MAIL ITEMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 431, 19 July 1877, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

AMERICAN NEWS

The Pacific Mail Company's splendid steamer City of San Francisco was totally wrecked near Acapulco, on the coast of Mexico. The steamer left Panama for Ban, Francisco on May 11, having 137 Sasscngers and 100 officers and crew, •n Wednesday, May IG, the day bein* bright and the atmosphere clear, the ship ■struck upon an unknown reef, cutting into the hull for a length of sixty feet, the water rushing in at ft fearful rate. Though evidently sinking, not a cry was heard from the passengers. Thero was little confusion, but silent, anxious waiting. The boats started for the shore, not ti passenger being allowed a pound of baggage of any Iciud, nnd when reaching the shoro each boat was overturned in the surf. The passengers were thrown into the surf, but every life was preserved, and ail landed safe on the Mexican shore. Fortunately a stream of fresh "water was found on going between the mountains. Tiio captain sent his officers to Acapulco, eighty miles distant; but fortunately the gunboat Mexico happened to bo passing, and although she was under orders to get provisions for Bestegda. city, the inhabitants of which were starving, the captain steamed to the relief of tho .shipwrecked passengers, and they wero alt taken off safely. The ship now lies partly submerged. There is an alarming uprising of Indians on Comas Prairie, Idaho Territory. .News has arrived at Portland, Oregon, to Juno 19, which shows that settlers have been killed in all directions. A body of troops and Rattlers, 270 strong, marched to chastise the Indians, but wore outnumbered, surrounded, and half killed, and the rest are still encircled and fighting against the odds. The Indiana engaged in lighting number 20,000 effective warriors. There is a general uprising of snvnges, and the whole country is filled with alarm. The Indians are massacring men, women, and children in. Comas Prairies, and tho settlers are fleeing in all directions for safety.—' Guardian.' -

GENERAL SUMMARY

CflTiJtol Grant- arrived at Liverpool on the 28trralay. The port was gaily decorated, and Ins reception was most enthusiastic. At Manchester, Leicester, and other places there wore great demonstrations ot welcome.—ln a letter to America, , describing liia reception in England, he writes : " I love to see our country honored and respected abroad, and I am proud to believe it i.s so by most nil nations, and by some even loved. It lma always been iny desire to see nil jealousy between England And the States abated, and every so~e healed. Together they are more power- ( W Jul for the spread of civilisation and commerce than till ol.hors combined, and can do more to remove causes of war by creating a mutual interest than they would be much endangered by war."—Oa his arrival in London General Grant was greeted on nil sides, and underwent the trying ordeal of festivals. He diued with the (Queen, and attended a concert and ball at Buckingham Palace. Ho dined with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Mayor, the Duko of Cambridge, and the Earl of Beacousfield. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh intimated that it was the desire of the Corporation and citizens of Edinburgh to malco a publie demonstration of their respect for liim. His reception by the people has beer, very warm. Ho visited the Oxford demonstration to receive the degree of D.C.L. The Government, at his solicitation, are favorably considering the pardon of tho Fenian, Davitt, now undergoing a 15-ycars'_ sentence. There lias been a demonstration of the working m<m, and ho was presented with the Freedom of the City of London on the 15th June at Guildhall. in the presence of 800 people, the Earl of Derby, Sir Stafford JMortheote, Lord Aberdeen, Mr. Card well, tho Hon. Mr. Forster, and Lord Teqterden. The present Lord Mayor and Chamberlain read tho address?and presented tho right band of fellowship as a citizjn of London, amid ioud applause.—At a dinner at tho Keforra Club Earl Granville proposd tho ex-President's health, and General Grant, in replying, said : " I hope, when the opportunity is offered me oi a calmer and more deliberate moment, to put, on record . my grateful recollections of the fraternal sentiments of tho Kriglish people, and my desire, on beh*>!" of Amrv ca, to render an adequate response to the pooch of Earl Granville, wLiuh has inspired thoughts in my bosom imposeihlo to adequatoly ox-

press. I lamented so ftUch us now my poverty in phrases to give duo expression to.my affection for the Mother Country."—On Hie 13th June ho visited a fete in his honor at Alexandra Palace, and afterwards dined with the Princo and Princess of Wales, with the Emperor and Empress of Brazil, and Ministers. Lndy Stirling Maxwell, better known os the Hon. Mrs. Norton, poetess, died on the 15th June. She hnd only b?en married a few months to Iser second husband.

The Engineers, after making geological explorations and soundings for Dover Submarine Tunnel, report the tunnel perfectly practicable. There is a continuous bed of chalk between the shores.

The Widcombe suspension bridge, near Bath, fell into tho A rou with nearly 200 people. _ Tho light wooden structure, being, without a centre support, snapped in the middle and fell into the stream. Twelve persons were killed, and fifty injured—some fatally. Tho New York 'World* "special" says tho Princess of Wales will proceed as soon as possible to tako up her permanent residence at her father's Court, Copenhagen. The alleged cause of this serious step is an unpleasant difficulty in which a lady of title is coacerned.