The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-26 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 25.
By the United States' mail steam-ship Humboldt,
Captain J. D. Lines. we have accounts from New
York to the 13th inst. The Humboldt touched off
Cowes last night, en route to Havre, bringing 78
passengers, of whom 13 were for Southampton.
Her cargo consisted of specie, value $65,000, 700
bales of cotton, 500 bales of whalebone, atc., for
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Havre.

The Humboldt was, detained one day at New
York by the violence of the weather, and has
accomplished the passage from New York to Cowes
in 11 days 5 hours. On the 20th inst.., in lat.
48.30, long. 39.25, the Humboldt passed the wreck
of a large ship with mainmast gone a few feet above
the deck, fore and mizen masts gone below the
tops ; the bulwarks were gone and the decks swept.
She appeared to be waterlogged. Her model ap-
peared to be English.
On the 13th inst., when 15 miles east of Sandy
Hook, the Humboldt spoke the British and North
American mail steamer, Africa, bound in, and then
15 days out from Liverpool.
The screw steam-ship Glasgow arrived at New
York, from the Clyde, on the 12th inst.

This packet brings little news of importance, the
American papers being chiefly occupied with ac-
counts of the proceedings in the Senate at Wash-
ington, and of the immense intriguing going on at
the capital by the swarms of office-seekers who are
laying diligent siege to the new President and his
Cabinet. To people in this country, who caul form
little idea of the unscrupulous manceuvros of the
office-expectant portion of the American community
upon a change of Administration, the an flexed ex-
tracts from telegraphic dispatches from Wreshington,
in the New York papers, will perhaps be not only
interesting but novel :

" General Pierce left this afternoon for Baltimore,
and will return to-morrow with Mrs. Pierce. He is
overwhelmed. He is fortunate if he can get more than
one meal during the day, or if he can retire to. rest before
two o'clock in the morning, to be up again rot six.
"He receives visitors of all sorts in the lump. He
was engaged in the service to-day till nearly two o'clock.
To-day, when the company were dismissed, several per-
sons followed him into a side room. He then came out
into the hall, bringing them after him, and, being thus
relieved, he slipped into another room, and the door
was shut.

" The office seekers don't like these mixed. assemblies.
It is the one minute in private that they de sire. Some-
times,.in the crowd they try to draw him aside, but they
generally fail. Sidney Webster, his private secretary,
is the next resort, and the poor youth is perplexed with
the pressure of the hungry swarm, till even he is com-
pelled to close doors.
" The Cabinet to-day, in business style, .are receiving
company. One or two go into the secretary at a time,
tell their story, and hand in their papers. The throng of
applicants in the hall are waiting their turns. The pres-
sure on Secretary Marcy for foreign missions andlconsul-
ships is astounding ; but they will not be acted upon
without the full deliberation of the Cabinet. So it is of
the rest.

" The number of letters and papers sent to. the Presi-
dent in favour of the different candidates is tremendous.
The clerks in the various departments are classifying
them, and making short abstracts of their contents. It is
stated that General Pierce will make all thv important
appointments himself. The first business tole proceeded
with is the filling of vacancies. The President has been
overrun with hungry hordes, and has refused audience to
great numbers.
"It is expected that to-morrow some collectors, con-
suls, and assistants to the Cabinet officers will b. cut out
for the Senate for Monday, including, perhaps, some
foreign appointments. All hands are impatient for
Monday._ - _ _ - _ _

" The friends of General Cass are in trouble since his
departure. Some have left in despair. In fact, the ele-
ments of insurrection are at work, and predictions are
plentiful of an early break down of the Cabinet. Things
look squally ; but those in the confidence of General
Pierce say he expected it—that he is perfectly cool, and,
with his course marked out, is prepared to disband his
Cabinet, or dismiss a rebellious faction, at. a moment's
notice. He will be President at all hazards."

In the Senate, on the 10th inst., ex-Secretary
Clayton concluded his speech in vindication of his
conduct relative to the treaty negotiated with Sir
Henry Bulwer. He repudiated the Monroe doc-
trine, and declared that Presidents Jackson and
Polk, in connection with both Houses of Congress,
had done the same. He pronounced the Squiers
treaty to have been unconstitutional, and stated
that his own was based on the principles set forth
by previous democratic Administrations. On the
following day Judge Douglas replied to the speech
of Mr. Clayton.
The New York _Herald of the 13th contains the
following incredible telegraphic dispatch :

"NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 9.
"The schooner Charles Pearson arrived this morning
from Honduras. She reports that great excitement pre-
vailed on the island in consequence of her British Ma-
jesty's war steamer Devastation having anchored off
Toupin() and demanded the surrender of the place in the
name of the Mosquito King. The inhabitants were
given two hours' time to decide before the commence-
ment of a bombardment. The inhabitants yielded to
superior forces, but solemnly protested against the out-
rage. The Mosquito flag was hoisted and. the Honduras
flag pulled down. The British war steamer then pro-
ceeded to Limas, and cannonading was afterwards heard
in that quarter. It was presumed that a contest was
going on between the steamer and the Honduras troops.
A severe shock of an earthquake was felt at Belize on
the 10th of February."
Upon this news the Herald remarks :7-

" Should our dispatch prove correct—and it comes
from a most reliable authority—President Pierce may be
called upon to take cognisance of the progress .f affairs
in that quarter much sooner than was anticipated.
This movement, if correctly stated, shows how much re-
liance is to be placed in the assertions of British diplo-
matists that their Government is desirous of abandoning
the Mosquito Protectorate."
There is little extra news from Mexico. An
arrival at New Orleans reported that Caravajal had
abandoned his plans and disbanded his followers.
A telegraphic dispatch from Louisville, dated
March the 11th, thus gives the news of a discovery
of gold in the Cherokee nation :
" Advices from Taliquah, Cherokee nation, to the 23d
ult., state that great excitement existed in the nation,
owing to the reported discovery of gold in large quan-
tities on Horseshoe Creek, in the northern part of the
nation. The yield was said to be $lO to $l2 a-day per
man. Large numbers are leaving Maysville for the
locality."

The steam-ship Isabel, with dates from Havannah
to the Bth of March, had arrived at Charleston.
The health of Vice-President Icing had improved.
At Matanzas the crop of sugar was good. Private
letters dated Havannah, March 7, say that up to the
present it is not known what will be the fate of
the political prisoners, as the Government is either
undecided, or desirous to keep its intentions a,pro-
found secret up to the last. Much anxiety is felt
by the Cubans, and the worst is feared.
The slave schooner Rachel Brown, captured on
the coast of Africa by the United States' sloop of
war Germantown, arrived at Norfolk on the 9th
instant.

The American clipper ship Atalanta, 84 days
from Canton (the quickest voyage ever made),
went on shore on the 10th inst. on the Roamer
Shoal, and was expected to become a perfect wreck.
Her cargo of silks, teas, &c., was worth $200,000.
A brutal murder of two young married females
had taken place in Philadelphia, which caused
much excitement. They were sisters. One of
them had just been confined of twins.
The following version of the bloody deed bas
been published in the _Philadelphia Bulletin

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"One of the most fearful tragedies that bas ever been
enacted in Philadelphia was brought to light in South-
wark. At half-past seven o'clock this morning, two
sisters, named Hannah Shaw and Ellen Lynch, at 260,
Federal-street, between Seventh and Eighth-streets,
were found brutally murdered.

"As soon as we heard of the circumstance, we
hastened to the spot, in company with Coroner Gold-
smith, and found a dense crowd gathered about a three-
storey brick building on the south side of Federal-street.
Upon entering the house the most horrible sight pre-
sented itself which it has ever been our lot to witness.
In the front room, on the first floor, the bodies of two
females, apparently not more than 25 or 30 years of age,
lay weltering in blood. Both lay across the room, about
four or five feet apart.

" The one which lay in the front part of the room was