AMERICA.

Evening Star, Issue 4255, 16 October 1876, Page 4

AMERICA.

{From a& occasional Correspondent. )

•'..', V . SAN'iFBANC&aco, September 12. TJbtf Indiari war has terminated disastrously. General Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn River, in .the Yellowstone coti^^near.theso 3 aTcesofiilieMißsoarißiver, five tb,e,Sioux chiefs thousands of aderents, and the "delay necessary to get up supplies and recruits to Generals Crook and Terry, commanding the two divisions of the TTnittxl States army in the field, was fatal to the campaign. The season is too far advanced, and the troops, after suffering gpeat privations for several months, go int»^ ( winter; qti&rters without avenging the -deafjji of three hundred of their comrades, "whose dead'bodies were frightfully mutilated by the Indians. Peaoe may be patched op in the interim But the only peace possible with these red-skins appears to be that of the grave. In the silence of the tomb they will be at rest. A foot or on horse they will live and act as Bcouts of Satan, whose •personality one can hardly doubt after seeing a dance ofrthe aborigines of America. Chas. Finnimdre Cooper laa much to answer for in writing his delightfully fibbing novels, glorifying the r nobility -of red men. They are about the meanest lot of wretches I have ever' seen."" • •

Business has been very dull throughout the; United states, but it is beginning to revive. ' Hundreds of pdciple are leaving the manufacturing districts of the East for England, whete*Wnployrnent may be had ; and eevefal hundreds of stone masons bare left NW York and Chicago for Greenock, where wo*rt has been guaranteed to them at 10d perhotor of tfgbli The StatiafaE Georgia, on the othw hand; is making pro.

gress in* manufacturing industries. Ohio and Illinois J are developing great coal and iron California, in addition to gold, coal, silver, asbestos, and quicksilver, has beglm to refine itßcruiie petroleum which is flowi ig to waste over 300 miles of country couveu ent to San Francisco. Its sugar refineries will be busy now that the Hawaiian treaty a confirmed. But it has also several beet <su jar manufactories, and now extensive works lave bceu established on the Sacramento Kivet.to make.su'ar, spirits, and table o 1 respectively out of the pulp', rind, and sc< dof water melons. 'I he wheat crop gives a surplus of 750,000 tons for shipment. The gripe, fifiit, and nut crop is large. Ypu may e: pect hops from here this season, as the yie Id is in excess of requirements. fcSheepfarrain y got a rude shake, but it is reviving; Wool myers from the East go down by the City o New York, and may visit Dunedin. : Our -vfoollen imilla in this State are kept fully employed. Mining is as active as usual, although the fluctuations in silver .paralysed the share market for a week or twp and affected Bonanza stocks. The climate is magnificent. The omall-pox is now dyiftg btit, although it was tery. bad for several months. The Chinese circulated the disease. In this country they aie a set a-despferadoes who murder, rob, and steal; and wbrkirig,' as thousands of them 'do, for next to nothing,,they elbow young lada and womea out of all light kinds of employ ihent.' 1 •This 8 causes'hobdlumism' and the social evil. JBe do \ptl£t,;the ( filthy,crew getr Mooting in. Hew Zealand. ' ...,;„'..., Colonial]professionals do net seem ,to .draw .very well here, the counter attractions being very (powerful. Blondin was a financial failure,. He goes to South * merica. Miss Elenor Carey is, playing "leading, lady- " j at Baldwin's Academy of Music, and is a favorite. In time she will make her mark. Theniembers of the l-yster Opera Troupe from Melbourne are also at this theatre and deserte better houses; but with Edwin Booth at the California, and Tony Dernier , *"s* f* 8 magnificent pantomime at the new _Op4raj House, not to' speak of- a monster circus" and the Mechanics' l Fair, which draw thousands nightly, the margin for the neat entertainment' at Baldwin's is riot large; still the people go out'to.it. .' ! '' ThjjCity of New York leaves this a full ship. | She takes several professionals. The big circus will likely go by/next steamer .to Australia. This is nearly all the gossipT car* give you, except that a growing interest taken in Auatraliau and .\ew Zealand atfajrs by business men, ~, •. r , r .