The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-14 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

The British mail steamer America, Captain
Wickman, arrived in the Mersey at seven o'clock
last night, from Boston and Halifax, with 138
passengers, $1.079.033 in specie, and by her
we have received our files of papers from New
York to the Ist, Boston to the tad, and Halifax
to the 3rd instant, all inclusive.
The mail steamer Canada, from Liverpool, had
arrived out at Halifax, and was passed on the 3rd
of July by the America, on her way to Boston , and
the screw steamer North America, from Liverpool,
had arrived out at Quebec, after a passage of
eleven and a half days. She carried out news of
the fact that the British government had deter-
mined not to dismiss the American minister, Mr.
Dallas. and this was immediately telegraphed to
New York, where it was received with great
satisfaction. In consequence, all fear of a rupture
between the two countries had died away on the
other side of the Atlantic.

The steamship Illinois had arrived at New York
willi the California mail of the sth of June, and
had brought 2,270,868 dollars in gold dust on freight.
We have already announced the fact of the execu-
tion of Casey and Cora, and also that martial law
had been declared in San Francisco, but the
accounts now to hand give much fuller and more
complete details. The excitement continued un-
abate and the Vigilance Committee was still
active After the execution of the two men already
named, numerous arrests followed, and among
others, that of the notorious Yankee Sullivan, who,
to avoid the felon's doom that he dreaded, com-
mitted suicide in his cell. According to latest
advices, the other arrested parties had been
shipped to Australia. In the meantime an oppo-
sitiou to the Vigilance Committee was organ-
ised. This party called for a mass meeting
in the Plaza of those who were in favour of main-
taining " the supremacy of the Constitution and
the laws of the State," but when the time arrived
the speakers were received with such a storm of
hisses and groans that it was found impossible to
proceed, and the meeting turned out a complete
failure. The popular feeling in San Francisco,
and, indeed, throughout the State, is unmistakable.
It seems to be the general desire, with but slight ex-
ception, that the Vigilance Committee should make
some further examples, and continue its organisa-
tion until the purification of the ballot box shall
have been secured and a radical reform shall have
been wrought in the City Government. The
Governor has issued a proclamation declaring the
county of San Francisco to be in a state of insur-
rection, ordering the committee to disband, and
calling out the militia, but it does not appear that
much respect or any obedience has been shown
to this official document. There is nothing new to
record in the history of the Indian outbreak in
Oregon. For the present, at least, hostilities have
been suspended.
In the Senate, on the Ist inst, Mr. Cass said a
very grave transaction had occurred on the Pacific
coast, according to accounts just received, into
which an examination ought to be made. Gov.
Stevens, of Washington territory, has proclaimed
martial law there, and has arrested a judge of the
district court, and sent him away some distance,
thus closing court. Mr. Cass did not desire to
prejudice the case, but it certainly seemed a great
assumption of power. He submitted a resolution
calling on the President for the facts in relation to
the matter, which was adopted. The same body
had passed a bill authorising the issue of an
additional number of arms for the use of Cali-
fornia. In the House of Representatives on
the 30th ult, the bill for the admission of Kansas
into the Union was defeated by a majority of one,
in reference to which the New York Tribune says :
We entreat our readers to examine carefully the vote
in the House of Representatives yesterday, by which the
application of Kansas for admission as a Free State, in
accordance with the will of the great majority of her
actual, bona fide settlers, was rej,ctecl. It is true the
majority against her was cnly one, but that sufficed to
settle the question as well as a hundred. It will be seen
that several men elected as friends of Freedom proved
faithless, and voted, either steadily through the day or on
the most important divisions, against the Free-State
cause, and in favor of the Border Ruffians. It is in vain
to regret the delusion which these men put upon their
constituents, and by virtue of which they gained the
places they occupy; but it is to be hoped the people will
take the lesson to heart, and not again suffer themselves
to be fooled and cheated in the same way.
On the same day Mr. Douglas reported a new
Kansas Bill, which is described as a rehash of
Geyer's and Toombs', and evades the duty of
immediately effecting a radical cure of the evils
there. It proposes a future Convention to form a
Constitution, which will be just as likely to be
controlled by Missourians. It is, it is added
ingenious fraud, designed to hoodwink the people
for the Presidential campaign. On the Ist of
July the Kansas question again occupied the
attention of the House, when Mr. Barclay moved
to reconsider the previous vote. A debate ensued,
which, however, was superseded by the presenta-
tion of the report of the Kansas investigating
commission, which shows that as soon as the bill
to organise the territory of Kansas was passed, a
large number of the citizens of Missouri went into
the territory and held squatter meetings, passed
resolutions denouncing abolitionists, and declaring
that slavery existed therein. In the autumn of
1854 a secret political society, called the " Blue
Lodge," was formed—the plan of operations of
which, with its oaths, Sce., are given in the report.
This lodge controlled all the subsequent movements
and invasions on the part of the Missourians.
At the election, Nov. 29, 1854, for a delegate in
congress, there was no evidence of fraud except in
the. sparsely settled and remote districts, where
citizens of Missouri appeared and voted. Details
in relation to these facts are given in the report,
which says—" It is reduced to mathematical
precision that seventeen hundred illegal and non-
resident votes were cast by citizens of Missouri,
the remainder, being legal votes, amounted to
eleven hundred. Mr. Whitfield would have been
elected without the aid of his Missouri votes, he
having a plurality of all the votes cast. During
the winter of 1854-'55, great excitement existed in
the territory on account of the invasion; public
meetings were held, and much bitter feeling was
manifested. In February, 1855, a census was
taken, and the number of legal voters was ascer-
tained to be 2905. Previous to the election in the
spring of 1855, active preparations were made in
Missouri to invade the territory, and a complete
organisation was effected. Leaders were chosen,
tents, provisions, ammunition and arms dis-
tributed, and the forces were drilled, in companies,
in Missouri ; and on the day before the election, it
is testified, at least five thousand Missourians took
up the line of march for Kansas, and companies
wentinto every representative district of the terri-
tory except one.
The papers announce the arrival at Sydney,
C. 8., of the steamer Propontis, from Loudon, on
the 24th ult., with the submarine cable for the
New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph
Company, to be laid across the Gulf of St. Law
rence, and to connect Newfoundland with Cape
Breton.

The commercial accounts continue very favoura-
ble, The last return of the New York City Banks
showed a satisfactory state of affairs, which had
induced great confidence as to the future, and a
further disposition in Wall-street to enlarge their
line Of cii;eounts. The New York Courier says:—
The specie reserve is still large, although somewhat lets
than the week previous. The bank and railroad dividends
are very satisfactory. The semi-annual interest due on
the bonds of Western Railroad Companies, County and
City Bos, will be paid to-morrow, by their respective
agents innd this City- We regret to learn, however, that
the agent of the State of California is mot prepared to pay
the semi-annual interest due on the Bonds of that State to-
morrow. This will he a further and a severe blow to the
credit of that State, showing not only a culpable negligence
on the part of the financial affairs of the State but a reck-
lessness that will hereafter prevent the neeociation
Bond*
of any further California
Citys in th Is market. The
Fund Commissioners of the of Sacramento have
of interest due remitted funds for the payment
to-
morrow on the binds Of that city; but the principal
due, to the extent of about 36,000 dollars, is not provided
fOr- This also is a gross oversight. Business in Foreign
Exchanges for to-morrow's mail is extremely quiet ; rates,
vertheless, en account of the small supply, are firm.
The following are the extreme prices asked by brni„,rs
t?-dav for 60 days' sight drafts :—On London 1091 to 110,
The Stoc Market this morning •
continued firm, but. was
book a t
the transactions,
,_Y n than on Saturda, and
less
ogh larger in the aggregate were nearly confined to
Erie and Reading Stocks—the former especially, was in
brisk demand at a further advance.
The Cotton Market had not been very active,
the business being confined to sales for borne use,
prices being about td, above the last Liverpool
quotations. The Flour Market had been firm, and