The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-08-06
NEWS OF H WEEK..
The Texas Indians.

Fifteen Indians were seen to fall. The cav
airy were compelled to call assistance frog
the fort TO- get back to their post.
The Indians were armed with Henry and
Spencer rifles and six-shooters, and were
commanded by an able chief. They are
believed be on a general maraudlng eHpe-
dition and are all warriors. Major McLel-
Ian SAYS they were the best appointed
body of warriors he ever saw. He believes
they were Camanches and kiowas from the
reservation. a.
AUSTIN, July 2G -Reports from the from
tier detail news of serious outrages and state
that the country is fairly occupied by the
Indians. Horses are carried off by droves,
and scores of families are abandoning their
homes, and in many instances they are
reduced to restitution.
The Indians are breaking up everything
in the vacinity Of San Saba.
Cuba.
HAVANA, July 26.-Island telegraphs
progressing favorably.
Two hundred and fifty insurgents were
killed in recent engagements in Holguin
and Puerto Principe Jurisdictions.
HAVANA, July 26.-The shore end of
the Panama and West India cable was
laid to day. Batabauo is in perfect com
munication with the cable feet.
Europe.
COPENHAGEN, July 26.-The Government
of Denmark has issued a proclamation of
neutrality in the war between Prussia and
France.
LONDON, July 26.-Grafc, the eminent
German ~oculist. is dead.
LONDON, July 27.-Revolutionary in
trigue is rife in Rome and Italy in view of
the probable French evacuation.
Secret deposits of arms in Genoa have
been seized.
The Pope is deeply concerned by the
projects and plots of the party action.
The French prelates, who were absent
at the final vote, are sending in their adj
hesionst to the infallibility dogma.
Napoleon's Force.
WASHINGTON, July 28.-Napoleon's mo.
bilization force on the frontier is estimated
at 800, 900.
Jefferson Davis.
RICHMOND, July 2S.-Jcfferson Davis is
here, en- route to Europe.
Europe.
PARIS, July 2S.-Edmund About sue.
ceeds the late NJ. Paradol in the Academy
and, probably, as Minister to Washington.
The Gaulois publishes the conditional
alliance between France and Italy. In
certain contingencies France pays Italy
sixty million francs, and leaves Italy free
to make Rome the capital of the kingdom,
Adyices from Rome report that the Pope
accepts as inevitable the evacuation of
Rome by French troops.
France has received official ratification
of Denmark's neutrality.
The Ernperor's Proclamation to the
Army.
PARIS, july 29.-The following is the
proclamation of the Emperor to the army
on assuming command in person:
,Sohdiers-I come to take my place al
your head, to defend the honor of our coun.
try. You 60 to combat against one Of
the best armed of European countries; but
other countries as valiant as this have not
been able to resist your valor. 1t will be
the same to-day.
The wal which is now commenced will
be long and hardly contested; for its thea.
tire will be places hedged with obstacles
and thick with fortresses; but nothing is
beyond the persevering efforts of the SOL
diers of Africa, Italy and Mexico.
Yol will prove once more what the
French army is able to accomplish, ami,
mated by sentiments of duty, maintained
by discipline, and Influenced by love Of
country.
Whatever road we may take across GU
frontiers we will find upon it glorious
traces of our fathers, and we will show
ourselves worthy of them.
ALL France follows you with confident
prayers and the eyes of the universe are
upon you. Upon our success depends the
fate of liberty and civilization.
Soldiers! Let each one do his duty and
the God of Battles will be with US.
NAPOLEON.
At General Headquarters at Metz, July
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LONDON July 29.-It is reported thai
the Landwehr throughout Germany re
spond sluggishly.
Austria's neutrality causes discomfort If
Vienna.
MADRID, July 29.-The Gazette publish
es a proclamation of neutrality by the
Spanish Government.
CopENHAGEN, July 3o.-The French
fleet has arrived,
BERLIN, July 3O.-The bitter feeling
against England seems to pervade all class
eS.
Every able bodied man between the ages
of 30 and 80 is now in the ranks.
METZ, July 3O.-The reception Of the
Emperor has been most enthusiastic. Il
Pans. July 3o.-The Journal Office
denies the invasion of Luxembourg.
It is believed the troops now in Rome
will be in Paris by the 10th of August.
The French journals assert that the
Prussians have 100000 men at Treves
100, 900 in Black Forest, 200, 900 near May.
ence, 1000 600 in Schleswig, and $4,000
near Berlin.
LONDON, July 9e.-Anna Cora Mowat'
is dead. ,.~
The French press, regardless of politics,
praise the Emperor's address to the people
PARIS July 30.-To-day the Emperor
assumed the commander-in in chiefship of the
army. f%
Prince Imperial visited the camps to.
Gay ana was Teceiseu Win great entnusi'
am.
The health of the army is perfect.
There has been no serious engagement
yet; rumors to the contrary are false.
It is reported on the best Of authority
that the recent mission to Vienna was a
complete success.
Austria will not take urnbrage at the pres
ence of Italians in Rome, and will remain
in accord with Italy.
LONDON, July 30.-Winslow, an English
officer in Baden service, was killed in a
skirmish at Mederbrame.
Bismarck takes the field at the head Of
his regiment of cuirassiers.
Belgium has a hundred thousand men
in position.
Pans. ,July &c. AT the Government ar