AMERICA

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1175, 29 December 1868, Page 4

AMERICA

One of the severest gales, known on the lake? for years visited Lake Huron on the. night of the; 1/1» October. Several vessels- were dismantled, several were lorn from their moorings at Detroit, and several collisions occurred. The only loss of life reported^ that of two men, a woman, and a child, who were drowned from a barge. r. , . ~ -.t. The steamer Hesper left Memphis recently with. 4000 stand" of arms among lier, cargo, intended, it is said, for the: negroes in Arkansas.: While she was wooding twenty-five miles below, forty men appeared, in disuse, seised the boat and threw the arms mto the river Thef then disappeared into the woods, : '■• 1" Chtoch "Built ov Gold Bricks.—We are, informed by Mr. J. P. Brown, of the firm of Brown and Bier, contractors for building the large Catholic, church, ; this city; .that every _bnckin ta*. mammoth building: contains a quantity of^fin^gojcl.,: edifice:probablyVcontamsmore; brick^tnari: and^riclayers hayenoticed small specks m the br cks Wombling gold, but which, of course, they little thoughtwlsLreality the precious metal. Yesterday Mr. Aempler^the architect, havingpulremed several, of the bricks, and ascertainedbevond a doubt, by the, aid of -chemicals, that they reaUf eontam gold.; These bricks were manufactured; at the kdns m*. "brW G. W- Gillespie and Co.'s sawTnul,_and it i=, 4>tW that gold.may>fouud in quantities m tlw Pa!,not;iifa October. , ... : . . : Gtovaarbß Seed, of Florida, has been impeached by the State- Legislature for High .crimes and mis'deTnßn°inclians wefe again becoming troublesome along' the line of the Union Pacific Railroad A tram was thrown from the track by them and the fireman was killed. The wrecking train on the .way to the w-ock was obliged to return on account of the appearWrice of a lar ? o hostile b a hd. The call of foremostCrawford of Kansas, for volunteers ,to fight the Indians has caused ns much military preptu-atioii n-mon* the popple of that State a* the first call duruijj the rebellion. .All the prinoipal towns have their recruiting ofilcers niVd companies are forming rapiclly But one regiment of cavalry is to be raiiecl, and that to servo only for a term of six months. Four hundred of the men were already in camp. •., , AyoTHBR severe Indian fight is reporfert. Colon«il Carpenter, with the tenth cavalry, met 700 Cheyennos and Arapahoes o,t Buffalo Station, Kansas, and whipped them, killing nine and wounding thirty, with, a-loss of only three wounded. All the troops wet-a on the move, and the fifth cavalry had a band oi Indians surrounded, which is supposed to/consist of Colonel Forsytlie's former adversaries. :,An_ attack on ForfeDod^ownsexnected. ■_• . -~.; _ • The population of San Francisco, Cdlifornia, July, ISG3, is ostiaiated at 147,95t>, of which. 45,000 ; are ■■whites, male and female, under the ages of 21: and 18 respectively. The females over 18 ; are estimated at. 1 30,000. Theso figures are baaed, upon the most reliable data. . . ri;, - ■„• ' • Sha.li.-pox"ik CAiiFOBNrA,-rTne small-pox is rather on the increase tlum otherwise in San Francisco—there were seventeen deaths, during the week endin" November 7th. Alro^other there . r ,had> occurred 269 deaths from the disease since the 7th

June la?r.- ' ;■■.-•.-• ■■■",'''■ v'-:''--;-:' .-.••, '" '/■■ Mb. CoLyAX, Vice-President elect. \n & speech at Pittaburg ; said,, tlie; Republican policy V would be ■" liberty for aU, justice for all, anrl protection lor all. [W.liat,ft: :bliel3ihg;jit "would :be if -the ;Wew. Zealand £iia^rnmeri^woiiid give us thethree.] :t !; : , ...-/]; ..The steionTsTTrp Sierra Nevada, brought news to San Franciscb of a terrible tornado, : which raged in the 'G-iilF of California on, October 16. The steamer reports that slie arrived afc.Carmen tsland-on Octobor 16, at 7 arii.; had taken on board 90 tons, of salt, when we were prevented further loading by a severe storm ; lay at anchor all night, and at dayliglifc next niornihg was:-compelled to put to sea on accountj of the storm having greatly increased, the wind blowing from she south-east, the storm increasing in violence until 11 a.m.. when it began to lull, and .continued to decrease, until 12 p.m., when tlie wind shifted very suddenly to south-west and blew a.perfect tornado, carrying the topmast, which necessitated the cutting away ofthe foremost, with the loss of all tbe headsails ■ and' rigging.- She -. lost three boats, which rw;ere literally °bl6wn: away froni the davits. The wind lulled at 4 p.m. AiTivcd at La .Paz, October 18, at 7 a.m. Found that there had been a great amount of damage dons to the town and harbor. The bvig. George Emery dragged her anchor and was blown, oil' shore! All thesmaller vessels had :been run ashire. The atorm had been felt all along the coasfc.;