Salt River herald., 1879-03-01
To.Day,s Disnatches.

O-DN-N - D-N AseAAs Special to inc Herald.
 NEW YORK, February 2S.-The meeting last night at Cooper Insii- stutc of merchants and manufacturers interested in the extension of our trade with Mexico and South Amer ica, was not large. The Mexican minister spoke. He sIid the Mexi. can government and people were de- termined by every possible effort to establish more intimate relations with this country.
 1 WASHINGTON, February .S.-The session of the cabinet today was mainly devoted to the Chinese bill The entire cabinet, it is said, support the president, who regards veto as an absolute necessity.
 A senate communication from David T. Corbin, contestant for the seat from South Carolina, was read and laid on the table. He says it will be useless for him to renew the contest at the next session. He there fore withdraws from the contest.
 The senate census committee re- ported back the bill to provide for the taking of the tenth and subse- quent census as amended ny the house, and recommended to the sen ate to non-concur in the house amendments, and ask for q commit tee of conference.
 Mir. Conkling said some of the amendments improve the bill, and upon his motion it was ordered that the amendments be printed, and fur ther consideration of the biil was postponed until tomorrow.
 Alter passing number Of private bills on the calendar, the bill making an appropriation fore the payment of arrears of pensions Was taken up.
 In the house in the course of q short debate as to the priority of business, Mr. Atkins. chairman, and Mir. Hale, member of the committee on appropriations, made statements as to the condition of the business, to the effect that only four of the appro- priation bills have passed into law, and there were eight more to be com pleted, of which two the fortification and army bills were in conference. MT. Blount, of the committee, then reported back the posIofiice bill with Ia recommendation which was agreed to, that the senate amendments, with two exceptions, the Brazilian subsidy and classification of mail matter be non-concurred in. Mr. Gross, of the committee, also recommended that the two excepted amendments be non concurTed in, but demands that they should be voted upon separately and some time allowed for debate, which was then begun.
 l LONDON, February 2s.-The mayor  of Sheffield states that in one dis
 uict of that town there arc four thousand persons destitute, and four hundred families actually starving. The relief fund, except about eight hundred pounds, has been expended
 Capetown adviccs to February 11th by way of Madeira, say the situation is unchanged, Lord Chelmsford act. ing strictly on the defensive.
 The British loss in the fight at Rorke's Drift, on the 22d ult., is esti. mated at over hundred men.
 RIo JANIERo, February 26.-An outbreak of yellow fever, of a very severe character, has occurred in this vicinity.
 BERLIN, February 2S.-Princess Louise Marguerite, niece of the em- peror, last night gave her farewell reception previous to starting to England to wed Prince Arthur. . The Duke of Connaught's wedding has been postponed one month, in r consequence of the death of Princess Alice. It will take place at Windsor on the 18th of March.
 . The storms and snow drifts on the continent practically prevent postal communication with England. On the French slopes of the Pyrenees there is more snow than the oldest inhahitant remembers. Floods are apprehended in the valleys If spring l sets in suddenly.
 SAN FRANCISCO, February 2s.- ? Ewald was before the finance com r mittee, and upon refusing to answer . questions was committed. He has applied for habeas corpus. SAN FRANCIsoo, March 1.-Tipto2, s1; Silver King, S10.
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