The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

L-million of acres of la

The Sc

bagoes,

had confirmed

cede half-

ive lnalan Irelsatm, pturiumfg
cesssion.of several millions of acres of land in Ka.nsas,
in the hands of the Indian Committee.
In Congress, the Committee on Ways and Means re-
ported a" bill reducing and modifying the revenue, which
was ordered to be printed. Mr. Senard gave notice of a
bill regulating the• navigation to the coast of Africa of
vessels owned by American citizens. The object being to
break up the African slave-trade in American vessels.
In the House of Representatives two members, Church-
well and Cullom, got to high words. The latter 1"-
over the desks towards the former, and, shakh.„
called him liar and scoundrel ; whereupon Mr. Churchwell
drew a pistol and cocked it. Friends interfered, and order
was restored.

T his fist,

According to despatches from Washington, dated the
20th, despatches from Mexico show that the principal de-
mand by Santa Anna is the payment of the ten millions
in cash, instead of five monthly instalments.
The U. S. commissioner at Cincinnati had published a
ring the constitutionality of that part
nave law which makes it the duty of the
sioner to issue warrants and hear cases. He says
used, and will continue to refuse, to issue

commun

ation der

of the fugitiv

he has ref

warrants.

A negro named Ned had been sentenced to be hanged
at Jefferson, Louisiana, for having committed a rape on a
girl aged 18. The victim and her mother, with three

female friends, were picking blackberries in a plant
when, it appears, the negro followed them, drew a knife
threatened the rest of the women with death if they inter
fered, and, in the presence of ti
the crime

four wome

e Evans,

General J. C. Saunders, of Alabama, and Jndg
Mississippi, fought a duel near the Alabama State line

partie4

I ultimo. Five shots were exchanged
ere wounded, Judge Evans dangerousl_
I been engaged in a mock duel at
lead by S. G. Ladd, '1

Sc
New On

winger, who

s,- was sh

urine a dis-

pate about the affair.

The cotton and woollen-mills occupied by Mr. Rivers,
Messrs. Houghton Roe, and Philips, and Mr. Holt, at
Philadelphia, had been destroyed by fire. Several persons
were supposed to have perished.
A large body of Mormon emigrants had arrived at
The Connecticut legislature had passed

Osceola, Kansa
the Maine Liquor Law

Accounts from Hayti to the 2nd of June, state that the
itted with provisions. Coffee was scarce
of European vessels

•ket was g

A great

T at Port-au-Princ

numbe

From Venezuela we learn that, on the 2nd June, ever
thing was quiet. The demand for produce had increase
According to, the Quebec correspondent of the Nei
York Herald, the following is a synopsis of the reciprocity
treaty which was submitted, on the 16th ult., to 1-1,- -
vincial parliament by the Earl of Elgin :—"
throws open the fisheries of British America, ez(

wfo-undland, ai
lerican citizen

e pro-
triide Ist

id the salmon, shad, and shell fisheries,
. Article 2nd provides for settling
_

fishing disputes by arbitration, and also gives to
tish a right to the American fisheries, to the 36th
of north latitude. Article 3rd provides for the free ex-
change of flour and breadstuffs ; all kinds of animals ; all
kinds of flesh, smoked and salt meats ; cotton, wool, seeds,
and vegetables; dried and nndried fruits; all kinds of

e Bri:
mrallel

fish, and the products of fish, and of•all other creatures in
"T ; poultry and eggs ; firs and skins ; u
,4ne, and marble in its under or unwrought state ;
butter, cheese, tallow, and lard ; horns -; manure ; or,
all kinds ; coal; tar, pitch, and turpentine ; ashes ; lumbt
of all kinds, round, hewed, or sawed, and manufactured a
whole or part; firewood; plants, trees, and shrubs; pel*
fish oil_; rice ; broom corn ; barley ; gypsum, aro,—

the wat,

redressed
slate ;

unground ; burr, or grindstOnes, heWUoi rougli, wrought
or nnwrought ; dyestuffs; flax; unmanufactured tobacco;
and rags'. Article. 4th throws open the river St. Lawrence
and the Canadian canals to American vessels, the Ameri-
can gcivernment undertaking to urge the state governments
to admit British vessels intb their canals. Both nations
to enjoy the navigation on equal terms. Article sth pro-
vides for the ratification of the treaty within six months,
or sooner if possible: Great Britain may withdraw front'
Americans the right of navigating our waters, in which
case Americans can annul article 2nd. Article 6th pro-
vides for including, Newfoundland, with her consent."