Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-28
FOREIGN.
A French Judgment against Fremont
He is Condemned to Five Years I'M
prisOnment.
Further Twists of the Spanish snarl

A Free Republic?
VERSAILLES. March 27.-The Assembly
to-day rejected motion made by the Lett
for the abolition of the state of siege.
Ell PasO.
PARIS, March 27.-Judgment have been
rendered In the Memphis and Ell Paso Rail
road case. The defendants are pronounc-
ed guilty of swindhng and sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment. Gen.
Fremont is condemned in contumacy to
five years confinement. The other defen-
dants who were present were arrested to-
day as they were leaving the court.
Active Neutrality.
President Thiers has ordered that Senor
Elio, director of the Carlst Committee at
Bayonne, be interned, and that the Pre-
feet of Lower PSrennees arrest Don Carlos
wherever found.
The death of Amedee Simon Dominique
Thierry, the eminent historian, is announced
this morning at seventy-six years Of age.
ROME, March 27.-The Countless
Geriecioh is dead.
A Dubious Story.
MADRID, March 27.-The Impdrcia
announces that Don Carlos has ab1ic 4ted
bis claims to the Spanish throne in favor
of his son under the regency of Don Al
phonzo This younger brotherl.
Gen. Cabrina has been appointed to she
supreme command of the Carlist forces in
Spain.
The CanarIes Seeding.
It is rumored that secession movement
is on foot in the Canaries, the leaders of
which propose to declare the Islands indie
pendent of Spain and to ask for British
protectorate. Gen. Hidalgo has been ap-
pointed Captain General of the Csnaries.
Insubordination is spreading in the army.
In Catalonia many officers have been threat
ened with death and Obliged TO fly. The
Csrlists are matters of upper Catalonia.
The Ministerial crisis has terminated.
No changes in the Cabinet have yet been
announced, but decree will be issued to-
morrow or Saturday, ordering elections for
constituent Cortes. The conservatives
it is said will abstain from voting.
The Cuban Republic.
NEW YORK, March 27.-F. Y. Aguilera,
Vice President Of the Cuban republic, who
arrived last evening from Hayre, reports
that in England he found popular sentiment
very favorable to Cuban liberty. In France
be saw Gambetta, who is great sympa-
thiser with the cause. He thinks the Span
ish ministry at Madrid will pursue :. passive
policy on the Cuban question, and do moth
ing for some years to come.
Rodriques, who commanded the Edgar
Stewart expedition, who is also in this city,
reports that Gen. Cespedes had great hopes
that the United States would soon recog-
nze Cal an independence Rodriqu's thinks
another expedition might soon be despatch
ed, but the details are secret.
HAVANA, March 27.-A report has
reached the city that three detachments OF
troops composed almost wholly Of natives
of the island, and which have hitherto been
operating with the Spanish forces in the
neighborhood of Manzanilla, have revolted
and joined the insurgents, carrying oil their
commanding officers with them.
AbOIitiOn-The British FOrgers,
The law for the abolition of slavery in
Porto Rico meets with the approval Of the
people. 4 few pr0-slavery leaders only OBJ
ject to it. Even the slave owners consider
its provisions more favorable to their intec-
ests than they had reason to expect. The
psess generally abstain as yet from COM
ments on the passage OF the bill.
Bldwel, the alleged foggeP, remains in
close confinement, cut off from all commu-
nicstion with others. Permission has been
refused him to consult with counsel. The
authorities have made an arrangement, sub
iect to the sanction of the home govern
ment, to send the prisoner back to London
as soon as the British officers arrive to take
charge of him. Orders to that effect are
daily expected from Madrid.