The Van Buren press., 1873-08-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE SPANISH DEVILS TURNED LOOSE
| FIENDs INCARNATE.

MADRID, July 81.
The refusal Of the authorities of Al
meria to comply with the demands of
Gen. Contreras, for contribution OF
fifty thousand piastcrs, was followed by
an attack upon that city by the insurgent
fleet. After two hours firing the IS
saulting forces made an attempt to dis
embark, but were repulsed by the nation
al troops AMI compelled to retreat to
their vessels. The women and children
left Almeris before the attack, and the
town is now occupied only by the repub
licsn troops, who are determined to main
tain their position.
The cortes has resolved to proceed i'm
mediatsly with the consideration of the
bills providing for new loan, nation
al armament and the suppression Of the
right Of pardon 10y the president.
The civil governor OF Barcelona has
seized the newspapers in that city for
endeavoring to incite matiny among
the national troops there.
Dispatches have been received from
Seville announcing that the insurgent.
have set fire to the city in four ditterelt
places. Petroleum was freely used.
A correspondent writing about the
massacre of Alcoy says the women play
ed as conspicuous parts in the massacre
as they did in Paris during the commune.
Nothing which occurred in Paris, even,
in the last frenzied agony Of desperation
and bailled fury, at all approaches this
brutal massacre. When the minister Ol
/ foreign affairs was asked by the cortes
for statement of what reslly happen ed,
he declared that, for the honor of the
chamber, his country and Of the republic,
lie was obliged to refrain from mention
| ing all that happened, According to
his account, the insurrestion got up by
| the intcrnationalsts commenced in
strikes, or a series Of strikes. Workmen
demanded a large advance in their wages,
as much as fifty per cent, and when i,
was refused they left their work and as
sumed very threatening attitude inter
ferng every where with work, and spread
ing alarm among the peaceful inhabitants
especially those belonging to well.to-
do classes. They demanded the resigna.
ton of the town council, and the substi-
tuition Of council Of their own nomina-
! ton. To this demand the mayor Of AL
coy, Senior Augustin Albors, refused to
submit, and he was given three hours to
change his mind. He took possession
of the town hall, and with few civil and
national guards and some friends tried
to hold it against the mob, but the little
garrison was soon overpowered, and the
assailants burst in the doors, and then
followed a scene which the minister de-
clarad it impossible for him to describe
The defenders Of the town hall, after be
ing subjected to horrible insults and in
juries, were stripped nakeI and held up
from the alcony, in full view of the
howling mob below Their names we're
called out, one by one, and the mob was
asked whether they would have them
dead or alive, and according to the an
swcr either their heads were cut off and
their mutilated bodies thrown down from
the balcony, or they were thrown down
sul alive, the mob below trying to catch
them rs they fell on their bayonets and
pixies, everybody then rushing to assist
in dispatchng what remnants Of life were
left, or if too late for this, to further
manglc and dis6gure the breathless bod
les. One OF the principal and most re-
spectacle inhabitants was seized by the
insurgents, and after his clothes had been
sprinklcd with petroleum, he was set on
fire and made to run while shots were
fired at him. Other atrocious scenes less
terrible were reported.
PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON.
PAEls, July 90.
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