AMERICA.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 304, 23 February 1870, Page 6

AMERICA.

New iork. Pe*re Hyacinthe's lecture attracted the largest audience ever seen in New York. The ' New York Herald " prints a leter from Edward Tullege (?), the apostle of Mormon reforms, in which he says that the people have been reduced to temporal bondage by the power of Brigham Young. The Excelsior Iron Works in Fourteenth street, New York, have been burned. The loss is estimated at 60,000 dollars. Conrad Fetzer and Son, lithographers, William street, have been arrested on a charge of forging and printing counterfeit revenue stamped checks. About 60,000 dollars worth of counterfeit checks were found on the paemises. The majority of the Committee appointed to consider the decline of American commerce, recommend Congress to modify the law so that foreign-built vessels may be imported 4 free of duty and privileged to carry the American flag, provided that they are owned in America, and not employed in coastwise trade ; also, that ample subsidies be granted to Ikies of steamers built in American yards. Samuel Nankervis, an English preacher at Kenterville, has been convicted of murder in the first degree for billing his. infant uhild. His wife, who was also tried, was acquitted. The departure of the ex-Confederate ram Atlanta from below Philadelphia, simultaneously with that of the Spanish gun-boats From New York, excited suspicion that she w&b really governed and ordered by Cubans, and was intended to attack the Spanish aeet. A wooden building in Chapel place, Boston, which was occupied by several Irish families lias been burned. Two children, a boy of four years old and girl of three years old, were burned to death. A deputation from Florida has called on khe President to ask for troops to aid the mthorities to execute the laws fop the protection of the lives and property of the jitizens. They complained of the large (lumber of assassinations which have occurred lately. The president stated that he would confer with the Secretary for War on the subject of the means to be taken to effectually carry out the law. Havana. An incendiary proclamation has been cirjulated extensively through the city.

General Cespedes has issued a proclama- • tion in which he invokes all true Cubans to destroy the tobacco and sugar crops, in order to deprive Spaniards of them. Several thousand Spanish troops have arrived from Cadiz. A Haytian steamer has been siezed on the coast and taken to Santiago, under suspicion of having landed arms for the Cubans. ; 700 of Valmazeda's battalion have arrived. The fightfng at Mogate still continues. The cholera is decreasing at Hayti. Chicago. A New York special says that a conspiracy to kindle several fires simultaneously in that city has been discovered through the confession of a drunken man. San Francisco. Flour is in improved demand for export at 5 dols. 25 cents to 5 dols. 50 cents for extra quality ; superfine is at 4 dols. to 4 dols 37 i cents : oats, 1 dol. 25 cents to 1 dol. 37$ ■ cents. Gold at New York is at 120| to , i2os. ;