American.

Auckland Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2334, 8 September 1877, Page 3

American.

STRIKES, RIOTS, AND GREAT LOSS

OF LIFE

CHINESE AGITATION, AND ATTEMPT TO BURN PACIFIC MAIL DOCKS.

THE INDIAN WAR

Fearful riots have been caused by strikes all through the United States at the end of July. At Chicago and St. Louis threefourths of the manufactories were stopped. The military were called out. and fired at the mob at Ghicago, killing fifteen, and ■wounding over lifty. Riots occurred at Llamsburgh. Columbus, Toledo, Detriot, Scrantun, Pittsburgh, Omaha, Jackson, ludianopolis, and scores of other towns. At Baltimore, 8,000 miners arc on strike. Cabinet Councils have benn hold at Washington to devise measures for public safety. Detachments of military -were sent in all directions. The destruction of property was enormous. The crops in the Western States are splendid. The wheat average is higher than usual. At Pittsburgh the military lire caused great loss of life in the crowd, and as the Regiment, which had been the cause of this fearful butchery and sacrifice of human life, held on their course to the depot, they were again followed and surrounded by an immense mob, comprised of tho better class of citizens, who were worked up to the .highest pitch of excitement, and condemned the conduct of the soldiers. Tito regiment was penned n}) in Howardstreet surrounded by a furious mob, whoso fury increased as each fresh report reached them about the number of killed and wounded. For over two hours they formed cti Howard-street, unable to move, but at length they managed to make the depot, and were disposed of in the cars and locked

n. The mob each n.oiucnt grew more violent in their demonstrations, and had at length broken in the telegraph oflice, tore up the mils, disabled the engines, threw the cai-a ofi" the (rack and wound up by firing the Canulon Station depot, roitiiclhou.se, and other buildings, and a pandemonium seemed to reign, and the Mayor's proclamation had but little ed'ect. The feeling of the orowds collected up town is very bitter against the military. The mortality of those shot is greatly in excess of the wounded, aboxit fifteen men having been killed outright. The hospital and station-houses where the wounded were carried present a sorry sight. The killed and wounded during the few days' rioting numbered 45. The town was completely in possession of a mob numbering 3000, who destroyed a large amount of rai> way property. At San Francisco, a moo of hoodlums arranged a plan for exterminating the Chinese and burning the docks of the Pacific Mail Company, which brings Chinamen to the country. The Vigilance Committee is revised to prevent outrage. Dcjatchments of soldiers are posted along the central trail way lines t/> secure sate transit of mails and passengers. At Baltimore, St. Louis, and other places strikers signed requisitions for an eight hours' law. At Reading t*x people were killed. A compromise was effected by the beginning of August, mid work •was resumed in most districts. The President's menage is expected to dwell principally upon the labour question. .Several members of the Cabinet we known to favor the law for providing an organisation of commission having due regard for the interests of all classes. The Insurance losses at St. Jwhn's lire were six million scv;:n hundred thousand dollars. The Workhouse, Simooc, was burned, with seventeen inmates. The village of Eaton, was destroyed by lire communicated from forests, which burnt five weeks-. One family perished, rind several arc missing-. The Chinese question occupies the columns of American journals. The San Francisco " Post, of August Sth has a letter stating that hundreds of the officers in the civil war, are now ;earuing a bare subsistence at the wash tub.

On August Stb, a dastardly outrage occurred at the New York acquarium, all the lish wore poisoned. The Idaho Indian war still continues. General Gibbon attacked the Indian camp at Big Hole Basin. After a severe struggle he routed them. The troops lost 70 of all ranks. The Indians 150. It. is the hardest fought battle of the war. The Indians are retreating.