The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-30 00:00:00

FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE
AMERICAN PAPERS.
RESULTS OF THE RIOTS.

After a fierce contest it is customary to view the field
of battle, and after a great and disastrous riot the peo-
ple are left to deplore the consequences by reflecting
how much misery might have been avoided by a little
discretion and a little firmness. But it has always hap-
pened that sad consequences have resulted from trifling
errors. The " good people" of Philadelphia having
recovered from their alarm, now venture out to
see the extent of the mischief that has resulted from
the late riots. The immediate and deplorable
consequences of this outbreak are, the unhappy
condition of the bereaved families of the mur-
dered, and the sufferings of the wanderers in the
country, afraid to return to the city—without means to
advance—hungry—destitute, without shelter, sleeping
on the bare earth, and without clothing. One Irish wo-
man gave birth to a child in the woods ! We are glad
to learn that relief parties have gone out in search of
them. Children wandering in search of parents, wives
in search of husbands, old and infirm in search of shel
ter, are parts only of existing misery. The ruined dis-
trict presents a most deplorable scene from the half
burnt and blackened houses yet standing. Strips of the
American flag are displayed in supplication for protec-
tion or truce. The amount of damage is exceedingly
heavy. Mrs. Brady had a house riddled and furni-
ture destroyed. Alderman Clark's house and furni-
ture damaged to the amount of 1,000 dolls. He has
lost papers and books valued at 2,000 or 3,000 dolls.
Grocery store of Patrick Murray, and the destruction of
property estimated at 4,000 dolls. John Laverty's house
and furniture destroyed, valued at 2,000 dolls., all he had
in the world. Bernard Sheny lost one frame and three
brick houses valued at 3,000 dolls. ; he saved one bed
only. Patrick M‘liee and Owen M'Cullough in house
and furniture 1,000 dolls. Thomas Shenden in house
and furniture 2.500 dolls. Six three-story buildings on
Washington-street all destroyed with their furni-
ture, supposed to be worth 15,000 dolls. Pat-
rick Magee, who owned a house destroyed
valued at 1,500 dolls., was sick in bed, and was
rescued from the flames with great difficulty. Harmony-
court seven frame houses, all destroyed with their con-
tents, loss 300 dolls. Hibernia Hose Company, loss
1,000 dolls ; and the market destroyed was valued at
5,000 dolls. The two frame houses, corner of Master
and Cadwallader-streets, belonged to John Carroll, and
also two other frames adjoining; loss 1,500 dolls. The
tenants lost all they had, say about 250 dolls. In
one of these houses, 700 dolls. in silver, and
but little of it having been recovered, may be
added to the other loss. The loss in the burn-
ing of the Catholic Church of St. Michael, the
parsonage house and furniture and ornaments,
and the Sisters of Charity's seminary, is estimated at
not less than 75,000 dolls. Of the five frame buildings
on the right of the church, which were consumed, a
three and two-story frame belonged to Benjamin Hut-
chinson, Esq., who estimates his loss at 2,500 dolls., and
the other two belonged to Mr. Francis M'Creedy, and
were valued at 1,800 dolls. The loss to Mr. Joseph
Corr, whose house at the corner of Phoenix and Second•
streets, opposite the seminary, was sacked, is about
1,500 dolls. The loss to Mr. M'Aleer, whose two large
bricks, at the corner of Second and Master-streets,
were burned, is about 3,000 dolls. The tenant of one
of them, name Rice, lost about 600 dolls. A frame
house at the back of this, owned by John Daley, which
was burned, was valued at about '4OO dolls. In esti-
mating this destruction of property, we have not taken
into account a vast amount of material in the houses
occupied by workmen, nor of houses, the very sites of
which have been obliterated, and we feel warranted in
believing that the destruction of property amounts to
much over what we have estimated. In addition to this
we have to add the loss at St. Augustine's, and we
find that damage has been done to the county of Phila-
delphia in a sum rising a quarter of a million of dollars,
and this, besides the loss of life, and the deep moral stain
which has been inflicted upon the commuaity.—New
York Sun.

SLAVE STEALING.—TIE CASE OF BROWN.—A letter
is published from Judge O'Neal, of Columbia, S. C.,
relative to the case of John L. Brown, lately sentenced
to death by Judge O'Neal, for stealing a female slave.
The case attracted attention in England, and our readers
are aware that Lord Brougham spoke of it in the House
of Lords. Brown has been pardoned by the Governor
of South Carolina. A contemporary remarks:—" It is
particularly amusing to hear Lord Brougham denounce
the law under which Brown was convicted, as being not
only inhuman, but anything but English law, when it so
happens that this identical law was passed in 1754, by a
Government acting under the authority of and in part
appointed by the British Crown. It is, indeed, actually
English law, adopted, as most of our laws are, en masse,
by the newly organised Republican Government, after
our revolution. Like slavery itself, this law was one of
the legacies left us by our very wise and humane fore-
fathers."—New York Sun.
MExlco.—The next news from Mexico is looked for

with much interest. We received very important ru-
mours and instructions through the medium of the Go-
vernment express, which arrived a few days since at
Washington, and from which we are led to believe that
a new crisis in the internal affairs of Mexico, in con-
nexion with Santa Anna's continuance in power, is ap-
proaching rapi(lly. It seems that the French fleet was
expected at Vera Cruz then, for the purpose of enforc-
ing the settlement of some preliminaries in relation to
the treatment of French subjects in that country, and
also with regard to the payment of some indemnity.
On the other kaad, it has been reported that the
internal affairs of the country are much deranged—
that a formidable party against Santa Anna was in
process of organisation—and that everything betokened
the approach of another revolution. It is certain
however, that no arrangement has taken place between
Mexico and Texas, and the probability is that in the
present state of things our Government, who have al-
ready sent agents there in relation to the new annexa
tioi treaty, will endeavour to make the best of the matter
and make as good a bargain for annexation as possible.
Such being the position of things in Mexico and Texas,
it is probable that the annexation treaty will not be
taken up in the Senate until at least some further ac-
counts are received from Mexico. But what the final

disposition of it may be, it is utterly impossible to fore-
tell. Such confusion reigns at Washington—there is
such a complete demoralisation of the democratic party
—such a feud between-Mr. Van Buren and Mr. Calhoun
that nothing can be predicated distinctly of the action of
the Senate in regard to this matter.

GREAT GUNS.—ANOTHER FOR THE PRINCETON.—
The late disaster on board the Princeton 'has not de-

stroyed Captain Stockton's confidence in the advantagek
likely to result from the use of large guns. The greater
caution will be observed hereafter in their construction.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that Colonel Bird, of
Trenton, New Jersey, has constructed a mode of making
large wrought iron guns, which has received the appro-
bation of Captain Stockton, and a gun of the size
of the " Peacemaker" is to be immediately
constructed at the iron works of Messrs. Bird
and Weld. A number of wrought iron staves,
four or six inches thick, of the required length of the
gun, will be placed in the form of a cylinder. Wrought
iron hoops the whole length of these staves, and lying
close together, will be welded upon. them. Another row
of hoops, of larger dimensions, will be welded upon the
former, and additional rows will be put on and welded
to those previously on, until the desired thickness shall
be obtained. The rim of the hoops will be about six
inches wide, and they will be so laid that the middle of
the rims in one row of hoops will cover the joints between
these of the next smaller. The sides of the hoops
will be carefully turned smooth before they are laid on.
The rims of the hoops will be thicker at the ends than in
the middle, so that when, after being put on in a heated
state, the hoops cool and contract, they will bind'those
under them, not only upon the staves, but to each other,
and thus present a resistance in both directions to
the explosive force of the powder. The proposed
advantage of this mode of construction is that the weld-
ing of small pieces of iron, such as one row of hoops
upon the surface of the others, can be done perfectly ;
while it is scarcely possible to weld large masses per-
fectly, or without destroying the strength of the iron.—
New York Sun.
TROUBLE AT NAUVOO.—The St. Louis Republican
contains the details of a row at Nauvoo, growing out of
an attempt of J. Smith, as Mayor, to arrest several of-
fenders. One of them threatened and attempted to
shoot the Prophet, denounced him as an impostor, and
charged him with having committed murders on the
island. There is said to be a good deal of enmity
against Joe Smith in his community.
TREASURE.—SeveraI hundred dollars in gold were
found accidentally under a heap of coal ashes in the
Reading, Penn. gaol yard, supposedito have been secreted
by some convict executed for murder.--New York Sun.
THEATRICAL.—Maeready is playing to crowded but
not fashionable houses at the Park. His tour South and
West has been more profitable than in the North and
East. He goes to England at the close of his present
engagement.
QUEER ENOUGH.—Among the records of the good
old town of Ipswich, Mass., we find the following under
date of 1681 :—" Single persons who are under no go-
vernment, are ordered to put themselves under the care
of some head of a family. Daniel Waldrom is required
to return to his wife according to law."
MORE CRIME.—A gang of rogues entered the new
and elegant store of Mr. Regally, 4, School-street, Bos-
ton, on Monday evening, and believing that all the
valuables were locked in the safe, they filled the lock
with gunpowder, to which they attached a slow-match,
but, from the over-charge, the explosion was loud and
sweeping, carrying before it valuable clocks, pedestals,
and various counter articles, and finally smashing the
plate-glass window, which cost 240 dolls. The loss
is estimated at 1,000 dolls. The explosion alarmed the
thieves, and they made their escape, leaving everything
in confusion, and without carrying off a single article.—
New York Paper.
THE WHEAT CROP OF THE UNITED STATES.—The
Prairie Farmer, published at Chicago, 111., says :—" If
there be not a larger wheat crop in the United States
this year, or in the West at any rate, than ever before,
we shall be disappointed. In our rambles through Illi-
nois, Wisconsin, and Indiana, we have seen and been
informed that more wheat was sown last fall than usual;
that almost without exception, so far as we have been
able to learn, it has been uninjured by the water. The
early opening of spring will hasten its growth, so that
there will be little danger from rust, and this being the
chief cause of fear for wheat in this region, we think the
prospect is good for a large crop. Severe), of our cor-
respondents, writing from Wisconsin, and southern and
central Illinois, coincide with these views. From inquiry
we do not think there was quite as much sown in central
and southern Illinois as last year ; but probably more
than any previous year when the crop has not been cut
off. The season has been so favourable that an unusual
amount of spring wheat has been et in."
THE CROPS IN WESTERN NEW ORIL—The Rochester
Daily Advertiser, of Saturday, says—" The crops in
Genesee County have never appeared so fine at this