The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-22 00:00:00

AMERICA

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 21.
By the arrival of the mail steamship Niagara we
have received advices from Boston to the 10th inst.
and New York by telegraph, "via Halifax, to the
11th inst.
She has brought $497,923 specie on freight.
On the 13th inst. the Niagara passed the Royal
Mail steamer Cambria, hence from Boston, and the
screw steamer Khersonese, hence for Portland,
United States. The United States' mail steamship li
Ericsson, hence, arrived at New York on the 4th
inst., and the screw steamship Canadian, hence, at
Quebec on the 9th.
The election in Maine on the Bth of September
had resulted in the triumph of the Republicans by
a large majority ' • the returns were not all in, but
it was supposed, that the majority would reach
10,000 or 15,000.
The friends of Colonel Fremont were greatly
elated by their success.
The news from Kansas is important : the Prc-
slavery forces have succeeded in turning the tables
on their Free-State opponents, and much blood haS
been spilt and property destroyed, if the reports
that have reached us are reliable; At Ossawatornie
on the 30th ult. the belligerents, to the nuniber of
800 on each, side, fought for an hour, when the
Free-State men were routed, with a loss of 20
killed and wounded. Mr. Brown, the leader of
the defeated party, and his son are reported among
the killed., _
On the 2d inst. the Pro-slavery men attacked the
Free-sailers in Leavenworfh, drove every one of
them out of the town at the point of the bayonet,
and destroyed or confiscated their property ; it is
also stated that parties of Missourians had posseE-
sion of the lowa road, thus cutting off the retreat
of the Free State men. Col. Geary, the newly-
appointed governor, was at St. Louis on the 4th
inst. en route for the scene of the disturbance.
The force of regular troops being inadequate to
the exigencies of the case, the governor ordered to
enrol and organise the militia of the territory. One
division under General Richardson is already in the
field. Requisitions had also been made upon the
governors of Kentucky and Illinois for two regi-
ments of infantry, to be placed under the enrol-
ment of General Smith, to aid in suppressing in-
surrectionay combinations against the constituted
governor of Kansas.

The following instructions have been issued by
the General Government for the purpose of sup-
pressing the Free-State forces and re-establishing
the territorial Government

"Department of State, Washington, Sept. 2.
" Sir,—Reliable information having reached the Pre-
sident that armed and organised bodies of men, avow-
edly in rebellion against the territorial Government, have
concentrated in such numbers as to require additional
military force for their dispersion, you will have the
militia of the territory completely enrolled and orga-
nised, to the end that they may on short notice be
brought into the service of the United States upon re-
quisition of the commander of the military department
in which Kansas is embraced. You will furnish by
companies, or regiments, or brigades, or divisions, such
number and composition of troops as from time to time
you may find, on his report to you, to be necessary for
the suppression of all combinations to resist the laws of
the United States too powerful to be suppressed by the
civil authority, and for the maintenance of public order
and civil government in the territory.—l am, sir, &c.,
" W. L. MARCY.
" To his Excellency John W. Geary, Governor
of the Territory of Kansas, Lecompton."

" War Department, Washington, Sept, 3, 1856.
"Sir,—Your despatch of the 22d Aug. and its enclo-
sures sufficiently exhibit the inadequacy of the force un-
der your command to perform the duties which have been
devolved upon you in the present unhappy condition of
Kansas by the orders and instructions heretofore com-
municated. To meet this exigency the President has
directed the Governor of the territory to complete the
enrolment and organisation of the militia, as you will
find fully set forth in the enclosed copy of a letter ad-
dressed to him by 'the Secrethry of State; and the Presi-
dent has directed me to say to you that you are authc-
rised from time to time to make requisitions upon the Gc
vernor for such militia force as you, may require to enable
you promptly and sur-Oeisfully ,to execute your orders
and suppress insurrection against the Goverunaeat of the
territory of Kansas and., under the circumstances hereto-
fore set forth in your instructions to give the requisite aid
to the officers of the civil Government who may be ob-
s,ructed in the due execution of the law. Should you not
be able to derive from the militia of Kansas the adequate
force for these purposes,
such additional number of mili-
tia as may be necessary will be drawn from the States of
Illinois and Kentucky, as shown in the requisition, copy
of which is here enclosed.
"The views contained in your instructions to the
officers commanding the troops, under date of Aug. 19th,
are fully approved, and accord so 'entirely with the exe-
cutive as to leave but little to add in relation to the
course which it is desired you should pursue.
" The position of the insurgents as shown by your
letter and its enclosures is that of open rebellion against
the laws and constitutional authorities, with such ma-
nifestations of a purpose to spread devastation over the
land as no longer justifies further hesitation or indul-
gence. For you as to every soldier whose habitual
feeling is to protect the citizens of his own country, and
only to use his arms against a public enemy, it cannot
be otherwise than deeply painful to be brought into
conflict with any portion of his fellow-countrymen ; but
patriotism and humanity alike require that rebellion
should ho promptly crushed ; the perpetration of the
crimes which now disturb the peace and security or the
good people of the territory of Kansas should be effectu-
ally checked. You will therefore energetically employ
all the means within your reach to restore the supremacy
of the law, always endeavouring to carry out your pre-
sent purpose to prevent the unnecessary effusion of blood.
" In making your requisition for militia force you will
be governed by the exercising organisation of the army
and the laws made and provided in such cases. When
cowponies, regiments, brigades, or divisions are pre-
sented to be mustered into the service of the United
States, you will cause them before they are received to
be minutely inspeetel by an officer of your command
appointed for the purpose.
" Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
"JEFFERSON DAVIS, Secretary of War.
"Major-General Persifer F. Smith, Commanding
Department of the West."
"War Department, Washington, Sept. 3.
"Sir, To suppress insurrectionary combinations
against the constituted Government of the territory of
Kansas, and to enforce the due execution of the law
against armed resistance, I am instructed by the Presi• ,

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dolt tit thh Ifniteci ; f,) y,f-Ite this is requisition
upon you for two regiments of foot td b !Ili;
nished to Major-General P. F. Smith, of the Unites
Stites army, commanding the military department of
the west, whenever the exigencies of the public service
shall induce him to call upon you for the said troops, to
be employed for the purposes above indicated within
the limits of said territory, each regiment to consist of 1
colonel, 1 lieut.-colonel, 1 major, 1 adjutant (the last-
named to be taken from the lieutenants of the regiments)
1 serjlant-major, and 10 companies, each company to
consist of 1 captain, 1 first-lieutenant, 1 second-
lieutenant. 4 serjeants, 4 corporals, 2 musicians,
and 74 privates. General Smith will be instructed,
whenever he may call upon you for these troops,
to detain an officer from his command to inspect and
muster them into the service of the United States at such
points as may be designated by your Excellency.
"Very respectfully, your obediFnt servant,
"JEFFERSON DAVIS, Secretary of War.
"His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky
and Illinois."

Mr. 0. Smith, of New York, has been appointed
Minister from Walker's Government to the United
States.. _ The Government at Washington were de-
termined not to recognise him. He was proposing
a loan in New York of $2,000,000, secured by a
mortgage of the public lands of Nicaragua to trus-
taos. Costa Rica is arming against Walker. Presi -
dent Mora has issued an address to the citizens of
the Central American Republics, urging them to
forget past differences and unite against Walker.
The General Government of the United States have
decided to interfere to suppress the San Francisco
Vigilance Committee. The instructions have
not yet been made public. The dates from
Nassau, New Providence, are to the 25th of Aug.
At the last session of the General Court at Nassau,
J. Sin'Ons and Robert Stevens, masters respectively
of the wrecking schooners Anne Sophia and Sarah,
were convicted and sentenced to 18 months' impri-
sonment with hard labour for some unlawful deal-
ings in the case of the wreck of the American brig
-, Capt. Wall, bound from St. Jago for Trieste,
with a cargo of copper and logwood, which was saved
perfectly dry, and for cutting away the brig's tiller,
thereby preventing Capt. Ramsay, of the schooner
President, from bringing the vessel to Nassau.
The reports of the condition of the public health
at New York represent an encouraging state of af-
fairs. At the various points where the yellow fever
prevails the disease continues to decline. Rumours
calculated to create alarm having been circulated
with reference to the appearance of the fever in the
15th ward, Dr. Rock Well, the President's physician,
carefully examined into the facts. He reported that
no case of sickness or death has occurred from yel-
low fever in this city, except those arising from
having visited vessels al quarantine or infected
placrs out of the city.
The Bermudian, of Aug. 20, says the screw line-
of-battle ship Nile, Capt. Mundy, has arrived from
Halifax. The G-gun sloops of war Gorgon and Gey-
ser, each to be accompanied by two gun-boats, are
to leave England for this station.
Accounts from the West represent a partial fail-
ure of the Indian corn crop.
The New York Bank returns for the week show
a loss of over $2,225,000 deposits.