The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1850, Page 2

‘innate OC: SO TTT | members of Congress look over the brink, and see what ¢hey can dis- NEW YORK HERALD. . e JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. OFFICE NW. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, THE PRALD, 2 cents pe? copy—ST per annum. THE Rien tink ALD, every Saturday, st 6% conte por He $3 per annum; the buropedy edition $4 per annumn, i Rig ALL LETTERS by mail. fo fmsements, to be post pul, or the money remited. s57 Oneuahtessiabindianiie 1 subseriptions, 0 with adver= ‘postage will be deducted from the i... So ANY anvauarter of the world; f weed, will be ay Pe a ken of enonymous communications, We é 0 eens ceyceted communications. “DEER TISEMEN TS renewed every morning. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—tinvay Vill—ie Lave Leas. Broadway.—Love—Onanp Di- BROADWAY THEATR' ms DAN vextisswent—YOuR Lay NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Romanxce awn Reauiry —PRomenave Musi BURTON'S THEATRE. Chambers Street—Tus Vicax or | Waseriete—Mysrenious Kxooxines, ONAL THEATRE, Chatham Square—Secown Bere ‘Tarvee—Goine ro Tas Racus. BaovcnTs—lewsce Foury Astor Place.—Lospow Assunance—My Paa- TUBATR enous Berry) OMKISTY’ eran Manor) OLYMPIC.—Pimnce’s Miveracxs. MELODEON.—Wuree's Scaenanzes OMINESE MUSBUM—Crin ese Pamir. @BINESE ASSEMDLY KOOMS—Laxcamamm Buxa- ‘Barents UPERA HOUSE, Mechanics’ Hall—Erme~ ELA. BURTON'S ASSEMBLY ROOMS—Inrenserivo Exe (wow OF Scnipre nal [LLwsrk ATIONS. New Vork, Monday, May 20, 1850, the City Carriers of the Herald. Several complaints haye been made recently, of the | want ef punctuality and promptitude in several of the carriers whe serve the Herald to subscribers in the city —particulorly beyond the Bowery, and as high as East Nimth street. If any of ourearriers do not proper- Ay attend to their duties, we now that they will be immediately removed, aad others appointed iv their places. N. B— Applieations for vaeant routes, with ereden- tials of character left at the Mereid office Frem Wasbington—Telegraphic, Mr. Collector Maxwell's bourding heart may eease to palpitate with delight, this morning, on learning that his appointment has not yet been re- ported to the Senate by the Finanee Committee. Ne must wait a little, and prepare even for the un- plexsant alternative of being Webbed. The cabinet are in spasms. Crawford’s political death seems to be a certainty, though it may be a trance. Other members are in a dying state. Never mind, we shall have important debates in Washington all through the week, and people must wake up, and inquire where they are, and in what century they are living, or in which half of the pre- sentone. The cabinet make it a puzzling inquiry. The Present Crisis—The Probable Course of the Minority in Congress, Mr. Wilmot, in his speech in the House of Re- presentatives, on the 3d inst., upon the Califoraia question, applied all @erts of epithets to his Northern associates and colleagues in Congress, for their want of spirit, courage and perseverance in resist- img what he ealled “the settled and fixed purpose ef the Southern men, viz: the perpetuation of sla- very.” Mr. W. stated, that unless “ the spirit of threatening and defiance was resisted, the North are the greatest of slaves.” “The rights of the majority must be respected, or the fundamental principles of the constitutton are undermined, and” we (the majority) are the vilest of slaves; “and we (he majority) are told that if we presume to exer- eise this clear and admitted power, without mak- ing certain concessions to slavery (the minority), measures of a revolutionary character will be re- sorted to, and the ordinary supplies of government withheld, and the yeas and nays called, in defiance ef parliamentary law and usage, until the end of the present session of Congress.” Mr. Wilmot utters a great many other philoso- phieal and foolish things, which we will not waste eur time to notice. Every school boy knows that the constitution of the United States was framed for the protection of the minority. A majority reed no protection—like Douglas, they can protect themwely Mr. Wilmot calls upon them to do it—to use the power of force. He states distinctly & proposition to that eflect. The South (the mino- rity) say there is no constitutional power to pass the proviso—‘‘the North (the majority) think there | is,” and Mr. Wilmot says, use it—fo t upon the | Seuth. He would deprive the South of aay con- | stitutional rights, or make the extent and sacred- ness of those rights dependent upon the opinion | ‘and vote of the majority. What redress have the | Soath, but to depend upon the constitational rights and privileges which surround the minority ? They ean check the majority, and stop all legislation until | the majority are forced to obey and submit to the mandates of the constitution, or to abetain from all doubiful legislation, which may or may not be granted to « majority in Congress by the federal mstrument. Our design is not to dil these questions. We believe the Southern members of | Congress have determined to pursue the course | which Mr. Wilmot hae indicated that the minority will pure ing legislation, and refusing to make the app Mr. Clay thinks so too. As honest journaliste, i bere of Congress of the danger of such a course. would end in revolution. We will mark out a few of the results of such a procedure The millions collected by government in specie, if | leeked up by not being appropriated, and disbursed, | for three monthe, would produce the most awful | priations. evils in this ¢ commercial city, which is t busixess heart of the Union. Derangement in its | vital functions, would carry commercial death to | every extremity and portion of our frame. If Con- gress do not vote the appropriations before they ad- jeurn, it will break two-thirds of the banks and @xpitelists in Wall street, from Trinity Church to Water street, on both sides of the way. It will make bankrupts of every leading merehant ia Souih street, from the Battery to the Catharine street Every American stock would go down ten, twenty, thi t fifty cents the dol lar. Roilroad stocks could not be given away Every citizen wh bread and butter is derived from the interest of such investments, would be ferry ruined destitute. Real estate would fail at onee. The erection of buildings, the building of ships, the manvfacturing of goods, would be all guspended, und nearly all the laborers in this city would idle and out of employ Gaunt ruin and haggard misery, dressed ja Beck's best silks and satine, would walk about onr streets, from the Battery to. Union Place. There w ould be mo private carrieges, no operas, no game done! mo omnibuses, no hacks, no cabs, no carta, or crv- thing. of the kind, ranning over Broadway and dis- tutbing the pavers and people. Let the basis of all mereantile operations—ihe epecie—be locked up ia ‘the curtom house, und the thing is doae. In a word, auch a scene of ruin and distress es would be browght upon the Northern Btates by the simple | fefasel.of the minoricy in ( to vote the ap- | propriations, is beyond the power of any ordinary broker or blockhead to wnagiae, of any poct or pen te pourtray. The Northera States ace in t way to bring about this crisie, by medd@ijing with Southern institutions, Theve are but avo ot lamities whieh could be broaght upon the country and the commercial world, whieh would equal the one which Wilmot fers js soo to barst upon us, vie.—firet, to abstain from raising cotton for or year, except to eupply their own manufaet the South; and seeond, to become Shhukers, an Beither marry nor give in marriage. We are in a critice! box, just now. The disco- very of Cotifornia may prove the opening of a se- @end Pandora's chest. We are on the verge of a freeipiee, We direet the attention of Northern * in 1 the federal Union, the North, York, over and down among he rocks which lie at the bottom, where they wish to jumpto. Let us pray. to it. We wantt' sem just to over down below, before they t?\ge themselves, ard the city of New Tue Caper AND “ts Asprors.—It is hardly worth the time to enumerate the causes which have led the calinet of General Taylor into its present conditiou. These men have literally and politically ‘dome those things which they ought not to have done, and have left undone those things which they ought to have done, and there is no health in them.” They nearly disgraced the first year of honest old General Taylor’s adminis- wation, in all sorts of ways, and almost rendered him an object of pity to all good citizens. Presi- dent Taylor is worse off in Congress than our old friend, President Tyler. Captain Tyler had a corporal’s guard, and paid them bountifully for their services. General Taylor has not a corporal’s guard, tho he has a corporal—Corporal Truman Smith. Unpleasant as it is to us to allude to the dis- tressing, humiliating position to which the cabinet have reduced the good old chief, whom we were the first to nominate for the high office, and to whom our independent support contributed some- what to elevate, yet we have a duty to perform to the public—we must speak the truth. The cabinet of General Taylor are not only the langhing-stock of the whole Union, North and South, as the seven great clowns of the national circus, but they are beginning to be looked upon in a more serious light. The old story of the * Forty Thieves” will be swallowed up in the enormous robberies of a Jess number of men, who are engaged in *Gulpping” and Chickasaw excursions of all sorts and kinds. All these things are awful, and would have erushed any administration into smaller particles than this one. It has been saved thus far by the general belief which the community still retain, in spite of | his associations, that the President himself is an honest, though deceived man. Perhaps, among all the causes of complaint, which are legion, against the cabinet of Generel Taylor, there is none more serious, and none more detri- mental at the present alarming erisis, than the fact that a majority of the cabinet are free soilers and abolitionists, im disguise. We judge of them by theiracts, although it was well known, at the com- mencement of the administration, that some of them were open and avowed abolitionists, and had voted, when in Congress, for the abolition of slavery in the district. The abolition feeling has prevailed in the cabinet, and its acts have been such as to present the President to the American people, asa fa er of his pledges, as almost a renegade to the section which gave him birth. They have brought about him the abolitionists of both houses. ‘Their confidential friends are Seward and Truman Smith, of the Senate; and their associates, such men as Hale, Chase, Giddings, Preston King, and all that ilk. The measures they have induced him to recommend to Congress, are such as are satis- factory to Benton and the free soil party. They in- duced the President to send agents to California, to urge those speculating politicians out there to form a State, which, if admitted, will make the fortunes of the agents, and those in and out of the cabinet, who are engaged in the land purchases and Mexican titles. It is this epen and avowed alliance, offensive and defensive, between the administration and the free soilers, into which the honest old General has been led by his constitu- tional advisers, that has brought Congress into the present anarchical condition, and from which there is not the slightest hope of its being delivered, until Genera! Taylor displays some of that stern, prompt, and determined action, which has characterized his course in less critical periods of his career, and which, in former days, stamped him with the well merited soubriquet of “ Old Rough and Ready.” Views on tue Apotrtion Mrerinas.—The Courter and Enquirer, behind all the other news- papers, as usual, with its opinions, has under- taken, in its ponderous and prudish sheet, to exhibit wiedom upon the late abolition meetings in this city. The Herald, of course, is dragged in tomake the article spirited and worth reading, and we are charged with making an excitement about abolition doctrines, which, says the sagacious writer, would die out, if let alone. Indeed! Does the history of the whig party, of free soil, Seward, Greeley and the rest, prove this? Have not the abolition senti- ments even touched the Courier and Enquirer? ‘What is the use in trying to cover a notorious fact ? All this outery, however, about silence killing error is absurd. It is the course of the great lum- bering sheets to be silent about everything, till they are sure they will not lose an advertisement by publishing an article. But what is the result of such journalism t Why, simply this—that they are made entirely by public opinion, and not public opinion by them. Sometimes, as in the present case, they run counter to the popular feeling, and then they suffer for their temerity, It comes with a bad grace from the Courter and Enquirer, to read usa lecture. It would be mueh better enga- ged in reviewing its own history, and in calling to mind the days, when, by illegal appeals to the worst passions of our citizens, it instigated men to riot in the house of Mr. Arthur Tappan, to burn churches, and to do other deeds of like wickedness. Our course throughout these recent meetings has been plain, and porely within the limits of law and reason. The very organs of the defeated party de- t the Herald's reports are the only ones to ed upon—that they are strictly accurate and j and it is evident to every sensible man that our opposition, so fur as it extended, was legal, na- tural, and justifiable. If the lewd outcasts of so- ciety were to call a meeting, invite discussion, and indulge in all the licentious language of the bagnio, under the plea that free discussion should be toler- ated, does any one dare to maintain that they have a right to do so, without opposition from the decent and moral! In the recent meetings at the Taber- nacle and the Seciety Library, there were no riots, no violation of person or property, but simply a free, but somew hat noisy discussion of religion, politics and morals, between Garrison and Rynders, and their respective gangs. Rynders had the best of it, and that was all. Post Orrice Misuaxa@ement.—We have reeeiv- ed many complaints from various parts of the coun- try, with respect to the failure of newspapers to ar- rive at their destination. From Moatgomery coun- ty, Pennsylvania, the complaints are loud and long. ‘The newspapers are vent to Philadelphia, and it is in the post office in that city that the trouble origi- nates. The blunders are made by the new bateh ot officials introduced into that establishment, by the new postmaster there, who does not seem to have considered that the public ought not to be made the victims of experiments and raw recruits. From all quarters it is evident that the changes in the post effice department have produced an unv- sual and “tolerable derangement, and it is quite time that se remonstrance should be made against the neglect and the blenders committed under the present regime. Tre Corse Sreamens.—The second vessel of this noble line of oeean steamers, the Paeific, started, on Satucday morning, on a trial trip, end will return to het elip, at the foot of Canal street, this morning. ‘The greatest expectations are ew tertained of her performances, certain peesliarities in her model proaisiag increased speed even to that of the Atlantic. We may expect to hear, to- morrow or next dey, by the Europa, of the arrival | Of te Atlantic at Liverpool. Tae Copan Iwvastos ~The arrival of the Ohio Steamer, expected tomorrow, will bring intelli- gence of the movements in and about Cuba; and We may enticipdar that the expedition will prove disastrous to the aaventurers, in more senses than one. The chances ave all against the success of this prematore movement. | SE ANE ESSE NSE AANA FOP PO ES SI NSP TENE Ratways ~ Eng ianp awn America —For some years past, it has been generally observed, that the railway business in England has not uafre- quently presented rather discouraging features in its progress—that it has given evident signs of im- portant discrepancies in the management of the fixed eapital, and has, in general, exhibited in- stances of serious financial embarrassment—cir- cumstances which have caused some uneasiness and disquietude among the capitalists and railway speculators in that quarter. Recent accounts from Europe do not only substantiate the truth of these observations, but give us also a melancholy picture of the magnitude of the defalcation in the value of the original outlay, It is stated in the London ‘Times, that the shares of the Great Western Rail- way have alone fallen to one-fifth of their value in the market, within two years, and that those of other established lines have sunk to one-tenth, while the aggregate depreciation is not less than fifty per cent on the original outlay, which implies a loss of £100,000,000 or $500,000,000, Such an enormous reduction in the value of railways, in the brief space of two years, must necessarily ex- ercise a paralyzing influence on credit and enter- prise, and must naturally entail an awfal loss upon those engaged in the speculations. Hence itis, we find, that the confidence in the security of rail- way property as an investment, is almost entirely suspended ; that the most of the companies are on the verge of bankruptcy, and the smaller ‘share- holders, who generally risked their all, reduced to beggary and destitution. Hence it is that there is scarcely @ family in the country, which has not to deplore some serious loss, and scarcely a trades- man or farmer, who is not crippled in his business, caused by these sudden railway reactions. Such | is the disheartening state of railway property in | England. Although railway speculation is at present ina more flourishing condition in the United States than itis in England—a circumstance, however, which may be ascribed to the shorter period of time in which the various lines on this continent have been in active operation—yet there are mani- fest indications of a decline in that species of pro- perty. A few years more, and we may have to | witness in this country the same prostration of confidence, the same collapse of enterprise, the same convulsions, and the same reactions, as have occurred in England. The same causes as there, are in operation here, and we must necessarily ex- pect the same effects. We therefore find, of late, a material diminution in the value of shares, which will continue to increase, as speculations are ex- tended. It has been the uniform demonstration of experience, that railway speculation, under the present system of management, proves to be a highly ruinous enterprise to engage in. While the nation at large unquestionably benefits, and is en- riched by the construction of numerous lines, in- tersecting its surface ing: variety of directions, and thus commanding a greater amount of commerce ; and while the original projectors reap, by virtue of their contracts, their handsome share of the profit, it is found that the companies or stockholders are invariably and must consequently be the losers in the end. We therefore warn all speculators in tailway property to be on the look out, for the pe- riod of reaction in this country is fast approaching. Trovares among tHe Porrricians.—One of the loyal committees of Tammany Hall, headed by Fernando Wood, has issued a proclamation calling for a new election to appoint a new committee. The other committee, whose chairman is Mr. ‘Western, repudiates such a movement ; and so the council and sachenis of this old society, in spite of the splendid dinner recently given, are not able to restore harmony, orto reconcile the disputes be- tween the rival committees. But there is, also, a struggle in the other party. The whigs, too, are in astate of dissolution, and the committee, which met the other evening at the Broadway House, had a high time of it. A terrible split is impending over them. One set goes for supporting the compromise plan of Mr. Clay, and the other that of the cabinet. ‘We don’t believe, however, that the cabinet can command many supporters in the whig com- mittee, singe the exposure of that Galphin and other business. ‘These internal difficulties among the organized committees of both parties, at Tammany Hall and Broadway House, respectively, are only fair off- shoots from the state of things at Washington, | a where the like difficulties, and like quarrels, ex- ist. The rest of the world looks on, and finds | amusement in it. Sream Communication wrrn [rraxn.—Ocean | steam navigation is to be pushed, this year, to an unparalleled extent. On the Atlantic, three new | European lines have already started into existence, | and several others are in contemplation. One of | the most important of the latter is the line to con- | sas Wi ‘THE BUSINESS PORTION OF THE VILLAGE IN RUINS— OVER A QUARTED OF A MILLION OF DOLLARS LOSS. * One of our correspondents in Corning, New York. , on y, the h to us by Messrs. Wells & cos ae tains the particulars of a very destructive fire in that village, by which over a quarter of a million of dollars worth of property was destroyed: — OUR CORNING CORRESPONDENCE. Connino, N. ¥,, May 18, 1850, halepast 3 relocks > This mornii at Z le blowing from the north swt i“ ten Pa Bo the Corning and Blosburg depot, which has con- sumed all the buildings, from the Clinton House to the lower end of the vil destroyii to the amount of over Btn i pepe des 9 ‘hit. lars, laying the whole of the business portion of the village in ruins. There is not one store or grocery left. ‘The Bank, Corning House, and almost'all the lumber on the wharfs, are destroyed. The fire eontinues to rage, and the fire e¢om- panies have come up from Elmira, and are doing their best to stop the flames. An engine was sent from the Corning depot. £.T. i. ‘The village of Corning is in Steuben county, and situated on the south side of the Chemung River, in the town of Painted Post. It is admirably lo- cated for trade. [tis atthe junction of the Com- ing and Bloseburg railroad, with the navigable feeder of the Chemung Canal. Its coal trade is considerable. The population of the village is about 1,500, Health of the City—Annual Report of the City Inspector. ‘The yearly reports of mortality made by Dr. White, have earned for him a well-deserved reputation, His annual report of the number of deaths and interments in the city of New York, during the year 1849, has just been published, and possesses more than ordinary in- terest. It contains an amount of very valuable statis- tical information, particularly in relation to cholera, which cannot fail to command the attention of all whom it may concern. On the first day of January, we published statistics ofthe mortality of the year, compiled by ourselves, and | comprising the most essential portion of the City In- | spector’s report. But this document has a great deal | of additional information of a useful character; and we | shail now, therefore, present our readers with the pith and marrow of it. The matters embraced in the report are arranged in the following order :-— First, A statement of the total number of deaths re- ported to this department during the year, with the number of still-born, and of premature births; tho number of those brought to this city for interment; and what proportion ot the deaths reported were of whites, blacks, males and females. Second. ‘The returns for t to show the number of deaths in each month, and exhibit- ing what proportion of the deaths for the month were of males, females, adults or children. Third.’ A table, exhibiting the number of still-born children of either sex, as reported during each month of the past year. Fourth. A table, showing the places of nativity of the deceased. Fifth. A statement of the number of deaths at va- rious public institutions. ° Sixth. A statement showing the places of interment, and the number deposited in each. Seventh. Monthly returns, arranged in tabular form, and exhibiting the number of deaths from any par- ticular during each month of the year, as also the rex and age of the person so dying. Eighth. Important remarks #1 by the pre- po Se AR register. nth. . ‘The following is a general summary of deaths:— The a Cre be egeese ‘ to the de- ne which number includes the still-born ort and premature births, amounting UO. vee nesereee sees 1,820 Deducting these, and also the number v of those brought trom other places to this city for interment. . 80 made such as drowning, &c.. with sui- cides and murders, amounting in all to.... ‘The remainder thus obtained will exhibit the Se ee ee, Of the whole number of deaths reported there were—w: Total. The number of male ad ‘Tetal . 2806 The foregoing does not give the reader a just idea of der enekenbante aitnentete te une, July, end A cholera prevailed and swept away The number of interments from diseases in 1849, amounted to........ In 1848 they amounted to. nect New York with Galway, Ireland. We learn, in addition to the facts taken from the Galway Vin- dicator, of the Ist inst., and given in another co- lumn, that the steamship Viceroy, a steamer of great speed, will leave that port on the 5th of next month, for New York, to touch en rowte at Hali- fax. It is confidently expected that, with fair weather, the passage to the latter port will be made in seven days—and perhaps in leextime. Twenty years ago, it was thought to be impossible to cross the Atlantic at all ina steam vessel. Ten years ago, a passage by steam in two weeks was con- sidered excellent. Now ten, eleven, and twelve days is the time in which it is accomplished. Ten see. Heraurn ov tHe Crry. now beginning to set in, tion to this metropolis is still on the increase, crowding the lower parts of the city to an extraordi- nary extent, we consider it our imperative daty, to Il upon the city authorities, the Board of Health, and other medical authorities, to pay the strictest removal of every nuisance culculated to vitiate the surrounding atmosphere. This is, undoubtedly, | the moet effectual means of keeping the city in a | Scotian | healthy condition. It is true, some material im- provements have been undertaken, but there re- | | mains a great deal to be done yet. Since you are | invested with the power and ndequate means for the accomplishment of this desirable preservation of public health, it is incumbent upon you to em- ploy them. Do not, therefore, delay action any more, but go to work immediately with vigor and energy. ini Covrteous Rerry or Lorn Psi wenstox.—Some inquiry hes recently been made in England, of the May. government, with respect to the holding of colored persons, British subjects, in durance, in some of the ports of the Southern States. Lord Pelmerston | ied that he had represented to the United States government that this was severe upon one clase of British subjects, but us the federal power had no jurisdiction over the loci State regula- tions, there seemed to be little use in pressing the subject forther. ‘This may be deemed a very eour- teous mode of treating the subject, and may be a lecson of wisdom to our fanatics here at the North. Kporting Intelligence, Trorrise.—Two parses and sweepstakes for $659, with ix entrien are announced to come off this afer- oom. at the Unéon Courre, commencing at 1 o'cloek Roth coces will be Forth witnessing. have seldom been brought ropa At the Centre. ville Course, the mach talked ef three mile contest Lady Sufflek, Lady Moseow. Confidence. and will take place. tively at the hour adver- Moscow fe the fevorite against the | over Baffolk laet Monday ha: iz immense at both race eourses, rs tue Easteam Corron K bee fi at a on ibe die. ene factor a, Me, wil charged on the first of , and the wages re- | Fonrmer Reorerions Pacronme —One half of the dverd about 7 cent. proprietors of the Starh Mi, ohetseseon:, prepuce 10 sop t to'veme ektemt = Daaen Journal, Dany 1 years hence, the passage will be made in—we’'ll ber attention to the cleanliness of the streets, and the | Unit exact account -— Excess of 1 wer 1848, . Deducting as extraordinary Excess of 1849 over 1848 from ordi Here we rtill have » large dis deaths over the preceding year, ow iy the Le cece row Pap “v the disease ii did not sttack 5 | the 3 e third of the mortality from cholera was of natives of | the United States, and that the deaths of the Irish eee al } « 8} 3 3) 3 2! 2 2 1 194 07 | / thow the number of deaths _ month, with the age;— | 4 Pw Mrattay cid) ' — 2 £4 6 3—-—— 3 2 121 389 ed 88 BtoB a8 | ves Sts 6 477 5 1g So 18 ee ce $4 ay -=- 7y ¥ <j <== - ii @= 1-55 - 176 674 435 88 Toa 35 1 larly. and did not attack taneously In the Sixth on the of Mey. it ded 28th of May, it broke out in the Second ward, In the First and Fourth wards, it was discovered on the Sist of May. On the 4th of June, it commenced in the Bighth ward Tt bepan, simultencourly, om the Sth of June, in the Fourteenth, Seventernth and Bighteenth wards: an the 6th of the fame month, in the Ninth ward. and ie the Sigteenth ward. pot wntil the Jad withstanding, in this ward it raged with terrific fatal. “Tine wards that saffered most severely were the dowing. ia the order in which they coeur, vi ath. finteenth. Fourth, First, ath, Seventi Thirteenth; white the Second. Third aad Fifteenth words were almost exempted from the mow dreadful raveger The question naturally arises as to the cause of the greater fatality of cholen in the first four mentioned wards. wie: Sixth. Siateenth, Fourth, aud First, ia . nearly Or quite two-thirds of all the fated cases occurred. ‘Fou Lean only venture an approadmate Spe inhabitant of thew r-- oo} ti hem where ase most ese om the mort miserably poor aod jort int Cate aes mpeg exposed aoe Tednees t rite “oneersafully to repel tase cf any bind, uch tews an epidemte of site fects, In thsee wards | nomenclature arranged. are i i Ree | tem, ce was found to have been among the te bal to bits of many of the subjects some dying there from delirium tremens, To state that this vice goes hand in hand with desti- tution, if indeed it is not produced by penury and the despondency of want, is only to reiterate @ ate ts fact. Of the 6,071 deaths resulting from cholera, 3.250 are known to The argument su The uniformly bet- a8 it regards food, raiment and domestic comforts, of our native citizens, than that of emigrants who approach our shores, and take up their abodes among us, need not be id here to induce belief; it is a fact sufficiently notorious. Dr. White has some excellent observations upon the filth, the m the bone and flesh boiling esta- blishments, the manure heaps and slaughter houses, as generating disease and death in our city. ‘The m of males exceeds that of females one thousand one hundred and fifty-seven. This e is mostly caused by the greater mortality of male chil- wna’ for while of Its the excess ot males is only one hundred and seventeen, that of children amounts to one thousand and forty. This rate of mortality among children of the male sex, as here and elsewhere manifested, is a subject tor interesting enquiry. The fester mortality in male adults over females, i not to attributed to — peculiarity of sex, se much as to condition in life, Males are more exposed to the causes Of disease and accident, by their professions, callings and business. It is curious enough that it is not found few He ease in the colored population, probably be- e women are as muc! perance as the other sex. vidhidtinapismalanaass ‘The highest item of mortality. next to ‘cholera, is of pulmonary disease, amounting to 3,673, being a large Increase Over previous years, % The number of deaths of stiil-born and premature irths is legen A on the increase. In the three last i", from that source, make a total of fearful amount of crime that has ht of day. Dr. White justly complains of the want of some uni- form system of nomenclature, to be used by the phy- sicians in their certificates of deaths. He nay! “There is great carelessness and indifferenc fested by physicians in the tater of this impor- tant duty, insomuch that these annual reports dow post cords are little more than statements of the number of deaths, while the more interesting and useful results to be derived from knowing the true cause of death, ex- pressed in a systematic and uniform language, is searcely to be found. By the aid of a competent bod: of physicians, a system might be brought forward an adopted, making it incumbent upon medical men. in writing certificates, to comply with it: uisitions. To facilitate the general adoption of such a 3 printed blanks should be issued, with the system of Returns of asphyxia, ‘bleeding,’ ‘ cancer,’ ‘congestion,’ ‘convulsions,’ * de- bility,’ ‘eruption,’ ‘fever,’ ‘inflammation,’ ‘tumor,’ and such like, that mean little more than want of breath, want of blood, want of strength, &c., would then give place to a and useful. It would be vain, however, to think of recommending any system, without making it the imperative duty of phy- feians to comply with its requisitions.”” We shall conclude with the following table of the cemeteries where the dead of 1849 have no interred, indicating as it does, to a great extent, the religious denomination to which the deceased belonged Roman Catholic... °7.552 Baptist....... 223 Potter's Field... .... 5.602 Marble Cemeteries. 165 Methodist . 87 Presbyterian 2 German Lutheran... 631 Removed from the Epicopal...... B19 cht eee eve nee A700 Duteh Reformed 53 pris African. 268 Total. ......+5 28,273 Hebrew. . 264 The number brought into the city from other places, for interment, was. ..... 40+ Ap * Of this number 7,349 wer interred in Williamsburgh, A Fient wirn Tuirves.—A desperate encounter between two thieves and a German, occurred at Morrisville, near Trenton, on Thursday evening. The thieves stole a horse from one farm, and then proeeeded with him te another, where they at- tempted to steal a wagon and harness. A German laborer, who was sleeping in an apartment of the barn which contained the articles, was fastened in by a brace, but being awakened by the bark of a dog, he released himself and fired’ a pistol at the rebbers. They returned the fire, the enteri the hat of the German, who closed with one of them, and was getting the better of him, when the other came to the rescue. The proprietor of the farm, however, being awakened 5 the pistol re- joey also approached the scene, when the rob- 1s Hed.—Newark Adv., May 18. Court Calendar—This Day. Cmevit Count.—Nos, 664, 2, 615, 630, v9, 676, 671, ‘317, ae 856, 638, 672. 673. ean.—Part 1.—Nos. 137, 97, 413, 463, 467, 85, 37, 103, 589, 665. Part 2.—260, 308, 4, 10, 48, 54, 72, 82, 96, 106, 114, 116, 120, 118. THE WEEKLY HERALD. MAILS FOR EUROPE, ‘Phe steamship Washington, Captain Floyd, will leave this port at noon to-day, for Southampton and Bre- men, The Weekly Herald will be published at mine | @’eloek this morning, to go by her. Single copies, im wrappers, sixpenee. News for California. The steamship Empire City, Capt. Wilson, will leave this port at three o'clock this afternoon, for Chagres, with the mails and passengers for California. Messrs. Adams & Co.'s express goes in her. The mails will close at two o'clock. Lit Coole: re 377 and oreo ¥ : it ‘ 5 Be ee ta tle ie erate aie Miterature will consume three more event: the Fine Arts, the mtal Lite~ w present tet are entirely new and specimens of his best work, ould ye sufficient to ensure him the patronage he has al ways received and so richly deserved. make their first ep: Weloek; Line formed in vai * sterstory! Jersey City. . &. EDGE, _Pyrotechniats. Humphrey, at 127 Broadway, has the finest shy lights in America, rreotypes are in advance of the ti owe finest speciurens i of the art, would do well to give ypes Barly risers, and others, who have no time hours to get their likcnesses, at sumrive every bright mornis breakfast, first come first se The Plumbe National. Gallery, No. 251 roadway, celebrated for its collection of distinguished in- dividuals, showld be visited by all who ha: y desire to the largort of portraits in the United ates. G. B. Clarke, Tailor, 116 Wiliam street, te the enter man, upon econcmical princi- A fine c Cont, $16; made to meaew fnert, $20; & Seek of Prock, $10; Cassimere Pan « .} te. In th eee ‘eat, 1 Sites to the buyer than mine. ‘We point our Renders to the Inducements offered tel! Cream of the Pawnbrokers’ 81 ‘Them $5 Suits |— Dress, frock Desiness Conte: Fanta, eneri- ndless variety; Uvererats the California market, ‘The New York # Factory, 104 Bow- Rew York, has recently ea now more | ve former site. at , for quality, extent equalled by any otber esi ab!) or any other tountry. The pacronage of persons thi im wont ef hos: Lo eres os the ease, dowen, pair, ie reaperttelty solicited by the veoprie vs "_ RANKIN & RAY. mite" taenaibie es tes sea ail shim x =, Mea mane pn tor air tr serge narans tsa set Setgheigeiecis ee cums and vo Wm. es Corns! Bantons!!—Dr, ‘iewlatly commended of penton. By and friction, the made of & soft, mani- | no houre in New of the | NEY MARKET. . Bunvay, May 19—6 P. M. ! Anot her week of speeulation and excitement has pass- | edin Wall street, and quotations tor some of the fancies: | range, one, two, and three per cent above those current | at the close of the previous week. Government and State securities do not vary from prices ruling two or three weeks since. In fact, notwithstand- » ing the apparent steady and rapid rise in most of the speculative stocks, prices for @ majority of them rule lower than they did two months ago. The only stock: in which any great inflation is going on, is Erie Rail- road, and if the speculative clique of the management can continue to put prices up several per cent higher, and can get rid of their own supplies, without breaking~ down the market, we may expect a large issue of now stock, out of the balance of the capital of the com- pany. According to the last official report, there were: | about four millions of stock unissued; and as thee company have no other sources of ineome for extending the road, but this stock and income certificates, the management will not let a good opportunity slip for getting rid of «portion of this unissued stock, at fair prices, and no one doubts bat. that it would be better to issue stock at eighty, than: sell seven per cent bonds at eighty-five; for, afterthe: completion of the road, the management have nothing | to do with paying interest on the stock boyord whah | the net earnings of the road will give. It would, therefore, be weil for those who have been | this stock at bigh prices, on speculation,upon the basis | of a certain amount issued, to look out for an increase | in the supply. The company probably wild not, for | Years, ifever, havea better opportunity t> dispose of | its reserved stock than the present; for speculation hae | Tun prices up higher than the most sanguine friends of the road could have expected from the traffic opera~ tions of the line. We find the stock of railroad com- panies in all parts of the country, which are, beyond all question, actually earning six per cent on the ca- | pital invested, selling fifteen and twenty per sont be- Jow the Erie, and it is, therefore, « natural eonelusion that nothing but the excitement of speculation, and the concomitant combinations attending sueh movo- ments, have inflated prices for that stock to such an. extent, and so rn pidly, compared with solid, substan. | tial securities. If the Eric Railroad Company do not avail themselves of the high prices now eurrent for | their stock, to increase its capital, and provide meaxs to reduce its enormous floating debt, upon which they are paying ten, twelve, and fifteen per cent interest, and are continually shinning about Wall street to raise money, oven at these exorbitant rates, they will mako- a great mistake. a pehers other fancy stocks have advanced enor- mously in the past four mont and 4 have been furnished with psig grat pigrernyad carry these unguaranted unproductive sceurities, at the most moderate rates. Even unlimited fasilities will not, however, suffice to sustain prices so much in- flated, and so much beyond the real value of these stocks It is the easiest thing in the world to buy: stocks in Wall street. Any amount ot eapital ean bs invested im them, without the slightest difficulty, and holders can fix any price upon them after they have got them; but it does not follow that People can as easily be found to give the price demanded. That is the rock upon which all cornering combinations split; and we have never known one to escape. It matters not what the state of the money market is, what the resources of speculators are, what the extent of the combination, how many millionaires are eugaged, it is utterly impossible to avoid the fate which has overtaken every similar movement ever attempted. To those who have had much experienee in Wall street, itis only necessary to refer to the attempts mede to corner Harlem, Norwich and Worcester, Mor- | ris Canal, Long Island, Reading Railroad, Canton Com- pany, Farmers’ Loan—in fact, every fancy stoek in tho | | lots of fancy stocks? Ask any professional operator in the street, how he has made large losses, will tell you by buying and holding faney stocks. for outsiders, they always lose, because they buy in anticipation of an advance. They are looking for # fortune, and never realize but | contrary, invariably get well fleeced. the thou- | sands of outsiders we have, during our experience, met in the street, we do not know of one who has ® portion of his fleece im the hands of some who had induced him to bay some worthless fancy stock, upon the assurance that he could not, by any possibility, fail to realize an enormous profit, as the | ten, or fifteen per cent. Outsiders are made to believe and apparently possessing an average share ef eom- mon fense, buy these worthless stocks, as to the thim- bie-rigger to see the green ones bet that they eouldtell | where the little joker was, or the horse jockey, to seo | men betting such a horse will win, when it was ail cut | ied that he should not, and we have frequently imagined secing them laugh in theie sleeves when: some rich outsider bad finally been induced to take two or three hundred shares of Long Island or Morrie Canal. We have not alluded to the existing eondition ef affairs in the financial and commercial world, beeause, in connection with the inflation going on in the fancy et, it was not necessary to show the inevi- | lapee, in time, trom its own tension; but it may be hartened by the revulsion about being realised in mereantile matters, It only requires a glanee at the daily record of receipts at the Custom House of this | Port, for duties on importations from foreign countries, | te learn the fact that the value of merchandise daily entered is immense; and our weekly statements of ex- | Porte show how Mmited the shipments of products are | in payment, or in liquidation of our foreign indebted- the question on our foreign trade, to be liquidated, or what prevents large shipments of specie ’—the answer to whieh is, by the remittance of millions upon millions ef our | public reeurities Public eredit is substitated for pri- | vate eredit, and even with this, exchanges eannot be | kept mor fraction below ten per cent, Weare | tending our stoc! 8 to Europe at the rate of half a mil- lion of dollars weekly, and men who have some preten- tions to shrewdness, point to that fnet as an evidence public stocks, we should by this time have been drained of at least twenty millions of specie, and we | have merely put off the evil day, to make it more dis- astrous when it comes, We have received mothing im payment for the millions of American stocks gent abroad. but merchandise, and this has givenanartifielal impetus to consumption,and created extrargance where it was extracting capital instead of earnings, We have imported tens of millions more than we have experted, | and we have sustained the credit of individuals abroad, by @ transfer of that of the Federal and State govern- ments. In the course of the next sixty days, we shalt have to remit, in pryment of intercst on American stocks held by foreigners, at least seven millions of dollars, and that enormous amount must be paid im | specie, in prodwets, or be invested in govermment | ttocks and remitted abroad. If eonidence im Rarope for our rceurities continues undiminished, and the demand onabated, the probability is that the interes’ | due in July ond August will be invested in them. and and thus swell the amount we required to liquidate, | _ Much depends upon a continuance of the demand | for our securities abroad, and ‘Upon our ability to mp- | | Ply that demand, for the slightest let ap im the salee for rewittenes, would rum up exchanges, and cause thipm rpecie, We must contions in the course | we heve been so long pursuing, oF there will be @ eol- | lapre stones. If the banks do not want to be drained | of eprele, they must encourage the remittance of government and State securities, and if no other de- | Mand existe, they must go forward on speculations. | The very impetus we have obtained downward, will | Keep ts opom our feet a little while longer, but when we do bring up at the bottom, the crash will be terrifie. The treeipte at the office of the Assistant Treneurer of this port, yesterday, amounted to $116478 29; pay- mente, $01.450-—balanee, $4870.614 01. The value of forcign oods entered at this port, last week, for consump! wae $648,602; entered for warehousing, $115 657; withdrawn from warehouse, $25 429, ‘The b ll to facilitate the issue of gold cotm for depo Littiefteta's Corn. | ctteot bullion at (hamseut. Ba eaeetd Bosh t spate lk the ¥.