Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-18
FOREIGN.
The spanish InsurrectIon Ended.


MADRID, Oct. 16.-A dispatch from Fer
rail- yesterday says: The frigate Victoria
was hourly expected in the harbor. Pre-
parstions we're being made for an attack on
the insurrectionists. Hostilities were to
commence at o'clock yesterday afternoon
if the rebels had not surrendered, the mu-
nicipal authorities being in negotiation for
their SUR rIender. ..
MADRID, Oct. 1.-THE end of the re-
volt in Ferrol is officially announced. The
insurgents fearing the result of an attack
began to disperse during the hight, which
was dark and stormy. Some took refuge
on board a vessel they had seized and sailed
for Seigo. Othere fed through the town
under the fire of the troops, and about one
hundred were captured. The government
troops this morning entered the arsenal,
meeting with no resistance. -Four hundred
insurgents remained within the walls, all of
whom were made prisoners.
" The AIsattan Exodus.
NEW YORK, Oct. Ito the first of
October $500 exiles arrived in this country
from Alsace and Lorraine. Mail advices
from Alsace and Lorraine represent that
the exodus will almost wholly depopulate
those countries. Large numbers left with
out taking more than part of their belong
ings with them. A still larger number have
left their hearth and home with some
clothes hung on the end OF stick, the wife
carrying the youngest of the children and
the rest trudging behind. In Metz it is
said there are only seventeen
recruits remaining, all unfit for
service. At Otzruea, in Alsace, town of
5000 inhabitants, there are only three, of
whom one alone is qualified for service.
No fewer than $4,000 are alleged to have
left during the last fortnight, reducing the
population Of the town to 10000, exclusive
of 25,000 Germans, who keep watch and
ward over thenR Even in Havre, which
does not seem very likely place to have
any large number of Alsatlans and Lor-
rainers, the number who have chosen
French nationality reaches !, 400. These
facts are evidently making an impression
upon the Germans.
Serious Railway Run.OR
LONDON, Oct. 16.-A railroad accident
at Kelvedan to-day, ten cars went over an
embankment and were badly wrecked.
Only one passenger, lady, was killed
outright. Twenty-three were injured, two
or three of whom may die.
Enlightened England,
An agitation has begun for the abolition
of floggiHg at Newgate as penalty for
crime. Many letters appear in the Times
and other journals urging discontinuance
of this barbarian practice.
Another Alabama Claim.
IoNDoN, Oct. ia suit against United
States Consul Dudley, of Liverpool, by a
man named Alcott, who enlisted as q sea-
man on the privateer Alabama, for COM
pensation for his detention at Liverpool as
a witness by order of Dudley at the time
the Alabama sailed, has resulted adversely
to the plaintiff. The Court decided that
the Geneva tribunal had settled all ques-
lions connected with the Alabama case.
Cuban Taxes-
HAVANA, Oct. 16.-A decree has been
issued creating new and increasing the old
taxes TO meet the deficit in the budget and
provide fyr the future expense of war. 1t
establishes tax of "a dollars on every
slave hired out, doubles the present export
duties aud the war tax on real estate, in
CrsaseS the war tax on bankers and mer-
chants. On imported goods the war tax is
il 're8sed fem ten to twenty five per cent,
The decree TO 60 into effect the lst of jan
uary, 1873.
Ale xander Del Rio, an apothecary in
Remidos, has been convicted Of treason and
eeptel ced to be executed.
Japanese Connections.
LONDON, Oct. 16.-A dispatch from the
East anpopnces that the railway between
Yokohama and Yeddo, Japan, has been
formally opened by the Mikado.