New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-12-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1889.

+. for aiding the rebels, has been sentenced to
| eight years in the penitentiary.
MADRID, December 2l.-Admiral TOpete
and SenOr AnguelO hesitate to accept the
| portfolios offered them in the SagOsta Mel
| campo cabinet.
LONDON, December 2l-The celebrated
IlchbOrne trial has reached another stage,
with which the plaintiffs case closed to-
day, and a further hearing was placed for
January Is.
HAVANA, December 2l.-A transport ar
rived from Spain to- oday with one thousand
soldiers to reinforce the army here.
KEY WEST, December 2l.-The 1Ne,rs let
ter from Havana states that SenOr Lopez
Roberts. ex-governor of Havana, embarked
on the sixteenth on steamer for Cadiz. He
was accompanied to the vessel by a large
number of influential citizens and vOlun-
teers in citizens dress. He left in the hands
Of his friends farewell memorial giving
an account of and defending his admins
tratiOn OF affairs IN this city. This dOcu-
ment, contrary to usage, has not been pub
lished.
The case of DR.. Howard, who was con-
victed and sentenced to serve term of
eight years in the penitentiary for giving aid
to the revOlutiOnists, has been submitted to
the captain general.
SAN Francisco, December 2l.-The latest
adyices from China state that Admiral Kel
lett. of the British royal navy, is lying dan
gerously i'll at Hong Kong.
Japanese advices state that a social and
political revolution there is making aston
ishing progress. The government is cOnsid
ering the policy of sending twenty-one
young ladies, daughters of daimOs, to Amer
lea to be educated.
Twenty officers of the United States
frigate Colorado and many other foreigners
were presented to the mikadO. The mikadO
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review. The mikadO has already visited q
number of foreign residents, and enjoyed
his visit greatly.
The Bhudist priests in the country have
been notified that their temples will be
closed, and that they must enter the army
as soldiers, or earn their living in mercan
tile occupations.
Japan steamer state that great damage has
been done by floods in Bengal, and that a
dangerous rising of SepOys had taken place
at Goa.
BERLIN, December al.-The emperor has
prOr0gued the session Of the Prussian Diet
until January 8, 1872.
Bismarck has sent a dispatch to the Ger
man representative at Paris, setting forth
the feelings caused in Germany by the out
RACES perpetrated on her soldiers in France.
He threatens to seize hostages in the Occu-
pied provinces unless the assassins in future
who escape into the neighboring provinces
are not delivered up to the German officers
by the French authorities, and declares
that unless these horrible outrages cease
the army of occupation shall be increased,
and the expenses, and the burden of its
support, which is paid by France, doubled.
PARIS. December 2l.-President Theirs
has issued a decree tlissolving the council of
Algiers.
ST. PETERSBURG, December A.-The Mes
senger, official organ, announces for the first
time the removal of NJ. Constantin de Cata-
cazy. envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary from Washington, owing,
it says, to personal difficulties which might
prejudice the good relations existing be-
tween Russia and the United States.
The same official journal, in an article on
the present aspect of Europe, says other
powers should see no danger to themselves
in the friendship between Russia and Ger
many. Their. common interests suffice to
explain their mutual esteem; but no state
should SO far count on Russia's forbearance
as to think of absorbing another.
An imperial ukase makes compulsory the
use of the Russian language in the schools OF
Poland.