Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

LATER FRO NI AMERICA,

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

The screw steam-ship City of Washington. Cap-
tain Petrie, which sailed from New York at 2 p.m.,
ou the 3rd instan`, has arrived. She reports the
arrival of the steam ship Vanderbelt from South
ampton, and the Asia from Liverpool, at New
York, both on the 23d instant: _ .

The news •is one day later. From Washington
we learn that Professor Seliman aiad forty-two
other electors of the state of Conne.oticut had
presented a memorial to President Buchanan in
reprehension of his course in Kansas affairs. The
President had sent a long reply, in the course of
which he justifies his conduct, and argues u'ith
much keenness •to disprove the statements of the
memorialists. The Black Republicans of Chicago
had attempted to get up another excitement by
the report that a man was carrying a fugitive
slave into slavery, and hal him secreted in a
house in that city. A large mob collected and
demanded the negro, threatening to tear down
the house if- he was not given up to them. But
the fugitive turned out to be a free coloured boy
whom his guardian was bringing from Pennsylvania
After chasing the man and boy about the city,
and endangering their lives with stones and
missiles, and exhibiting other phas,ls of Republic-
anism, the mob at length became pacified, and.
quiet was restored.,
The following is the latest news received at New
York from Washington—
The Attorney-General has decided adversely to
the extraordinary claims of Haywood, the late
Marshal of Utah,more than 20,000 dole of which were
for conveying the Judges of the territory to and
from the places of haling the courts. The ex-
penses for numerous gustrds, horses, waggons, and
provisions were not those of the ministerial officers.
The Attorney-General states that the expenses of
a judge on his way to the court are his own. The
net amount in the treisury, subject to draft, is
19,500,000 dols—of which -there are in New York
nearly nine and one third millions; at Philadelphia,
two millions and two thirds; and at New Orleans,
over a million and a half.

The Naval Courts of Inquiry will FCEIIIIIO their"
sessions on the 7th. The first consists of Commo-
dore Lavaltette, and Captains Mereer an'l Adams ;
'he second of Captains M`li.-an, Pope, and Van
Brunt and the third. of Commodores Storer and
Stringham, and Captain G-Ad3borough. The
Secretary of the Treasury has, on appeal, con- '
firmed the assessment of a duty of 15, per centum
on chlorate of potash, and sal. acetosella, It) per
centum on refined borax, 21 per eEntum on filbert 9,
and 4 per centum on sumac.
The proceedings on th'.3 writ of habeas corpus is
sued by Judge Peabody, to show why Mrs. Cun-
ningham should not be admitted to bail, were
resumed on the tad, in the Supreme Court.
The Judge denied the motion of the District
Attorney to dismiss the writ, and listened to the
arguments of c)unsel relative to the question of
bail, but adjourned the further hearing of the case
till the 3rd inst,
The New York Ilerald,fof the 3rd inst., contains
the following _ _ _

The panic in Wall-street has comple'ely subsided.
There was no evidence yesterday of excitement in the
street. No new failures occurred, and things began to
assume their accustomed aspect. No better evidence of
the cmfidence shared by the masses of the people could
be found, than the fact, that the deposits in the savings'
banks inereaed- The defaulting teller of the Mechanics'
Barking Association, Mr. Van Blarcom, has been dis-
charged, no charge being brought against him except that
of breach of trust ; which is not an indictable offence. He
has shown that the m:•ney was loaned to easterners of the
bank, whose notes he holds as security, and that none of
it was applied to his own use. In the Supreme Court, an
injunction was issued against the bank. The affzirs of
the concern will be woand up as soon as receivers are
appointed. It is reported that the bank is abundantly
able to meet all its liabilities, and will psy claimants as
soon as possible. The banking house of Hatch and Lan-
don, at Cincinnati, failed yesterday.
The war department at Washington had sent out
°Niers to the following troops to put themselves in
readiness to proceed to Kansas:—Ten companies
of the let Cavalry, under command of Colonel
Sumner and Lieutenant Colonel Johnston ; seven
companies of the 6th Infantry, under the same
command ; ten companies of the 4th Artillery,
from Florida ; two companies of the 21 Artillery.
from Fort I`.lunrce ; two companies of the 21
Artillery, from Fort Snelling ; one Ligt Battery
company from Fort McHenry; which, if the
average strength of the companies be sixty,will give
a force of upwards of two thousand m'n. Garieral
Harney will remain in command of Kansas. Col.
Albert S. Johnston, late from Texas, has been
assigned to the command of troops to Utah.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Nrim YORK, Sept. 3.

We learn of no further mercantile failures. The
settlements between the Banks at the Clearing house
passed off without trouble. As remarked this evening,
the panic element in the community, among bill lenders
and depositors, is ext•eedingly small. The conviction is
almost universal that a trustful spirit is abroad, out-
side the vortex of the Street, in the financial as
well as the great material resources of the
country. There has been a favourable tarn in
monetary affairs, decidedly so in regard to the panic feeling
which obtained yesterday. The banks that held their
discount sessions this morning, with few exceptions, did
the liberal by their mercantile dealers, and ou'side there
is better sale for prime paper at 12 to 15 per cent. The
private banking houses and money brokers are still
indisposed to do much, waiting, with their balances
in bank, for the settling down of the excitement. A
breeze was attempted about noon in regard to
country bank notes, the report being spread that the
Metropolitan and American Exchaege redemptions
had been cut off. This was soon dtscovered to be
untrue. The redemptions go on as usual, except
that the original rule established by these Bauks to take
country money on deposit to-day, to be drawn for to-
morrow, has been more rigidly enforced. The practice
had grown up of discounting the one day's delay, and of
thin advantage was being taken in the present stringency
by some of the Bark-Note Brokers to send in large
packages, bought at various rates in the street, to be
checked against at once. The policy of changing the
practice and enforcing the rule at this present particular
time may be questioned, but it affords no,apology for the
idle and mischevieus rumour that country money is
thrown out.
CarTori.--The'rearket ;is 'steady, rand we hear of sales
of 800 bales. We quote 15io for middling uplands, ditto
Orleans 16e. The Vanderbilt reports a firmer Liverpool
market .

BREADSTUFP3--The market for State and Western
fbur has again receded.. Wheat is also lower and dull of
sale. The sama remark applies to Indian cora.
PROVISIONS.—Our pork market has been rather quiet
to-day, notwithstanding the reduced quantity on sale,
and the light arrivals, prices are lower. In Beef the
transactions are moderate, but prices are firm and steady
at 17 dols to 18 for repacked Western, and 18 dols 50 ,to
19 for extra do. Nothing doing in beet' hams, and prices
are nominal at 23 dols 50 to N. Lard is easier and quite
dull at 151 to 151 for common to prime-170 brls and
tierces sold. Bacol is very scarce at 12..3 to 15c.
FREMUTS.—Nothing of moment was done for Liver
pool; 300 bags bark were taken at Lis. To London
1,000 brls. Crude Turpentine 2s. 6d.

THE; DEceausx or GROU3E, —The gradnal decrease o
muirfowl on our S3ottish hills is every year becoming
more (evident, and like its brother, the woodgrouse, it will
before long become extinct, untess measures be taken to
pre gerve the species. The grouse, a native of, and peculiar
tc, the British isles, receding before the progress of agri-
cultural improvement, are now only to be found in any-
thing like their former numbers in remote districts, where
access and accommodation for sportsmen are restricted or
wanting. The sportsman, without assigning any limit to
his work of destruction, commences operations on the 12th,
anal generally kills most of the young birds, and leaves the
aid ones to die in the approach of winter, generally from
a disease of the liver. Large quantities of old birds are
found dead on our southern hills (we refer to Selkirk and
Peeblesshire) in the months of October and November.
Many of these, doubtless, have been wounded birds, and
consequently have died of starvation; but we have fre-
quently made an examination of some of these found dead,
and an enlargement of the liver was almost invariably the
cause. Agricultural improvements, such as the draining of
bill land for pasture, and the burning of heather, are all
hastening the already rapid decrease of muirfowl. If
sportsmen would give this species of game a rest once in
every four seasons, and thus allow more young birds to
breed, we doubt not but that the species would become as
numerous as they were ten or Pith() years ago.—Editi..
burgh Courant.