AMERICA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 217, 13 September 1871, Page 2

AMERICA.

San Francisco, August 16.— The Industrial Exhibition was opened on the Bth. Specimens of flax and rope sent by Col. Haultain were favorably commented upon, nlso oata and gam. A pyramid representing "the gold obtained at the Thames was shown. T ..,,.■.•...• Cholera has broken hut in Brazil in a most ; malignant form. The. British Consul and nearly every stranger died. " ! : : r / ■/,' : , ,' t ,,? : Riots have taken place at the 1 Amador mines, California'./ ' The Secretary brutally murdered. ; '" Order was eventually restored. A great storm burst on the coast (^Newfoundland and Labrador, destroying 325 fishing smacks, 23 dwelling house*; 46 /stores, ;and ! 3oo#oO, dollars worth of property.*' ''■ '" ';/,', , ,',,,, , i The Station Island Teriy boat, when crowded with passengers,' ' burst her ' boiler; '. ; ; Ttie concussion was terrific, shattering the fore part of the boat, killing 50 and scalding over 100 people, y Tfle Jcfie^ of Ithe) poor . nalf-bdiled victims were heartrending, some being delirious with pain. Many children jumped overboard and were found with, their littllerlegs cooked, and the muscles laid bare, and their bodies scalded beyond recognition. ! Intelligence has been received of the destruction of the city of Ponta Spartre, in the West Indian Islands. 80,090 people were rendered homeless. [The commercial news, which is unimportant, t we are compelled, for want of space, to hold *- over until to-morrow.]