, 1875-12-16

Koloa, San Francisco.
PoRT LUDLOW, Dec. TO- Sailed, bark
| Forest Queen, San Francisco.
PoRr TOWNSEND, Dec. 11.-Sailed,
bark Revere, on the 9th from Departure
Bay.
NANA1Mo, Dec. 6.--Sailed, bark Henry
Buck, San Francisco.
VICTORIA, Dec. 10.-Sailed, steamer
Dakota, San Francisco.
Dec. steamship Dakota still here
detained by weather. She was detained
yesterday afternoon at Esquimalt tax
ing in stores for Fl. NJ. S. RepuIse.
The weather being so thick she would
not venture out during the night and
high winds this morning prevented her
leaving. It having moderated, she
sailed at noon for San Francisco, with
about one hundred and tiftv passengers,
among them, O'Henley, late quarter
master ON the Pacific.
The damage to the machinery of the
Los Angeles is about repaired and she
is advertised to leave for Sound ports
on Monday morning.
The bark Henry Buck, with 1000 tons
of coal, reported ashore in Nanaimo
hafbor, was towed off, on Sunday last,
without Damage and sailed for San Fran
cisco on the 9Th inst.
No'neWs Of the steamship California
from Sitka, when the steamer left Ma
naimo yesterday morning.
The two parties engaged in the survey
of the Nanaimo aud Esquimalt railroad,
with their baggage and stores We're
brouhgt here last evening. Bad weather
has interfered materially with their
work during the last month. Only
about or 10 miles remain to close the
gap between the two parties.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The Attorney
General to-day sent telegram to U. S.
District Attorney Dyer, at st. Louis,
saying advices had reached him to the
effect that the special counsel, Hender-
son, had, in the course of the Avery
trial, made an attack upon the Presi-
dent, and assuring the U. S. attorney
that the department will not continue
to pay special counsel for this kind of
service.
ST. LOUIS, Dec S.-The U. S. grand
jury adjourned to-day, after presenting
13 new indictments. Although no. Off
cially announced there seems to be no
doub. but orc of these indictments is
against General Babcock.
CHICAGO, Dec. 10. "A Washington
special says Colonel George Williamson,
U. S. minister to the provinces CT Cen
trail America, is in the city. He is much
interested in the success of the inter-
oceanic canal. He agrees with the re-
ports of the board of engineers that the
Nicaragua route is the only feasible one.
He answers the criticism on this route
very easily. It has been said by some
critics that economy in the connection
with the two oceans would be to Gu.
through the Isthmus of Darien, so thai
the waters of the t 70 oceans could meet.
This, Mr. Williamson thinks, is utterly
impraclicable, as the beds Of the two
oceans are on very different levels.
The tide at Aspinwall amounts to al
most nothing, while at Panama it comes
in with tremendous force. Should d
wide channel be cut away, allowing
the waters of the Pacific to pass through
to the Atlantic, the immense pressure
from the west would wash in enough
sand to soon utterly choke up the chan
mel. This is shown by the fact that
from Panama a long way out the watel
is very shallow as it is all along the
western coast. In case the Nicaragua
route is used, the canal, when it reach
es the western shore will have to be
built into the sea for some distance, in
order to permit the passage of ships.
| QUEBEC, Dec. lin the House, yes.
terday, bill was introduced intended
to prevent the recurrence of the Gui-
bord case. The bill provides that ii
shall be the absolute privilege of the
Ordlnaire of the Diocese to indicate the
place where Catholics are to be buried.
BREMEN, Dec. 1.-The following tel
eeram from Breme haven has been re
ceived: After the steamship Moselle had
embarked her passengers for New York
to-day, the boiler of the tug Simon,
lying opposite, exploded, killing so per
sons and woundipg many. The Moselle
was SO badly damaged that she cannot
sail to-day. She was to have taken the
passengers OF the wrecked steamer
Deutchland of the same line.
LONDON, Dec. 11.-It is not yet known
if the killed and wounded were passen-
gers by the steamer Moselle. The dis
aster was not caused by the explosion
of the steam tug, but by the explosion
on the wharf of a can of dynamite.
New YORK, Dec. 11.-A special dis
patch from Bremen, says the Moselle
was at the pier taking on board passen-
gers and their luggage. The pier was
crowded by passengers and stevedores
assisting in the departure of the vessel,
when suddenly the explosion occurred,
dealing death and destruction on all
sides.
The first reports stated that it was the
steam tug which had exploded, but it
now appears that in the luggage of one
of the passengers was package of dy-
Mantle. The luggage was by accident
dropped and the conclusion caused the