Show GENERAL NEWS by W earn union wharf rrth la th mihat FALI aug 16 the report of an accident on the wharf at maunt hope appears tu bare been exaggerated but owing to the darkness there being no lights on the wharf it cannot be ascertained tonight to night whether any person was drowned the wharf parted in the middle precipitating from fifty to seventy five persons into the trough many were taken out unconscious and almost lifeless but were resuscitated the news of the accident to a portion of the spinners excursion baity at mount bope created great anxiety in the city and hundreds of anxious ones at once rushed to the flauding lauding to learn news of their friend at midnight the last boat load came over the marshal was with the party and reports the excitement at the scene of the accident as beier intense and the screams of those who bad fallen added to the confusion owing to the tide the water waa not more than five ta seven feet deep and it is believed not more than two were drowned although it is imps sidle on account of the darkness to obtain accurate information as t the casu illies number of people are known to be injured the on ake chanti NEW YORK aug the bierau comments as follows the most conservative serva tive nation in the world finds itself tempt edit get out of ils haughty situation by the seductions of modern trade it i not so long since pious but industrious england ws forcing opium at the bannona can nona mouth into the flowery land and it seems but that chine was at ell contented with permitting anything like reciprocity in commerce at today to day she makes her first entry in the list for the carrying trades of the aea the chinese steamer iio chang which in a few daye is to pass through the golden gate will doubtless be the precursor or of a merchant fleet flying the dra gon flag that will ultimately penetrate to every port that a pound of tea can be sold in so novel is the experiment that our treasury officials have to look cautiously about to find exactly what duties are upon the steamers arrival but these points once chinene enterprise follows up ahti experiment ae it oli trill NEW YORK augle the commercial bulletin bays of the removal by china of trade restrictions unless we are mistaken as to the scope of this change it will prove to be one of the most significant events to the commerce of the nineteenth century the operation of the new conditions may be eow but cannot be ultimately amatt crof small moment to the commercial nations in that WO of people whose external commerce i doiy limited to imports and exports are now free to cultivate ex tepal trade ai any other nation one important result will be that foreign trade will no longer be confined conf iced to five treaty posts the natives at any of the numerous populous cities on the vast seaboard of the empire will henceforth be at libel ty to buei ness with any country there i value in this event to foreign mer chania who will ultimately find their way of doing business busi nees through the natives at the ports which they are now excluded through the absence of treaty orrange mente the chance of opening markets in the heart of china gives more promise than a hundred of the colonies after which european governments are so eagerly straining i SAX aug ial john kelleher residing at oakland with his wife and neighbor mrs king indulged in a drunken carousal sunday night in the of which he beet the house on fire two of his children eugene and annie aged two and civo years respectively were burnel to cinders james aged four was burned fatally mrs keileber Kel leber also died aiom her mr king was audly scorched keileber Kel leber was slightly hurt the DESVER col aug 16 the une haa a long special from miseala Me seala N M to the effort that there u much excitement throughout mes sala over the elopement of Father Teodoro kowalla Ko walta priest of laa cruces and a brilliant and beautiful young lady miss garcia from the convent of sisters of loreto she recently entered the con vent it eaid at the the priest against the wishes of her parents after continued tc anJal ous proceedings the couple eloped and were overtaken at a mail hamlet the in des halgue aa was struck and would have been kiiko by a uncle of abo pirlie officers had not the yr iest and girl were finally married tha former tell horrible and other bar bellart NEW YORK aug at south aranton county grut dal of curiosity been excited by the appearance in circulation ot a largo number of half dollars all bearing date of 1836 and w bright ae the day they came from the mint the mystery ie thus explain ed an old of sag harbor formerly well known ea a practicing physician but who hat for years past led comparatively a occluded life at the time of the panic iti 1836 hoarded 1500 balf bollara alf hat date and kepi the total of cintr til acet or time A tah cotrott ky aug 16 A telea a to he courier journal aiom lion J proctor knolt blot and mortally wounded th s morning ht mount ton ten anila bere by J W lcou greenback candiotte candid tte for cou gw vo ort ex ane does hie report true |