AMERICA.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, 3 July 1879, Page 2

AMERICA.

It is believed that the Jeannette, with Mr. James Gordon Bennett, bound on an Arctic expedition, under the command vT lieutenant George W. De Long, U.S.N., will be ready for departure on the 20th inst. The Jeannette is pronounced to be in superb condition for the undertaking. The Pauaraa session has been characterised by disgraceful disorder. The people in the galleries openly expressed their c< ntempt and hatred for certain members, whose hostility against the executive was most marked. Those members increased the disgraceful disorder by making impa««ioned attacks against the President of the Republic. The populace replied with volleys of stones, on which members used their revolvers. The Oalveston News special correspondent says that as Mrs. Colson and her two children were returning bomef om speeding the spring at Colson Kanch, were met by a puty of Indians, who killed one child with arrows, beat the other's brains out with a club, and, after outraging Mrs. Colson, killed her. Mr. Colson

and his sons, on returning, found the bodies, and immediately went in pursuit of the savages. Mr. CoJson had been tuaried but two weeks, bis former wife having been killed by Indians a year and a-haif ago. A de-perate naval engagement was fought off the harbor of Iquique, on tbe southern part of tbe Peruvian Coast, between two Chilian wooden ships of war, the Esmeralda and the Caradonga, and the Peruvian ironclads fndependencia and Huasear. The Chilian ironclads sailed toward the south, leaving the corvette Esmeralda and the gunboat Caradonga in the blockade. The Peruvian war vessels Huasear and Independencia had been closely watching the movements of their enemy, and as soon at the ironclad portion of the Chilian squadron were gone, they steamed up to the entrance of the harbor and vigorously attacked the enemy. The defence of the Chilians was heroic. That the combat was an unequal one was evident from the Irst, but the officers in command of the wooden vessels did not hesitate, but accepted battle with a creditable result. The fighting was of a desperate character in the early part of the engagement. The Independencia did severe work against the wooden sides of her antagonist, but the Chilians handled their gunboats in such a way that the weak parts of their enemy's vessel were always exposed to the fire of one or other of their ships. One Chilian vessel was sunk in action, and ihe Independencia got on a reef, and was wrecked. The other Chilian boat went down soon afterwards. It is not stated how many men were killed in the action, or how many were drowned with the sinking vessels. The Chilian Mipkter received a telegram stating that the Chilian ship-of-war Esmeralda had become disabled, and that her captain bad fired the magazine, in order to prevent her falling into tbe hands of the enemy. A terrible storm of wind and rain passed over North Kansas and South Nebraska. It extended through nearly the whole northern tier of counties in this state. The town of Irving, 90 miles west of this place, was nearly destroyed. At that point tbe storm took the character of a cyclone, and levelled everything in its path. About 40 buildings were destroyed, and 15 persons were killed and wounded. The cyclone struck the earth four miles from Lee's summit last evening, and tore a furrow through the country one hundred yards wide and ten miles long, levelling everything in its track, and killing and wounding several people. The town of Warren was totally destroyed. Two members of one family were killed, and others severely wouaded. A special dispatch from Concordia states that the storm was extremely violent in the vicinity of Delphos, Otawa county. Fifteen dead bodies were brought in from two square miles of territory. A Kansas City dispatch says tbat a man named Harris and bis wiie and children were carried up into the air clean out of sight and dropped in different places and directions from the site of the house they occupied. They were dropped at from one to two hundred yards off. Airs. Harris and one child were killed, and Harris died several hours after. One of the other children was found in a pool of water fifty yards from tho house.