Northern Times. — 1859-09-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LATEST FROM AMERICA.  ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA  The British and North American royal mail steamship Africa,, Captain Shannon, arrived in the Mersey yesterday morning from New York, whence she sailed on Wednesday, the 14th inst., bringing journals to that date. Besides the usual mails, the Africa brought $390,266 in specie. She also brought 70 passengers. The Persia from Liverpool, on the 3rd instant, had not arrived off Sandy Hook at one o'clock, a.m. on Wednesday, the 14th. The intelligence received by this arrival is interesting in many particulars, although not containing anything of very great importance in itself. The elections are occupying a large degree of attention, and respecting that, for New York, the Herald has the following remarks : The State ticket and platform of the republican party of New York, for our local November campaign, are before our readers. The ticket includes a fair admixture of old line Whigs and original Van I3uren free soil democrats, and a. very liberal allowance of canal men but the concession of only one candidate to the anxious straggler of the Know-Nothing faction, but who repudiated the order before he was adopted, falls far short of their expectations. But even this concession was " not on the slate?' It was an after-thought, forced upon the Convention by the energetic General Nye, who, it also appears, exercised his peculiar eloquence with decisive effect against a resolution complimentary to Governor Morgan. This is the result of the somewhat independent coarse of the governor in regard to the Metropolitan .police. It is to be hoped, however, that he will graciously pocket the affront thus administered, and remember next time that to a man in his Position all considerations of the public good must be held secondary to the demands of party.  hpaajr, et yp, fromut be theirfore hlea t people eo p Connlev e onftNi oelNvhae York roSerpykur ab: cl usi esta nae ,te ticket selected from their most available politicians of different stripes, and a string of Bun6ombe resolutions which, like " the three polar. stars" of the Hon. Tittlebat Titmouse, promise " everything to everybody ;" and thus marshalled and harnessed for the fight, they appear to be confident of an easy victory. They say that their forces are united ; they are flattering themselves that the wranglng democracy are hopelessly divided, and that the rump of the late American party is too contemptible to be noticed. But upon the main issue of the canvass, which they have carefully disguised from the public e 3 e, the managers of our republican camp ought to be, can be, and may be, defeated in their calculations. In reference, then, to our State affairs, we regard with comparative indifference the clamour on each side against the other. It is " all sound and fury, signifying nothing." But upon the great underlying and overshadowing issue, which has been so carefully put in the background by the republican scene-shifters, this approaching November election of ours may be more momentous in its consequences than any other of the last fifty years. This great issue to which we refer is the question of the endorsement or rejection by. New York of W. H. Seward for the next Presidency. His name is not mentioned in the republican Syracuse resolutions, nor can we find the remotest allusion to him in them or in the debates of the Convention ; but his portrait adorned the hall of the Convention, as the image of the presiding genius of the party, and we may rest assured, in the event of a republican triumph, that the result will be claimed as equivalent to the deliberate vote of New York for W. H. Seward for the Presidential succession, Rochester platform and all. In regard to the boundary dispute with this country, the paper already quoted says :  Our advices from the Pacific indicate a considerable degree of excitement in regard to the question of the right of sovereignty over the Arroo islands, lying between Washington Territory and Vancouver's Island. Previous despatches had made known the fact that the island of San Juan, the principal of the group, had been occupied by a few of our troops ; and now we learn that reinforcenients hadbeen sent there, as if Gen. Harney apprehended that an attempt would be made to dislodge them. Governor Douglass had declared his intention of sending. English troops there, and a rumour was also got up to the effect that thirty Americans had been killed in an attack made on the island by the British steamer Satellite. We do not attach the slightest importance to this last report, regarding it as a mere attempt to add to the excitement, an, if possible, to precipitate a collision, which could not fail to lead to deplorable results.  With respect to business prospects for the " fall trade," the New York Herald says :  That the coming business season is to Vbe a prosperous one, in a financial point of view, is to be seen in the number of stores and mercantile buildings of every kind which are springing up in our city. Some six or seven years ago, the wholesale dry goods trade was in a great measure confined to that portion of the city lying below Barclay-street. Suddenly it made an up-town stride, and we find it taking possession of the neighbourhood included between Barclay and Chambers-streets and Broadway and the North river. All the old shanties and tumble-down dwellings which formerly characterised that locality, where levelled to the ground, and splendid palaces now occupy their plaCes. One can hardly believe that the Churchstreet of to-day, is the Church-street of five or SiT vonra  ago. This fill business seems to manifest a disposition to take another up-town leap. Many of the old buildings and tenements located between Chambers and Canal and west of Broadway, some of them nearly a century old, are now in course of rapid demolition to make way for beautiful stores. This fact is but a sign of the increasing prosperity of our affairs, and merchants and tradesmen may look forward to a pecuniary harvest this autumn.  Several suicides have taken •place in. New York. Mr. Alfred Freeman, proprietor of the International Hotel, committed suicide on Thursday in the house, by cutting his throat. He had been ill for a week of slow fever and a nervous attack, which doubtless caused aberation of mind, and led to the suicide. Anna Gosliercer, of No. 76, Cannon-street, had been afflicted with rheumatism in one of her feet, and on Thursday took three ounces of laudanum, which put a