The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1854, Page 1

' WHOLE NO. 6433. NEWS BY TELEGRAPH, INTERESTING FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. “SOMETHING ABOUT THE COLT PATENT EXTENSION. Alleged Fraud in the Appropriation Bill. Movement of the Abolitionists, -A Bill to Prohibit Slavery in Territories. Amendments te the Homestead Bill, ‘SMALL BOYS TO HAVE FREE FARMS, REPORT ON OCEAN MAIL. CONTRACTS, ke., &., &e. From Washiegten WR. CLINGHAN ND THE COLT PA INVESTIGATION—THE CANADIa) TREATY—RUMORS OF FRaUDS, RTC. Waertvorton, July 14, 1854. ‘The Star is requested by Mr. Clingman to say that he tnisunderstood the purport of bis remarks in speaking abont the Colt Investigating Jommittee, and states that he “said in that gentleman's prosence, that though he regretted the annoyance which tho investigation might give to some of his personal friends, more especially as Coming throngh himself, he believed the result woul Justify all ho had said on the sudject in the debate.’’ The conversation alluded to wss directly with us, inan interview sought by Mr. Clingmun, and avit was upon a public subject, we felt no hositatim in mentioning it. Tt was not a conversation held by Mr, Clingman which we happened to overhear, for we repeat no such couver- @ations, or any others of a private charactor. Mr. Cling- mon voluntarily stated tha: he had made much graver 'T EXTENSION BECIeROCITY ground for mating say distinction bet voen those for- pers now bere and those to come hercafier r. Chay, (dem) of Ala., opposed the ameatmon > The amendment was rejectrd—yous 1%, nays 3d—s5 follows: — Veas—Mesers. Keyard, Brodhead Ch: igen Gillette, Norris reward nae . the Doug ass Foo. olde Samucr oll, oa, cy Cc Dodge of teas Huster, Jor: M “osroe, Petit Touooy, W alkor, ame - Mr. Lixon, (whig) of Ky., moved t6amend the sixtl | ection by mriking ont tho words, ‘any indtviiual,’? } and inserting in heu thereof the wor’s “way free white reon, ‘Mesers. Jongs of Tenn, Watkek, Scart, Sarevps and | others, thovgnt the bill, as it now stood, conaned the , bevelite of the scetion to white poraons. Under the laws of the United States no ove but » waite person could be naturalized, Mr. Ciseh opposed the amendment bocauce it was un- Heces-ary ano because It was UDjust Mr. Cass eaid the section was underatood differontly | by several Senators, and tw gain friend+ for the bill sud wake thst plain, which the friends of the bul! said tt aw cor coded, he would vote for the amendment Mr. Dixon eurvestiy insist d that under the section as it now stood, any toreignera wuo were black could obiaia the possession of lund, even #i Lout uniuralization. Messrs. Bayak and CLAYTON both supported the aunend- ment, which was agreed to—; eae 87, ba) s 16. Yer. Meera ads: shisom Sedger fayard, Beil, Bright atler Cass, Ules further to ament tuo sixth section, own y— refi of this act ehall not ex © devise: allons ora cut Dintes who xe tei nty-nee yours of ace, marl thar ve fled their decla-stions to become citizens uf tho tater 8 debated at considerable teugth, and adopted. Yeas, 21; nays, 20. Mr. Brown (dem.) of Miss , moved to “add to tho sixth section the follo«ing :— Provided furth-r that any fore'ge bora porvon who fail to become a citizen of the United States wr: yourt after evtering upon tho lsvd, shull forloit urder this act Adopted—yeos 87; naye 9. Mr. Bessamin, (whig) of La., moved to add to the sixth section ‘That any native born porson of the nee of sitteon yoara aud upwards ex Upon and cuiliveting the éaue, eha:l be entitles to the samme benofits a other percons um: der the game not. ent ut all ith m wx all vighte charges than he intended, aud that as he saw it aonoyod his friends, he regrotted he had gone so far as asking for @committec upon mere rumors. The debate on Satur- day proves that he started out with chargos against members, which he avowed afterwards he did not auppose he had mado. So it is with tho conversation alluded to; + hosaid more than, perhaps, ho imagined. We havo no reason to beliove Mr. Clingman is not actuated by the ‘best motives, and that he isnot a highminded maa. Upon the present occasion, however, ho has evidently Deen at sea from the commencement, and when his evi- dence is published it will be seen that be has beoa Inbor- ing under a, hallucination, which has obscured his judgment and induce? nim to make humiliating charges against the honesty of gentlemen equally highminded and honorable as himself. It must be taken as evidence of strong confidence in the honesty of the Colt application to @nd sixty-four gertlemen to-day desirous of acting upon it without awaiting for the committee to report. It will be much ‘tore satisfactory tothe publi:, however, first to hear tho report of the committee, which, of course, will be made early next week. Notwithstanding the favorable rumors from here as to the probable ratification of the Keciprocity and Fishery ‘treaty, some of the most intelligent Senators express the Delicf that it cannot be ratified this session. Thesubject ‘has not, hewever, yet been up for consideration, andany opinions expressed are merely those of individual mem- bers. Last weck, it will be remembered, a good deal of ex- citement wus caused by the discovery that an interlopa ton bad teen made in the Appropriation bill, which was ‘nOreathorized by the committeo. An investigation was talked of {o discover the perpetrator of the frand. It is now said thet it can be traced directly to a member of ‘the House, who enjoys an unenviable reputation in con- nection with @ former transaction. Let us have the tacts. THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. FIRST SESSION. Senate. Wastusaion, July 14, 1854. ‘THE HOMESTEAD BIL. Mr. Sxwann, (free soil) of New York, presented a me- worial of the Industrial Convention held io New Jersey, ‘in favor of the Homestead bill. BILLS PASSED. Two bills confirming private land claims in Louisiana were passed, CIRCULATION OF THE WORKS OF THOMAS JEYFERSON. Mr. Puance ,(whig) of Md., reported a joint resolution for the distribution of the works of Tuomas Jefferson to States and Territories, colleges, public offices, ec. Taken up and passed. IMPROVEMENTS OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS, ‘The bill making an appropriation for the completion of the treasury building, so as to cover the whole square of the President's house, and accom: tho Treasury, State and Interior ts, and for a like building on. the square west of the Prosident’s house, for the War and yertments, was taken up and passed. It appro- six hinadréd thousand dollars to commence the NEw PORT OF DELIVERY. The bill making Cairo, Ilinois, a port of delivery, ate TIME OF MEFITNG. ‘The revolution that the Senate, on and after Monday next, meet daily at elevon o'clock, was adopted. LAND FOR RANROAD PURI! IN LOUISIANA AND Mi3SIS- ‘STPrt ‘The dill grant lands in alternate sections to the states of | Srsteee ant Leora 8 for constructing a railroad from New Orleans to Mobile, was then twken up ‘POSTAT. ARRANGEMENTS ON THR PAGIFIC BOARD. ‘The Honse bill making provision for the service in California, Washington and Oregon, was up and ened. “ae ol ae SE oe i ic in es bare kon’ Pes in Missouri, was taken up and ‘BILL FOR THR PROWIBITION OF SLAVERY IN THR TRRRITORIFS. , Case, (free soll) of Ohio, said—Some days since I ages pode rhino ask leave to introduce a to ye tion Desa ciate om T now preseat |, ond ask that leave. ‘The bill wae then read for the first time by its title. + HALE resumed—The bill which Ihave just intro- ced is very brief. It enacts that there shall be neither ala nor Tevelentery, sorvitade, otherwise than in the iehment of crime, in any begin ‘end the United ites. Its works of prohibition are more WA Jefferson in 1784—their scope is the same. 784 Jof- ferson proposed to prohibit slavery In all the Territories of the fiitea Statos, and this bill proposes the same pr>- hibition. Tho prohibition of Jefferson was tncorpo- rated in the ordinapee of 1787, and thus became » law throughout tho whole territory then subject to federal legislation. It was renewed im the act for the admicsion of Missouri, and to the othor g Estety ix re i j FA ES Ae HG Fl i Ef = & £ H i Fa Bue fi i g 5 = = & z gE 33 7 i é i i Z si i i A i é i ] 8 is . f i i E 3 FI el H E g : ; i i H § i 3 g 4 s i s i i : i é z i 3 38 # Hu | [ i sebzs i s E Pt H i i it Mr. Jones (of Teun ) opposed the amendment as one intended to kil the bill. He earn-stiy bosought its friends to vote down all ameudmeots if they desired to effect its passage. He was atterly opposed to taking the amendn ents ofiered by the avowed enemies of the bill, who could not be induced to vote for it under any cle- cumstances. He asked where was the Senator from Il- linois ip this contest ? That Senator had not said one word yet in defence of the bill, but left him to contend with the host of :ts evew ivs. Mr. Dovc1as, (dom.) of Til, said Lo had not been un- mindful of the tactics displayed by the enemies of tuis bill. But he was satisfied tho bill was not to be carried by talking. Tho way to pass it was for ite friends to keep silent and vore. amendment was agreed to—yeas 26, uays 20—a9 follows :— Atchison, Badger, Bayard, Benje- Butler, diay ists ‘Gemsie, Fitzpatrick, Grier, Hamlla, Hun: (4 ighorris, Pearce, Prat., Rockwall, + Wiliems Messrs Allon, Brown, Cass, Cheao, Dodzs of Wis- Dodgo ot lowe Fessenden, Foote, ‘Gillette, Jones of lows, Jonos of Tennessee Potls, Kusk. Seward, Si Blitell, Stuart, Sumner, Wede, Walker Weller. ‘Mr. Ciay moved an amendment, which, after several modifications, was carried, to the effect that 20 foreigner but a naturslized citizen could enjoy the benefits of this act, unless he should file at the office, within sixty anya, the evidence of his having declared bis intentions to become a citizen. Mesars. 8: vant and Wave opposed the amerdment, and Supsts, Cray and Pratt supported it. Pending the question, the Senato at 4 o'clock, by a vote of yeas nays 18, adjourned. Howe of Repre rventatives, Waruixaton, July 14, 1854. MAJIS FROM BROOKLYN TO FUROFR, Mr. Cumin, (dem.) of N. Y..on leave introdneod a bill authorizing the Postmaster Gencral to enter into a contract with Christian Hanson, of Brooklyn, for the transportation of the United States mails from Brooklyn, in steamers of noi less than 2,000 tons, to the coa- tinent of Europe, via Plymouth, Engiend, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremerhaven. Gluckstadt on the River Flue, in Holstein, and in steamors of not les than 400 tons from Glu:kstadt via Gotionburg ia ee ee in Norway, on the North Sea and Cattegat; and from Kiel on the Baltic, vie Calinar, Sweden, ‘to St. Petersburg, Russia. Referred to thy Committee on Post Offices. Mr. Cummina, not wishir, mi ery Dixon, Douglass 5 Mallory. be yin N tor, ‘Thom: to consume the time of th» House, asked and obtained leave to print his romarke oa the above subject. PRIVATE BINS. Various private Lille were reported and referrest. REPORT OF TH COMMITTED OF IATL CONTRACT FRAUDS. Mr. Macy, (dem.) of Ind, from tho Select Committee on Mail Steamers, made nn elaborate report, treating generally of that service from ita commencement, giving the number of trips performed, the sums advanced by the ment to build s‘camers, the amount of re- funded sume pald to each line of steamers, showing rge expenditures of » but no fra govern- ment Saexteemeniar ‘The sommittoe refer to most, if not all, the law roports and facts connocted with the ail service, without any recommendation to the House. Laid on the table and ed to be printed. ‘TRE COLT PATENT EXTENEION. Mr. Tuunston, (dem ) of R. L, offered a resolution to end the debato on tue Colt Extension bill thirty minutes into committce on that subject. 3 wen, this was laid on the fable by_a vote of 02 against 64. The House then went into committee and took up the above named bill. Conversation now ensued touching the Le omen fe considering it pending the investigation of the select commattee on the subject. Mr. Smrra, (dex) of Va , moved that it be laid aside. The Caammay decided the motion out of order. Mr. Satu appealed from his decision; and the Chair- man was overruled, and the Lill laid aside. ‘BILLS CONSIDERED. Seven other bills were considered, and afterwards re- ported to the Hcuse, but not 4 ‘TEMPERANCE IN THE DISTRICE. Mr. Gener Suntm moved the memorial of the New York —_ Alliance, asking to give the Corporation of | ‘on the power to abolish intoxicating drinks, be {hoe from the tablo and referred to the Committee of 1 iary. object, eit. (Laughter.) JEFFERSON'S WO! DISTRIBUTE. ‘The House then passed a resolution providing for the among members and others of the works of BUILDINGS FOR THR COURTS. Mr. Srawrox, (dem.) of Fenn., from the Judiciary Com- mittee, re s sorting places of mecting for the Uni States Courts in Boston, New York, and Phi- adjourned. Indelphia; pending which, the Houre The Richmondville Academy. Amanr, July 14, 1864. ‘The examination of the stniden‘s for firing the semi- nary is not yet conclnded. ‘The evidence shows that the building was set on firo in the attic, by three or four boys, aged about thirteec years. A number of the stu dents have been retained as witnerses. Know Nothing Riot at BaTalo, Rewraro, Jaly 14; W864. laden $ has-been golug on bere for severa past wit conclusion of the preach increasing ¢xcitemer nd last might on Main street A large aumber of ~: Street e a lot took ristinon! assembled opposite the American House, calling on the preacher to come ont. A fight quickly eprang up, and seven or eight Irishmen’s heads were broken, but no one was killed. Five Irishmen were arrosted, and Gued $26 each. ‘There will be preaching again to-night, and another row is expected. 4 Legislature. Coxoonn, July 14, 1854. A bill was introduced to organize the militia, but {t was postponed till next session. Governor Baker to-dey ee the ee ee. of State to draw on for ie tena of Btate House, the constitution pre vid ing fat the Governor only sball neue e warrant for the fr The Legislature wil adjourn @he Susquehanna Railroad Collision. Barrons, July 14, 1864. ‘The directors of the Ba!timore and nehamna Rafl- road bave removed Mr. Winchester from of Su- 5 agen on poo of the collision eethe ath Fire at East Berlin, Conn. New Haven, July 14, 1664. nan aatnestement nad & feline tires ire at - ing. Tose Atout 950/00 wecully covered by insurance, Attempt to Potron a Wife. va Sunaroou ‘4, 1854. Caicate Scthe Kanye is Pita wife with arrenic,jadm! in beer. j “ae a MORNING EDITION—SATURVAY, JULY 15, 1854. PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA. Our Chica 50 Correspundence. Curoagv, July 12, 1854. The Cheera—The Weather-—-Price cf the Naw York Herald. The cholev# has been raging in this city with the Greatest viole Uce tor the past two or three weeks, and people uavs b-en dying off like sheep. From the 3d to the 9th »f this menth the deaths by chole ra have averaged over eve hundred per day, and tae carts conveying the dead to their last resting-place have been traversing thewtreets day and night for the last two weeks, some of them containieg three and four by jes, A great miuy are buried before they have been dead half aa bour. The emigrants appear to have suffered most. The number of deaths has been so great that the undertakers were unable t farnish coffins, and great numbere of the dead bodies were put iu rouge boxes, hastily cunstract ed, and so buried. luaeed, it vecume sv bad at one time that # great many were oaly wrapped up ia the sheets on whick whey lay, or were vuried'ia tue clothes they had on them. “As you may suppose, every one whore business has not kept him here hus fied the city, and very few of the strangers who do arrive, Stay any léngth of time. It seems @ | lagme ep: t. The weather for the last two weeks hes been the hoitest-—to coutinue for two e~ that £ nave ever experiesced. On Saturday thee was a chan; in the Weather, since which tine it hat been much cooler. With the change tn the weather came a chance in the cholera cages, and the namber of deaths has considerably decreased. After leaving New York, the price of the Hzeanp advances the farther you go West. It is suld in Chicago at tive cents per copy. G. 0. A. Reports of the Newspapers. There were 207 deaths from chulera at St. Louis last week. Thirteen negroes and an overseer have died of cholera ou the plantation of Gen. Pillow, near Helo- pes Ark. Two more negroes were not expected to ve. During the month of June there were ten deaths from cholera at Wheeling, Va. Three fatal cases have occurred at Scottsville, and the Charlottaville Advocate states that the disease has made its ap- srance in Columbia. Several cases have occurred in Richmond. Tp Sheppordsville, Ky., and vicinity, there have been fifty-two deaths. The aiseaso was abating. Some cares bave occurred at Louisville. During the month of June the deaths from cholera at Chicago, Il)., were 142, On Sunday last, it is re- ported, that there were 130 ueaths. The Natchez (Miss.) Courier of the 21st of June, states that the cholera is raging badly upon the plantation of Mr. Lambdin, in Louisiana, some six miles Lelow that place. It was stated that twenty negroes had died there within a few days, The Toledo (Ohio) Blade complains bitterly of exaggerated rumcrs concerning the existence of the cholera in that city. It publishes the official re- rt of the Board of Health, which shows onls two four hours « jeaths from cholera for the is ge a l- ing at noon on Satuiday. At Eutaw village, op- fe Te coaelaae ion of two hun oa, twenty-one died of cholera in tw houre. At , O., four aad two de re reported. | The Beloit (Mis.) Journal says vat the cholera cases in that village last week, wer. confined to the y of Norwegian immigrants, among whom the lisease first ap) ired, and that tho general health of the town is vs cellent. The Boston Journal learns that the cholera is creating quite a panic in Richmond, Me. Since the ith instant, twenty-six deaths have occurred, six in one Irish family from ship fever, and the rest from cholera. ihe penclksses. the place és two or three thousand. ny of the inhabitauts were leaving town, and business was generally suspended. There have been quite a number of cases of cho Jera among some Fok ap and Swedish emigrants at Detroit and Chicago. Ina party of two hundred, at Detroit, on the 2d instant, eighteen were attack- ed. Ofone hundred at Chicago, seven died, and twenty moro were prostrated on the Ist inst. Seven fatal cases of cholera woro reported iu Bos- ton on Tuesday, and two or three are reported as baving occurred in Charlestown within a day or two. Another case occurred at Abington on Sunday. ‘The number of deaths from cholera at Buffalo, for the week ending on the Sth inst., were aixtcen, ten of whom wero foreigners. The Troy Hig states that come ten or a dozen fatal cases of cholera have occurred in that city, the one circumstances of which have been , or excess of eating or drinking. Quite a number of deaths from cholera occurred in Albany on Tuesday. Some imprudence could be traced in nearly every instance. The Paterson, (N. J.,) Guardian says that there have been half 2 dozen caxcs of cholera in that city within a week. Reports from Montreal, Ca., represent the rava- ges of the disease in that city us fearful, from se- venty-five to onc hundred deaths having occurred in a single day. Cholera in the West nates. ITS APPEARANCH AND PROGRESS IN BARBADOES— TWO HUNDRED FUNERALS IN ONE DAY—HEALTH OF THE OUT PARISHES—MORTALITY AMONGST THD MILITARY—EXTRAORDINARY FACT REGARDING THE WEATHER. [From the West Indian, (Bridgetown Paper,) June 9.) For the information of our readers we give an account of the spread of tho cholera, and of the steps taken to relieve the sufferings the poor, and check its fatal effect. It firs the Lith of last month, ina wooden h strect mete into Bay street, not far from the Hospital. A black woman died there from it after a few hours illness, and two other deaths within three days. It has been said thatit was it to Barbadoes from Jamaica, where it is prevuiling inthe Derwent; that some seamen on board of her died of it on the e, and the clothes of two of them belonging fo thie lace were brought here and to the person to be washed, in whose hvuse {: first broke cut. But the trath of tho statemont has not been secertained. On the occurrence of the first caves, the »; aes ver ee 7 medical men Yo thoscgof Asiatic cholera. It was thought to be only an aggravated form of common diarrhws —8 disease frequent in Barbedoes. However, the Health Commi-sioners lost no time in caationing the inhabitants against anything likely to bring on complainta of the bowels, and recommended the pp ge of means for the prevention of the spread | of discase. differed about the character of the seas, which soon, however, showed that it was | demic, in the first week. ‘The number of cases and deatha increased, and they were mostly found — the black people, and in the filthiest and closes of the town. Irom the Bay the discase spread into the close lanes in White Park and St. Mary’s. A meeting of the Board of Heatth again held, and the feartul trath disguised or denyed, that Asiatic most fatal type of cholera, revailed in B: town. The remedy found most officacious was camphor. We seem as ignorant, indeed, of the treatment of the disease in its full development os of {ts origin and pature. At the end of the second week the eyes of the iblic were opened to the reality aod cxtent of the , when they saw the numerous B68 CaT- the streets, five or six in the same hearre, no funeral procession, like so much merchandise, under the care of the undertaker al ft A i i eapiy : 3 : clay 598 i Hae #7 if z 2 < ue FE fry ee Hi ji et i i Hl u z F i i : : E i E | i L i i i : fh | [ iy iF ti gest i ; l i E i : 5 s sve sg 3 i ‘ i 5 G calsmity, It has been ht to make asrevgements fo. thinuiug the occupants of nouses j In which it appeuxs, by pitching tents for them, and piocoriug acconwpodation otherwise. All has | beem done at the puvite expense, and to be pro- vided for by the Health Commissioners. There is no calculating the cust at the present moment, bat it cannot fail to be very greut, The new burial ground alone cost $2,400, arg _a tike sum we may , put down for the cout of the cefllas, the conveyance, and the interment of those who bave been already | buried. But thia is is net the time to countthe cost. Let ts be thankful that tue island’ treasury is able to meet it, A very handsome subscription of nearly $1,000 Lus beeu raised by private coptributions, at the sug gestion of the officers of H.M, tre af St. ann’s, i which the geutiemen of the Colonial Bank, aad the merchants of the city, veryMberally uvsisted. The deaths in comparison to the number of case# reported by the police huve not exxeeded 50’ per cent. U P to yesterday morning 1,470 eaves were revort- ,and 746 deuths. The mortality amongst’ the pester in the on in Bridgetowa has been moat ightful. The cholera has proved a generat jail Gelivery. There were 156 prisoners of all deveri “iva confined there. The number was reduceé by seuding some of them away to the otner places of cor fivement in the rural duwtricts. Some 64 remained Lehiud. Of trese 49 have already died, and the re- muipiug 15 are on the sick list, At tho garrison $ men of the Ist. W. 1. regiment have died, and & women, and Li military Laborers, the lat er or 8, Waiting upon tro stuff officers, and living mostly at their quarters in the suburbs of the town, These men are ull Africens, ant as goon as they aro seized they obstinately refuse tu take any meuicine-—bemg quite content to die, and to re turn, ss they cay, to their own country. In the out tended with equally fatal elects. {t has appeared in moet of them, if not in all, but with few deaths, [a St. Joveph’s, tn the vicinity of Bathsheba, consider- e of the healthiest eg of the island, atrange he disease has been more prevalent and more fatal than elsewhere in the country. 50 cases and @ deaths bave occurred there. Among the deaths at St. Joseph is that of Mr. B. Mayers, proprietor of Dacres’ estate, at the very advanced age of 86. Another aged victim is, we regret to say, Mr. Clinckett, the eaitor and pro- eet of the Jartadian newspaper. He was tiken 1 on Tuesday evening, and died the following dey, baving Leen seen in his usual health and epicits at the Commercia) Hall, the same day he was taken. He, too, was an octogenarian, and lett a widow and four children. As far as we can learn, there have been up to to- day, 2 o'clock, 1,180 interments at St. Leonard's and Indian River, since the commencement of the epidemic; all, with not more tuan two or threo ex- ceptions, black or colored persons. The whites havo been buried at the Cathedral, and the colored at St. Mary's. There have not been more than 50 deaths of whites throughout the island; that is, leas than five per cent of the total number of deaths. Strange to say, the weather has been cooler than usual gt this season of the year; the sky clear and the wind high—weather that one would expect to be anything but pestilential. Yesterday there was acbange. It came on to iain; the wind fell, and there was a good deal of thunder aud lightning. What the effects of this change will be on the epide. mic remains to be seen; we trust it will be to diminish its strength; we understand the medical men say that the disease hasassumed a milder type thon at its first appearance. ‘The Cholera Hospital in the Fifth Ward. MEBFLNG IN OPPOSITION THBRETO. A meeting of the peopie of the Fifth ward was bes the disease hus not been at- | . ———<— VM PRICE TWH <! “ tients sad the cot’os containing the dead had to be Rirrted » consider=dle distance, and thus exposed, to tne Great upnoyance of the eeighborhoed heeolved, That wheres the number of patients brought to sald ig rapidly inerwasing, ani that we are hourly ea by the sight of miscraole wetebes, in the fast stages Of dlecase, from carts and otner vehicles in this pest house, whore the gio f the dying ure only interru by tye losing of the cvffins; ‘it {s therefore imperwtive that measures should Le immediately taken to remowe said hospital, or the pestilence within its walls wiil soom spread desolation ip our fumilies. When the foregoing resoluticns were read, Dr. K. resumed bis remarks, which he concladed by eay- ing that be would not recommend the people io drese them: elves as Indians ane throw the tea over- board—#. ¢., poll down the hospita!—but they might do a8 they liked about it. Mr. GiLpext 8. apapinen made a motion that ap executive commitiee be appointed to carry the Ge ng of the meeting into effect. ‘be motion was adopted, and the following gen- tlemen celected:—Burtis Skicmore, Gen. Hall, tas. L. Waugh, George Sherman, Wm. Whiteman, Mr. Adams, Ds. Hosack, aud the President, oa: Cracry said that from a statement in one of ie evening papers, itappeared that the hospital weuld be removed in a webk, or as $000 4s @ suita- ble building could be obtsinea for the purpose. A motion was then adopted, to the effect that whew the meeting adjouroed, ii udjourn to meet again at the eall of the executive commitiee. Tuc meeting then adjourned. The Watering Places. OUR PURTAGE CORRESPONDENCE. Poxtaen, July 8, ! cca! Attractions and Sights of Portage ta and Grandeur of ils Scener;—The High Bri! Upper, DMiddte end Lower Pailo—The Devil’ Oven, §e. Having read with mach interest your“ Letter: {rom Watering Place,” we have been surprised at never having seep at extended notice of so attractive and beautiful a resort as Portage. We have been fre quent visitera at Niagara, Saratoga, Avon, Now- port; &e.; but never have we spent’a summer ia a place containing, as does Portage, grandeur, beauty and variety of natural scenery, with heulthfaless of atmosphere, the triamphs of art and local attrac- tions. Added to the High Bridge, (254 feet in height and 800 feet span,) is the beauty of the “Upper, Middle and Lower Falls,” the grandeurof which, in many points, is not equalled even by Nia- gare. ‘The Middle-Iall is especially worthy the attention of tourists. Unlike Niagara, the water is inter- rupted at irregular distances by ledges of rocks, throughout @ descent of upwards of a hundred feet, giving the whole fall the apearance of a fret work veil of eparkling diamonds. A leage of dry rocks overhangs this fall, beneath which the visiter cau with perfect safety deseend and obtain a most ad- yantageous view of the fall, rendered more sublime by the other poluts of attraction near, i. @. the “Devil's Oven,” @ rainbow, the cascade prodaced by the water from the “ wier waste” of the canal, failing four hundred feet over the rocks, “ Hanging like chains of pearl on “Hermion Htl."” A short distance beyond, and on the way to the third grand fall, at the foot of a flight of ‘stairs of two hundred and fifty-four steps, isa delightful glen, unsurpassed in romantic situations and: scencry by any similar spot in Italy—the land of romance. Here, over a semi-circular rift of rocks, falls a mach held in the Fifth Ward Hotel last evening, at which about fifty persons were preeent. The meeting was organized by the appointment of Mr. James Thompson as Chairman, and Mr. Chas. ‘Tappan, as Secretary. The call of the meeting was then read, after which, on motion, a committee, composed of the following gentlémen, was ap- pointed to draft a series of resolutions expressive of the feelings of the people of the Vifth ward in re- gard to the establishment of the cholera hospital in their midst:—John Hewitt, Theo. A. Ward, John Dixon, Gen. Hall, J. B. Purdy, and the President. Daring the absence of the committee the meoting was addressed by Mr. B.Sxipmore. He eaid that @ great outrage had been committed upon the peo- ple of the Fifth ward, which he regarded howeve as only one of a series to which they had been sub- jected for years past. In 1849 the Commiss‘oners o Emigration attempted the establishment of an emi- it depot in this ward, but after considerable dif- culty on the part of the People the Commissioners were obliged to abandon their attempts. This, he said, was effected at a cost to the citizens of one thousand dollars. They also established a fever hos- pital; but such was the ition which they met with, that they were fe to remove it to another pert of See It would seem from all this that ¢ Commissioners of Emigration had a spite against the Fifth ward, for they took advantage of every opportunity to aftlict it with all their nuisances. One of the most ctable streets inthe ward was se- lected, it w » for no other pu than to inault the people, for the place they had selected was in no way adapted for a hospital. He desired, however, to be reasonable, and did not object to an ital in this ward, but he considered it unfair to make it the cholera ward of the city, by establish. ing in it a lazaretto while every other part of the city was exempted. This was a matter of self-pre- an outrage withort protesting ugalnct it The mieey ap outrage nu it. fet of his family, and the families of his fellow oleae were concerned, and he would use his utmost efforte to remove the cause of it. If he were the chief magistrate of this ward, he would have e to the Commissioners of Emigration when they located their depot in Canal street, and } after remonstrating with in a peaceable man- ner, he would then, in the event of their retusal to remove it, have made it untenantable. It was said that the cholera was not contagious; but he was of opinion that it is; and he read an extract from a paper in relation to some Ki emigrants, who of it at Detroit under circumstances which he one as proof sufficient. The following is the ext _ From the Toronto Patriot of Wednesday.] Tur Grear Wesrern Rarnoap—Cuourgs anos Ean- Grants. —Last Sunday, 260 Feet anerents, am whom the cholera waa eg By iy, were lai on the railroad platform at , [opposite Detroit. ] On the following morping four — (one had been buried the neg | night,) were lying thore, the vio timsof cholera in its most malignant form. }ive more were dead that evening, and each asy and each night bas, since that time, added two or three to the number of the vic fins. Nor have the ravages of the discase been confined to them. On Tuesday two persons were seizod ond died béfore ‘evening. Ono had been a jary- nen at tho coroner’s inquest which was heli on the bodier of thore who first died; the other hed helped to dig their graves. Yesterday added four more to the fatal is Mr. Beeman, a highly respected citizen of Wind- went toSandwich to make mente for the fu- val of ove of the number, This morning he, too, wae sineng the dead. He did not desire to enter into an argument upon this subject, although he was satisfied that ite resence was always attended with danger to those in its vicinity. The meeting was next addressed by Dr. Kenxxpy, who denounced the attempt to establish a cholera hospital as an outrage on the ple of the Fifth ward. He was interrupted in the course of his re- marks by the arrival of the committee, who reported the following resolutions :— Ri , ‘we, a4 citizens and inhabitants of the Fifth ward, regard tho establishment of « hospital ia our midst for the reception of patients suffering with enn- tagious diseasos as an which we are driveu frm our homes, or, aubjecte with our families to the risk of disease vat No. 106 Franklin «treet, Resolved, That the ‘soa now used a8 ® ital, Js uni for such purpose, being confined between walls of the adjoining batidings. which has prevailed in the ing in last two weeka shows clearly its unfitness ae a receptacle for the sick. It is indeed = misnomer to call ita ital—dead house is the propor terin, for though many enter we might almost eay that none leave It alive. Resolved, That while the said hospital was ostensibly tor the purposo of receiving cholera a 4 yet it is notorions that » large portion of those who have beem brought there were aff with other tagious hy pee icnaets speanien soos % for the reeeption of in bocene sams noe yd the health of borhood, w therefore regard its present occupation for the others of diseased nts, as an evasion of the declston of « Judge of ri standing, after a fall ¢ - Fs i heavier body of water a distance of some fifty feet, and winds with swift current its meandering course between the arching rocke,of over four hundred feet high, thos lending additional charms to the pictar. esque grouping of trees and smaller rocks, Here TROISION O8 OK PED FOR ATTACHEROT Inthe Matt of hk Applion: fran Ata ment agains Lewis Tappan and Bey mm Dmg lass, for no anewerng lore ® fe ts com mission isened out 1 bh Conte Come « oo Huson county, Ohio, wheres Beane» & ane platotif-, and Kivnaa i defeudmet. Mitchell, P. J.—Lewis Tagan wae te tie mee cantile agency in this quy oul 1960, whe be ood out to Arter Toppan vad Beajemie Praga The int jatorion room We be based @o the cop» sition (hat the defendant, im M7 or tse, agent of the mereautile , hd thee cow en nicated tn the agewcy tm 8 ptatomen of che charscter of the pinintit, ae Netto. ‘The answer shows (or it is anderttoed) tot it ie the business of much a) agenoy to fecurd them communications, wid t xulo thew fo m-rebaske jing aa to the staneing of the perous men tioned in them. The communivations aad the re cords of them may have hoon exhibited and oo put lished, (as tne taw terme it.) every Pear oh b the busi em, und by 1 Tappan wud Bows who now have snecewded bins, wm tip the business when the « cived. ‘Tiese twe are now 4 Kinder mmo seh &@ Comrmuuication iv 1847 oF 1848, wed they de cline to am wer, beoaure the anewer mes form © lak evidence ich may tend ty corres Nh . As the exhibition of the pay + may Dave teen within 4 your, the etatute of limitscimns would'be no bar to « proseoution fer Hbel, aud se the respondents are not bound te anewer op account of any en vrotection to be derived from that statute. Hf witmers al ne kuows the fhety beyond thove contained in the answer, which muy tod his convietion: the Court is not to compel bim to tel! what thore faots are. If, therefore, he says thit the am wer may tend to courict him, aod on that ascomet re | fures to onewer, and the Couit cam imagine any etete of facts under which the woswer might lead to ack a vesnit, the witness may insist on the protection of the law and refuse to answer. If theee witoesses should answer yes—euch a communication wes re ceived from Sinnan at that time—ane they state ite | comtents, and other witvenses prove that witvin the | last year Lewis and Arthur Tappan and ft. Dong- lags ext ibited the letter from Kintan as evidence of the plainaiff’s character, the proof of these reapow cepts’ guilt might be made out, wheo without theme avswer there mght be no evhlence of the contents of tholetter. Exuminations of witnesses under oom missions from other States may be much abused, urless ample protection be given to the witnesnes by our courte; and when the witnesses jected toa civil suit ia consequence of thei and (as incase of a libel which may-be published im different States,) any be subject to lndieumect ie jigerent States, mn not protected any statute of limitations on account of Dontestdease in those States, our courts should use.a jealous care to protect them. The honest ought pot to be forced to be their own accusers, nor the dishonest to be tempted to perjury in order to save themselves. in the le ve. Mather (4 Wend. 254), the rule a te the kind of questions which the witness may ‘ecline pede ete is clearly stated; and notwithstanding the language ured in the statute, the Chaa- cellor decided in @ similar case (Paige 607 in the matter of Kip,) that “ the witness 1s sot obliged te criminate himrelf, or answer oe question ich he would not be bound to answer if examined ia court; that the Legislatare never intended to ¢ lish an inquisition by which witnesses should be compelled to criminate themselves, or te discioee secrets ia whieh the to Mi to the examination bad no interest.” The other interrogatories are as ob- mee asthe one above specially referred to. he motion for an attacament is denied. Police Ln nce. the lover of the truly sublime in nature cannot fail to ndmire, and, in the language of the poet, eay:— oh! ile, stern and wild Meet a tehild, &e. Besides this beautiful variety 8f natural scenes * the surronnding wooda and streams, not a mile a. tant from the Lanman, offer exhilarating attrac- tions to the epsrtsman. In the former, partridges, black squirrel 2 nigra quails snd pigeon are in abundance; in the latter, fine trout. Among these, “five ponnders” are s9 little a rarity as scarcely to excite surprise. Portage is sixty-one miles from Buffalo, directly ou the ronte of the Buffalo and New York City Railroad, which is ey the most desirable one from New York to} @ Palle, A. M.D, SARATOGA, (trom the Albany Register, July 12 ] , Saratoga is receiving a good quote of the euramer visiters. The Sentinel occupies a column or more each Mg announcing the arrivals. Under date of the 10th, we find the following from this city:— A.C. Westfall and lay, N. Bleecker, Jr., W- Hague, John Hendrick: 3, O. H. Fenner, 8. W. ickson, J. Barnard and family, Mies 5) ue, J. B. James, A. Hicks, W. Ingham pragt McClure, B. I’. Harwood, RF’. and three ladies, J, S. Gould, I. N. Cutler, CG. M. Judkins, aud A. M. Kellogg. A large number of viaiters are there from New York, Ne es lics from South Carolina, Louisiana, pad rant nithern States. California is also repre- sented. ‘The evening boats fiom New York, which reach this city early in the morning, as well as the day boats and the Hudson river cars, come woll loaded with passengers. Many of them take the early morning train for the Springs. CAPE MAY. {From the Vhiladelphia Ledzer, July 13 } The visiters at pe May are yct very fow, though the searon is far advanced, ¢ hotel keepers are waiting in anxious expectation of the crowd which uevally fills up their now vacant rooms. [ho pro- prietors st the beginning of the seagon announced that they bad advanced their prices from ten and twelve to fourteen and eighteen dollars per week. This is an exorbitant chi , and is the roal causo why visiters are so few. At such prices salt water breezes and bathing are Inxories which very few can afford to enjoy. Personal Int Hon. John W. Graves, fred P. Scull G. W. Small,’ Ogden, U. 8. Nez day at the Metropclitan Hotel. D. B, Lockwood, Ct.;€. §, Ramsey, J.D. King, N. 0 ; W. C. L, Ribber abd Indy, Boston: . ©. Sadders, 8. A. Croker, B, Parrow, La A. P. Hayden, N. H., arrived yesterday at tho Prescott House, Hon. Jomes Il. Lefavour, N.H.; Cot. Cooper, U. 8. A.; Franklin Wheaton, Washington; Prof. 8. 13, Tyler, Pitts: field; Lr Harris, Baltimore; Capt. John Duncan, Texas, were among the arrivals at the Irving élomne yestorday. Penjamin F. Pinckney, Geo. W. Vaan; Geo. I. Ray- mond, Gen. F. E. Mathers, and Richard J. Smith, Com- mittee from the New York City Counejl, to examine the ko., arrived at {Io Burnet House, Cincinnati, on Wednesday ‘evening Iart. ° ARRIVALS. Masa; W. isco, Kuvsia; Al- elphia; G. W. Alexander, St. Louie ; . Fell, British Army ; & a, Texas, arrived yester- MM Anderson, Jon Mareos. JH Pearse pest Mr- Smith an. Richia: pent ti New York on snd one of tho children was also attacked. Mr. ” man returned Jesterdey forenoon, whore he found tho servant pitt dead, she baving beon attacked with cholera and died without any person having been present. Frat. —T)ursday night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, @ staail atote house in 1th street, near Division avenne, ocenpies by Mesara. & Deceove, was destroyed by fire. Loss on building, about $200, ani on stock about $109, No ingurance. ; rings evgraven upon tt. Man.—Yesterday, @ man about thir nded at the office of the Chief of Polien, and etated his name was J. J. Macdonald, of Cave Spr! Floyd connty, Gcorgia had been defrauded owt $85, under the foilo: ircumatances:—He stated that lately ho eamne on froma Georgta-to-this cit} pose of busing goods, and put up at the where @ young man of about twenty-five years of age, rk five fect ten inches in height, with , and tuperial, of gentlemanly appearance, made scqunda- tance with bim. Mr, Macdonald was stating wn aocl emt bad occurred on the Phiiodclphia Railroad, when his ac- quaiptance sald, “They do not permit such things tm Goorgia with impunity.’ Mr. Macdonald eald, “Abt you ure from Georgia?’ and an intimacy was immedis struck up. Yesterday Mr accompanied friend to 289 Broadway, (Lafarge Building ) When going in at the doorway, a man rushed by them in hurry, ond dropped something whick Macdonald’s companies picked up, and found to be a ball with a namber of The man returned to reclaim his property, when a conversation ensued. He sald the ball waa a Chinese invention, of an intricate: character, which ho bad obtained in California, from which place ho bad lately come. Mr. Macdonald at this time was talking: to the Californian gentleman, and whilst doing so the ao- qvaintance had been examining the ball, which he had managed to open and extract a of paper, which ‘was conveniently blind to the » A moment or two after the ball was given back to the last comer, aad Mr. Mac’s acquaintance asked if there was anything ta, it? “Yex,”? said the 1man, ‘a plese of paper.’ ‘Ill there is not;’? and after a few. words passing betweee Macdonsld saw him do, but the owner of the property Proceeding. them, a bet was agreed on, and Mr. Mac's friend, di te his remonstrances, inslating on betting, when Mr. M. reminded him he had taken out the ° and it would be scarcely a fair proceeding. To some common place obecrvation was returned, and Mr. M. was requested, if he did not choose to have anythi to do with the bet, to lend him what money he after Mr M. had endeavored to dissuade him from bet- ting, representing it was a trick. However, har overy confidence in his companion, he opened his and handed out $56, ali the moncy he had. A bet was then made, and, ava matter of course, the money wae lost. The acquaintance pretended to have some relue- tance In handing over the money, when the atranger mpatched it out of Lia hand, saying, “I’ve won it, and I will have it," and started off up stairs, and was followed by Mr M.'s acquaintance, seemingly in pursult. After waiting a little timo, and he not , Renarch was made through the building, but neither of them was anywhere to be found. It then. fteshed into the mind of Mr. Macdonald that he had been done, and that ie was too cute for the Southerner. ice sont some of bis shadows efter the men, but it was only to find that the rogues were echadowless, and vanished into thin air. I melted inte air “What seemed cor, breath into tt 5 Acquittal ~The case of George Womer, of 154 Weet -eeventh street, who was charged before | a fire to his promises, was remitted to the Firo Marshal for investigation, who examined into the circumstances. Wi proved tha night in question he waa t from This fact was proved by several witnesses. arcertained that on the night io quostion*the entered by burglars, and. ‘320 in money, | +s oniy: Syn) stolen, and: ring building were most i i i ; order t their robbery. The damage dove by the fire to Mr. Womer'a property didnot porta ° A Noble and Daring Act. TO THE BDITOR OF THE NEW YORK #q. to thetr last re: ‘asning, and alread: boats, and awaitin, Baki a3 54 ! t i i tz ult ] rt t i i Si { i HB Hes E i it i zt F i i i 3253 ATT Bu } et 5 if I former rently mest multitedo. Now, I tho extraor effort but for tho ex! tioary Fi f isk F Fees 2 Ht a A tit 2 a