THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3493, 4 May 1874, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OF THE CYPHRENES. , [By Telegbaph.] • • Auckland, May 2. ihe E-.M.SiS. Oyphrenes arrived here to-day, at foup o clock, with the English mails via San Francisco. She arrived at Kandavau, from Sydney,, on the 19fch April, and transferred a u d P a ! sen S era ' to the Mikado. She left with, the Mikado's mails and passengers for JNewr Zealand on the evening pf the 27th of April, The Oyphrenes brings 200 tons of cargo for Auckland. She proceeds South early to-mor-row morning. The Mongol arrived at Kandavau from New Zealand on the , 17th April, doing the trip in three days sixteen hours, and she sailed for Sydney on the 25th ultimo. The Mikado arrived from San Francisco on the 23rd April and exchanged mails and passengers with the. Mongol and the Oyphrenes. She started with *J"S passengers on the evening ™ tSdlpS.* 11 ' 20 " 1 ' “ ndH -“- s: . AMERICAN NEWS. Ihe excitement’is immense regarding the strike of machinists on the Erie Radway. A detachment of troops and the Wyoming Artit lensts with four field pieces, accompanied by deno? 8 ’ ° UCe Bfcafcione(i about the town S „5 e * d ® pot P r( >P er ty was taken posses--SSS3T despatched gurled b, - l\ e ■ Pra(^e Unions here united in an appeal labor organisations of the country, and insist iJP, 0 ? ma king eight hours day labor. They bold mass meetings on the 11th May, in express opposition to the contract system of Govern* hient buildings, * •«-' -

Congress has legalised theosane of 41,000,000 dollarfc Tyrra,\ a'bbmsppndent* of Commercial,’ shot -and killed Harry Myers in Covihgton; . He>vas a law partner with a; United States: Senator, --Stephenson Dlyers was counsel for Tyrrell’s wife, who had ”1 vr a '* lvorc ®- The shooting occurred tiens™ 8 whde Ixo was taking deposiA destructive fire has occurred at Camp’s P "■ Ti “ k "" e “ ta “ ted Au inquiry is to be made on behalf of Her Majesty s Government, in respect to the relation of British subjects captured bn board the Virgimus and shot, with a view to securing compensation from the Spanish Government ■d shops of the Atlantic and Jracific Railroad Company have been destroyed hyte' Ihe loss is calculated at fiOOO.OOOdoIs. ,York an immense, conspiracy to cheat the revenue out of the whisky tax was discovered. Ihe fraud has been conducted so as to cheat the Government out of tea million' dollars yearly. . , Letters from Ur , Livingstone to Mr Stanley are in the possession qf the American Consul at Zanzibar, to be delivered in person. All of Livingstone s papers and discoveries,' sealed and * addressed to the Secretary of State, are in the possesion °f Mr Arthur Lang. * Of his death re Portedthat on May Ist he took to his tbe 4 tb became insensible, and died S” W ben first seized he said he inY< i rk 4.i? e^ ald ’ appealtJ to Presi- - v . eto the Currency Inflation Bill. A ternble snow-storm and blockade has 00~ donei m ® lerra ‘ be trains wore abanvoSf ion nim^ a i H * ÜBe of Hepresentatives has voted IOO.OOOdoIs to capture outlaws in the western portions of that State. theChuS Sta ° y ’ andmany tbreaten te leave t, Severe earthquakes, have been experienced at Bald Mount, North Carolina, accompanied by a constant loud noise. The citizens in the fleeing. Religious meetings are. hpld nightly, and large numbers have made preparations for the end of the world. There is great religious excitement near New York. Prayer meetings were held for sixteen .days oensecntively The people are leaving their cattle &n a ake care themselves. j B ® lß ?ippi steamer, the Crescent City; exi ,JS ere £- a gr ,f afc f trike on the Erie Railroad works. Five hundred troops were called oqt. and forty engines disabled, the strikers having : possession of parts of. the machinery, j The loss to the Company is 1,000,000d015. f Commercial Company is being ! phnrl f nSCO to “Qnopohse the .trade with . Ja-pan. The scheme is recommended by the House Committee to commence with a fiv^miilion^d t0 fifty yeara> aad a capital of'. i mu j. ' , *,. ■ London, March 10. , The directors of the Bank of Australia > have declared a half-yearly dividend on theoapital of •the bank (Ll,200,000) at the rate of 11 per cent per annum. . chairman of the Anstralhao Congregational Union, isdead.. Dr Featherston proceeded ; to Plymouth to inquire into the return of the Atrato. which .left London on February 10, with Now'kealand : Bi w She to Plymouth March 6. -It appears that, the- low-pressure l , pi ston broke and: the cylinder cracked. . She will have to be docked. TaUennan’s Australian meat agency sbnwn a profit of L 1,8891 for the half-yeS eJuSTIS per cent. One-fifth is payable to Tallennan as manager. A dmdend of 10 per cent has been'ift 1 G7O T n e ,?°? p , an y his been extended, and, its 1,672 unaUotted shares 'taken at par. Earl Pembroke has-been appointed Under-* Secretary for War. The appointment Causes 1 great surprise, owing to Pembroke’s youth and' inexperience. J , W ° f and his .bride’s jour-'. SmnH 1 St. Petersburg to London was onp of, triumph. There were demonstrations and re-.: joicings m Germany and Belgium. At Gravesa band adies flowers, in theu: ; Smce his 1 imprisonment in Newgate, the' iichborne claimant refuses to answer to any* name but that of Tichborne. His hair hrt been propped, mid he has been dressed in prison-' I He seems to' take kindly, to - picldng {«fsfe gantip ex^ ion is *» b « held in Paris . m1»75, supported by private means, with the patronage of the. Government. ,•, , Mr PlimsoU has been presented with an illuminated address by seamen. Captain Blake, of H.M. Druid, who took partand was wounded in the Maori war, died Ashantee Expetiitibn. After ms death his wound was probed, and A bullet was foqnd hear flis hbaHl ' : ' , ce.“S fat.m> . In the. House of Commons,,a motion by an . Irish member, that Parliament should take some measure to retnove the distrust in Im-' rejected^ 6 preSent B y ß tem of Government, was ■ A remarkably hi»h tide has caused the floodTWr^L Londo fl’ J V And : Falmouth. The Putnev- °W fl T ed lts ba «ks and flooded putney, Warehouses were filled with water. • sewers burst, and a large number of children finL f Were /i own « d 5 houses were . them. Wltb Wftter ’ and had to abandon . he , J be Ashantee troops was attended by ihany affecting scenes. InThe streets • they werq enthusiastically reebitedi ~ party that abolished slavery Would yet subcebd MWtraSon ‘ wtwi ft ti 9“ a l 'disputes A banquet was given at Portsmouth to the returned' Highlanders from -the Ashantee landing 1 CQ tboUßand perßons witnessed their Temperance crusade continues vigor- * , A Royalist deputation is to visit the Comte ' de Chambord to make a last effort to effect the restoration of the Monarchy.' ' ( T en ! l *i Wolesley is to be rewarded with the rank of Maj or-General, and a pension of L 7,500 per annum for two lives. ■ During the floods at Wapping the lower' stones of the hquws were filled, and businessat ' the wharves waafepspeaded. ' At Woolwich Arsenal the fires W the gun factories Vei» exflS? e( A u® of store qheds flooded. Another high risp is fegred, and temporaiy embankments have been elected to S vent inundation. - w pr ® U “l te d States Govemment is to be asked toc?eLi^“ g ta *® kß for ve88el8 » as ii so The Spanish Govemment promulgated a nm. M^S ent VH a Natiouffiiank.Jnd a thonopoly of the issue of bank Corporation with it ' of aU the other Banks m Spain. In return a ment. adVanC * “ t0 b6 made t0 the Govern-' re^^no- T t leg fH Pb X correspondent, te the recent escape, • •ays r-Rochefort telegraphed to Paris for fundsl ‘ fi* rotors to visit the States, and lecture in *! r ,7.°™ a . nd other American cities. He will probably retire to Brussels. ; ■lr^ mes ’ au 4 .‘Telegraph’,record the loss •r the Nile steamship, with all passengers, including the Japanese Vienna Exhibition Commissions, between Hong Kong and Yokohama. A meeting of leading Irishmen unanimously resolved to urge the prospect of Home Rulu during the session,.notwithstanding the failirr* of the Marquis of Bute’s amendment. ' A Bill has been , passed L 1,000,000 towards the expenses ' tsa way. ' «^uanA Catholic mob, oni the night of M H<y attacked, a Protestant chapel in stroyed property, and stoned the pastor " There was great excitement in Paris «« March 31, occasioned by an unfftiin^^ ariS 0n of A. of Ch “'“ “ • tour of .