The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1850, Page 2

decision of Frankfort Congress should be held de- Aionve, arnived at Berlin om the 24th Tk wae reported that the contents amount toa retuss! From Ferin, under the 27th ult, we learn thet the Poussin Bavoy has been re- called from Vienna. [i wo» stated that at ac pet council, held on the 26th, the Minister of War 010,000 florins inv ridaabt riny on a War thet the that 1 par Hanove the I tion so We learn fr Neapoli- ito infest the beaten the Aug- » has two pi i into three bo- ure well Fr seve ral days very small Consois wer per & ox pow Mo» +h stock cour the at pr dence fr Portugur se Four per ¢ vr und # Hell per Cents 9524 4 '4; Spanist French Throw per vents r Le Halt per Ceats per Cvate 8 ally. rather better b hae The railwa; inek bein wore, and ! y what wh nt prices up the edvance ix well maintained The acceuut ts going f well and the appearance of the market is good North Western bave been dove at 110% a lily; Great Western at 5834 0 504; Mid ‘Thive o'clock a Consoly close at 9 ut dt w 88 for money and vccount. Shares are not quite +o frm as ia the werning North We-tero elo % 110%, a it w 40.59; Midland S40 344; Great Nox North Btaffords 6°; a 654 Foreign shares are tirm Northera of Brance 14% 0 14: Orleans aud Pours 2% a 3\¢ Havar Manner July 00 —The evtton market was ex tremely dull on Saturday last; yesterday. it became Dore suimated. and) bales changed bands at the Rater, Trade and commerce generally extremely good, Eastern Counties The imports r 62 trom the United States: 2.471 frow fraxil; Influenced by the very ta- ther the wheat trade at our heavy, and prices 1d. per 70 non Fridwy, thereby placiag the quota- this day week. Flour d maintained tions ld p however request SAverce previowrly noted Barley dearer, aud somewhat more « eady in value, and ia moderate dems In oatmeal, no corn, upon & more limited inquiry * ls per qt lower than on Friday, r than on this day week American pos—For bacon « good inquiry exists, at for- in price, with « Basoa, 248. to 30s.; 8. to 38, Sugar ly part ot the there was a very ood demand for sugar, at rather higher prices: but the lust four days, the trade have « le m to purchase: helders. however, arc very » rdetmaud Coffee—Prives are well main- tained; but very little business had been done. Tea— During the pact week the market has been very firm, yegh we caunot quote any advance in price, yet ot Gispored to accept the prices current . ef moment to report. Dye re coming forward t a tolerable early sale r last, consist of 25 tons . to £6 108.; 200 tons tons Cuba tustic, at d, at £3 158 to £31 parts of dy tty freely, whieh will he i ge. Drysalteries + inquiry. and 350 tons perton, In Perean berres there is little to nt. There bas been more inquiry for we businers bas been done in enrke rto selling at thing worthy of notice About 20 ewt. fageanvato w Th. per Ib for quereition bark ve changed hauds to 124 sales to-day Gamage d, cold att b 1s per owt inferior and ited Buenos, pr qT vance of ld. per lb Hem n St. Petersburg, descriptions of jack at present.— 184, 10d, Flex.— ery firm riees of al Stocks of good useful are very limited, and the imports trom a ontinue unusually light ~ ters © THE LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS, BY TELEGRAIM FROM LONDON TO LIVERPOOL, ‘The French Fleet—the Cholera, &e. Panis, y, July 30, 1850. Letters from Toulon of the 25th state that on the previous day, the steamer Stondour arrived, with despatches from Civita-Vecchia. The gencral epinion was, that the French fleet which had left Raypl ly going on a cruise of evolatio , unless some extraordinary incidents eccurred, it would return to Te The Courier, that had from Algiers, had contradic hi ic lon t arrived at Toulon ione of A sl } Threes, Intelligence from tndia The Overland Mail has arrived, with dates from ) 25th of June. There is nonews of special importance The Lnglish mail of the 24th Mey reached Bom- day on the 2het June The rains had been rather late in setting in, and were hitherto ecanty, but the season proiises fa- vorably Sir Che ee Nopier leaves in October. It ie not ed him hope of obtaining seme ore ments, and a farther ond fresh guarantee from the Cort of Directors On news of the lodia Peninsular meeting of 20th ef April reeching Bombay, stock at once fell 50 Th me nder-in- Chief Governor-General and Com at Simla A shock of an earth was felt at Massoire @n the Sth THE wankers Bowna 25 Money abundant. Diseounts eacy. Timport market simort ftoially inactive. the only sales | Deing for consamption on the spot #houid the syason ove favorable a brick trade may be looked for. Au mber ef vesrels have arrived with suppiles, bat fle present bigh prices for cotton are maintaiaed an jook for but light lies of all goods Cotton continues extremely active Purchases daring the The large quantities brooght in price, and decline expected. faverable accounts from In imports, to effect eales of cotton piece & rednetion on last month's pricoe hod to the # kinds of foopper im good inqulred fer. Freights n to Liverpool at A advanced. and owing to the rain and lee China froo lit rai ships Sivee £1 108 per ton ar evenge mente i 4. and for partial €2 Se To London. rat a £1 WSeand £2 beton ething more might be obtained * nominal Exchange Trane. theavy. Six moaths right 2s June #0 to 8 rup thir mail 7 to 75 Utrs. June 15.— Last acconate from Rarope are appearance of amendment in the tained. Markets relapsed into again lower, Sager is auade lower ac dull Foflower has farther ol Linseed beeing to go to peewed a still chipped largely Low prices attract buyers Pa treme doin Now & Jittle be sat B pwrettied by th <A EES E EALEPA eI eNom the rumor of the | Tegivg in most of the towns of the Preach | ods rannot he-eld inany aaaarity rule very | L:nporters buyers are they ropplies Blesehed and the prices of Frees goods on the & taking ab A is evea CRA LD, JAMES GORDON BRNRETD PRePRIBTOR AND EM(TOR Ie F:O8 OF FULTON AMD HASHAU 878. AMUSEMEN’ LVENING OPLRA~—CASTLE GA 1 Pussrrass. >s's Last Daeaw Tite Pee BOWER ¥ THEATRE » Dur NIBLO'S GAR Loen NATIONAL anpeNew Ye OLYMPIC, Eroady I Yew Yor Erinortan Orxxa ThoUrE AMERICAN MUSEUM~ Ami Penvoumancrs Arrer- NOON AND EVERIN IS5O. New York, Monday, August £2, Arrival of the PacificeSanguinary Battle in Sehuieswig. The magnificent steamer Pacitic, Captain Nye, which left Liverpool! at two o’clock P. M, on the thirty-first of Just month ived at her dock lust evening, at nine o'clock, t made the passage in eleven day ix hours and thirty minutes. This is @ rem ‘ly short run owe of the foar quickest on record, two of which were made by the Atlan ne, {he m f the Pocitic Our has advane t aT from f Cora and wheat bad declined, but flour remained firm, great staple, to one on the pound. at previous quotations The most impertant intelligenge is that with respect to the victory of the Daaes, in a recent very severe engagement with the forees of the Duchie Denmark seems to have shown an- other specimen of that military prowess which, ia the eerly pert of this century, marked her career posed to France. We find the same per- of werlike spirit animating her troops, and bringing about the tide of victory to encourage her future enterprise. The details of the intelligence exhibit, alse, a degree of bravery on both sides, that promises to be decisive of determined action on the part of the combatants. Now that the war has fully commenced, it is not uplikely that other nations may be interested to turn such scenes to account. England has an extensive trade in the Jaltic, and will not pstiently submit to an inter- ference with her commerce, particularly while Lord Pelmerston is ready, at the helm, to run down upon anything calculated to gratify his war- like ambition. continue to stand in opposition to Denmark, and England be provoked and irritated, we may have | as epirited a time asthe world enjoyed, and as England experienced, in the old Danish and | French war, nearly forty years ago. | Jn the English Parliament there has been no question of eny great moment, except that connect- ed with the seatof Baron Rothschild ia the House of Commons. There seems a prospect that liberal ideas will prevail, and that he will be permitted to take his plec otwithstanding he is a Hebrew stead of a Christian gentleman. At the last ad- | viees, however, he had been requested to withdraw frem the House, till a point could be debated. The | Church of England, of course, will do all in its pow- | er to restrain an innovation upon its governmeat— but, in these days, even the Church has to give | way to menly sentiment and to a rational view of the creeds of men. Another serious conflagration has visited a towa | in Russia. One hundred magazines of corn were destroyed, and over four hundred houses. These | frequent and extensive conflagrations are exceed- European when op ) | ingly disastrous, end must fall very severely, in | their efiects, upon the poor, who are deprived of | homes end shelter by such painful casualties. For the other items of intelligence, and such | de piions @f events as may prove iateresting, | we refer to our news columns, which are filled with various interesting selections from our files of | Engtich end European newspapers. j = Metters and Doings In Washington, | Congress will enter upon another week of this | Isborious and protracted session to-day; and if the members only ceaze vaporing, and making idle propositions, which tend to nothing but delay, they can tiansact all thesbusiness before them, and be- fore another week elapses, the greater part of them might be at their respective homes. It is doubt- ful, however, if they will take such a sensible course. Talking against time, in some instances, and to no good purpose in others, has become chronic with them, and the habit is too deeply seat- ed to be thrown off at once. We hope, however, | they will do the best they can to get rid of it, for if they but knew how heartily sick and worn out their constituents are at their waste of breath and of time, as well as of the people's money and pa- tience, they would confine themselves to five | minute speeches, get through with the basinese, wosh their hends, and leave Washington behind them, from motives of humanity alone. We are informed by our special correspondent ia Washington, by telegraph, that the Southern members cf the House of Representatives held a meeting last night, for the purpose of interchanging | opinions on the prominent matters of legislation now before them. It wag not a regular caucus, nor was it considered that any meniber who attended should be bound by anything that transpired, in | his legislative capacity. We are further informed, | that, at the meeting referred to, some members were for restricting the Southera boundary of California to the Missouri Compromise line, 36 deg ; 90 min.; others were opposed to it; and, finally, a series of resolutions, reported by Mr. Toemba, were adopted. Those resolutions declare the com- mon law of the old colonies to be just when all ale lowed slavery ; eupport the Missouri Compromise line; and proclaim that the Liouse ought not to act on the Texan beundery until the territorial bills are dicpored of. We forther learn, that a proposi- tion to adopt Mr. Clingman's expedient, to keep , ovt California, wee pet susteined, and that @ synopsis of the evening's proceedings will be pub- liehed in the Washington papers to-day. ‘There is nothing very ultra in these resolutions, to the information that we have re- Nor is there, in our opinion, anything to Houve from teking up all the subjects connected with the rial question, and passing them eerivtim. It e immaterial, we should suppose, Which ts taken vp first, or which last, They all heng together; and we preenme it will not injure the prospects of the California bill, if the Texus bowndery is teken wp firet, nor the Texas | boundary, if the Califorma bill gets the preference. If the mejority have a derive to dispose ef one be- y do the other, they have a perfect nght to se the whim, and no one will be eo unkind as to find fault with them for d All the public | dee to heve them all settled and disposed of as soon as porsible, and the sooner the better. The | House of R atives, however, must look | sharp, or the Senate will steal a mitch on them, and | leave them in the background. They have eettled | the Texen boundary dispute in a manner which we think the Honee might justify; the California Lill has been debated for some days, and it is not | improbable that a vote will be takea upon it to-day | of to-morrow. The pre pect is very fair for ite im- mediate prssege. Nothing will remain then for that branch of the legislature but to give a goverm ment to New Mexico, pass the appropriation bille, ettend to a few other emall matters, and adjourn. The hovee had betrer therefore look sharp. Un the whole, matters et Washingtoa, ia our | \ | according ceived | prevent th t 80. tei Consequently, should the duchies ¢ opmmien . look very favornble fer an early adjast- ters io di-pute, and itis very likely Lof work will be done daring this entofall mm als great ewerk, The Senate will certrinly dispose ofa gr many, if not Att sistion, und the Hor li, of the ss before them requir- do the same if they with. We gled to see that a spirit of moderation pre Washington the Presid Mess, and Sr, Webster's noe Beil, | meosoge o Coagress, 1 New R Presideut F th ply te Gos Ane. re eply to € boundery disp od Mr Vebster ont me subject, haz: been b the com- mivnity for some days, aa! have been extensively commented upen by the p 4 press throughout the country, We were anx))*+ to see the reception thore documents would n ; for, from the way ia which they would be tres to, we would be enabled | to form an opinion on the which the present admio the hands ot its oppooent aud always w read therm to the pre and Mr Webster's reply just such as we we the enbjecta to whien they determined in their tone, ¢ weithy degree, firm and d persuasive. Although the di nity which threat- ened seriously a conflict berween the troops of th general government and those of Texas, in con quence of the extraordinary position which that State assumed on the question with ) and although danger of a cotlision bas been hap; averted by the action of the Uni States Senate on Mr. Pearce’s bill, we would be fulse to our daty en independent journalist, to the maintenance of the Union, if wea ‘Texas to pags without reeor pur eclema fiom the manner in which she attempted to | browbeat the rest of the confederacy into her measures, by threatening to take possession of the disputed territory in defiance of the authority of the general governmect, and at the point of the bayonet, if necessury. h threats and roenacesata time when the republic was under- going the severest ordesl to which it was ever subjected, and when troe patriots, in Congress and throughout the country, of ull parties, and in all sections, were devoting themselves to carry the republic through the impeadiag diffi culty—such threats and menaces were treasonable and despienble in the bighest degree. We were rejoiced when we saw the staad taken by Mr. vad friends from the tine we first ot, that both the r pital docurs t from uble men, oa ferred; and, althoagh story to @ praises » yet exlm and opinion is, exp iged a as satisfied that if any collison occurred which called have maintained the ground which he took in his message, and been triumphaatly supported and sustained by the American people, with the excep- tion, perhaps, efa handful of finatics and ultras in the Southern states. Texas, if necessary, would have been crushed, and would have been made to retrace her steps and take her position in the re- publie, not as its mister, but as one of its consti- tuent States, entitled to the protecting power of the general government, but subservient to it as well, aceordix g to the constitution and the laws. It haz been objected, by somo journals opposed to the administration, that Mr. Villmore was too lavieh of displaying and descanting upon the pow- ers wiich he is invested with by the constitution ond acts of Congress, in such cases as that which elicited his messege, and that it looked as if he was thretening, not only Texas, but such other States as might, in time of excitement, be induced to edopta similar course. We take an entirely different view of the matter. Mr. Fillmore not only addressing Congress, but, iadi- reetly, the whole population of Texas, on whose support and countenance the governor of that State would be forced to depend for en- foreing his threats, in case he should be foolish enough to attempt any thing so insane and traitor- ous, Governor Bell would not have taken the stand which he did, if he were not certain that he had | the countenance of many of the citizens of that State, who did not, perhaps, know that in opposing | the government of the United States with arms, | they would commit treason, and make themselves amenable to the law, It was very proper therefore, for the President to inform such people, in the iadi- rect manner in which he did, of the position ia which they stood, the risk and punishment which they would incur in attempting to dispossess the United States troops of New Mexico, and the pow- ers, naval and military, with which he was clothed, and which he would use, to put them down. Cer- tainly no reasonable man can object to sucha course—in fact, every one ought to applaud Mr. Fillmore for being eo distinct, as well as so decided, ashe was. And it was the plain, distinct, and un- reserved manner in which he treated the question, that most mortified and annoyed those who urge objection agsinst the message, because it left not even a loophole from which disunionists and disor- gunizers could escape, but informed them distinctly | Mr. Fillmore, if they should attempt to play a simi- lar geme. There have ‘een various other objections urged against the message of Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Web- ster's letter to the Governor of Texas, by news- papers opposed to the administration, but they pro- ceed simply from a spirit of opposition and nothiag else. Of course, the Union at Washington, takes the lead, for it is the duty of that journel to give the cue to the smaller newspapers of the democratic party, throughout the country. Bat theve attacks are of a pettifogging character, and made merely from a epirit of party opposition, which will always be directed against the party in power by their oppo- nents, no matter how virtuous they may be. Threvghout the country, with the exception re. ferred to, those two documents have been received with favor by all true men end patriots, and the show the malice of enemies, or the wincing of the galled jades, who find in Mr. Fillmore a President | who canvot be intimiduted very easily, and in Me. Webster an able and patriotic Secretary ot State. Mr. Fillmore has commenced his administration well, in an exciting period, and under unfavorable cireumetances. Never was there atime when a President of these United States required the full support of the independent press, and the inde- pendent people, so much as Mr. Fillmore does at preeent. Such support he shall always have at our | hands, when he conducts the government in « tighteous and proper manner. If, on the other hand, he should go wrong, we will oppose him as sternly as we can. We belong to no party, ask favors from none ; all we want is the goverment to be conducted properly, and this mighty republic allowed to fulfil its great destiny. Tue Moxsten Neisaxces or tue Crty to ne Avaten at Last.—The Common Council met on this day week, sat four days, and disposed of some commonplace businese, when they adjourned, leaving the abominable nuisances up town to fester ond reek in an Avgnet sun. The Board of Health have done nothing but eppointed a committer, to gain time till the summer is over and the publie clemor shall have expended itself. The Grand Jary, however, heave, with @ promyptitude and a firmness we did not expect, swept away the nui- sences by presenting them es such. It now re- mains to be seen whether their action will be fol- lowed up, and the abominations abated in any other way except on paper. They say “The Grand Inquest of the City and County ef New York present the following as nuisances, viz.: bone boiling, horse ekiniag, offal boiling, and other similar establishments, t+gether with the manure heape—all to be found in the upper wards of our city.” The public will know, in a few days whether this ia a mere bratwm fulmen—a flash in the pon, or a welhidicected bomb ehel! that will tbe efect, Oar own | d devoted ' Fillmore on the subject; and we are perfectly well | forthe interposinon of the President, he would | what treatment they might expect at the hands ot | Tue (xsecunity oF Bui.nincs~Anorurr Ca- tastrorne —Within the last week we have had to record two instances of the falling of buildings and lives being loet; and in the course of the last iwo or three months these accidents have beeor 60 numerous 4s to alarm the public for their safety while they walk the streets. Ia almost every in- stance the eause of the calamity has been treced to clessness and incompetence of the persoas ing down buildings, or to the unsubstaatial man- nerin which those structures bave beea ran up. The hovse which lately fell at the corner of Moarth street and Broadway isa sample ; but 4 more ter- rible one is the Water street catustrophe, that oc- curred in the case of the government bonded ware- | house. Yesterday we published an account of a horrible affair at Philadelphia, where six men were buried beneath the rnins of two of the public stores in Granite street, and a number of others had a very narrow escape. The wecideatis solely attri- buted to the trumpery manner in which the build- | ing waserected. It was a new five story brick Tage of bonded goods. The Budletun says :— struetion of the building. The foundations were insecure, and the walls for warehouse purposes entirely too thin; while there were a» fastenings to gvard the structure m the danger of the pressure of weighty goods building was the lust edi- fice ef the extensive bu-in Granite street ime provement, projected by Mit Godley. We under- Stand that it was d withont any responsible contiactor, the projector, with the view of saving expense, Superintending its construction himself. Lhe disester lays a fearful responsibility at the door of some one.” We fear we shall have many other disasters of this kind to record in our own city, and high time that something were done by our city government, or if they have not the power, by the legislature at Albany, to provide for the safety of human life It is well known that the vast majority of the houses now being erected in New York are mere speculations, not intended as permanent dwelii but to make money by felling them when finished, or letting them in cot tier tenements. Houses are built for sums of mo- ney for which it would be utterly impossible to ereet them with a due regard to the lives of the people. The walls are not oaly ma up too thin, | but rotten bricks are used, and a cheap substitute | for mortar, that bas little or no adhesiveness. Add | tg this, thet a very large number of these buildings ere erected under sham architects, and some of them without any architects at all; while the work itself is done im the mest slovenly and bunglisg manner. The trade of masons and bricklayers has been ruined by thrusting boys into it, and men from other trades, who never served a day to the busi- ness. All this is done to save expense, at the loss of buman life and limb. Some of the houses that | look beaunful to the eye, having nice gingerbread work, and the whole exterior elegantly painted, have no s«undness in the walls, and are every mo- ment in danger of falling—reminding one of the “ whited sepulchres” spoken of ia the ible, whose outside was £0 fair, while the interior was full of all manner of corruption. * Some stringent law is called for; and the man who erects or causes to be erected what takes away homen life, or enaangers it morally guilty ia a higher degree than he who carelessly fires @ pistol, by which some person is shot. The latter is tried for manslaughter, and there can be no rea- son assigned why the former should not come un- der the same category. Tne blundering or corrupt architect and the fraudulent contractor, the propri- etor himeelf, and, above all, the man who gives a file certificate of the stability of a dangerous building, onght to be brought under the provisions of the criminal law. But there seems to be a strange reluctance on the part of the law authori- ties, and of coroners’ juries and grand juries, to follow up the matter, so as to make two or three signal examples. The manner in which the Hague street and Water street catastrophes were dealt with gives but little hope of eaergetic action in cases of less terrible importance. The Grand Jury, as the reader ‘will perceive, by refer. ring to yesterday's Herald, have adverted to * the repeated and increasing number of disasters attend- ing the erection and demolition of buildings in this city.” We are glad they have agitated the ques- tion; for even that will do good; but if they had gone a step further, and indicted for manslaughter some of the parties alluded to, they would not hive exceeded the limits of their duty, while they would have done something that would have a better effect than any amount of mere talk. They justly observe, that in those cases it so happens that ** no- body is te blame,” and they make some palpable hits at coroners and their juries. But when the Coroner's jury manfally did its duty ia the Hagae street affair, what did the Grand Jury of that time? Just nothing. To save themselves trouble, the present Grand Jury have indeed suggested a civil remedy, and thrown out the idea of a few suits being & widows of t! ose killed, which would be sure to re- sult in exemplary damages. This, no doubt, ought to be done, but that is no reason why the duty of the Grand Jury should be left undone. Perhaps, however, a civil remedy would be the most effec- tual; but it ought to be one of the following kiad :— to be taken down instantly by a public officer ap pointed for that purpose, id a heavy penalty in- flicted on the owner besides. All old buildings in a dangerous condition to be prostrated iastanily. If this duty cannot be cenveniently thrown on some of the well-paid officials in the «epartments of the city government, let a new office be created. At any expense let the lives of the people be safe fram the impending perils that daily and hourly hang over their heads, like the sword of Damocles, sus- pended by a single hair. As for architects, we got to certify anything, and the same remark ap plies to scientific men in other branches. The bonded warehouse in Water street was pronounced perfeetly safe by the architects and builders, yet it Josephs’ banking establishment in Wall street wus observed to be in a very dangerous state, and alarm was excited. Certificates from architects, of its perfect stability, were procured, and appeared in the morning papers. On the same night the building fell, with an awful crash. Fortunately, no person was injured. lad it fallen in the day | time, when there are so many brokers, and others, | doing businese, in that street, many lives would in- | evitably have been lost. Citizens leok to it. \*What you hold most dear is at stake. | feet that several thousands will vieit New Haren doting the present week Severst brilliant | erations sre expected, end a poem from br O W eases, ef Bostom, Marine Affairs. Breannost Rervoren.—This ie the name of «new steamer, Intended to ron feom New York to Albany, and will be ready to take ber place in about a week or ten deys. Her interior embellishments are of the mort elegant and splendid character, and say mach for the taste of ber fitter up. She was bullt by Mr Thomas Collyer, the well-known steamboat arebitect. comin ing great swiftness with oncommon strength. Her en. gines, which are of & very superiot character, and aa perfect as engines can be. were built at the Morgen ‘Works, under the supervision of Mr . and placed on beard by Mr. C. W. Pare Bhe is of the largert elare, en completed, will be in ali probability, the mort richly finished boat ever constructed in the Among other numerous improvements ited on the promenade deck, thereby entirely avoiding the heat and inconvenience attending the dining « large number of persons below. Bhe fs to be commanded by Captain Albert De Groot: for many years #0 favorably knownto the public as the commander of the Niagara, and, we believe, the Reger Williams. Conmrxeraene at Yarn Concnar.—The exereteos of commencement will take place at New Haron on Wed- nerday next. On Saturday, e large number of passon- gers porsed over the New York and New Haven ratl- road, many of them destined for the College City. rt double store, rented to the government for the sto- | “ The eecident is attributed to the imperfect con | it is) commenced by those maimed or crippled, or by the | Any new house built in an unsubstantial manner, | have no faith in their certificates. They can be | crushed seven men to death. A few years ego _ Lanp SrecuLations my Carports —Some time sven s-esneeemmar e ere heteaetST e E RSENTSi eR S/ SS EES = HRHANA since we considered it our duty to hold up and de- | pounce, in a proper manner, the system of land speculation which has been goiag on for some time past in California, aad the fraudulent manner | in which it wes got up, and the distresses to which | it would lead when the bubble burst. Our com- | menis Were pot severer than we thought were merited, but it seems they were not relished ta California by the jarties interested in the specu- | lations, nor by the joarnals in their interest. We were eecordingly when to task by some of the Cali- fornia newspayc rs, for the senuments we expressed, and secured of knowing nothing about the subject on Which we wrote. We ere accustomed to sach attecks, and they make buta very slight impression upon us. Itis gratifying, however, to know that our re- make end warnings have been properly appreciated by the people for whose espreial beaefit we made them, urd have been responded to in a maaner that ! | | New-Vork.. . is very gralilying. A public meeting was held at | Sactumento City, on the 26ch of Jane, at which | resolutions, compiimeniary to us, were adopted The following is a copy of the proceedings, which rewched ue by the lust steamship from Caagres :— Ata weeting of citizens of Sacramento City, held at the Herkimer Hotel, June 26, 1500, toe following gea- Uemwen were uppointed officers thereof :— President Colonel PLUM se. Dice President,—Colowel C, Washington, Captain Crowell, apd Levi Kt, Stowell, beq., Secretery- lienry UW, tlassey. Brg; wissistant Secretasy—Henry K Curtis. Beq; and atier several eloquent speeches, the following resolutions were Uheuimously aud enthusiastically adopted, vig Reselved, That we baveread, with no ordinary de gree of rutiefaction, the able article in the New Fork Hersid ot May 19h, relauive to the subject of twad speculations iu Coliformis; and that we fuily aud ua- qualitedly concur with the independent wud teariess editor Of that valuable defender of the people's rights, in the expression of his views embodying ax they do, sentiments wud priaciples which we bave long been ftru, gling to maintain. against the combined influence of immense wealth and a mercenary press. to know { {Pxtract from the ileraid ot May 13 “It is some consolation, ip this dilemma, ) that the iufluerces which have produced the existing political condition of things in Califoruts. spring trou Lol & humerous Ket Of iauded and Other speculators, / are beginning Lo be underrtooa at Washington, aud also among the independent people and gold diggers in Califoruia This desperate and uuprincipled vli- gareby of speculators in old Spaoish and Meaican claim? bave brought about the present state st things in Celitor and Lhey reem resolve: inge that new State inio an indepeudent and sepa xistenes aud | thus violate the first principles es Ub ot the United | Biates, and lay the foundation dis-olution of this great Union We believe, however. that the inde- | penacnt people. the real working men, the svuad gold | diggers in California, whore intererts and rights to the pubilc lands would be plundered and violated by the speculators in the nominal iegislature of that try, will uke warning. rise up 1a their might, set ch factions. und go to work, ia conju their brothers and fellow citizens om this Rocky Mountains, in mainteaauee of this great and invaluable Unior “This startling wews from the California Legislature may have grent ifluence at Washington, on tue setiie- ment of the slavery question, affecting the territories. We would not be turprised to see that both houses of Congress were to abandon the idea of a mediate admiseion ot Califorain as@ State and simply intre- duce its admi-sion into the Union as a territory, along with Utah and New Mexico. It certainly seems proper that n measure of this kind is pecesary, in order to eoerve tor the #b+le people of the United State: ad Erte simple and hard-working gold diggers im Uali- fornia, the valuable public lands iu that golden region, which the speculators of the so-called legislature have secretly attempted to rob and to plunder, by titles and epurious grants ” Resolved, That we have read, with like feelings of pleasure, the excellent editorial on “ Land Titles in Calitornia.” contained in the Vaily Pacific Niws of the 2ud inst proving. as it does, that although the press of our own city Viffers with us in sentiment, yer we find, st adistunce, at least one of sufficient intelli- gence ond independence to reflect, voluntarily and Unexpectedly. our own views and feelings. Resolved, That we respeetfully tender to the reapec- tive editors of the New York Herald, and Daily Pucvic News, the sincere acknowledgments of a ye commu. nity, which bas peaceably submitted, long, to opptes- sion, injustice, avd outrage. solely because determined | | to prove to the world its fixed devotion to “law and | order,’ even when these (+rma are prostituted to clouk acts which are obviourly illegal, and grossly and sbainetully diserderly. Retolved, That these resolutions be by the officers of this meeting. aod that a copy, each, be for- warded to James Gordon Bennett, Eeq., and Gen J. Winchester. by the with the request that ‘Oey me eoed) eine TEUMBE, President. C. Wasnixatos, Davin H. Crowent, ¢ V. Presidents. Lavi RB. Browse, Hesny H. Hassey, 5 Mate Qcnven Bunkers, Req, diver and Proprictor of the New York Herald. We repeat what we said on the occasion referred to. Everything like undue excitement should be suspected as dangerous; there are frauds, conspira- cies, and forgeries going on in California land speculations, and there is danger in touching them. The people have been fairly warned, and if they are deceived they will know whom to blame. Police Intelligence. A Westeon Gentleman's Debut in New York—The “ El- To James Goxnon Bens: ephant”’ discovered. —We are frequently called upon to record the tricks ang frauds too nm practired b; the city sharks who make their living by pocket. * wateh “stuffing.” “ mock auctions,” Ko. Ke, A out of the verdant couhtrymen, who cut their teeth on a visit to this great city of Gotham uader the pleet bey genes ed who draw the mo- Ipoeket of the unsuspecting countryman, | and then pars bim along to be daped by the next ar- Ue! that line— that is Oue class of visiters, Agaio, other class ot strangers. whose intellectual id pot, nor could be acted upon by the pocket-bock ~ dropper ver- method by whish there inte ped, wnd the bait used op ir te pretty wome will belief! lace in the h oecas "fitch of near three hundred dollars, by the ie | pating charms cf one of the New York belles — It appears from the facts, as represented to the mag'strate. that a Mr. bey A. Jones, a resitent of Gree » Tilineis, an Btate besides. arrived i way of Washingtou, this being York. and being perfectly au suit pock« k “droppers,” Ke. reading the newspapers, was strangers, therefore he felt tons wally ace her lodgings. situated at {term visit of a short peri d_ the love of bi lady t er wiih sil my care and koowledge of the roguery perpetrated on stra Lam ast. notwithotanding my preeaation Mr. 9 called herselt ind! y female iriwat to give Jones” fite” Here they both t nt Jones, calling bim every epithet bat tlemba, entil he wie Mf back in Green county. near 12 and. bearing ti | wale voices and make for the \ soon after procured the aid of the Fifth ward police, who took the women into car- } on the charge preferred against ber by Mr Jones, wb baving robbed bim of the purse. containing the emount of money ae above tated The women was frarehed. bot nove of the money discovered, from the | Delief that she passed it away to her accomplice who bas net yet bern arrested The prisoner was conreyed, in the morning, before Justice Soebe comploint preterred by Mr Jones and rhe wes consigned to the Mr. Jones freely admits tnat he has al the « elephant’ in New York, and. as be guarded Of steady habite. important feet. take @ note of, and” turn down the } room In which be was rebbed ts the same celebrated Hylen Je was yeors “ The house was then kept send If Mr. Jones continues a re) by this beginning, be will bave plen' and incidents to retate to his constituents on his re- turn home. Thus we see that it is not only the ignorant and unedacated men who are duped and robbed by & visit to this mer ie Arrest of, ve Durgiers.— Othcers Sroony and Sheebaw, of the Fourth ward, arrest y rday, tw hard lecking cvstemers, called Joh . Jones Grorge Killinger, en @ charge ot barglariousrly enter- ing store at Stonington, a! two weeks wines, stealing therefrom a lot of vert: event. meres, valued at $200. $0 reward wae for the A lot of stolen articles hare bren were detained by the vices arrive from 3to~ arrest cf the rogues recovered by the officers. Chief of Pouce until farther nington. Cnavprenr Goin Mixes. —We know that twenty of thirty men have for the last month been steadily at work in di and mm for and that Beet eee Te creel. be tesal gtatioonee gentlemen of the city are connected with the enterprise, and we trust it will be a successful one. Great hopes are entertained that valuable copper will be foond in Inverness. established there they would nmeriaty HE Mat section of the die 4 Uiet ~ Qrebee Chronic’, Agvet 8 Whose seeret mancuvres, during the last two years. | | i tual | j be ves a Pollties] Information, (NITED STATES SENATE. The terms of the following U. 8. Senators, ex- pire in March next, (1851). DEMOCKATS ~TWELYE, + -Honntbal Hamlin, (re-elected.)/ . DS Dickinson, ‘ ’ Jesse D. Bright, James M. Mason, dani, Sturgeon, -H L, Turney, Morne. di Virgina. Penksyivania ‘Tennessee Missour : +. !, H. Benton, Wisconsin. Henry Dolge. Play ade. David lL. Yulee. Teaus. + Thos, J Rusk. Michigan, . . Lewis Ones. Je ffereon Davis. wars — Mississippi. . Samuet 8, Phelps. Albert 0. Greene. john Wales. Wm. L Dayton. Pratt, (re-elected.) * Appointed by the E theatate, until thee next meeting of the Legislature, It is probable thar the whigs will gain a Senator in Missoni, in place ot Mr. Bentoa. In the other States to elect, the chances of loss and gain to each party, in the sguregate, are about balanced. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. The following Stotes hold their elections for members of the next Congress, (the thirty-second,) the present surmmer aud ensuing fall. We give the numberof member to which each State is entitled, and their political division in the present Congress: States Election. Dem. M 6 i 3 _ pe 6 2 es 1 3 =_ 6 3 - = 1 ge 7 ia en iL 8 2 . i 6 1 = Wisconsin. 5 1 1 1 Penneyivan 8 8 Mu 2 New York 5 1 32 2 New Jerseys cess 5 7 na Michigan «8 2 1 = Moncachuretts “ ~ 9 = Delaware...ee.0+5 “ 12 - 1 - Total...» . +65 80 € + In present Congress one vacancy. The total number of members to be elected this year, 1t will be observed, is 142, exclusive of the member from Arkansas, about which we are not certain, but we do not observe any candidates for Congress named in the Arkansas papers. This will leave the number of members to be elected next year, 91, including the two from California. It is probable that the whigs have gained the five | representatives from Missouri, and may gain in INincis, and some other States, but they will lose largely in New York; as, if the democrats unite, they can carry fifteen districts at least. The Western Elections. MISSOURI. Lycistatune —There are 98 counties in Missouri, and the Legistature recently elected consists of 161 members (according to the St. Louis Republican.) 81 constituting a majerity, The number ef members in former Legisiatures was 133,vix : 38 in the Senate, and 100 in the House of Representatives. The county of St Louis elects three Senators and ten Representatives, ait of whom now elected are whigs. In the present divided state of the democratic party, between the friends avd opponents of Col. Benton, it seems proba~ ble that the whigs have ¢lected a majority of the Leegis- lature The most populous portions of the State are the counties on the Missouri rivor, where the principal whig strength lies. Many of these counties have here- tofore been whig, and others bave been very elose be- tween the parties These counties will be first heard from. and we shall probably then be able to show how | the State bas gone. The follwing from the St. Lewis Republican, (whig) of ‘3d inst , before the election, shows that there is no g00d feeling between the whigs and the friends of Ben- ton, and that there is no chance for his re-election to the Senate. We venture theassertion that if all the candidates in the State, on the Benton side, were to be elected—and they stand » miserable chance—still they would not constitu’ majority of the Legisiature— eighty-one. Col. Benton may as well prepare to rum for the Houre of Representatives in 1853 in the St. Louis Dis- trict. His days in theSenate are numbered. It wilt be time enough when he comes up for the House, to ‘kill him off. Conannss —There are five Congressional Distriets in Alt aoa & Winston 6 548 Bali majority in the State,on Congress, in 1848, 18,275 From the Ist District we have the following returns:— Donor. Rostun, Bowie. St. Louis City (6 wards) ores Stor aes Cape Girardeau (part) 161 14 3e 2900 «aan 828 John F. Darby (whig) believed to be elected in the District, which contains seventeen counties, In the tecowd District there seems to be no doubt of the election of Gilchrist Porter (whig ) INDIANA. ‘The tion in this Btate, this year, is for member of the Legislature, rendered important in consequence of a United Btates Senator to be chosen im place of Mr. Bright. For several years past, the democrats have carrird the State, by majorities varying from & to 20, on joint ballot. A convention to revise the eon - stitution ts aleo eboven this year, r. orn Besn, Ang. 6, 1980. ‘The majorities in thie county papa ty se - rin! delegate). 250: Colfax (County delegate to the eon vention). 200, Reynolds (representative), 200—all whigs. ‘ &, sere usually gives about the same whig ma- jority. KENTUCKY. The election is for members of Legisletare. Im Louisville, the whig ticket was eleeted, ae usual, not- withstanding the apathy of the whiges—majority en. Senator, 120 only; for President, in 1848, 816. In Jefferson county, the two democratic candidates are elected to the Legislature, Taylor's majority, in. ‘1848, 101. PRANKLAN C01 Ang. 5, 1850. At the clore of the polls—tlord, 60k Monroe. 335 McKee, 4 Politics not stated, Three preeinets nou Beard frei In 1848, Taylor, 626; Case, 664. BY TELEGRAPH. Bartowone, August 11, 180) NORTH CAROLE A despatch from Raleigh says:— Reed bas beenelerte? by 3.400 majority, aod the democrats have 54 majority on joint ballot in the Legielature. KENTUCKY. As far as oscertained, seven whig and two demo- cratic & neators. and seven whig and seven democratic Representatives, bare been elected in Kentucky Awong the latter is Col. Richard M Johason, who war for # great number of years a member of Congress, and _ was Vice President of the United States daring Martin Ven B administration. The demoerats have elected one Reprerentagive in Fayette county. The democratic grin is small and not suffcient toeffeet the general result porting Intelngen mee Rrearts —A bont race of tive wiles, for $200, will nag beg rag Ba Field, i= je teee will andor i, neseed large concourse of people. rere “saa Oveunration or Tae Stax Reovues.—The 0e- cultetion, yesterday, about noon, of the first (12> magnitude star Regulus, w: | rved Lmersion at. th 3 oh a oye Shia. wi" = 1h 08 m. 8 this observation is very important, iaasmuc! as it eflords the means of determining the moon's place et a point where it cannot be ob- 9) eerved, we should be much obliged by the eom- mivnication of corresponding observations else wir arvany Onservatory, Bown. Campainer, August 9, 1300. KO Ren [The above observations show, if any farther oof Were necessary, the excellence of the great quatorial telescope at Cambridge, and we do not recollect ever before to have heard that a star like Ko «+f between the first and second magni- tudes, could be a when only about 12 degrees fiom the sun he moon must, of course, have been quite invisible, and we that the of Mr. Siond that this be tien mat have heen Obsefwed elee where, wi! +d —Detten Traveller, Angest 0) nowt