The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-09-19

From Annleton's Journal

a building in West Eleventh Street.
in New York.
Prince Napoleon elected President of
the Council General Of Corsica.
The Spanish Republican fleet, under.
Admiral Lobos, begins bombarding
Cartagena, the city forts returning the
fire. The Spanish Cortes authorizes
ted for participating in the Communist
and cantonal Instructions. ~ VI
August23.-The mOdoc prisoners, Cap
tain Jack, Schonchin, Black Jim, Bos-
ton Charley, Barncho, and Sloluck,
tried by military commission for the
murder of General Candy and Com
missioner Thomas, found guilty and
sentenced to be hanged October Sd.
Intelligence of the capture of BilbOa
from the Carlists by the Spanish Re-
publican General Sanchez Bregua.
Baez's troops in SantO Domingo re-
ported defeated by the rebel Luperon's.
August 24.-Death, at Knoxville,
Tenn, Of Thomas A. R. Nelson, late
Judge Of the Supreme Court OF Ten
nessee; and at Pittsfield, Mass, Of the
Rev. John Todd, DID,, a noted Con-
gregatiOnal divine. Il
CONFEDERATION at Belfast, Me. loss
four hundred thousand dollars.
Intelligence of the wreck of a freight
ing steamer in the Red Sea, bound from
Singapore to London; captain, officers,
and part of the crew, lost. Thirty-six
men, who gained land, made, prisoners
by the y Somaulees, a M~Ohammedan.
tribe, on the shore of the Gulf of Alden.
Severe engagement between FIVE
thousand Spanish government troops
and three thousand Carlists, near Es-
tella; Carlists defeated, and Don Az "
fonsO and Generals OHIO and Tristany
wounded. Advices of a conflict in Car
tagena between the Communist civil
and military authorities, in which a
Great wind and rain storm on the
| coasts of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton
Island, destroying much shipping,
| driving vessels ashore, and sweeping
away wharves and bridges.
August 49, -Tntelligence of the death,
at Battle, Sussex, England, of Sir Fran
els ROnalds, F. R.. S., eminent English
| scientist. -'...
Confagration at Antwerp, Belgium;
loss four hundred thousand dollars. "
August 26.-Death, at Schmalkalden,
Germany, Of Carl Wilhelm, famous
German poet.
The Bank Of England forgers, George
Bidwell, Austin Bidwell, Edwin Noyes,
/ anu OSOESS MdSDOLIuSl15 SSuGOICCU W
penal serVitude for life.
CASTELAR, elected President Of, the
Spanish COftes. -" =.
August 27.-The farmers rebellion in
Japan reported subdued. -, ~
Cholera reported raging in Hungary.
Dispatch Of the destruction of the
village Of T0rtella, Spain, by the Car
lists. Intelligence that the Spanish
Republican feet, bOmbarding Carriage
ma, had been compelled to withdraw
out of range of the city forts. Dispatch
of the discovery Of a contemplated re-
volt by the crew of the Spanish frigate
Carmen, and arrest of forty Of the
mutineers.
Ohio, at Cincinnati four lives lost:
August 28.-Death, at Stockholm,
Sweden, of Count de thunderstorm, a
Paterson, N. j., Of. ex-Judge David
Burnett. .."s .''.'
Communist riot at Leipsic, Germany,
subdued by the military. ...' -. -.
The British government decides to
organize a military expedition of Fam
tees at Cape Coast Castle, West Africa,
!, under Sir Garret Wolseley, to drive
back the Ashantees to their own terri
tories. 5'''".& tt,'Iil .!.,t' .s.. d -,
August 29.ADispateh that twelve, ar;
, tillefy-men of the garrison at Bareeio-
ma, Spain, had been sentenced to deatt
for mutiny, and thirty to transportation
il CHEERING RAILROAD Ews.-From
areliable source, we have just received
such information as gives us strong
F hopes that wOrkon the railroad will b.
resumed at an early day, and pushed
through to rapid completion. We have
+ eonveTsed with a gentleman who went
to YewY York asItlle bearer of a PROPOSE
: ton from the Directors of another Rail
road Company to Mr. Charlas Morgan
the substance of which was as follows
The fife ismade Mr.. Morgan that if. b,
will complete the earthwork OF his reaA
thrOaghttO Houston, using the old grad
of the late O~pelOusas and Great Western
Railroad Company and the neWIyHeOm
al Melted portion of the New Orleans Mo
bile and Texas Companyywest, of Yer
miIionVille, that the other company viii
put on the. iron and rolling stock, whel
the new road, together with the eight
miles now running betweenNeW Orlean
and Brashear City; WILDE OWnedjointl
hi by both parties concerned. AibhOug
Isl Mr. Morgan has not yet accepted tn
proposition, yet he hasit under consid
r Grafton, and thereisa very strong proba
biIity that arrangements will yet b
effected upon this or a similar basis
y We are the more hopeful of the sue
s. cess of this move from the fact tha
h almost every year Morgan1s steamship
M las now are compelled to lie up, on az
count of Galveston wishing to- quaraI
tine against New Orleans, WheneVe
n there is the least pretext for it,, as sh
thereby retains trade to. herself Whic
ttothnpwisa would 90 t0 New Orlean,
- Hence Mr.. Morganas millions Of capt.;
n are comparatively idle for, sewers
months each year, and if he causes til
{ railroad to be completed, he will TIL
~ secure q large and constantly increasin
1e trade from Texas which will never |
10 disturbed by quarantine, as interie
"a Texas always seeks outlets to marke
Therefore, we say let our people che
~ un, for there is again a ray of hope II
"a railroad through our section, and v
feel the more .sanguine because I'll
Ia country sadly needs the road, and Il
81 people will receive and encourage tho
Re- who buildit.-[Sugar-BoWL Sept. lit
i'd A REIGN OF TBRRoR-Qqr correspol
20 dent this morning furnishes a'repoEt
laWIessness and outrage in Owen cOun-
az which is a reproach and shame to I'll
commonwealth. He was dispatched
the scene of the reported violence in 0
e der to gain the best and most accuTa
ne information from those familiar wi
OF the facts, and his account has BET
cleaned n0mfle most reliable author
ties. 1t viii be seen that fear and d
Ill m~oralizatiOn peryade the entire sectis
", eursedb by the presence and depreciation
Of the outlaws. Men are afraid. to te
what they know. Those who have darl