The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.

The royal mail steam-ship Canada, Capt. Lang,
arrived here on Saturday evening, after an excel-
lent run of about ten days. She brings 86 passen-
gers (whose names will be found in another
column), and the usual mails from the United
States and the British North American provinces,
and specie on freight amounting to 637,695 dols 59
cents.

The Canada reports the arrival of the Niagara at
Boston, on the 27th ult. The North American (s.s),
from this port, arrived at Quebec on the 24th ult,
after an excellent passage of eleven days
The Canada's news is four days later, but does
riot contain much that is of interest or importance.
The commercial advices state that the most
favourable feature in the money market was a
reduction in the rate of sterling bills. Bankers'
rates were quoted at 1094 to 1092, while prime
mercantile bills could be obtained at 109 to 1091,
so that there was no profit on the export of specie.
Cotton was in rather better demand, prices were
steady, and quotations unchanged from last
advices. There was rather more enquiry for bread-
stuffs, and prices had an improving tendency.
Provisions were somewhat dull, and the enquiry
for tonnage limited, so that the rates of freight
were quite nominal,
Our Washington advices inform us that the
extra session of Congress was still sitting. Mr.
Weller had introduced into the Senate a bill for
the pacification of Kansas. It is the same as the
18th section of the Senate Kanzas bill, abolishing
test oaths, providing for freedom of speech and the
press, and for the security of the people in person
and property in accordance with the constitution,
&c. Mr. Wilson offered an amendment declaring
null and void some of the most obnoxious laws of
Kanzas, and providing for the establishment of
peace and order in the territory. The bill and
amendment were discussed at length, and the
Senate adjourned without taking action. In the
house, a majority of the committee upon the assault
upon Mr. Granger, reported that Mr. McMullin
was the party first resorting to violence, but that
no action is required of the House in the matter.
The minority report severely censures the conduct
of Mr. Granger, as provoking the attack.
The papers continued to publish details of recesit
events in Kansas. The statements are derived
principally from pro-slavery sources, such as the
Lavenmorth Journal. The camp of Colonel Titus,
near Lecompton, was attacked by the free State
men on the 16th, and several prisoners were taken.
In a conference, held afterwards, the invaders
agreed to disperse their camps, and restore six
prisoners in exchange for those taken on
the 16th. Later advices received by way of St.
Louis, however, seem to contradict this report.
It is also stated that Gov. Robinson, and the
other free State prisoners are still in custody.
The same journal announces that Lecompton had
been taken, though of this event no particulars are
given. In the meantime Atchison and String-
fellow have been issuing most pathetic appeals to
the " Friends of Law and Order" for aid. • They
declare themselves to be out of ammunition, and
implore the Missourians to "come over to their
rescue before they are murdered." Thus the old
game is being repeated, and it would seem with
great hopes of success, for a call has been issued
for a meeting to have been held at Lexington on
the 19th ult , and to which the people were
directed " to bring up their horses, their guns, and
their clothing, ready to go into Kansas." The fact
is, says a New York journal, the Free State men
are now determined to fight, " they have borne
wrong and outrage long enough, and, for their
own security, they have taken the initiative and
have commenced operations against the Pro-
Slavery
party. The latter, as we have seen, had
established some ten or twelve block houses or
forts for the conquest of the Territory. Their
plans were matured and, as they thought, success
was certain. But the Free-State men were not
inactive. Their plans were also matured. On the
12th they attacked and carried the Block House
at Franklin, and since then, they have taken
nearly all the fortified places upon which the Pro-
Slavery party relied to effect the conquest of
Kansas and the destruction of their opponents.
This is about the pith of all the exciting news
from Kansas." It appears that Mr. Amy, the
agent of the Free State men in Kansas, was unable
to see the President, who he waited upon to bespeak
executive interference for protection against the
Pro. Slavery invaders. He was referred to the
President's secretary, Mr. Webster, with whom
his negotiations appear not to have amounted to
much. Governor Geary was in Washington,
waiting for something to be done towards the
pacification 01 Kansas, before he loft for that
territory. A meeting had been held at St. Louis
for the purpose of petitioning the administration
to interpose and subdue the insurrection, and
protect the rights of citizens in Kansas. The
Washington Intelligencer, with regard to the present
state of Congress on this question, says—" The
true remedy, it appears to us, is to repeal to the
obnoxious laws, and then the executive cannot
enforce them either by the military or civil arm.
Both Houses have already virtually condemned
these odious enactments, and then if it were ever
so admissible to arrest their execution by the
restriction proposed, it would be a more convenient
and appropriate mode to do so by striking them
from the statue book. In fact, if to tie up the
hands of the President in the way proposed were
entirely free from objection, Congress owes it to
public decency to abrogate laws so offensive to
every notion of free government."
There is very little new in regard to the forth-
coming Presidental election. A large Mass meeting
of the friends of Fremont was held at Needham,
Mass, on the 26th ult. An ox was roasted whole
for the multitude, after the manner of western
" barbacues " It is estimated that more than
25,000 people were in attendance from all parts of
the. State. The proceedings were harmonious and
enthusiastic. It would seem from all accounts
that the contest will be actually between Fremont
and Buchanan. Every day was making it plainer
and plainer that the Fillmore movement is neither
more nor less than a side movement for Buchanan.
Its object is, to divide the North and allow the
Southern candidate to be elected. There is
actually but little difference between the Fillmore
and the Buchanan position in regard to the
extension of slavery, and the general policy of
the South. Mr. Fillmore has just advantage
enough to gain him the support of some men
in the Free States who will not support
Buchanan. By " pressing his name," therefore,
it is believed these men can be prevented from
voting for Fremont, and Buchanan may thus
resolve a plurality in a few northern States.
At the South, on the other hand, the risk is the
other way. If Mr. Fillmore were withdrawn, the
vote of the South would be nearly unanimous for
Buchanan

Our miscellaneous advices from the States are
interesting. A very destructive freshet had taken
place on the Hudson, and it was said the lose
altogether would exceed one million dollars. At
Leeds, Greene County, Harris' woollen factory,
employing between 130 and 150 hands, with the
machinery, had been carried away. A stone grain
mill was destroyed, and a paper mill demolished.
A large and spirited meeting of the Whigs of
Boston had been held. A list of 132 delegates to
the Whig State Convention was reported and
accepted. There is a very decided preponderance
of Fillmore strength in the list, but no vote was
had involving a test on the Presidential question
and the general tone of the meeting was averse to
pledging the delegates. A span of the Lehigh
Valley Railway bridge across the Delaware river,
at Easton, Pa, gave way on the 26th, while two
engines were passing over it. One of the engines
was precipitated into the Morris Canal, a distance
of sixty feet, and the other caught on an abutment.
There
of the wd•eisraessteixr,ptewrosonosf otnhetilicteeesneagpineed aitn
jtuhrey,titmwoe
were severely hurt, and two were killed.
We have Mexican advices of a late date. The
country was remarkably quiet. The vomita was
raging with much violence at Vera Cruz. The
Indians in the North States were eonynitting
fearful ravages, and Vidaurri had taken advantage
of the fact to call the people of Zacatecas to his aid,
offering to defend them against the Indians. The
Mexican Governmeni, fearing that the Tehuante-
pec expeditionists were fillibusters, from their