UNITED STATES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 648, 22 January 1859, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

j By the screw; steamer City of Washington, which .arrived; at, Liverpool ■ on, ..the 22nd, of October, we: haveadyices from. America to the 9th; ;•■■;.. ■■•>■■.■■■.■ ■

' -The British iwar steamer Valorous, which atten-ded-the ; > war steameri Agamemnon jwhile laying'the Atlantic cabiej'jis; hourly, expected : at New.' York; she being detained to convey Sir William Gore jOusely to Central. America,; where he goes to attend itOjdutiesxconnected with his ;mission./% • • ' .--.".'.' The Secretary of. State-has notified the New minister, of, ; the determination of the Suites Governmeht riot to permit the obstruction .of iftellsthmus route .to the Pacific, on' any 'considerationj neither Vwill,it.' allow of. tpnnage dues pr* a" tax onV.thejt.rarispqrtationof mttils; 'and ( .that in .pursuance' of this .resolution vessels pf have been ordered,,to the isthmus. 'TKe'right ofNew States Qovernrne'nt'a naval rendezvous and coaling station in ;the of, Panama is conceded by Mr. Cass,-but hie' considers such a refusal as impolitic and'illiberal; more 'especially as Spain at ,Mahon and Sardinia at .Spezzia had granted similar .privileges. ■' Tiie; rumofir .that '■. the United! States. Vere negotiating a secret treaty with Russia is without foundation. ..'.— . . -••:••

Mr., Eeed, Minister to China, says, in his official despatches received at Washington on the Bth, that Rafter he had' signed the treaty:he made a provisional arrangement.with,,the;commissi6ner for the adjustment of the .claims ,6f - American citizens arising out of the .difficulties ; at Cantpn, by which portions of ,the 'duties',at-Shanghai, Fuh Chau and Canton are ito be appVopriated to that end. He intended to ■visit, during .the -summer months such of _the,ports of 'Japan as might be accessiblei and return to-the United^ States, by way of Bombay in November, or. ;Decemb'er,Tiext."' : ."'. •

; "Judge Bbwlin, Commissioner to Paraguay, and Commander Page, captain' of; the fleet of the; Paraguay'expedition, left Washington on the.afternoon of the 7th for New York. Commodore Shubrick jwbuld receive his iristructibns immediately, arid" it Avas expected he1 would sail in the Sabine, carrying ithe commission, by the 13th. '

'■ The follqwing is the last New York news respectjing'tlie'Atiantic cable :^— , ' • ; ■■"-■■ /''"" ■""'. "Trinity Bay, October 8, 1858. " Peter Cooper, Esq:, New York; - "There has been no change whatever in the electrical indications. .

"De Sauty."

An extraordinary case of counterfeiting the bills of the Turkish Bank, has been discovered ait New York. iA; Mrs. SeVesti has arrived at Syra a short :tune since, on herway froth Liverpool to Constanti*' !nople. Upon the examination' of her trunks by the officer of the.1 ciistoms, it>as^ascertained that they ;had: false bottoms, between which wel>e dbnoealed '.spuribus notes on the Turkish Bank to an immense ivalue.v ■'/Step's"were then taken to find out where the IblllS w/ere'printed, and their investigation finally jresulted in tracing their- manufacture to New York. iThe case was disposed of on the Bth. Mr. Harrison, jwho pnnted the1' bills' for Madame Seyest'i, was 'honourably1 discharged.after tie had made his explanation1 of, the facts of the case. Haying no iknowledge of the Turkish language, he supposed :the matter he 'printed to be- merely labels ,with 'Chinese' Characters upon them; and tb'be used in JEastern-commerce. The plates.and "caim.es " were 'delivered'up:to the' proper authorities 'by Mr. jHarrison.- • Snow has fallen in several portions of the Union. ;At Syracuse tliere was a slight fall on the Bthy At jHornell'B-villV New York, on the previous night, the 'ground was-covered with snow to the .depth, of, three linches/ 'The-st'orm' cdmmencihg at 'the 'lakes expended east tilong thclsrie | Railroad as far as the ■Grtiat'Beua; and «tiow fell at "almost' all theinter:raediaterpiaiceßJ'' ' : •'' .-.:):■/.' .;■■■■ ■■>■■ ■•■.;. *.■.,: From St: Louis we learn that the Salt Lake Mail reached St. Joseph 6n the 25W ultimo,, 2 i but. iThefMorirfohs<¥eerrer qUiet! afidWerly the time; bf 'deptirturd j>' W 'violent '■' a'nows'torni rwas; Jeric6uHtfered. iby^tfre (train-west of^ranie.^ Th'e;lndidns oW;thb: irOUte^weteilule^^^'--^ 11 1->i::m-:M m:-j om ,nu;«i:-

' Letters from the Pacific Wugon Expedition, dated Big Sandy, Oregon, September 7, say that Colonel Lander was pushing the work with all possible despatch, with hopes of reaching Soda Springs before bad weather sets in. Two hundred miles of road were finished, and' an additional force is now at work beyond Salt River. The expedition will winter at Laramie. The health of the expedition was good. , The Norwegian ship Catarina arrived at Quebec on the 3rd instant with 22 additional persons saved from the steamer Austria. .

' The presentation of the decree of. the National Assembly of Venezuela, inviting General Paez to return to' that republic, had tiiken place at New York. The general accepted the invitation, and would return with the Commissioners.

A New Orleans telegraphic despatch says—" The steam-ship Orizaba, from Key West, found the British brig Esperanza. drifting about in the Gulf, the captain dead, and all the crew sick witli fever, and towed her into Apalachieoln." The deaths from fever at New Orleans on the 4th instant were 68, and for the week 380. : "A Washington telegraphic despatch says the Collins steamers had been tendered to Government for servicesl in;the expedition against Paraguay; with what result is not stated. ■ '

Further details are given of the burning of the New York Crystal Palace. No lives were lost. The loss is estimated at over a million dollars, and the insurance was only fifty thousand dollars, effected to cover the losses of foreign exhibitors. The property had recently become the possession of the corporation of the city. Among the works of art destroyed was Kiss's famous statue of the Amazon; and Maroclietti's mammoth statue of Washington. ;