The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

The Royal mail steamship Niagara, Capt.
arrived this morning, with the New York mails of
the sth ; Boston of the 6th ; and with advices by
telegram via Halifax from the former port to the
7th inst. She has brought 102,000 dols.

On the 7th the Niagara exchanged signals with
the mail steamer Canada, on the 13th with the
steamer Edinburgh, and the 16th with the barque
Indus. _

The Hammonia, from Southampton, had arrived
at New York ; and the Nova Scotia, hence, at
Quebec. . _ _

The following telegrams respecting the Atlantic
telegraph had been published :
" TRINITY BAT, FRIDAY, OCT. I.—Nothing was
done with Valentia yesterday. Some very good
currents were received from Valentia, but no intel-

ligible signals. " C. V. DE SANTY.
" Mr. Peter Cooper, New York."
" TRINITY BAY, MONDAY, OCT. 4.—There has
been no change whatever since my last. I am
trying this morning a new system of working, and
will telegraph again to-day as to its results.
" C. V. DE SANTY.

" Mr. Peter Cooper, New York."
"TRINITY BAY, OCT. 4.—Nothing was done with
Valentia yesterday. Some very good currents
were received from Valentia, but no intelligible
signals. " C. V. DE SANTY.
" Mr. Peter Cooper, New York." _

The New York Crystal Palace, with all its con-
tents, had been destroyed by fire. The fair of the
American Institute was being held there at the time.
A large amount of property was destroyed, consist-
ing of mechanical and agricultural implements,
melodeons, pianos, steam engines, and other kinds
of goods that were on exhibition. The fire broke
out in the lumber room, which was filled with empty
boxes and a large quantity of old lumber, and was
believed to have been incendiary. When it was
first discovered the palace engine was brought out,
but the hose was so full of holes as to be useless.
The flames spread with astonishing rapidity,
creating intense excitement among the visitors,' of
whom it is estimated upwards of 2,000 were present.
It is feared many were killed. One dead body had
been taken out. The heat was so intense that the
firemen's services were of no avail. Very little of
its contents were saved. Two only of the many
fire engines on exhibition were got out uninjured.
The deaths from yellow fever at Savannah for tke
week ending the 2d were 64 ; at New Orleans on
the 3d they were 68. The epidemic had nearly died
out at Savannah.

It is stated in letters from Salt Lake City that
breaches of the peace were becoming very frequent
there. Brigham Young still kept close quarters.
A fugitive slave case had occurred in New Lon-
don, Connecticut. A coasting vessel arrived from
North Carolina with a fugitive on board. The cap-
tain, discovering the negro, went ashore at New
London and apprised the federal officials, who went
to the vessel, but the man had taken alarm, jumped
overboard, and swam ashore, Collector Mather in-
stitued a search, found " Joe" concealed in a cloth-
ing store and captured him ; but a Dr. Miner inter-
fered, advised the negro to run, and he did. The
collector got out a handbill, offering a reward of
50 dols. for his arrest, but the man escaped, and was
supposed to be on his way to Canada.
Considerable interest had been excited at Chatham
(Canada West) in consequence of legal proceedings
being commenced against a body of negroes for sur-
rounding a train of cars on the Great Western
Railway, and forcibly taking therefrom a negro
servant belonging to Mr. Merlin, a planter from
St. Louis. Ten or twelve of the rioters were bound
over to be tried at the next assizes.
The United States' Marshal at New York had
been actively yet secretly engaged in tracking the
scattered members of the slaver which was scuttled
at Montauk Point a few weeks ago. One of them,
it was ascertained, had died at New London of
African fever ; three were quietly arrested in New
York. The deputies Rynders and O'Keefe then
went on to Boston, and in the same quiet manner
arrested two more, and placed them in gaol. From
Boston the officers proceeded to New Bedford in
search of the mate, whose name is Macomber, and
who had command of the slaver when she was
scuttled. They found him at his house, a short
distance out of town, arrested him, and took him
to New York. The New York papers, without
giving any authority for the statement, represent
that certain friends of the parties had obtained a
writ of habeas corpus in their behalf, and that the
officers having a hint of it, succeeded in eluding it,
and taking their three prisoners to New York
without interruption. The real name of the
slaver was Haidee, the name given to her: in the
first accounts, Elizabeth, of New Orleans; having

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been painted on canvass, which was nailed over
the name Haidee, New York. Her cargo
of 903 slaves was landed near Cardenas without the
slightest interference on the part of the authori-
ties. The vessel and nearly all of the slaves were
owned by Zulueta, the great Cuban slave-trader.
The Haidee was a clipper, 137 feet long, and built
at Providence in 1853. On the 7th of Jan. last
she was cleared at New York by Sanchez and Doly
for Gibraltar and a market, with a cargo valued at
16,631 dols, taken on board at Pier 37, East River.
Her character was suspected while she was lying
at the wharf, but the authorities did not follow up
the information conveyed to them.
From Mexico we learn that on the 25th of Sept,
yellow fever was raging at Matamoras and Browns-
ville. General Vidaurri was near San Luis Potosi
on the 13th. Miramon had declined fighting. The
Liberalists were forming an army at Vera Cruz.
Vomito prevailed at Vera Cruz: Up to the sth ult.
General Robles had not made a landing, but re-
mained on board the British steamer Clyde, at
anchor off the port. Mr. Forsyth, the American
Minister, was still in Mexico, at Tacubaya, where
he would remain for several weeks, or until the
vomits disappeared sufficiently to render travelling
safe.
At New York on the 4th the foreign exchange
market was steady at 110 for bankers' bills on
London at 60 days.
More than half the aggregate specie was held by
eight out of 54 banks. The quotations for sto2ks
were as follows :—Virginia Sixes, 931 ; Missouri
Sixes, 85 ; New York Central shares, 814 • New
York and Erie shares, 144 ; Reading Railroad
shares. 47, ; Michigan Central shares, 524- ' Michi-
gan Southern shares, 23; Cleveland and Toledo
shares, 30 ; Panama Railroad shares, 118.
NEW YORK, OCT. 5, 6 P.M.
Stocks at the Second Board were better and very
firm. Grain—Wheat heavy; Chicago spring, 811 c.
for badly damaged ; Western red, 1 dol. 70c. ;
ditto, white, 1 dol. 23c. to 1 dol. 29c. ; Southern
red, 1 dol. 18c.

SAVANNAH, OCT. 4.
Cotton unchanged; market firm.
CHARLESTON, OCT. 4.
Market brisk. Sales, 1,000 bales. Middling,
121 c. ; good middling, 13c. per lb.

NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 4,

Cotton—Sales to-day, 3,300 bales, at easier but
quotably unchanged price, Flour firm, at 5 dols.
Corn at 62-1-.

LATER FROM NEW YORK, VIA HALIFAX
NEW YORK, EVENING, OCT. 7.

The sales of cotton in this market for the past
two days have been 6,500 bales, at firm prices.
Flour is dull, and has declined 10c. per barrel.
Wheat also is very dull, and quotations are quite
nominal—say, about 2c. per bushel lowel.

NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 6.

The sales of cotton in this market yesterday and
to-day foot 13,500 bales ; and the quotation for
middling is 13ke. to 121 e.

HALIFAX, Oct. 7.

The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Liver-
pool, arrived here at seven o'clock this morning, en
route for Boston.

NEW YORK, OCT. 7.

By an arrival from Havannah we learn that a
powder magazine had exploded in that city, with
the most disastrous results. Twenty-eight persons
were known to have been killed, 100 wounded, and
a large number were under the ruins when the
steamer left Havannah. No less than 90 sugar
houses were destroyed by the violence of the shock.