Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-05-19
LATEST NEWS.
New YORK, 10th.

NEW DIRK, l9tn.
1T is said that Senior Narvajo, the
Mexican Consul General, will receive
the appointment OfcommissiOner on the
port of Mexico to settle the claims
against the latter Government accord
ing to the treaty recently ratified by
the L. :. Senate.
The Mexican commission will not be
organized until the LIST of July, when it
will convene at Washington.
Hon. Caleb Cushing has been selected
as counsel for the Mexican Govern
ment.
Mr.. Motley and family sail for Europe
to-day.
Schcpeller & Co., the German bank
ing firm who suspended on Saturday,
state that it will take six weeks for the
firm to ascertain the amount of their
liabilities, so vast were their business
transactions. In the mean time, thew
| expect to be able to resume business
again.
The German bankers and brokers of
this city have tend cred to the firm a
loan of million dollars, to enable them
| to resume business.
"A despatch from Memphis, Tenn.,
states that, at the Commercial Conven-
ton yesterday, a letter was read from
ex-rebel Gen. Lee, which was received
with much enthusiasm. Subsequently,
Senator Fowler made an address which
gave offence to many Republicans, who
assert that he has become a Conserya-
tive
Gen. Anderson, formerly colonel of
an Ohio regiment, is president of the
convention.
| Among those present are Senator
Sprague, of r. l., and many politicians
of the secession stripe.
| New York, 10Th.
| "A Havana correspondent says that
when government vessel lately arrived
there from Nueritas, with a load Of
wounded, the press were prohibited
from publishing any facts in connection
with the event. 1t TRANSFERRED, howev-
err, that General Lesaca had fight with
the insurgents nine miles from Puerto
Principe, with terrible result for them.
Although the column suffered the loss
Of Lieut. Col, captain, six men
killed and 80 wounded, q witness of the
fight places the insurgcnt loss at 1000
men.
Better information shows that the
result was far more terrible to the
!Spaniards than to the insurgents, and
that the Spaniards suffered the worst
def lat they have experienced since the
revolution began. The CATALAN volun-
teers covered their retreat, but they
were frequently thrown into confusion
and lost heavily.
Many of the best Spanish officers IRE
reported killed and wounded.
This correspondent also says, there is
no truth in the reported convention
of rebels at Sibania at which resolu-
tiOns. favOrlng annexation to the United
States were adopted. 1t is questionable
whether a ajority of the rebels favor
annexation.
Later dispatches say that the Span
. iards, IN the engagement noted above,
lost nearly all their provision wagons,
baggage trains, &C., and part of their
artillery. The insurgents had over TO-
600 men and the Spaniards 8, $500 men in
the fight, which lasted seven hours.
NEW York, 10Th.
a Washington despatch says, numer-
Gus letters are being received here from
Government officials in Georgia giving
particulars of alleged Outrages in vari-
Gus parts of the State, all of which go
to show that the condition of society is
anything but satisfactory in that Sec
ton. They represent that the colored
people are maltreated, and the white
loyalists openly insulted, and in many
cases brutally treated.
Gen. Butler, in an interview with
the Secretary of War, said to Gen. Raw
lins, that unless the President took
measures to protect life and property in
Georgia, he would attack the adminis-
tration in a speech which he is to make
at Gloucester on the occasion of the
- decoration of soldiers graves.
BosToN, 10Th.
Gold 142s.