AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 323, 6 December 1875, Page 2

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

November 8. The great Roman wrestling match at the Grand Opera nouse, New York, has been won by Miller, the An»tralian champion. Ohio, lowa, and Nebraska retnrn overwhelming majorities on tbe Republican ticket. This ia a henvy bow to inflation, the pet s "heme of the Democrats. A large number of heavy failures are reported in New York Serious charges are preferred against Governor Tilden, of New York, in connection with the St Louis, Alton, and Titetite railway. Frederick Hudson, a New York journalist, for fifteen years connected with the Herald, is dead. Talmage's church is crowded daily to hear M ody and Sankey. They h<ve secured Gilmore's Concert Garden* in New York. President Grant's visit to Utah has determined him upon a strict polisy with the Mormons. The hog cholera is taking off thousands of pisra in Indiana. Howard Glover, the well known composer, is dead. A creat Fenian demonstration is to take place in New York on November 23, in honor of the Fenian prisoners hanged at Manchester. Toronto is in the hand, of a gang of ruffians, who are committing depredations in all directions. The steamship Pacific, of lhe Gooda!], Nelson, end Perkins line, was loit forty miles south of Cape Flattery, with a loss of all her passengers save one, on the 4h November. Henry Frederick Jelly, the survivor, states that there were about 200 eouls on board, and that between eight and nine o'clock the Pacific came into collision with a vessel, and sink shortly after. Jelly sived himself by being lashed to a pi^ce ol wreck, and after Hosting for some days was picked op by a pissing ship and landed at Port Townsend. The general impression is that Jelly labors under a delusion in stating that tbe Pacific came into collision with a vessel. It is more likely that she s'ruck on a sunken rock. The cargo was worth £25.000; the vessel, 110,000 dollars. There are but faint hopes of any other survivors A steamer has been despatched for enquiry and to search. Jelly, when picked up, was in a very low stite, with limbs terribly braised from buffeting with the sea while on a raft for 36 hours. The Pacific was built at New York in 1851, and until a year ago was owned by the Pacific Mail Company. She was 876 tons register. Captain J. Howell was thirty-five years of age, and several years master. General. News. An accident his happened at the Ludgate Hill terminus of the L.C. and D- Railway, at which 30 persons were more or less injured Letters hive been received from Henry M. Stanley, which are exceedingly interesting; they are dat d at Ulgalla in Uganda. He gives au elaborate and picturesque account of tbe continuation and conclusion of his examination of the shores of Victoria Nyanzi. He confirms Speke's views that the Great Lake is ono large body of water, end not a series of small lake* as held by Livingstone. Mr Stanley's observations and reports on this point, and on Afrit an geography generally, are to be made subjects of discussion before the Royal Geographical Society. Brooklyn. Nov. 6. Since Mrs Monkton's written charges against Beecher have been refined an examining commissi n of the Plymouth church, to be acted on as the commission shall see flt, there has arisen considerable speculation among Beecher's congregation, and the general opinion is strengthened that the whole so indal will be revived. It will be several weeks before the commission begins its work of mvi stigation. It is learned that they have been directed to review all the evidence in the caee, both that which wai presented ln j court, and that which was excluded. This : labor will involve a considerable time, and it may by many nnntbs therefore before any- [ thing like a report is reached. One report , Bays they will enquire whether Beecher's I relations to his own church are tuoh as otber members of the association bear to their ! churobes; another etatenoent ia that the c.m-K-ifcfcee will investigate scandal matters. j Leader, indicted for pc-jury io the Beecher case, his made a motion by counsel, in Court \ ot Sessions, that a commission be appointed I to po fo New Jersey and take the testimony i of Joseph Richards and wife for use on tbe trial. The judge reserved his decision. The motion to quash the indictment was denied.