THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5412, 1 August 1878, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OP THE. CITY OF NEW YORK AT AUCKLAND. Auckland, Wednesday. The City of New York arrived at 2.30 p,in, to-day. Thu voyage to San Francisco was favorable, only two days being rough. The return voyage was also favorable, there being only a couple of rough days. She left Auckland on the 28th May at 5.30 a.m., and arrived at San Francisco on the 19th June at 9.20 a.m. She left San Francisco on the Bth July, about 1 o’clock in the day, and arrived at Auckland as above. The regular train having lei t San Francisco when the steamer arrived, the mails were dispatched by special train, which overtook the ordinary train. The following are the passengers For Auckland: Mr. Kellar, Mr. and Mrs. Boole, Mrs. Darrock, Mr. and Mrs. Bell and child, Messrs. Bramwell, Gardiner, Waterhouse, nephew and niece, Messrs. Lewis, Percival, and Dawson. For Wellington: Mr. McDonald. For Lyttelton : Messrs. Boulter, Alexander, Ship, and McNeill. Autonomy has been granted to Western Roumelia, Epirus, Thessaly, and Crete.

Six hundred Mormons have arrived in New York from Liverpool.

Captain Bogardus, of Chicago,, beat Pennell, of London, on.the 28th instant, in a closely contested shooting match. He killed 70 out of 100 birds, and Pennell 68.

Stanley, the African explorer, has received a gold medal from the French Geographical Society. The Morning Post announces that the Duke of Cumberland, son of the late King George, of Hanover, has not abandoned the right to the throne, and no arrangements have been made with the Prussian Government. The Austrian Cabinet have tendered their resignations, but they were refused. The Spanish Government has contracted with a group of Paris -financiers for an advance of 20,000,000 francs for six months, with the option of renewal. Bishop Alife, the Italian senator and patriot, is dead. Prosecutions for treasonable utterances and seditious language at Berlin are almost endless. The Greek Ministry has resigned.

The Pananglican Synod was commenced on the 2nd instant at Lambeth Palace. Ninety bishops were present. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided. He urged that the question of maintaining the faith against infidelity should be the principal subject of thought by the delegates. A debate on the best mode of obtaining union among the various Anglican churches followed. The Bishop of Pitsburgh, Louisiana, and several English and colonial bishops spoke. The matter was finally referred to a committee.' Rioting against Ultramontaues has occurred at Marseilles.

The Crown Prince of Germany thanks the President of the United States and the American people for the sympathy manifested in reference to the attempted assassination of the Emperor. Also publicly thanks all sympathisers under the same circumstances and conditions.

The Empreqs of Russia’s old English books were bought by American gentlemen. The French Corps Legislatif has adjourned till October 27.

Socialistic pamphlets are being circulated in the Berlin barracks. Repressive measures are confined to what is absolutely required. The Liberals triumphed in the elections at Belgium. - The ex-King George of Hanover died in Paris.

The Duke of Cambridge has gone to Malta. The International Copyright Congress has opened its session .in Paris. About presides instead of Victor Hugo. American steamers are arriving atO ronstadt, laden with ammunition and stores for Russia. The Emperor of Germany has fully recovered, and in consequence the result of the elections in Belgium is liberal. The Pope has determined to recall the Papal Nuncio from Brussels. During an interview between Gortchakoff and Bismarck a large Danish dog belonging to the latter flew at the Russian Minister’s throat. He was rescued with' difficulty. It appears that Bismarck stamped his foot impatiently while talking, and the dog mistook this for a signal that his master was iu danger. The Monitcur asserts that the Khedive of Egypt recently proposed to abdicate, leaving the m anagement of affairs to England, if the civil list and his son’s succession were'assured. The offer was declined, and the Khedive revokes it.

A Liberal Cabinet is formed in Belgium under Freere Orlean. Bonnie Scotland won the St. James’ Palace Stakes at Ascot. In the race for the Rous Memorial Stakes Patriarch was the winner.

One thousand cotton operatives struck work at Bury. The Vatican has proposed co-operation with Germany for the repression of socialism there on condition that the Falk laws'are modified.

The Parisian police made a descent on several German families in Paris, members of which were suspected of complicity with Nobelling. Indications point to an early cotton strike in England. Special services have been held for the recovery of the Russian Empress. The appointment of Lord Dufferin, the present Governor-General of Canada, will be extended for twelve months if he consents, but it is probable that he will decline. The Town Council of Berlin propose a grant for an historical painting commemorative of the meeting of the Peace Congress. It is said orders have been issued to reduce the force and expenditure of Portsmouth navy yard. It is understood that the autumn manmuvres have been abandoned this year, to aid retrenchment.

The Czar is expected in Berlin shortly on his way to Ems. Russia recently requested the British Consul at Dourgas to billet some soldiers, and in consequence of his refusal threatened to tear down the British flag. Minister Layard instructed the Consul to confine himself to a protest, Mehemet Ali telegraphed to his Government recommending that he and his colleague be directed to make a protest against the dismemberment of Turkey, and then withdraw from the Congress. He says ’he is treated curtly, and even harshly spoken to by the President, for endeavoring to maintain the rights of Turkey. AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco July 8. . Pittsburg, Pa., was visited by a terrible storm on July 4. A ,house was destroyed by lightning, and in the rural vicinity the crops were washed away and rained. The steamer J. B. Walker left Newhavcn, Conn., with war material for Constantinople valued at 2,000,000d015.

It is probable that specie payments will be resumed before Congress meats, possibly by August 1.White men disguised as Indians are committing depredations in Texas, Shipments of bullion from the Bonanza silver mine, Nevada, to July 5 are computed in round numbers at 100,000,0000 dollars (£■20,000,000), being the yield since the deposit was discovered eight yearn ago. Tramps have taken possession of the railway trainsiu lowa, and are becoming dangerous to the towns.

The United States Consuls are ordered to interfere for the protection of the oppressed Jews iu Morocco. The United States Volunteers, under Captain Sperre, wore defeated at Willow Springs, Oregon, on July 6, by Indians, with great loss. Dr. James O. Ayer, who made a fortune of several millions out of proprietary medicines, afterwards became insane at Winohendon, Mass, . In the great 4-mile race in Louisville on July 4, between Mollie McCarthy, the Californian mare, and Pombrook, the Kentucky horse, for 10,000 dollars a side, the mare was distanced the first heat. Time, Smin. 19Jsec, First mile, Imin. 49|sec.: second, Smiu. 451 sec.; third, Stain. 345e0.; fourth, Bmm. 19Ssec. The weather was intensely hot. The track was heavy from recent rains. Twentyfive thousand people wore present. Aseriousfight occurred between metropolitan police and city marshals in East St. Louis. Two of the latter were lolled. The numerical force of the American army is to bo raised to 25,000 men, in consequence of Indian troubles. The deaths from sunstroke are increasing m New York. Samuel J. Tilden, late candidate for the presidency, Sailed for Europe. The fourth of July was celebrated with more than usual demonstrations 'of enthusiasm throughout the'United States, The 6th Kusileers from Montreal, Canada, accompanied by a large number of citizens, visited St. Albans,..Vermont, to assist in the celebration there.

The campaign, Spaniards against the Cubans, has-just closed without any battles. The cost

to the former is 80,000 "men. The island is a vast cemetery.

The American ship Mabel Clark, from Liverpool (March 9) for Hongkong, was totally wrecked on the island of Tristan d’Acunha. A revolution is threatened in Columbia, and the national troops are ordered to Panama. The famine in Bolivia has made the suffering terrible. The stormy weather also raged along the'' Chilian and Peru coasts. On May 21st Valparaiso, Arica, and Ackna suffered the greatest damage ; and in the last two places a week or ten days would be required to clear the streets of the debris. A large amount of buried treasure in the shape of wrought silver has been discovered in the ruins of the temple at Sarat, Bolivia.

Indian hostilities have extended to Utah and Nevada. Regular troops and volunteers are hastening to the field The Socialists of New York have held mass meetings and denounced in strong terms all attempts to hold the party responsible for assassination in any part of the world, and repudiated emphatically any sympathy with the recent attempts to murder the Emperor of Germany.

The fire at Somerville, Mass., on the 16th, destroyed 800,000 dollars’ worth of property. ’ Eighteen persons were poisoned at Lattesdon, S.A., by milk taken from a cow supposed to have been bitten by a rattlesnake. Kautou, of Canada, won the five mile singlescull race against Evan Morris, of Pittsburg. This success carries the championship of America and 2000dols.

The Ohio farmers are receiving almost daily notices signed “ Working men’s blood or bread." The committee is warning people against buying labor-saving machinery. * A tremendous storm in south-western Kansas destroyed much property. Several people lost their lives by drowning. The will of William Cullen Bryant, Post editor, was probated at 350,000 dols. Colonel George P, Kano, Mayor of Baltimore, died of paralysis on the 23rd of June.

An cx-Cougress man named Vane was adjudged insane, and sent to the asylum.

A horrible homicide has been committed by a San Francisco laborer named Haraig, who found his wile flagrante delicto with his cousin named Sheehan. He killed them both by repeated blows with an axe. A monument to William Cullen Bryant is proposed to be erected in the Central Park, New York.

Many provinces in Brazil are suffering terribly from drought. The Government has been supporting over 300,000 directly, for over three mouths.

Miss Jeanette Bennett, sister to James Gordon Beunett (N. Y. Herald), is about to marry Lord Rossmore. Her fortune is estimated at £400,000. _ _ _ - A Russian priest and chief of the Greek Church in California was recently found dead in a street in San Francisco. There were contusions about his bead, and he is said to have been a hard drinker. Foul play is suspected. His name is the Rev. Kiarokivausky. The Mormons are arriving in numbers at New York from Europe. Thirty-five. thousand have reached the United States since 1855.

The great tunnel, tour miles in length, which has reached but is not yet connected with the Comstock silver mines, Nevada, will effect a radical change iu the methods of ventilating the mines. The Indian war in Idaho and Eastern Oregon promises to become general. This summer large tribes of Redskins, heretofore friendly, have become disaffected, and refuse to enlist against the Bannocks, now in active hostility. ■ Several sharp engagements have taken place, in which the troops and volunteers gained the advantage. The Harvard-Yale boat race was won by the Harvards by twelve lengths. Time, 22 minutes, the fastest four-mile race ever made in the United States.

The“P. tter” investigation, as it is called, into the validity of President Hayes’ title, came to nothing. The House Judiciary Committee decided by a vote of eight to one that the question has been properly settled by the forty-fourth Congress, and cannot be reopened. In the Quebec riot on the 12th instant Eugene Beaudaire was’killed, and the crowd took 400 barrels of flour from a provision store, stating that they “ were starving, and must eat or die.”

France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Russia, and Switzerland have accepted an invitation to an International Monetary Conference. Max Strakosch, the operatic manager, has been sued by Miss Smedley for breach of promise. Strakosch lately married Miss Neilson, and says Miss. Smedley’s claim is black mail. It is recommended that Robeson, ex Secretary of the United States Navy, be indicted for malfeasance in his office.

A resolution to modify existing treaties with China, so as to restrict Chinese immigration, has passed both Houses of Congress without a dissenting vote. The workmen’s ticket for delegates to the Constitutional Convention of California in San Francisco have been elected by a plurality of nearly 3000, beating the democratic, republican, and non-partisan candidates. Kearny, the leader of the proletarian movement, is jubilant, and capitalists feel depressed at the outlook.

There is a serious labor agitation at Montreal, Canada. Mass meetings of unemployed people aro being constantly held. New York.

Turpentine is steady at 290.; crude sperm, S6c.; South Sea whale, 40c.; linseed oil easier, 51)0.; petroleum closed quiet at 10.) c. In wool the outlook has increased, and inquiry is hot favorable. Sales of spring Californian arij quoted at 23Jc. to 25c.; Ohio, 36c.; New Michigan, 32e. San Francisco flour is very dull. Superfine, Idols. 25c. Wheat is. steady at Idol. 60c.; barley, 87c.; oats, Idol. 21c. ADDITITIONAL MAIL NEWS. Paris. The national festival in honor of Exhibition Sunday was a great success. Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the city when the inauguration of the statue of the Republic began. The mass of spectators was immense. Demarco, Minister of the Interior, unveiledjthe statue, and delivered an eloquent speech, in which he declared that the Republican party had now become a nation, and regenerated France was determined to enjoy the benefitof her dearly bought institutions in peace. The illuminations were grand in dimensions and ingenious in construction.

The British Anti-Savery Society presented a memorial asking Prince Bismarck to submit to Congress a declaration that slavery should be henceforth abolished and regarded as piracy, and that slavery should not be recognised as a legal institution by any State represented in Congress. A memorial states that the trade for the supply of Cuba and Mohamedan countries causes a loss of 500,000 lives aunually in Eastern Africa.

Papers are posted in all cotton mills in the Stockport district giving notice that in a fortnight a five per cent, reduction of wages will take place. The operatives are in favor of resistance, and, strike there would affect 25,000 people. A Bill providing for the slaughter of continental cattle at the point of embarkation in England was read in the Commons a second time.

News has been received that a numerous body of Turkish troops is marauding in Thessaly. The Greek Ministry, fearing it will be impossible to restrain the army of Turks from pursuing Christians to the frontier, have made a complaint to the PoHe. A portion of a tunnel near Schwelin, Germany, fell in, burying ’26 persons. Seven bodies were recovered, and a search for others is being continued. Bennett’s Arctic steamer Pandora has keen rechristened “Jeannette,”, after his sister. The ceremony, was performed at Havre with much eclat.

Vera Sasaulitch, the woman who attempted to assassinate Genera' Prepoff, the Prefect of St. Petersburg,arrived at Geneva and received an ovation. The TvUmne’a Geneva special says that at the supper given in honor of Vera Sasaulitch, at which she sat at the right ist Henry Rochfort, she made a speech saying she had given herself body and soul to the cause of revolution, and that in her opinion its triumph was not distant. The Russian people, she said, are fast becoming undeceived, and the blood that hadbeeushedinthe Eastern war was the last that would be shed in combats instigated by ambitious princes. The next combat would be that of the people against kings. Some sagacious politicians believe prince Bismarck’s advocacy of occupancy is part of a vast political programme, according to which Austria becomes the great Slavonic Power, and, leaves her German provinces to Germany. ■ ■ The inhabitants of Batoum have telegraphed to Minister Layard, asking fog the protection of England, and declaring that were it resolved to hoist the British flag, and open fire upon the Russians, they would respond.

It jff reported that the heir to the Hanoverian Crown will resign his claim to the sovereignty in order to recover his sequestrated estates.

At a sitting of the Berlin Congress on June 28, Prince Gortchakoff, who had been carried to the Council in a swoon, and who spoke with •effort in a trembling; voice, said the remarks be was about to make were prompted hy a love of truth and of his country. His colleagues had granted concessions in the name of Kussiv far surpassing what she thought of making. He was far too well aware of the feeling which actuated his colleagues to raise objections to the concessions they deemed it their duty to make. He merely wished to state that Russia made those sacrifices from a desire for peace, and that she had no narrow or selfish aim. Lord Beaconsfield expressed admiration at Prince Gortchakoff s sentiments. He acknowledged in the name of the Congress that a desire for peace actuated Russia, and hoped the same sentiment would continue. It is thought that thU m Prince Gortchakoffa last appearance at Congress. Berlin telegrams call attention to the endless prosecutions for treasonable utterances and seditious crimes. Hundreds have been punished for publicly regretting the failure of the attempts against the Emperor’s life. The Roumanian Cabinet and prominent Government officers are still holding secret meetings to determine upon the action to be taken relative to the decisions of Congress. The demand for the emancipation of the Jews excites more indignation than oven the retrocession of Bessarabia. Greece is massing large forces on the frontier to protect the territory against brigands.

Jarvis Cacedo, Minister to Belgium from San Salvador, and Medena, Minister from Guatemala* fought a duel on the frontier. Cacedo was wounded in the shoulder.

Pope Leo, after first making friendly overtures to the Emperor.of Germany, has (by advice of ecclesiastics surrounding him) determined to adhere to tile policy of Pins IX. The Cologne Gazelle takes opposite views, and quotes in support thereof an assertion of a Vienna semi-official correspondent—that the Papal Ifuncio to the Court of Bavaria had been instructed to open negotiatipns with the Berlin Government.

A special from Rome says Cardinal Frar.che. Secretary of State, has instructed the Papal Nuncio at Munich to make no advances to the German Government, in consequence of Germany’s breach of faith in publishing her correspondence with the Pope. The Columbia College crew won the final heat in the Visitors Challenge Cap at Heuiy. The Hertford College crew of Oxford running into the bank, the wou by a halfmile. The Columbias got off first, and soon had the lead by a length, which they kept to Poplar Point, where they took the Hertfords’ water. The Hertford brew made a spurt, but. their bow oarsman broke down from exhaustion, and the boat ran ashore.' Time of heat— Smin. 41seo.

: Gammoni's London E. C. won the'Stowards Challenge Cup. The Tribunes London special says Count Schonvaloff brought up the question of employing Indian troops in European warfare and seSing arms to Asiatic people, especially to the Chinese. He wished, he said,to invite Congress to look upon this subject without passion, and regard it as affecting the interests, and perhaps the very existence of European civilisation. He cited the opinions of eminent Savants, who had lately pointed out that had the ancient Greeks possessed even the rudest of our modern arms they could have rolled back 1 the barbarian hordes who swept them away ; but the experience of the late campaign had shown that war was no longer to be a contest in which superior physical strength and moral purpose would win a victory. Turkey, armed with a rifle made in thoTJn ted States, and intrenched in positions chosen and fortified by military skill, had been able to hold at bay for weeks the flower of the Russian army, the best braves, and most ardent soldiers. If the countless hordes of China and India are to be permitted to arm themselves with modern weapons, and acquire practical knowledge of the art of modern warfare there will be nothing to prevent them from rolling forth into Europe and crushing Christian civilisation out of existence. Especially were Mongolians to be studied from this point of view ; and he invited the Congress to take the matter into its serious consideration, and deliberate upon the practicability of a league of European Powers, binding them to abstain from employing Asiatic troops in Europe and prevent as far as possible the importation of arms of precision into Asia. Beaconsfield is said to have made rather a light reply to this appeal, and to have said that at all events the subject was not at all germane to the objects of the Congress, and should not now be discussed. But SchouvalofTa remarks made a strong impression upon Bismarck and Waddington, and subsequently in private conversation they suggested that the subject was worthy of consideration by a Congress called expressly for that purpose. The Emperor of Morocco is dead. Russia haspaid Servia £125,000, the balance Of the promised war subsidy. Slight-rioting has taken place at Marseilles in consequence of the recent attempt of the Ultramontanes to get up a political demonstration by decorating a statue of a former Bishop. The mob invaded the office of the Legitimist newspaper, and endeavored to overthrow the statue. The police dispersed the,- mob and arrested a few persons. A Berlin despatch of Jnly 5 says, re British protectorate over Armenia, there is reason to believe that a scheme .is under negotiation at a private conference of plenipotentiaries, by; which England would undertake a protection of the'Armenians similar to that which France undertook in the settlement of the Lebanon question. Armenia would be recognised, with Saghanli for the defence of the frontier with a Christian Governor named - by the Forte, and a Christian gendarmerie to be be appointed, Boumania is admitted to the permanent International' Commission for the navigation of the Danube.

The British Consular Agent has returned to Constantinople from his mission to enquire into the means necessary for relieving the 72,000 destitute refugees in the Ehodope mountains. He reports that influential Turks in that district offered to enlist if required 30,000 men for English service. Spain went into mourning over the death of Queen Mercedes. She was about to become a mother, and died in the arms,of the King. The Bnssians have 52,000 sick in the Balkan Peninsula. Of the recruits raised in 1875 for the Armenian campaign, 25 per cent, are dead. Of seventy-five meetings of operatives in' the Blackburn region fifty resolved to go to work at the redaction of wages, twenty-one not to resume, and four reached no decision. Large numbers of operatives throughout Lancashire have resumed work at the full reduction. The meetings at Barnly were thinly attended, and the general opinion is that the strike is ended. Advices from Cape Town to 21st May represent that Sandhill!, chief of the Giakas, bad sent word tq the commander of the British forces that hb is tired of fighting ‘and wants peace. The commander replied that he would accept unconditional surrender only. This will probably soon follow, and with it a speedy settlement of the trouble. Between five and six millions of Chinese are suffering in the famine districts. The missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, are making noble exertions for the relief of the sufferers.

A French corvette visited Fusan, in Corea to inquire concerning a party of French missionaries believed to be held in confinement in the capital. No satisfactory intelligence has been obtained. The Corean officials are taking a hostile attitude, and declare themselves prepared to resist invasion. During a terrible thunderstorm at Hongkong on May 22 nine and a half inches of rain foil. The streets were torn up, houses flooded, and great damage done to property. Many lives were lost. .

Lord Beaconsfield (in conversation with Bismarck, who urged him to make concessions), said, “ I did not come here to yield.” Bishop, an Englishman, has been sentenced to imprisonment for bribing the officials to ob. tain a plan of the German fortresses. He was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment in 1834 at Turin for participating in a conspiracy in favor of King Francis of Naples. He also corrupted a Prussian sergeant at Metz in 1877 to obtain information relative to the mobilisation of local Engineers. He was a staunch Ultramontane, and an enemy of Bismarck. General Grant returns to the United States aext spring by way of India. Agitation continues about the measures of Government in favor of repression of socialism, and the newspapers are continually reporting the arrest of Socialists, and the interruption of the meetings. The N'm Pratt (Socialist) asserts that the examining magistrate of the Berlin Court said recently that, as far as the investigation has proceeded, there was not the least ’reason to suppose Nobelling was confleeted with social democrats. It is hoped that the Emperor will shortly he able to go to Wilbelmahcp, and later fu the year to Weimar aftdQaetico.