AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 23, 17 December 1874, Page 6

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.

By the Cyphrenes which arrived at Auckland on the 10th inst we have American duties to the 10 Nov. The Louisiana political disturbance resulted in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot Governor Kellogg. Three shots were fired. A gale and fog at Lake Erie resulted in the wreck of many vessels and the loss of 400,000 dols. worth of property. Advices from Venezuela announced that the Provinces of Cara and Barcelona had risen in revolution against President Branco Father Genderman, a priest of the German Catholic Church at Philadelphia, absconded with 40,000 dols. of funds of the Church. He is supposed to have eloped with a young lady, organist of the Church. The San Francisco papers confirm the reports of plundering on the Pacific railroad by gambling robbers. The plan of operations is chiefly to beguile unsuspecting passengers into swindling games of cards. The Sophia Joakim sailed from London for Ofapro on October 6. The San Francisco firm of Morgan and Sons has failed, with liabilities, in San Francisco alone, of half a million dollars. The cause of their failure was buying up all the freights in anticipation of the wheat crops. The fall of wheat at Liverpool, followed by the fall of freights, landed the firm in difficulties. New gold diggings have been discovered at the Cape of Good Hope. Hundreds are flocking there. The veins are said to be rich and extensive. Trade is in a bad condition in New York. Ninety thousand laborers and mechanics are unemployed. A fund is being raised for the relief of sufferers by the grasshopper plague. At Nebraska, a prize-fight between Allen, the American champion, and Jem Mace, ior the championship ot the world, is on the tapis. The * London Times * thus refers to Gardiner's and Sullivan's release:—"We don't intend to allow either Mr Gardiner or Mr Sullivan to land here if we can help it, and the Americans are determined that you must find some other dust hole to shoot your discarded rubbish in than the States." The * Times ' says the freeing of these wretches does not evince a very high standard of local morality, but it adds, that " bearing in mind our own clemency to wife-beaters and kickers in England, we have no right to be too exacting in this sense as to our Australian orogeny."