New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-16
FOREIGN.

| Capture of Texas Cattle Thieves Near
MatamOras-PrOmptA Assistance by Gen
eral ROcha-Hlinister Washburne Conn
ing H0me-MOre Mischief by French
Communists.
| MATAMoRAs, October Is Yesterday the
| local and military authorities at Browns
| vile, Texas, applied through the United
| States consul to General Rocha to arrest
| some thieves who had crossed about eighty
| head of stolen cattle within sight of this
| city and return the cattle to Texas, and
| surrender the criminals for trial. General
| Roeha at once detached squad of cavalry
| who, with the Texas police officers, captured
| the thieves and some of the animals which
were sent across the river today by General
Rocha, who also notified the Texas author
| tiles that the thieves would be surrendered
| on proper demand. This is the first case of
| the kind occurring since General Rocha
came here, and this satisfactory result is
regarded with pleasure by all desiring the
peace of the border
LONDON, October I5-Mr. Washburne,
American minister to France, sailed from
Southampton to-day for New York in the
steamship Deutschland.
Special dispatches from Paris to the Iele-
graph say that President Theirs yesterday
said he had received information that the
released communists now in Paris had in
their possession two thousand bombs simi-
ions when they attempted to assassinate the
Emperor Napoleon in 1858.
A great meeting of Internationalists Will
be held at Hyde Park on the thirtieth of
November.
John Jay, American Minister to Austria,
is in London.
PARIS, October l5.-Cardinal Bonnechase,
who has just returned from visit to the
Holy See, assures M. Theirs that the Pope
will remain in Rome,
M. ROuber has made an appeal to the
permanent commission of the Assembly in
behalf of Prince Napoleon. The Prince
proposes to prosecute the Minister of the
Interior for expelling him from France
without the authority of law. The Prince
and Princess have left Geneva for Milan.
The German army of occupation have be-
gun to eVacuate the department. of the
upper Marine.
An election having been ordered in the
department of Gionde to fill a vacant seat
in the Assembly, the republicans held
convention, after the American model, and
nominated M. Caduc as their candidate.
The conservatives had already placed
their candidate in the field
Gambetta is expected to visit Nantes and
Bordeaux in few days, where he will adj
dress the people in explanation of his Gre
noble speech.
ROME, October Is - Twenty-one new
puryGtortus.
The German bishops have protested to
the Pope against mOlestation by the Prus-
sian government.
MADRID, October I5.-The Captain Cen
eral of Gallicia entered Ferrol Sunday
night He now holds the town, awaiting
the arrival Of reinforcements en- route from
Santander and Gijon, and with his increased
force expects to crush the insurrection
without shedding blood.
CAIRO, Egypt, October l5.-The Khedive's
son Hassan will soon start on three years.
journey around the world.
BERLIN October l5.-Prince Frederick
Henry Albert, brother Of the Emperor, died
to-day.
HAVANA, October IA, via Key West, 15.--
The cigar makers who were on a strike re-
turned to work to-day, the employers agree
ing to the increased rates demanded by the
WOrkmen.
The difference between the receipts and
the expenditures of the island is $l3, 100000.
The council of the administration under the
presidency of the Intendente, has resolved
to balance the budget without increasing
import or export duties, and meet the whole
deficiency by local taxation.
The principal item of the new taxation
will be the imposition of $24 on each slave.
The Havana journals report the discovery
of conspiracy in the Guisa district, near
Bayamo. The Cubans intended to rise
and capture and kill those favoring the
Spanish cause, and burn their establish
ments. The Spanish General Mendina had
eight of the conspirators shot and others
condemned to imprisonment for life. Fifty
of the Cubans are awaiting trial.