AMERICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1476, 14 November 1881, Page 2

AMERICA.

President Arthur is called the " Silent President." It is stated he is so reserved, that tho silent ways of General Grunt were garrulous compared with his Guiteau whs arraigned for the murdar <>f President Garfield on the 14th Ootober. He plea led not guilty. The line of defence will ho hereditary insanity, and malpractice on the part of the physicians in attendance on the murdered man. The trial is 6xed for 7th Nov. While Guiteati was in Court, a man named Beatham evidently intoxicated, sought to borrow a pistol to shoot him. Mrs. Gartield has requested Dr. Poynton to withhold the statement he has prepared relative to tho autopsy, and the general treatment of the President's case., as she is satisfied the late Presidents wound was mortal, and does not desire to have the controversy further prolonged. Guiteau was victimised by a stenographer, to whom hn gave some notes of his life to be published, and from the proceeds defray the expenses of his defence. Instead of doing so the stenot/rnpher sold the notes to the New York Herald, and pocketed the money received. Since President Garfield's death Mr. Blain, Secretary of State, has set himself to work with renowed vigor for the Republican nomination for President in 1884. He had abandoned all ambition in the matter till the events of the last two or three months led him to see his way open ajjain to come forward. The steamship Australia, which arrived from Auckland on Octobor 3. brought the largest amount of specie ever received from th« Colonies, the total being 926,134 dollars. Dr. John Buchanan has been sentenced, by the Philadelphia Court, to one years imprisonment, and a firm of 100 dollars for selling bogus medical diplomas. The German «hip Hugo was burned in the South Pacific. Her long boat, with the captain, carpenter, and seven men, arrived at Chili, having made 800 miles in 8 days. She was bound from Newcastle to 'Frisco. It is rumored that L rd Lome, on his return to England, will bo called to the House of Lords. It, is proposed to establish a National Garfield Memorial Hospital at Washington. The whole country, and nil foreign nations will bo invited to contribute to the fund. The work on the Pananu Canal is advancing rapidly. ' It has bnen discovered that the infernal machines affnir was a swindle on the part of an Irishman, named Foye. He «ot them made, and then obtained 10,000 dollars reward from the British Consul, at New York, for information, which led to their discovery being made in the Liverpool Docks. He fled from New York, and no one knows his whereabouts. Great frauds have come to light in the Washington Pension Office. Hundreds of persons who are not entitled to pensions have been receiving them. These and other peculations will, it is said, reach millions of dollars.

At tludnewell, Kansas, three cowboys raided the town, and promiscuous shooting occurred, during which Mist Carter was killed. The three cowboys were subsequently gao'ed. The ship Fernglen, from Wellington, New Zealand, bound for Oregon, was wrecked off the Columbia river bar, Oregon, on October 16th ; all lives were saved. It is proposed to erect a status <>f Mr Gladstone at Washington, to commemorate bis kind sympathy with the United states in its national sorrow. Thri estate of James Gordon Bennett is to be brought to the hammer as a result <>f a friendly suit between himself and his suiter, Jeanette, now Mrs. Bell, with the view to the partition of the estate. A boy preacher has commenced revival service* in San Francisco. His appeals to sinners are accompanied by the wildest pantomnio action.