AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6164, 7 February 1882, Page 3

AMERICA.

A movement is on foot to bring a colony of Jews from Russia to Canada. Hostility to the Hawaiian treaty, which expires in 1883, has already commenced in the United State 3 Senate. The defenceless condition of Sau Francisco in case of war is attracting the attention of Congress. Small-pox is spreading throughout the "United States. The Anchor Line steamer Victoria ran ashore in New York harbor on January 7. She had been twenty-three days, from Liverpool. Nineteen lives were lost by an explosion of kerosene on the steamer West Point, plying between York river and Baltimore. The gunboat Essex has been despatched to settle the difficulties existing among the Liberians in Africa. Messrs Phillip, Marshall and Co., of London, have bought 1,300,000 acres of land from the State of Mississippi. It is stated to be the richest cotton and timber land in the South. Their intention is to colonise, improve, and cultivate the block. Scarlet fever is an epidemic in NewYork, and small-pox ia increasing in Chicago. Thomas Power O'Connor, the Irish Land League agitator, has been received •with open arras all over America, and his lectures have been largely attended. Application has been made by outside parties to the a3sassin Guiteau to take an insurance on his life not exceeding 100,000 dollars. Fitzgerald is now walking a match in New York, making a record of 582 miles in six days, beating the beat previous record. The statement that Jefferson Davis stole • the Confederate treasure chest i 3 now emphatically denied. A schemo of railroads from Texas to Brazil, through Mexico and Central America, and by the Isthmus of Panama t > Rio Janeiro is projected. It ia said that John W. Mackay, the Bonanza capitalist, is to be the President, and has promised to devote his best energies and a lirge part of his capital to its completion. An anti-Mormon delegate to Congress from Utah named Campbell expressed himself astonished at the sympathy for Mormonism in Washington, and is of opinion that polygamy ia not so near its doom as some people imagine. Campbell is a gentile and a monogamist, while Caurion, whose seat he disputes, is a Mormon elder. An attempt to spread small-pox through the United States mails was reported to the Washington postal authorities on, January 14th, An undated a^d,

unsigned letter, post-marked Cincinnati, was received by a farmer at the Lynn (Virginia) post-office, and in it were two small-pox scales. The letter stated " I have sent you tho small-pox. Go home and die."

The Chicago express train leaving Albany at 2.40 on the afternoon of the 13 dx of January was run into by the Larrytown special train a mile east of Springton, Dnpoil Creek, New York. There were many members of the State Legislature aboard the Chicago train, one of whom, Senator Wagoner, is reported killed. Nine other person are dead. The Larrytown train was not properly signalled, and the driver was only aware of the Chicago train when within 50 feet of it. Two of the palace cars were telescoped and afterwards burned up. It was in these that the deatliß occurred. The sufferings were horrible. The weather in California is exceptioncold for the season. Frost has already made its appearance. Madame Caroline Richmond Bernhardfc, an actress of great eminence, died of small-pox, at Richmond, Virginia, on the 14lh of January. The disease is becoming rapidly epidemic, and emigrating Chinamen are blamed for spreading it.