AMERICA.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 895, 6 April 1877, Page 3

AMERICA.

San Fkawcibco, March 3. Two hundred and twenty-nine Sioux from the hostile camp on Tougue River have surrendered their arms and 300 ponies. President Grant will take the supreme management of a leading bank in New York. General Diaz has been sworn in President of Mexico. General Cortena has been arrested, and his property confiscated. The Hoise Committee on Appropriations insisted on a Civil Appropriations Bill of 360,000d01. to pay the claim of the Southern mail contractors for services rendered. It was regarded probable that the proposed subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company of 400,000d015. will not be agreed to. The postmaster will probably give only postages as compensation for services between San Francisco, Japan, and China. Eight bodies of the crew of the oyster schooner Laura, which was capsized near Anapolis in the gale of December 20tb, were recovered at Baltimore. Tbe Chinese confined in San Quentin gaol attempted to kill the warders by mixing pounded glass with their food. The plot was discovered. Gas in a Sacramento sewer, which had escaped from the gas main, exploded. The streets were strewn with lumber and dirt, and a wide and deep ditcb, over half a mile long, was visible, bearing the appearance of a chasm created by some terrible convulsion of nature. The Samoan Government has entered into a treaty of friendship with the United States. Tbe ' Hawaiian Gazette,' of February 14th, says it will be noticed that the advertisement of the mail steamer is withdrawn, which is done by order of the Pacific Mail Company. On enquiry we learn that Company bas determined to withdraw from tbe route. In their latest letter they say : — Should the decision of the Hawaiian Government be unfavorable to our view of what is just and liberal in this contract, we will immediately and for ever drop Port Honolulu, and carry out our English-Colonial mail contract by running direct from San Francisco apd Fiji. March 11. Regarding small -pox at San Francisco, hopes are entertained tbat it is about to die out. The total cases since the outbreak are 1500, and tbe average mortality 25 per cent. Sixteen cases for the last week are reported, and 16 for the previous week.