Show A NEW PLA PLAGUE A gentleman recently arria arrived ed from the valley of the humbolt in forms its that large numbers of emigrant cattle are d dy ying ing from a disease of the lungs occasioned boned by b the inhalation of a peculiar I 1 kind of gnat or fly flir these insects are said to exist in incredible swarms in that region and fill the air about the cattle so BO densely that the poor brutes cannot breathe without 11 inhaling haling them A correspondent of the alla ata california writing from honolulu under date of july tives the following follow ing the SI Ar orning star arrived arnved here on the bringing news of the loss of the american clipper in whaler haler owned in new bed foid by wm she was wrecked in the bay of hanamann island islai d of dominique one of the Marque sas group on the ad of june while trying to leave the bay the wind ind suddenly chopped round and mew blew the vessel on the rocks where A here she soon boon went to pieces the crew were vere saved but after landing lai dug they N were ere in in great danger from tile the natives and perhaps would ha ahtie ire been killed had they not been rescued by the missionary abhi ship morning star which carried them and suc such portions of the cargo as could be saved to honolulu A boatic of arbitrators at honolulu decided that captain cap am brown of the morning star should sho ild receive one third of the cargo saved as salvage 1 but he refused to accept a anything ny thing but r referred the matter to the Arne american rican board of commissioners for for eign missions Alis which employs him on the alth capt small of the J B lancaster lancas cas ter which vessel cleared on the june from your peace for sydney with an assorted cargo arrived in in his long boat with his crew arid and reported his vessel foundered and aud sunk k off molokai capt S and some other parties chartered the ACTS and left on I 1 saturday for the place of accident they reached molokai on sunday and an I 1 found the vessel had gondon gone on shore under a high bluff or precipice some four or five hundred feet high but ot on n a spur of rocks jutting out about fe feet e the ile bow of the vessel was all broken to pieces but her st ernand mizen mast still remained for about three miles to leeward of tile carque barque the shore was w as lined with ith es of the wreck and casks cask many of the latter it I 1 r stoven in they counted casks of which 38 appeared to be in good condition condit joa A correspondent of the los log angeles angelea star writing from fort Alo have new Al mexico exico aug ath states that major armistead left that place on the eth with a command of 25 men forthe for the lagoon 15 miles below the fort that on the next morning at about 5 1 ock lit commenced reconnoiter reconnoitering ing down the lift bank of 0 the lagoon and had riot not pro proceeded eded more than a 1 barter quarter of a mile when ahe he found himself surrounded by an immense t number of warriors eager tor for fight I 1 i returning to the head of the ll lagoon he took a position for action here he fought them for three quarters of 0 an hour against overwhelming numbers which here ere increased every ei ery moment by the arrival of fresh warriors from the more distant places when marshall arrived with a reinforcement 0 of 25 men the heard the firing when uben y yet et some four miles from the scene and hurried his men up tip at all double quick time the indians upon the extreme right v ere very unexpectedly by the arrival of the party in the rear which Al marshall arshall immediately deatz charged driving them from their position major armistead believing the he In indians lians to have given up the fight ordered the command to fall in in and commenced the march back to the fort 1 ort the command had not proceeded fara hen the indians again again rallied I 1 crossed the lagoon at the position just left in great number major armistead Armia tead ting the attack halted the command faced by the rear rank and deployed theta them on oil the bank of the lagoon which aich was here wide and deep tile the whole body of 0 indians indiana came running up yelling and whooping and j charged fearlessly upon the command the bravest of them coming up tip to within ten and fifteen yards of the muzzles of the rifles anes these however ho ever paid dearly tor for their temerity the steady and well directed fire of the men held them in in check when hen after thirty minutes hard fighting maj alai armistead ordered the command to charge them which was done fearlessly the indians raised and broke in in every direction perfectly dis committed com fitted notay not a yell ellor or sound of any kind was to be heard from them after tins this th the victory was complete it is supposed that fifty or sixty have been killed of the command three men vere mere slightly wounded the command returned to the fort on the evening cloning of the ath list |