AMERICAN NEWS.

Southland Times, Issue 1596, 25 June 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS.

The Liberal Eepublican convention has nominated Horace Greeley for the Presidency- The nomination took the country by surprise. President Grant will no doabfc get a regular nomination from the Mr Davis has been nominated. It is believed that the contest will be narrowed, to one between. Greeley and Grant. To-day a severe windstorm passed over Washington and New York, destroying houses, barns, and orchards. The Spanish gunboat Distillo has captured, under suspicious circumstances, the English schooner Wm. Julius, and brought her to Muertoa.

The President has signed the House Amnesty Bill, passed by the Senate. The exceptions provided for in the Bill, will, it is supposed, cover not less than 200 eases, including Jeff. Davis. The Senate went into Executive Session on the 22nd May on the additional article in the Treaty of Washington, with the modification proposed by a majority of the Committee on Foreign Kelations to effect the original object by a change of phraseology, but to make it of equal application to both sides. A fire in Broadway, New York, destroyed 500,000 dollars' worth of dry goods. In an attack by Cherokee Indians near Fort Smith, thirteen persons were killed and twelve wounded. The whole district was deserted in consequence. A million dollars' worth of property was destroyed by a fire in Somerset, Pennsylvania. Over 100,000 immigrants had arrived in New York up till 21st May.