NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2075, 18 October 1880, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

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[Per b.b. Zealandia, at Auckland.^ SAN FHANOISCO, September 25. Mr Donald M'Kay, the well-known clipper ship builder, is dead. The project of securing the Great Eastern to run between London, New Orleans, and Galveston to take out cotton and other produce, and bring back immigrants, is in a fair way of being fully realised. Silas M. Waite, the absconding president of the First National Bank, Brattleboro, Vermont, has been arrested in Omaha. He is charged with forgeries to the amount of 2So,ooodols. If brought back his son threatens to expose others connected with him in frauds. A combined attack was made on the Indiana in New Mexico, under Victoria, on the 24th by the United American and Mexican forces. The Cheyennes in the Indian territory are threatening war again. The international exhibition of sheep, wool, and wool produce, was formally opened at Philadelphia, on the 22nd. Maud S., a celebrated mare, has trotted the fastest mile on record, 2.10 J. Some turfmen have offered lO.OOOdols. for her. Western farmers and dairymen are accused of the adulteration of butter with powdered soapstone. The parties accused have uttered an indignant protest. Ben Butler has come back to the democracy, and is making speeches in favor of Hancock for president. An investigation has been held in the case of the Stonington and Narragansett steamers, with the result of a fine of 2000 dollars for dereliction of duty, and the deprivation of licenses of both captains. _ A Mormon elder and New York city missionary had a set-to at Castle Garden recently, because the latter was endeavouring to dissuade the Mormon converts from going to Utah. The run of salmon in the Northern waters is very large this season. One cannery at Seattle was using up 2500 fish per day, making 12,000 cans.

Chinese labor has been abandoned in the shoe shops at North Adams, Mass., as unsuccessful.

Several counties in Kansas are famine stricken, and appeals are made for aid. The centenary anniversary of Major Andre’s capture was celebrated at Jerrytown, Now York, on the 23rd, by a large concourse of people. A terrible explosion took place in a fulminate manufactory at Bridgport, Connecticut, lately. Five workmen were killed. Nine men were killed in the shaft of the Consolidated Imperial Mine of Comstock on September 16th They were coming up in the cage when the cable rope broke. The two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, Mass., was celebrated on the 17th. The bells of the parish church of Boston, Lincolnshire, whore John Cotton was for twenty years vicar, were rung in honor of the event.

Berstron Johnson, an ex-Oonfederate General, is dead.

The Shivatka Arctic Expedition that sailed from New York on June Ist, 1873, in search of data regarding Sir Jno. Eranklin, returned to New Bedford on the 23rd inst. They obtained many relics of the lost navigator and bis party, and also the remains of Lieut. Irving. Geographically, the expedition has been quite a success. Important rivers and coasts have been discovered, and serious errors on former charts corrected. The longest sledge ride on record was made in the face of terribly cold weather and deprivation of the customary food. The result of the expedition has gone to show that it is feasible for white men to adapt themselves to the life and climate of the Esquimaux in prospecting journeys in the Polar Regions, and they are not particularly restricted to any seasons of the year for that purpose, but can travel at any time, and in the same way which the Natives travel.

Louis E. Cook, press agent of Coles’ circus, and seven attendants leave by the Zealandia for the colonies. The entire circus will sail for the same destination on October 23rd.

A new system of reducing ore by electricity has lately been formulated, and threatens to revolutionise mining. Trade was never so lively in New York as at present. Ereight shipments exceeds those of last year by 20 or 30 per cent. Michael Davitt, the Irish Land League agitator, is on a visit to San Eranoisco. Ho was warmly received by his fellow-country-men, and addressed several public meetings, roundly abusing the British Government and the land system in Ireland. Barnum’s curiosity, widely known as “ the bearded woman,” whose real name was Rebbooa Byon, is dead. She was 53 years old.

Seven negroes were arrested in Bobertson, county Tennessee, as implicated in the murder of a man named Lee Lepard, and were lynched by the mob. An exciting race against time took place at Minnepolis, between Miss Jewett of that place and Miss Belle Cook of California. Miss Cook made eight miles (changing her horse each mile) in twenty minutes, and was awarded the purse of 2800 dole. Miss Jewett was thrown, and severely hurt. Parties lately arrived from New Zealand are purchasing farms in San Francisco, county California.

George Howes and Cook, one of the oldest and best known shipping firms in San Francisco, has failed for a large amount. A hollow swindle was recently attempted at Calestoga, California, where a party named Tichenor pretended to precipitate gold from the waters of a mineral spring at the rate of five dole, per gallon. An investigation checkmated him.

Mormon immigration from Europe is increasing to such an extent that Secretary of State Ewarts has determined to institute proceedings against the converts immediately on arrival for the practice of polygamy. He justifies himself in this course by the circular recently issued to foreign Governments, asking their co-operation to prevent this class of immigration, and stating the consequences if the Mormons came to the United States. While endeavors were made to prevent polygamy at home, the Government could not afford to have the obnoxious element constantly recruited from abroad. Crime has seriously increased in Leadville, the chief mining town in Colorado, and a resort has been made to a vigilance committee.

Yung Eiwai, a Chinese student at Springfield, Mass., having embraced the Christian religion, his father requested that he be ordered home. The Chinese authorities refused to interfere.

A boy named Byrnes has won a match against a horse in Chicago. The duration was 168 hours, and in this time Byrnes made 578 miles against the leading horse’s 568. General Grant is writing letters in favor of General Garfield, the Bepublican nominee for the Presidency. Sioux war chiefs and braves from Sitting Ball’s camp are surrendering to the United States military authorities. Mr Moody, of Messrs Moody and Sankey, intends to visit San Francisco for revival purposes. Speculation is rife in New York as to the whereabouts of Bennett’s Arctic exploring schooner Jeannette, Commander Dr. Long. Manhattan Market, New York, and the adjoining buildings were destroyed by fire. The loss was 1,000,000 dole. The United States are represented in DeLessep’s Canal syndicate by two eminent New York bankers, and probably by a mining millionaire in San Francisco. Some damaging statistics recently issued as to the prospective profits of the canal have materially depreciated the stocks.

A couple of spirit mediums were arrested in Boston for conspiracy to defraud an English lady, named Miss Davies, who was weak enough to believe their manifestations genuine. The steamship Vera Cruz, of the Now York, Havanna, and Mexican line, foundered recently in a tremendous gale off St. Augustine, Florida. Some twenty-five passengers were lost, including General Torbert, a famous cavalry office? during the last war. In regard to this disaster a “ New York Herald ” despatch from Florida says—“ The pilots of St. Augustine, of which there are five, who first discovered the wreck, formed themselves into a joint stock company, and took possession of a vast amount of freight, already beached, as well as to claim all that was to come after. Several trunks belonging to the ill-fated passengers came ashore in good order only to be rifled.”

Dr. Tanner’s fasting example is being followed for notoriety or gain. Charles Livingstone, of Brooklyn, 'started to do forty-two days, but after fasting nine hours his wife broke up the business by feigning mortal illness and summoning her husband to hoar her "last words.”

The new city charter for San Francisco, prepared by fifteen freeholders after much care and close study, was offered to the people for acceptance on the 9th, and rejected by a crushing majority. There were pnly 4145 votes for it to 19,270 against. Baker and Farron, known in the colonies, were performing in Cork, England. “ The Passion Play” is to be produced in New York, at Booth’s, in September. It is the same play suppressed some two years ago in San Francisco, and was written by Salvine Moor, an old Melbournite. Montreal has had a slight earthquake. Negotiations are pending with French capitalists for the necessary funds to construct a tunnel under the River St. Lawrence.

The Bishop of Quebec has sought by a pastoral letter to stay further emigration to the United States from Canada. The loss of population is becoming a matter for serious consideration.

Advices regarding the Canadian Pacific railroad state that two syndicates are offering for the entire road, the Government to complete that now under contract, the new company to construct about 2000 miles, including 645 miles from Lake Winnipeg to Thunder Bay, and the company to work and maintain the entire road upon completion. It is stated that one offer is for 10,000 bonds per mile and 50,000,000 acres of land. It is also said that the Rothschilds at first refused to take one million of the stock of the company. Baron Englander, the Parisian banker, is said to be a subscriber of a million ; the Barings are also said to be largely interested. The Dominion, it would appear, has to guarantee 4 per cent, on 20,000,000d015. and to furnish an unmentioned number of millions of acres. The road, it is further said, is to be built through from Lake Winnipeg to Puget Sound at once, and that portion of the road already constructed is to be given to the company. GENERAL "SUMMARY. The ship Jestoria left Liverpool lately with 450 farmers for Texas. The Anglo-American Cable Company have increased their rates to fifty cents per word, Government messages half rates, Press messages 25 cents with a deferred rate of 12J cents. Wm. J. Taylor and Co., Newcastlo-on-Tyne insurance brokers, have failed for 260,000 dollars.

Blackman, Cannon, and Clasper will attend the International Regatta on the Thames. A parcel containing twenty-seven dynamite cartridges connected with a rubber tube filled with percussion caps and gunpowder was found under the rails on the London and Northampton Bailway lino, sixteen miles from Euston, the London terminus, on September 13 th. It is supposed that the express tram to Scotland passing over the railway two hours previous to the discovery shook out the tube and prevented the explosion. Suspicion points to three or four employes just discharged as the parties in the plot. Parnell, in a recent speech to the farmers at Ennis, declared his policy to be in fact unanimity of action among Irish members, independence of English political parties, refusal to pay more than what the tenant considers a fair rent, and the social excommunication of any one person taking a farm from which another has been evicted for non-payment of rent.

Among the disasters at sea reported are the foundering of the steamer Aurora, from Oporto for Southampton, with a loss of fifty lives. _ The steamer Hardwick, from Odessa for Bristol, with barley, foundered, and all on board, with the exception of one fireman, perished. A strike had taken place among 30,000 nailmakers of East Worcester and Stafford against a 20 per cent, reduction in their wages, but the strikers being destitute were compelled to succumb. The probable competitors in the International Bowing Match will be Trickett, Layoock, Boss, Riley, Teneok, Hanlon, Boyd, Elliott, and may be Blackman. Among the acceptances for the Ozarewitch are Sandford’s Aristocrat and North Elkhorn and P. Lori Hard’a Wallenstein, and for the Cambridgeshire Keen’s Spendthrift and Lord Murphy, Sandford’s Aristocrat, Mirth and North Elkhorn, and P. Lorillard’s Mercis and Wallenstein. The Great Yorkshire Handicap at Doncaster was won by Reveller, Roulette second, Schoolboy third. The Champagne Stakes, for two-year-olds, was won by Balgal; Majoria and Angelina ran a dead heat for second place.

Hanlon, the Canadian oarsman, requires a month to recover from the effects of his voyage to England. He lost 121 b., which he must gain before going into training. He will train at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he has ordered a new boat.

Dean Stanley intends visiting the United States next year for the purpose of an investigation into church institutions. The Pfince and Princess of Wales are fond of visiting the “ Mastodon” American minstrel show now at Pier Majesty’s Theatre. They are frequently seen there with their children.

The failure of |Hannay and Dickson, brewers, near Manchester, is reported ; liabilities £BO,OOO. William Henry Wells, one of the originators of “ Punch,” and an associate with Charles Dickens in the establishment of “ Household Words,” died in London, aged 71. The American Minister, Lowell, is canvassing English authors as to their views concerning an international copyright. The strike among Lancashire weavers is more extensive than at first supposed, and several families from Burnley have migrated to Fall Eiver, Maas. The Baroness Burdett Coutts, who is said to have set her heart on marrying Mr Ashmead Bartlett, is ill in consequence of her friends’ remonstrances against the match. There is|a prospect of a run on the. Coutts’ Bank in consequence of the expected withdrawal of the Baroness from the concern. The alien clause in the Duchess of St. Albans' will cannot bo now admitted in the case of Sir A. Bartlett, as he is to all intents and purposes an Englishman. Owing to the continued depression in the Irish linen trade the Manchester flax spinners will after October 4th reduce the working days to four per week. An upward movement in raw cotton is threatened.

Sir Charles Dilke intends to resign the Under-Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs on account of ill-health. The Scotch ironmasters have resolved to re-light half the furnaces put out during the strike of miners a short time ago. Sugar has been unfavorably affected by the prospects of the European beet supply, which appears likely to reach 160,000 tons, the largest amount on record.

The Accrington weavers concluded to strike on the 13 th. They will be supported by a levy of twopence per loom throughout North-east Lancashire. Five thousand operatives will be affected.

Phillip Oallan, M.P. for Limerick, and described aa the Pariah of the Irish party, made a scene in the House of Commons recently. He was intoxicated when he took his seat, and made an incoherent speech, in the course of which he insulted the Chairman of Committee, and denounced the members generally aa infidels, Scotch Presbyterians, contemptible Nonconformists, and despicable shopkeepers. His colleagues left the House in a body at the beginning of his speech, and O’Connor Power, on behalf of the Irish party, apologised for Callan’a conduct.

The Census Bill passed the House on the 2nd. A motion that the enumeration should indicate religious persuasion was energetically opposed by Mr John Bright and rejected. The House of Lords passed the Savings Banks Bill, Hares and Babbits Bill, and a Bill relating to the loading of grain cargoes. The Commons rejected the amendments made in the Lords to the Employers Liabilities Bill. On the 2nd, Mr Thomas P. O’Connor, the Home Buie member for Galway, introduced a resolution in the Commons for the suppression of the House of Lords, on the ground that the people of the country had lost confidence in that body. He was seconded by Mr Labouohere. The Marquis [ol Hartington humorously deprecated the raising of a great constitutional question at half-past three in the morning. The House divided on the question, which resulted—l 3 ayes to 17 noes. The minority consisted of five Irish members and Messrs Bradlaugh, Briggs, Broadhurst, Ashton, W. Dilke, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Labouohere, McLaren, and Whalley. A public meeting was held in Hyde Park on Sunday, the 15tb, at which O’Connor denounced the House of Lords as “ the most disgraceful and oppressive assembly existing.” The meeting, however, degenerated into a tumult, in which the platform was tom down, and the crowd was finally dispersed by the police. Parliament was prorogued on the 7th till November, The two points touched on in the Queen’s speech were that the concert of Europe has been steadily maintained in regard

to the Eastern question, and the resumption of hostilities in Afghanistan. The “Times” says that the prorogation was not too soon considering Mr Forster’s attack on the House of Lords. The German papers are alarmed at the Ministerial crisis, and express suspicion and dread of Gambetta, while the French press almost unanimously charge him with having caused it. On the 22ad the Ferry Cabinet was definitely formed as follows:—Jules Ferry, President of the Council and Minister of Public Instruction ; B. St. Hilaire, Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Constans, Minister of the Interior and Worship; Cuzott, Minister of Justice; Ms gin, Minister of Finance ; General Farre, Minister of War ; Admiral Clouet, Minister of Marine ; Carnot, Minister of Public Works ; Tiraro, Minister of Commerce ; and Cookery, Minister of Post and Telegraphs. M. Waddington has challenged Yon Buckler, after requesting the German Government to contradict the latter’s statoment_ concerning him to the effect that the constitution of the Austro-German Alliance was duo to Russian overtures to France. Yon Buckler explains that what he said was merely a repetition of current reports. A treaty with Tahiti, annexing that island I to France, was signed last June. The harvest will be a good average one. Lyons newspapers contradict the reports of embarrassments in the silk trade.

Colonel Jung, o£ the War Office, has challenged a Von do Wastyne, a writer for the “ Q-auloia,” because he accused him of selling military information to the Russians. The Jesuit Schools at Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Montpellier, and elsewhere have been evacuated. At Poictiers the fathers were ejected with soma trouble.

A boat belonging to Prince Galitczky foundered off Cape Finiaterro on the 3rd. Viscount Fleury, Mrs Hennesy (an American lady), and two others were drowned. The ferry steamer capsized at Bordeaux on the 22nd, drowning six persons. The German anniversary of the battle of Sedan was celebrated on the 3rd with a good deal of display. The Emperor issued an address to the army. Seventy-two houses in the villages which were pest stricken in Pomerania have been destroyed by fire. The Imperial Bank of Germany now pays gold for its notes at Berlin, but not in Bremen or Hamburgh.

Bismarck lias been definitely appointed Minister of Trade and Commerce. Herr von Boellircher, the Supremo President of the province of Schleswig-Holstein, takes the Secretaryship of the Home Department. A plot to destroy the Czar’s life on his visit to Livadia has been discovered. Two mines were discovered on the railway charged with dynamite, near Oharkoff. They were found only one day before the Emperor started on his journey.

The Grand Duke Nicholas has been compiled to resign the command of the Imperial Guard. With other Grand Dukes ha was systematically embezzling the regimental funds. General Loris Melikoff compelled his resignation, and disclosed his peculations, because Nicholas opposed his plans. It is also said that the builders of the Czar’s yacht charged £20,000 extra, giving a cheque for that amount to the Grand Duke’s Secretary. General Skobeloff has advanced bis base to Tainu, where he is strongly entrenched. With a reconnoitring party he is pushing beyond Geokteppe, and intends to form an advance post between there and Merv.

A political prisoner, confined for five months, recently hanged himself. Before suicide he disclosed the names of the Nihilist leaders, and that of the author of the Winter Palace explosion. Six vessels of the Bussian Pacific Squadron have been ordered to the Mediterranean, in the event of a rupture occurring between Bussia and Turkey. The election returns throughout Spain show that a large majority of ministerial candidates have been returned to the councilgeneral. Only one-seventh of the registered electors voted.

The Italian commerce budget for 1881 shows a surplus of 800,000 lire. The anniversary of the entry of the Italian troops into Borne was enthusiastically celebrated on the 10th.

The ironclad Temeraire, with Admiral Seymour on board, arrived off Bagusa on September sth. The fleet consists of twenty vessels, manned by 2300 men and carrying 136 guns. The Albanians have twice attempted to fire Dulcigno, and Biza Pasha has notified the local authorities to be wary. The demonstration bad been postponed to enable the Christians to leave Dulcigno, as a massacre was feared.

A despatch dated Badifc, September 22nd, says Biza Pasha had sammoned the people to cede the town, and promised to pay them 30,000 Turkish pounds, besides giving an undertaking to build a new Dulcigno on Malta territory, but he received a decided negative, and prepared a force of 5000 men with six cannon to overcome opposition. The report that the Albanians drove the garrison out of Dulcigno on the 17th is confirmed. A powder magazine at Belgrade exploded, destroying a large quantity of ammunition. By a landslip at Koine, Bengal, eighteen British officers, fifteen soldiers, and eleven other persons were killed, and four injured. Bain began falling heavily on Friday, and poured steadily till Saturday afternoon, when the gauge showed a fall of 5 inches. The effect of such an enormous mass of water pouring down into the confined settlement, which is simply a basin formed by a circle of hills, can be imagined. All the roads were cut to pieces, and in the forenoon of Saturday it was rumored that the Victoria Hotel was in a dangerous state. The alarm was given to the visitors in the hotel, who took shelter elsewhere before the building fell. Thirty natives were buried in the ruins. The police and a band of laborers and soldiers were quickly on the spot. About noon there was a sudden roar and rumble, followed by a vast cloud, which burst. The lake rose in a moment far above its usual height, and swept in a massive wave towards the weir, where an enormous landslip came down, burying the hotel and band of rescuers, with the disastrous result already mentioned. Colonel Cordon had left China after publishing a memorandum of advice to the authorities regarding the armament of the forces. He recommends the non-employment of foreigners, the use of common breechloading guns, and that the fleet should consist of only small vessels, the shore defences to be mortars. The fact of his leaving, and also the unconditional release of Chung How, late emissary to Bussia, leads to the belief that China will accede to Buseia's terms. It is said that Colonel Gordon was treated with discourtesy amounting to rudeness by both Sir Thos. Wade and Hart the Inspector of Customs.

All attempts to open business communications with Corea have failed. The Corean Ambassadors were on a visit to the Mikado and were studiously well treated. There have been serious disturbances at Canton. The Europeans were threatened and the military are called out. Several rioters were killed and wounded.

The Cape Mounted Bifles have occupied Mafetta and Mazric, and on the 19 th Captain Carrington, while {making a reconnaissance with the yeomen, was unsuccessfully attacked by 1200 Basutos. A lieutenant and two men were killed, but the enemy suffered great loss, as Carrington was speedily reinforced. Two steamers were under immediate orders at Cape Town to convey 600 volunteers to the field of hostilities. One thousand two hundred Basutos attacked Mobaleshak on the 20th, and 500 Mafeta on the 21st. After fighting all day they were repulsed.