SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 229, 27 September 1878, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

"(Per 8.8. City of Sydney, vi_ Auckland.) Correspondence between the United States Minister Welsh and Lord- Salisbury regarding Condon, the Fenian,;- ia published;. Mr Welsh* tinder date August 8, reminds Lord Salisbury that the United States has already prayed for the release of Condon three times,, and vwbuld doubtless continue to do so, but always most respectfully, until, it is granted. The belief in the United States is that Condon, an ardent Irishman, who served most

honorably in the American war, was the victim of circumstances in his wrong doing, and having been,ll years in prison and learned wisdom may well be restored to his family in the States. Mr Welsh concludes by saying that the release of Condon would be regarded by the President and Congress of the United States aa a most friendly action. ' Lord Salisbury replied, on August 16, that the Cabinet had carefully considered the request, and that as Condon's health is Buffering seriously they had been strongly moved to look upon the application in a favorable light. The Cabinet would recommend Her Majesty to remit the remainder of the sentence of Melody, convicted of the same offence. The Fenians liberated at the repeated request of the United States Minister are to reside out of England during the period of their sentence. Of the Australian cricketers, the Home News says, " The career of the Australian cricketers which has been illuminated by something like meteoric brilliancy is drawing to a close. Having been feted and made much of on every side, followed by crowds as inquisitively admiring as thoss who pay homage to the reigning beautiee in the Park, their leading spirit receiving an apotheosis from the hands of 'Ape' in the cartoon of Vanity Fair, they haAe been treated last of all tc a big banquet at Willis' Rooms, the culminating honor of every true British heart* Their performances have certainly . been not less a surprise to their opponents than to themselves. Only at the last moment has •Cambridge come in with her splendid eleven to redress the balance and prove thatthe science of cricket has not entirely deserted us. The Australians were • bad to beat,' and although worsted in the last and most closely contested, will take back their laurels untarnished, and with them many good wishes from all whom they •encountered." Accounts of the ravages of yellow fever in the Southern States are of a heart-rend-ing character. At the Board of Health meeting this morning Dr Lawrence reported a fearful condition of affairs among the colored people. In some localities they are crowded together in narrow filthy quarters, and are an easy prey to disease ■and death. Hundreds of them have been sick for days without medical attendance. 'The fever continues to spread among the negroes, whole families being prostrated, but it is hoped that with the late additions to the medical corps, they will henceforth Teceive better attention. Among the new •caseß reported this evening are Fathers Hinema and Kesrem, of St. Patrick's •Church. Father Erasmus, of the Order of San Franciscans is dead. The attention of the health officer has been called to Whitmore House, in which five deaths ihave occured. Some woman, who died on the afternoon of Friday, still lies in the house. An unknown man, sick in th" back room, was not heard of for several ■days. This evening physicians visited the house, broke into the room of the sick man, and found hie remains abandoned in bed, a dirty sheet thrown over his face, and the bed spattered with black vomit. The sanitary police have been instructed to break into houses where they have reason to believe there are unattended sick or dead persons. The clouds of woe over the city show no sign of .breaking. Physicians, nurses; druggists, and undertakers are becoming exhausted by constant, working. Dr an active young physician, was stricken down . this morning. The hospital contains about 250 sick, and the worst is feared for the people living in tents. Some becoming frightened have returned to their homes ana infected the district. In tiie city new cases were reported to day, 104 ; deaths from yellow fever, 76. The undertakers here cannot bury the dead, and at Elmwood to-day dozens of coffined dead were lying on the top of the ground waiting for interment, it being a difficult matter to procure even colored gravediggers. Washington, Aug. 31. The official report of the SurgeonGeneral of the marine hospital service for the last week is completed. The death rate for the week in New Orleans to date has been, out of a total of 2877 cases, 867 deaths; at Vicksburg 800 cases, half of which occurred last week, and 60 more in the last 24 hours. Deaths of refugees occurred in many towns. All over the States, including New York, the fever is committing great havoc. The South and South-western Stateß, New Orleans, Grenada, and Mississippi are suffering heavily. The following message was received, from Grenada (Missourij, August 14:—" To Mayor, Washington, i j elp us to pay our nurses and bury the dead. Our town is a graveyard. We nead help. The Mayor is dying, and I am the only officer ieft.—E. D. Mqlton, City Marshall and Acting Mayor." The character of the disease is unusually virulent. Two-thirds of those taken die. Subscriptions come in freely from all parts of the States.

Fowler, an American who undertook to walkon water from Boulogne to Folkestone in boots like canoes, failed after accomplishing 11 miles. The Times and Telegraph, however, say he accomplished the passage of the Channel on foot, though he landed at Sandgate instead or Folkestone.