THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4438, 21 May 1877, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

From 50 000 to *IO,OOO people took part in the Tichbornt demonstration. Their leader, Mr De Morgor, proceeded alone to the House of Commons, He wrote to Mr Gross, fiome Secretary, who replied that he would read the petition, and, if good reason were given, would move that he be heard at the bar of the Hon ; e. The crowd dispersed peaceably. 100,080 persons proposed to march in procession to the House of Commons to present a petition iu favor of the Tichborue Claimant. The troops were kept in the barracks to prevent disorder. A motion by Mr Shaw iu the House of Commons, to inquire into Ireland’s demands for Home Rule caused a hot debate. It was rejected, Mou Moltke said the French war budget is heavier by 150 000,000 francs than that of Germany. The French papers were full of envy and spite against Germany. France, mnembciing how often the Empire invaded Germany before it became united, feared similar treatment, hence the strengthening of the positions between Paris and the frontier and its gigantic armament. He did not be icv. peace could be loog preserved. The Government must soon strain every nerve for existence. Chari s Bradlaugh and Mrs Annie Bissant have been arrested on a charge of issuing immoral publications. The plague has broken out at Bagdad, and the cattle plague at Wi.lesdea, in Middlesex. ’ One thousand iron ship-builders struck at Stoekton-ou-Toes. The ‘ Ti'■ es ’ roughly estimates that last year’s expenditure will exceed the revenue by five mi.liom sterling. 1 ingall and Sons, of Liverpool, have failed for two mi lions and a half. The ‘ Pall Mall Gazette’ thinks it doubtful whether Bismarck will not retire altogether. At Romo the retirement of Bismarck is regarded as opportune for negotiations with Germany to regulate the relations of Church and State. Russia is cult vating friendly relations with Rome, and proposes to the Vatican to settle long standing differences. Much discontent exi-ts amongst the commercial population of Italy. The Republican International Societies are to be suppressed. A telegram from Rome states that a band of Internationalists, who belong to the lowest classes of the populatS. a nnd have anachial intentions, have appeared in various* Proviuo ■*. At rdlmo, a band of thirty too ooe.sioii of the Town Hall, and bunr d the archives. Most of them were ir. ested.

German contractors are taking large army contracts at St. Petersburg. President M‘Mahon has instructed the Minister of Justice and Public Worship to rebuke the Bishop of Nevers for meddling with foreign politics. The Bank of France has reduced the rate of discount to 3 per cent. 10,000 troops mutinied near Tienstein, threw away their arms, and marched to Shauitteving. General Saigo is being gradually driven ftom Kumamoto River.

AMERICAN,

Sixty thousand miners are idle in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. Laura 1). Fair ha< filed her schedule.

The sfce.-unsLi i Lao was burned at sea. The captain and thirteen of crew escaped in a life-beat. Three passengers and eighteen of the crew are mising. A terrible tornado at Rutherford, Tennessee, blew d nvn fifteen houses, killed three persons and wounded eight. Mexico has outraged the American flag by the seizure of the schooner Montana aud the arrest of the United States Consul at Acapulco. Two American war vessels have been s ut to inquire. The fire at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, is the sensation of the month. The fire broke out at an early hour in the morning, having caught in the storerooms in the basement, and was first seen coming through the ground floor at the north of the olfice. In ten minutes it ascei d d the elevators and rotunda, and spread it-elf over the sixth floor under the roof. Thu floor was occupied entirely by employes cf the hotel, the largest part of whom were women. The fire spread rapidly, filling every room and hall wit i smoke, and soon the scone was one of a terrible description. Frantic men, women, a.d children ran through the halls shrieking in a most heartrendering manner in their wild and desperate efforts to escape. The smoke w ? as so dense in tome of the halls that the gas jets were extinguished, which rendered egress to those most familiar with the building a matter of great difficulty. The density of the emoke

in the bolls drove many of the guests end boarders back into their rooms, and they rushed to the windows as a means of escape. Ladders were raised as soon as possible, and women and children with nothing on but their night dr;sr.ca wrre taken from the burning building. Some fainted from fright, others sank exhausted to the ground from nervous prostration. The ladders were generally too short to reach the fifth and sixth storeys ; but by hoisting some on the one-storey balcony on the north side of the building these floors were reached, and all those at the windows were received in safety. The mortality among ths female helps of the hotel was great. There were some 200 of them, all of whom were lodged in the upper storey of the building. The panic among them was perfectly terrible, and a number of them jumped from the upper window. About half an hour after the fire was discovered the entire roof was ablaze, and the flames were rapidly descending the lower stories. Half an hour later the floors and interior of the walls began to ia>ll. The roof then fell in, and there was nothing left of one of the finest hotels in the country. A force was organised to search for the dead bodies. Several bodies were taken out from the debrig in a more or less burned state; but their names have not yet been ascertained. There arc several bodies at the morgue awaiting identification. The journal at St. Louis estimates the killed at 125, and says forty are at the morgue, and twenty have been recognised by their friends and taken away. The hotel cost 1,000,000 dollars at the beginning of the war. An accident occurred on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railway. As the train was crossing the railway bridge near Malvern the bridge gave way, precipitating the engine into the creek, killing the fireman (James Sharp) and seriously injuring Engineer Dearborn.

The labor market throughout the United States is in a terribly depressed state. In California thousands are without employment through the influx of Chinese and immigrants from the East. Colonial immigrants there have been known to he reduced to such a state as absolutely to steal stuff from the swill barrels in the rear of the restaurants to keep themselves from starvation.

A. ves?el has arrived from San. Francisco with 900 Chinese. Small-pox lias broken out among them. This disease almost invariably accompanies coolie vessels, and it baffles the quarantine regulations. The Indians who surrendered under Spotted tail gave up 1,430 horses and a great quantity of arms, including many carbines taken in the Custer massacre. The details of the wieck of "the brig Koohoke are most harrowing. The vessel in a gale was dismantled and broached-to, the sea washing clean over her. Several of the crew jumped overboard, and others were washed away. The survivors, only two in number, lived on tallow. One became insane and leaped overboard. The sole survivor was rescued by a passing vessel. A terrible state of affairs exists at Oglethose, County of Georgia, the scene of the late not, in which Luke Johnston, with a band of negroes, tried to take possession of the post office. A general feeling of distrust and suspicion pervades the country. A negro named Turner was calied out of his house and killed by a party of unknown men. A night or two later other negroes were called out in the same manner and shot.

Affairs in Colombia are favorable to th© Government cause. Since the banishment of Bishop Bertudez the clergy have been more desperate than ever. Archbishop Dagota preached a seditious sermon, which led to the adoption by the House of Representatives of a resolution pledging its sudport to the Chief Magistrate in a measure to crush the heads of the monetary and priestly oligarchy, which directs, incites, and snstains the war against national institutions, ihe Chamber urges the Executive powers that as soon as the prelate throws himself openly into sedition his effects should be appropriated, the Archbishop’s palace be used as an office for the Secretary of War and. Marine, and the seditious prelate banished from the Republic. The conflicts arc assuming more and more the character of a religious war. A battle took place near Mamzallas, in the State of Canca, which resulted in a victory for the Government forces. An official despatsh from the field of battle says that a battle lasting seven hours took place between some corps of thonentre of General Fougillo’s line and a force of the enemy more than double their number, which was strongly entrenched. The enemy was dislodged and completely routed. The losses were heavy on both sides.