Washington telegraph., 1851-04-30
correspondenoe of the Telegraph.


New YoaK, April 8. 1851.
By the arrival Of the steamships Georgia and
Empire City, we have an accession of about 40u
people to our floating population, and one and
half millions in gold dust.
Among tho first things that some OF these return
ed Californans will do will be to suffer themselves
to be drawn into those nets for gudgeons, the mock
auction rooms, where they will exchange portion
of their dust de orc for gold watches, rings, &C.,
made of brass! The Mayor has stationed boys
in front of these swindling holes with banners
warning strangers to beware Of them, but be-
eve that manY of those whom il cautions are
too stupid to understand it; regarding either as
an advertisement made by tho auciionsef himseli'
or by some invidous competitor The gambling
hell" is another kind Of maestrom into which
of tho silly fish will be sucked, aud to assist
in their fleeing, the maestrompets will introduce
them to strumpets of the other see, and between
one harpy and another. week will suffice to
render not few Of the 400 who have arrived to-
day bankrupt in health and means. Al least this
is the history Of previous arrivals.
Daniel Webster who has been sojourning at
the Astor House for two days, in very i'll health, is
better to-day, and this afternoon. will leave for
Marsh6eId. his ses-coast residence in Massachu.
sets Bay. HIS presence and counsel would do
no hurt in Boston just now, as a coanterpoise to
the infamous agitation which Rantoul, Srwell,
Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker and few
other seekers of-notOrety, fo.nenting incl
dental to the of the fugitive Sims
cruel misconstruction has been thoughtess!y
put upon the conduct of Fletcher Webster. Esq
by some newspapers. Because, in his zeal to
arrest, he interfered with the watchman who was
ringing the bell of the Stone Chapel, he has been
put in the category with the disorderly alotonists'
SewalI and others, to whom he was then, aud
always has been, like his father, the Secretary
Of State, diametricaliy opposed. l make this cor
recton of current error, because cannot con-
ceive Of a greater earthly calamity beialling a
man than TO be classed with the traitors and dis
organizers who now opposing in Boston and
sewhere the laws Of the land, aud the conditions
of the Constitution.
In addition io the Georgia from New Orleans,
These vessels will return, one on the lltb, and
the other on the 18th inst. In her outward trip
the Union put into Acapulco-her passengers
working her pumps
On the docket of the U. S. Circuit Court, which
commenced its session yesterday, there are two
cases Of embezzling valuable letters from the Post
Office. The penalty of embezzling, OBTAINING,
destroying secretiDg, letter of value, is six
months Imprisonment; if valuable then the i'm
prsonment may be increased TO 81 years. One
of these letters contained $1,000, another $2400.
The law does not mention what the Government
shall suffer for losing delaying letters, of which
we have many instances, especially IN the
California mails. At the opening Of the court
Judge Nelson charged the Grand Jury at great
length and with very useful perspicuity in re-
gard to the fugitive slave law Ananpg other
things, he says-"It will excite some surprise,
think, when it is seen that there is not power
conferred upon those appointed to administer il
judically, bot what was conferred upon the juGges
and State magistrates under the &C: of 1893
a law approved by Washington and Adams and
enacted by tho fathers and founders Of tho re-
public"