The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-20 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

Bloody riots took place at Now York on Saturday,
the 4th, and Sunday, the sth instant. The conflict
began on Saturday afternoon in the " Bloody Sixth"
ward, between a gang calling themselves the " Dead
Rabbits," and the Bowery buys, in Bayard-
street, near Mulberry. Firearms were freely, used,
and seven persons killed, and 23 or 30 wounded. In
the Seventh and Thirteenth wards there were also
serious affrays, in which a number of persons, includ-
ing a policeman, were badly injured. Sunday
evening tho fight was renewed in the Sixth ward,
when a terrible conflict took place between two
factions, and 11 persons were shot, many of whom
are supposed to be fatally wounded. The police did
all they could to suppress the riots, but they were
totallyinsufficient even to protect themselves from
the fury of the mobs ; and bad it not been for the
presence of the military in the very heart of the
rioters' strongholds there is no knowing where the
matter would have ended. A number of policemen
were seriously injured by the riot in Bayard-street.
Coroners l'erry and Connery were active all day on
Sunday in investigating the occurrence. Inquests
were commenced upon the bodies of the dead, but
little or no testimony was elicited. The city was
tranquil on the 6tb, the presence of the military
having doubtless had the effect of repressing what-
ever riotous dispoeition may have remained in the
" Dead Rabbits' and " Bowery Boys." Two of the
injured persons died on th, 6th, and it is quite pro-
bable that others will die. The number of killed
amounted to 8, and the wounded to 43. The num.
bee of arrests does not exceed 23.

During the pyrotechnic display in Boston, on
the evening of the 4th, a mortar used for throwing
shell rockets exploded, killing four persons and
seriously injuring some others. Thin sad disaster
terminated the pyrotechnic display abruptly.
Five of the persons engaged in the Plug Ugly
election riot at Washington,on the Ist of last month,
have been convicted. Two of them had fled from
justice ; the other three were sentenced to one year's
imprisonment and a fine of 20 dollars each.
Two serious fires had taken place at Cincinnati.
The aggregate loss by these conflagrations is esti-
mated at a quarter of a million dollars. Some four
hundred persona are thrown out of employment by
these disasters.

A train on the Marietta and Cincinnati Rail-
road was precipitated down an embankment a dis-
tance of 63 feet, smashing the cars to fragments.
Three persons were killed, eight injured probably
beyond recovery, and a dozen others more or less
mangled.
The citizens of Brooklyn are much excited at cer-
tain disclosures with reference to two aldermen, who
are charged with receiving bribes.
Mr. Reed, the minister to China, embarked on
board the steam frigate Minnesota, on the 3rd, and
the steamer sailed at midnight on her voyage.
An official despatch of Commodore Paulding, of

the Wabash, to the Navy Department, iu reference
to the Nicaragua filibusters recently landed, its
been published. Many of the facts mentioned b
the commodore have already been made public. Hi
says—" It became necessary not only to give profte.
lion to our misguided countrymen, but to reconcile
the interests of contending parties belonging to the
United States and Costa Rica, not always to he mft.
prehended nor disposed of by an ordinary standard."
The Kansas Democratic Convention met at Le.
compton on the 2nd inst., when ex-Governor Itao.
NOM, of Michigan, was nominated for Congress over
Ely Moore by a two-thirds vote. Resolutions ea.
doming Governor Walker's policy were adopted.
We have news from Great Salt Lake City to the
27th of May. Brigham Young and party had ft.
turned from their expedition to the north, after so
absence of sixteen days. The crops promised sr
abundant yield.
The opening of navigation between Lake Erie Ng
the Great Hydraulic Canal at Niagara Falls took
place on the 4th. Three steamers navigated the
newly discovered harbour. A great crowd of peoph
from the neighbouring towns collected here to vit.
aces the celebration. It wag a proud day for Niagsek
Falls, for it has been practically demonstrated ttx
Niagara river is navigable for steamers from the cif:
of Buffett° to the village of Niagara.
The St. Joseph Journal, of the 2nd inst,publishe,
a report brought by a French trader, that a Imam
troops and fifty teamsters, under command of Color.
Summers, were attacked by a large body of IL.
yenee and Arrapachee Indians, two hundred esik,
west of Fort Kearney, and all slain. The report i
confirmed by a trader who arrived at Pacific Cie,
lowa, on the 2nd, and also by the emigrant tai;
from Salt Lake.