The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-24

From AppletOns' Journal.

From Applet0ns' Journal
April 26.-Dispatch from Madrid that
N the 23d instant eleven battaliOns Of
volunteers revolted, killing four persons
ard WOunding several; General
Contreras fired on, but he escapes.
Volunteers invaded the Hall of Con-
gress, and the Permanent Committee
fed for safety. Acknowledgement
Socias appointed Captain General Of
Madrid.
Fourteen Dutch steam naval vessels
ordered to Sumatra for service in the
wal against the Atcheens.
F. L. TaintOr, cashier of the Atlantic
Bank of New York, acknowledges him
self % defaulter to the amount of four
hundred thousand dollars; is indicted,
and the bank closed in consequence OF
the frauds.
Seven persons burned to death at a
fire at a depot of the Lake Shore Rail
road.
Captain Thomas and sixty-nine men,
recon- Oitring in the Lava Beds, are
ambuscaded by the MOdOcs. Captain
Thomas, L~ieutenants Howe and Wright,
and eighteen privates killed, eighteen
Harris wounded, Lieutenant Cranston
missing, believed to be killed.
Intelligence that General Van Buren,
and his assistant commissioners to tie
Vienna International Exposition were
suspended for alleged irregularities,
and new commissioners appointed.
April 27.-The Carlists reported de-
feIted in several engagements. Dis
patch that General Riquelme at Cuba
had been ordered back to Spain.
Death, at Washington, of COmmO-
dorc John H. Aulick, of the United
States Navy.
April 2S.-Death at Governors Island,
N. Y, of. Brevet Brigadier- General
Madison Mills, surgeon in the United
States Army.
Five persons buried in the ruins of a
burning house at Iowa City, Ia; one
nan killed, two mortally injured.
Dispatch that ultras in Madrid were
hunting down members Of the Perma-
nent Commission, and clamoring for
the establishment of the Commune
Directory. Seniors Becerra and Figue-
rola al -es5ed. Intelligence that Cap
tain General Velarde had ordered the
inhabitants Of country districts invaded
by the Car-ists, to the cities.
APP il 29.-Death of William Charles
Macre~dy, celebrated English actor.
1CtShH1 NO . GOh9 VI 1Ae
Sha key, Ex-Governor of Mississippi.
John Morrison, OG MOrris&nia, n. Y,
murdered by Lawrence Earkhardt.
April 30.-RepOrt of an important
Carlist victory a. Vera, in Navarro.
Saballs blockades the city of Vich.
Marshal Serrano ard Senior Sagasta re-
ported fed from Spain. .
Intelligence of a landslide at the
Rio Janeiro nayy-yard on 9th instant,
killing twenty employees and injuring
fifty. Advices of the wreck of the
French steamship Gambia on the Bra
lillian coast; passengers saved.
Death, at Washington, of the Hon.
James Brooks, Congressman, and fOun-
der of the New York Express.
Death, in New York, of John R.
Thompson, of Richmond, Va, literary
editor New York Evening Post, former
ly editor of the Southern Literary Mes
senGer.
May 1.-THE International Exposition
formally opened at Vienna. The
American department closed.
The Bill controlling the clergy passes
the Prussian Diet.
Carlist refugees in Portugal ordered
to leave, and not to enter France.
Seno~ Acosta, Minister of War at
Madrid, resigns, and General Nouvillas
is appointed.
General Portilla ass 1mes command of
the Eastern Department Of Cuba, and
General Farjaldo Of the Western.
TIE Italian ministry resign in conse-
querce of an appropriation, by the
Chamber of Deputies, of four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for an arse
nal at laramie.
Advices Of q conflict between monks
at Bethlehem in Palestine; FIVE Latin
monks wounded and six Greeks. Death
of Cardinal Alexis Billet, Archbishop
of CRANBERRY. Death, at st. Louis,
of Commodore W. Smith, of the United
States Navy,
May 2.-Report of the defeat Of Don
Alfonso's Carlist band in Lerida.
Dispatch that the Dutch troops had
Withdrawn from Atcheen.
Intelligence Of the death of Surveyor
General Beach, of Washington Terri
tory.