, 1853-09-03
Latest News from the Atlantic States.

ing. The Russians had crossed The Pruth,
and the equilibrium of Europe is overturn-
ed
( We have to record the occurrence Of an
other fearful accident on the Hudson River,
which resulted in the death of'6 or s per-
sons, and the wounding Of some 10 or u
others. The accident was occaSoncd by a
collision between the steamboat Empire and
the sloop Gen. Livingston. The accident
occurred on the nth July, nearly opposite
New Hamburgh
The clipper ship "Sovereign of tile Seas"
has made splendid run from New York to
Liverpool. The N. Y. Herald publishes ex-
tracts from the logs of the Sovereign Of the
Seas, Captain Mckay, and the Royal Mail
Steamship Canada, on their late outward
passage TO Liverpool. From an examina-
ton Of these logs, it is seen that the clipper
ship Sovereign of the Seas, in five days
sailing, gained 325 miles on the steamer
In seven days OF the clippers voyage she
made the following distances June "a,
244 miles; 25th, 1870 do; 90, $40 do; 81,
255 do; 2Sth, .344 do; 29thI 2O3 do; 80,
$40 miles.
The result by her log shows that the Sow
ereign made the voyage in thirteen days and
nineteen hours, which was stated to be the
quickest trip on record. The previous
quickest voyage, hence to Liverpool, was
made by the packet ship Independence,
Capt Ezra Nye, now4of the steamship Pa
ciGc, about ten years since, in fourteen days
and six hours.
Gen. Almonte, the new Mexican Minis
ter to Washington, presented his credentials
on the 7th. His remarks on so doing augur
well for the speedy and amicabe settlement
of the boundary dispute between New Mex
leo and Chihuahua and since his arrival the
plausibility of the suspected union between
Spain and Mexico seems less and less eyi-
dent.
Hon. Sol BoIland has been seriously sick
since the adjournment of Congress, but now
reports himself better, and ready to receive
instructions for his mission 10 the Central
American States.
Gov. Lane, of New Mexico, officially
states that the results of bis efforts 10 intro
duce pastoral and agricultural pursuits a.
mong the Apache Indians were encourag-
ing.
Lieutenant John Wilson, who accompa-
MED Capt. Hungerford in ls4S 10 Califor-
mia, whence he returned 10 New York on
the first of July, sickened Immediately of
the Chagres fever, and died on the 10th,
aged 36 years, and was buried with honors
by his companions.
A tornado on the 9th prosIrated a build
ing at Hagerstraw, killing FIVE persons.
There had been no cholera yet in New
York 564 persons died there the week
ending on the 10th.
We have been latterly under considerable
excitement in consequence of the announce
ment that the Cunard steamship Arabia had
made the quickest trip across the Atlantic,
and had thus snatched the title of the Cham
pion of the Seas from the Arctic. 1t ap-
pears by the Liverpool papers that the A
rabia made the run from New York to Liv-
erpool in nine days, seventeen hours and
eleven minutes. This is pretty close run
ming and closer calculating, but sufficient
nevertheless for John Bull to swear by. II
must be recollected, however, that The trip
Of the Arctic was performed in the winter
season, while that of the Arabian was made
in the summer and under The most favorable
circumstances.
The n Y. Herald Of the 20h ulL, says:
The contract entered into by the United
States Post Master General with Col. Ram
say & Co., for the transportation of mails
between New Orleans and San Francisco,
went into operation last Monday. By this
new arrangement, which gains some 1900
miles of ocean route, the express mail leaves
Vera Cruz on the Atlantic, and Acapulco
on the Pacific, on the 4th and 18th of each
month, meeting at Mitapec, a central point
in the interior, and distant from each OF
these ports about SO hours, making the land
route across the Republic only occupying
70 hours. The mail leaving New Orleans
on the 1st and 18th Of each month will ar
rive at Vera Cruz SO as 10 be conveyed
thence on the Ath and 18th. Ills expected
thus, when the line is in good working or
der, to reduce the distance OF time between
New Orleans and San Francisco to twelve
days, General Santa Anna is most favor
ably disposed towards the project, and the
alcaldes or magistrates along the line have
been directed 10 afford the contractors and
their servants every facility.
A steam boiler in the foundry of ]. R.
Pratt, Attorney St, New York, exploded
on the afternoon Of July 18th, with grea.
violence, blowing out the rear end wall of
the basement building leading into Ridge
street, spreading the bricks aud fragments Of
iron in every direction, injuring several per.
sons, two or three oil whom were likely 10
die from the injury sustained by the scald-
ing steam.
Pieces of iron from the boiler were found
blown over two hundred feet from the ex-
plosion. A piece weighing near two pounds
went through window into a room in Ridge
street, passing close by the head of a shoe
maker who sat there at work, causing, as