AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 601, 7 August 1858, Page 3

AMERICA.

The 'Washington Despatch,* on the 6th of April, says:—"Judging from present indications, the Deficiency Appropriation Bill, embracing about 8,000,000 dollars for the army, Avill be defeated in its present form. There is^an increasing disposition in the Congress to check further movements of the Utah expedition. The entire military force contemplated to be thrown ihtd Utah is about 5000 men." • It is reported that the President Will appoint a commission to proceed to Utah, for the purpose of inducing the Mormons to yield obedience, by representing the determination of the government to reduce them to submission, and the uselessness of opposition. Governor Powell and Major M'Culloch are spoken of as the com-* - missioners. The Washington correspondent of the ' New" York Herald' says:—The Senate and House Committees on foreign alfairs are about to recommend the immediate abrogation of the Clay-ton-Buhver treaty. Negotiations to that effect are now going on at Washington, between the United States and Great Britain. The English Government is said to have no objections to the abrogation of the treaty, provided certain concessions are made in Central America. The steam ships of the Collins line — the Adriatic, Baltic, and Atlantic—have been sold by auction, by order of the Sheriff. They were sold together, and brought 50,000 dollars. The liens on the property amounted to 657,000 dollars. The purchaser was Dudley B. Fuller', of the firni of Enller, Ix>rd, & Co., iron merchants-. It is said that the sale was a mere farce, and that they will soon be on the ocean again. . Two weeks' later news from Camp Scolfc, Utah, has been received. The troops were in goofl health; and as Colonel Johnston lial ISOO

and 1000 animals in good condition, the impression was that he would not wait for reinforcements, but he would proceed as soon as practicable. Nothing positive was known of the intentions of the Mormons, as all commuication with Salt Lake City was prohibited. The opinion was entertained that the Mormons -will adopt a gueriila mode of warfare, and that it will take a couple of years to subdue them. General Persifer Smith had been appointed Coinniander-in-Chief of the Utah, expedition, much to the indignation of General Harney, who, it is said, had Tefused to serve second in command, although he had been ordered to Utah in that capacity. A Washington telegram says:—" It is.stated* that the President will submit a message to Congress, as soon as the Kansas business is disposed of, with reference. to our relations with Spain and Cuba, and to other matter affecting our interests on the American continent."

It is said that a proposition had been favour^ ably entertained for the amalgamation of all the banks of New York city into one great institution, similar in its working to the Bank.of England or the Bank of France.

The returns of the State .election in Connect icnt leave no doubt of the success of the Republican party. The steamer Sultan was burned to the water's edge, and sunk near St. Genevieve, Missouri, and between fifteen and twenty persons are supposed to have lost their lives by the catastrophe. The Sultan was bound for New Orleans with a fuil cargo of produce, which, together with the boat, would be totally lost. -

The House of Representatives was in a state of great excitement on the Bth instant, and the galleries were all crowded. Mr. Montgomery moved that the House should adhere to its decision adopting the Crittenden substitute for the Kansas Bill. The previous question was moved, and the yeas and nays were taken amid breathless silence. The motion to adhere was carried by 119 votes to 111, two members pairing off, one for and one against the bill. It was thought that the Senate would, ask fora committee of conference.

An attack was made on the Secretary of the Interior in the hall of the department on the forenoon of the Bth. Peter Bansangon, a Frenchman of New Orleans, who was dismissed from the Pension Office some months back, and refused a reappointment by the Secretary of the Interior, in revenge, sought that official at the Land Office on the morning in question, and as the Secretary came out of the private office presented a pistol at him. Mr. Thompson instantly struck the pistol from his hand, caught Bensancon by the arm, threw him down and jumped on him, breaking his arm, and then picked up the pistol and returned to his office.

The Rhode Island State Election took place on the 7th, and resulted in the complete triumph of the American Republicans, they having elected their whole state ticket and large majorities in both branches of the General Assembly.

A despatch from St. Louis (says the ' Herald' of the 10th) states that advices had been received theve from Fort Kearney, to the effect that Brigham Young had notified General Johnston to leave Utah by the 10th of March, otherwise lie would be annihilated by the Mormons. There is not a word of truth in this report. Our last advices from Camp Scott are to the Ist of March, and if any threat of the kind had been made it would have reached General Jolmstou by that time.

The "revival," or as it is more generally called " the great awakening," has now for two months divided the public attention with the Lecompton constitution. The former is certainly one of the most remnvkab.e movements of modern times, and, as regards the earnestness which characterises it and the wideness of the area over which it has been diffused, has certainly had no parallel since that initiated in the last centurj' by Jonathan Edwards. It nowhere wears so extraordinary an aspdqt; as in New York, though none of the greatii'iti^s have been exempt from its influence. The contagion has spread far and wide. Every little JSTew

"England town has riaw'its'three prayer-meetings n dayi'and-.its weekly list of" hopeful conversations'." New 'York prayer-meetings telegraph "grace, mercy, arid peacej" followed by a string of scriptural phrases, and a verse or *t\yo of a ( hymn; to prayer-meetings in Thila'delphia, and are answered, by the same means, in the same' ■strain. i