The New York Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1851, Page 2

Siateilidhiliemerensaidiniiniane taken I eI ok mn oe NH a St seseroteten ase ae NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BESNETT, PROPRIETOR AND BDITOR. QUURe 4. W. CORNER OF FULTON axD maseau STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bewery—Mowra-Cassre, eer ar THEAT! ‘Tam Curren -Vision an" 'S GARDEN, Broadway—EqvestRias Pearoax- | Szorross THEATRE, Chambers strect—Love i 4 Maze—Scnoor rox Tia: \TION AL Samaras, Chatham street—Vincamcs-— | Goupey Ax aes BROUGHAM'S “ere, Broadway—Tue Devin ow Panw—iis Last Leos. _QERISTY’S MINSTRELS, jechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway ian MiNSTRELSY. FELLOWS’ MINSTRELS, Fellows’ Musical Halt, No, 444 Beroadway—Erwiorian Minsrn eis. HORN & WHITE'S OPERA TROUPE, Coliseum, No. 450 Brvadway—Erniorian Mr eLSY, AMERICAN MUSEUM—Amvsine Perronmances ar- WERNOON AND EVENING. NEW YORK AMPHITH EATRE, 37 Bowery—EquestRian | PERrORMANCES. WASHINGTON HALL—Pasonama ov ram Pivenin’s Procnrss. MINERVA ROOMS—Panonama oF IneLann, HOPE CHAPEL—Concerr sy THE ALLEGHANIANS. STOPPANI HALL—Panonama ov I AR New York, Monday, April 21, 1851. Highly Important from South Carolina— Commencement of the Great Secession | Movement. A short time since we sent a special correspon- | dent from this office to South Carolina, and the Southern States generally, for the purpose of can- Vassing public opinion in those parts of the confede- Yaey and reporting the progress of the great seces- sion movement in that region, which was originally set in motion by the abolition fanaticsof the North, and which, according to present appearances, is rapidly approaching a crisis. The first of our cor- wespondent’s despatches has already been given, and the last two will be found in our columns to-day. It communicates the important fact that the first movement in favor of secession, or revolu- tion, in the Southern States, will be made in the eity of Charleston, by a convocation, or convention, of all the States’ Rights associations of South Caro- lina, which is to be held early in the month of May | wext, for the purpose of discussing the great ques- tion of secession. This important subject is beginning to attract | the attention of the whole world. Our readers may rest satisfied that we shall place the earliest and most reliable intelligence before them connected with this subject, having made arrangements to procure it, by mailand telegraph. We shall publish in our columns, from time to time, information ofthe exact position of the public mind of South Carolina, and the Southern States generally, as well as of all the step: that may be taken, one by one, in the grand national denouement now in process of deve Jopement in that section of the country. ‘The declarations made by Senator Butler, of | South Carolina, recently, and those of other public | men in that region, at different times, vary more or Jess in detail, but all unite on one common ground, that of the propriety and necessity of South Caro- lina seceding from the Union, and setting up an inde- pendect nationality, without respect to whether the Movement is countenanced by any other Southern State or not. In this, all her speakers and public wen agree, and their opinions, according to all ap- Pearances, are entertained by the great mass of the people. In this region of the country, politicians, a8 @ general thing, scout the idea that South Caro- lina intends to curry,into effect the purpose which | she bas so often avowed to the world; but in doing #0, they show they do not know the character of the people with whom they are dealing. Neither do they properly understand the state of afairs at the North, which is urging South Carolina into Secession and other Southern States into the same current. They do not comprehend that a dissolu- tion of the Union would ruin the North, or that the Southern Sta! m their vast agricul- taral wealth, possess the clements of a mighty em- pire within themselves. They do not comprehend that we are dependent on the South for our prospe- rity—that two-thirds of the commercial wealth of the North bangs upon. our union with the Souath- em States, as it now Tho North, regard- Jest of all erations, and apparently reckle results, persists in a course of policy to- wards the South, w hich, if much longer continued, will inevita’ly produce a dissolution of the Union, and with it the downfall of the prosperity of the North. Notwithetanding the hostility waged against the South, a large portion of the people of the Sonthern States, particularly in Geor- gia and Virginia, are still loyal to the constitution, and are willing, as far as in them lies, to carry it outtothe fullest extent. But we cannot close our eyes to the fact that an immense majority of the people of South Carvlina, and large minorities in ether Southern States, are fully determined to unite | fm seceding from the Northern States, at someearly day, ifthe prov of constitution, relative to | the reclamation of fugitive slaves, be not carried out, in all ite original strength and vigor, and th which it was frame: s of the convention o about to be held in y, the in any part of . in their effects on ists. obably, " y made ¢ North iy, t t Nie ew t fe pre: tion. Whil Biome dom. te , and iof this he land hove o t Md their on the © : 1 ed, for mate t Daniel Webster—Hie Friends aud Mis Ene- mates. We alluded, a few days ago, to (be very gross in- dignities offered to the Secretary of State, by the Le- gislature of New York at Albany, and by the Board of Aldermen of Bostan. We then called the attention of the people at large to the facts im the case, which were, it will pot be forgotten, exceedingly disgrace- ful—disgraceful to the characters of the two bodies which had the temerity t indulge in such gratui- tous insults to an eminent #aterman, and to the right-hand adviser of the President of the United States. In the impulse of the moment, whea the reports of the disgraceful proceedings reached as, We at once suggested that some vindication, by the action of the people of this great metropolis, was necessary, to wipe out this stain upon the character of eur population, thus inflicted by servants of the people, who mistake the opinions of their country- men in thus acting against one whose long and ar- duous public services are acknowledged on all sides, whatever differences of opinion may abridge the full measure of Daniel Webster's popularity. Thesug- gestion thus thrown out by us, we are now happy to learn, has been taken up in the proper quarter, by the merchants at the Exchange, who have proposed to make some suitable amend to the honorable Sec- retary of State, for these indelicate aad wanton in- sults, so recklessly perpetrated at Albany and by the Mayer and Aldermen of Boston. Acoordingly, the following invitation for signatures has been lef at our office, and we believe similar ones will be found at various other public places in the eity:— WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF TO THE FRIENDS oF THE “ UNIO) panty In view of the services and sacrifices of the Honorable Daniel Webster, in maintaining inviolate the coustitu- tion and laws of his country, in contrast with the recent act of the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, in refusiug the use of Faneuil Hall to the friends of that gentleman, to | congratulate each other on the recent verification of his representations regarding that ancient commonwealth ; and in view, also, ot the refusal of the Legislature of New York to invite Mr. Webster to visit Albany, as the | guest of the State; indignities cast upon that distin- guished statesman by abolitionists and others opposed to his patriotic course, ‘The undersigned, citizens of New York, respectfully invite Mr. Webster to meet them in this city. at some period convenient to himself, in order that they may | tion. express to him, in person. their deep aud grateful aj ciation of his devotion to the great public interests Newt York, April 19th, 1851. The purpose contained in this invitation, we hope, will be carried out by all the respectable and pa- triotic portion of the metropolis. In order to insure one of the greatest and most popular assemblages ever known in the city, we have only to recapitu- late the disgusting and disgraceful conduct of thase whose insults to Mr. Webster have produced the powerful re-action to do justice to the distinguished statesman. Recently, Mr. Webster was invited to be the guest of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and also to visit Annapolis and other places, his public services towards settling the anti-slavery difficulty, and in carrying out the provisions of the constitution and laws in Boston, having excited the admiration of every patriotic citizen. In Boston, however, a po- litieal current was set against the proposition to in- vite the Secretary of State to address his friends and the friends of the country at Fanexil Hall, which has so often vibrated with his eloquence. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, directed by this the insane spirit of the abolition factions, shut the | doors of the hall against him, and thus virtually re- pudiated the decision of the popular voice in favor of one whom Massachusetts was always proud to honor, and always willing and anxious to hear. At Albany, similar disgraceful transactions character- ized the Legislature of New York. Soine of Mr. Webster's friends proposed that he should be in- vited to address them in the State House, and there the proposition was dodged in the Assembly, and put off in the Senate, where, singularly enough, sat the very men who had asked the opinion of the self- same Secretary of State on the constitutionality of a project to vote away ten millions of dollars for the enlargement of the Erie canal. And, what is more singular, the Assembly at Albany, at the very same time that such an indignity was exhibited towards Daniel Webster, invited upon the floor of the House, and within the bar, one of the greates’ political humbugs of the day, and a promoter of all the various phases of infidelity, blasphemy, and the isms of the day—a silly, erack-brained philo- sopher, who runs up and down the country, distin. guished more for an old white coat and a white hat, and a portmanteau in his hand, with one leg of his trousers in one boot, and the other leg outside of the other, than for one single dignified sentiment, for one Christian thought, one fixed principle, or for any practical usefulness to society. While Daniel Webster, eminently distinguished for thirty years _ Sreciat E:gction axp. an Serssion.—Io | of the recent n of the Legis- caused by the of twelve members ‘of the Senate, “who rather be rightthan be | President,” the Governor bas issued a proclamation of public service, could be flouted and scouted | by such a body of men, even such a drivelling mountebank as we have described could be invited to receive public honors, the juvenile Speaker of the Assembly rising gravely from his chair, to eulogize this dangerous patron of rationalism and socialism, as a friend of humanity—yes, such hu- manity as consists in puffing of, as sacred and di- vine, the vulgar knockings of the Fish girls, and in clevating, as musical exhibitions, the contemptible buffoonery of the Hutchinsons, and every other ham- bug by which weak mon would turn polities into money. Surely, after such taste on the part of the servants of the people, we may anticipate anything, however monstrous, that can be grown in western New York, will spring wp to degrade the character of our State Legislature. It is on account of such proceedings that we hope the people will be alive to the importance of wiping out the stain now resting upon their character. A united effort should be made, among all classes, to this end. if, in the history of Daniel Webster's career, there is any one thing, more than another, his great public acts, which commands the ad- good and patriotic citizen, it is and constancy with which he has « with admirable singleness of mpromise measures, and to nd laws, in their full ia- be the last to take away » of “lit which he omlact ia these the ¢ noble ¢ « d for hime af We el If by him w breach, when th and Cass, and who threw highest moral itself to party Though we may & m to seerifi ame forced here with re on all be At thie time i rest and most post i contempt t Alban; conla and in | of second street. Llow we Morine Affairs. are ow Stra r . , n rtoamel a | be ordering a special election to Gill the vacancies thus occasioned, and convening the Legislature in spe- cial or extra session, onthe tenth of June next, in order that the government of the State may not be stopped. The Albany papers make a great hub-bub about this proceeding and its aatecedents, They endeavor to make @ great noise about the resignation of the | twelve seceding Senators; but they give much more the majority intended, per fas aut nefus, to pass a bill which they thought was a violation of the or- ganic law of the State. Believing so, they did well | to resort to their parliamentary rights to defeat it. In resigning, they threw the question back to the people—to their constituents—who, according to the constitution, have the sole right to determine whether the State debt shall, or shall not, be in- creased for any purpose. This proeceding may ap- parently be revolutionary in its aspect—it certainly would be of a revolutionary character in any coun- try but this—but it was, nevertheless, legitimate and proper under the circumstances. ‘The question will now be submitted to the people of twelve of the thirty-two senatorial districts of the State. If the twelve seceding Senators be re- elected, the voice of their constituents will be mani- fested in disapproval of the Canal bill. But should they, or perrons entertaining similar views in re- gard to the Canal bill, be elected at the special election about to be held, the Legislature will stand in precisely the same position as it did before. What then! Atall events, the canvass in those twelve districts will be a very active and a very im- portant one. During its continuance, the great topic of the day—the abolition question—will be lost sight of, and parties will once again fight about one of the issues which divided them before nigger- ism showed its hydra head and affrighted the na- Almost all of the issues which a few years ugo separated the two great parties into which the country is divided, have been disposed of and con- signed to everlasting rest. One of them, however, that of the degree of getting into debt for internal improvements, never has been settled ; every occasion it will come before the people, direct- ly or indirectly. If the same Senators should be re-elected, the peculiar friends of the Canal bill will be obliged to abandon that favorite measure of | | composer, a performer on the violin, and on the piano- theirs, temporarily at least ; for if they insist upon its passage under the circumstances, the twelve re- elected Senators will be justified in again resign- ing their seats. case, would not, we think, dare to put it to such a result; but if they did, of course the question would be submitted to the people at large at the regular election in November. The advocates of this bill for increasing the debt of the State, never had a better time for appealing to the people, for in this day of inflation and ex- travagance, the mass of the people, who are intoxi- cated, as it were, with their present prosperity, The majority, however, in such | would, we have no doubt, sanction, by their votes, | an increase of our indebtedness, not only to nine, but to twenty, thirty, or fifty millions of dollars, for any purpose. The mercantile, the landed, the banking, the railroad, and every other interest, are running riot, not only in this, but in every other State f the Union, and will continue to do so, until an explosion, similar to that of 1818 or 1837, takes place. In fact, such manias are periodical with the American pople. It appears to be natural | to enlightened human nature, individually, as_ States, and as a nation, to live beyond means, to indulge in all luxuries on credit, and when pay day comes, to resort to a bankrupt act to wipe of all scores. constitution, nolaw shall be passed impairing the validity of contracts, when the explosion, which is inevitable from the present state of things, takes Notwithstanding that, according to the | The Tr fresh epring air. after, place, the general bankrupt law will be passed, | and obligations and indebtedness, to the tune of | hundreds of millions, will be wiped off, as with a | sponge. The people, with fate staring them in the face, will go on and ineur debts, individually and collectively, as States, trusting to be able, at some future {but indefinite time, to pay them. ‘This disposition has been manifested for some years past. We have an instance of it in the construc- and on | 177 Whe can sing “Home, sweet home,” Musteal and Chit-Ohat. The musical is to open with Wallace's eom- ert to-morrow ni, Tripler Hall will present aa array of fashion s it has not possessed for some months. Before wo refer to this event more particalarly | however, we may as well glance at the movements of some of the great artists now in the city. ‘Tedesco, who has been winning laurels {nm Havana all winter, has arrived in this city, and is about to sail for England, where she will probably readily find an en- gagement, though rhe will go out without one, She would have gone in the last steamer, but all the state rooms were engaged, and she bas consequently been ob- liged to remain In the city for another week. Bettini, the tenor, is still in town. It is to be hoped importance to the proceeding than it doserves. | that he may be heard to advantage, when the climate is ‘Those gentlemen resigned, because in their belief | favorable to his voice. On his first visit he was to have sung one or two nights, but illness prevented, though he went through one act, raising the highest anticipations of his ability. He will be secured, probably, by Maret- aek, for his summer season at least. Steffenone, too, remains in town, and is applying her- self closely to the English language, as an amusing and useful occupation, while she reposes after her triumphs in Havana. We believe that she does not propose to en- gege in any musical entertainment for some weeks to c:me; but when she does consent again to appear, she will renew the memories of those delicious musical hours so celebrated last summer at Castle Garden, which, by the way, isto be opened on the fifteenth of Juse, or thereabouts, by Maretzek, who has engaged already a large company, and Bosio among other artistes. Bosio hag already arrived in the city, and will remain under an engagement with Maretzek through both his summer and winter campaigns, the latter one being carried on fa ‘@ new establishment, we presume, as no alterations are made in the old one, Parodi will return to the North in June, and will pro | bably be heard at Castle Garden. Mer tour through the South has been one of substantial success, She is now to sing at New Orleans, and will probably return by the way of the Mississippi, and through Cincinnati. She has no Barnum to telegraph the immense sums she has re- ceived; but we have no doubt that her great talents have secured for her satisfactory returns for her unpretending application to her art. Telegraphs can bring reports but they cannot diminish the rewards of true genius’ any more than they can add to the richness of ite quali- ties by exaggeration, While naming the female vocalists, the début in this country of Madame Bonchelle, at her brother's concert to-morrow night, must not be forgotten. This lady is a fine artiste, and sings Irish, English, and Scoteh ballads, in exquisite style. Probably there is no one in the coun- and such popu- lar music, with so much feeling and expression. Her voice is melodious, and of fine tone, and rhe is well eal- culated to please # refined audience, such as will be pre- sent at Tripler Hall to-morrow evening, at Mr, Wallace's concert, Mr. Walace has rare merit himself, both asa forte. In this combination cf musical skill he will dis_ play his varied powers, aided by a large orchestra, and everything that can tend to make a first class concert, ‘Tripler Hall will probably be filled as it never has been since Parodi’s concerts. | time past, have concentrated their eiforts upon one or | | abundant as it has been any time within the past twelve At the theatres, the performances command only our _ customary attention, The last week having been dis- tinguished for five rainy and stormy nights, every estab- lichment has euffered more or less; but with fine weather they will all be filled again—the Broadway for its scenery, Burton's for fun, Brougham’s for delight, the Bowery for wonder, and the Natioual for tragedy: Niblo’s still attracts largely, and the performances of Mile. Loyo, Loisset, and that remarkable youth Baptist, with thore of the rest of the company, give the highest satisfaction, This is to be the last week of the perform- ances, end the several benefits will prove very attractive. Among others, the complimentary one to Mr. James M- Nixon, whose merits are well |.u° vn, will take place to- morrow night, and will be a brill r—Mile. Caro- | ever, railroads now in operation so situated that no | other road could be constructed to interfere with their line, the Loisset» and Monsieur and Madaine Benoit, ap- pevringon tl on. The Mayor is chairman of the con mittee, wl nsists of two hundred of our citt- zen: —enough re a benefit worthy ot the very tae | lented and pop: .t performer who has distinguished himself, both in private for his ability to gratity ar The Turf. vnd public, for his worth, and ined taste, rhea hich el | Oeeeeinviian Coveed toe weethes SNR Ceetet | ccs on the s0ule beautifully last evening, will afford a fine opportunity for the making of good time to-day over the Centreville, by the noted pacers Cayuga Maid and Lady Bevins, In ad- dition to the pacing contest, there is to bea trotting ling|; ell itched horses, | ey eae | Hudson River road will be subject at all times to compe- course will, doubtless, be crowded with persons who will be glad of an unity of getting « good breath a aa ing been so long cooped up in the city by the late rains. ‘The Stea Steamship Pac Pacific. cag gee ety by Noy mye oer toa ‘aph in 8 Herald, ha heads acs Steet three-quarters of an’ hour waiting for the doctor, whose business it was to board | her immediately,” please insert the following :— tion of the Evie Railroad. The original estimates | fr that great work were six millions of dollars; | but the expenditures, before a locomotive will run from Dunkirk to Piermont, will reach over twenty millions. Although the question of the constitutionality of this canal bill will come before a portion of the people, at the special election which has been | just ordered by the Governor, it will come before the State at large in the fall, as it did on a former cecasion. The result, however, will be, for the reasons we have mentioned, in all probability, fa | vorable tothe loan. As the people are new led by the clique of politicians and demagogwes in Albany, it is ewficient to say that Thurlow Weed is in favor of the measure. He and his associates of the “higher law” school have the State in leading strings; and constitution or no constitution, their behests must be complied with. It will take ayear or two ‘to bring this bubble of the day which is growing up around us, to its natural pricking point. Tur Westrrty Baxx Roopery.—It will be re- collected that Collins, who was concerned in the robbery of the Westerly Bank, of Rhode Island, with Levi Cole and Tom Kanouse, was recently convicted of that crime, and that a man named Dorsey, who was in league with them, was at the rame time convicted of perjury. Those two hope- ful youths will be sentenced to-day. Efforts are, we understand, being mare to defer the senten and t erfere with the due course of th law and of justice in these eases, by a bill of exceptions, a but, as th tenced notwitheta least “w We avo informed that some well acquainted with all the cireumeta of th be of that bank, is preparing a curious pamphlet, the char i a * ia this that of their associ + i +, and te i A coord to al te nowe are the persons who, mo are bed the District Attorney for the o® tensille purpose of o' stain indietumente and other documents, during excitement that was produced by falve t old Drury, and while he was in 7 wag broken open on th ed at the time, altho tioned in connection with t of hie stool-p eon with the view of agai the Ne of which i # D low mark in New J " to the di lit Dew affai and out, upside and dowaside, ler nd breadth, has, however, boon exposed tool-pigeon capital was made out of it ‘The man whom the gang persecuted in Aotn, while thos w i ithin the walle of th meelv trained of} to imar free re him w nm, are ‘The undersigned were waiting in the stream in small beats, at the Quarantine, for the arrival of the Pacific. She was boerded by Dr. Doane, before her way was stop- = When the health boat came alongside, the side- adder of the Pacific was not over her rail. Thos, Suannort, Jour B. Srovix, Evwakp Cunsincuam, Wittast J. Broan, Comxeics Journey, Joux P. Warens, Peter A. Jonsson, ‘And some ten more, if neceseary, who will make an affidavit to the truth of the above. Quarantine, April 20, 1851, Court Calendar—This day, Surenien Cova r.—Nos, 45, 135, 15, 102. 540, 19, 37, 18, 12, 16, 50, 44, 182, 186, 192, 194, 195, 198, 200, 202, 205, 2H), 7, 62, 25. 3, 93, 34, ‘88, 161, 28, Ju, 108, 120. 140, ag 112, 57, 14, 76, 131, 58, 174. rene Count, Special Term.—Nos. 17, 67,76, 83, $4, se 89, 90, 91. Cincvrt Covnt.—Same as before Common Puras—Nos. 10, 48, 263, 281, 285, 296, 345, 967, 423, 441. ition to all Mon Co.'s California Express by tent th inst @ ty Calfforn, , by special messenger, nite; by the hundre: Veory street. 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PHALON,S W ant Citizens an They bye factor gfe yoy Sevisharberees. | | strangers are inv! eaainiae ing elsewhere. Copy his eddreos, Halir Dye.—Who would consent to be ex- wenaenth' een Ly dabblers in a new profession, jaselving i peryanal sere nd comfort, when hy nelae Bute ine Hatr, Dye, entablished east twelve, yeurs, the risk me ‘ vaveidal iat ore flats Dye ou Bored at Wall’ street, an 0 druggist meries. Gouraud's id Halr, instantly con- Nertered or gray hair to brow a Ink. Gonsente tie: oMp cures freekles, eruptions, eg ys feradicates. hale frou up; lian Medic nen ke. Govran ‘Ss ‘alker street, first store wei th Third street, Philadel- Behinees.—/Thousands have been cured of this disease in all ite stages be using Bogle’ bo presen: Flu id. Physiological and chemical observatio: ‘experience ts “eri to be calculated according to natural lavgaion William Bogle, 277 wtrect, Bi dA. Be sitet Kushton, Clae ri ‘Day, MONEY MARKET, Suxpay, April 20—6 P.M. There has been a great deal of activity in the stock market during the past week, and prices for several of the leading railroad securities have steadily advanced. Erie and Harlem are still the favorites, and holders feel confident of their ability to carry prices eonsilerably | above those now current, We do not see those indica- tions of a general speculative movement in the prices usually observable at this season of the year, and the pro- bability that the looked for «pring rise will not be re- alized to the extent anticipated. Speevlators, for some | two favorite stocks, and brought all their influence and capital to bear upon them. This accounts for two or three leading fancies advancing, while others are either quiet or are receding in prices. There has been a de- cided improvement in the money market, and the news that nearly two millions of gold dust is on its way to this port from San Francisco,will doubtless have a further favorable effect upon financial affairs. The banks are more liberal in their favors, and discount a larger per cent of the paper offered. We have no doubt but that, by the middle of May, money will be as cheap and as months. Confidence in faney stocks may return with an easy money market, and there may be considerable speculative excitement in the etreet; but we do not at present diseern any evidences of such a movement. Railroad stocks are likely to be more in demand than any other class of fancies. The various companies are earning a good deal of money; but it is our impression that, sooner or later, competition will make sad havoc among their net revenues. There are at this moment ratlroads enough i York and New England to answer all the purposes of trade and travel for the next twenty years; notwithstand- ing which, the prospect at present is that at the end of that time, the number of miles of rail in the same section of country will be double what it ie now, There are, how- trafic, These roads are good property, and as their busi- ness must inerease more or loss every year, future divi- dends must be comparatively large. The Harlem rail - road is one of this class; running through a valley, lined on each side with ranges of mountains, it has a com- plete monopoly of the traffic of the section of country through which it passes. Forthe loug travel, or what is called through business, it poseesses all the fiteilities for carrying on a strong competition with other roads, and will, without doubt, obtain its share. The New Ha- ven railroad controls the local travel on its line from point to point, but not altogether from either extremity Competition from steam- boats interferes slightly with this brench of its business, Dut by no means to an extent likely to affect its dividends. The construction of other roads is more likely to inerease than decrease the traffic of the New Haven Company. The tition—euring the winter, from the Harlem road, on the through travel, and during the summer, from the boats na- vigating the Hudson river, and from all other roads eon- nected with the through travel to and from the West. The Erie road will take a great deal of the traffic from the IMud- son River road. The eastern section of the ewntral line Cf roads through this State loses a large amount of pas- senger traffic by ite diversion at Geneva to the Erie road, and the western section will soon experience a similar loss, by the completion of the line from Attica to Hor- nellsville. The local travel on the central line will soon be diminished by the construction of rival roads, Thy Utica and Schenectady (south side) road will divide the local and threugh travel between those points, and the Albany and Schenectady company Is likely to have arival in the Schenectady and Catskill road, which will divert a portion of the through travel to and from the | Mudson river, which now takes Albany in its course 70, 52, 60, 43, 97, 133, 166, 123, | 172, 180, 116, $9, 35, | | bad debt ‘The effect of all these movements upon the market value of the stock of each company connected with them lea | matter of much importance to thove interested. | Movements in real estate, for sometime past, have been _ of the mort speculative character. The rise in prices has never been more rapid than during the pact twelve — montits, and the excitement among speculators has been greater than ever before experienced. The year 18% | Was not anything like it, It was thought, then, that prices were enormously inflated, but those now current | are as much in advance of that year, ax they were then in advance of those ruling ten years previous, We do | not see #0 many lithographed maps circulated about Wall street as during the former lard «peculative mania, and operations are carried on more quietly, but by no | means less extravagantly on that account. We do not think the epidemic is so wide spread ax heretofore, or that it has seized as many persons; but it rages, in cer- tain localities, with fearful virulenee. without the slightort ndications of even a temporary abatement, Old places have been taken in hand by speculators; old maps have been pulled out and re-touched:by the engraver, Lote have been brought into market at high prices, and turned from hand to hand twenty times in as many hours, at an advance every turn. Property in Broadway has changed hands oftener daring the past twelve months than during its whole previous existence, Prices have been paid that would have astonished every one in 1836, and it is a ques. tion in the minds of thore weil acquainted with real estate operations—What can be done with the property purchased at such prices, to pay the most m: terest on the investment? In Broadw bers street to Bow have been made, and it has bec importent branches of bi ate in- frora Cham- mprovements f several ent, and, of course, most expensive warehouses have been erected and cecupied at most rmour tente; ne as though the seeds of bankruptcy had been sown brendeast among thoee who have located themselves ia that section of the city. Many of the co neighborhood have been erected by the occupants, and the inte on the amount Invested, with all the other exiravogant expenditures of thore concerns, such as heures up town at rents equally exorbitant, carriages ke. ke, &e., must require large profits. and few to make both ends meet at the clove This is not the only pert of the city ation in teal estate has run riot, Pro- ductive and unproductive property has advanced with equal rapidity. Lots, five, eight and ten miles from the City Hall, have found purchasers at prices almost beyond of eseh yer where belief, Lots ten and twenty feet under a ledge of rock three and four miles from the Park, have been sold at #ix, even, and eight hundred dollars, and an expendi- ture on each lot. equal to this eort, will be required to grade them, Lots in the vicinity of the Iigh Bridge bring two, three, end four hundred doilars, and are con- videred bargni t these Tn connection with this expanelon in prices for realestate, and as a natural con. eequenee, rents have advanced on an average full fifteen per cent, which bas alone added to t! f the population of this city at least fiv lees. current expense millions of dol- lnre for the year, Prices for everything else have ad- vanced, but fortunately not in the same ratio; and there hae wniversel increase in expenditures for all do Bocat es. Tt is very ensy to tell where this will end. The effect of euch extravngan an incrense ply \ and thousands aro att Wor ut Ity f 1th her ar or two 7 ' 1 1 ' n fb gedit, apparently without the first thought about the L mode o time of payment. When we look at this state of thinge, aud eovsidor that it is by the merest tritle whieh @ breath mixht destroy, in fact merely upen an imaginary foundstion, we are struck with astonish- ment aud wonder, ‘hw first oause of this artiticial state cf prices, this unnatural and dangerous inflation of im- dividaul credits, and this extravagance in publie and private affairs, isthe unprecedented supply of gold dust. froan a source not thonght of six months before the article: itewlf came to hand in large ameusts. This sudden in- crease in the precious motals, ia the'representative of all value in property, created such am excitement in the public, that commercial calculations were destroyed, and the question arose what we should do with so mueh gold, and what would be the effect upon the eurrency of the- country. No one appeared to think that there was the. slightest poswlbility of the supply diminishing ; but, om. the contrary, every one contracted debts to send some adventure to the gold country, and, in anticipation of immense profite, entered at once into a more extrava- gant way of living, the means of payment for which wil. never be realized. The movement is apparently going on smoothly and prosperously; but there are below the furfuce elements of a revulsion, which must , sooner or later, develope themrelves, in 4 way that will result most. ditartrously to all too deeply involved in it. The quantity of certain articles exported from this port for the week ending the 18th inst, distinguishing: the destination and extent of shipments to each place, has been as follows :-— or THe Port 0} Cotton, baler, 7.) shoulders, do. Lacee, manufactured, do. tine, do., 2,054; rosin, Youkx—Weexty Exronrs. Vinegar, do., 116; do., 006; ‘bread. do.. 135; Tiee, do, 42; corn meal, do , 69; oat meal, do., 44; tea, chests, 66; corn, bushels, 14,600; wheat, do,, 9 nuchinery. pkgs.. 15: cedar, toga, 110; logwocd, tons, 43; fustic, do,, 146, shooks, bdls.,” 211; hoops. do., 206, Havve.—Cotton, bales, 203; clothing, do.,12; jewellers? ashes, bbis., 82. Other Ports in France-—Cotton, bales. 120; whalebone The... 2.016; pine 13,083; rosin, bbls., 1,167; beef do., 20; ‘tea, chests, B81; staves. 8 60D. Madeiya.—¥ our, bine is pitch, do., £0; rice, tie 29; rosin, do., 50; beef, pon i hes “do.. L Flour, bbls, 143; rorin, do., 21; oakum, te. 16 tohacea, Ibs., 238; dry goods, bales, 29; domestics, pkgs, 22. Russia.—Cotton, bates, 1.550; rice, tierces, 181; fustic, sticks. 1,163: sareaparilla, bales, 200. Danish West Indies.—Vobuceo. Ubs., 7,057 ; sugar, do., 8,802; pork, bbis., 60; beef, do., 25; Hour, do., 900; core meal, do.. 170; rice, tierces, 20; tea, chests, 20; lard oid, gallons, 201. By itich North American Colonies.—Pork, bbis., 470; corn meal, do.. 125; flour, do., 1.753; beef. do.. 39;" pitch, do., 20; tar, do., 80; rye flour, do., 340; rice, tierees, 20; tea, chests, 410; gin, casks, 79; coffee, Ibs), 3,920; tobaceo, manufactured, do., 27.732; hemp, bales, 38; wheat, bus.) 2311; staves, 3,193; hogeheads, 900, Cuta.—Corn, bushels, 150; ‘rice, tierces, 86; ¢>dfish, boxes, 127; mackerel bbls. 10; Pork, do., 90; bacon, Ibs., 2,100; hams, do., 1.662; lard, do, 4,007; butter, do., 2846; tobuceo, do., 5.261; powder, do., 908; salt, sacks, 877 onions, erates, €7; candles, boxes, 110; ” whale oil, gallon: 3.285; ale, bb! aie hes do soda ash, casks, nails, kegs, 32 F, Bbls., 60; stores (at spoihed), 0 112; shooks, 1,850; hoops, 11,714; hogsheads, 5 , 270; boards, fect, 6.033; ai, phan’ Sh, dey Gey, (not. specitied,} pkgs., 18. Porto Ico Ale, Vil.25; butter Tbs. 1407; mackerel, vice, casks, 257 . 12.023; jar Mo. 7.7655 i, anes = ee fe pork, do.,.100; lard, Ibs. . do.. 50; eodish, i 2h .. 84; rosin, do.. 816; beef, do., 50; en Red roons, 493; do, manufactured. ibs., 86.432; whalebone, do , 25,201; wiale oil, guls., 15,670; cedar, logs, 389; ex. log? wood. ‘poxes, 100, 5 abs saa A West Indes Ton, bus, 418; bread and » q 80; fish, casks, iPass cheese, do,, 679. lard oil, gals. 7,824; 2.404; sperm oil, 1746; rosin, bbls., 3.250; cheese, Ibs., 4,500; to. Faced, dont 000; tar, Bois” 1.650, Belgium. —Cotton. bales. 875; tobacco, Ibs., 3.639; rosin, bbis., 2031; potash, do., 318; whale oil, gals., 19,121; whalebone, Ibs., 374 Portugal —Beef, ‘bbls., 210; rosin, do., 260; egitits tur. whale oil, hag a wie ne; do., 60; rice, do.,50; whale bone, Ibs., 698; staves, srrcie. Liv British silver Geld dust. Gold dollars. American gold. Londen— American silver...... 100,000 Havre— American silver... 212.000 Mixed coin....... 33,100 Total + $505,900 There is no very important feature connected with our export trade, From the limited quantity of our most valuable staple products shipped, we should judge that the aggregate value was unusually small. Breadstuits are not in demand for shipment, and form, at present, an unimportant item in the list of exports, ‘The ubove table will be interesting to all engaged in trade with the eoun- tries named, as it shows the quantity of certain articles going to the various ports ADVERTISEMENTS RENEWED EVERY DAY. DANCING. ADAME GRAVIBR, LATE MLL DRSJARDINS, y informs her fri trong that her yy will be removed on the Int of May, toe onnnnnnrnnnnan LOST, dies O8T.—ON SATURDAY EVENING street stage, either between the street, or in going to No. h. with gold link fob chain attached. ‘The Sader will be suitably ree warded, by leaving it at No. 115 Bank street, er the act of © ongress of 4 © in relation to the same, EW BOOKS, Cukar Pt BLICATIONS, , MAGAZ NES. Akarman & € ublishers a the atten bookseile eanvassers, dealers aud pedlars in new 4 cheap book: all the moet re which their all who will favor, them witt h ing shall be was acines, and oSher seriais, pula, Boston, and elsewhere, thetr eartient a lors, eartiors HAS ORMSHY DRY GooDs, N MONDAY, APRIL 2, DO), WILL BE OPRYVED. at the Bowery Sa tore, ids Rowery, an invotr C TF GiLLEY & CO. - LIQvORs. NEHOR, CROWN, AND FAGLE PRAXD cuaN. offered at th and genyine by tb Brandy Stor PPE CHorcrst o14 ean be +) 2) per cent soy, than at any pecial attention bv pail ta th he ery kind of old im cpriied with fine ales NiLIMORR, Proprietor sks, CARMIAGM! \, eee ~FOR FAIR OF BRIG high, or more, four years ol have never had but tw day { the Ma SALE, T BAY this spring, owners, Warn at ths farm maroneck station of the 8. ¥. & y EW YORK TORSE Wm, Wright, one mile nort NWR BAZAAR 31 CROSBY STRERT.— Auction enle of Carriages, Hn ete, ever? Monday and Wednesday, commencicant I? elec, Pespoue having property to dlepoae of will please call nnd have ih eee Kistered botore 10 o'clock. JOUN if FIELD. posens- OVER THIS NUMER 30,000 Ros szs.oren rus, none pine imaly ap it etands pre mont: in ehoen of ape if tnd OM Hudson 4 for one dosen toge is paid,