The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-12 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.
By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship America, Captain Laing, which arrived here yesterday
morning, we have intelligence from New York to the 29th
and Boston to the 30th ult., eighty-five passengers, and
$527,690 in specie.
On the 3d inst., about fifty miles to the westward of
Cape Race, she passed the steam-ship Africa, with the
mails hence of the 26th ult.

While the cholera was rapidly disappearing from the
west and the middle states, the south was beginning to
feel the effects of that fearful scourge, yellow fever.
Savannah appears to be the point which was most vio-
lently attacked, and there a panic prevailed, while at New

Orleans the disease progressed. At Key West it was
alarmingly bad, and at Charleston preparations were
making to open hospitals for the sick. Extensive fires
had occurred in various parts of the country. In Maine
fires were raging with great fury, doing immense injury
to the timber and crops. A fire also raged on theCatskell
Mountains, At Troy two or three hundred buildings
were destroyed. Waldoboro' had shared a similar fate.
Massachussets, New Hampshire, and Canada West, were
suffering from the same calamity. A note-broker of Phila-
delphia absconded with $40,000 in paper entrusted to him
to negotiate, but was afterwards captured. The ship.
Antwerp had arrived at New York, from Liverpool, with
180 head of cattle. She only lost three sheep• on the
voyage. After one of the most severe droughts experienced.
for years all over the north-west, rain had commenced to
fail. On the 27th a terrific tornado passed over the city
of Louisville, blowing down the Presbyterian Church,
and causing the death of twenty-seven persons. A large
number were wounded. Fully one hundred buildings
were unroofed.

The Washington correspondent of the Courier and
Inquirer says, "I ascertain:that an important correspond-
ence has occurred between Secretary Buchanan and the
British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Clarendon
re-asserts the British Territorial claims on Central Ame-
rica, founded on the Mosquito protectorate. Buchanan
denies them in two elaborate notes, and demands an
unconditional relinquishment of the protectorate. It is
understood that our government has determined to adopt
decisive measures to obtain the complete evacuation of
Central America, as stipulated by the Clayton and Bulwer
Convention."

Captain Hollins, of the United States frigate Cyane,
had been arrested and held to bail by one of the sufferers
by the bombardment of Greytown.
A letter from a person on board the Collins' steamer
Arctic, says, " In overhauling the- machinery of the Arctic,
since her attempted trial trip on Saturday last, it is found
that new difficulties have presented themselves, which
will prevent her making the new application of the
" Wetherell patent" until her return from Liverpool.. The
invention has cost too much labour now to run the risk of
any failure, and Mr. Collins, by the• advice of the consult-
ing engineers and the makers of the machinery, Messrs.
Stillman and Aken, has consented to have the tubes,
through which the new steam travels, enamelled, which
was not done before. This will obviate the possibility of
any accident, especially such a one as happened on Satur-
day last, and by v "

...cn two men were.bailly injured. On
the return of the Arctic from Liverpool, the new ma-
chinery will take but a few days to have it in running
order, and she will then proceed to, Boston, where she
svo days. '

intends remaining t „
From the British provinces we learn that, pending the
action of the British and Colonial Legislatures on the
reciprocity treaty, the river St. Lawrence will be free to
American vessels to navigate. The at
Halifax, N.S., was recently partially destroyed by fire.
The cholera was rapidly abating at St. John, N. 8., at last
accounts, and business was reviving.
We have brief advices from Mexico city to the 29th ult.
Count Raousset de Boulbon had been sentenced to be
shot on the 19th inst., together with several other French.
officers. Another government victory is reported to have
been gained on the 7th. A famine was prevailing at
Chihuahua and Chiapas, and many persons had died from
starvation_ The crops in half the states were almost total

The government was on the point of adopting
measures for the relief of the sufferers, and private
subscriptions were being taken up for the same purpose:.

failures,

The Indian troubles in Durango had been momentarily
checked. Armed bands of Indians, however, had ap-
peared in other districts, committing many depredations,
and causing the inhabitants to flee for their lives. Dis-
content and revolution were spreading alarmingly through-
out the country. The government was exercising strict
censorship over the press, and preventing the publication
e a 1---4. 4n fl crn-
,olera and fever had nearly disappeared
le city of Ir r'

Vera Cruz, ti

gexico, and other places where
it had been raging violently. Several conspirators had
been arrested by order of the government, among whom
were several prominent men.
We have advices from Havana to the 21st ult. The
Captain General had issued a tranquillizing proclamation
respecting the insurrection in Spain. The sugar market
had been less active, owing to the dispoSition to hold for
further advices. White sold in small lots at $3l. to s4}
per quintal, and some bright yellow at $3l. There was
no molasses : last sales at 3. rs. per keg; Muscovado, .4 rs.
to 41 rs. per keg. Freights dull. Exchange on London
13 to 131. The Captain-General had paid to Don Manuel
Christobel de Seayas the sum of $1,284 for apprehending
in the Marie' district 174 newly landed negroes, being at
the rate of $lO each for males, $6 for females, and $3 for
children. This payment will doubtless have a beneficial
effect in assisting the suppression of the slave trade.
Among the deaths reported in the California papers is
that of James Beatty, of Liverpool, who was drowned on
the 14th July, at the mouth of Rough and Ready Creek,
Tuolumne river.

In Venezuela the revolution appeared to be progressing,
several provinces having pronounced in favour of Paez.
Monagas was said to be without cash or credit.
On the 21st ult. there were 130 cases of yellow fever
under treatment at New Orleans.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, 29th August.
MONEY.—A moderate business has been done in foreiin
Exchange. London, 1094 to 1091; Paris, 5,114 to 5,13 k ;
Amsterdam, 411 to 411; Frankfort, 414 to ni ; Bremen,
78t to 79 ; Ilamburg, 361 to 301 ; Antwerp, 5,124 to
5,131. The specie in the Sub-Treasury has increased
$900,000 within the past week, and in the banks $140,000,
making an aggregate addition of more than one million.
The bank movement during the past week shows a decline
in loans to the extent of nearly one-and-a-half million,
and $2,300,000 less than during the week ending the sth
instant.

COTTON.—Cotton was dull, but the smallness of the
stock prevented any material decline. The weather was
such that no definite opinion could be formed of the
growing crop. We reduce our quotations je. to le. on
grades ranging "ordinary" to "low middling."
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NEW YORK CLASSIFICATION. - N. Orleans
Uplands. Florida. Mobile. and Texas.
Inferior .... 71 to 0 .... 71 to 0 .. oto 0
Ordinary..., Bto Eli .... Bto 0 .. 81 to 0
Good ord. ..81 to 0 .... 81 to 0 .. oto 0
Low middling 9} to 91.... 91 to 9i .. Sato 0
Middlingeven9l to 10.... 91 to 10 .. 10 to 0
Good mid... 104 to 104 .. 10i to 0.. oto 0
NAVAL STORES.—Spirits of turpentine dull, at 63c.
Rough turpentine scarce. Rosin steady.
PROVISIONS.—Pork rather heavy. Lard firm. Beef
in fair request, and the market steady. Beef hams in
fair request, and the market still bare. Butter steady,
with a fair demand. Cheese firm, at 9c. to 104 c.
BREADSTUFFS.—There was less activity in the flour
market, and prices, particularly of fancy and extra brands,
were heavy. No sales of Canada flour reported. Southern
flour is steady at $9,60 to $lO for common to good
brands ; fancy and extra brands brought $10,124 to
$10,50. A small lot of fair Southern wheat sold at $1,90.
Prime Gennessee is held at $2,25 to $2,30. Corn rather
heavy.

FiElGlETEL—Freights remain inactive. To Liverpool,
corn was taken at 2*d. in ship's bags, cotton *d., lard
7s. 6d. and 10s.

Nxw ORLEANS, 26th August.—Our cotton market is
unsettled, and prices are quite nominal. The sales of the
week foot up 2,500 bales, and the receipts during the same
period were 2,250 bales. The stock on hand here is 32,000
bales. The decrease in the receipts at all the Southern
ports, compared with the same date last year, is 327,750.
SAVANNAH, 26th August.—Arrived since the 17th inst.
2,112 bales Upland. Exports for the same period, 211
bales Upland, and 253 ditto Sea Islands. The accounts
we continue to receive of the growing crops are quite
favourable. The market continues very dull. The sales
of the week 150 bales, at extremes ranging from Ste. to
9c. For Sea Islands the demand is limited. The sales for
the past week amount to 90 bales, at extremes ranging
from 15c. to 23c. Receipts of the week 23 bales. There
are no vessels loading for Liverpool.
Nsw YORK, AUGUST 31.—(Latest by Telagraph.)—
The steamer Washington has arrived. The European
news, via' Halifax, was published here this morning.
Standard and fancy stocks remain dull. Money, to-day,
active at unchanged rates. Flour unchanged, with limited
business. Cotton dull, with falling tendency. Wheat
firm. Price of corn is a trifle higher. There is no general
news worth being telegraphed.

DELIGHTS Or VAllllA.—When you go to :bed,lthe odds
are that you will find your dormitory preoccupied by a
monstrous lizard, quite as fond of the sheets as you are,
and not at all disposed to leave them. Grasshoppers, of
the respectable size of a walnut, perform all manner of
sanatory exercises on your nose and eyelids ; legions of
ants, innumerable " earwigs " (a loathsome crawling
insect), and perfect clouds of hungry flies make so free
with your food, that with your utmost caution you are
apt to swallow them in scores. Out of doors, the villainous
Turkish dog,Vith ferocious starvation in his wolf-like eye,
and of a savageness which, in these "woodlands wild,"
renders him a still uglier customer than his fellow of
Stamboul, hangs on your rear, as if calculating the
chances of a bite at the fleshy part of your calf; and if
you seek for a moment some sylvan shade, a vile vicious-
looking snake starts up, and sibillates his disapproval of
the disturbance of his siesta.

A JACKDAW recently entered a house in Claverhonse,
Bleaclifield, and lifting the lid from a lady's writing•desk,
abstracted silver to the amount of 15s. to 20s. A part of
the money was scattered about the room, more was found
in his hiding places, and in a short time lie brought back
two shillings an 4 sixpence.