New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-01
FOREIGN.

SEIZURE OF q Steemcr by PlacldA Vega
Mexican OperatiOns-The Interna-
tionai COpYrIRht-serIous Troubles
In Liberia-Re.sase OF Regicides In
Paris-small-POx Discussed in Corps
Legisla if-BOmbny Cotton Shipped
via suez Canal-Wreck of O Bark
French Ambassador to Vlerna-SmalI-
Pox on the Prince Napolean Yacht.
MAzATLAN, May 19.-The weather is ex-
tremely warm, which is attributed to the
influence OF the volcano which is still in
state of violent eruption.
The cotton crop is total failure.
Placida Vega has seized the steamer For
ward. He has now feet of equipped YES
sells, and is waiting for the rainy season to
commence operations.
LONDON, May 3l.-Serious troubles re-
| ported in Liberia.
The President appointed an unsatisfactory
officer Collector and Postmaster at Palenos,
in consequence of which the people of Pa
lenos threaten to secede.
The international copyright excites great
attention.
The weather for the past few days has been
unusually dry and warm.
The growing crops are already suffering
for want of rain.
There are apprehensions Of a serious
drought.
Dispatches from Bombay state within
paSG 0l,VUU UditS OI CUtJOu WGTe
shipped to Europe by the way of the Suez
Canal.
The House of Lords did not adjourn until
a late hour this morning.
The bark Albany from Julayo for London
is ashore inside of Cape Clear, and will
probably become wreck. All hands have
been saved.
PARIS, May 3l.-Twenty alleged Regici-
ders have been released and more to be re-
leased.
The session of the Corps Legislatif last
night was mostly consumed in discussing
the means to check the smallpox.
Prince De La Tour Veique has accepted
the appointment of French ambassador at
Vienna, but he is now ill with the small po&,
and will be unable to proceed to his post for
some time.
The members of the International Work.
ingmen's Society who were arrested at
Lyons, have been set Free but three arrested
in Paris are still in prison.
The smallpox has broken out On board OF
the yacht of Prince Napoleon.
LONDON, May 3l.-Advices from the west
coast OF Africa report party of mission
aries. consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. Ramseyen,
and Mr. Kn6be and attendants, as having
been captured by the Ashantees and taken
to the interior.
The proposed race between the TYNE
watermen and the st. Johns crew, of New
DTuUSWICk, Is u De IOWeu IN SepCefnO Der on
the st. Lawrence, near Lachine, Montreal
Island. The prize is one thousand pounds:
the course six miles long.
The Americans object to the use of coz
swain, and the Englishmen are yet unde-
cided.
The new telegraph cable from Falmouth
to Malta is to be successfully laid to Lisbon.
The new British iron-clad Sutten, left her
dock at Portsmouth to- day, and proceeded
to sea on q trial trim
The House of Lords to-day read for the
second time the felony bill, and then ad-
journed.
In the House of Commons tonight the
motion for inquiry into the dock yard
abuses was introduced, and after debate,
negatived.
Mr.. Gladstone said the government would
propose recess of the House until the.
ninth of June.
The House passed Benefces bill prevent
ing the sale of presentations to church liv-
ing, and adjourned.
The statue of the late Lord Palmerston, by
Sculptor Jackson, was unveiled in Westmin-
ster Abbey to-day.
FLORENCE, May 3l.-The government has
determined on thorough re- organization
of the army. The work is to commence i'm
mediately, and the Minister of War expects
to see it completed within the year.
The government is also making prepara.
tions for the construction of the st. Gothard
Railway.