The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-05

The steamship Niagara, which left Liverpool on
the 29d ult., had not arrived at Halifax last night
when the telegraph Offices closed. 1t is perhaps
due to the public to state that the Nova Scotia
Telegraph Company have, regardless of the wishes
Of large majority of the leading journals of the
country, and of the owners of the telegraph lines
west of Nova Scotia put an end to the foreign news
Arrangements which have existed during the past
ten years; and il is understood that private parties
may attempt to use the European news for specu-
htiye purposes For the present, therefore, the
public should stand upon their guard. As soon as
the Niagara news comes to hand it will be made
public upon the bulletin boards and until then the
commercial public must be at the mercy of specu-
lators
The Quaker City has arrived at New Orleans with
Havana advices to the I'd instant, but they contain
no news of general interest. The sugar market
Continued dull, with stock Of 100000 boxes on
hand
The letter from our correspondent in Kingston
Jamaica, published to-day is very interesting as
showing the progress of serious revolutionary
movement on the island II is quite evident that
war Of color and race has been inaugurated there
which will almost certainly end in the utter ruin of
the colony If still governed as at present. Sou
louque, the exEmperor of Hayti, spent most of his
time in gambling with one of his former ministers.
NJ Salemon, who managed his exNlajesty's finances
had lodged the greater portion of the money remit
ted to England in the bank in his own name; so
Soulouque finds himself less rich than he imagined.
By the arrival of the overland mail we have adj
vices from San Francisco to the 18th ult The
news is unmportant. The markets were unchanged.
The ship Manitou, from New York, arrived on the
az fho ANN obopc oocth o.a
who supposed that she was destroyed by fire. The
arrival of the ship John Sidney is reported. The
mail brings news of desperate conflict between a
party of forty men, under Mr. Bishop at the crossing
of the Colorado river on the 10th of March last and
Some six or seven hundred Indians. The fight last
ed three hours, and large number of the Indians
were slain. Bishop, however, was compelled to re-
treat. Col. Hoffman had started in pursuit of the
hostile Indians with the intention of chassinr them
severely.
Late accounts from the Sandwich Islands state
that the British Consul General and other English
men were about to erect marble monument to
mark the spot where Captain Cook, the renowned
navigator and dscoverer of the islands, was muir
de~ed by the savage natives.
The Prussian frigate Geffeon arrived at Norfolk
yesterday from Vera Cruz all well. She will re.
ihdih at n oriolk elght or ten days.
The quarrel between the Legislative Council of
Canada on the one side and the Ministry and As.
semby of that province on the other, relative to
the removal of the seat Of government from To
ronto to Quebec, pending the erection Of the ne
cessary buildings at Ottawa, the permanent capital
has been satisfactorily arranged the supply bills
passed, and the Parliament prorogued.
The Board Of Education held their usual fort
nightly meeting last evening. resolution offered
by Commissioner Green, authorizing the Committee
on Sites and School Houses to select site in the
Fourteenth ward for the erection of q colored
school house, was adopted. The Board then went
into Committee of the Whole to consider the repor
of the Executive Committee on Normal Schools. in
favor of establishing a daily Normal scdooI for
females. After much discussion the committee had
proceeded as far as the thirteenth section Of the
report-the sections which they DISPOSED OF heinz
merely in reference to the government Of the pro
posed school-when they reported progress. The
thirteenth section of the report was then made the
special order after the third order Of business at the
next meeting. A resolution was adopted authoriz
ing the officers of the Third ward to lease the pre-
misses 1G7 and 100 Robinson street, for the estab
fishing of new school, and appropriating 80 900
lor hitting them up for that purpose An appropria
uon OF s4670 was made for furnishing and fitting
up ward School No. TO- in the Fifteenth ward.
Inc commissioners Of Emigration met yesterday
AFTERNOON communication from John E. Deylin
addressed 70 the VicePresdent of the Board, in re
ference 10 the placing of the yellow fever buoys at
Quarantine was read 1t stated that not only had
the commissioners no authority to incur the ex.
pense OF placing them, but that the statute posi-.
lively prohibits them from doing it. The Commit.
tee which had the subject of the landing of emf
grants referred to them reported that they should
be landed at the expense of the ship that brings
them here; that in no case should the Commission.
ers be responsible for their baggage, and that an
agreement should be made with some of the princi
pal railroads for conveying them, at the lowest
fares possible into tie interior The report occa.
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