The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

The Canadian mail steamer Nova Scotian arrived
at Portland last Saturday, and the United States
mail steamer Mississippi at New York. The North
German Lloyd's steamship Bremen arrived on Mon-
day, the Inman steamer Edinburgh on Tuesday, and
on Wednesday the steamers City of Baltimore,
Borussia, Western Metropolis, Pereira, and
Hecla had arrived out. The North German
Lloyd's steamer Hansa, from New York on the
11th, reached Southampton on the 22d, with
118 passengers, having experienced strong
westerly gales. The Inman steamer City
of Antwerp from New York on the 13th instant
arrived at Queenstown on the 23d. On the 24th
the Hamburgh and American steamer Germania
arrived at Southampton with 115 passengers, haring
also left New York on the 13th inst. The National
Steam Navigation Company's vessel Virginia ar-
rived at Queenstown on Thursday morning. On
the same day the United States mail steamer Arago
arrived at Falmouth. She has on freight for France
$41,300, 200,000 f., 923 bales of cotton, 76 packages
sewing-machines, 81 bundles whalebone, 12 tierces
hams, 13 cases books, 8 casks ale, and about 50
cases miscellaneous packages, 95 passengers (12 of
whom landed here), and 51 bags of mails.
The only telegraph news from America beyond
the fact that the Senate had adjourned on
Saturday last, after postponing the adjournment
from the 16th to the 18th, and from the 18th to the
20th, relates to Mexico. It is said that the Em-
peror Maximilian had offered to surrender on certain
conditions, but that Juarez demanded an uncon-
ditional capitulation ; and this statement is con-
firmed by accounts from Mexico, dated 13th inst.
A proposal was introduced into the Senate for the
mediation of the United States Government, but
that body adjourned, deferring it till next Session.
Porfirio Diaz has taken Puebla, and executed all
the officers of the garrison. He is marching on Vera
Cruz.

The Great Eastern has again been the " lion" of
the hour at New York. The reporter of the 7r/-
bane, who boarded her, gives anything but a flat-
tering account, and it is feared that her first
voyage will not be a success. We believe that the
number of passengers now on board is small, but
though she was delayed by head winds on her pas-
sage to New York, yet on her return, as the new
machinery will get into better working order, she
may prove to be the swift vessel it is said she is.
The Inman steamer City of Antwerp beat the Great
Eastern in the passage out by 30 hours.
The Clover dills Pits Colliery explosion in Vir-
ginia was the most serious of the kind yet known in
the United States, as seventy persons lost their
lives. General Schofield, commanding the district,
is moving in conjunction with the people of Vir-
ginia, for the relief of the sufferers. The disaster
arose from the negligence of the men whose duty it
was to examine the mine previous to the miners
commencing work. It appears that this duty was
not performed on the morning of the catastrophe,
and that one of the two detailed for the work had
not entered the shaft till noon, when without making
any examination he reported that everything was

right.
Events in the Far West betoken an Indian war.
General Sherman has announced in very decisive
terms the policy the commanders of expeditions will
adopt, and the war will be one to the knife. Major-
General Hancock was at Salem with a strong force
on his march to the Santa Fe district. The Sioux,
Crows, Bloods, Peguins, Grosventres, and all the
most warlike tribes of the prairies have taken up
the hatchet, and, as a confederated body, declared
war against the whites. Active operations may be
expected with the opening spring. Already the
Indians have committed numerous outrages; the
number of their victims on both sides of the
Rocky Mountains having swelled up to hundreds
of American citizens. The feeling among the
miners, and those who hr►ve been thrown in contact
with these roving tribes, amounts to such bitterr.ess
of hate that the greatest cruelties will no doubt be
perpetrated. It is imponsible for friends to devise