AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1875, Page 6

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

The Spanish steamer Thomas B-nods, from Sanriago de Guba, hound lor Goan■namo, struck onM'-rillo, near Guananamo. and sank, imimdiately ; thirty lives were lost. The Cuban insurgents are operating •uccessfully. In an' engagement at S/m j Gregorio recently tixty sddiers were killed and much booty caprurt-d. The vdlage wasfi'ed, and the Spanish garrison surrendered after a fight. j Twenty- five Spanish soldiers telongine i >o the Arthltry garrisoning Fort St. Hi I - laco, iv Central Cuba, revolted and f^zed a coasting schooner, and under threat of death ordere 1 the c*pt»in to take them to a neighboring island. The captain set sail a d ran his vessel aground. He then went to the nearest military post and informed the commander of the occurrence. He arrested the deserters, eleven of whom j were shot next da\ and the rest imprisoned, j Twenty three bodies have been reco- j vered from the wreck ol the steamer Empire at New Orleans William Blake, a member of the Call- I fornian Board of Brokers, suddenly defarted with about 10 000 dollars entrusted to him for the purohbs of sfock. A tornado at Tuc'mbia (.?.), Alabama, destroyed one hundred buildings, killing sixty persons. William Westgartb, who is apt cially dispatched by the N.. S. W. Gov-rnment to secure specimens of Californian industry" 'or the Metropolitan Exhibition at Sydney, i« engaged at San Francisco, and is endeavoring to open up wine trade relations between California and Sydney. The damage done at Jamaica by the late typhoon is estimated at 350.000 dollars. . A conference of a committee re presenting the Presbyterian bodies in the Unittd States and Canada, has been held at New York, to bring into a representative federa-, tion all the. chnrches in the world which adhere to the Presbyterian tenets. A grand encampment of the Knight Templars of the United Sratesdecided to prescribe no radical change. in the uniform. A white dress, distinguishedby a;baldrick, plume, and gauntler, was confirmed. Tbe negro in Arkansas who ravished two sisters and killedoue, was takenout of «aol and lynched, being riddled with bullets. ; Further strikes have occurred in New York. A newspaper row. in Merced resulted in a stepson of. the proprietor. of the.'. Argus', •"hoofing aad killing, the editor, of, the., 'Tribuue.' There , waa .'".the. i "greatest diffi-J to prevent the lynching of thelassasMO. . < New Yo^k and Boston wqpl 'reports, to December 7th, notice an .improvement . in Drices. The Boston report, jsta^es-r-*- An active demand has sprung .up! for fine -avid" desirable lots of fleece. ,'. t Tbe".wpo|i $ransacMona of the we r 'k; Ijaye .Jjejen large. Manufacturers are Evidently short .pX'stpcl?, and are compelled to [purchase ',f rom week to week^jpc.^t^iKol^rarfi^r jt'hat aU "thjewool thejr' have ,'6n., hand wiil; be wanted. . Slin |Ja r^.e L m V^ -W& lp.oku^.rp^dVfoir;'Dnie* fleece^and haye been fpr'somel we,ekH . pasta Vj'Dg.tb bear down .the barret one. to two .ceqta per* pound,, But holders. -,%! : , their position to, pe.,;a strong one. * : ForflejecieWool* ;cbnceisionß, are ji'a w^ojit.of , question. ■' ■J 4T. ging masked? robtejra a nagg^'e Jr£^ £ a ££^S"W,*#er .^p^esßman,,'and,-Btole between" WOOfrabd WOOO dbl^f sV£j^ ? An earthquake at Mexico caused some loss of lite by falling buildings.