Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

AMERICA.

soon suspend; the Lyman, Bartlett, Harris, Clinton, and
Social are running on short time ; the Bernon, Globe, and
Smith cotton mills, and the woollen mills of Edward
Harris, are running on full time. The Slater mills, at
Slatersville, are running half time, as also are the mills
atritecihtoyal Mail Steamer Niagara, Capt. Wickman, at Millville, Blackstone, and Waterford. The Millville
milts will stop in a week or two. At Pawtucket all the
%a tit hire Yesterday morning, with 64 passengers manufactories have closed except one, where a few hands
21st 0": York advices to the 20th, and Boston
The ober. The Europa had arrived at Boston. are employed. At Central Falls they will stop as soon as
the stock on hand is exhausted. The manufacturing
tattit,7-tianerican company who have been endea population of that district are already half unemployed.
quebute to raise the steamer Canadian, sunk near The revolt of the labourers at the Big Tunnel, near Ox-
-40 htee, have abandoned the work, seeing there is ford Furnace, NJ , has broken out afresh. They have
ttare'sPect of success. The hull, machinery, &c., as yet caused no bloodshed, but they have resorted to
,ree icaclaertised to be sold by auction at Quebec. violence and deetruetion of property. During the last
u ,
Tl,_ aith America had arrived at Quebec. week two of the shanties belonging to the contractors have
hat" fullowing is an ample summary of the more been burned
reeti Several of 'the men discharged. from. the Bergen Tunnel
%al. flog Portions of the news to hand by this
Th have been arrested for various crimes, and now occupy
fir 6 new currency arrangement has had a lodgings in the Hudson County Jail.
ot :I:sable The citizens of Dubuque, lowa, have held a meeting to
Effect on the money market, as well as take into consideration the present condition of business,
to te".eral business. The banks discounted freely money matters, &c., and to devise some means to relieve
took regular dealers, and in a few instances that community from the embarrassment consequent upon
' "tsid
into th e paper, where the circulation is to go the suspension of banks of issue. A committee was ap-
b4 re Country. The Stock Exchange fluctuated pointed to prepare a plan of relief.
tllloes Ighta The New York Journal of Commerce, of tIY, though it was characterised by less The Niagara Falls Gazette announces the suspension of
al tane
e 20t work upon the Hydraulic Canal, and says :-" It is the
Tat u ult., in its money article, says :- intention to keep the steam drills at wok, and we hope ere
tea, week opens with a more buoyant feeling in crim
yea:ale. long to. be able to announce the entire resumption of
eve 0, 'reles and a general disposition is manifested to work,
with a much larger force of labourers.
the '
tttiv eat of our present position. The banks depre We take the following from a late New York
totufY resort to special legislation, and see no necessity paper.
liaWhextra session. Our leading merchants are now of We noticed some waeks since the suspension of
tlaa " opinion and are ready to revoke the former action
to , . , Messrs. N. H. Wolfe and Co , which had been justly
Iltobab, suatect ley a few of their number, so that we shall considered one of the leading houses in the produce
Iltereii7 have no call of the legislature. At any rate, commission business, and we then expressed our belief in
'teal 11°`iv no demand for such a call from any quarter
the solvency of the firm, and their intention to make an
ft, , from the mere politicians, all others who at first
I? °ttred the honourable settlement of their affairs. We now learn
°tate Et measure, having le-considered their decision. that their accounts with Mr. G. H. Ely, an extensive
tva er,,exehange opens witlia fair business at 98 to 103 miller at Rochester, have been satisfactorily adjusted, and
elre at'.,ay bills on London, although some fancy sales
wit itossale at 101 to 105 ; Paris, 575 to 5.40 ; Antwerp, they have this day resumed payment, discharging all their
1,,i• etesso; Amsterdam, 37 to 38k; Frankfort, 371 to liabilities in cash, or real estate securities. Daring their
partial suspension, many of the Western banks continued
ae‘atarnburgh, 32k- to 331; Bremen, 34; Prussian IO negotiate drafts upon them as formerly, having full
ikittrieGB to 73. The stock market shows more firmness, confidence in their integrity and ability.
The Os have generally improved. The advices fiewn Washington state that a letter
tolo3 Price ot gold was 101 t 1011 buyers, and 102
has been received in that city from W. L. Landon.
tit sellers. There was ac) good supply offerine,
Nh one of the clerks whom the late surveyor-general
°II e4i, a number of parties deposit in bank, either
(Burt) left in charge of the offiee, when he, for his
tleaketrent account or specially to await a better
own safety, left the territory of Utah last spring
"ffetetihowine to the small and uncertain premium
He was on the 18th Sc ember in Placerville, Cali
gtettr'Y the bullion brokers. Abnedent silver
fornia. In giving an aceount of his escape from
and ::.7 Was to be had at par or gold of the brokers,
Salt Lake city, he says, that while in conversation
tei,t7all gold coins were paid out for large at the
with a party of emigrants, he was assaulted by tt,
.4ttlie'asury. There was little or no inconvenience
eang of Mormons, led on by a fellow named Dick
le tnitiie.urrency since suspension in ordinary trade, Pettit, and a ruflien associate, who, without cause,.
'',lirte,., tug, change, or in passing New York State
severely beat him with stones and clubs, He was
4lac'ateY• A number of the New Jeraey Btinks
scarcely able to reach home in constquence of his
tit "lade their circulation at par in New Yore .-
3'. Te ' wounds. The same afternoon they attacked the
!ere he New England circulation is at 971 per
deputy-surveyor, Meets, wi li stones. Lentlori was
Stilahl,vith the brokers ; chocks on Boston, 98 to 99 ;
driven from his herne at night, leaving his wife
1114,1ellshia, 97a- to 984- ; Baltimore, 95 to 9e.
and chill at Salt Lake city. After adroitly
Dahl anks of New Orleans have not all stopped
eluding his armed pursuers, he reached P acer-
!Pest:nch The latest despatch intimates that the
ville in the most dis'ressing condition. He says
do to will be taistained, though this is very
he met on the road the Indian, Peter, who used t i
'ae• jul• We understand the planting interest in
t -IBian S • G • l'-office. Peter
frequent the urveyoi- eneta b
%pen a, both cotton and suear, will favour a
informed him that Brigham Young had sent, him
°lnbarrsien unless the exchanges are soon die- out to get horses and carbines. The Indian spared
!halt asset]. This trouble is telling severely
his life because he had on several occasions given
Napes't their staples. All the Tennessee banks
ea uspended. him red paint. Landon had not long parted from
-.4e him before he ( he Indian; shot a man with four
%kit, New York Bank statement shows a large
balls. The man escaped, though much injured.
tat :',41 decrease under each head, but it is diffi
Another clerk in the Surveyor-General's office, Mr.
of tith) make a satisfactory comparison, as several
Wilson, was also attacked by the Mormons. They
ttl hanks are thrown out, arid now wake no
roughly seized him, tearing him away from his
cantingk. House report. The actual decrease in fhmity.
They commanded him to go along with
le slts is a little over six millions. Part of the a e
eren - . them, and mike no fuss, or they would el-en soon
'Off
of°,e in loans doubtless consists of the paying
show him what they were going to do with him
he „'°ans by country banks, who can now make
Mr. London's letter gives the particulars of these
li: their bills for this purpose. occurrences He concludes by saying that " all
followliceting the Charleston Banks, we take the
the Mormons heve left Placerville and Carson. Valley
Th. nag from the Courier of that city :-
tot ' bap for the purpose cf defending Zion."
et k will continue specie payment. All bank
leformation had been reneived at Washington
414 ettrsent is the city mill be received in payment a , •
ott
Tat
.., deposit by this Bank ; and depositors are re- - ,
Cram the South that Walks'. s expeeittons-one to
ljtetietm M draw their checks payable in current funds. leave New Orleans and the other Galveston-
bills CM New Yorkwill be f 'hd at par for the have been delayed, in consequence
of
tettit this Bank. Depositors may, at their option, receive pressure, until the Ist of November. They do not
illtet„eates for eepostte now at their credit, bearing expect to meet with serious, if any, opposition
Llileslt at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, redeems from the fed, ral officers. They propose to land at
410114 coin, at not leas than three nor more than six some point in Costa Rica, on the Atlantic coast,
Nit, • Per the protection of the public, this Bank will and then march on San Jose, the capital of that
leek, ° current funds far the payment of debts due the Republic, which they expect to reach in two days.
%4.. and for all collection paper received from other Their calculation is that when they capture it, the
.otte7, and will furnish similar funds only for payments to
!teeth, banks. This rep7esents practically and saiis- whole country will be within possession. The
kt'llY the aggregate of the filibuster forces is from 1,800 to
it a course and policy adopted by the Union
tlit and the 2,000
ee Be 1... State Bank of this city-these being the met..
tee • neat thatcontinue in the fall exercise of their
ettons. The returns of th 3 election in Kansas are still
t IS- despatch
incomplete, and the character of 'he newly-elected
'aYe ii- "'to from St, Louis, datei the 19th ult.,
t Legislature is involved in doubt. Advices from
Free -State majority
tl at NI T seen and Danger, bankers, Lawrence to the 10th, claim a i - .
coseti theirt eesrs. e ,
thtlat au doors that morning. The Weekly in both branches, but it is added that in many
.14 'taternent showed a reduction of 50 per cent. precincts the judges are throwing out votes upon
coin.
In th , . the ground of alleged informality, and that they are
Ztelt tic e, 1-IPrense Court, New Yetk, Jul 4e noose- very likely
in this way to secure a pro-slavery
.r 4 'rued a motion for a receiver for the Bank of majority. A letter from Quindaro gives the Free-
10.ete v , of the Council
bills Mr. J. lin Livineston, a holler of two State men nine, and the others four .
for ti)e-wa on that bank having b -en denied specie men, and says the House of Representatives will
thet-etn, declared, on "information and beief," contain twenty-two Free State men and. . thirteen
kil, thei batik was insolvent, and played that it Pre-Slavery men, , .
with four districts to
of at L-9 dissolved ; enjoined from exercising any hear from. Parrott 's majority, as Delegate,
'
ltitnts corporate functions. and a receiver be is said to be over 5,000. In view of thisresult,.i
'eiti),`riteri• Judge R tosevelt reviewed the pro- the Chicago Times, which is regirded as the
ispecia
Wea Wading, and came to the conclueion that there organ cf Senator Douglas,' assertsl that
theeantsvais
The 'lot occasion for these extraoreinary measures must be a free State, and that iet soonerprevail
in ;be
tlle ~Pilaintiff, as a 1)111 holder, already possessed dent wish of the people is allewed to
obin 1 -
credit of greater dispatch than an ordinary matter, the better. The result of the .. . e.e3
tel.:itor, and the laintiff's a information and tion is yet undeci led, although the probabilities. are
ttleitt” of the b tnk'spinselvency, was not sufficient in favour of th ‘ eleclon of Chase, the Republican
~ff,7';ee of the fact, when in contradiction to the candidate, for Governor. The Republican returns
ty 1,',4' reports of the hank, under oath, published give him 1,004 mejority, end the Democrats
bcon,N--
Illisv• Such an in'erence, drawn frnn the mere cede him 300 majority. The vote is so close, oie,
teca-nsion of specie payments, in a time when ever, that the Rep-Awaits do not yetdecide
claim a v a
lesit'Zlsion is general throuehout the State, was tory, as the official returns mty against
'to oilueient to prove that the essets were inaleTiate them.
b `sc, •
Y refers ,e all obligations HisHonour . . in of des
concluded The Neve' Department was receipt
rte to ng to the power of the Leislature to patches from Commodore Armstrong, in Comm sod
etei
'ti!tit han indulgence to the suspended blets, and of his fl tg-ship, the Situ J i -in ,elated
e. te Shanehae,
Thee the boundaries within which it must act. Chine, JulyAl tr.' e
29, 1857. Commodore.• ens ron,
eisi ' is • -
I,h nym qui..e an elaborate one. encloses a statement from an English merchant,
on the
MI e effect of the bunk panic, s 3 far, is thus who, having lost a brother by shipwreck.
tt_
. Ith to by the New York Times :- Island of Formese, with two Amencan companions,
VII 66P *the .11 is narrowing en to between ria stones narrowiFrom
t daily ha I caused a search to he made for them.
..
eutit `titestute has broken down many of the great houses, the account which the natives employed t give of
40,-46 grinding cf the p .or is only just beginning It the result of their investigation, it appears that
• the it•' t,O be shown by the record of the lover courts and such men were in the hands of the aborigines of
bight°;aa of the Almshouse Commissioners. On Satur fay the island as late as four years ago, three or four
tt th Last 248 persons were accommodated with lodgings
years after their shipwreck. They allege that one
uses, 22 (Effie ent Station-hou es of the City -a number
hundred anti thirty whites were wrecked on the
,ttith aeprecodented for this season of the year. It is a island
4 -ng 6 ' .of lett the winter wilt show us.
btu ea, tatgeetion w,e cost in 1840, and were all massacred. In
I' - 1842, en ether vessel, with eighteen
-bwt the actual distress that the revulsion has involved
D:c'erri It
r'on her was wrecked there. All of them
Alin -eels felt in high business circles. fa. with others it is forelg semi .
Rat!Pall •' drowned, were ransomed and
the but two, two were
eatt Y in anacipation yet. We dropped into
ess'llse of a large wholesale dealer yesterday, and were sent to Canton y
b a Chinese merchant.
stasttlsed to find the haughty heal of it with ref, swollen A St. Louis paper, of the 20th ue
t er
`4lltict;utte,ing an honest Drin, he had not failed rich. His following particulars of the sinking of the s ears)
Welikt",aat had lived in luxury for pare were bankrupt as T ; which
. rope-, occurred in the Missouri river, near
lloh‘t Zile. But when such men break their employee are
, Waverlea ;-
ally rt to be very matey. The clerks were eiteng arounet
The steamer run against a snag, crushing her wheel,
itlPllolV,e}, oie looking as f he were at a fanetal -those and tearing :away a portion of her hull, when she
.alit v"4 hot been discharged expeetel ti be, or the few immediately sunk in thirty feet of water. She hadiono
.24 ft.'" safe, in the misfortunes of their principal were board leo passengers. 12 or 15 of whom are supposedß 2tl _
way ;:411 sympatby. Still the streets are not " dolorous be drowned. Win. Hester and Joel Crpssd. of Co. B,
a,
son
~:,,, nor are the homes geeerally of our pantie full of Artillery, are known to have been drowwne.Al
It.,„str;WB* Even the poorest, until the pinch comes, are of Mr. Stephens, of Ky., Ky., a belonging to the
. of tnheerdteck handy, names
toe d' WI the great body who are cramped only take it as same gentlemaanls•
numberamong the lost.
Nil 'z' the bustline of a crowd -anything bat agreeable, unknown, are also
1)9 taller d• • ° • ‘•than crying. We have
.bq t lap *mg to jocosity to Chicago had been visitedby. .
a most destructive
%at ravelling among the retail traders a good deal of late, • . ec0.41 igration, the loss by which is stated to be
1110-R their p ht through the crisis. Scarcely one in a 690,000 lois, and melancholy to relate eight persons
stuff
1:d is notu we me off for ' the late pa is and present were known to have lost their lives, and fears were
mtelegie-ton of trade, still the mei ed.), feel, so general is the entertained for the safety of others.
koce--4, that their individual condition is not much to be The treaty recently conchaled by Commissioner
Nee
Its . over. Denver with the Pawnee Indians, secures to the
the f "Teets throughout the country may be gleaned from
sten°, United States ten or twelve millions of acres of
ote etng extracts:- land. These Indians not only pledge themselves
qiitarttres have been set on foot by charitable ptrsons in
to remain at peace with the United States, but that
Itteet ellillia far the relief of persons thrown eut of empy-
-1 b they will use their influence with the neighbouring
t leftsi e?, the stoppage of manufacturing estalkshmtnts.
tribes to the same end.
seven hundred females are
d 'travel that more than i
114"titute b the curtailment of business operations We have renewed full files of Mexican papers
is this 7
outof employ to the 4ih. The Alvarez, reported kith) ,
i wee
rat °r Panic began . .
The number of men
ri4t4 (7,1 i. five times greater. The citizens of the Thirteenth not the fain ells Don Juan, but Don Manuel Alvarez.
It Itow: rt ailadelphia have held &public meeting to organise Hefell ~- while attempting to vindicate the supremacy
''llff ."ru Associationfor the distribution of relief to the of the law, during the recent disturbance at Colima
Laint.,
8 eStZ, • through the winter. Soup houses will presently By latest advices the insurrection there had . been
he 1%41 in the city. put down. The last conspiracy against President
%rapt Ilatladelphia retailers and market people begin to Camoufort proves to have been a serious tiff sir.
eie
Tit, a'''nts
the scarcity of small change. Numerous arrests were made, and it was only owing
t° 9 - ''''''ard II in Philadelphia has reduced its prices
, coi, House to the energy an vigilance..
1 of the government that
The atars a day, the plot was d's ntvei•ed e • in tune. It was believed that
'-ait 'terehanta• Cotton Mills in Petersburg, Va., have
k sea 0„e,
~ . all danger had passed; Public etention was centred
8,43, F w.ions for a short awe, owingto . several causes.
telt • °f the hands are still employed cleaning up and
11l
11l 1,/ g machinery, ministry,now hourly looked for. Messrs. Ben-
ital. They have
toth-ew England.mills are stopping work, one after jarnitt and Legere had left the capital. They
li
-mreill-* the
k t R. 1., the Hamlet, Bellou•s, published a letter in the Trait 'd Untolc forma y
-°lll and Coooksomeilels'are idle ; the Jencks mill will denying that they spent any money to secure the

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