LATER FROM AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 103, 21 December 1868, Page 305

LATER FROM AMERICA.

, A fire toot place - Troy, v 3ST^w York,on the' 7th' Optober, destroying propiarty; to the amount of 200i,000 dollars.- - - [ The Washington -Evening Press pub'lishes an- article?with: large headings such, as the. following Highly Important,” ‘‘Startling and True,” “ Plot to Assassinate President 1 Johnson,”’“Fifty Negroes and Three? White Men sworn to Kill the President,”? &o.;; The Express says that an employb of the Treasury Department, has exposed a plot which was arranged since the impeachment trial. '.The story causes much comment; 'but the public generally is incredulous. -

The Presidential election of 1868 is virtually over.. On the 3rd of November the people of the United States will go .through the form of depositing their ballots for Presidential Electors, but on the 14th Oc tober Grant and Colfux were, to all intents and purposes, elected. i The Haytian man-of-war Galatea*arrived at Petit Groave from New York, with a large cargo of arms and ammunition. She had a full complement of men, mostly Haytian negroes, with some English and French officers, and a complete naval outfit. Upon her arrival she. attacked the rebel cruisers Sylvan and Liberte. The former was sunk and the latter burnt by their crews, to prevent their falling' into President Salnave’s possession.