New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-01-13

| and liberate French territory from occupa-
| ton by the Germans.
The French bishops are opposing the
compulsory educational bill.
NJ. ROeher is candidate for the Assem-
bly,.
1t is reported that President Theirs has
requested NJ. Gambetta to discontinue his
public addresses in the south of France,
and a malicious rumOr intimates he made
the request at the bidding of Bismarck.
Rhe committee of the Assembly has re-
p@ ID unanimously in favor of repeating
the law sequestrating the estates of the Or
leans Princes.
LONDON, January l2-The smallpox con-
tinues to spread in all ports of the British
Isles. Cardinal Cullen, in a pastoral letter,
permits the use of meat on Fridays for
sanitary reasons, on account of the preva-
lence of disease.
Twelve miners were killed in the Oak
land colliery explosion:
The steamship Erin encOuntering heavy
weather, returned for coal.
The steamer Spain has been towed back to
Liverpool with a broken screw.
Rev. Mr.. Watson, who had been on trial
at Chatham for the murder of his wife, has
been found guilty.
Sir F. ScudamOre has been appointed di-
rector general of the telegraphs in the
United Kingdom. This announcement dis
poses of the rumors of his retirement from
the public service.
1t is rumOred in club circles that sepa-
ration between Prince Teck and his wife is
imminent, OccasiOned by the unfaithfulness
Of the prince.
BERLIN, January PA dispatch from
Versailles informs the government that
Baron Won Arnim and Count de Rumusat
to-day exchanged notifications of the Gus
toms convention recently negotiated at
Frankfort by the representatives Of Ger
| many and France.
MUNICH, January l2.-In the Bavarian
| Chambers to-day, the government, in reply
| to interpretations from the opposition, JUST
| fed it's enforcement of the old Catholic
| Church burial service.
LISBON, January 12.-The South Ameri-
| can mail steamer brings advices from Rio
Jaueiro to December q.
A revolt recently broke out IN Paraguay,
| but was suppressed before it had attained
serious proportions.
| LIVERPOOL, January 12.-Arrived The
following named vessels with cotton: Vice
ROY, from New York, with 297 bales; ship
| Chancellor, from New York, 1884 bales;
| bark Hammond, from Galveston, 1876 bales.
MADRID, JANUARY l2-Differences have
| arisen in the Cabinet with regard to the
| policy to be pursued in Cuba and the ap-
pointment Of Marshal Concha as Captain
| General Of the island.
| The departure of Lamar from Cadiz has
| been deferred.
The papal legation will soon be re-estab-
| lished here. The name OF the future nuncio
| has not been announced.
HAVANA, January 12-The Cuban General
| Manuel AgramOnte, with eighty armed men
and officers belonging to distinguished
| families, surrendered at Jamaguaya yester-
| da1pnd arrived at Puerto Principe today.
Agf3mOnte was received by the Spanish
| COlonels Cubos and Lomels and several ex-
| Cuban Generals, few leagues from Puerto
Principe, and was escorted to the city.
| The surrender of Agramonte was. has
| tened BY Villaniel and Sambrara. The
balance of Agramonte's band are dispersed
about the country, preparing to surrender.
| AgramOnte reports the insurgent bands re-
naming near Puerto Principe as preparing
| to go into the eastern departments.
| The insurgent colonel, Emiles EspOsa,
who was captured lately, has been executed
at San Esperitus.
| PoRT-AU-PRINCE, January 3, via Havana,
January PA Prussian man-of-war has
| arrived at this port, and her officer COM
handing demands settlement for German
| losses OccasiOled during the revolution.
| A French man-Of-war has also arrived
| and demands a settlement Of the French
| debt.
| Affairs in the country are in critical
| condition. The ministry have resigned.
The United States frisate Congress is ex-
| uactad bera