The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-13

The "details of the news from California the lead
ing features of which have before been given by
telegraph, will be found highly interesting. We
cannot refer to the deplorable accident which &C.
esrrred on board the steamer Jenny Lind, coming
q it does in such quick succession upon the late
hmentable catastrophes which have happened more
inmediateiy in our midst, without shudder, as the
awfulness of such scenes are pictured in our imag
nation; and we are forcibly led to ask ourselves
where can we look for safety from such haphazard
casualties, and when is this wholesale hurrying Of
human beings into eternity to cease? But we shall
probably soon forget these accidents, and the grass
win hardly have time to get green over the graves
Of the victims before the causes which brought them
TO their untimely end will also be removed from our
memory. The loss Of the steamship s. s. Lewis is
another important item in the California news, to
which we have before referred. Intelligence from
the mines continues to bear cheering aspect, and
the miners continued to tuyn in their piles of golden
treasure which was despatched by each steamer
bound for the Atlantic cities. The Illinois, which is
now due from Aspinwall, has board nearly
81 900 900, which, added to the shipment by the
steamer of the first of April, and the amount on
freight in the Brother Jonathan, makes the sum of
Is 900 0OO which left San Francisco during the past
month.
A despatch from New Orleans announces the ar.
rival there, in the Philadelphia, from Aspnwall of
Gen. villamel, the first Charge d'Aaires ever sent
from the republic of Eucador to this country. New
Orleans is the Generals native city.
Coroner O'Donnel held an inquest yesterday on
ths bodies Of the two brakemen who died the day
before at the City Hospital from the effect ofinuries
received during the recent collision the Paterson
C,x hn afiOn
necessarily limited as the Coroner had no jrisdic
tion out Of this city and theury could merely recon-
mend the authorities of New Jersey to take cogni
zance of the matter. This they did, and censured
the agent Mr. Greene for his carelessness in leaving
the station before he had served the conductor with
the new time table. We hope this matter will not
be allowed 10 rest here, but that the authorities Of
New Jersey will have it thoroughly Investigated,
and punish the party or parties through whose ne
gect two lives have been lost and several persons
seriously injured
In addition to the report Of the inquest alluded to
in the preceding paragraph, we publish the express
sion Of sympathy by the American Medical Associa-
ton relative to the disaster at Norwalk, together
with the result Of the election which was held
yesterday, for officers Of the New York and New
Haven Railroad.
The Legislature of Connecticut has adjourned till
next Tuesday. During the interim the special com.
mittee will pursue their Investigations concerning
The catastrophe at Norwalk. What will eventually
be done in the case few will venture to form an
opinion particularly since the Senate rejected the
bill making steamboat owners liable in the sum OF
I've thousand dollars for deaths caused by explosions
&c However, it is still hoped and believed that
laws will be passed in that and nearly every other
State in the Union sufficiently strong to at least pre-
vent far human foresight can, the repetition of
such melancholy disasters as we have Of late been
called upon to record.
4 our special and other dispatches from Washing
ton have considerable to say respecting the conclu
sion arrived at hy the cabinet upon thu subject of
foreign appointments, 10 which the attention of
those interested il directed. II Is somewhat crafty
ing TO learn that the evidence in the Gardner Gaze
has at last been closed and that counsel will e. day
commence summing NJ. There is now some proba
bty that shall ascertain tie result Of this long
and rather tedious controversy before the close Of
she month, at least
A large number Of criminals were yesterday sen.
tencedin the Court Of General Sessions. Among
the number was youth named Robert Burns, con-
cted Of highway robbery, who was sentenced to