The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-22

mail. Ten thousand Of them attacked the
Government castle ut Fukuoka, killed six
officials and burned the buildings. -Four
other officials committed suicide when they
saw the rebels overpowering them. The
telegraph wires we're cut, and all the
roads barricaded. TIL houses OF all the
farmers who would not join the insurrection
we're burned, and the dwellings Of rich men
and the banks robbed. The insurgents are
said to number at least 5 ,000. The cause OF
the revolt is that the Government has re-
ouired the taxes Of the m to be paid in
money instead Of produce. together with the
probable failure of the rice crop."....A Lon
don dispatch says: The report that Mr..
Motley's illness was tho result of an apoplec-
tic stroke is incorrect. He was suffering from
A very severe attack Of neuralgia, but is now
much better, and expects soon to be com
pletely restored. 1t is denied that Prince
Arthur is betrothed to Princess Thyria, OF
| Denmark.
The insurgents in Spain are rapidly losing
ground. Valencia has Internationally sur
rendered, and the submission of Cartagena is
expected to follow Immediately. The FOrs-
land Zeitung, of Vienna, reports that Count
de Chambord has accepted the throne Of
France, q formal tender Of which was recently
made him by a deputation of Legitimists...-
Henri Rochefort has been sent, with other
convic,s, to the penal colony Of New Caledo-
mia. IA large rice mill at Stepney, a suburb
Of London, has been burned. The loss is
So, ZOO, 600.
A DOUBTFUL report has reached New York
to the effect that Gen. Portfolio, at the head Of
5000 men, had captured Cienfuegos and pro-
claimed Don Carlos King Of Spain. 1t is
reported from London that tho Great Eastern
has succeeded in recovering the lost cable Of
1865.
THE passage of the bill by the Spanish
Cortes for the emancipation Of slavery in
Porto Rico il said to have been effected
through the fundamentally Of Minister
Sickles. 1t is even understood that it was
plainly intimated in the Cortes that, unless
spain now, in this hour of her extremity,
should keep her faith with the United States,
it might be considered that the day Of free
Cuba had arrived. So says q welLinformed
Washington corresponds mt Many stran-
gers are leaving Vienna, and the number OF
visitors to the Exposition decreases daily.
A REWARD Of merit has been awarded nj
Vienna to the specimens of American period.
cal literature in the Department Of Instruc-
ton ....A desperate fght took place recently
on the Currsgh of Kildare, between two Irish
: regiments. Several we're killed and many Sc
verely wounded.
POLITICAL.
. BEN BUTLER has written an elaborate ant
q aggressive defense Of the salary bill. HI
r insists that the law was unjust, not because
the salaries were raised, but because they wer,
not raised high enough, and that Presiden
@ Grant ought to receive s275, Coo a year to plAc,
him on an equality with Washington. /. TIT
I Conservatives of Virginia have nominated
Gen. James L. Kemper for Governor. III
: was n General in the Southern army, and per
sonally is one OF the most popular mon in tn
State IA proposition has been submitted h
the Ohio Constitutional Convention providing
4 that any official who shall receive unlawful
fees or brides shah be liable to fine and i'm
p%risonment in the Penitentiary .. The Ad
/, ministration at Washington will give its sup
port to Col. Hughes for Governor Of Virginia
i, TIL re~cently-elected General Assembly o
. Kentucky will be composed ~ follows: Sen
ate, 80 Democrats and 6 Republicans; IIous
!. OF Representatives, 81 Democrats and 10 Re
. publicans. Republicans gain two in the Sen
ate, and Democrats one in the House.
. The Democrats OF Maine have nominate,
Joseph Titcomb for Governor, and adopted tn
resolutions of the Ohio Democracy as thcil
platform. The Maryland Democratic Stat
Convention assembled at Baltimore last week
and renominated Levi n. WaAlford for Comp
%trollcr. Resolutions were adopted afirmin,
adhesion to Democratic principles. opposing
monopolies and special Legislation, denounc
ing the salary bill, ETC., etc.