The New York herald., 1868-04-03
Reported Capture of the Capital Of
Paraguay by the Allies.
Assassination Of President
Flores, Of Uruguay.
Debate on the Irish Church Question in the
British Parliament.
SOUTH AMERICA.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD.

The Allies Pass Humaita-Capture Of Asan-
cion-Murder of President Flores--Colonel
Battle His Successor.
LONDON, April 2, 1865.
BY the regular mail steamer at Lisbon we have ad-
vices from Rio Janeiro to March II.
The Paragnaynn War.
The news from the seat OF war on the Parana is to
the effect that the allied forces passing the
fortress Of Hunaita and that they had taken Asun.
cion.
The resignation of General the Baron Porto Allegro
and the departure OF Generals Mtre and Flores for
their respective seats of government left the Marquis
de CaXias unrammeled in carrying out his ION to
Asuncion" plans. These consisted in moving a
heavy body of troops along the Gran Chaco bank of
the Rio Paraguay to point opposite the upper bank
of the Rio Tibcuari which flows into the Rio
Paraguay about seventy miles north Of and parallel
TO, the Rio Parana. This body of troops was to cut
OF all Paraguayan supplies from the Gran Chaco, all
communication by the river with Asuncion and
also raise the chains and other obstacles
that prevented the allied fleet from ascend
ing the river Meanwhile, with his REINFORCE
ments the Marquis commanding TO draw a
Gordon from opposite Ytat the Rio Parana to the
Rio Tibicuari thus enclosing the whole Paraguayan
@ncampment within triangle having for it's base
the Rio Parana, and for sides the Rio Paraguay and
the allied land line An attack then to be made
by nine Brazilian iron-clads and sixteen thousand
troops on Fort Humata and in case OF removal of
n rVar boin tn
feet on Asuncion, about one hundred and thirty
miles above The whole force now at the disposal
of Marquis dc CaXias amounts to 40 600 meh, four
teen ironclads and twenty wooden vessels, whereas
Marshal Lopez is reported to have but 1900 men
IN and around Fort Humaitai.
There is great Joy here over the news Of Marshal
dc Caxas success.
Uruguay.
From Montevideo we have the announcement that
the President, General venanco Flores, had been
murdered in that city. He had recently returned
from the seat of war the Rio Parana, where he
commanded the troops of the Banda Oriental for the
purpose OF resignng the dctatorial powers which he
had seized about year ago. This determination was
the cause OF a scandalous outrage the General
styled, as usual, pronunciamiento-by his own son
Fortunate Flores. This young rowdy February 8
had stormy dispute with his father, In which the
latter received personal violence from the son. For
tunato called out the battalion which he commanded
placed cannon in the street, and was only checked
in his bloody designs by the Intervention OF
the American, French, English, Spanish and
italian gunboats in the harbor. General Flores
who had retired TO Union, a neighboring viii
lagc on the afternoon OF the 6th returned on the
sh, banished the aiders and abetters of his son.
dissolved the battalion and sent Fortunate TO
Buenos Ayres. The authorities there, however, de.
termined to arrest him for murder which he had
committed some time ago In the Argentine Con-
federation, whereIpon young Flores took refuge on
an Italian gunhoat until he could escape TO Europe.
Our dispatches do not who is the murderer of
General Flores but 1t is probable that he was some
cashiered alder and abetter OF the son.
Colonel Lorenzo Battle, Minister Of War, has been
elected President Of Uruguay, in place Of the dc.
ceased General Flores