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JOSEPH l.. HAYs.-This active officer died suddenly on Saturday, at Philadelphia, as is supposed of cholera. He was dis tant relation to "0ld Hays,' as the High Constable is termed, and was early in life store. keeper in this city he failed in busi- ness. and left debts at that time unpaid to the amount of 1,400 dollars. He after wards was attached to the Police Office, where he did business 'son his own hook, :" as it is termed-that is, he employed few Or no ssstool pigeons" During the ten years he was police officer, he is said to have realized nearly $40,000, and to his credit be 1t said, he paid off his old debts the very first year after he became an off, Ger. He left the Police Office a few years since, and although he still held his Mar shai7s warrant, and ofliciated at Niblo's Garden, yet he was principally occupied as an agent for the firm of Hendriques & Go. and in buying and selling houses and land- ed estates. He has left property to the amount of $20,000. He was alive and well in New-Y ork, on Friday morning at nine o'clock, at which hour we were con- versing with him in the Police Office about the cholera in Philadelphia, whther he was going; he expressed his fears that he might fall victim to it, and on Saturday noon he was corpse.