ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 671, 14 August 1876, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

(Per Press Agency.') Auckland, August ] 3. The Zealandia arrived with the English and American mails. She was lying at Kandavau seventy-eight hours before the City of New York arrived with the New Zealand outward mails. After receiving the Australian mails the City of New York proceeded on her voyage to San Francisco on ti e 6th. The steamship Australia, with the English mails, arrived at Kandavau on the 9tb; left again at three o’clock for Sydney. She left San Francisco on the 19th of July, On the voyage between San Francisco and Honolulu a case of smallpox broke out on the Australia. The patient was landed with an attendant at Honolulu. The Zealandia left Kandavau on the 9th, and arrived at one o’clock. The health officer detained her two hours conducting an examination, but finding that fumigation had been carried out, he allowed the mails and passengers to be landed. Passengers for Auckland—Mr J. L. and Mrs Hall, Mr and Mrs Pratt, Messrs Augustus Walfen, J. C, Colleock, Mrs and Miss Strange, Walker, For Wellington—Mr L. N. Owens. For Lyttelton—Mr Sinclair, The Zealandia’o passage from Kandavu was the quickest ever made, being 3 days 21 hours. GENERAL SUMMARY. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS TO JULY 19, Cable telegrams re ating to the war between the Turkish government and the insurgent provinces and Servia fill columns cf thejAmerican papers. The Daily News gives a detailed account of the atrocities committed in Bulgaria during the insurrection, by the 1 urkish irregular troops. All moveable property has been plundered, houses and villages burnt, and all the men, women and children indiscriminately slaughtered It is estimated that the province, which heretofore yielded the Government an annual income of four million dollars, will not pay one-quarter of that sum this year, and for years to come. Varioi s estimates place the number of lives eaci ifeed at from 18,000 to 20,000. A corre* spom ent names thirty-seven villages known

to have been destroyed. Among the refugees the number of whom is very small, there is not a girl over ten years of age. In the village of Serustitza, in the district of Pbilippopoli, 15,000 persons are known to have been killed. This village consisted of 4000 houses, and was prosperous and peaceful. Every house was burned, and all the inhabitants killed except a few women and children, who took refuge in Pbilippopoli, and some women, who were carried off by the troops. These cruelties made a great impression at Constantinople. The English Ambassador interviewed the Government to put an end to them. Bulgaria has issued a independence, Servia has declared war against Turkey, alleging as a reason the determination to secure special administration for Herzegovina and Bosnia. Prince Milan has placed himself at the head of the Servian troops, numbering 110,000. The excited state of the population in Constantinople has caused great alarm, and the Russian Ambassador, receiving threatening and insulting letters, sent his wife and family away. Several thousand Montenegrin troops were sent to the assistance of the Herzegovinian insurgents, and the Empress of Russia sent a special hospital train. The Russian sympathisers also contributed six months’ provisions for the army and the people of Montenegro. In a town in Bulgaria the Turkish Pasha seized 500 leading inhabitants and threatened to execute them if the district resists. The Turks have hanged many professors and teachers in the district, and crucified some priests. The first engagement with the Servians is claimed as a decisive victory for the Sultan's troops. The Servian forces marched into Bulgaria, and aided by a rising of the inhabitants defeated the Turks in one or two engagements, but the successes were mainly on the Turkish side, 1300 Servians being defeated in an engagement ait Tuisa Servia. The losses in the first ten engagements were estimated at 5000 men. The Turks massacred all the Christian inhabitants at Beling. 12,000 Egyptian troops were despatched to Turkey. Great fanaticism and enthusiasm pervades the Turkish troops ; one leader in Bulgaria boastfully paraded the heads of women and children. Letters state that the Circassians have burned twenty-one Bulgarian villages, murdering men and cutting children to pieces. Official reports state that, during the Servian attack on a town, the Turks placed Christian women and children in the entrenchments, and many were killed by the Servian fire. The Montenegrins defeated the Turks in several engagements, but the Servians have almost invariably been defeated in every collision, and their forces are reported to be greatly dispirited. The British Foreign Office has received a telegram from the British Ambassador at Constantinople, stating that a Turkish functionary of high position had been sent as extraordinary Commissioner to suppress the excesses in Bulgaria. He is furnished with full powers to inflict summary punishment. The Sultan of Turkey is suffering a great deal of distress. It is believed he is going insane, and his abdication is expected. He never recovered the shock of the suicide of Abdul Aziz, The great powers maintain neutrality, and general peace is not likely to be disturbed, influential representations being made to the British Cabinet not to enter upon war. European advices from a multitude of sources represent business, and all productive enterprise, as being worse than they have been during the present generation, and without a visible sign of change for the better. The Admiralty intend to investigate the Samoan disturbances. The Barracoula was ordered home for that purpose. There is great depression in the Cleveland iron trade. An earthquake has occurred at Vienna. Rents are visible in many houres. The proposed reduction of 10 per cent on the wages of 60,000 Lancaster cotton spinners causes great excitement. A deputation has secured the postponement of the reduction. The plague at Bagdad has almost disappeared. At a meeting of the Durham colliers to consider the reduction of wages, 20,000 favored arbitration against 16,000 in favor of a strike. Arbitration will be carried out. By a colliery explosion at Birley pit, Sheffield, six men were killed. The Governor of the Dutch Bast Indies telegraphs, confirming the report of the loss of the steamer Lieutenant-General Crossan in the Straits. Two hundred and thirty persons were drowned. There is trouble in Athens, and a state of siege has been declared. While H.M.S. Thunderer was making a trial on the measured mile at Stoke’s Bay, Portsmouth, a boiler exploded, killing twenty-five of the crew. Their bodies were shockingly mutilated, the flesh being stripped from their limbs by the escaping steam. The forward stoke hole where the explosion occurred was divided from the after stoke hole by watertight bulkheads. The stokers in the latter were protected from the fragments caused by the explosion, but were literally burned alive by the steam. The chief and assistanbengineers were killed, and the captain’s hand was blown off. The King and Queen of Greece are visiting England. AMERICAN NEWS. A fearful storm and flood have ravaged Central lowa. On the sth of July the hamlet of Rockdale, near Dubuque, was entirely swept away by the overflow of the Catfish River. Thirty-nine persons were drowned. In Maddison and Warner counties fifteen persons were killed, and fearful damage done in live stock and crops. It is considered likely that many bodies were swept into the Missouri river ; the railway was swept away for nine and a half miles. At Burlington a tornado was experienced, and in one squall twenty-nine buildings were blown down. Two persons were killed, and six freight cars blown into the river. The storm was felt severely at Omaha, Nebraska, buildings being blown down, but no loss of life. The Sioux war on the Yellow Stone River and tributaries has assumed alarming proportions, On the 25th of June, Custer, with companies of cavalry, came up with the enemy on the Little Horn, and crossed the river with five companies, consisting of 300 men. It is believed he marched into an ambuscade, as the whole body was surrounded and cut in pieces. The Indian chief

Sitting Bull, with 4000 warriors, comprise the enemy. Colonel Neno, who had been despatched by Custer with three companir/ to cross above the camp, was afterwards butrounded, and for thirty-six hours was in fearful peril, when General Terry came to his rescue. Seventeen commissioned officers were killed with Ouster, including two of his brothers. Their success has so elated the Indians that they committed fearful depredations and atrocities all round. Reinforcements from all points are anxiously expected. The war is not unlikely to turn out one of extermination. Decrow Scott, one of Caster’s men, the only survivor, escaped in disguise. He says the Sioux enveloped the force, Custer killed his horses, using the remains for breastworks. He fought desperately, the Indians charging his position lime after time, and losing heavily. One company tried to cut its way to the rear, but were all killed. The bodies lay some rods from Custer’s all in a knot. Custer was among the last to fall. Custer and his command were all killed within one hour. A negro riot has occurred in Georgia ; several negroes and whites were killed. The affair is said to have arisen from the fact that the colored citizens had formed a volunteer military company, and wore parading the streets. Sections of the Press described the riot as the result of democratic politicians trying to scare the negroes from the poll. Small-pox is very prevalent in San Francisco. The sewers have all been flushed and the streets sprinkled with lime. Fourteen fresh cases were reported in one day. It is not confined to any particular locality, being all over the city. Harwood Giant has confessed to having killed four men, one of whom was General Hindman, of the Confederate army. George Williams, alias George Magumen, has been lynched at Richmond, Ohio, for outraging and murdering several women whom he had engaged as servants and taken up-country. An eastward bound train on the Missouri and Pacific Railway was stuck up by robbers near St Louis, and 18,000 dollars taken, Don Carlos has arrived at Washington, _ General Haye’s steamer St Clare, with sixteen passengers aboard, took fire on Lake Superior and burnt to the water’s edge, only the captain, mate, engineer, wheelman, and one passenger escaping. Twenty-seven lives were lost. The survivors were picked up by a boat. Mexico, June 16. The military situation is unchanged. Governor-General Alatorre, with 15,000 troops, is at Assizaco, and is to march against the revolutionists at Taxlico and San Juan. De Land’s campaign is expected to finish the revolution, The political revolt at Cuzzo has been suppressed, after eight hour*’ street fighting. Thirty were killed and wounded. Smallpox is devastating Santiago, Chile. Senor Soldman has been elected president. Business in Central America is slowly reviving. In Ecuador an attempt has been made to assassinate Juan Monato, a prominent leader of the advanced Liberal party. COMMERCIAL. New York, July 15. The records of failures for the half-year reach 107,000,000 dole, or 31,000,000 dols increase over the corresponding half of last year. Reports from various quarters indicate Ja turn for the better. The last sales of sperm oil at New Bedford were made at 1 dol 21 cents, holders asking an advance ; nothing is doing in whale oil; refined petroleum is active, opening at 16 cents, and closing strong at 17£ cents ; cases quiet’at 19J to2o£ cents. Wool exhibits a decided improvement. Manufacturers show by their actions that they are satisfied that the decline in price has been checked, and they are more disposed to meet the views of the sellers. Boston, July 15, The transactions in wool are the largest for a very long time, comprising three million pounds, prices remaining the same. A New York telegram, dated July 18th, reports hides quiet at 16 to 17 cents ; wool quiet ; fine, 19 to 26 cents ; pulled, 26 to 37 cents ; whale oil, 55 to 58 cents; sperm, 1 dol 32 cents. Liverpool, July 18, Wheat, 9s 3d to 10s. San Francisco. The local wheat market is quiet, at 1 dol 50c ; barley, feed, 90c to 95c ; brewing, Idol 20c. Oats—The receipts have been large, Idol 60c. ENGLISH SHIPPING, Arrived—June 11th, Christian McAusland, from Bluff ; June 14th, Howrah, from Wellington ; June 18th, Nelson, from Port Chalmers. Sailed —June 23rd, Waitangi, for Canterbury, with 344 passengers ; June 28th, Mataura, for Otago, with fifty passengers ; June 29th, Waimea, for Wellington, with 280 passengers. The following vessels are announced io leave—July 19th, Inverness, for Napier; July 26th, Howrah, for Wellington ; July 25tb, Waimate, for Canterbury ; July 20th, White Eagle, for Otago,