The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-05
SOUTH AMERICA.
Progress Of the War on the River Platte
Success Of the Paraguayans.

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to the l4th inst, and from Montevideo
to the 18th inst.
According to the River Plate papers
| the Paraguayan army in Rio Grand,
crossed the river lbicuy on the 18th
! Goth and DIST July, without opposition
and had occupied Trugayana, very
! important Brazilian town on the Uru
quay. General Flores was also within
| few leagues of Restauraci0n, opposite
| to Uruguayana, with his division, which
| had been reinforced by the corps unde
| Paurero and Caceres, and was nov
| 1900 strong, picked troops. t
If, however, it be true that the Brazil.
ian Generals allowed the enemy to cross
The Ibicuy without opposition, very
heavy responsibility lies with them, and
the country will. not be satisfied till
the reason is well explained s...
Urqulza appears to have partly reor-
gained his troops, and promised TO be
in the field by the 18th. 80
Lopez, as he says, "in order to pre-
serve the equilibrium of the Plate" has
annexed the Argentine province of Cor
rientes to Paraguay. "'t"
All arms, horses, cattle aud wooden
and cotton goods have been declared ar
ticles OF war, and, as such, appropriated
by him for the army.
| General R0bles is said TO have been
sent to Humaita under arrest, on suspi.
cion Of treason, and has been succeeded
| by Barrios, brother.in-law Of Lopez, In
! the command in chief.
| The army, which had gone into win
/ ter-quarters at Corrientes, IL again on
the move, and, report says, Is marching
| in four parallel columns upon Concor-.
! dia, but n glance at the map of that
| province shows that it is no easy task
for an army encountered with artillery
| and heavy baggage TO perform such q
march, the country being crossed In
every direction by rivers and swamps
The march of the Paraguayan army
continues to be marked by every kline
of atrocity. Twenty four ladies of tn,
principal families of Corrientes 9TH
capital) had been driven on foot to Hu
malta, guarded hy soldiers. At Bell
Vista the families ON the approach @
the Invaders crossed the riyerto the Cha
co side, preferring to fall into the hand
of the wild Indians, which would Ger
tainly be their fate, to the treatme.n
they expected at the hands of Lopez 4
civilized army
Several formidable batteries have bee,
constructed by the Paraguayans on the
Corrientes bank of the Parana. The
Brazilian squadron is still at Chimboral
The iron-clhd Brazil, lately arrived
from France, where she was built, will
sail to-day or tomorrow to reinforce tin
squadron, and will shortly be followed b
another smaller iron-clad built here.
A dreadful storm swept over Mont
: video on the 18th, doing a great deal
damage to the shipping in port. Sew
/ ! paI x-occol. Ynpiy cI onH rd
, thirty more or less injured.
Lopez's ARMY is destitute of everythir
save arms, and thus ii is that in ever
town which bears the footprints of ii
invaders general sack and indiscrim
nate pillage sets in which seems to he 5
c0ngenial TO the Paraguayan soldier, tbs
we learn from two respectable Paraguay
an youths, who have recently escape
from the enemys camp, that the war j
most popular among the common Para
guayan soldiers. Precisely the revers
is il with President Mitre, who has t,
contend with the characterization of mel
impatient of every restraint, and VIII
abhor the strict military discipline G
such q General still the resources of til
allies are so immense, and those of tn
enemy so limited, that the ultimate It
suit of the war cannot be doubted.
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WoRKINa OFF a LEE SHoRE.-Th
Rev. Mr.. B., of the Seamen's Float
ing Bethel, New York, wasn't much o
a sailor, but he was earnest and urgen
in appeals to Jack to repent and b
saved One sabbath morning. whel
there was 70 whole watch of cold salts
from the sloop-of-war John Adams pres
ent, the reverend gentleman grew uuu
srally eloquent over the subject OF sal
vation, picturing n soul in peril some
thing after this fashion, which produce
the greatest CONSERVATION among hi
nautical hearers -
"Look there, shipmates! There goe
poor tempest tossed soul, driving help
lessly on before the wild, screamin ing galt
OF wickedness---ils anchor lost, topsail'
furled, no guiding hand at the helm
with breakers under her. lee-breakci'
ahead-lrifting straight down into the
yawning gulf: Of .damnation: Ship
mates, cannot something be. done"-
| Cannot We 3 ..s4.-sfs -4ssss = d.
'tAvast there, Cap'an... sung out an ex'
cited maintopman, as. he. leaped TO: hi:
feet, silencing the eloquent divine i'll {
second-"B a hand here, shipmatcs
One of We lay hold of, the wheel there
and Jam her helm hard starboard, La,
alolt, DULLES, with a will Let go the il
and double-reef the tOpsails on her, arr
| we will weather hell in spite of tn
devil." -; -
s'DRULEP" AND Ills UNiBRELLA.-Th
Gazette de France devotes two Of il
columns to the new and startling disco,
, cry of an umbrella, the cover Of whicl
instead of being of the texture of Robir
son Crusoe's, or of alpaca, or silk, is
the last material any one would CUES
namely, rainitself 1t says any one VIII,
like myself-the correspondent of I'll
Gozette--was passing, between two an
three o'clockon the road between Sou
DIES and Perouse, must have noticed
person who, although unknown in ii
country, attracted universal attention
The rain was pouring down in torrent
| LIE held q cane about tom innhos ako,