ARRIVA OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 987, 18 March 1881, Page 3

ARRIVA OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars hayh been snb'scihed for ex President Grant, Gould, Vanderbilt, M’Kay, and E. D, Mprgamgive 25,0)0 lols. each. Kihg Kulak aw, Of the Sandwiok Islands, baa amvfid in ‘Sa'n Francisco. Ha proposes to’ diSik the’ dififertut Asiitio and Enrep^annationi, "wish tho view of finding cot the most feasible.means of attracting.a a desirable elase of emigrants to the islands to take the place of the natives, who are doomed to rapi 1 extinction. Meetings in favor of the' Irish ’-Land League have bein' -held ; in Ban Franoieeo. They wefs largely attended hy the citiiens, aaJ.tho feeling manifested was very thosiastis. , *•

■ . •_ . :,n . ione.x'l r-afcCT ~ Andrapcrtsnt •UtemaatMT' made’that J ilif iruiiin who it is detsriorating This is attribute! to impiverishiug the land by growing year after year the fame kind o( crops without fertilising it. The Now Vork Legislature has refused to pass a resolution of sympathy with the t ash people an I of regret at the course taken by the British Government. The Irish National Land League -at Bps* ton has appeals 1 to the American people for aid an 1 sympathy for Ireland and denouncing England. Two barrels of nitroglycerine, oartidge# were recently shippel aboard a sound steamer at N w Vo k with a view to blow her up but the vessel's oirriers acting suspiciously, caused an examination, and the explosive was it one thrown overboard'. Despite all the precautions taken at the Portsmouth Barracks against the' Fenians, brass commons and connections belonging to the tire-hose wore cat oat and stolen. Twenty thousand miners attended a meeting of the League in Lancashire, and afterwards repaired to Atherton colleriis, where a desperate riot ensued. Hussars, infantry, and police were on the ground, I and after reading the Riot Act, the c ivaly I charged the m >b. Several miners and policemen were injured. ’’ t , Fearing a Fenian attack, police - cnard Mr Gladstone's residence, and attend him at a distance. .' A vessel has arrived at Plymouth with, the figure-head of the lost training ship Atalanta. Strick precautions are taken in every • port of the United Kingdom on account of ' the Fenian agitation. ■ Remarkable . vigilance is used at the Houses of Parliaj meat, and tbs troops even in London are confined to barracks. | \n infernal machine containing a pound of gunpowder waa found in London ! Square. Three policemen were shot in EUagburgh, nan seriously, in making an arrest of two men for larking about the Custom Houaet One of the arrested parties committed suicide. They are supposed to be Irish Americans. j, Jay Gould has ordered 15,000 tons of si eel ra ds in England at 60 dollars par ton A meeting of the Roman Qatholio Bishops of Ireland has been convoked by ! the Archbishop to consider the new Laud j Bill. I Some inexperienced burglars, in attempt- ' inp to get into the money vault of B. j Palmer and Co.’s paper warehouse in New Orleans recently, blew the whole front of the building out. Michael Davitt, the Land League agitator, waa arretted on 3rd of February, under his ticket-of-leave. He was taken to Milbauk Penitentiary, and immediately .clothed as i convict. The arrest waa made in Dublin, and the cause assigned is that he had not reported himself to, the police. Egan. Brennan, and Dillon fried to see him at the cast], but were refused, the detectives bavins left with their prisoner for London The doctor .idvised Davitt to go to the Hospital as soon as he arrived in prison It is not excepted that he will ha detaine I af'er order has bean restored in Irelan I It is said that the real caa-e of D.ivitr’s arrest was his connection with the new movement to look to the emp'oymanof.physici.il foioe in solving the Irish quest I tion. i Orders have been piven to treat Davitt | with all possible Indulgences. He ocI copies* room with bedding, and is kept apart from the other convicts. He will he su‘ject to ordinary prison labor, but | must wear the convict dress. I Patriok Roan, Treasurer to the Land ; League, has the League funds in Paris toavoid p •ssible c >nfi-cation now the Coer, cion Bill is passe 1. Ho semis string ap--1 peals to America for material aid.