LATEST FROM AMERICA. [From the " Melbourne Papers."]

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 698, 22 December 1852, Page 3

LATEST FROM AMERICA. [From the " Melbourne Papers."]

We have New York journals direct to the 27th July. The great question of questions was the approaching election of President and Vice-Presi-dent ; and the Whigs were using their most strenuous exertions to secure the election of General Scott to the chief office, and Mr. Graham to that of vice. The hon. J. P. Kennedy, of Maryland, has been appointed Secretary of the Navy, in the place of William A. Graham, resigned ; Humphrey Marshall had been nominated for the China Mission, The fishing business is much agitated in the Eastern States. It is reported that Commodore Long is to proceed at once to the mouth of the St. Lawrence with the steam-frigate Saranac and the sloop-of-war Albany, for the purpose of protecting the fishermen in their rights. We learn from Texas, that GeneraJ Avalos is supposed to be preparing a coupd 1 ctat for the Mexican Government. From the Plains, we have the sad intelligence of the massacre of Captain Marcy and a party of eighty men by the Camanche Indians. They are paying frightfully dear for the annexation of these ferocious savages in the disgraceful Texas and Mexico jobs. A public parade was to have been held in honor of Thomas Francis Meagher, the escaped Irish Exile. Attempts were being made to revolutionise Mexico. Some fearful gales had swept the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and several shipwrecks were the consequence. Bishops Chanche and Henshaw of the Episcopalian Church were dead. Several fires are recorded, particularly in Albany, where an immense quantity of property was destroyed, and several lives lost.