GENERAL ITEMS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXII, Issue XXII, 23 November 1867, Page 6

GENERAL ITEMS.

Captain Hall, tbe Arctic explorer, has been heard from by means of a whaling vessel which arrived at New Bedford on the 23rd ult. He was at Repulse Bay, where he had been for two years, but next spring he will proceed to King William's Land and return home. The London Times announces " decidedly a good harvest in England." There is nothing of interest from Central America. Complete tranquiility exists throughout the different republics. The remains of Maximilian have not yefc been surrendered by Juarez to the Austrian, Admiral, but it is thought they shortly will be. The funeral services over the remains of Sir Frederick Bruce took place in Boston oa the 24th October. The remains of the lamented diplomatist a day or two afterwards were forwarded to England in the steamship China. A terrific hail storm visited Philadelphia on the 26th inst., causing considerable consternation, and doing damage to the amount of 250,000 dollars. O'Laughlin, one of those charged and convicted of being engaged in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln, died at the Dry Tortugas on the 24th inst. of yellow fever. The elections in Canada give the government candidates an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons. The Ministry of the New Dominion are guaranteed sufficient strength to carry through Parliament any measures they may desire. A company of capitalists in New York, project the stupendous scheme of a telegraph down tbß South Pacific Coast, which will place the vast States of Chili, Pern, Bolivia, and Ecuador, in telegraph communication, via the Isthmus of Panama, with the rest of the world. The company has been- chartered by the Legislature of the State of New York, under the- name of the Spanish-American Intercommunication Telegraph Company, and is composed of men of the highest respectability, enterprise, and commercial standing. Its capital » $2,500,000. Elias Howe, the inventor of the- sewing machine, is- dead, and so also \s Mis* Avonia Jones Brooke, the celebrated actress. The yellow fever has ceased its ravages in Galveston, and is abating in New Orleans and other places. The bodies of John Wilkes Bookb,. Payne, Atzerod, Harold, and Mrs Surratt, the assassination eoaspirators, have been removed from their la>te burial places and buried in one common grave in Washington. The steamship Tioga, from New Orleans and Havana for Philadelphia, was burned afc sea on the Wth ult., and three of her crew perished in tbe flames. The survivors were taken off by fehe steamer Rapidan and arrived here. The Flc-rkfa-Cuba cable continues- to- be a complete success.