New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-26
WHOLE NUMBER 1871.

| proclamation denying pardon bnt tbo,v
| failed to show you nv proeIamstioD0 10y +,
| which | offer pardon. I grant until tbe
| thirtieth of May, full pardon to both bIsoI-
and white soldiers suTrenderinp with armS
| also, to the heads of families and the chiefs
of parties surrendering with their com
mands, excepting Cespedes, Agramonte and
| other insurgent generals named"
MADRID. May 25.-The Carlist bands
which were announced yesterday as having
! appeared in some of the provinces and cut
the telegraph wires, have not been sup
| pressed yet. They are still active, and con-
tinue to sever railroad and telegraph com
municatiOn between various points.
Marshal Serrano has declined the request
of King Amadeus to form a new ministry.
and his majesty has now called upon Ad-
miral Topete, who has consented. The new
government will be composed of members
of the UniOnist party. Admiral Topete VIII
exercise the functions of Minister of War
0d interim.
PARIS, May 25.-Peri, Bon and Baudin,
the three men who were tried on a charge
Of participating in some of the most out
rageOus acts committed in this city during
the reign Of the Commune, convicted and
sentenced to death, were executed this
morning at SatOry. They exhibited no
emotion whatever at the last moment, and
died crying Vive la COmmunew
NEW YORK, May 25.-A correspondent at
Cadiz, who interviewed DR.. Howard, writes
that the doctor is a human wreck. He used
to weigh 2OO pounds, but scarcely weighs
100 now. The American Consul is making
every effort to have him removed to a hos
pital, where his health can be sufficiently
restored to enable him, when released, to
reach nome and die among his friends.
DR.. Howard stated that the report that
his father was chief of police at CienfuegOs
was false. His mother could not speak five
words of Spanish. He (Dr, HOward) had
never renOunced his allegiance to the United
States and as proof that the Spanish au-
thorities knew he was an American, a Ger
tihcate granted him at Havana to
practice medicine declares him to have been
born at Philadelphia.
MADRID, May 25, EveningV-The new
Ministry to be formed by Admiral TOpete
will, probably, be constituted as follows:
Admiral TOpete, President Of Council and
Minister of Justice; Ednazen, Minister Of
Finance; Candan, Minister of the Interior;
Balagner, Minister of Colonies; Aulger,
Minister OF Marine.
1t is understood that Admiral Topete will
soon be succeeded in the Ministry of War
by Marshal SerranO.
A London special giving particulars of
the alacrity of the American feet in sup
pressing the fire among the shipping in the
harbOr of Marseilles, France, saws the
was one of the most splendid victories of
peace, having saved from destruction. by
the discipline, skill and intrepidity of the
officers and men, thousands of merchant
ships and the city of Marseilles.
On the night of the fire the squadron, con
slstlng OF the Wabash, Congress, Brooklyn,
Plymouth, Shenandoah, Juniata and Wa
chusetts, under command of Admiral Alden,
were IN Napoleon Basin amid innumerable
merchantmen of every description and from
every nation. Shortly after midnight an
explosion startled the city, followed by fire
and dense clouds of heavy smoke, which is
sued from an Italian ship just arrived from
Philadelphia with cargo of petroleum.
The nature OF the danger soon became
evident and it seemed impossible to pre-
vent the spreading of the fire to the houses,
as they lay In such mass, and a general
cOnhagratiOn seemed imminent, for the
houses extended down to the wharf on
every side.
No city of France has the means to ex-
tinguish a great fire, and hence there
gathered an immense thrOng, eontempla-
ting the scene in panic-stricken, fascinated
horror
Presently a well-manned boat came from
a part of the basin illuminated by the
blaze, and pulled directly toward the
burning ship. This was soon followed by
another. then a third, ten, twenty-au the
boats of the American squadron.
A moment later the men were, seen on
the deck of the burning ship.
The silence of the people on shore was
such that they could hear through the
smOthered roar and craekle of the fire the
word of command and the blows of the ak
Presently the burning vessel begun to set
tie. She had been scuttled, and her cargo
was now under water. The deck being
level with the surface, danger from the es-
cape of burning petroleum was still immi-
nent, when a line of boats, lashed together,
stem and stern, was seen pulling away, and
as the file Strengthened out the burning ship
moved ALSO and was slowly tOwed out to
the bay by over two hundred well manned
oars. 1t was only then that immense cheers
broke from the thousands of people, who
felt irrepressible gratitude to the Americans
for the salvation of their city.