NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3948, 13 December 1880, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

[By Telegbaph.J (Per 8.8. Australia, riil Auckland.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 13. The Australia has arrived from San Francisco. The mail left San Francisco wharf at 2.30 p.m. on Not 21. Passengers for New Zealand— Messrs Hayes, Pulleine, Mills and wife, Laroche, Gregory, Custin, Williams, Pearson, Pauld, Brownlie (Dunedin), with 15 in the aleorage. Sa>- Fbancisco, Nov. 21. The Bepublicena carried every Northern State except New Jersey. In California and Nevada the democratic party carried General Hancock, of Pennsylvania, and William J. English, of Indiana. The polled a largely increased vote in every State of the Union, gaining enough members to lower the House of Congress to givo them a working majority. In the next House the Senate will be .Democratic; by a majority of one. The President- elect is a Tariff man, but he believes the system can be modified co as to bear less heavily upon certain industries. He has stated that ho will treat the Southern States jnstly, but will ullow them no favours. The Commissioners have concluded a new treaty with China on the immigration question in the interest of America. The sugar crops in Louisianna has been spoiled. Counterfeit United States bonds aro in circulation ; ouly tho best experts have distinguished them from the genuine. Mr Ediaon claims to have discovered a plan by which the electric light can ba dividod indefinitely. Bugby colony, in Te jnssae, is expected to provo very successful. Sara liernhardt made her dehCU in New York city to an immense audience. In the days before the Presidential election an unpopular forged letter, with Gonorul Garfield's signature, appeared in tho New York papers, which loat the votes of three atates to the republican candidate Two men have been arrested and bound over charged with the offence. t^Much anxidty is folfc respecting tho Arctic exploring ship Jeannctto, which was fitted out by Mr James Bennett, of New York. Tho ■*M.rald relief vessel i» to ba sent. The Minnesota State Asylum for the in«

sane was burnt down, and between 20 and 50 lunatics were burnt to death. Leprosy is spreading among the whites near San Francisco. Twenty cases have been discovered and traced to tho Sandwich Islands. There is also a small-pox epidemic in San Francisco. An influential San Francieco journal has been advocßting a reciprocating treaty between the States of America, New Zealand, and Australia. Brazil. 60 bandits, concerned in the sacking of towns, have been killed. The inundations in Santa Catherina have been attended with great loss of life and property. r J Peru. The Chinese employsd by the Peruvians hare joined the invaders. Tho Chilians have landed to force San Lorinza. The attempted mediation by the United Statrs and the British has been abandoned. Neither Peru nor Chili would compromise. In Southern Chili the Indians are plunderin-; and massacring the whites. The Chilian Government are straining every nerve to effect the capture of Lima, hoping to end the war.