Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-06-19

| mapsnlp oil the Finance Com nit
tee, but after consuming All hour
and half in debate, adjourned till
to- morrow. The Indications were
very clear that the resignation
would not be accepted, and the sill
Yer bill will be left in the hands Of
the Finance Committee until next
session.
Now York Threatened Win Yellow
Fever.
NEW YORK, June 19th.-Dr.
Vanderpoel, Health Officer at the
IQuaraniine, says unless q rigid
Quarantine is kept, there is possi-
bility of yellow fever making It's
appearance In New York. Two
vessels with the disease on board
are In the upper bay, discharging
cargo.
The Darser snip Canai-Cnptein
| Esds' Pr"J-Of.
NEW YORK, June 18th.
E ADJ, Of Mississippi jetty celebrity,
has expressed a couvictien that a
canal could be constructed across
the lstbmus of Darien atelalf the
cost OF Lesseps' scheme, and in
IN uch less time, and has also sug-
gesled the route of the Panama
railroad as most practicable, as re-
commended by the Builetin. The
Panama railroad charter from the
Colombia Government provides
that no canal shall ever be con.
structed across the Isthmus with
out the consent of the Railroad com.
pauy, and Lesseps aud his adher.
ents probably reasoned that the
Company would ask more for the
surrender Of their exclusive priv
ileges than they were really worth,
aud that, on The whole, it would
be better 10 choose a route with
fewer advantages, as regards cost
and engineering difficulties, than
to submit to that extorti0u, hamp
ered. possibly, with costly and EN-
barrassing legal aud diplomatic
complications. Upon this theory,
the little attention paid iu the
Paris Congress to the railroad Level
route is intelligible enough. Not
withsiandinK the announcement
from Paris that Lesreps has secur.
Ell subscription of LOCO, 700 francs
10 the scheme, no enthusiasm ex-
lists apparently OH the part Of cap
italists here.
General Gvant tn Japan.
| NEW YORK, June lSth.-The
Times to-day has advlces from
Ynsubama to May 31,t. Genera
Grant was expected tv arrive vi
Nagasaki the first or second week
Of July. He viii be received there
BY a deputation of high Japanese
officers, including Yoshida, lat.
J Minister to Washington. A jap
anese iron-clad will be placed u,
the disposal of the party, if agree
able. Arrangements will be made
for visiting the battIe1elds Of the
war IN K"isiD. u southwestern
island of japan. A part of the
Journey to Toxic will tie by land,
where the parry will probably ar.
rive the first Of August. Alter d
round Of entertainments, under
Government auspices, In the cap
ital and vicinity Grant will visit
Yokohama and accept the hospi-
ia tiles Of the United States Con.
sul-Geueral aud others.
Grand Army Eueampment.
ALBANY, N. Y, June 17th.-The
city Is bright with banners and
bunting, and the streets crowded
with people gathered to witness
the parade of the Grand Army En-.
campment. The veterans made an
imposing display and were review
ed by Gov. Robinson. When the
Encampment arrived in Tweddle
Hall the Mayor babe the delegates
welcome on behalf of the city. The
Grand Encampment then went
lnlo session with closed doors.
Ti,des 10 xo GO Colorado.
NEW YORK, June 1s'h.-Tilden,
1t Is repurted, Is about to travel
with q party of friends to Colorado.
The journey is intended to com blne
business with pleasure.
| Grs"rs Speech In Shanghai.
New YORK. June 19.-The World
to. day, referring to Grants recep-
ton and address at Shanghai, says,
sneeringly: "What Grant mean
probably was that he was prepar.
ing, upon landing in San Francis
CO, to deliver wonderful speech
upon the Chinese question, after
the kind of that famous Grafton on
public schools with which he once
scared himself into silence at Des
| Moines,
In, Political Canvas in Pennsyi.
| v~nia.
NEW YORK, June 18.-The PhiIa.
delphia correspondent Of the TIT.
bune says: Neither party IN Penn.
syivsnia is disposed to make an
active canvass. The State is con-
eeied to the Republicans by the
Democratic managers. II the
campaign 10 left to run itself, with
out public meetings or any effuri
at organization further than to re.
wise the State anu County Com.
mittees, 1t In b. lieved that the Re-
publican m -jority, on light vote,
will be about the sa ms as last year,
rs, 900.
| Com"eEosSs AAPeuUton ~ nfoouu.
New YORK, June 1Sth.-The ex-
periencs OF the trade expedition to
| Mexico seems TO DO satisfactory
enough to warrant the essaying OF
Que To Brazil. II the present pro
gramme is carried out, the expehi
ton will leave New York for Rio
the first week in July. The mini
mum number Of participants will
be forty; maximum, sixty. The
cost OF passage, out and back, will
oe 500 each. A building, it IL he.
l'.ved, will be accorded by the
Government for the exhibition o
American wares. The mercantile
pilgrims will probably return be-
fore the end Of September, and
here is a good prospect that their