The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-09-05
. Weekly Retrospect of Events.
from Appleton's Journal

AugustS.-Henri Rochefort transport
ed from France to New Caledonia.
Valencia surrenders Internationally
to General CampOs, commanding the
Spanish Republican troops, the rebel
jnnta embarking previously for Carta-
gena.
The United States European squadron
ordered to rendezvous in Spanish ports.
Aug. 9.-Great fire along the Wharves
in Portland, Maine. Steamers Dirigo,
Montreal, and Carlotta destroyed, and
Vharf-buildings and freight on the Gait
and the Atlantic wharves. Five lives
lost.
Intelligence thatSioux Indians attack
ed a party Of Pawnees hunting in the
Republican Valley, Nebraska, onthe 5th
inst; Pawnees fed, losing n hundred
killed and wounded.
Railroad accident near Orillia, Onta-
rio; three men killed, six injured.
Dispatch that France had paid the
third quarter of the last milliard OF the
war indemnity to Germany.
Cholera reported to have disappeared
| from Vienna.
Aug. 1O.-Death, at Rochester, n. Y,
Natural Science in the New York State
Normal School.
The Spanish Cortes abolish the execu-
tive right Of pardon.
The commanders of the German naval
force in Spanish waters are ordered by
their government not to surrender the
rebel Spanish men-Of-war captured by
them. The international general, Con
treras, held as a hostage on q German
war-ship, is released and landed at Car
tagena.
Intelligence that foreign consuls at
Cartagena had taken refuge on war
frigates lying off the port.
Aug. 11.-lntelligence of the death OF
Terence A. Murray, president of the
Legislative Council at Sidney, New
South Wales.
Stage-cOach overturned at Bethlehem.
New Hampshire; two passengers killed
and twelve injured, six seriously.
Riot in a military camp in the Curragh
of Kildare, Ireland, between two Irish
regiments; severalkilled, many wounded
The Spanish Cortes authorizes the
prosecution Of nine members implicated
in herecentinsurrectiOnar movements
COntreras leaves Cartagena, with -four
hundred adherents, to march to Madrid
but on the way his band is dispersed by
the Republican troops. Dispatch that
the Spanish Republican General SalcedC
had defeated the rebel Republicans al
.Chinchilla, capturing four hundred pris-
Oners.
Aug. 12.-Death, at New York, OF
George n. Sanders, well-knoWn politi,
clan, and consul at London under Pres,
ident Pierce.
A squadron of Austrian war-vesselS
ordered to the coast of Spain. The Car,
lists besiege Bilboa. General Contreras
with a few followers, re-enters Carta,
gena for refuge.
Aug. ia British steam-yacht, Deer.
hound, lands supplies at Fontarabia
Spain, forthe Carlists, and is subsequent.
ly captured by a Spanish man-Of-war
and tOWed into the harbOr of San Sc.
bastian.
Dispatch of the total destruction O
Christianople, Sweden, by fire.
Insurgents in Paraguay reported de.
feated, and revolutionary chiefs flee
from the country.
The United States man -of-warC Canaan.
daigua arrives at Kingston, Jamaica
seventy of her crew sick with yellow
fever.
Town-hall in Leeds, England, des
trQYed by fire.
Three children killed and two fatally
injured by lightning at Earlyville, Penn,
sylvania; also two women killed anG
four burned fatally by lightning nea'
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Aug. 14.-Dispatch of a Carlist victo
ry at Vergara, Spain. All the north re
ported held by the Carlists except tn
cities of BilbOa, Pampeluna, and Vito
ria.
Report of the removal Of Captain
Werner from the command of tn,
German squadron in Spanish water
contradicted. Intelligence that Capt
Werner refused to deliver ZIP the iron
clads Vittoria and Salamanca, captured
from the Internationals, to eight hun
bred Spanish government sailors dis
patched to Escombrato to take them
and that the Internationa1s threatening
to open fire on them, Captain Verne
had taken the Spanish government sail
Ors and steamers under his protection
Severe rain-stoTm in the Northern AM
Middle States and Maryland, doin1
considerable damage.
An unknown schooner sunk in NOrtl
River, opposite Pavonia Ferry, Jerse.
City.
Aug. 15.-Dispatch of the cannona
ding Of Berga, by the Carlists.
Meeting of the schOo Board.
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