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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3734, 13 December 1880, Page 2

American.

San Feancisco, November2l. The Republicans carried ■.every Nor* them State, excepting New Jersey, California and Navada. The Democratic Party carried all the Southern States. General Hancock, of Pennsylvania, and William J. English, of Indiana, .Republicans, polled largely, and increased the vote in every State of the Union, thus gaining enough members to the Lower House of Congress to give them a working majority iv the next House. The Senate will be democratic, by one majority the President elect is a tariff man, but believes the present system can be modified so as to bear less heavily upon certain industries. He has Btated he will treat the Southern States justly, but allow them no favors. The Commissioners concluded a new treaty with China on the immigration question in the interest of America. The sugar crop in Louisiana .ii spoiled. Counterfeit United States bonds are being circulated. Only the most expert can distinguish them from genuine. Edison claims to have discovered a plan by which electric lights can be divided indefinitely; The Rugby colony in Tennessee is expected to prbre very successful. Sarah Bern hard t made her debut in New York city to an immense audience. Ten days before the presidential election an unpopular forged letter with Garfield's signature appeared in a New York paper which lost the votes of three States to the republicans. Two men have been arrested and bound over. Anxiety is felt respecting the Arctic exploring ship Jeanneth, fitted out by Bennett of the New York Herald. A relief vessel is to be Bent. In Minnosota, the State Insane Asylum was burnt. Between -twenty and fifty inmates were burnt to death.

Leprosy is spreading amongst the whites near' Frisco. Twenty cases were discovered and traced to the Sandwich Islands. Small pox is raging in 'Frisco. An influential San Francisco jonrnal is advocating a reciprocity treaty between the States and New Zealand and Australia. BEAZIL. ; Sixty bandits concerned in sacking a town have been killed. Inundations have occurred at Santa Catherine, and great loss of life and property has ensued. CHILI AND PEBU. The Chinese employed by the Peruvians have joined the invaders. The Chilians have landed a force at St. Lorenzo. The attempted mediation by the Stales and Great Britian has been abandoned, as neither Peru nor Chili would agree to a compromise. In Southern Chili the Indians are plundering %nd massacreing the, whites. ( i The Chilian Government is straining every nerve to effect the capture of Lima, hoping the end is near. Forty-four miners were killed in a coal mine at Shellerton, Nova Scotia.