The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-21 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

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LIVERPOOL, 1...0NDAY.--,
ship Asia, Commander Lett, we have advices from
New York to the 8:h inst.
d at The Asia wag telegraphed off Holybea
time
half-
past eight o'clock this morning, and at the same
a communication was received from her to delay the
Ar -----Thv the Royal Mail steam-
sailing of the Havre steamer, which usually sails on
Monday morning, as a large amount of the specie on
board the Asia was destined for that port.
The Asia sailed from New York at noon on the
Bth instant, and has experienced head winds during
the whole passage.
ships :—At 7 A M., on the 9tb, the
She passed the following out-
'York • at 750 A.M., on the 15th,
Europa,wardbou fornd steam-ships
the Africa, for New Yoh ; at
the Canada, for Halifax and Boston • and at 5 o'clock
this pin , the Sarah. Sands, for Queenstown and
-Aut. . 'Alia brought s. in specie
on freight.
The United States Mail steam-ship Arctic, from
this port, arrived at New York on the sth. the 19th,
The steam-ship Panama was to leave San Francisco
on the 15th for New York, with a large amount of
specie on board, one house alone having shipped
875,592 dolls.

The bids for the five million loan of the State of
Pennsylvania had been opened at Harrisburg ; the
State authorities did not appear satisfied with the
offers made. "In the first place," says the New York
Herald, referring to the loan—
" It does not appear by the dispatch that bids were
made for the whole amount. Only 3,330,000 dolls. were
bid for. All the 5 per cent. bids were at a premium
ranging from 1 doll. 53c. to 3 dolls. per cent., except
10,000, which was at par. The best bid was for 10,000
dolls., of Four per Cents., at par. The Governor will
only accept an amount sufficient to pay off the matured
Six per Cents., and probably issue a call for now propo-
sals
to have salB
for
issued proposalsnce. I t wfoo
vu lad
loanhave
nb been
in-
stead of putting the whole amount in a lump upon the
market, particularly when the whole was not imme-
diately required. It is our impression that the Governor
smaller w
i sseurmps,o
of Pennsylvania will find that the terms offered by the
bidders for a portion of the 5,000,000 dolls. loan are as
favourable as he will receive at any future time. The
Five per Cents. of that state, now in the market, are
selling below par."
A telegraphic communication from Burlington,
Vermont, states that 33 towns had elected 21 Whigs
and 12 Democrats. Last year there were 20 Whigs
and 12 Democrats elected in the same towns.
The boiler of the steam-ship Reindeer, a Hudson
River boat, exploded on the sth, by which 30 people
were killed and a number scalded.
Madame Sontag had been very enthusiastically re-
ceived at New York.

By the steam-ship Northern Light, which arrived
at New York on the 7th, with 312,000 dollars in
specie on freight, we have advices from California to
the 14th ult. The Royal Mail steam-ship Great
Western was at San Juan on the 30th; the port was
very healthy, and the weather fine. At San Fran-
cisco a duel had occurred, and the parties not having
sufficiently injured each other, were to meet again.
The proceedings were witnessed by a large concourse
of people. The editor of the Alta California bad
been killed in a duel with a Member of the
Senate. Affairs of honour, attended in some cases
with fatal consequences, had also occurred in the
mountains. Throughout the diggings Chinese vil-
lages were springing up. Pekin, Canton, and Hong
Kong were among the names given to these Celestial
settlements, some of which contained upwards of
1,500 souls. The immigration of Chinese into Cali-
fornia was enormous. Since the month of May the
arrivals equalled that from all other quarters of the
world, and were nearly three times that of the previ-
ous quarter. Tha immigrants were principally from
Canton River and its vicinity. It was estimated that
in the month of August the number of Chinese resi-
dent in California was 27,058, and it WPS expected,
before the expiration, to increase to 47,058.
" But very few Coolies," says a California paper, "so
to speak, have been known to return to China. Those
who go back and spread the fever are principally small
traders, who were in the habit (,f fitting oat junks to go
on short coasting expeditions. This class of Chinese
coming to California with their little ventures' dispose
of them here, making what would in China be a fortune.
Perhaps they dig a little in the mines; and, returning to
their homes aneacquaintances, puffed in monetary im-
portance, and swaggering about some Celestial Montgo-
mery-street in breezy breeches, and with gold enough
to buy a small cartload of strings of China coin, have
been the principal means of freighting our shores with
the inoffensive moon-eyed children of the sun.
A great deal of excitement had been caused among
the Chinese population by a manifesto from the great
" Atti :"
" Who claims to hold the power supreme over all the
Chinese in the land of gelid. The document which
has caused this great commotion is of the nature of a
reward for one Le-Achan, well known as an interpreter
and sort of general agent for his brethren in their tran-
sactions with the outside barbarians, or white folks.
Atti accuses Achan of all sorts of devili h
s devices to
defraud and degrade his nation ; that he encourages
the payment of licences, poll-tax, and other imposi-
tions, to such a degree that not a real escapes his rapa-
city. All men of the three great }longs (provinces) are
called upon to know that 300 dollars will be given for
the suppression of Le-Achan. Among other high-
handed measures of the magnificent Atti he has sent a
committee to the residence of a number of women from
the flawry land, to inform them that, unless they for-
sook their evil ways, and clung only to their own people,
they should forfeit their lives. He warns them of the
dreadful tortures in store for the disobedient, who are
taken to the :great house, ',C-yapin-coon,' where they
will be stripped and bastinadoed on the bare back, and
compelled to suffer other miseries too horrible to men-
tion. The poor creatures were allowed two days to de-
cide what to do, and dreadful consternation was created
among them. The edict of the Royal "Atti' is written
on crimson paper."
The clipper ship Staffordshire, erroneously re-
ported to have been wrecked, had arrived at San
Francisco. The mortality on board vessels arriving
at the Californian ports was truly frightful. The
journals do not contain any mining intelligence.
There were some rumours of an intended movement
to make Lower California an independent state.
Advices from Oregon mention that a pitched battle
had taken place near Table Rock,
thebetween conclusion of
which a treaty of peace was made. The miners on
the Klamath, Salmon, and Rogue rivers were doing
well, and several rich discoveries had been made. One
man is said to have washed out of a sack of dirt up-
wards of 1,017 dolls. 50e. . another took out of Rogue
slyer a piece
of gold worth 500 dolls. The San Fran-
cisco market was in a flourishing
being a heavy and constant demand for go.ods.
T-T
Accounts from uupdation, thora
—savannah to the 3d instant state
that the publisher of
the revolutionary paper had
escaped from prison. Americans had been prohibited
from landing on the island.
From New Orleans we learn
.thaot
dee cmostnh a
on terribleth the
eartbivake took place at Santiag
20th ult. A large number wereuing were totally
demolished, and the streets blocked up with the
ruins.
ewspapers, Yucatan was about
According to the
States Government for
to apply to; the Un.itz:cl
pro-
tection and annexation.en from the Sandwich Islands to
We have Lnuti
g The Grenadian barque Sarmiento
the 10th of .1
tflonolulu from Panama. During the
had arrivs- a
t number of the passengers died from
passage 0, great
want of a proper allowance of water, and from fever.
On the 21st of May a most fearful tragedy occurred
en board. A young man shot a German through the
heart. The murderer was seized. 114 of the pase
sengers voted that he should be hung and thirty-two
were opposed to it. During the interval between the
sentence and the execution the dead body was brought
on deck, exhibiting its ghastly wounds. The pre-
parations were made, and after allowing the con-
demned man a quarter of: an hour over his time, he
was run up to the yardarm. When life became ex-
tinct he was cut adrift, fell upon his face into the sea,
and continued floating till left out of sight by the
ship. The commander of the Swedish frigate Eugenie
had exchanged courtesies with the King and intro-
duced Mr. Hatchfield as resident Consul for Swede
and Norway.
The activity in the New York Stock Market re-
ported last steamer still continued, and there were no
sound dividend-paying stocks pressing on the market.
Government and State securities, together with the
various railroad bonds, were in good demand. The
demand for money continued very active, but, the
supply being very abundant, no alteration is rata
took place.