LATE AMERICAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 661, 14 April 1870, Page 4

LATE AMERICAN NEWS.

SHIPWRECK.— LOSS OF 35 LIVES. We (Southern Cross) are indebted to Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane for late San Francisco papers, received by the Washington, from which we extract'the following:— New York, Jan. 25. Foreign mail advices say the British ship King Lear, from Cardiff for Hong Kong, foundered off the British coast. Thirty-five lives were lost. There was a collision at Jersey city this evening between the Erie Railroad strikers ' and the men employed in their places. The latter; while leaving work, were attacked by a crowd of 1000 men and women, and only the prompt interference of the police prevented serious results. The police arrested two ringleaders, and with difficulty- took them to the stationhouse, followed by a mob, who finally, however, dispersed. Fifteen new cases of small-pox were reported at the office of the Sanitary Superintendent yesterday, principally from the densely populated portions of the Eleventh and Thirteenth Wards. No cases have been reported from the other parts of the city since Sunday. . The suit of the Erie Railroad against Vanderbilt, which was set for trial in January, is postponed. This suit is to recover 6,000,000 dollars, alleged to have been paid Commodore Vanderbilt on the settlement of the litigation of two years ago. The case is finally set down for the first Monday in March. Chicago, Jan. 26. A letter from the Upper Mississippi reports that several whites, supposed to be English or Scotch,: have been distributing arms among the Indians, and stirring up a hostile feeling towards the settlers. New York, Jan. 25. Haytien advices state, besides the outlawry of Salnave, a reward of oOOOdols in gold is offered for his head. It is also decreed that all other insurgents who shall fail to give np arms and submit to the revolutionary authorities within fortyeight hours after the publication of the edict shall be equally outlawed. ; Buffalo, Jan. 24. ; Extensive preparations are being made for a great Fenian military and civic demonstration, in this city on Saturday. Si. Louis, Jan. 24. Four small business houses were burnt at St. Joseph, Missouri, yesterday. Wm. Bowles, brother-in-law of ex-Congressman Loan, was sleeping in one of the houses, and perished in the flames. While the .firemen were endeavoring to rescue the body the wall fell, injuring two of them mortally, and four others severely; Louisville, Jan. 24. The remains of George D. Prentice removed from the Masonic Temple to Christ Church this morning, where the solemn, impressive burial service of the Episcopal Church was performed, after ■which the remains were buried in Cave Hill Cemetery with Masonic honors.