ATLANTIC STATES OF AMERICA. (From the "Sydney Empire," Sept. 7.)

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 673, 25 September 1852, Page 3

ATLANTIC STATES OF AMERICA. (From the " Sydney Empire," Sept. 7.)

By the arrival of the Helena, at Melbourne, from New York, intelligence from the United States, to the Bth of June, has been received. The utmost excitement prevailed respecting the approaching election for the Presidential Chair. A democratic convention had been held at Baltimore, when, after forty-eight ineffectual ballots for a democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was nominated by a large majority, and W. R. King-, of Alabama, was nominated a candidate for the Vice-Pre-sidency. The Whig Candidate was General Scott. A great fire occurred at Montreal, on the 7th June, involving serious loss of life, and of property to the amount of more than £250,000. The venerable Americaii patriot Henry Clay, continued in a very precarious state of health. The arrival of Mr. Thomas Francis O'Meagher, one of the Irish prisoners, transported to Van Diemen's Land, had caused a" great sensation in the public mind. A series of resolutions were brought forward in reference to the event by the municipal authorities, the substance of which is contained in the following : — Resolved, that his honor the Mayor, Ambrose C. Kingsland, be, and he is hereby requested to tender to the renowned Thomas Francis Meagher the hospitalities of the City, and that he be received by the Common Council in a manner worthy of the man and of the cause he espoused

and that the day of reception should, if possible, lie fixed for Thursday, the 10th of June instant. Mr. O'Meaghor, had published in the New York Tribune, a vindication of his conduct in escaping from Van Diemen's Land. Kossuth was in Mew York again. lie had been enthusiastically received at Albany, and other places, and large sums of money given him. He indignantly denied the charge of collecting money for his personal profit. His mother and sisters were expected daily in New York, and it ■was Kossuth's design to establish them in a school in Connecticut. The Council of Catholic Bishops at Baltimore had decreed that eight or ten new Bishoprics should be added to the Church in the United States, and also that the mass should henceforth be said or sung in English. These decrees must, however, be endorsed at Rome by the Pope, before they have any validit3 r . The Benton Standard says, "We are credibly informed that a rich mine of silver ore has been lately discovered by Dr. Smith, in the vicinity of Callatin, Saline county. The discovery was made by the doctor in exploring a vein of lead when he discovered what he took to bo silver ore, and in order to be certain sent to St. Louis for a mineralogist who, in analysing the ore, extracted fifteen per cent of iron and lead." A "Woman's Rights Convention" was sitting at Winchester, in Pennsylvania. The great points insisted upon were equal political privileges with men, and medical education for women. Doctors (Misses) Harriet Hunt, and Elizabeth Blackwell, were amongst those who addressed the meeting. A vast number of ladies and gentlemen attended the Convention.