Evening star., 1866-04-19
TELEGRAMS. &c.

Ihe Hudson Bay Company's steamer La.
bouchere, Captain Manat, which sailed for
Victoria on Saturday, from San Francisco,
california, was totally wrecked off Point
Reyes. Sne struck a reef on Saturday evening
about 10 O'Clock. After backing of into deep
water she was run all night, under the i'm
preston that she was not materially injured,
but she sunk on Sunday morning at eight
CLOCK Two men are SAID TO have been
drowned. All the othere Were landed at Point
Reyes by the light boats and a raft which had
been constructed on the vessel The Labou-
chere took prize at the great exhibition in
London IN 1861. This was her second trip to
Victoria. The passengers who have arrived
from the Labouchere report that the remainder
OF the passengers are comfortably provided
for.
The steamer Columbia, from Havana has
arrived. The Didro has a report that on the
18th of February the Spanish frigates Blans sa
and Berenguella bombarded the port of Con.
ception. and landed a force which captured
the town. One vessel is said to have been
sunk by them. The Spanish men of. war AL
mInsa and Consuelo had reached Monteyidao
The health OF Havana was good, The small
Pox Is reported as ranging at Ponce, Porto
Rlco. Inc shock OF an earthquake was felt at
Ponce on the 26th of March.
The British steamship Virginia, from Liver
pool on the 4th instant, has arrived at New
York. She brought 1,O43 passengers. Thirty
elght died on the passage. She is anchored at
quarantine. The disease is said 10 be similar
to that with which the steamship England is
infected. The Virginia is to be immediately
sent TO the lower bay TO the usual quarantine
anchorage, which is twenty miles below the
city of New York
In the county court in Poughkeepsie N Y,
Tuesday, William ii. Stevens, one of the four
cared shell-boat, which was matched against
New York boat in a race Opposite Pough-
keepsie IN July last, and who got INTO diffi-
Guilty with man named Thomas McDermott
on the evening of the day of the race, which
dlfhculty resulted in McDermott's death, was
found guilty OF manslaughter in the fourth
degree, the jury strongly recommending him TO
the mercy of the court. Judge Wheaton has
reserved the sentence un'il some future time
General Gregory has returned from a tour in
the interior of Texas. He reports that vigorous
plantation work is successful, aud the crops
Will be the largest ever raised in the State
Commissioners leave Galveston to present the
new constitution and the ordinance Of the con-
vention to the President. The people of Texas
are displeased because the peace procla ation
does not include Texas.
special to the New York Herald from St.
Stephens says the Adjutant General of Maine
arrived yesterday. A British frigate is in the
river with troops on board. The HsrdLds
Bastport dispatch says the Fenian vessel was
again seized to-day, but released. The Sea
wing, the flagship OF the West India so mad
ron, went up the river to st. Crolx She
brought seven hundred troops from Halifax
Some excitement was created in New West
minister, British Columbia, from exhibition of
a sign Of "Fenians' Headquarters,'' at Thomas
Caferty's Hotel. Upon refusing to remove it
when requested, Mr. Caferty was arrested
and sentenced to three months Imprisonment
G. W. Canney, keeper of a tobacco store at
so South Market street, Boston, set fire to his
premises Monday night. He was detected and
pursued, when he fired two Intellectual shots
at his pursuer and then shot himself, inf1icting
severe but not fatal wound 1t is reported
that he was in pecuniary difficulty, and
wanted the amount of insurance on his store
A fre in Pittsburg, Pa, Monday night de-
stroyed the patent barrel and bucket manufac-
tory of Guthrie & Sellin, in the Ninth Ward
~i!h a large quantity of slaves and other ma
terials. The loss is from S15,OOO TO S2O,ODO
The fire is believed to be the work OF an IN
eendiary.
There is much alarm about the leyees above
and below New Orleans from high water. IL
is feared the whole Lower Mississippi will be
overf1owed. The heavy rains have injured
the cotton seed, which is poor, and much land
VIII have to be replanted.
a man died in Portland, Me of the cholera
yesterday morning. He Is said to have been
one Of the five who escaped from the steamer
England.