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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1129, 11 March 1872, Page 2

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; San Fraucisco papers received von [ Saturday contain the following' items of { European and American news ":— : - : '' " \ A terrible railroad accident occurred \ near Nice." The train broke through 'the* bridge over the Taglioni River, j>recipi- \ tating thercars into the water. ,, Fourteen ■ persons were killed and many others wounded. .;. : The mail steamer from Bio Janiero brings news of a terrible steamship disaster to the America, plying between Jtio and Monte Video. While on the trip to the latter port on the night of the 23rd December, she took fire and soon burned to the water's edge. A large number of passengers were on board, of whom,eightyseven were lost, being,' either burned] to death or drowned. It is announced from Bristol that the Brazilian Government has forwarded a request to Messrs Kitts, emigration agents at that place, asking them to send an agent to Bio Janiero authorised 'to close a contract for the colonisation of Southern Brazil, where emigrants are to be permitted to select their own lands. It is proposed to Bend forward 10,000 emigrants annually from Bristol. Intelligence has been received at St. Petersburg of the total destruction Iby earthquake of Schamachi, a town* of Asiatic Russia, in Trans-Caucasia. From further details received of this terrible disaster, it is learned that the shocks were very protracted, and that many lives, number not stated, were lost;' 1 nty Sir John .Coleridge,, .in. opening the defence in the Tiohborne case, read a number of letters showing that :the~real Sir Roger Tichborne was a refined gentleman, in point of fact the very opposite of the claimant, and he announced that| Be would call among the witnesses for&he" defence a tatooed nobleman who had tatooed the genuine Sir Roger, and also, produce upon the stand the cousin- of Sir Roger, Madame Radcliffe, who would swear to the fact that the claimant told' a falsehood in asserting that he had ever had illicit intercourse with her. ] -'.; \ !,„ The severe storm which commenced in the South of England on the 23rd January lasted all night :and raged with great violence.- The gale at times became a hurricane, and it rained -and < poured i in torrents, flooding the 1 lower portion, 'of London. The Parliament .building was damaged by water penetrating the roof in several places, injuring, decorations and furniture. The storm extended throughout the British Isles and. reached some portions of the Continent. The telegraph wires were, prostrated in various directions aud communication ■ interrupted. The storm in the channel and on the Irish coast was excessively severe, and serious - disasters to shipping are feared, although, owing, to .the derangement [of the "wires probably, no 'wrecks are reported.. r . v !: ,:> ; ; > The plan of the revolutionary uprising organised over the whole territory of the south of France was held ready for immediate commencement in case of Thiers's resignation of the Presidency, and -would have resulted in the appointment of the Due d'Aumale or Marshal M'Mahon, to the chief authority, of the Executive. The Republicans keep the peace oniy subject to the Bordeaux arrangement for the establishment and maintenance of a democratic form of government iit France. Any authorised attempt which 'may j>e made for the restoration of the monarchy absolves them from all obligation, and they will proceed to. take up arms. Gambetta's recent visit to Bordeaux brought about an understanding with the Republican leaders on the. subject of supplies. Money, arms, ammunition, and provisions,; and all the other requisites of wju: were on hand, and there followed the pledging or formation of a resolution to the effect that if the civil war should be determined on, the fight would be coptin ued, and that the Republicans shall, in the meantime, maintain their preparations for future possibilities. ;>;..> Count Chambord has issued a manifesto to the French people. The Count claims, as of yore, the right divine, and says— '?/ I.' shall, never., abdicate my claim to the throne of France. I shall never forfeit the monarchical principle which I have preserved intact forjorty years, and which is the best hope of France's greatness and

liberties. Csesariam and anarchy threaten France, because her. salvation is sought in personal questions and not in principles. I shall ever uphold the flag of France aud aid in restoring the ancient prestige of her armies. Time presses and alliances and reorganisations are urgent. The happiness of France is my only ambition, and I will never consent to become a revolutionist where 1 am a legitimate king." A Calif ornian paper states that a young lad at Nevada City, the son of John Schmidt, discovered a very rich quartz deposit at Indian Flat, about a mile and a half from Wood's ravine. In a single pan SOOdol. in gold specimens were obtained. A great many rich specimens of Ouartz have been picked up along s ravine, and «bout fifteen years ago a man struck a rich pocket and took out in a few days between 6000 and 6000 dollars. Various parties have prospected the ledges at Wood's ravine bearing this specimen quartz, bnt have never succeeded in making it pay by regular, systematic working. The snow blockade has taught the Union Pacific Railroad Company the necessity for " snow sheds " and fences in exposed places, as it long ago did on the Central Pacific Railroad (California and Nevada and Utah end of the transcontinental route), and no detentions need be feared in the future. On the Central Pacific Railroad there has been no detention or stoppage during this winter, except of the most trifling nature from floods. The amount of line blocked by snow does not exceed 100 miles (and that only in portions) of the entire distance, 3200 miles from San Francisco to New York. The road having been kept open the two entire previous winters, the Company was not prepared for the events of this one. The weather has been exceptionally severe over the whole country, and even in the ordinary course of event8 { such storms would not probably recur in ten yean. Of course, for the interests of the Company, as well as for those of the travelling public, the line will be cleared as speedily as possible. In San Francisco, at the time of the despatch of the mail steamer, it was expected that the clearing would be completely accomplished inside of a week. Under the heading "Claims against Great Britain," the Detroit Commercial says that a Chicago paper will present a claim to the Washington Treaty Commissioners "for expenses incurred iv the composition *of an obituary notice of the Prince of Wales." All the newspapers in the country will have claims of this kind to present, and we shall have an individual bill to offer. For we procured the Cyclopmlia and wrote from it an original half-column notice of the* Prince,

concluding with a mournful and yet ingenious prophesy of the immediate decline and fall of tho British Empire. Three thousand other editors in this country did the same thing, and yet the abandoned young man actually had the audacity to set at defiance the power of a free press and persist in living. Can anything illustrate, in a more forcible maaner, tne demoralising and rninous consequences of monarchical institutions upon the nuna and heart ? But there are two a» er ?£; tives : the Prince must either die or tne British nation must pay. We cannot be trifled with in this reckless manner. One more such outrage as this and we will loose George Francis Train upon Canada with his one million Bervant girls ; and those who know what American servant girls are— the red-haired kind especially—will understand the gravity of that menace.