AMERICAN NOTES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 207, 18 January 1872, Page 7

AMERICAN NOTES.

Mr. George Francis Train has turned up at, Geneva. Haviug failed as the saviour of France, he has become the leader and champion of the working men everywhere. Mr. Train unuounces that his plan is to return to America as the working man's candidate for the Presidency, nominated by all the world. Following the example of the labouring population of Ireland, the working men of Geneva have passed a resolution to the effect that all lovers of liberty look to his election as President of the United States as the steppingstone to their freedom.

The " Chicago Tribune " asks and receives 22,000 dollars for a column of advertising one year. There |is one house in Cincinnati that pays 40,000 dollars a year for advertising. There are several in Cleveland, even, who pay as high as 10,000 dollars a year.

An American met a small Cockney in full Highland costume at an inn in the North, and after eyeing him for some time with intense curiosity, exclaimed — " Stranger, I guess Rob Roy would have boen tarnation disgusted to have seen you in that petticoat."

A telegram to tho '• Alta California," dated 19th October, says : — General Curleye' one of the leaders of the late Fenian fiasco upon Manitoba arrived here yesterday, and .was immediately arrested. General Curleye, like O'Neill, who was arrested here on Monday, declares that the Fenian raid was no raid at all, hut merely a colonisation scheme, and that the colony could have successfully resisted Colonel Wheaton if so disposed."

It is expected that Tweed and the other Tammany iting swindlers, will fly from the country.

The re building of Chicago is proceeding with magical celerity.

A church at Alvarado, has been turned into a bar-room — the spirits being dispensed from the pulpit, wliicli serves as a counter.

There is another big spec on the tapis in America, being no less than the construction of a canal from the Missisippi to the Atlantic. The reason stated for this enterprise, is that the cost of railway transportation from the West to the Atlantic is too expensive, being seven and a half times that of canal transportation. Have our American cousins got beyond railways?

A company has been formed under the title of the Central Polynesia Land and Commercial Company, for the purchase of the Navigator Islands and the cultivation, sale and lease of the same.