The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-28


resolutions passed at tn last meeting of the Board
giving DIR. Munday q vote al the meetings, were,
upon motion. laid on the table to be reconsidered
MIR Theodore Train moved that the report submitted
ny the Health Officer (Dr. Munday) at the last
meeting be presented t. their counsel, and that he
he requested to prepare such rules aud regulations
may be deemed advisable to carry out the recon
mendations and suggestions Of the Health Officer.
The Board OF Supervisors met yesterday after
noon, and had under consideration The tax levy
Objections were made TO portions o. IT, particu-
larry that relative to paying the expenses o d. d
Conover whilst officiating rs Street Commissioner,
amounting to s3s,27s 95. The Board adjourned
without disposng Of the matter.
A case Involving the liability of ex ress companies
came up yesterday in the Marine Court. The action
was aid against the Adams express company for
the amount due on a promissory note given them to
collect, which had been lost before presentation to
tue maker The Court rendered Judgment in favor
Of the plaintiff, holding that banker Or common car
ier Is liable for all damage resulting from his care
essncss or neglect.
shc safes Of cotton yesterday embraced sboat 600
LEO bser, based m.ply UPON ~ddlins uoAnis a.I2xs
Flour SOME what less buoy ant, While
without ehs1 sc d moment Ia quotations Wheat
hrner sss more active. The saes embraced about 100
bushes, at pricss given in snYthcr column. Cora
Gim, wish limited saiee, ecedirs wesa IN Mixed out VI
oid.r, al tic TIC and coed sound Southern white q
81. Peak Grmer AMI mere active Tho sLss en-
breed aocut 900 pbs., chiefly mess at ST rs SIT
37h 81 &C. and prime ut sl3 90 SI4. Beef Gu, meats
AIo lard we're also arm. Sugars we're nsm and 10 god
aemard With saiss Of about $50 hhds at rates given
In sncther place. Coffee was firm. though sales were
De-
and the stcck OF ell descriptions embraces bags
Freight engagements were moderate and easier
grain 10 bulk for Lverp o wnlo the QUOTATIONS. for
o,ntr articles remained abou, tho same.
The New Northwestern Empire Britlsh and
American iSss lprDcsay.
The discovery OF the new gold fields in the
westerly portion of British North America is
the most important event of the day. The
mercurial people of California and their neigh
bors down The Pacific coast and across to the
Sandwich Islands, are in a state of the widest
excitement, SIS will be seen by our adgices per
steamship Moss Taylor which arrived yester
cay. Already, az we learn, the number of emf
grants from San Francisco to Frazer river ex
cecds twenty thousand persons
Nor is this excitement confined to Calfor-
MIA. We published, only few days ago,
an interesting report of q meeting Of
the citizens Of st. Pau, Minnesota, ia re-
iation to this subject 1t will be recollected
that in commenting upon the proceedings of the
people Of St Paul, we stated that while the eni-
grafton from our Western and Middle States
would find that city convenient poiat of de-
parture, the Canadians would undoubtedly take
measures to pass around the head waters of
Lake Superior, and save the detour about st.
Paul This has already been done; and as
further important steps have been taken for the
Improvement of British North America, we pro
pose to give brief account of matters relative
to the new III Dorado as they now stand.
The vast Northwestern empire which lies be-
tween lakes Superior and Winnepeg on the
east, and the Pacific on the west, has a terrific
rial area Of one million square miles, which
would make twenty four States Us large Us Ohio.
North Of the boundary of forty nine degrees,
and contiguous to the proposed emigrant route
to Frazer river, we have five hundred thousand
square miles, divided as follows
Square rA>s
vancouver Island tovvo
Frazer ana Thompson rivers ............... 60.0co
Sources Of the Upper Columbia ............. 20 900
AttAbSska district. .......... 60 0ca
slaichewan Red River, Assineboin. &c. 500 goo
ro..,...............................soo,o1o
The Minnesota people, with that sharp eye to
great land speculation, have already "calcu-
lated that this district would cut up into
twelve States, each having al area equal to that
of Ohio. The sixty thousand square miles in
the Frazer and Thompson river district is tlhe
paradise of this empire. We are told that from
the forty ninth parallel, some three huudred
and fifty miles north, a more beautiful cou1try
does not exist" The Parliamentary Committee
were told that Its fisheries are most valuable;
its timber the finest in the world for maritime
purposes; II abounds In bituminous coal, well
fitted for the generation Of steam; aud its eli
mate lie foe, equable and salubrious." la many
respects this region is not unlike Northern Calf
fornia; and but little more than year sinceauri.
ferrous deposits, found in pretty large quantities,
made the resemblance still more marked. and
created the widest excitement among all the
adventures on the western slope OF the noun
tains, from San Diego to the mouth of the
Columbia. The richest placers seemed 10 he in
the table land between Frazer aud Columbia
rivers, and IL is to this district that the atten-
tion Of British statesmen is now turned. For
nearly two centuries the navigation OF
these rivers, their tributaries the bays.
straits or sounds into which they flow.
has been monopolzed by the nndson's
Bay Company. In addition to this the company
holds under a tripartite tenure all the territory
extending from our Northern frontier TO the
Arctic Sea- Fret they hold under license from
the Crown the colony Of Vancouver Island;
secondly, the territory extending from The Pa
ciGc to the Rocky Mountains, nov to be called
New Caledonia; and third, under the Charles
the Second charter, the vast territories extend
ing from the Rocky Mountains to Hudson's
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