AMERICA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 547, 19 February 1870, Page 3

AMERICA.

Gold, 120£ to 120| -. Pere Hyacinthe's lecture attracted the largest audience ever known in New York. The New York Herald prints a letter from Edward Tullge, apostle of Mormon reform. Ifc says that the people have been reduced to temporal bondage by the power of Brigham Young. The Excelsior ironworks in fourteenth street have been burnt. Loss 60,000 dollars. Conrad Fitzer and Son, Lithographers, William street, have been| arrested, charged with forging and printing counterfeit revenue stamped cheques. About 60,000 dollars worth of counterfeit cheques were found on the premises. Mr Webster, counsel for the Spanish gunboats, formally moved the dismissal of the libel against.them, and the Court granted the motion. The ■* majority of the committee on the decline of American commerce rei commended the congress to modify the laws, so that foreign built vessels may be imported free of duty, and pf i-i vileged to carry the American flag, pro* vided they were American-owned, and not employed in coastwise trade, and that ample subsidies be granted for lines of steamers being built in American yards. Samuel Nankewis, English preacher, at Centerville, has been convicted of murder in the first degree for killing his infant child; his 'wife was acquitted. The departure of the ex-rebel ram Atlanta from below Philadelphia, simultaneously with the Spanish gunboats from New xork, excited suspicion that! she is really governed and ordered by! Cubans, and intended to attack the Spanish fleet. Hog cholera prevails in Kentucky. A wooden building in Chapel place,; Boston, occupied by several Irish families has been burned. Two child--dren, a boy four years aiid a girl three years old, were burned to death . A delegation from Florida called on the President to ask for troops to aid the authorities in executing the laws for the protection of the lives brcL property of citizens. The party complain of a large number of assassinations which have occurred lately. The President stated that , he would confer with the Secretary at War as to the means to be taken to effectually carry out the laws.!