The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

THREE DAYS LATER.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.

By the United States' mail steamship Arago,
Captain Lines, we have dates from New York to
the 13th inst., 32 passengers, $357,000 in specie
(of which $34,000 were for London), 1,500 barrels
of flour, and 3,000 bushels of grain for Havre, and
the usu4l

The mail steamer Africa, Capt. Shannon, from
Liverpool, arrived at New York on the 13th inst.,
and the Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool, at Portland
on the 10th.

The City of Manchester steamship arrived at
lE'hiladelphia on the 10th. She left Liverpool on the
.19W-Nov., and encountered a succession of westerly
gales.
On December 20, in lat. 46° 15', long. 38°, the
Arago exchanged signals with the ship Lady Frank-
lin, -bound east. . .

Both branches of Congress at Washington, on the
10th, were engaged in a discussion of the message
and the reception of a few petitions, one of which
was from Mr. Wheeler, asking to be refunded cer-
tain moneys which he had given to distressed Ame-
ricaiis in Nicaragua, who had been robbed and
wounded at Virgin Bay by the natives, and who
had applied to the Legation for assistance. Commo-
dore Jones also petitioned for a restoration of the
pay deducted from him by a court martial several
years ago. The President has appointed J. 0.
Harrison, of Kentucky, as J udge for Kansas, in
place of Judge Lecompte, removed.
In the Senate, ou the 11th, Geu. Cass made a
speech, reiterating his opinion on squatter sove
reignty, the subject under discussion being the Pre-
sident's message Mr. Hale stated that the Republi-
can party meant to apply the principle of the exclu-
sion of slave: y in the territories iv 1860,as he believed
they ,would then possess the power to do so. Mr.
Hate exhibited a handbill in which Mr. Bigler was
charged with being a speaker at a Democratic meet-
ing in favour of Buchanan, Breckinridge, and Free
Kansas, which brought Mr. Bigler to his feet, who
denied the imputation. The Senate then adjourned
till Monday. In the House there was considerable
discussion on squatter sovereignty, which, as ex-
plained by General Cass, was repudiated by the
Virginia delegation. There appeared to be con-
siderable diversiiy of opinion among the Democra-
tic members regarding it. The signers of the me-
morial presented to the House for the erection of
Arazona, into a territorial government represent
that they are cut off by natural barriers from the
benefit of the laws of New Mexico, being nominally
only in the county of Donna Ana, without any of
the privileges or safeguards of citizenship, and ex-
posed to savages.
A despatch from Washington, dated the 12th
inst., SA ys :
Mr. Broom introduced to the House a bill providing
for a contract with Mr. Vanderbilt for carrying a
monthly mail between New York and Southampton in
steamers to make as good time as the Cunarders, and for
every 12 hours over their average time a reduction of
$l,OOO to oe made. This line is in addition to those
already in existence, and deigned to test the relative
merits of the Engtil and American steamships. Van-
derbilt is here,iwith all his I,mby strength, hoping to get
his bill through. It is understood that he has connected
himself with bibo and Co., and will furnish the steamers
for the new Tehuantepec route. This accounts for his
contemp;ated visit to New Orleans iu the Daniel
Webster."

The debate in the Southern Convention on the
10 h inst. was very important and exciting, being
on Mr. Goulding's resolution to reopen the slava
trade, which was warmly advocated by several
members and as strenuously opposed by others.
The resolution was finally lost by an overwhelming
vote. Resolutions were offered relative to a rail-
road to the Pacific. The first, which declares
that Government has no power to construct a rail-
road, was adopted. The second, that a road should
be made along the line of the 32d parallel of lati-
tude by States, in iividual subscribers, and grants
of land by the Federal Government, trc., elicited
much debate. The subject was finally recommitted.
The New York _Herald publishes au extract from
a letter written by Captain Peabody, of the packet
ship Neptune, to Messrs. Poirier and Co., in which
it is stated that, on the 7th of November, a boat
belonging to the wrecked steamer Lyonnais was
picked up by the Neptune while on her voyage to
Liverpool. No persons were in the boat when
found, from which circumstance it is thought pro-
bable they were rescued by some outward bound
vessel, and carried to a foreigs port.
The Democracy of the city of New York gave a
complimentary serenade to the Hon. J. Walker,
for his services to Mr. Buchanan in the.late Presi-
dential contest, at the New York Hotel, ou the
evening of the 10th.
On the 11th the New York Republican Central
Union met and proceeded in a body to the resi-
dence of Colonel Fremont, where the gallant
Colonel gave them a hearty welcome.
The papers publish telegraphic despatches from
various parts of the country relative to the insur-
rectionary movements amoog the negroes in the
South, which have created no little excitement in
that region. The Eveknsville Journal (Indiana) of
the 6th inst., says :
" We bad very serious and alarming reports in our
city last evening from the Cumberland river in regard to
the movements of the blacks ; and, from all we have
heard, the excitement among the people through the
middle district of Tennessee is far greater and more
general than we supposed when we wrote the article in
another.part of this morning's sheet. Through what is
called the iron distriction the Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers there are from 8,000 to 10,000 slaves employed at
the ironworks ; they are there congregated in large
numbers, working in the various labours of making
c darcoal, digging ore, and tending the furnaces, in gangs,
mostly by th,inselves, with a few whites for generil
overseers. There are many of these works situaten
within a few miles of each other, and in sections that
have few white int,abitants.
"A gentlems* who arrived hare last evening informs
us that at, Dover, on the Cumberland, they had obtained
such evidence as left uo doubt of a widespread couviracy
existing in that neighbourhood, and that a number of
the ringleaders had been discovered and arrested ; that
11 of tnetii bad been hung by the excited inhabitant-,
and that among those arrested was a person who had
been in the neighbourhood many months, who had al-
ways passed as a negro, but on his arrest was found to
be a white man, painted and disguised as a negro. Our
informant says the people, being satisfied that he had
been the priwe mover and instigator of the rebellious
design of the blacks, took aim to the woods, and by the
unanimous condemnation of those present be was sen-
tenced to receive 900 lashes, and that he expired before
the penalty had been fully inflicted. These occurrences
had produced general con4ernation and terror, and the
women and children were fleeing and being sent off for
safety. The men were arming and organising f,r defence,
and the negroes were being cJufined, or kept under very
vigilant watch.
A good deal of excitement has existed for some days
about Clarksville and the neighbouring counties in Ten-
n,,,,see by the discovery of the preliminary preparations
of au insurrection among the slave population, to come
off on the 24th of December. A great number of negroes
'urnace bad been arrested and confined, and several had wade
confessions. In the neighbourhood of Ler
aiisda
tkh a ,
a plan to blow up a church was disdc tuvner
der •the buwildritieidg:
A keg of powder bad been place
A large collection of arms
arenaddyamfouir
jet iofantahladmaatelsho. been discovered and seized.
One white inan, who was caught in the act of counselling
the insurrection, had been arrested and imprisoned.
Among the negroes arre,ted and confined are the sit,.
they
posed ringlea.dare—the generals and captains, as r
are called—of the movement.
"The opinion is that the plot is deep laid, and em
rang
ins slaves throughout a wide extent of country, r
ing from Kentucky south and west, and the Plana sen-
g
el
to have designed a general insurrection during the hoill.l
days. The number of fugitives is also unusually large,
~nti the emeapes across the Ohio, roported by the papery,
are more numerous than we ever noticed before- a-Tne
slave states, discussion of the question of slavery in
the late canvass, has imparted
ideas to the blacks of a change to be li some vague
pole
tical revolution which has effected
them restless by , a P'a
rendered and
insubordinate."
The .Philadel
Builetin, publishes a
et
despatch
from Nashville of the 10th :
" of this cat have assed a law di-
recting the employment of an additional police force day
and night, forbidding
nee g ro schools and negro preach-
ing, forbidding all
----sema es of negroes after sundown,
authorising the arrest of free negroes from other coun-
ties, and the arrest of free resident negroes if found in
suspicious circumstances.
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A. great deal„of uneasiness
is i
felt in the city as well as in the country.
A letter from Baltimore, of Dec. 11, says "
change s arriv here with Rio
rile bark Lapwing ha
Janeiro dates to the 30th of Octobeed r. There was
fu
or
coffee were the same as at last dates. Sailed, Oc
of coffee."
in commercial affairs, and the quotations
t 17,
the bark Cora, for New York, with 5,300 bags
Christ Church, the Protestant Episcopal cathe-
dral in Montreal, was destroyed by fire on the
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of theuilding 10th inst
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