The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-16
THE PARAGUAYAN WAR.
Ehe Battle OF June 8.

The dates from the seat OF war are to the 18th
inst. We receive the details no ~ OF the acIon
of The S,b. General Rvas, having been informed
that the Paraguyaus were constructing au
advanced redoubL, sent a Brazilian battalion,
win the first line as re ,erVe, 10 dlslo Ice them.
In The engagement, which lasted an hour and a
hall, the Argentines aid not take part and the
result was the complete defeat of the Paraguay
ans, leaving Ill corpses on the teld.
Their totAl | sees were calculated at $50 to 300
men put hOrS de combat. The Brazilian had
killed and 65 wounded. column of rara-
gDayan cavalry that was coming 70 protect the
first one was al-o driven back; and ID their re-
treat toward limbo the two cOlumns, who took
the road by the river side, were decmated by
the Prapesnot OF Que OF the iron-clads that
followed them in a parallel line.
IL is said that the ParaguaVaus have forces in
limbo, where one Colonel Cabellero is In COM
mand.
HLmalla, and Colonel Hermora the artillery.
ghs ssiRs OF Huannitn.
Another account states that LoOez and his
Generals are at Rosario, distant aboutsl Leagues
from the Paraguay river, with a force of about
60C0 men, all we'll mounted and that it is his in
tention to attack the Allies in the rear. The AL
lies, after entrenchlng their po,itlon on the
Chaco, prono-e to lay regular Sc ge TO Hua'
marta. AS a preliminary step, the commander
OF the fort was summoned to surrender at dscre-
tiOn, he refused to do so.
Il is expected that the lombard ment of the
for, Will commence about the 18th or 18th of
JuIe; 1t Is proposed 10 give the commander
elapses, the bomb lrdmeDt will be commenced
and maintained 10 thu space OF two hundred
hours. For this purpose large amounts of ma.
terisl are being accumulated, and all the heavy
artillery are being got into position. so that the
tcItIbcations of Huamaita be attacked from all
sides, and reduced If possible.
THIS lbe plan of the allies; how far, Lopez
with Blk thousand cavalry will allow them to
carry II out, appears not to have entered IN
tb-Ir Calcu ations.
The allies report that Lopez has received rein
kuus h,fF "a A1fI
from ten 10 fourteen wears old, and that he has
not cot troops eGough lett 10 defend himself
with, but we have heard he same story for the
last two years, and Lopez still remains uncon-
quered.
The smallpox was committing ravagcs in the
allied camp.
FssIIng OF the AIIIIss.
The Allies have refused the mediation offered
by tue UHited states, upon the gTonnd that the
whole of the pre,e campaign has been series
of success, es, and that its conclusion is nigh ut
hand, in favor # the Allies,
letter rom RIO JaL ero statcs:-Great anX-
iety is felt here tor further news from the seat
of war, and a reaction of disappointment and
quasi despair is oeglnnlnR TO set IN now, that
the patriotic ebuliions of feeling at the sue.
cessiul passage OF HunaIta nave ehervesced
aud disappeared. The people cannot compre-
bend the stntu quo reported by each steamer
aTriVine from the Pla e. and Wish TO see some
thing doing, or some hopes OF an early termlna'
ton OF this war, which has been sucEing up the
lie blood Of Brazil, aud undermining all her
progress and prosperity tor more than three
u are,
M0Vsmsnts OF LOpsZ-ESmaIO Recruits.
Buenos Ayres paper has published some in.
terestIng news from Paraguay, said 10 be con-
tanned in letter addressed by the Bishop of
Paraguay 10 party IN Rosario. They are to
the following tenor:-"That Lopez, on leaving
Humaita moving with his main army to the
North OF the TebicuaTi, left In the former place
garrison OF 5000 men--with all the requisite
aTulIery, and with large stores of maize and
cearoue sufficient for one years consumption; (;
altO that be lett several military POETS well gar
yiEoned on the Chaco Road.
That he then went to AsuUcion, and accompa-
MED by the elders, the high clergy, and the
NshOp, undertook journey In the interior,