The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

[LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 14.
The British and North American Royal mail
steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, has arrived,
with advices from New York to the 3d inst. She
has brought $680,949 specie on freight.
The struggle between the Senate and the House
of Representatives had ended in the adoption of
the Army Appropriation Bill without the Kansas
proviso. The New York Herald contains the follow-
ing remarks on what it calls " these wonderful news
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1,55, reference to our Congressional reports oar readers
perceive, first, that the Republican majority of the
6 collapsed on Saturday, and that the Army Bill was
without any restrictions upon the President in

;nce to the employment of the army in Kansas ;
idly, that this great job of 14,000,000 of army ap-
dations having thus been accomplished, the extra
in was closed and dispersed.
Ve are not surprised at this result at all. The combi-
n of Buchanan and Fillmore men in the house was
ig tco strong for the Fremont party, and the defeat
proviso was from the beginning but a matter of
another day or two would have brought in suffi-

cient Democratic and Know-Nothing absentees to crush
out the whole strength of the Republicans. They have
yielded to necessity, being in a minority as against Fill-
more and Buchanan men, and the President is left to
use the army in Kansas at his discretion. Leading de-
mocratic senators have admitted that the Missouri.
Kanias laws are infamous and atrocious, and have moved
their repeal ; but they have been overruled by the party,
and the Kansas laws and the border ruffians remain un-
touched. We apprehend that every dispassionate mind
will Consider this criminal neglect of the affairs of Kansas
a lasting disgrace to this congress, and a pitiful conces-
sion to an imbecile and double-dealing President, who
has proved his total want of courage and capacity for
the suppression of a border war.
"We are sorry to hear that the Fremont men were
frightened by the tactics of Jeff. Davis, in dismissing
the workmen from the different armouries on the plea
of a want of funds. That dodge would have soon run
itself out, for the main issue of Kansas as a Free State,
or Klnsas as a Slave State, will overshadow all sorts of
secondhand tricks and devices to distract the public
mind.
"The Army Bill is passed. Very well. Mr. Pierce's
mind will now be easy concerning the frontier Indian
tribes, on whose account this extra session was called
together. The bill is passed without that proviso, so
that our amiable President has still an unlimited discre
Lion Over the army money and the army itself, in behalf
of Ithe .border ruffians. Perhaps his promises to Mr.
Campbell, of the house, and gentle hints thrown out for
his guidance by the Senate, may be followel by a corn.
paratively impartial enforcement of the doctrine of
squatter sovereignty—but we shall soon see. Both
sides are marshalling their forces in Kansas or on the
border for war on a large scale. We shall soon see
whether the one party is to be disarmed, dispersed, and
driven from Kansas again, while the other is to be pro-
tected and permitted to run loose and lawless over the
territory, murdering and plundering under cover of the
United States' troops.
"In this connection we think it would be well for
some ptiblic mass meeting to appoint a large committee
of men of all parties to wait upon the President for the
purpose of a definite understanding of what he now
means to do in Kansas ; and we also think that it
would be advisable to send out to Kansas a committee
of men of character and high standing to overlook the
administration of affairs there for the next two months,
and to report to the next session of C oagress the results

of their observations. With some such precautions as
these " l`rini"" at laaat may be secured in Kansas
between the belligerents; but, without some such pre-
caution, we fear that the passage of the Army Bill will
only serve to kindle the combustibles collecting in Kan-
sas into a consuming fire."
The news from Kansas is still threatening and
perplexing. The partisans of slavery, under the
orders of General Atchison, and the Froesoilers,
commanded )ey General Lane, were preparing for
an encounter. Fears were entertained that intelli-
gence of a bloody battle would soon be received.
Advises down to the 20th of August hal been
received from Cuba. The sanitary condition of
Havannah continued to improve. There was no
political or commercial intelligence of importance.
From Nicaragua we have the confirmation of the
rumour that Mr. Livingston, the United States'
consul at Leon, had been shot by the Rivas party,
in retaliation for the execution of Colonel Salizar
by General Walker.
Her Majesty's steam-frigate Arrogant, of 50
guns; the screw gun-boats Pioneer, Victor, and In-
trepid, of 6 guns each ; the screw line-of-battle
ship Orion, 90 guns, and the screw frigate Imperi-
euso, of 50 guns, wore at anchor at San Juan.
There is nothing later from California.
The yellow fever was slowly approaching New
York, and had broken out in a virulent form on
Governor's Island.
The following items of commercial intelligence
are extracted from the Net. York _Herald :
"Tue,day, Sept. 2, 6 p.m.
"The decline in stocks is gradual, but steady. There
are several causes for this depression' and all parties are
more or less affected by them. It does not full w that
holders of stock believe in a rise ; but, on the contrary,
many are firmly convinced that lower prices must soon
rule. They are not, however, disposed to sacrifice their
stocks, and hold on with the hope that, with close
watching, they may get out comparatively easy. The
short interest is large at the board, but most of the con-
tracts are new and at long dates. The demand for deli-
very is therefore limited, and likely to continue so. All
the contracts now maturing do not help the market in
the least. The stock is delivered one day and put imme-
diately on the street for sale. At the first board to day
Illinois Central Bonds fell off per cent ; Pennsylvania
Coal, ; New York Central Railroad, ; Erie, ;
Reaving, ; Cleveland and Pittsburg, ; Michi;?.an Cen-
tral, ; Michigan Southern, u ; Cleveland and Toledo,
f ; Chicago and Ruck Island, Panama Railread ad-
vanced 6 per cent.
" CITY COMMERCIAL REPORT.
" Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2 p.m.
"Flour--The market was easier, and closed at a de-
cline of 3c. to 10e. per barrel. The sales embraced about
4,000 to 5,000 barrels, including common to good State,
at $5 74 to $5 90, and extra at $6 to $6 35. Wheat—
Prime new white was unchanged, and sold at $1 60 to
$1 65 ; while red was 3c. to Sc. lower, and sold at $1 47
to $1 50. The transactions embraced 30,000 to 40,000
bushels. Corn unchanged. Sales 50,000 to 60,000
bushels sound Western mixed, at 62c. and 63c., and a
small lot at 64c. Pork—Sales 500 barrels, at $l9 87i

to $2O, and 500 on time buyers' option, at $2O. Cottoi,
steady. Whiiky-800 barrels Ohio and prison, at 32c."
The following is ourcorrospondent's letter, dated
New York, September 3 :
" Once more the fear of the approach of the yellow
fever begins to engross public attention in Now York,
to the exclusion of matters of more general inte- •
rest, and this time with more apparent- reason than
hitherto, In spite of an unusually cool month of
August, and of precautions strict beyond precedent,
the disease has been slowly creeping towards the
city. The quarantine station of the city of new
York is some five or six miles down the bay, ex-
tending along the channel between Staten and
Long Islands, and through the Narrows into the
lower bay. These waters are now occupied by
about 170 sail, many of them much infected with
the pestilence. From them the disease passed into
Fort Hamilton, on the Long Island side of the
Narrows, where it has produced, and is yot pro-
ducing, sad ravages among the few troops stationed
there, and into some of the neighbouring villas.
Slowly, but• surely, it has crept along the shore
towards Brooklyn, a town of 200,000 people, on
the southern shore of the East River, opposite
New York. It has also found foothold in Old
Castle William, on Governor's Island, whose bat-
teries guard the entrance of the East River, and
Protect Brooklyn heights on the ono side and the
shady walks which ferns the southern point of New
York on the other. Thus it has reached the last
point before stepping into the corporate limits, and
our journals and people are watching the tempera-
ture with anxiety to know whether we are to es-
cape the visitation which decimated Norfolk, and
made such awful havoc in Charleston, Savannab,
and New Orleans. By to end of another week
wo shall know beyond reasonable doubt.
" aitace roy last letter the two- Houses of Con-
gress have harmonised their difficulties by the
House yielding its proviso, and allowing the Army
Bill to pass without any restriction. The Repub-
licans were bullied out of their position by a well-
conceived dodge of the Administration—the dis-
missal of all the workmen employed in the national
shops in consequence of want of funds to pay them.