Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-04-17
TELEGRAMS. he.

The following has been circulated On hoard
the English gunboat at Campo Bello: aSailors
and marines: United States citizens invite
you ashore, where, if you feave behind the
habilinents of slavery, You will find liberty
comrades and country. A mutiny broke out
on aboard the steamer and forty men ha We been
put in irons. Adjutant General Hodskins leit
Augusta, Me-, yesterday afternoon for Calais,
with Instructions from Governor Cony te see
that the laws Of the State are not violated
through any hostile demonstrations that NAV
occur from alleged Fenian movements on the
border. 1t is regarded as almost certain by the
Mayor OF Calais, who sends a telegram 10 the
State authorities for protection, that FenIan
movements are seriously apprehended in that
Me., for Eastport in the boat last night. All is
quiet on the ST. CreiX.. No disturbance has
occurred there or al 81. Stephens.
A terrible explosion Of what was supposed
to be mira glicerne occurred at q quarter pas
one O'Clock yesterday, near Wells. Fargo &
CO.. Express office In San Francisco, Califor-
MIA. The explosion shook the earth like an
earthquake Tor a circle of n quarter of a mile
samuel Knight, superintendent of Wells,
Fargo d Co.'S Express, died in half an hour of
injuries received. G. w. Bell, supervisor and
assayer, was instantly killed. Mr.. Walibub
Wells, Fargo Co.'S assayer; Joseph Elliott,
John Gallinger, Frank Webster, and William
Justin, were also killed and ais eight dead
bodies so mutilated that they could not be
identified. Louis McLeane and Captain Ell
bridge, Of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, and Judge Hoffman, were bruised and
cut. Fragments of human flesh, bones and
brains, were found nearly two blocks distant
from the explosion.
Not single case of cholera occurred among
the cabin passengers on board the steamer
England. The acting collector at New York
has received dispatch from Consul Jackson,
dated Halifax, saying that the city physicians
on board the emigrant ship England, after
further developments of the disease, and fuller
consultatlons last evening, concur in pro-
nouncing it the Asiatic cholera. The passen-
gers are detained at thequarantine ground,
and precautionary measures have been
adopted to prevent the disease from spreading
large fire at Port-au-P Prince, Hayti, March
10, destroyed fifteen squares ana most of the
public buildings. The origin Of the fire is at
tributed TO rebel incendaries, and the plot is
thought TO have been general, al the same
time fires broke out in .Jackmei, but were ex-
unguished without doing much damage An
other incendiary attempt was made at Port-au-
Prince on the 22d of March.
The negroes were out in a large procession
at Norfolk, Va, yesterday. in honor Of the
passage of the civil rights bill. While the pro-
cessiOn was passing through the streets. a diff
Guilty occurred between the negroes and whites
in which one white man was killed and his
brother and stepbrother mortally wounded
Order was restored by the military.
The Texas constitution abolishes slavery
places freedmen on an equality with the
whites before the law, and gives the Legisla-
ture power TO guarantee railroad bonds for
iron contracts. 1t will be submitted 10 the
people on the Fourth Monday in June Reso-
lutions endorsing the Presidents policy were
lost.
A Brownsville letter of the 9th says Cortinas
with force is about twenty miles from Mata-
moros, watching the approach of Mejia.
Escobada is operating with Mejia. Murders
and robberies continue unabated in the neigh
borhood OF Matamoros and Brownsville.
An explosion of gas took place yesterday
evening in the barber shop in the basement of
the Eutaw House, Baltimore. The shop was
considerably shattered, and the occupants
made a narrow escape. The hotel was not
damaged.
The closing obsequies of the late Daniel s.
Dickinson were concluded at Binghampton,
n. Y, Sunday afternoon. He was buried in
accordance with the rites of the Episcopal
Church.
The notorious murderers Terri.l and With
ers were rescued from the Spencer county iail.
Kentucky, on Friday morning by party Of
seven men, who threatened the life of the TAILOR
on his refusal to unlock their cells.
Letters report that BIshop Soule is diving