AMERICAN NEWS.

Southland Times, Issue 1680, 24 December 1872, Page 2

AMERICAN NEWS.

AMERICAN NEWS. The Australian steamship line has been organised into a regular Corporation, under the laws of New York. The whole capital, Amounting to 2,000,000 dollars, has been taken up. Seven gentlemen in New r York and California are the Directors. The Directors in New York are Meisrs Webb, "Wood, and Lowry; and in California, Messrs Lloyd, Lewis, VicoPresidentjMills, and Butterworth. The line is expected to be a great success. The Californian papers consider the granting to it of an American subsidy as certain. Mrs Victoria "Woodhull, and her sister, Miss Tennie Clafia, the notorious advocates of '• free love," have been indicted on a charge of circulating obscene publications. They have been committed for trial, bail being fixed at £2000. The horse epidemic continues in New York and other Eastern cities, as well aa Canada, and is causing stagnation in business. Ox teams have been brought into requisition. Iv New York city, 14,000 horses have been prostrated by the disease. Up to the latest dates, it was still unabated, and only a f«w horses were working in the streets. The disease had alpo spread throuu;hout the State, and the trotting and race-horses had succumbed to it. Several persons are ill with coinplaints similar to this horse disease. Stnall-pox is epidemic in St. Louis. The American steamer Missouri has been burned off Key West. The loss of the vessel and cargo is estimated at 500,000 doU. The number of lives lost is not yet ascertained. By an accident on the Central Pacific Kail way, a large amount of baggage and express matter was burned. The Texas Pacific Bailroad is being pushed forward rapidly.