The Portland daily press., 1873-08-30
FOREIGN.


MADRID, Aug. 29.-The Cartagena insur-
| gents have liberated all the Carlists prisoners
in that city. The Carlists in turn liberated all
| the communists prisoners who happened to fall
into their hands. Many of the communists
Implicated in the recent excesses are fleeing to
| the Carlist lines and enlstng. Gen. Campos
has twenty-four Krupp guns in position before
| Cartagena.
1t is expected here that theI Carlsts are
marching on Tafala.
CARTAGENA, Aug. 29.-[New York Herald
| Special. Last night the Contreras Junta W as
deserted by Galvex, who has no confidence in
| the insurgent leaders. The British Admiral
Yelverton Informs the rebels of his intention
| to move the Vittoria and Almanac to Gibral-
| tar At meeting of the rebels majority de-
cded to open fire from the forts in case the re-
moval of Spanish ships is attempted The Ad-
miral gives forty-eight hours warning, and
threatens to lombard Cartagena if the forts
| fire upon the ships.
The Times on the Iron Question.
| LONDON, Aug. 29.-The Times this morning
| has an editorial on the iron question the bur-
| then OF which is that one ofithe finest markets
England ever possessed (the trade on iron) is
| being gradually ceased to her. Her disasters
' in this direction are not yet ended The
| United States are competing successfully for
the control of iron traffic with Canada, South
America or the East Indies. They have con-
tested under immense national disadvantages
but they have beaten England in spite of these.
She cannot afford to be idle and sleep away
her time and waste her money while competing
with thrifty, active and intelligent nations.
The Times thinks much of the blame for the
state of things it describes should fall upon
strikers and trades unions.
Insurreesion i'm Khiva.
fasnnrfsp, Russia, Aug. 26-fNew York
Herald Special Private letters report an in
surrection in Khiva and Khokand during the
the absence of Kanffmanu. General vereffkn
destroyed Khivo. Khokand is quiet. Russian
exactions have been levied ON 600 leaders of the
late movement. 1t is reported that Yakoob
Bey is dead.
LONDON, Aug. 26-In the trial of the Itch
borne claimant to-day number of witnesses
from Mapping testified that the claimant was
not Arthnr Orton Two witnesses swore they,
had seen Orton and Castro together in Aus
tralia and they identified the claimant as the
person who went under the name of Castro.
Boiler Explosion and Loss of Life.
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 29-The boiler of flax
mill at Hiilorved, Sweden, exploded to-day de-
stroying the mill and adjoining shops. There
was no loss of life in the mill owing TO the
absence of the workmen, but in the other
buildings nine persons were killed and num-
Der injured. The King and Qu"en at Fredens-
berg, short distance from the explosion, has
tened to the spot and directed every measure
necessary for the relief of the wounded to be
Immediately taken.
Expulsion of Emigration Agents..
BERLIN, Aug. 29.-The government has or
dered the expulsion from the country of all
emigration agents who fail to prove they are
German subjects.
The Storm of Sunday.
HALIFAX, Aug 29.-Mail and telegraph de-
stanty received The destruction of life aud
| property on land and SEA is frightful, and far
exceeds the estimates given. From all sections
there are stories of houses and harns being
blown down, crops destroyed and cattle killed.
Such fearful havoc has not been known in Nova
Scotia for thirty years. At present no accurate
idea of the loss both to land, property and ship
ping can be formed, but will in all probability
| reach several millions of dollars. Already
| many lives are reported lost There is too
much reason to believe that many vessels were
| lost at sea, with all hands on board.
The fishermen on the eastern coast of the
province suffered severely all having lost boats
| fishing tackle etc., from Guysboro to Cape
| Canso. Vessels arriving in Halifax within the
| past few days, report having passed large guam
| titles of wrecked stuff at sea.
| In Gupsboro county the destruction was i'm
| mense.
| Forty-seven buildings were reported down at
| Manchester
| Point and other places state that the storm was
| frightfu and caused a general ruin which is
| nothing less than public calamity only to be
| effared by time.
AT Isaac Harbor the gale made fearful havoc
| among the property of the fishermel Every
| fish store was swept away. SchooDers Bonnie
| Belle, Renfrew, Lord Bury and Russell, are
/ ashore. The Baptist meeting huuse in course
of erection, was totally destroyed.
| At Beaver Harbor, fourteen houses and barns
were blown to pieces. A vessel with cargo
| sunk and a number of fishing boats were blown
| to sea and lost.
| At st. Peters, G. B., men, women and chill
| dren in this vicinity were in some ms ances
killed and in Others injured by the falling of
houses