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Show Latest Chinese Budget. San Fbancisoo, April C The steamer "Gaelic" arrived to-day. Yokahama advices from the tea districts continue favorable. Hong Kong advices state that General Wilson and a number of officers from the United States steamer "Monocaoy" are, at the request of Li Hung Chang, surveying the line of the projected railroad along the Grand Canal. The Ovealand China Mail says the news of the anti-Chinese persecutions in the United States has created a very dangerous anti-foreign feeling in Canton, and fears are entertained that the natives would attempt reprisals, as mentioned by the Viceroy of Kwang Tung in his dispatch to the Chinese Minister at Washington. . Advices from the Phillipme Islands state that on February 15th a party of Mohammedan Moham-medan fanatics attacked the Mission House at Zamontaca, on the Islands of Mmdanas, set fire to it as well as the dwelling house of the priests, the old church, a new church in course of construction and the storehouses the whole being reduced to ashes, ine loss - Vv ' -N--'1 " is estimated at $18,000. A force was subsequently subse-quently sent to chastise them, when twelve were killed and several wounded. The loss on the Spanish side being one captain of infantry, four men. wounded and one man killed. The day previous the same band burned the village of Amadeo and the naval coal depot. The losses are very gre"at. Captain S. M. Mills from the U. S. Army, late disbursing officer of the Signal Service, is among the arrivals by the "Gjelio." |