The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-06 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 6, 1838.

*. The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 oclock.

UNITED STATE.-By the Royal William, which
arrived here yesterday, after a passage of 15-1 days, we
have received New York papers to the 20th ultimo in.
elusive. They are exceedingly barren of intelligence,
being chiefly occupied with extended remarks on the
prOgress of the elections. From the statements of the
'Evening Post it would appear that the democratic, or
Van Buren party, were triumphant in most of the dis-
tricts from which the returns had been obtained.

From Canada we have no news of the slightest im-
portance; at least we can glean none from the Even-
ing Post, which is the only file that has reached us.

The New Orleans papers complain that the extreme
lowness of water in the rivers will defer the business
season. The New Orleans Bulletin of October Bth

says,—

The Ohio is so low, as to put a stop to navigation, except
in skiffs and dug outs. Thus the channel of our earliest trade
is entirely blocked up. A multitude of travellers who de-
scend the Ohio every fall, are detained. The harvest of corn
and wheat, finds no vent. The various productions of Ken-
tucky, Ohio, and Indiana, are kept back, and in consequence,
much of the hurry and bustle of the fall season is not wit-
nessed in our streets. The same cause has shut us out, in a
great measure, front the Missouri and Illinois trade. A ma-
jority of the steamboats, we are informed, that navigate be-
tween our place and St. Louis, are either run aground or
laid up, on account'of -the shallowness of the water. Even
the flat boats meet with difficulty in descending the stream,
For though the channel may be deep enough to float them,
yet they are liable to run ashore on innumerable•bars, formed
by subsiding currents. In this situation, numbers of broad
horns may be seen strung along the whole length of the river,
many of them resting high and dry on the ridge of a sand
bar, awaiting the rise of the river. Under such untoward
circumstances, it would not be surprising, if the commence-
ment of a brisk business were postponed a fortnight later
than usual.

The complaints of the drought do not, however, ap-
pear to be general, as will appear by the following ex-
tract from the Evening Post of the 17th ult.:—

GREAT FLOOD.—A paper printed in 'Wilmington, North
Carolina, says that the 'late heavy rains have occasioned a
greater rise of the streams in the upper country of the state
than had been known for many years—carrying away bridges,
and preventing the regularity of the mails. The Turborough
Press says that immense: damage has been sustained in the
low grounds by' the destruction of crops, stock, fences, &c.,
and on the streams by the breaking of bridges, mills, &c.

The Indian hostilities seem to have recommenced,
as will appear from, the following

IN DIAN HOSTILITIES ON THE S. W. FRONTIER.—GCO•
Arbuckle, in a letter to the Governor of Arkanglis, dated
Fort Gibson, Sept. 6, says:—"lntelligence was received
last night from Fort Jesup, which proves beyond a doubt that
welt has certainly commenced." A letter from a Mr. Green,
dated about the 21st of August, at Lima, 25 miles east of the
Tausse Washita, says : We have direct information that
Captain Farmer and 30 of his taco have been killed on the
Sabine, by the Andians, within the last three days. Blun-
dess', Lew•is', and several other plantations have been sacked,
and their places surrounded since Saturday, by hostile In-
Cans. The road is completely lined with waggons for the
lower prairies." . • •

Fikgeand iteani-boat explosions continue to be "the
order of the day" in the United States. We take the
following from the same journal :
FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS.—On Sunday morning, the 7th
instant, a fire broke ont'in the engine and car house at Car-
rolton, on the Carrolton railroad, which, in half au hour,
completely destroyed the building, together with fifteen cars
and one locomotive.• It is conjectured to have resulted from
the communication of the fire leftin one of the engines. The
amount of property consumed is stated to be not less than
200,000 dollars, of which about 150,000 dollars were insured.
The loss will therefore fall heavily upon the insurance com-
panies. The Carrolton railroad company will also suffer
much from the delay and loss of time, berme other cars can
be obtained.

STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.--The steam-boat Governor Dodge
was snagged in the Mississippi on the 29th ult., with her
cargo of cotton.

STEAM-BOAT LOST.—The steamboat Rolla, on her passage
from New Orleans to this port, struck a snag about on hun-
dred miles below the mouth of the Ohio, on Sunday the 23d
ult. at 2 p.m., and suuk immediately in about thirty feet of
water. The passengers and crew saved themselves by
swimming ashore, and clinging to the hurricane deck, part
of which was above water. One deck hand was lost. She
was insured in this city for 12,000 dots.—three-fourths of her
value—in three different offices. The Rienzi brought the
passengers and crevr to this city yesterday.—St. Louis
Bulletin.

Respecting the Mexican blockade we have the fol-
lowing information :

(From the Evening Post of October 16th.)

The Chainber of Commerce, in this city, have addressed a
letter to Mr. Forsyth, in relation to the blockade of Mexico,
complaining that it has been rigorously enforced against
American vessels, which left the ports of this country previ-
ouS to uotice.Of it being received here, and which had there-
lore been obligert,to return. The letter also expresses an
apprehension that' the blockade has been extended to the
ports of the Pacific, in which several valuable cargoes, which
left this city previous to any suggestion of the blockade, will
be placed iu jeopardy, and the voyages ruined. The follow-
ing is the reply to this letter:—
" Department of State, Washington, Oct. 6.
" Messrs. Robert Lenox, President, and Edward A. B.
Graves, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the
City of New York.
" Gentlemen,—Your letter of the sth ult., though in due
time received at this department, has thus long remained un-
answered, owing to the absence of the President, to whom it
had been referred for his consideration. I am now instructed
to state to you, that aware of the great inconvenience which
the restrictive measures adopted by the French Government
in the Gulf of Mexico and in the River Nate, would occa-
sion to our Commerce, the President had immediately
ordered the .adoption of all measures which circumstances
admitted for ,the protection of the interests of our citizens;
and that every exertion has hitherto been, and still continues
to be made, which may contribute to diminish the evils
arising from 'the existing state of things. No information
has been received of. the blockade having been extended to
the Mexican pOrts of the Pacific Ocean; and it is taken for
granted that; in the event of such a measure being resorted
to, previous notice crf the intention will be given to this go-
vernment. -The department is equally unapprised of the
probable duration of the existing blockade; but from the
sensation which its operation appears to have excited through-
out the commercial wcrld, and the efforts understood to be
mode towards an adjustment of the dispute which gave rise
to it, the hope is entertained that it cannot be much longer
protracted.
" I have the honour, Gentlemen,
" To be, with great respect,
" Your obedient servant,
"A. VAIL,
" Acting Secretary of State."

(Signed)

(From the Evening Post (11 October 18th.)
M nxico.—We have a Tampico paper of the Ist September,
and Mexican journals of the 16th and 17th August. Thare
is little of interest to be found in them. The Tampico Tele-
graph states. that the Naticioso of Chihuahua is filled with
accounts of robberies, murders, fires, and a thousand excesses
commißed by the savages in liosarion and Covachic, on the
neighbouring farms and dwelling-houses. The journal adds
that that portion of the country is in the greatest state of
destitution, and deprived of any source of protection from the
incursions of the Indians.

improvements in paving are going on in Tampico, which,
says the Telegraph, will render the city passable in every
quarter.
A band of sixty robbers, well mounted and armed, assaulted
a caravan of mules on the 17th of August, between Verreyes
and Tepcyahualan, despoiling the conductors of a large
quantity of silver, which they had concealed in their flour
sacks. These marauders are supposed to form part of the
league of robbers, the constitution of which we published
some weeks since.

The government of this city, says the 7'ampico Telegraph,
is execrable, the administration of justice intolerable, and
its politics incomprehensible.—LMatters of opinion merely,
we presume.—Evening Post.]
The Diario of Mexico contains several long communica-
tions on the subject of the culture of the silk-worm—the
clitnate of Mexico, the fertility of the soil, the vast quantities
of ground open to the experiments of the industrious, and
the ease with which the mulberry tree is cultivated, confer
on Mexico peculiar advantages for this pursuit. We doubt,
however, whether the people have energy and perseverance
enough to make the manufacture of silk a branch of produc-
tive industry.—New Orleans Bee of the 6th instant.
From the following article in the Globe it appears that the
question of annexing Texas to this country is for the present,
at least, disposed of :
" We understand that the Texian minister, on the occasion
of exchanging the ratifications of the boundary convention
lately published, delivered to the Acting Secretary of State
a note, in which, after stating in friendly terms that although,
since the note of Mr. Forsyth, declining the proposition sub-
mitted by Texas for her admission into the Union, the ques.
lion of annexation had been considered by the United StAtes