Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-01
FOREIGN.
The Massacre at Alcoy.
Rivaling the Scenes Of the Paris
Commune.

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massacre, as they did in Paris during the
Commune. Nothing which occurred In
Paris. even in the last frenzied agony of
desperation and bafied fury, at al approach
es this brutal massacre. When the Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs was asked in the
,, Cortes for statement Of what really hap
pened, he declared that
Fer the Honor of the Chamber, of the
Country and of the Republic,
he was obliged to refrain from mentioning
all that happeiied. According to his ac-
count, the insurrection was gotten ND by
the Internationals, commenced ina strike or
series of strikes. The workmen demand
ed large rise in their wages, as much IS
so per cent, and when it was refused, they
left their work, assumed very threatening
attitude, interfering e7erywhere with work
and spreading alarm among peaceful in
habitsnts, especially those belonging to
well-to.do classes. They demanded the
resignation of the town council and sub
stitution of council of their own nomiaa-
tiop. This demand the Mayer OF Alcoy,
Senior Augustin AIbors, refused, and was
given three hours to change his mind. He
took possession of the Town Hall and with
few. civil and national guards aud some
friends, tried TO hold it against the mob.
The little garrison was soon oVerpoWered,
the assailsnts bursting the doors and then
followed a scene which the Minister de-
cared it impossible for him to describe.
The defenders of the Town Hall, aftsr be-
ing subjected to other
Horrible Insult sand Injuries;
were stripped naked and held up, from the
balcony in full view of the bowling mob
below. Their names were called out, one
By one, and the mob was. asked whether it
would have them dead or alive. According
to the answer either their heads were cut off
and their
MutIIated Bodies thrown Down from,
the Balcony;
or they were thrown down still alive, the mob
below trying to catch them as they fell on
bayonets and pixies. Every body then
rushing to assist in dispatching what rem
nants of life was left, or if too late for this
to further mangle and disfgure breathless
bodies. One of the principal and most
respectable inhabitants was seized By
the insurgents, and after his clothes had
| been
SprinkIed with Petroleum,
he was set on fire, and made to run while
| shots were taken at him. Other atroc ties
| scarcely less terrible were repeated
Seville Fired by the Insurgents.
A dispatch has been received from Seville
announcing that Insurgents have set fire to
that city in four different PLACES. Petro-
leom was freely used.
The Insurgents lombard and assault
q Town and are RePulsed.
The refusal of the authorities of Almeria
to comply with the demands of Gen. Con-
treras for contribution of fifty thousand
pi:etas, was followed by an attack upon that
city by the Insurgent flee. After Two hours
firing an assaulting force made an attempt
to disembark 5ut were Iepulsed by national
troops and compelled to retreat to their yes
sells. The womena children left AmeIia
before the attack and the town is now o:-
cupied only by Republican troops, deer
mined to maintain their position.
A New Loan-NewsPaper Seized.
TIE Cortes bas resolved to proceed imme-
diately with the consideration Of bills pro
Vidipg for a new loan, national armament
and the suppression of the right Of pardon
by the President.
The civil Government of Barcelona has
seized newspaper in that city for endeav-
oriDg to incite mutiny among the national
troops there.
Stormy scenes In the COrtes.
MADRID, July 31.-I the Cortes to day
Deputies of the Left protested sg8Inst the
proposed vote of thanks to citizens of Al
meria for their devotion to the Republic.
Angry exclamations from members of the
majority followed. Quintero made speech
defending tie proceedings of the insurgents.
Members of the majority again protested
against the course of the Deputies of the
Left A passionate debate followed, at
tended BY scene OF greet confusion in the
chamLers.
The insurgents at Carthsgena attempted
to fit out the iron clads Mendez, Pinto and
Fernando Elcato, to assist the vessels en-
gagged in the attack upon Almeris, but
found their supply OF coal to be insufficient.
The insurgent government at Carthagena
has made and effort to place loan in Lon
don, but failed.
Various Spanish Items.
MADRID, July 31.-The revolutionary
| junta at Aenads has issued decree direct
| ing the seizure Of property belonging to the
| State, including churches, converts and
! bell foundries, the last mentioned to obtain
metal for coinage. The insurgen5 junta
at Seville also issued decree ordering re-
| duction Of so per cent. in leases and rents
of the general community, and a similar
reduction in necesssries of life, closing fac
tories and making a division among the
people of uncultivated land.
A dispatch received at the Ministry of
War announces the iDsulrection in Seville
has been suppressed and the city is now oc-
| cupied by government troops. The fires
started by Insurgents have been extin-
| guished.
Cortes has adopted a resolution thank
ing the Republican troops at Almeria for
their heroic resistance to the attack Of the
Insurgents.
Foreign property in Almeria is in great
danger and foreign residents will appeal to
their respective governments for protec-
ton.
Radicals repudiate the pretensions Of
Marshal Serrano to be friend Cf the Re-
public.
Opposed to Royal Extravaganza.
LONDON, July 3l.-Bradaugh has issued
call for meeting in Hyde Park Sun -ay
next, to protest against the increase in al
lowance of the Duke of Edinburg, on the
occasion of his marriage. Demonstrations
in opposition to the proposed increase were
made yesterday at Nottingham, Birming-
ham and other places in England.
Deba te I'm the House of Commons ON
Ihe Annuity Bill.
LONDON, July 3l-In the House of Com
mons to-day Gladstone stated that the busi- |
ness of the House is so far advanced as to |
warrant the hope that its session would be
prorogued on Tuesday next. The bill |
granting an annuity of 5000 pounds to the |
Duke of Edinburg upon his approaching |
marriage, came up on second reading. P. |
A. Taylor, member for Leicester, moved |
that the second reading Of the bill be post
poned for one month from this date, and |
spoke st great length in support of the mo- |
ton. In the course of his speech he pro-
tested against the frequent applications by |
the Crown for grants of annuiLies to royal |
children. He stated that such spplicati jns |
place the Queen in an unfavorable and un-
satisfactory light before the Iublie. He |
thought, if the civil list was sufficient for the
maintenance of the royal household, the |
crown ought to surrender to the public |
treasury the immense private property now
held by it. He held that if her private
property be reduced by the Queen, there
can be no necessity for the appropriation
provided for in this bill. He stated that the
whole management of the civil list natural-