AMERICA.
The City of Manchester arived at Liverpool on the 17th March, bringing American news to the 3rd.
Congress was in a state of confusion, as usual when within a day or two of the expiration of the session.
As a last resort for securing adequate provision for the wants of government, the United States Senate had made an amendment to the General Appropriation Bill, authorising an issue of Treasury notes to the extent of 20,000,000 dollars. The House would have to concur in this movement
A proposition providing for home valuations upon imports was voted down in the Senate. The House of Representatives had passed the Senate's resolutions authorising the President to confer the rank of senior flag officer upon Commodore Stewart. The vote which defeated the Ocean Mail Service Bill was reconsidered, and the bill was again rejected. • The House refused to concur in the Senate's amendment to the Post Office Appropriation Bill, which raises the rate of inland postage from 3c to sc. .......
Mr. Smith O'Brien had visited both Houses of Congress, and met with a cordial reception from manyimembers. A fire had occurred at Memphis, Tennessee, destroying property in Main street to the value of 150,000 dollars. Five newspaper establishments were burned down.
The following scene had taken place in a Kentucky law court. An old political feud has existed for some time between Thomas S. Low, of Hawesville, and Cicero Maxwell, of Hartford, Kentucky, the prosecuting attorney for that district. Mr. Low had threatened to cowhide Mr. Maxwell on meeting him. On the 2nd df March, while Mr. Maxwell was addressing the court at Hawesville, he was interrupted by Mr. Lowe denouncing in grossly insulting language. Mr. Maxwell and others then fired several shots at Mr. Lowe, wounding him in the thigh and arm, cutting off his thumb, and riddling his shirt. A general fire with pistols ensued, arid John Alfliidge, a friend of Mr. Low's, was killed, and a Mr. Miller shot through the thigh. Mr. Low has been committed to gaol for protection from the mob. . Prom Canada we have the following. On the 28th ultimo the House, of Assembly at Toronto resolved, by a vote of 43 to 16, that the" per diem of members should be increased from 4 dollars to 6 dollars. This action is denounced by the ' Globe'/ opposition organ, as being "to the sliainedf df the Government." "There is little hope left," that paper says, "of even ordinary retrenchment in the present session." ' The seat of Government question continues to agitate the Canadians. Ottawa is to be,the eventual capital; that point is settled, but while Ottawa is getting ready, the Government will leave Toronto, and make a temporary settlement in Quebec. There have been four removals since 1841, costing in the aggregate £427,916. A report is current that the removal to Ottawa will be postponed to an indefinite period, and this enconrages the people of the lower province to hope that Quebec may yet be the permanent capital. _ « A bill for the protection of squatters has been read a second time and referred to a select committee. There are large tracts of land in JLower Canada owned by non-resident proprietors, who have totally neglected their property. Persons have settled on these lands without title, and the object of the bill is to compel the, proprietors, whenever they remove the squatters, to .pay them for their improvements. It encountered consider rable opposition, but its passage is conceded.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XI, Issue 686, 4 June 1859, Page 3
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