AMERICAN NEWS. [From the New Zealander, April 9]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 811, 11 May 1853, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS. [From the New Zealander, April 9 ]

It was proposed to erect monuments in several localities in honour of the late Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. The disorders in the interior of Mexico are rapidly bearing their fruit on the Northern frontier. At Matamoros, a body of the National Guard have revolted, and, with a ; d from the flibustiers oil the Texan side, have beaten General Avalds at the head of 1,500 men. We do not hear that Canales or any of his officers were concerned in the movement, but they are not likely to have been far off when such work was going on. Last year Ava'os drove them out of the country, but now the circumstances are different. We may receive the declaration of independence of the Republic of the Sierra Madre. That will probably be annexed sometime before Cuba is. A tremendous gale swept over Lake Erie and many disasters were the consequence. Delayed here by excessively bad weather, we had the opportunity of hearing a lecture by the Rev. Theodore Parker, of Boston. The subject was " The True and false Gentleman." I think the Doctor delivered this discourse, some time since, in Boston ; but it is none the less I excellent on that account. His audience was j very large. Miss Mildred A. Spafford, a young woman of great genius, is preparing a series of lectures on Woman's Rights, to be delivered in New York during the winter. Miss Spafford is a reformer of the Weber school. We travelled with her from Buffalo to Cleveland and found her to be a very agreeable person. She dresses iv semi-masculine style, wearing a blue cloth sack mantle, and a gentleman's waistcoat of buff cassimere, effulgent with plain flat gilt buttons — a very pretty costume for a pretty woman. Mrs. M. F. Anneke is expected to lecture here in January, in German, on Woman's affairs. She is a native of Germany, I believe. So you see, ttie ladies will not suffer for want of champions. The funeral obsequies of Daniel Webster took place on the 16th November with the most imposing solemnities. It is hardly yet time (writes the New York Tribune) to speculate on the formation of President Pierces Cabinet, but a fierce contest has already commenced for the seat therein which is presumed to be due to the State of New York. Mr. Webster's executors have given notice that they will publish, or cause to be published, a complete edition of his works, and have requested that all persons who may have letters or other writings of permanent value from Mr. Webster's pen may transmit the originals or certified copies for the use of the editor or editors of those works. This is well, and we trust the proposed publication will be every way complete. While Mr. Webster lived, it was deemed expedient by his editors (most unwisely, in our judgment,) to suppress some of his earlier Federal and anti-war speeches, lest their diffusion should impede his progress to the Presidency ; but now all such considerations have perished, and we trust the authorised standard edition of Mr. Webster's Life and Writings will be complete, though it should be found necessary to extend it to a dozen full octavos. There had been 35 deaths by cholera, and 19 by yellow fever in New Orleans in one week. At Charleston cholera was on the decrease. A disease resembling the cholera or yellow fever, has broken out in Norfolk. Madam Sontag's first concert in America came off on the 28th ultimo. . The receipts amounted to upwards of 6,000 dollars, A barn has been burned in Exeter, and another in Richmond, both belonging to magistrates who decided against mem arrested for resisting an officer in enforcing the liquor law.