The New York Herald Newspaper, June 4, 1855, Page 4

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YS Bi UZ OPERA HOUSE, 663 Broad- een Orzna Trovurs. ————————————————————————————— Mails for Europe. MEW YORK HERALD—EDITION FOR EUROPE. "Fhe Cunard mail steamship Amerisa, Capt. Lang, will enve Bogton on Wednesday, at noon, for Liverpool ‘The European mails will close in this city at a quarter ‘0 two o’clock to-morrow afterncon. ‘Tux Hxnsxp (printed in English and French) will be published at ten o'clock in the morning. Single copies, @ wrappers, sixpence. f Subscriptions and advertizem~ats for any ‘edition of Me Naw York Hznax will be received at the following phsces in Europe — Saveercor, . John Hunter, No. 12 pyre street, East. \dford & Go., No. 17 Cornhill. Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Catharine street. Panws.......Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de ls Bourse. ‘The contents of the European edition of the Herat ‘will embrace the news received by mail and telegraph at ‘the office during the previous week, and to the hour of publication. Malls for the Pacific. ‘SHE NEW YORK HERALD—CALIFORNIA SDITION. ‘The United States mail steamship George Law, Capt. @. B, Fox, will leave this port to-morrow afternoon at we o'clock, for Aspinwall. ‘The mails for Cali’ornia and other parta of the Pacific Will close at one o'clock. ‘ ‘The New York Warciy Heratp—California edition— gontaining the latest intelligence from all parts of the werkd, will be published at eleven o’clock to morrow ‘ingle copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, sixpence Agents will please send in their orders as early as pos. ‘Lhe News. ‘The fenaticism of the advocates of the prohibitory Miquor law at Portland; Me., has found vent in riot aud bloodshed. Itsppears that Neil Dow, Mayor of Portiand, and author of the Maine law, purchased @ quantity of liquor, expecting to sell it at a profit @ the town agency. The agency, however, did not parchase, and complaint was made against Dow for wiolation of the statute. While the complaint was , the Mayor induced the city authorities to purchase his stock. Incensed at these proceedings, ‘@ mob collected about the bullding where the liquor ‘was stored, and threatened its destruction. The mil. tary were ordered out, and, as the rioters persisted 4m their application of the search and seizure prin. ciple, fired upon the mob, killing one man and grounding reveral others. At Columbus, Ohio, on the 30th ult., a prosession while peaceably passing through the streets, was attacked by 8 mob of ef German Turners, wowdies, and several of the foreigners badly stoned and beaten. The Turners were dressed in white @ocats, and throughout the day and night every per- gen who was 20 unfortunate as to wear a garment @f that color was set upon and beaten by the wioters. The assailants are said to have evinced au wubounded admiration of the American flag, auda @orresponding dislike of a banner fabricated by @ome young German ladies and carried by the We publish in another column ah account of a meeting held recently at Columbus, Georgia, which ‘will be read with interest. It is the initiation of a mew Southern political organization, based upon sonstitutional principles, designed to effect a union f the people of the South upon the simple plat- form of opposition to the encroachments of aboli- ftionism. The Kansas league movement, the nulli- Moation law of Massachusetts, the election of Seward to the Sezate, and the arrogant boastings @f Messrs. Sumner and Wilson, as to the future puree of the antislavery propaganda, are rapidly waking » spirit ox Fesistance to which the mooting alluded to is but a prelude. ‘The cholera is raging as an epidemic in New Or. ‘eans, and the Board of Health of the city has made ‘public declaration of the melancholy fact. ‘The great democratic movement which has been Wmitiated in England, and has found its first open Manifestation in the rec@nt meeting of the solid men of London in the Guildhall, has, as was very wmatural, arrested the attention of not only the Eng- Mish but the foreign press. The Paris Journal des Débats devotes to the subject an article fall of nerve, md evincing s decided sympathy with the objects of the movement. It says as plainly as the watch- Mal censorship exercised over the French press ena- iles it to say, thas it is time the decayed and utterly ‘used up system of aristocrasy received the kick out of society—coup de grace—to make way for a sound. er and freer and better organization of the commu- amity. And it does not fail to find excuse for, and to aympathize with, the popular sentiment in what it ‘terms the annihilation of the fine and brave English mamy—not by the enemy, but by the !gnorance, the disorder, and the decay of its own administration. ‘The article, which we translate, is eminently calcn Jated, as it is evidently designed, to add fuel to the flame of John Ball’s discontent. Onr filesfof papers frcm San Jose, (Costa Rica,) re up to the 9thof Msy. The republic was ina state of domestic peace and freedom from foreign broil, but the crops hal suffered so much from the @evastation of locusts that the harvest gave little hope, and famine was to be apprehended, were it mot that the government had removed the duties on tthe importation of grain. The Constitutional Con- erens had p<sembled at San Jose on the Ist of May. ‘The vr" foreign goods imported at the port of Bor’ > week ending Jane 1, amounted to? “atarday, but prices were 00 bage, the market non grades of State ver. Wheat was ‘nactive, and in prices; ne white asier, ™s, The Fann, Ho charnes Beary dik bypscter™ | aries San tk Ort cawerdioe, nnd tntands in his fort eoming alata,” | Movrtam Suorsi— AA pre of bis ambsssadorship to sow u» his former sect® jis grew many people are s6.ceHne s t tary. : ‘A coroner's inquest was held yesterday ‘upon the body of Thomas B. Rossum, the unfortunate mia who commit'ed epicide the night previous aye house in Leonard etrect.. A fali report of the el. derce 1s given in anotber column. By s desvate. from Philadelgh'a we learn ‘that Rassam formrly kept a tatlor’s shop in that city, and was appointed to a» post in the San Francisco Castom House by Gen. Taylor, which he filled ustil removed by G2n- Pierce. His wife is & Philaielpbian, and was de- HW TORE ORAGDOMONDAT/ITUNROS, TOHK: begin a word On the merits lames Known as watering places, although they? are | Star utterly ‘aiéupplicd’ with ‘that clement The number of attractions presented is eut- ficient to bewilder the inquiring mind. The eeareber after health and pleasure, if “a hus- bend and a father,” is perplexed by his wife, who wants to go to Saratoga because her set is there; by his deughter, who pertiaaciously serted by him about 2 year ago, when he retauzed | insists upon Newpert, because there are more to California with his ¢ldest daughter, lesving their younger children dependent upon their grand motter. It is reported toat he left Sin Fransias0 with thirty thousand dollsrs. polking young men in that interesting town than in apy other known place in this hemis- phere, and by his son, who isin love with the Last evening a fire wok place in the stable aud Southern beauty and excellent brandy to be carriage house rear of No, 203 East Twenty-sixth | found at Cape May. street, belonging to Mr. Matthews, soda water manufacturer. $6,000. Between 11 and 12 o’clock last night, » doy came near destroying bs life in Pearl atreet by carelessly leaving a canfle burning at the head of his bed; he read himeelf to sleep, and the candle set the bed on fire. On Saturday night a woman pamed Ann Gillen, witile intoxtcated, set her bed on fire, and only for its timely discovery would cola and others, fer fitting out the brig Horatioasa before Mr. Commissioner Betts. Meeks’ decision in the tiquor case were sabmitied ‘to Judge Daly, in the Common Picas, on Saturday, without argument. - ‘The Know Nothing Mecting. senting e pitcher to Mr. Joseph Barker; first pwbdlic demonstration of the formida- ble seorct body that has been frightening the With the exception of two, the orators confined say, to Mr. Barker’s pitcher. Campbell and Mr. Jas. Brooks. It.is to be pre- ty’s dinner; those who desire to knew what down as his political faith. As for Senator tal he could out-of the Know Nothing move- the tact required for the achievment fore will read with any astonishment the very silly remarks which he uttered on Satur- to minds of a certain calibre; the avowal by Mr. Brooks of his preference for Fred. Douglas Albert Gallatin may be negarded as only the first symptom of his folly. In fine, the meeting on Saturday was a harm- no serious mischief was done. time for the Know Nothings to convince them- elves that, if they wish to perform any usefal thing in the world of politics, all this child’s play of grips, and pitchers and passwords must be overturned by cabalistic mummeries, or stark noneense like the speeches of Brooks. If control of the State, the battle with the ancient democracy must be fought with very different weapons from these. Whatever power may re- side in the mystic paraphernalia of a secret society is necessarily small and short lived: men come to regard grips and signs with con- tempt, and underhand wire-workers with sus- picion: the charm of novelty and the desire for change may ensure a few local triumphs for a while, but abiding power and extended success can only be conquered under a fair open flag, round which earnest men can rally conscientiously. the new party is promising. Everything political leaders. The country is sick of the old parties with their lying platforms, their dishonest compromises, their corrupt cdalltions and their utter want of administrative capa- city. But if the Know Nothings suppose that they can be overturned with o few empty words—that, like certain genera of fish, the people of the United States will catch at any bait that is offered them, be it food or be it a mere rag—they are destined to disappoint- meats and defeats from which they will not revive. The lesson taught them in Virginia should not be thrown away. Each blunder of theirs gives strength to the democracy. It will be as casy for the Know Nothings of New York and the middle States to elect a demo- crat in 1856, as it was for the Legislature of Massachusetts to qlect Wise. All depends om the Council to be held at Philadelphia. Organized on the plan of the Senate, seven members of the Order being pre- sent from each State, it will fatrly represent the Know Nothings throughout the country; and the people at large will receive implicitly its proceedings as the criterion of the faith of the new party. It is not for a moment to be disguised that an error on the part of that Council would be completely fatal to the pros- pects of the Order for 1856. All eyes are turned to Philadelphia; and the great mass of voters who decide the fate of the Union are waiting for news from thence to decide upon their course. If the Council adopts a na- tional platform, on fair constitutional bases due regard head to all sections of the country, and launches its agents abroad with fall powers to organize the canvass on the broad principle of opposition to the adminis. tration and reform and purification of the ad. ministrative departments of the government, enccess may be pretty confidently expected. If on the contrary, sectional issues are re-open- ed, or the great questions which agitate the country are ignored; or if the real businesss of the Council is postponed"to the discuasion of grips and signs or emall narrow questions about ‘e nativity of office holders and such trifles, Know Nothings had better make their minds on as possible to confine. their usefal- > election of mayors and small State To this desolated class of the community, . The less is estimated at about | fathers of families, now blown about by every wind of coquetry, affectation and snobbery, we ‘would suggest a safe port of tefage—s com- promise. They are popular—by that of 1850 an eminent statesman feund an answer to the question, ‘Where shall I go ?” and there is ne reagon why dissensions in « drawing room have perished in the flames, with her two children | congress may not be: settled by, the same { The exemination into the charge sgaicat Mr. Laz | means as at the capitol. ‘The watering place compromiser will sieze slaver, slready neticed, was continned on Satarday, | upon seme mew idés, and seleet a place com- paratively enknowa to the public, but suffi- ‘The papers end points in the appeal from Judge | ciently familiar to the elect to insure « safil- ‘ciency of good society. The distressed bache- lor, too, with one eye on Niagara, another looking ‘to Canadas, with @ yearning for the springs and a,penchant for the seashore, may The Kaow Nothings have at Jength held | also find a relief in the compromise. The & public meeting, for the purpose of pre- | compromise is the thing. It has the charm of novelty, which alone is a sufficieat recommen- as appears by ‘the report published else- | datien for.a-great many people. where. But those who expected ‘that this There are real advantages te be gained in deserting the conventional watering places. Why should a resident of New York or Boston old political leaders all over the country would | go to Newport to be broiled under the hot sun, lead to important disclosures, or be the sigasl | Pay great prices, get nothing fit to eat or for*a political coup d’état, have been egre- | drink, and allfor the sake of the sea breeze? giously mistaken. The performance en Satur. | Do we not have a sea breeze here. Does it Rot day was entirely harmless in character, and | sweep across Broadway sometimes like the the speeches were of the mildest desoription. |'simoon of the desert, cutting up all sorts of pranks with hats, bonnets, ladies’ dresses, and themeelves to the occasion in hand, that isto | other ephemera? Do not the Bostonians have The two who | those delightful sea breezes coming north- gave the reins to their eloquence were Judge | easterly acroes George’s Banks, cooled by the icebergs from the Arctic Ocean, and thickened No, when we leave the city for health and Judge Campbell's opinions are may strike a | pleasure we desire to visit some locality where mean between the two, and set the product.| there is plenty of pure water and pure air. At Seratoga you can get plenty of bad brandy, dicated article from the Springs. One does not ment, end that he is wofully deficient in | desire to take medicine continually, but he must do it or drink bad liquor at Saratoga. of apy permanent success; no one there- | At Newport the water is better, but the air is dampened with saline vapora, dangerous to clean linen and weak lungs. Nothing buat dust, day. The smallest ray of good fortune is fatal | polkas, and pistol galleries at Newport. Why not go to the mountains? Here in New York we have Switzerland in Putnam county, plenty of over such men as Alexander Hamilton of | pure air, a lake (Mahopac) of exceeding beauty, pure water enough to supply any number of people, no matter how freely used—and pure water is a great thing in many respects—beau- lees, pleasant business. It passed off well, and | tiful scenery, and convenient of access to the But it is high | city. In Jersey they have Schooley’s moun- tain, already famous, and Bostonians cannot have forgotten the hills of Berkshire, the home of Luey Stone Blackwell, and the late residence of Fanny Kemble Butler. Let some of the be laid aside, and their loins girt for grave and Barclays of Boston take our advice and ascend real work. The old political parties are not to | the dizzy heights of Mount Tom before they try Mont Blanc. The philosophers tell us that dwellers in the Know Nothings intend to obtain political | mountainous regions live to a greater average age than those on the plains, in eities or by the sea shore, because they are above the vapors which load the atmosphere near the earth, and breathe in another and entirely different cur- rent of air. The air we inhale is often poison- ous, but the mountain atmosphere is clear and intensely rarified. It gives renewed action to the blood—it quickens the pulse—it expands the muscles—enlivens and sharpens the intel- lect, and the cit feels for the firet time the truth of the old Latin proverb, “a sound mind ina sound body.” Pure air, plenty of good water The opportunity for | outside and in, and well cooked viands, moun- tain rambles and pleasant drives, entire freedom points to the necessity for a thorough change of | trom physical and intellectual restraint—these are some of the recommendations of the moun- tains, | tion’ to which! other ‘pureuitd are’ subject? Is it” becduse the healing att 16 less of an exact 3 |) eve, and that it reqnires to be hedged rowan With artificial barriers. to prevent men ong lane eras of its acvual reemity Sod ex, saat aliet blunderst: Or is it the purpose of these atsis= restraints to make o close mondpory of the prizes of the profession, by keeping down the rising talent of its younger members? The pre- cent sysiem, it must be admitted, ceems to have been framed to effect both these objects. As to the pretence of its belag conducive to the in- tefests of the commianity, experience has abun- dantly shown thet it only subjects us to be fleeced without securing us the advantage of competent professional skill in retura. There are few, we believe, who have had occasion ‘to seek medical advice who ever think that they have received value for their money. — It.ig time that the charlatanism of the medi- | ‘val profession should be consigned to the dust | of other obsolete usages, The maxims of'lie Sangrado schoo) are not adapted to an ‘age'‘in really sensible and intelligent members of the faculty. fling aside the cobwebs of their time- honored prejudices, and em@pipate themselves from a thraldom wh'ch is as personally degrad- ing as it is injurious to the public interests, Were the present system attended with advantage to either, eomething might be said in its defence. But it possesses neither the attraction of profit, the ‘conditions ‘of fatr competi the charms of independence, nor the gratifica- |° tion of philanthropy. It is but a pitiful, sneak- ing mode of doing business, after all. It would be far better, both for the profession and the commupity, if the former would imitate the manly example set them by that eminent phy- sician Dr. Hunter, of 828 Broadway, and put their claims to individual distinction fairly be- fore the public through the medium of the newspapers. Wantep~Apministrative Rerorm.—In an- other column wiil be found an article taken from a Connecticut paper on the “ Beauties of the Post Office.”. It appears that among other sources of revenue the Post Office is in the habit of deriving some small addition to its funds from the sale of letters and papers not called for. These are sold as rubbish to paper makers, who grind them up in their mills, and sumed that the discourse of the former gentle- | by the fogs of Newfoundland? For proof of | convert them once more into white paper. man must be regarded as the antidote to his | the Boston sea breeze look at her bills of mor- after dinner speech at the St. George’s Sosie- | tality. People who write letters will do well toremem- ber the fact. At one mill in Connecticut, more than two thousand letters have been bought within the last two years; many of them, as we learn from our Connecticut cotemporary, letters of obvioug consequence to the writers Brooke, it has been plain for some time both | Newark champagne, and weak imitations of | and the parties to whom they were addressed. that he is bent.on making what personal capi- | ‘French cookery, but no water except the me- How they went astray, and finally reached the paper mill instead of their destined re- cipient, no one, of course, can tell. Some were prepaid. One, mailed in Califoynia, and directed to New York, contain- ed a check for $105, Another, bought in a heap of rubbish of the Postmaster at Spring- field, Mass., contained $16 in bank notes. Ano- ther, bought, together with seven or eight sacks of waste paper, from the Post Office at Provi- denee, R. L, contained money and insurance papers of value. Another, bought at Hart- ford, contained a check for $30. Another, from a man to his wife, mailed at the Post Office in this city, contained $5. These appear to be only samples of the sort of goods the Port offices throughout the country are in the habit of selling to the paper makers. Only fancy, bank notes, cheques, and policies of in- surance, at three or four cents a pound! No one who has had dealings with the North- ern Post Offices will be much surprised at these disclosures. The very name of Post Office has become a byword for carelessness, stupidity, and irregularity. No one, who has resided for any length of time in New York, thinks of complaining if a fair per centage of the corres- pondence he writes and receives reaches its destination in safety. But it would bea mistake to suppose that the Post Office Department constitutes in any de- gree an exception to the general rule governing the public departments. The rule is invaria- ble; theyareallalike. The Interior, the Navy, the Treasury, the State department, and all subordinate offices, are conducted with no more business accuracy or administrative ability than the Post Office; the only difference be- tween them lies in the fact that the short- comings inthe Post Office become necessarily known to all, while those in the other depart- ments are only discovered by the few who Therefore let the seeker after health adopt | deal with them. the motto of the State and Mr. Longfellow, and ehout Excelsior ! Oxp Foaytsm or THE MepicaL Proresston— Tue TRvE Derinrrion or QuackERY.—We pub- lished yesterday an account of the opening and inauguration of a private medical institution in this city—the Woman’s Hospital—which has been established mainly through the praise- worthy efforts of Dr. Marion Sims, in the course of the last twelve months. At this meeting elaborate speeches were delivered by some of the leading members of the medical profession, ruch as@Pre. Francis, Horace Green, Gilman, Foster, Dixon, and Sims. We have observed amongst regular medical practitioners, and medical schools generally, a great desire to figure prominently in the col- umns of the widely circulated journals of the day, provided they could escape the Tresponsi- bility of being charged with placing in evidence before the community, through this medium, their own talent and skill. Both the medical echools of this city are in the habit of frequent- ly soliciting publicity through the columns of the newspapers; and, in tact, every medical and surgical practitioner is glad to use hem when, gratuitously, and on the re- sponsibility of their editors, he can paff off his own wonderful. knowledge and Pre-eminent genius, And yet if these old fash. ioned, steady: going medical practitioners were asked to advertise their own merits, as is the habit in other pursuits, they would tutn up their eyes in horror, and tell us that it was be- neath the dignity of medical men to do s0. This feeling is carried to- such an extent that when a practitioner of acknowledged talent hag the moral courage to break through these con- ventional prejudices of mediwval date, and pub- lish in the newspapers his researches, his views ond his remedies, Profession at large de- nounce such acts kery, forgetting that they themselves pr@@tice indirectly the sav empyricism by seeking publicity on th ed ponsibility of others, Now, this is, ait ue merest cant and humbug. What ig *Yaere in the medica! profession that should exe pt it from All the departments of the general govern- ment were originally organized by Alexander Hamilton, the finest administrative mind of his day, and one which has rarely if ever been excelled. But sixty-five years have elapsed since Alexander Hamilton performed his task. During the intervening period, we have chang- ed everything—our mode of living, our houses, our system of business, our social habits, and a large proportion of our public institutions. The only thing in fact which has not kept pace with the progress of the age has been the ma- chinery for the discharge of the public business at Washington. The Department of War alone was re-organized by Mr. Calhoun, who saw its deficiencies in the war of 1812; he modernized it,and being limeelt a man of remarkable ad- ministrative ability, placed it on s footing £ ¢fiiciency which enabled Scott and the other generals of the Mexican war to win laurels with ease. All the other departments are covered with the rust and mould which have been accumulating since Hamilton’s time, and the sale to paper makers of sacks of private letters, containing checks and bank notes, is but a fair sample of the condition of the gene- ral system. A Carnotie Conrewrorary m Trotter Our amiable contemporary, the Archbishop's organ, threatens to publish the thames of its delinquent tubscribers in a sort of black-list, if they don’t pay-up their dues. We would suggest tothem theexpediency of trying oxcommuntoa- tion, as being a more effloactous process. An archiepiscopal ‘onli might terrify the defaulters into paying gp their arrears. Failing that, wo can give’ hom a little practical advice on the subject. “No one is ever pefmitted the happi- ness’ 6f reading the Herap who does not pay for the enjoyment in advance. Wehave adopt- ¢4 the same rale as that which St. Peter has established for admission to the kingdom of Heaven. There is no access to dir subscription list anless the candidate leaves his sins of omis- sion outside our door. This prinolple will be found as effective in mundane as in celestial paterh, BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGHAPHS, MAINE, LAW? RIOT “AT PORTLAND. The Mob Fired Upon by Soldiers. | ONE MAN KIMMED AND OTHERS WOUNDED, ee, t, tw Fa rast a tae Rate anoor a SYMPTOMS OF EXCITSMENT. Ponrtanp; (Me:) June Z, 1968, ‘The Mayer of our city, Neal Dow, anticipating the action of the City Council, reeently purchased si gteen bunéred dollars worth of liquor for the city sZensy; but the liquor remaining on hie hands, several citizens en- tered a complaint, and » warrant, was issued‘fort2> seiscre of the liquor, when the ‘tayor called a special meeting of the alderm*s {hia afternoon, and a vole was Passed to purchase it for the city. Much interest is felt tence haw the matter will terminate, A MAINS LAW MOB ASSEMBLED—AITEMPTED DES- TRUOCTION OF LIQUOR— THE MILITARY CALLED OUT. PortLann, June 3, 1855. About ten o’clock Jast might « noisy mob assembled about the huilding used as the City Liquor Agency, and attempted to break into it and destroy the liquor, The police attempted to preserve the peace, bat failing te do #0, and the crowd becoming more threatening, two mili, tary companies were called out. It is now thought and hoped the matter will end quietly. EXCESSES OF ‘THE RIOTERS—THE MILITARY FIRE UPON THEM—ONE MAN SHOT—OHARGE BAYOMETS —THE MOB DISPERSED. * Porrtaxp, June 3 —P. x. Ata late hour the mob broke into the building, when the military, drawn up on the opposite side, fired a vol- ley, killing Ephraim Robbins, of Eastport, second mate of the bark Louisa Eaton, of Portland, and wounding severa) others, some of them severely. A squad of the Rifle Guard then charged the crowd with bayonets, which rapidly dispersed, One gentleman, who was said to be quietly on his way man is reported dead this morning of his wounds. Mews Items from Washington. Wasuinaron, June 3, 1855, ‘The Secretary of State advertises that the Depa:tment is now ready to pay the awards under the convention with Great Britain, of the 8th of February, 1853, to those persons in whove fayor the awards were made, or their legal representatives, after. deducting the expenses of the Commission. The Commissioners of Pensions have decided that engineers, firemen and coal heavers are entitled te boun- ty lande only when regularly employed at sea. The number of applications received for bounty lands during the month of May, was 45,500. The total num- ber of applications that have been received is 158,800; the total number acknowledged, 75,000; and the total number of warrants issued, 1,260, No action will be taken by the Treasury Department in regard to the balance due the officers and crew of the sloop-of-war Albany, until Congress shall pass an act designating a day on which that vessel may be consid- ered as having been lost. Mr, Soule’s Opinion of Horatio J. Perry, New Orieans, May 30, 1855, Mr. foulé has published a letter, stating there is not word of truth in the letter of Mr. Perry, his Secretary of Legation while Minister to Spain. He says the base- ness of the impudent writer is only equalled by his hypocrisy and cowardice. He is preparing for the press s picture of Perry’s doings during his (Soulé’s) mis- sion to Spaia. ‘The Cholera in New Orleans, New Onruxans, May 80, 1855, The Board of Health has declared the cholera epi- demic in this city, the deaths this week from that disease being very numerous, Arrival of the Daniel Webster, New Ontzans, May 30, 1855. ‘The Daniel Webster arrived at New Orleans on the 80th, with the dates from California brought by the Star of the West. Fire in Hudson, N. ¥, Hvpsox, June 8, 1855. ‘The carpenter’s ahep of Avery & Co. was destroyed by fire this morning, with a large quantity of lumber, fin- ished work, &c. Loss $6,000. Arrival of the Southern Mall, Baurmore, June 3, 1855, By the arrivahof the Southern mail, as late as due, we bave received New Orleans papers of Monday last, but we find nothing in them of interest. Markets, , May 30, 1855, Cotton is unchi iiheslen of 2,00 . Molass ‘otton is uncl Ww les of 2,000 5 - cx—salen at 2c, flour ina trifle lover: males at e000. Corn bas slightly declined; yellow 103c, hard 2, 1855. Cotton has been in good demand, with a fair amount of sales at steadily increasing . Wool—The stock oe ganas ets no Cooy, As prices; sales for the wes |. Printing is —Prices are eighth cent ‘higher, with an upward tendency. Stocks ‘er, light, and ail desirable styles taken as soon ss ; tales of the ween f of the 1, 53,750 pieces, ‘Toe Nxw Sreamsurr ARAGo sailed at noon on Saturday, on her first trip to Havre via Southampton. She carries 215 passengers and $489,621 im specie, Tus Steausm Empire Crry sailed om Saturday after- hoon for Havana and New Orleans: Clty Intelligence. SvrroseD Case o¥ Camp MURDER IW THE TwENTIETR Wanp.—Saturday afternoon, information was received ‘at the Coroner's office, from the Twentieth Ward Sta- tion House, that a child, named Mary Elizabeth Mer- will, about seven years of age, residing with its mother, st No. 163 West Thirty-fifth street, had died suddenly, and under rather suspicious circumstances, Coroner Hilton immediately despatched his s deputy, Dr. Chaste- Set) foes heagp whens. tie ceces was lying dead, and found, upon invest'gating, that the deco hada step-father, named John C. Moree, he being married to the little girl’s mother since her father’s death; that this Morsethad always treated the child with neglest ani sometimes cruelty; that he had repeatedly the life of deetased, and had been in a state of intoxica- Uon for the last week, and has not been seen since last Friday at noon; that he came home on the day previous about noon, and gave deceased and two of his own chil. dren each an ; that in about an hour or so after eating the orange she was taken with vomiting, which continued up to 11 o’clock on Saturday night, when she ee. The oranges bad not the same eifect upon the other children. Thursday he told his wife that deceased should be put out of the —_ as be did not like her, A post mortem examination be made, and the in- quest held, by Coroner Hilton, this moy , at ll Yelock, Since the death of the child, Morse not been seen in the neighborheod. The police, however, are endeavoring to effect bis arrest. Annivat or 4 SvPPosep Carco or Eutorant Pavrers.— Early on Saturday morning the ship Leopold I, of Ant- werp, arrrived at this port, on her way to Havana, having on board 267 passengers, towhom a strong sus- picton attaches of being imported paupers—at least, so the American Consul at Antwerp characterized them in a letter addressed to Mayor Wood. On the Commission- ers of Emigration notified of her arrival, they rent word to the Health Officer, at Staten Island, to stop her at Quarantine, until a thoreugh examination of her passengers could be into, with a view to send them back to Antwerp, at the ox, of the consignees, ehould they be found as reported. Fhe cemnaes ae Hat ar Was wow ropr Sy yy ao House, rr doubt, invertigate this mater Tully, aad #06 That a0 paupers are landed on our shores. ANNUAL ComuusicaTions oF Tam GRaxp Lopans or Frxx Masoxs.—The city will be filled with Free Masons during the present week, who have come to the city to attend the annual communications of the M. W. Grand Lodges of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. Tho new constitation Masons, termed, will' commence ther mectings on pext Taeede iran, the Apollo Rooms, This will body, #8 representatives from over be quite “red Todgos will be prevent, cach of which are entitled to tes, und no doubt nearly a thourand members be in atl te annual communication of the Grand of the old constitu. tion Free Masons will convene at Free Masons’ 600 Broadway, on thé same evening. This branch of the Order, we believe, is confined to city, and numbers some forts lodges. Many Interestigg questions are to come up sdfudication and set a Finemen’s Bancss.—By a law recently passed by the Legislature, it is rendered obligatory on the members of the Fire Department, while on duty, to wear 4 badge to distinguish them from Liner ficr cas tee @ phe w who will neceatiee ‘be eompelle wn Hon 4 received a severe bayonet wound. A few arrests were made, Another Geodrich, im, the employ.of. th » Hine 9%. A iting core pag ae New Yous Yaont Civn Recarra row 1855.—On Thars- ny next, the 7th inst., the annual regatta ef this club fa to take place—the yachts starting from abreast weet returaing around the stake; tnd wel te fhe Ean Fe ‘ne privea three] ber—ar: LA exhibition, ia engwag oud, hom the novelty’ of taalr Harvew Yacut Crvs.—This club, with their beautiful fleet of boats, will go on an excursion to Throgg’s Neck to-morrow. A number of invited gueste will p vhe members of the club. a The Leonard Street Tragedy. INQUEST UPON TBE BODY OF THE DBOEASED, Before Corouer O'Donnell, e Yesterday Coroner O’Donnell proceeded to the Fifth ward station house for the purpose of holding aa in- quest upon the body of Thomas Bailey Russum, the who, on Saturday evening, committed suicide in Oindee rela Marsball’s house, No. 64 Leonard street, by shoot-| ing himself in the bead with a pistol. The case created a great deal of excitement from the causes that led tl unfortunate man to commit the rash act. The jury having been obtained, Coroner O'Donnell ea ta open the cate, stating under what circumstances and for what purpose they were there convened. He then) introduced the several witnesses who detailed the fact of the occurrence as foilowa :— w us dul avorn,Zepoved and said, dbot he resided at N6. a8 disems street; bave been well acquaint Ban, liom dead in this pecs; he bea wae this city for the past twelve cartons ae where I also boarded at that time; I i I inp ete 5 5S at deal of ited ; 4 to me that was driven to commit suicide on account of his ulsed by a female, whose likeness he showed; jt reaper eset perceived = he «| suicidally, eviden| owed: aberration mind; ‘and 60 much did @pprebend fatal consequences, that I called in Dr. Alonzo U who: agreed with me that our patient was suffering from aberration of and that it would be unsafe to leave him without d under proper restraint; ¥ and I made the necessary afficavita before Jastice Con- molly and the Mayor; he was then under a given it fora Tcould not discover sayiting peculiar in his manner; Girected me to Sigs ae Bailey to the note given we, and this name bt Fok -F~ iter st the Carleton House, agit eo W. 10 18} being a he resider at prevent’ at No. 23 fh gine I jones bed California; ee Stave fa Jenaary, 1853; E Brit he was then in the Custom House ingen tae isco as an of f Se: custome; he wasknown by ry F to the Cuetom as T.B. inet Yous? agi bie tesa Serine in New York; I saw went more eapectally at the Carsten Howe; I had oa on toy time notice apteme ot “orang ngement of mings AS jement of ] appeared to be in bt senses; lea > tom House in tas Frassase Soe oe Ee County Recorder, as it San Fiancisoo under the name of Thomas i: Sia tie the body of the deceased as the man men- above; he was known in California as being a ma- ‘tive of ar ocpes lege ing duly resident Ry vera sworn, \—That he ‘was Captain of the Fift! 'd police; 5 fore seven Oslck on Satarvay be ‘Mice Marsnee rei at treet, that Tehould "as pho hed ‘ape with him, and as ho bad ona former occasion attempted suicide, she was fearful he would "tot himself or to Mai tie gritay tat hear ope aot beg a ¢ girls pay 1e Was Up & hede hand; I then went up snd found vied ina bedroom, with a pistol in his he had @ pistol, I Erereached tory manner asked him to he quietly handed me the weapon; him to come over to the station when deposed that she re« 4 ve been acquainted yith the deceased about eighteen months; he was in the habit of visiting a young lady at house named Mary Ann £mith; he paid ular forthe last year and a i} believe, two or three times; for about five months and more erpecially for the last two months, I noticed that he acted and talked strangely; he usually avery silect man and much reserved; four weeks ago, while this 5 Ske rl_was in his room, he sprained her thumb, I ; she hallooed out, and I went up and succeeded Coreg tern AR towards him and said, ‘Tom, ain’t you as! of yourself to act so; I 6 only friend you have got—you should not act so then cried, and said he loved the Fes id she did not nor eould not love him; bi i ‘took [OOM | Mary in her own room; ou our house: he came Sat to me ‘wad ald had treated him badly, and that it was becsuse morning he at she would not love him ; I told him a was not the fact, as she did not Rant i F fi Be i fl ; F a3 EE gt g fy z, 2 i a ag He Es # SES. 2 et i, 3 iF eek Hy BF Pid gS i 7 / . 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