The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-01 00:00:00

I P ecting a war vessel from the United States. In a
political dispute one of the city editors had shot
and killed a Spaniard, and fled.
ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. The Emperor Soulouque and the Dominicans
were renewing their amicable relations, and efforts
The British and North American Royal Mail were being made to cultivate a durable friendship.
The seaport towns were healthy, but business was
p The
Capt. Lott,
Steam-shi, commander, entered dull, owing to the limited arrivals of produce from
the Mersey yesterday afternoon, bringing the usual the interior towns.
Mails, and 47 passengers, a list of whom is sub-
Joined. On the 20th tilt, at 3 p.m., she passed her
consort the Africa, en route to New York. She also
reports speaking the ship Sheridan, screw steamer In this market during the past week the sales amount
hoistingAltna, and ship Cambria. 21st : Bremen ship, to 6,000 bales, half of which is for shipment, the balance
for our own spinners. Holders have been more desirous
20] in a white flag, and Bremen ship of realising, and saleTshewere
rmteaddestantrmfuilnlyth!c per lb. off
South caused
'Union, bound west, in lat. 40.47,10 n. 68.47. 23rd :
mmoyrelasfitrqmunoetssioonsFriday, whichre continued throughout Satur-
barque Fury,
standing northward, in hit. 42.53,
day, but since the Atlantic's news on Monday, very ldittlenitiaa!
lore 58 59.
24th: Ship Home, bound west, lat. been,clonie,chanduthest h markete
d clodsed duilnlaalt the annexed anenxepxor t forqu the
4514, lon. 46.20. The Asia brings 520,905 dollars, lions,
hasw been 1,456 hales to Liverpool and 8 to Havre.
and four days later news. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 16.—Receipts for the week, 900 bales;
According to our commercial advices there is an same week last year, 6,000. Sales to-day 600, and during
discount
confidence in monetary matters, and the the week, 1,300. Prices are unchanged. Middling, 1114 c,
uiseount houses make advances on call readily at per lb. Freight to Liverpool, .Is,i per lb.
,
Per cent. Commercial paper was selling in the MOBILE, Aug. 16.—Receipts for the week, 700 bales; same
Street, at 8 to .12 per cent., an d the inside rate
week last 5
year, 3tl. 00. Middling, 101 c per lb. Freight to
for short first-class notes 60 to 90 days, the outside Liverpoon , 16
r.htoP.—From New Orleans, by telegraph, we learn that a
E.u3nre for second-class long dates. One of the New
very violent storm of wind and rain came up from the Gulf, and
4nrk papers of the latest date says :
lasted two days, ending on Tue.day morning. How far it
lillsites9 itr foreign exchanges was extremely limited,
with a dull and downward tendency. First class bills extended into the country, or whether it has
any damage to the crop, we have as yet only v
Oa London were offered at 91 per cent., but a small
—the general impression here is, that like
131°1, only was sold at that rate. A further heavy
sth and 6th Anti. it will do no harm_ I
Wine is anticipated within a f--- - ' ' drafts will be more plenty. 9
ofni Baltimore being at present
drafts on Holland and Bremen-has been sent to our
NEW COTTON.—In Mobile the first bale arrived on the
royobets from that city, and rates for both rule lower. The
9th and three more on the lith. Last year the
.first
tarlltweirnsg, May be considered. the highest notations on
S) nx era fts sixty days' sight : London,qlo974-5 ; Paris hale hale was Aug,received on the 6th Aug., and six more on the 6th.
in. '?; Antwe D 5 17. t to 5 161 • Amsterdam, 414 to 41T.; In Charleston the first bale arrived on the 14th last: Last
year the first was received on the 23rd ug. .
-14-eartillinbliri-gl. 36r,t-;' Bremen, .781 'to 79; Frankfort, 411 ;
, Lei 36g
and Cologne, 72. fie following is a statement of the movement in cotton
No new feature had manifested itself in the since the Ist September last, as compared with the pre-
vious three years
e,,,nrt.t°n markets. The sales were moderate, and
4' 1,2 s maintained with steadiness.
lien? Washington advices inform us that the Pre-
lutost.tit has decided that Governor Stevens was not
'fled in declaring martial law in Washington ter
rite
tokrY and imprisoning Judge Lander. In distinct
_ens of disappr
obation his removal was decided
steund, and General Lane, of Oregon, appointed in his
del General Lane declined, and now it is un-
itsatood that Stevens is to be retained. Convin,
Fa".. cemmissioner appointed to investigate the
111111 a massacre, had arrived at Washington. His
reportac
inevitably fixes the responsibility of that
daupon
the New Granada authorities; allows
dotilllars "Res amounting to about half a million of •
uci recommends the exaction of immediate
Irioters-slntY therefor, and the punishment of the
; awl •
that th ein the event of a failure to recover,
-ne.. eUnited. States take such steps as may ke
; uessary to protect, on its own behalf, the transit
the
the isthmus. The whites are anxious that
I_„liee :United States should acquire jurisdiction over
itnnoisthnaus, and it is
of Panama, thought that New Granada
averse to ceding to America the entire State
Congrs
issued abr had adjourned, but the President had
extra sessi—c'elamation, convening Congress in
had left Waenivfor the 21st ult. Many members
a quorum ws-ounlgt?n, and it was doubtful whether
1 be present. Previous to the ad-
journment would
t a arge amount of business was gone
throu h with, and, according to a New York paper,
" the g r
were nPo°neeeedings were quite orderly, and, there
of those disgusting scenes of drunken-
ness which have heretofore marked such occa-
sions " The New Army Bill had been lost, and
passed, Steamer Appropriation Bill had been
proviso
after an ineffectual effort to strike out the
in reference to the Collins line. It was
ZsPec..te.d that Mr. Collins would continue to run
ii., "'Ps under his original contract, seeking,
bo_wever, to save the difference in compensation
4111 inning fifteen days' time instead of ten. The
isi to protect American Discoverers of Guano
andands had passed without amendment,
4. 'lB law. Letters had been received in Washing-
On,
i.,.._
_stating that Mr. Soule had left New Orleans
_7. Central America. Many reports were in
vl,..elilation as to the objects of his visit.
',two members of the House of Representatives,
"4114111
y On, of Virginia, and Granger, of New
rk, indulged in a fist fight at Washington. It
aPPears the members were riding together in
V,Pllnibus, when a political dispute arose and
ei-" around l\i
rds Passed 'Mu n lle seized Granger
the neck and struck him one or two blows,
Vta,wer rting the blood under the eye and ear. They
1, e cklY separated. A committee of the House
-as b Cle ili
en re appointed to investigate the subject and
Port the facts.
Iwe have received some further particulars of
selate disastrous storm at the South. On Last
t and alone one hundred and ninety dead dodies
ilav
thee, been recovered,. and it is now estimated that
_ leas of life will not fall short of two hundred
i_ned fitty people. Considerable damage has also
sule. n occasioned at New Orleans, especially to the
°lPPing at the wharves. Reports from the country
teitnale that there has been a moot terrible destruc-
,','.' or property, the total value of which has been
vsl2nated at five hundred thousand dollars.
Kansas is still in a very troubled state. A des-
patch from St. Louis states that 200 free soilers had
attacked the town of Franklin, in Kansas, and
totfour hours fighting had retired, carrying off
toecannon belonging to the town. The accounts as
..... ine number of lives lost are contradictory. The
Lituted States troops occupied the town next day.
1....i1n sarne, despatch states that three hundred of
jnol• Lane s men had entered Topeka. This news
,n.onfirmed by another despatch received from
,tieutaciaigo, although the accounts vary a little in the
the in,s* The free-soilers are stated to have made
organ.:Pftant discovery of the existence of an
-es4 Plan on the part of the pro-slavery men to
Concentrate
point of the arms, and ammunition at different
sud:" 'ne territory, for the purpose of making a
adjourn arid general attack immediately after the
therirnent of Congress, and expelling all
Free State settlers. It is stated that twelve
fortified block-houses have been erected at different
pro-slavery points, well supplied with cannon, rifles
andNi anAtnunition, and garrisoned principally by
__ issourians. The attack was made on the fort at
Franklin by the Free State men, for the purpose of
securing the arms deposited there, and they seem
to have
effected their object. Among the rifles
thus obtained possession of were many of the rifles
seized at Lawrence last May by the pro-slavery
333e„,a• Further disturbances were anticipated.
we have news from Havana to the 10th instant.
The fever was very bad in that city and other parts
of the island. All the shipping that could do so
had left the port. The decree creating General
Concha " Marquis of the Havana and Viscount of
Cuba," had been made public. The news of the
insurrection in Spain caused much excitement, and
130 anxious waa Gen. Concha for the earliest news,
that he had despatched his swiftest steam-ship to
await at Charleston the arrivalof the steamer from
Zurope.
12.1 7a3' of New Orleans we have full details of
The ITO Central America up to a late date.
unusual mils of Panama had been visited by an
consideratn
tiutY of rain, and there had been a
deaths. The,.n mber of eases of illness, but few
two thouaandecwoa:taa rumour afloat to the effect that
possession of j leans and then a les • . Il• were in
via
SanGreytownGauzeatnt del Sur, at last accounts,
In the Official
have the new Electione' of
Bogota, July 19, we
exacted on the 18th of J, new of that Republic,
for the election of the The day fixed
G•overnasto. f the Provinces
or States, is the first sunia_
00
' f July • and those
for the election of Senators, '
Judges of the Courts, States Representatives,
Attorneys,
trates of the Supreme Court, AttorneyGnntAeloraEkiosef.
the Republic, President and Vice-Preside
eateiphin
Republic, are the Sundays following,
is nothinguon
the respective days succeeding,
There
nerTo
wlll,th they are named above•
new from Gen. Walker.
There is rather interesting news from the west
Indies. The capital of the Dominican Republic
Was, at last accounts, in a state of revolution, in
consequence of a treaty with Spain, one of the pro.
visions of which favours all Spanish descendants,
and allows them to become Spanish citizens ; any
as they are the most numerous class, they wishes
to_ become Spanish citizens in fact, and hoist th
was
flag. Great excitement prevailed, busines
as suspended, and the President and Cabine
wished
to resign. The Spanish Consul wa
endeavouring to prevent the American treaty fror.
being ratified, and the liberals were anxiously ex

ague reports

year on

opinion next week on receipt of the letters
d section, Alabama and Texas, the

,ccoun ts are

1856. 1855. 1854. 1853.
. 3,481,000 2,772,000 2,874,000 3,215,000
. 1,945,000 1,515.000 1,573,000 1,732,000
. 478,000 409 000 349,000 422,000
, 519 000 281,000 :-39..00 359 000
. 2,942,000,2,205,000 2,26 ,000 2 513.000
. 51,000 121,000 128,000. 99 000

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