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Colonist, Issue 26, 19 January 1858, Page 4

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UNITED STATES

We have intelligence from New" -' York to the 7th, and from New Orleans to the Bth October. . . "_

At New York, two Bremen vessels had been taken up to load' with American produce for Australia,' includirig flour, &c. The New Yorh Herald of the 7th bctober states that a terrific explosion had occurred on the Wednesday previous, ". in the Khinckerbocker plaster ( Works . of': J. B. King, situate No, 309, r West-street, /near Horatio, by the bursting of, a steam boiler. The explosion blew to atoms the factory, a three-story brick edifice of forty-four feet front, together with two three-stor}* brick dwellings: adjoining,' occupied at the by several poor families. The occurrence caused an alarm of fire, and soon a strong force of firemen were at the premises; but as the explosion did not produce any fire of consequence, they'turned their attention to the removal of the ruins to extricate the unfortunate people. One young woman was taken from the ruins dead, and several others badly injured. Five were.conveyed to the New York Hospital. The jury thought proper, in rendering a .verdict, not to cast censure upon . anybody, notwithstanding they intimated that the disaster was caused by an insufficiency of water in the boiler. Two more persons were added to the list of killed on Saturday, namely, Samuel Anderson and Richard Eliphs. The former died at the City Hospital, and the latter at 171, Varic-street, from the effects of injuries received on the occasion, of the explosion."

The True Delta of the Bth October says— " We see it announced that more than onehalf of the cotton factories at the North have suspended operations. Jamison's cottonmill, at Norristown, Perm., stopped operations on Saturday week, ■ throwing about 350 hands out of work. Macready's cottonmill has also closed, Jas. Hooven's rollingmill, W. Schall's rolling-mill, and some smaller concerns. About'7oo hands have been thrown out of work by these suspensions. Within the last three weeks there has been announced the stoppage of three factories of Georgia, which prefer to close rather than run at a.heavy loss. .. The Delta, referring to the new,, mail route, says:-—"lt is said that an arrangement has been entered into by the United States Government with ail English steamship Company, for carrying the mail between Sydney, New South Wales, and Panama, New Granada. This arrangement will bring ' Australia several : day's nearer to the United States than to England.

The Neio Yorh Tribune, of the 7th October, is full, of accounts of failures in various parts of the States. We subjoin a few particulars :—

On the 23rd September, the important paper house of Persse and Brooks, in this city, suspended payment. The liabilities are stated at 40,000 dollars; Messrs. Platner and Smith, paper-makers, Lee, Mass, have also suspended. This is one of the largest paper concerns in the country; and shows a nominal surplus of 400,000 dollars, mostly in real estate- The telegraph from Philadelphia announced the suspension of Caleb Cope, and Col, one of the-oldest and most respectable houses in that city. The Hartford Country Bank was thrown out by the receiving bank. It has been enjoined by the Bank Commissioners; capital, 300,000 dollars. It has been, we hear, lending its circulation to Western railroads.:

On Friday there were no important failures in this city;; The Boston papers' announced several failures, among which are Wrii.T. Brettand Brother,dry goods dealers. The' Rochester 'Sixpenny : Savings Bank' closed; The storm-which had been impend- 1 ing : bver Philadelphia broke. at last., The Barik : of Pennsylvania; suspended 'specie payments. The Girard Bank refused all notes and' checks' for larger, amounts than five and ten dollars, and the Commercial and,other banks adopted the -same; course. There was much alarm and almost a total suspension of business in. that city. . The streets : in. the vicinity of the banks were thronged with people, and policemen were stationed to keep in-order the crowds moving in the gangways. On* Saturday all ; the Baltimore banks suspended specie payments. The, same course. was' followed in Washington and Wheeling. Only: twO of the Ne\v Jersey banks have suspended. In, this city the announcement of the suspension of the Baltimore banks was not entirely unexpected, and created but little exlitemerit.; In regard to our, own banks no distrust is felt, and in regard to the Eastern banks, the despatches from Boston are::very: favorable. The banking houseV: here having 'correspondents at the East,- are receiving advices assuring them that no-fear is felt of the ability.of the Boston and New England banks generally to sustain themselves. "They are much stronger than they were two' or three Weeks since. The cashier of the iSuffolk bank telegraphs his correspondents here, the Metropolitan arid American Exchange, that the feeling; is more cheerful, and that the New England bank will riot suspend.. The, Ohio bankers feel confident that the banks in that State will stand. The street was cjuite excited but it was not jthe excitement of panic-r-rather that of curiosity. Every one appears confident of the strength of our City Banks, and, although there is no doubt some hoarding going on by the middle classes, there is not the slightest appearance of any disposition to withdraw deposits by the mercantile or financial classes. At the close of the day there were numerous rumors of failures, some of them very important, and, under the present impossibility of making negotiations, and almost entire annihilation of collateral values, most of the rumors are probably true.. The'most important suspension is that of Garner :and Co., a very wealthy and respectable dry goods house, with large liabilities. The bills receivable due next month are said "to reach a million

arid a half, but money enough to carry the.m through could not ■be raised upon thenr The only heavy payment of the-Erie Road' for the remainder of September was to-day" promptly met. The road is not easy, for the next week or two. The weekended with a very gloomy feeling, and apprehension of a continuance of serious' disasters.' The -Ohio Life and Trust' Company has' made an assignment.' The foregoing statements will convey, a notion of the extent and character .'of the* failures with which thecolums of the Tribune are filled.

The Government at Washington having r been apprised of further filibustering demonstrations upon Nicaragua being in project, and of a scheme, in Texas for the' invasion of the Mexican provinces contiguous to the Rio Grande, were about to issue an edict to stop these intended violations of the Neutrality Treaty, and, to prosecute all" engaged in them. The Kansas Constitutional Convention had .adjourned to third Monday in October to await the result' of the election before taking further action:"

: Scalping a Woman on the Plains.— ■■ Some weeks ago, news from Caston Valley i was published in our columns; which told' of the almost total destruction of *an imrai- ' grant train, by the Indians. .A woman," ' who \vas one of the train, was scalped, arid left for dead. It turns out, however, that* she was riot dead: and' she has since recoverecUo tell the extraordinary story- of her sufferings, and her resolute'endurance,' which deceived the savages. The Red, Bluffs Beacon ofl6th September thus tells', the tale :—An instance of the most remarkable fortitude and heartrending cruelty we ever heard of, is related to us by a black man by the name of Scott, who has recently arrived here from Missouri, by the way of the plains. He informs us that a short ' time before he arrived at Stony Point;lon' the Humboldt river, the Indians attacked a train "of six men and one woman' and child. ' The men were all killed but one, who iriade his escape. The child,was also killed,'and its mother shot in several places with arrows, , scalped, and left for dead". All while they were scalping her and stripping the, clothes from' her body, she was" perfectly. conscious' of what they were doing,-but feigned death, and let them tear the' skin? from her head without even giving signs of > life, knowing that if she did, they would either dispatch her at once or take her into hopeless captivity. At one time'when they" had left her for a moment, she ventured to. change her position, in order, if possible,, to' relieve herself from the uncomfortable, position in which she was lying, but'on their return they very soon discovered that she had moved, and for fear that her life might yet be instinct, they took hold of the arrows that were still sticking in her body, and worked them about m the wounds and' pushed them deeper into her flesh, and' stamped upon her with their heels. All this she endured without uttering a groan, or drawing a breath that could be perceived 1 by savages, and in that condition was left' as food for the wolves. ; Fortunately, however, a train came along before she had lain.long in that condition, and dressed her .wounds, and brought her along with* them, and not the least remarkable fact attending the whole matter, is, that she is fast recovering from her wounds; her head we are told,, is nearly well and the arrowwounds doing better than any one expected. ■ — American Paper.