American.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3759, 14 January 1881, Page 2

American.

San Feancisco, December 21.

President Hayes submitted an unusually lengthy message to Congress, in which he intimated that m_>re attention should hereafter be paid to the condition of the colored people in tne exercise of their rights. He condemned Mormonism and said the law should stamp it out. He advocates civil service reforms, and commends the Victorian Exhibition. A treaty has been concluded with China to check the immigration of Chinese. He takes strong ground against De Lessep's Panama Canal, because it is not owned and controlled by the United States. He advocates subsidies to ocean mails.

Branches of the Irish Land League have been established in California.

Wheat ships find difficulty in obtaining crews.

m Sankey and Moody's success in San Francisco was not great. Small pox is decreasing. Eain storms throughout California have occurred since the fifteenth. •

A larger area of wheat will be sown this season than iv any previous year. Thirty people Were burned to death in a factory in Buffalo.

General Grant favours a Nicaraguan canal in opposition to that of De Lesseps, and if a company is formed, will be president.

Father Gavazzi is soliciting aid in New York for a Free Church of Italy.

President Hayes would admit Chinese vessels into the United States ports on the same footing as other nations.

Courtney, a pseudo English lord, is in gaol in New York.

Business is much depressed in the Eastern States. There are numerous heavy failures.