The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-13 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.

The Royal Mail steamer Africa, which sailed
from New York on the Ist inst., arrived here last
evening, with 111 passengers and 343,000 dols. in
specie on freight. She passed the America at 5
5.111 yesterday morning. The news is four days
later than that brought by the North American
arrived here on Friday night.
The steamer New York, one of M`Lyman & Co.'s
Glasgow packets, was, on the 30th ult. taken in charge
by the U S Marshal, at the suit of Captain John A.
Gardner. of Nantucket. for an unsatisfied claim for
"al, and services rendered to that vessel last
Winter, whilst she was in a disabled condition at
at the east end of that island.
The news to hand is of no great interest or
importance. The official announcement of the
aPpointmen t of Mr. R. J. Walker to the governor-
"hip of Kansas, had been made in the Washington
"Union. The instructions to Mr. Walker are full,
clear' and explicit, and in them are quoted the
kttet words of Mr. Buchanan's Inaugural,
Viz. "It is the indispensable duty of
the government to secure to every resident inha-
bitant the free and independent expression of his
°Pinions by his vote " In this the cabinet cordially
"ncurs They, and those who will shortly ad
minister the affairs of Kansas, believe that there
4l nothing to prevent such a result in the adoption
Zr the state constitution, as the Legislative Assem-
-IY, at their last session, repealed that portion of
toe election law which required a challenged voter
take the oath to support the fugitive slave law.
Gentlemen who have made personal inquiry rela-
tive to this Baject have been assured that the
Administrating and Mr.
Walker 101 endeavour to
carry ourk their
promise in good fath, being fully
111)Prer.ised with the importance of the re'sult.
,
-141, Was rumoured that a movement was on foot,
en the part of the government, to conciliate the
South, by purchasing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,
instead of Lower California and Sonora, as had
been proposed, and that the designated sum of
15,000,000 dols is to be appropriated for that
Purpose. This rumour comes from New Orleans,
where a deep interest is felt in the success of the
route now being opened across Tehuantepec, and
13305 t probably has originated in a desire enter-
tained in that city, that the enterprise may be
brought directly under the protection of govern
went.

We extract the following paragraph from a New
York paper of a late date
young man, about 18 years of age, named Daniel
O'Leary, alias " Sneaky," well known to the police as a
river thief, was found dead in a boat at pier 23, East
River. He was covered with blood, and an examination
proved that he had been killed by a discharge of book
shot into the breast and head. The same morning a river
thief named John Williams, alias John Belly, surrendered
himself to a seventh ward policeman, and desired to be
sent to the hospital. He was suffering from wounds
about the head, inflicted 'oy a discharge of buck shot.
Se stated that while pP,ssing the corner of Market and
outh streets, he was, without any provocation, fired
,Pon by a man, an entire stranger to him. There is little
doubt that this mead Williams received his wounds from
menattempting a depredation upon some vessel or storage
. There
,had bee was a rumour in Brooklyn that both the
ielyrftaged in :tirisphpoitnign the vicinity of Fulton Ferry, while
the copper sheathing from a vessel,
he a'
' Atte in charge. •
respect to the Burdell murder, the New
• Evening Post Rays :
? Re understand that the counsel of Mrs. Cunningham and
-itkel are confident of their adquittal on the charge of murder-
log Dr. Harvey Burdell. They say that they are able not only
to establish their clients' innocence, but to give the name of the
actual murderer, and show how the deed was done. The
rumour that Judge Whiting was engaged as senior counsel in
the case is incorrect. Ex Judge Dean is associated with Mr.
Clinton on behalf of Mrs. Cunningham, and Judge Graham
on behalf of Eckel.
An absolute injunction has been granted in the
United States District Court of Rhode Island
against Messrs. Bourn, Brown and Chapper, at the
suit of Charles Goodyar and others, to prevent
them from manufacturing vulcanised rubber boots
Itnd shoes.
Boston boned of trade had issiued their
annual report. Fr em it we glean the following
; 'nflnnation
:
There are eight companies engaged in the manufacture
1:11.0?ordage centering in Boston, with a capital of 700,000
'B., EmPleiying 780 persons, consuming annually over
fteo, ()rod r of hemp, and manufacturing 8,500 tons of
of the value of 2,200,000 dols. These statistics do
notn include the Middlesex nor the New Bedford Cordage
',or •
apantes. The capital stock of the Cotton Manufac.
`C ring Companies is 39,680,000 dole., and the annual sales
`of cotton goods produced by these companies, amount to
82,450,000 dols. Besides these, the estimated sales of
twenty six commission houses, is 14,250 000 dole.,
--making a total of 46,700,000 dole. In the manufacture of
Cotton sail duck, 885,000 dole. of capital is employed,
6.310,000 lbs. of cotton consumed, and 5,678,315 yards
Produced, valued at 1,227,500 dols. The report says :
" The foreign article of linen canvass has been almost
t ti rely superseded, so that it is now about as difficult to find
vessel clothed with linen canvass as it was thirty years ago
to find one clothed in cotton. There are at the present time
lorn.e thirty houses in the fish trade, with an aggregate capital
of 1,100,000 dollars, and their sales for the past year have
amounted to near 6,000,000 dole." To this are added interesting
atatetnents concerning the fishing interest of the town of
lioucester, where the amount of capital invested in the business
'is 1,089,250 dollars. The ice trade, exclusive of the home
trade for consumption, amounted to 146,000 tons. The
vales at home and abroad approached a million of
'dollars. Twenty five thousand dollars were expended
Tor shavings, sawdust, and rice chaff, for packing
le the India and Mediterranean trade, Boston claims
the precedence over all other United States ports. The
'slue of imports from Calcutta alone, in 78 vessels,
attounied to 6,822,566 dole. during the year. In hides
and leather, operations have been greater than in any
Previous year; nevertheless, prices have experienced a
rapid advance, until they have attained a point altogether
ithout precedent in the history of the trade. The boot
and shoe trade has been steady for the past year. The
trade with California has been very much depressed,
Owing to the very heavy shipments for 1855. The ship.
meets to San Francisco for 1856 were 42,258 cases;
value, 2,100,000 doll. The prospects of spring sales
Aug the Southern and Western States is regarded as
[coed as heretofore.
An accident on the Illinois central railroad, had
resulted in the death of five persons, and the
Severely wounding of eight others.
By way of St. Louis we have later news from New
Mexico and Sonora. The Indians in New Mexico
still. Continue very troublesome, their depredations
'being on the increase. The people of Sonora are
'represented to be anxious for annexation to the
Jnited States, only needing encouragement to
Ibat end. The Indians there, also, are robbing
and murdering in every direction.
We have late and important news from Central
America. A wholesale desertion of one hundred
and twenty six men from General Walker's camp
has taken place. From their statements it appears
that the filibuster chief is in a most desperate
strait—hopeless beyond redemption. He is still
at Rivas with a reduced force of from 300 to 400
men, while the allies reinforced to the extent of
.8I)me 5,000 men, have surrounded him to complete
, destruction. We further receive the very
i▪
mportant information that a partition of
Nicaragua has been arranged by a Convention,
In session at San Miguel in the Republic
°f San Salvador, and it has been deter-
Mined to divide the State between Costa Rica,
lionduras, and San Salvador. The Nicaraguans,
it is alleged, consent to the arrangement. Their
dismembered country will he garrisoned by troops
from the neighbouring states to preserve order
and after specified time, it will be reunited, and
I)laced once more in the position of au independent
republic. We learn a fact, now for the first time
Made public, that on the 22nd of December last,
the National Nicaraguan Government issued a
decree revoking all the acts of the Walker Govern
Illent from the 4th of November, 1805, to the 12th
of June, 1856, including the decree revoking the
charter of the old Accessory Transit Company.
We have a fortnight's later news from California.
In San Francisco an election for State Senator, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
the Hon. Frank Tilford, took place on the 24th Feb
The people's candidate, F. A. Woodworth, received
a majority of 1,121 votes over the two other
candidates, and the event is hailed by the supporters
of the late Vigilance Committee as a renewed
indorsement by the people of the public acts