for instance— should be immediately fitted for sea, and placed under the command of the Commodore, with an adequate floet, to cruise under his directien in the Mediterranean. 4 We trust that such an arrangement will be made as speedily as possible. The present condition of Europe demands it. Let General Taylor and his cabinet look to the matter. Doctor McCannos, tHe Irish Rervors.—It wil be seen by our advertising columns, that this gentlemae has entered upon the practice of his profession in this city; and we doubt not, from his eminent medical at- tainments, which placed him in the very highest ranks of the profession in the land of his birth, he will obtain the fame elevated position in the land of his adoption. So great was the estimation in which this gentleman was held, that at the age of twenty-one he obtained an appointment in the Glasgow cholera hospital; and the able articles which be published there from time to time, ow the treatment of this disease, led to his ap- pointment as superintendent of the cholera hospital of his native city, Londonderry, in conjunction with the celebrated Dr. Lever, familiarly known to the li terary world as Harry Lorrequer axd “ Charles O’Mal- ley.” On his departure from the city of Glaygow, the members of the Board of Health gave him a vote of thanks for the able, zealous, and fearless manner in which he discharged the dutics of a situation then considered one of much danger. The honors heaped upon him by the Mayor, authorities and inhabitants of his native city, will doubtless still be in tho recollec- tion of many here from that part of tho old country We consider the residenee of such a man in this city as & very fortunate cireumstance at this particular timo, when we are again threstened with another visit from the pestilentint destroyer who has been #0 ably and succesfully foiled by him tn the old world; and we doubt not but the rame aucooan will characterise bis efforts on this side of the Atlantle, in the expectation of the great flood that will soon come from that region, have got a taste for a gold dollar currency; and the banks may as well now, as hereafter, fall in with the result ef this new awakening among the people. In less than five years, all the shin-plaster currency under five dol- lars, throughout the country, will be repudiated, men regarded it as a most astounding piece of ure. We heard them all very quietly, and laughed At the table d’hote on the very next day—which had brought later intelligence from Mexico—we found ourselves seated beside a short, stout, mid- thing of the air which distinguishes the naval offi- TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. ‘GREAT SPEECH BY THE HON. THOMAS H. BENTON, at JEFFERSON, MO., on THE POWER OF CONGRESS OVER G@lavery in the Territories, AND THE RESOLUTIONS OF MR. CALHOUN, THE MISSOURI INSTRUCTIONS, Sees, i0., dies Sr. Louis, May 29, 1840. Col, Benton has been making a great speech at Jof- ferson city, on the subject of slavery in the Torrito- ries, &c. &c., which is oreating much excitement among the democrats of this State, and will no doubt attract much attention throughout the whole country Only a part of the speech is now in print—and so much of it occupies thirteen columns of the Jefferson City Inquirer. Col. Benton takes very strong ground in support of the principle that Congress has complete authority over the territories, including the power to abolish or exclude slavery therefrom; and he declares that the citizens of slaveholding States have no right to carry thebr slave property into the territeries, and hold such pro- perty in them, without the sanction of the National Legislature. Truo, the power of Congress, in respect to this matter, has never been fully exercised; but he insists that the fact of its existence has been recognised and sanctioned by all the fede- ral and State authorities, from the foundation of tho government to the present timo. He says that a slayeholder cannot lawfully carry tho slave, as property, aninch béyond the boundary line of the State which has created such property, oxcept by the consont of the government within whose jurisdiction he proposes to enter—that the only result of the conveyance of slaves to California, &c., at the present time, would be their freedom. Besides, he thinks that the people of Californla and New Moxico are almost unanimously opposed to the establishment of slavery among thom. ‘The resolutions of the Missouri Legislature, instruct- ing him in reference to his future course inthe United States Senate, in connection with this subject, Colonel Benton regards as but an echo of the resolutions in- troduced by Mr. Calhoun into the United States Sonate in 1847, To know the object of the resolutions of in- struction, it was only necessary to know that Mr. Calhoun’s resolutions were aimed at the stability of the Union, as well as at those members of the Senate from the slavehol: ing States, (including himself parti- cularly.) who would not submit to be led [by Mr. C.] He could discover no difference between the resolu- tions of Mr. Calhoun and those of the Missouri Legis- lature, except that the former bad tho most immediate reference to the dissolution of the Union. Colonel Benton enters at some length into an exposition of the inconsistences of Mr. Calhoun’s public career, in rofe- rence to the slavery question as well as other matters. The position now taken by the Senator from South Ca- rolina was, that Congress had no right to intorfere with slavery in any manner; and that there could be no compromise upon that point. Yet, in 1820, the admis- sion of Missouri as a Stato was tho result of a compro- mise of this very question—and that compromise had been assented toby Mr.C. The prosent course of Mr. Calhoun and bis followeas was calculated to prevent a compromise with the North, inasmuch as the lattor were incensed to take algo an extreme position, in op- position. [The above is the substance of Col. Benton's re- marks, so far as we could gather it from our despatches, Our correspondents at St. Louis promise a continuance of the report, as soon as it is published there.] ‘The Flood at New Orleans—The Water Still Rising. Cuanuestox, May 28—P. M. We have dates from New Orleans to tho 23d instant. No progress had been mado towards stopping the great crevasse, although the efforts were being vigor- ously continued. The water was still on the rise, and the flood had extended to within four squares of the river on Carondelet street. St. Charles street was seriously menaced. Tho water in Bayou street and Julia stroet was but three inches lower than the great inundation of 1831. Great fears wore apprehended of the lovee breaking along the New Canal. ‘There ia no mention made of the cholara. The Steamboat Empire—The Inquest at Fishkill, é&e. Newnuna, May 20-8 P. M. At the session of the Coroner's jury at Fishkiil to- day, Mr, Deming, pilot of the stenmboat Rip Van Winkle, Capt. Waldron, and Capt. Robinson’s brother, were examined. Mr. Burden, who will probably be tho last witness, has not yet arrived. The body of Mr. Lafayette Smith's child was found this afternoon, at Cornwall, four miles down the river. ‘The body ofa man (unknown,) has just beon found at the ship-yard hero. The Cholcra—Burnt District—Business, &. Sr. Louis, May 29, 1949. ‘The deaths by cholera for the week ending yesterday Wore 118; from other causes 60 Great activity prevails in the burnt district, anda great improvement has already taken place, Numbers of steamboats are crowding the leveo, and considerable business is doing in produce. ‘The weather is very pleasant. Whe Trial of Dr. Hardenbrook. Rocuxarer, May 29, 1849, The evidence on the part of the prosecution, in the trial of Dr. Hardenbrook, was concluded to-day, at 3 o'clock; and the counsel for the prisoner are now pro- ceeding with the defence. It is expected that the case will be given to the jury to-morrow night. ANOTHER DESPATCH. , Rocnxsrex, May 29, 1849. The prosecution rested at about noon to-day, aud the case was opened for defence by Mr. Selden, in a speech which occupied two hours, Several witnesses were then examined on the same side, to prove that Mr. Nott’s state of health, during the year precoding his death, was bad; and to show Dr. Hardenbrook’s good standing in New York, some medical testimony was also taken, Arrest for Forgery—Gold Dust—The Wea- ther, dec. Bactimonx, May 20—P. M. William Woodward, Clerk of the Select City Coun- cil, and news reporter of the Beacon, Norfolk, Va., has been arrested for forging the name of Willlam Ward on his note for $300. The forgery was fortunately dis- covered before the note was paid. Six thousand dollars’ worth of gold dust, brought from California by the U. §. razeo Independence, was forwarded to Philadelphia to-day, by Messrs, Adams & Co. ; ‘The weather, to-day, has been exceedingly unplea- sant, and mercantile operations were very limited. Destructive Fire at Troy, Markets, dic. New Onteans, May 23. The cotton market continues active, and prices are one-eighth better. The sales of the day are 4,000 bales; fair is quoted 8c. Freights te Liverpool- Cotton, one farthing. 5 Cuantestow, May 28—P. M. The sales of cotton, since the receipt of the Caledo- nia’s advices, are 800 bales, at quotations refused pre- vious to her arrival. Prrtsnono, May 20—P. M. The markets are unchanged. bacon has advanced ec. Ib, pp. Bautmonr, May 29—P. M. Business has been very dull to-day, but market quo- tations are unchanged, Burvato, May 20-6 P. M. Receipts within the past 24 hours:—Flour, 3,700 bbis., wheat, 10,000 bushels... For flour there is a fair demand, with sales of 2,000 fbbis. at $4 06%, which is a slight deoline. For wheat there is » fair inquiry, and we no- tice sales of 2,000 bushels common western at 75 cts. The corn trade is dull, with a downward tendency in prices; the nominal quotations are 45 a 46 conts.— Freights are firm, with an upward tendency Flour te Albany we quote at 50 cents; wheat 14 cents, and corn 9 cents. Auuany, May 20—6 P. M, Receipts by canal within the last 24 hours :—Flour, 1,700 bbié.; corp, 9.300 bushels, The market fer four is without change, and a moderste demand prevails. The sales of corn are ‘6,000 bushels at 61 61% conts for round yellew, which is an advange. In oats, the sales are 3,000 bushels a! 343¢ ots. Boston, May 20, 1849. The cotton market is firm and quict. Flour, west- ern, Boston inspection, $4873; Southern, $5; Gene. see, $5 25 to $5 30; extra $6%; corn, 66} for white; 61 for yellow. Yesterday afternoon, 4,000 bushels of superior yellow sold at 63¢. Sugar—250 boxes white, for export, sold at 63 cents. Auction sales of the car- g0 of the brig George Williams, from Palermo—Oranges, 2,020 boxes, $1 423, a $315; 200 half do, $1 06, sixty days. Lemons—one thousand bexes—240 sold at $180 @ $1 823¢, 60 days. Walnuts—70 bags at $6 55, four months. Shipping Intelligence. Naw Onieana, May 23, 1319, Arrivod—Ships*Caledonia, Brander, NYork; Michael An- gelo, Boston. Sailed—Ship Louisiana, barks Odd Fellow, and J A Thomp- Poaaet GuARLestow, May 2, 1549. Arrived—Ships Camden, Scotland, Elisha Dennison, Catha~ rine. and brigs George, and Helda (Sw), NYork; schr F H Baker and steamer Columbus, Philadelphia. Sailed—Bark Arvola, Boston; brigs Clarion, Austin, and eb er Boston, May 29, 1849. Arrived—Ship Robert Pulsford, Caldwell, Sydney, NSW, Deo 22, and Auckland, NZ, Feb 1: spoke April 18, lat 15 10 8, lon 3171 W, ship Ed Cary, of Nantucket, 75 days from Cal- lao for NYork; April —, lat 15 8, lon $145 W, bark Smyrna, 75 days from Callao for NBedford, April 24, ship Rebecca, Sims, Taber, Inst from Bay of Islands for NB, 1600 bbls spm oil—parted company with the above April 28, lat 5 8, lon 343, W; May 18, Int 27, lon 60 W, bark Palestine, 42 days from 108 Ayres for Boston. Barks Henry Kelsoy, Marseilles, March 26; Maas, Rotterdam, April 9; Defender, Newcastle, April 12; Harry(King, Cork, April 18, with 74 passengers, Schr Angenoris, Norfolk. Cleared—-Brigs Franklin, St Thomas; Sarah Williams, Gien- fuegos; Merchant, Cardenas; Gen Marshall, Charleston; Gen Soot, Baltimore; Palm, Philadelphia, Clearod—Brig Zaine, Rio de Janeiro, Naw Beprorp, May 23, 1819, Cleared-—Barks Hecla, Atlantic Ocean; Franklin, Cowes; Rothschild, Rotterdam, ‘At Watchman’s Cape, Patagonia, March 9, ship Russell, for NYorkinafowdays City Intelligence, jALEM, May 28, 1849. Troy, May 29-12 M. A fire broke out, this morning, at Marshall’s bleach works, Ida Hill, Troy, which destroyed nearly the whole works, besides a considerable amount of property, among which were ail the shootings and other goods of the steamer Empire, which were taken from tho wreck. Loss not yet ascertained —partially insured in the Troy Mutual Company. Affairs at Pittsburgh, Pirreavran, May 20—P, M. The heavy rains have checked business, The river in riving. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian chureh )eld school.) adjourned this afternoon, Nothing important has transpired, Mail Fatiure, Bautimons, May 20—10 P.M. There was no mail beyond Richmond, Va., to-day, The Cotton Crop in the South, Pui.apeuenia, May 29, 1849. A private letter dated Mount Zion, Georgia, 23d inst., says :—The replanting of the cotton crop was too late by four weeks, and under any favorable clroumstances that may cccur during the remainder of the growing reason, the yield will not exceed two-thirds of e crop. Tue CHorena—Sanitany Committee, May 29.—Dr. Geer, Resident Physician, reports eight new cases of cholera as having occurred since his report of yester- day, four of which proved fatal. JAMES KELLY, ROBERT T. HAws, ql ALEX’R H SCHULTZ, Sani Com. CHARLES oe of the EDWIN D. MORGAN, | Board ef Health, ROB’T A. SANDS, The Sanitary Committve meet at 12 o'clock M. Several cases are reported to have occurred after their meeting had adjourned yesterday. One of the cases reported to them at their last meeting was that of s young woman, named Bridget Coffee, who was taken suddenly ill at'an intelligence effice in Nassau street, It must be highly imprudent, on the part of tho keep- ors of these offices, to allow so largo assemblages fn the basements, which they, as = general thing. uso. Forty or fifty women and men are every day closely packed together in these subterranean rooms, where yentilation, at best, is bad enough, and where the reek- ing fumes of foul clothing must render the air poison- ous at any time, but particularly noxious while any poisonous effluvium is current. Several doaths have oceurred at Brooklyn within tho last few days, which seem to indicate that that city is not froe from the scourge. Two deaths are directly set down to the ac- count of cholera—one respectable merchant doing business in this city, and the other a persen of notori- ously intemperate habits. Quaxer Weex.—A singular fatality seems to attond the annual visit of the members of the Society of Friends to our city. The appearance of numerous respeetable strangers, under broad brimmed hats and close satin hoods, is almost invariably accompanied by arain storm, This year is no exception to the years which have gone before. It is nothing but rain, rain, rain, and drizzle, drizale, drizzle, and there will pro- bably be no permanent change until Quaker mecting week is over. Usxnown Max Drownen.—Tho Coroner held an in- quest yesterday, at the Alms House yard, on the body of an unknown man. aged about 40 years, found floatin, in the river, foot of Chambers street. He was dresse in a black overcoat, black pants, black silk vest, striped shirt, and white muslin shirt over, black silk cravat, and a coarroe boot on one foot. He appeared to been in the water some ten or twelve days. Verdict, death by drowning. Brooklyn City Intelligence. Buppen Dratn.—A merchant of New York, named Lawrence Hill, who revided in this city, died very sud- denly on Monday evening last. He bad been, up to within about three hours prior to his decease, in most excellent health, and, no doubt, the thought of being carricd off thus suddenly had not entered his mind. A report is current in. the city that he was a victim to ee but nothing certain is known in relation 0 it. A gentleman named Henry Patchem, residing in South Brooklyn, is lying at the point of ‘death, from a severe attack of the cholera morbus, Rewanv.—The Board of Aldermen, on Monday eve- ning last, passed a resolution offering a reward of $150 for the arrest of John Kennedy, the murderer of Wm. Parker, in Atlantic street. Annest or 4 Youxa Prexrockrt.—Officer Whitehill yesterday arrested a young man, named Edward John- son, on the complaint of one John Kiernan, who chi the prisoner with having abstracted « wallet, conteln ing about $15, from his pocket. The accused was held to answer the charge. Brooxtys City Court.—This.Court, the Hen. John Greenwood presiding, will commence its regular ses- sion on Monday next, It is understood that about cighty criminal cases have been sent to this Court by the Court of Oyer and Terminer. This will create plenty of business for the lawyers, who will doubtless Tejoice that an opportunity is afforded for the speedy despatch of the business which has been so long aceu- mulating on their hands. Tne Stanvixa Case.—The examination of the parties concerned in the recent ctabbing case on Hamilton avenue, took placetyesterday afternoon, and resulted in the magistrate holding them to trial at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, The Cholera in Brooklyn. Orrice or Boarp or Heautn, Bnooxtyn, 12 o'clock, M., May 29. { Present, his Honor the Mayor, Aldermen Redding and EThero has be ated to this off ere has been reported to this office one case of cholera, which terminated fatally last evening. CHAS, 8. J. Goopkicn, Physician of the Board. P. 8.—Physicians will take notice that the Common Council at their last meeting. passed n resolution ro- quiring daily reports in writing to this office clock, A. M., of all casos of sickness or death from epi- demic, contagious or pestilential diseaso, together with the name, age and ee of residence of every such pa- tient. DWARD COPLAND, Mayor and President Board of Health. MAILS FOR EUROPE. THE WEEKLY HERALD. Tho steamship Canada, will leave this port at noon to-day, Her letter bags will close in this city at 10 o'clock this morning. Tho Weekly Herald, printed in Fronch and English, for circulation in Europe, will be published at 9 o'clock this morning. Its contents will embrace all the im- portant news of the week, including the late intelli- gence from California. Bingle copies, in wrappers, sixpence. Startling Revo! jution—The revoiutior the price of boots, produced by immense sales, moderate penses and quick returns, is ilivawrated at JONES'S, lt Ana street, where Leots, ahoes or gaitors, passed in the le, are nol un is of pairs '" et) coat under the standued prices. m wey ‘Te the Public—Readers and Advertisers, Hereafter, the deuble sheet of the New York Herald will be published every Tuesday morning. We hiave come to this conclusion, in order te ac- commodate the vast body of new advertisers whe are pressing forward for admittance into the co_ lumns of that edition of our jeurnal. The enter- prise of publishing a double sheet for the benefit of the business community, has succeeded beyond our most sanguine expectations; and although we begin with the issue only of one such sheet week- ly, we mean gradually to extend this accommoda- tion, by publishing a similar sheet, whenever ne~ cessary, twice a week, gradually increasing the arrangement, so as to be enabled fully to meet the wants and wishes of this rapidly growing city, by the publication of a double sheet every day. But, for the present—and during the approaching sum- mer, when the activity of business slackens— we shall restrict ourselves to the issue of one double sheet each week ; and Tuesday is fixed upon for the permanent day of issue. Advertisers of all kinds will please take notice of this an- nouncement, and govern themselves accordingly. ‘Travellers and others will find a com=- eno a containing articles of convenient size, and real utility, im the most compact form, warranted to perform the duties for which thoy are severally designed—armong which, is the Metalic Tablet Eero, ie ¢ subscriber's invention) so- edged by the frat cutlers to bo the only artiol® thag will Keoprazora in perfect order. G. SAUNDERS & SON, 1d Broadway, corner of Liborty street, and 87 Broadway. A Boot in price to fit the Poeket, as well t,,to tit the foot of the most fas— ‘Shoes, Ke., may be found at the Govatuor Toung. cornet of Fulten and posite our office,—THE DOCTOR, Professor Barry’s Tricopherous, or Medi- cated Compound.—Endorsed by tho tirst professional talent im tho United St nds of well~ siieabie to two speo! orywhere in demand, Pronounced, on Ps ‘and 's, which has ever beon offered te the publio, either in the old world or the new. It stands Blone—"'i¢has mo brother, and is like no brother,” lume o! Ave- mtic testimony and analytical proof of its value accompanies every bottle isi ‘To gainsay the reo: dg. one more to the legi The philosophy of its operation first action is upon the skin. It gently eti- les nature, by a vigorous, lammation, erupt 7 If the {oflammation ‘be caused by a cut, sprain, or brui the effect is the same. Tho adsorbents are invigorated, the extravasated blood is soon taken up, and all pain and discoloration is removed. Im rheumatitm, ¢wollings of the glands, and all affections of the integuments, it nots specifically through the pores and the absorbents upon the seat of is Its wonderful effects in renewing, glossing, beautifyin, d cleansing the hair. are all produced through its primary influence upon the skim. of the head. Tho invigorating fluid enables the scalp to form ite functions properly. “The sourt and dandruf, which a sluggish circulation has allowed to acoumulate, are throwm off; the vegetative principle finds its way to tho vesicles im which tho heir is rooted, and they aro supplied. as it were, with an elt vite, whioh strengthens, moistens, glosses and beautit very fibre, until ‘each particular hair” be= comes a healthy wud clartictilamont, The samo fertiizi Principle which causes the existing hair to grow, stimulat she Intent roots, and thus the fibres which have fallen out are woon replacod by now ones. Remomber that this deuble antidote—this specific for diseases of the skin, and matchless beautifier of the hair—is sold from fifty to one hundred per cont. cheaper than any other preparation for tho hair out, old, in largo bottles, price 2} cents, at the principal ethos, 137 Broadway, New York; Redding’ & Co., # State strost, Boston; Child’ & Co., 3 Ledger Buildings, Philadelphia; G. G. Hi st,” Haleimore; Haviland, Harrell & Cos Wright & Co., 161 Chartres street, New: Orleans; Bromberg, Mobile, Ala.; ‘Sterger, Racine, Win; and by pil the principal druggists and merchants throughout the nited States and Canada. res COMMERCIAL APFAIRBS MONEY MARKET. Tuceaay, May 29-6P.M. The money market never was easier than at this moment, and tho demand never more limited, for the season. Loans have been made on government stocks, at call, at four per cent.; and it is difficult to put out any amount, even at this reduced rate. This state of things must put up prices forall good, sound, dividend- Paying securities; and it is our impression that the United States loan of 1868 will sell, before the lapse of many days, at 2 and 3 per cent advance on current rates. Government stocks of all kinds, and all kinds of good State securities, must be favorably influenced by the plethora in the money market. As regards fancy stocks, they aro, for the present, literally used up. It is utterly impossible to get up any move- ment cither way—up or down, Holders are firm, and not disposed to give way; and purchasers are sci it present prices. The easy money market is in favor of holders carrying stocks; but they are a heavy load at any price, and the loss of interest is immense. It might be good policy on the part of tho bulls, to let prices dewn one or two per cent, for the purp»se of changing the class of operators, with the hope that a reaction would carry them above ruling rates. This would bea desperate remedy; but the disease is desperate, and some such measures must be resorted to for relief. It is our impression, however, that speculation is over—at least for this season; that the only movement in prices for fancies will be downward; and that the bulls wHl find it difficult to get rid of their supplies without submitting toa declino of several percent. It would smash the fancy stock market all to picces, to throw several thousand sharos into the street for saley and there is danger of such a movement any day. The bulls must be daily getting weaker and weaker. Considerable excitement was created in Wall street to-day, by theappearance on ’change, of a lump of gold, just from the minos of California, weighing eight pounde, valued at fearly $2,000. It was brought by Lieut. Beale, of the navy. It is the largest lump of California gold ever exhibited in this country ; but it is nothing compared with some of the lumps circulating about San Francisco, ‘The yellow fever is spreading again, and wo have no doubt many who have heretofore os- eaped, will fall victims. The arrival of the California at Panama, opens the communication with San Fran- cisco, by the most direct route, and brings us within about thirty days of the mines. We do not know yet how much gold the California brought; but it is very probable that she hasa large amount on freight. There is considerable inquiry for the gold dollar. The brokers charge four and five per cent premium, and cannot satisfy the demandat that rate. Thore is @ sorewloese somewhere in the internal arrangements of the mint, and it would be well for tho government to look into the matter. Some influence is at work to restriet the issue of this desirable coin, and we should like to know to what officers it extends. The banks are bitterly opposed to any great circulation of the gold dollar, and place every obstacle in the way of the coin- agq in their power. If the banks and the officers of the mint can prevent the operation of any measure autho- ised by a special act of Congress, it is high time a clean sweep was made of the officials in that public in- stitution, The government have a large amount of American gold in the mint, and the proper way would be to purchase foreign gold with a portion of the sur- plus funds, and have it at once coined into gold dollars. The act authorising this coinage expires on the vhird of March, 1861, and it is therefore necessary to turn the whole force of the mint to the manufacture of this de- sirable coin, even to the total neglect of all others. The receipts at the office of she Assistant Treasurer of this port, to-day, amounted to $51,293 99 ; payments, $109, 120 36; balance, $2,016,335 25. ‘The total amount of specie entered at the Boston custom house, as imported in the valedonia, is $301,768 The directors of the Bank of Commerce @ passed # resolution that they will issue no notes after the Slat of October next, nor any kind of paper credits to cir- culate as money. This isin view of the provision of the State constitution going into operation on the 1st of January noxt, rondering porsonally liable for the debts of the bank all stockholders, to the amount of their stock, in all banks issuing circulating notes, The stock of the Norfolk County Railroad, Masea- chusette, which sold, on the first report of the failure St 16%, has since advanced to 30. The confidence of purchasers is based upon the belief that the road is eer- tain to do @ good dividend paying business, and that by judicious management the etook will yot be valuable. The notes of this company, endorsed by the contrag- tora, have beon offered at 15 per cent discount, The quotations for foreign and domestic exchanges, specie, and for uncurrent money, in this market, rule as annexed :— Om London ble, for every purchaser mosses aren yea in its issimple. its mulats ove: healthful effort, = 3 Pornian Rxcnanane. «1084 a 108% On A materd: On Paris 4 5f2> On Hamburg, On Bromen,..... 76a Domestic Excna St. Louis, Detroit, ..