The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-23 00:00:00

AMERICA_.

ARRIVAL OF THE; BALTIC

The American mail steamer Baltic, Captain Com-
stock, arrived in the Mersey at at four o'clock this
morning, from New York, whenCe she sailed on the
.10th instant. During the passage she experienced
very severe weather, which has delayed her arrival
here about forty-eight hours. She has brought
home 87 passengers, and 275,000 dollars. in specie.
We_have received our files of Ne*,York papers,
and private correspondence, to the date of her de-
parture, which are four days later than those pre-
viously to hand.
The British mail steamer Niagara, which sailed
hence on the 26th ult., for Halifax and Boston, ar-
rived out at the latter port on the 9th instant, with
the mails, and the greater part of the passengers
taken out from Southampton by the Humboldt,
wrecked off Halifax.
Both brancheg of Congress adjOurned from
Thursday till Monday, as a mark of respect to the
memory of the Hon. Wm. Rufus King, late vice-.
president of the United States and president of
the senate, who expired at his residence in Selina,
Dallas county, Alabama, on the 18th of last April.
We learn from ourdispatches, that great excite-
ment is manifested concerning the formation of
the Standing Committee of the House, and that all
sorts of bargaining is going on for the chief posts
of trust. The customary public receptions were
to be resumed at the White House in the week to
which the Houses had adjourned.
Information has been received at the War
Department, that the bodies of Captain Gunnison
and his party, who were massacred by the Indians
in New Mexico, were so mutilated by the wolves
that they could neither be removed uor buried.
.Sixteen days later news from California has
reached New Orleans. The Daniel Webster from
San Juan de Nicaragua, and the El Dorado-from
Aspinwall, had both arrived at that port. Accord-
ing to their report, the George Law had left the
latter and the Star of the -West the former place,
for New York, on the Ist inst., with three millions
of dollars in gold dust on freight. They were ex-
pected to arrive in New York on the 10th inst., the
day the Baltic sailed.
Via New Orleans we have advices from Havana
to the sth inst., by which we learn that the new
Captain-general arrived there on the 2nd. There
was nothing new however in the way of politics
from that quarter.
The ;British Steamer Marlin had arrvied at New
York from Bermuda with advices to the 30th Nov.
Some new cases of yellow fever were reported, and
the disease existed at Hamilton in a milder forth,
'ut had entirely disappeared from St. George*
A north east gale had been raging off the coast for
five consecutive days. A government contract for
the supply of flour for a year had been taken
at the rate of 18s. 6d , sterling, per brl. H.B.M.
steamer Derastation arrived from Halifax on the
afternoon of the 24th ult , with Governor Elliott on
board. His Excellency in company with Corn.
Hersey, of the D., landed at Spanish Point, under
a salute from the batteries from Ireland Island.
He was met on landing by his Excellency, Major
Oakley, the acting governor, and a guard of the
56th regiment, commanded by Lie it. Accles. His
Excellency proceeded to the Admiral's house, Cla-
rence Hill, where he will reside for the present.
We are told his Excellency looks remarkably well.
Two hundred and fourteen persons are reported
one week-
to have died of cholera at New Orleans durring
We subjoin the following from our own corre-
spondent :
The Collins' mail steamer Baltic, Captain Com-
stock, leaves this port at noon, to day, for Liver-
pool. By her I send you some of the chief items
of news since last departure.
The steamer Humboldt, ashore off Halifax, has
not been got -off yet.
The Niagara arrived at Boston at 11 p.M. on
Friday night. She brought quite a number of the
Humboldt's passengers together with her mails.
With•the Winter season comes the meeting of
Congress, and the labours of its members fintwith
commence By the last advices you would have
received the annual message of the President, and
now I send you the annual reports of the various
departments—the War, Naval, Post• office, and
Treasury, all of which have now been -laid before
Congress. In the two former, I find nothing Of
interest to your readers. From the Postmaster's
repOrt, I have gathered a few topics in re-
lation to the mail service between this and
Liverpool. The number of letters conveyed by each,
and the amount of revenue collected, The state-
ment includes the fiscal year ending on the 30th
June last, in which time•the number of letters car-
ried between Liverpool and the United States by
the Collins steamers was 1,018,315, while the
Cunarders brought hither 2,774,423, they perform-
ing double service. The number of newspapers is
by the former, 305,245, and by the latter 1,034,163.
The amount of revenue collected here, from letters,
&c., by Collins steamers was $106,065 49, whilst
that collected on mails by the Cunard steamers
was $325,200 33. The amount of difference is not;
large when we come to estimate the double journeys'
From.the postmaster's report we learn.that only;
one propoSition for the carrying of the mails be•

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tween this and Liverpool has been received by.
him,•

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The New York and Galway Steam-ship Company
will agree to perform twenty-six voyages between
New York and any port in Great Britain, or Ire-
land, in forty-eight hours less time than is now

occupied by the' existing mail steamers.
• He recommends in case it be:the intention of
Congress to- withdraw the contract. possessed by
the present vessels, in • view of cheaper con
veyance, that the service be laid open for
all steamers who chose to offer their ser-
vices, with a restriction only for a' certain
number per week, that is, that vessels of either
American or British nationality, may be engaged,
and that they be paid a fixed sum per trip. If the
British government could be induced to accede to
such an arrangement, it is thought it would be
more advantageous than the present system.
.From the report of the secretary of ,the trea•
sUry, we find a recommendation for the adoption of
one fixed duty of twenty-five per cent. on all:
articles ; excepting those on the free list, or those
now paying one hundred per cent., such as spirits
and the like.. Those are to remain unchanged.
It is also proposed to increase the number
of articles on the free list one of which.
as set forth is salt, which it is re-

commended should be admittod free of duty.
This mode, it is said, will materially lessen the la
hour of the collectors. It is also recommended to

adopt some measures for the better preservation of
health to passengers .in emigrant ships arriving at
this port, from Europe.
-A shocking accident occurred on the night of the
Bth instant, on the New York and Erie railroad,
from a collision between the day-express and an
emigrant train, in which the passengers in the
former suffered severely. Five—two ladies and
three gentlemen—were dangerously wounded, and
it is feared two out of the number will not survive.
The scene of this tragedy was near Bergen cut,
New Jersey.
By electric telegraph from New Orleans, we
received on Wednesday last, a brief dispatch
announcing the arrival at that port of the steamer
Daniel Webster, from San Juan, with dates from
San Francisco to the 16th Nov She brought to
that City 150 passengers, and 400,000 dollars in
specie. The steamer Star of the West, also from
San Juan, left there on the Ist inst., for New
York, with 400 passengers, and 1,456,000 dollars in
gold. The steamer El Dorado, from Aspinwall,
with the Californian mails, 600 passengers, and
specie on freight amounting to one million and a-
half, was also reported below New Orleans. From
the breaking up of the telegraph from this and
New Orleans, we have been unable to get any fur-
ther news up to the hour I write. The Star
of the West, and El Dorado, are now about due at
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this port. • .
Commercial affairs have been gradually becom-
ing more settled of late. Money for all legitimate
business purposes is abundant, and the steadi-
ness with Which the supply is coming about, to-
gether with the continued arrivals from California,
imparts confidence that the increased easiness in
the Money. Market is likely to be permanent. The
Stock Exchange for the past week, has given evi-
dence of this feeling being general, from the im
proved demand for• purchases ; the result of such
demand has naturally been to augment the prices
of the faVourite stocks offering for investmen.t We
have had no. sales since our last report of United
States, Government; or City Stocks.