The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-26 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING.
By the arrival of the New York packet-ship
Europe, Captain Furber, this evening, we have re-
ceived papers of the Ist of August, one day later than
before. There is not much of interest, but we take
the following:—
FROM Sr. Do:mi.:co.—Captain Silvester, of the
brig Osceola, from the city of St. Domingo, 16th
July, informs us that General Santa Anna came be-
fore that place on the 13th July with seven hundred
troops. On the 15th the gates were opened to him,
and he took possession without bloodshed. He was
proclaimed President, at that place, of the Spanish
part of St. Domingo the same day. Most of his
troops had been sent home, and be remained in the
city when Captain Silvester left. The negroes had
sued to him for peace, which had been granted. A
French man-of-war steamer had been off that place
for some time, and sailed six days previous for Aux
Cays. The. British frigate Inconstante had also
been there and sailed for Aux Cayes.
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.—By an arrival at
Key West, a few days since, of a vessel from the
Spanish Main, we learn that the French Government
have been actively engaged for the last two months
in laying rails, grading, and otherwise making pre-
parations for a steam-conveyance from Porto Bello to
Panama, thus connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, and doing away, for the present, any intent
upon cutting a canal at the Isthmus.—St. Augustine
News, Jul?, 23.
THE IN EMI MONARCH OF MORMONDOM.—The
Mormon mantle has fallen upon Sam Smith, elder
brother to Joe, the late Prophet, who has been, or is
to be, inducted into office with all due solemnity, and
take upon himself the entire government of the " Latter
Day Saints," as prophet and patriarch in chief.
UNITEDSTATES LAND SALES.—The President has
ordered sales of the public lands in Missouri, as fol-
lows :—At Pittsburg, on the 21st day of October; at
Clinton, on the 24th of October; at Fayette, on the
28th of October; at St. Louis, on the Ist day of Oc-
tober ; at Jackson, on the 4th day of November ; at
Springfield, on the 7th day of November next. All
these sales are of lands which were surveyed or made
ready for sale during the past year, awl afford an ex-
cellent opportunity to those who may desire to enter
lands. There will also be sales at Dixon, Illinois, on
the 7th, and at Chicago on the 10th of October next.
On Tuesday week a duel took place opposite Grand
Gulf, between M. W. Allen, Esq., of Grand Gulf,
and Dr. Maesteller, of Millikin's Bend, La.; weapons—
pistols loaded with buck-shot, distance ten feet. One
was shot in the thigh, and the other in the hip—
neither supposed to be dangerous.
The agricultural prints have a story of a cow in
Illinois, which suffered herself to be sucked every
evening by pigs; they sat on their hams, and com-
pleted the milking process in short order.
The bookseller Campe, of Wurtemburg, has pub-
lished the calculation that a woman reading sixteen
hours a day, must live nine hundred and sixty-three
years to peruse all the books on cookery issued in
Germany.
Mr. Sable Rogers, of Springfield, Mass., was
brought before a justice on the 15th inst., on the
charge of violating the Lord's day in mowing and
making hay, &c., and convicted and fined ten dollars
and costs of court. He appealed, and was put under
100 dollars bond for good behaviour and to keep the
peace, &c.
The wife of Mr. Carvey, residing in Poplar-lane,
was on Wednesday
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NEW YORK MARKETS, JULY 31.
The sales at the Stock Exchange were to fair extent.
Norwich and Worcester Railroad advanced ; Long
Island Railroad, ; Canton Co., 14 ; Ohio Sixes, ;
Indiana Bonds, ; Farmers' Loan, I ; Stonington Rail-
road, ; and Reading Railroad, per eent. Illinois
Sixes and Pennsylvania Fives fell off 4 ; and Paterson
Railroad, •
At the Public Stock Exchange, Farmers' Loan ad-
vanced ; Canton Co., ; and Norwich and Worcester
Railroud,.-1 per cent.
There was some inquiry for Foreign Exchange during
the forenoon. Sales of Sterling were made at 1091 a 1091;
and of Francs, at 5.25 a 5.264.
We have no alteration to notice in the Cotton market;
the sales are moderate at yesterday's prices.
Flour remains as last noticed. Sales of Genesee are
made at $4,371 ; Ohio and Michigan, 84,25 a 4,314;
Pennsylvania, 8.4,12} a 4,25; Georgetown, $4,37f a 4,50;
Petersburgh, Alexander, and Fredericksburg at $4,25.
Rye Flour, $2,75 a 3,00. Corn Meal, $2,432. a 2,62 i.
20,000 bushels Southern Corn sold at 48c., and 1,200
bushels at 48ic.
The market for Ashes is unsettled ; a few small lots
of Pots sold at $4,12, and of Pearls at $4,374.