The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-12
ARRIVAL OF STEAMER EUROPA.

ARRIVAL OF STEAMER EUROPA.
THREE DAYS LATER NEWS.
The steamer Europa, from Liverpool, with
dates to the goth ult., arrived at Halifax on the
| 9th instant.
1t was the general impression that the Atlantic
Telegraph cable would be sold for the construc-
ZION Of q line to India
EAs sGgsS, ENGLAND. n 49,
The Queens speech congratulates Parliament
on the peaceable aspect Of the affairs of Europe
and expresses belief that the stipuations of the
treaty OF Paris, through the earnest efforts of the
contracting parties, viii eventually be satisfac-
torily settled. The Queen alludes with extreme
concern to the Indian war; declares tho determi-
nation to omit no efforts TO quell the rebellion,
and expresses full confidence that the power at
her disposal will enable the Government to accom-.
plish that purpose.
FROM INDIA.
The Indian mails had arrived. The main fea-
lures in the Government despatch respecting
Indian affairs are fully confirmed The mutineers
still held Delhi on the 10th of July. They had
made three additional sortes but were defeated
in each, with heavy loss.
Sir Hugh Wheeler was killed at Cawnpore, the
garrison Of which, being reduced to famine, sur
rendered to Hcna Sahib, who, in violation of his
solemn promise, massacred the whole garrison.
Sahib was subsequently defeated with great loss
by General Harerbock, who re occupied Cawnpore
Sahib massacred at Cawnpore $40 women and
children
FROM CHINA.
The dates from China are to the 10th of July.
Lord Elgin arrived at Hong Kong, on the ed,
and was about proceeding northward in the steam
| 4rgate Shannon accompanied by six gun boats.
II .'at> .tls:... FROM SPAIN ,~.~.
The Mexican Envoy had arrived at Cadiz to en-
bark for home, The new Cuban Governor who
embarks in September, will it is said, take out
the ultmatum of Spain to Madrid.
| MRAKETs ~ s
l LIVERPOOL, August -Cotton-Sales to spec
tors 81 900 bales, and to exporters 5000 bales.
Sales of Friday estimated at 1000 bales. Prices
have advanced Is Ia, the market closing buoy
ant and active. Orleans fair Ia; Middling s IS:
Mobile fair lS; Middling 8 1915; Upland fair
| 8; Middlng 34 Stock in port 8S5, 900 bales,
including 3l2,50o bales of American cotton.
4 Manchester advces are favorable.
/ Observation-Disclosures has been active at decline
of 2d-red Is Cd IS. Sd; white 9s o. cd
Corn is dull at decline Of ed-mixed S5s. 36s
| white 44s. Flour is dull and quotations nominal
I Professionalism is dull and prices generally
| unchanged Pork is dull and slow of sale at for
mer rates. Bacon is quiet but steady. Lard il
dull at decline of ls-sales at COS. a 7os Cd
Il ."
/ JAMES b. CLAWS Barbecue. The late barbecue
at Ashland, the residence of James B. Clay, ap-
pears to have been regular Locofoco affair, not
a Wing being present nor any member of the Clay
| family, except the degenerate James B. himself
| The Knoxville Wing thus alludes to it:
/ "The Lexington Observer states that the bar.
becue given to the renegade son of Henry CLAY.
was regular Locotoco concern, and was remarka.
BILE in many respects. There was about one thou.
| sand persons present, all Locefocos straight out
! and dyed in the wool. Not member of the Clay
family was present, but the new born Locofoco
| son. The cannon that doomed upon the occasion,
was the same one fired by the same partp in re,
joicing over Henry Clay's defeat in 1914 THE
| speakers, too, were appropriately chosen.-Col
| Preston led off, who, though Wing in Claws
lifetime, refused to vote for him, and left the Wing
party on account of his hatred of "Old Hal"
The next, and most vocferous orator, was George
| Wickliife, who has grown gray in hating Henry
Clay, to whom he had not spoken for years before
| his death. The whole crowd was composed of the
yiest of Mr.. Clay's slanderers, and the speakers
| were the most unrelenting of his enemies What
| "A commentary of the depravity Of human nature.
Fortunately the old house had been torn down,
and the tongue and eyes of Mr.. Clay silenced and
dimmed in death, before the soil of Ashland was
thus politically desecrated. For the drunken feast
came off on the Ashland farm.
On one condition we would have gone on foot
through the mountains, to have witnessed the
| scenes as an outsider. That is to have had an as
| surance that in the midst of the carousal, "Old
HaT should have come up out of his tomb shaking
his flowing locks, flashing his penetrating blue eve,
and pointing with his long arm, the unerring finger
Of scorn at the "foul crowd" and as he would
finish sentence of sarcastic rebuke, and eloquent
denunciation, tap his gold snuff box upon the lid,
and with an air of patriotic disdain, take pinch,
make his graceful bow, and retire to his vault
We can almost see him going through the motions,
as we write about it,