THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3988, 6 December 1875, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

A disastrous flood in India rendered 20,000 persons homeless. it is officially announced that Don Carlos has dismissed from his service Generals Dorregary, Mendiri. Velasco, and Magratzo. The plot to place Queen Isabella on the Spanish throne has failed. The Pandora has arrived at Portsmouth today from the Arctic region. Explorers on board the Pandora discovered the graves of three of Sir John Franklin’s men on Beach Island.

The Russian Government has published an edict compelling all Polish proprietors in the provinces of Wienna, Grodno, Koons, Minsel, and VVilcpsk, to sell to Russian tenants the farms now rented by the latter.

Davis and wife, of I oronto, the abortionists, have been sentenced to be hung. Cardinal Noble Yitelli Schio is dead. The Emperor Willivm and Victor Emanuel reviewed 200,000 trjops at Milan. The Crown Prince of Germany is to visit the Exhibition at Philadelphia, A German squadron will form the escort. At Munich the Koyal decree introduces compulsory civil marriages. Sixty tons small arras and amunirion for the Chinese has been shipped at. London as merchandise. The Government is after the shippers.

M. Eouher has made another violent attack on tie Government, and declares publicly for the Buonapartists. Toronto is in the hands of a gang of ruffians, who are committing depredations in every direction.

Von Arnim’s sentence has been confirmed. His family are asking for pardon. Tho ‘ times’ reports that a Manchester firm offers to import calico from the United States,

Recent storms on the English coast have been terribly destructive. Seventy thousand Spanish troops are under orders for Cuba.

Russia Hants its exhibits at the Philadelphia Exhibition to specialities unknown out of Russia.

Stanley has been very successful in his explorati ms in Central Africa.

H. M.S. Albatross has been ordered to Panama to protect Bntisb interests there.

itussia insists that steps must be taken by Christian nations to protect Christians in Turkey.

T ho loss by cattle disease in England is over one million dollars.

It is rumored that General Dorragary has been shot by order of Don Carlos. Tho King of Greece decorated all the Prince of Wales’s party during their visit to Greece. Mrs Black, the original of Byron’s Maid of Athens,” died in Gree:e, aged 76. The King and Queen of Denmark and Princess Tbyra intend visiting England shortly. The latest mail advices from England con tain gloomy reports. During the recent flood-, in the Midland Counties, at Nottingham thirteen persons were drowned, and more than 3,000 houses were inundated, ami fifty factories -slopped. Near Oxford, the railway lines an inundated with water, and the village of Batheny is entirely flooded. At Burton-on-Treat six persons wore drowned, and at Derby

the water is still several feet deep In th i streets. Above Gainborough ihe Trect he* burst its banks, and all the surrounding country is flooded. 'I he loss of property is enormous. The main line of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railroad was washed away. All traffic was stopped for a time. Colonel Oowen, of Now York, has been asked by the British Government to undertake the work of raising the Vanguard, Letters have been received from Henry M. Stanley exceedingly intei eating. They are dated at Algalla, in Magundft. He gives an .elaborate ana pioturosque account of the con* tinuation and conclusion of his examination of the shores of Victoria Nyausa, and confirms Speke’s views that the great lake is one largo body of water, and not a series of small lakes as hold by Livingstone. Stanley’s observations

and reports on this point of African geography are to be made the subject of difeussion Uefo’e the Loyal Geographical Society. The British' expedition to pmriah the Congo River pirates has been very successful. Over 200 sailors have been lost during the recent gales in the North Sea. England snubs Russia as to interring in Turkish matters.

The Congregational Churches, to the disgust of the world, are about to renew the Beecher scandal, by a sacerdotal itquiiy. Since Mrs Moulton’s written charges against Beecher have been referred to an Examining Commission of the Church, to be acted on as the Commission see fit, there has arisen considerable speculation among Beecher’s congregation, and the general opinion is strengthening that the whole scandal will be revived. It is to be several weeks before the Commission begins the work of investigation. It is learned that they have been directed to review all the evidence in the case, both that which was presented in Court and that which was excluded. This labor will certainly involve considerable time, and it may be many mouths, therefore, before anything like a report is reached. One report says they wi l inquire whether Beecher’s relations to his own Church are such as other members of the Association bear to their churches. Another statement is that the Committee will investigate the scandal materia.

The great Roman wrestle at the Grand Opera House, New York, wus won by Miller, the Aus ralian champion. Ohio, lowa, and Nebraska return overwhtlfhjng majorities on the republican ticket. This is a heavy blow to the pei. inflation scheme of the Democratizes.

A large number of heavy failures are reported in New York. Serious charges are preferred against Governor Tilden, of i\ew York, in connection with the St. Louis, Alton, and Tite Hate railway.

Grant’s visit to Utah has determined him upon a strict policy with the Mormons. Howard Glover, the well-known composer, is dead.

A great Fenian demonstration is to take place in New York on the 23rd November, in honor of the Fenian prisoners banged at Manchester.

'['he steamship Pacific, of the Goodall, Nelson, and Perkins line, was lost forty, miles south of Cape Flattery, with the loss of all hai.ds except one, on the 4th November. Henry Frederick Jelley, the survivor, states that ho took passage on board in British ■ olumbia, at Victoria, for San Francisco. There were about 200 persons on board. Between eight and nine o’clock she came into cob lision with a vessel, and shortly after s:>nk. Lashing himself to a piece of wreck he floated

for some days, when picked up by the ship Messenger and landed at Port Townsend. A later telegram states that there is a general impression that Jelley labors under a delusion in stating that the Pacific came into collision with a vessel. It is more likely she struck on a sunken rock. r Jhe cargo was worth twentyfive thousand and the vessel one hundred thousand dollars. There are faint hopes of any other survivors. A steamer has been despatched for inquiry and to search. Jelley, when picked up, was in a very low state, with his limbs terribly bruised from buffeting on the sea while on a raft for thirtv-six hours. The Pacific was built at New York in 1851, and until a year ago was owned by the Pacific Mail Company. She was 876 tons register. Capt. J. Howell was commander, thirty-five years old, and for several years master. SPECIAL SUMMARY. Sir George Bowen sailed for New York from Liverpool in the Cunard steamer Russia. Boulogne hj larhor has been cL-sed by the sinking of a steamer at its entrance, which it is estimated will cause a daily loss of S.OOOdols. to the fishermen alone, besides a stoppage of trade.

D’Earis Espanal, save the * Vatican,’ has sent a note to Madrid, which expresses approval of_ Cardinal Simeon’s conduct regarding the Spanish affair. The note insists upon the execution of a concordat. It attributes (he civil war to religious tolerance, and demands that the Bishop of Urgel should be tried bj Ecclesiastical judges, and not by an ordinary tribunal

Urders will shortly be issued by the Government giving instructions for establishing scientific stations for observations :\t favorable posts in the Arctic and Antantic Oceans.

Brigham Young is dangerously ill. Be cannot su vivelong. Hois hopeful, however, and expresses his willingness to be taken to gaol, when the marshalls see fit, rather than pay Ana Eliza’s alimony. George Adair, who boasted of knocking an 'infant’s brains out on waggon wheels at the Mountain Meadows niassacie, was arrested in Southern Utah, and has been confined in gaol