Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-01
A Story that Disgraces our Civil.
cation and Age-ExceSses of a
Mob Of HOWllng DemOni-
acaI FiendS.
Spain Ashamed-LOSS of Life in
Paris-The English Radicals
Opposed to Edinburgh's
Additional Allowance
Etc, Etc.
SPAIN.

that occurred in Paris, even in the las
frenzied agony of desperation and baf
fed fury, at all approached this bruta
massacre. When the minister OF for
eign affairs was asked in the cortes for
statement of what really occurred, ht
declared that for the honor of the cham.
Der, of the country and of the republic
he was obliged to refrain from mention
ing all that happened. According to his
account, the insurection was gotten VI
by internationalists, and commenced in
a strike, or a series of strikes. Work.
men demanded large increase in theii
wages-as much as fifty per cent
and when it was refused them,
left their work and assumed a very
threatening attitude; interfering every
where with the work, and spreading
alarm among the peaceful inhabitants,
especially those belonging to the we'll
to-do classes. The resignation of the
town council and the substitution of a
council of their own nomination
was demanded. This demand the
mayor of AlcOy, Senior Augustin
AlbOrs, refused, 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
overpewered, the assailants bursting the
door, and then followed a scene which
the minister declared it was impossible
for him to describe. The defenders of
the town hall, after being subjected to
other horrible insults and injuries. were
stripped naked and held up from the
balcony in full view of the howling
mob below. Their names were called
out one by one, and the mob was asked
whether it would have them dead or
alive. According to answer, either their
heads were cut Off and mutilated bodies
thrown down from the balcony, or they
were thrown down still alive, the mob
below trying to catch them as they fell
on bayonets and pixies, everybody then
rushing to assist in despatching what
remnants of life were left, or, if too late
for this, to further mangle and dis
figure the breathless bodies. One of the
principal and most respectable inhabit-
ants was seized by the insurgents, and
after his clothes had been sprinkled with
petroleum, he was set on fire and made
to run while shots were taken
at him. Other atrocities scarcely less
terrible were reported. A dispatch has
been received from the south an
nOuncing that the insurgents have set
fire to the city in different places. Pc
troleum was freely used.
The refusal of the authorities of Al
meria to comply with the demand of
General Contreras for a contribution of
fifty thousand piastres, was followed by
an attack upon that city by the insurg-
ent feet. After two hours firing, the
assaulting force made an effort to dis
embark, but were repulsed by the ma
tional troops, and compelled to retreat
to their vessels. The women and chill
dren left Almeria before the attack, and
the town is now occupied only by the
republican troops, who are determined
to maintain their position.
The cortes has resolved to proceed i'm
mediately with the consideration of the
bills providing for new loan, national
armament, and the suppression of the
right of pardon by the president
The civil governor of Barcelona has
seized the newspaper in that city for en-
deavoring to excite mutiny among the
national troops there.
The revolutionary junta at Grenada
has issued a decree directing the seizure
of property belonging to the State, in
cluding churches, converts, and bell
foundries, the last mentioned to obtain
metal for coinage.
The insurgent junta at Seville has also
issued a decree ordering reduction of
fifty per cent. in the leases and rents of
the general community, and a similar
reduction in the necessaries of life; clos
ing factories, and making a division
among the people of uncultivated lands.
A dispatch received at the ministry Of
war announces that the insurrection in
Seville has been suppressed, and the city
is now occupied by the government
troops. The fires started by the insurg-
ents have been eXtinguished.
The cortes has adopted q resolution
thanking the republican troops at AL
meria for their heroic resistance to the
attack of the insurgents,
Foreign property in Almeria is in great
danger, and the foreign residents will
appeal to their respective governments
Tor protection.
The radicals repudiate the pretensions
Of Marshal Serrano to be a friend of the
republic.
The insurgents in Valencia still refuse
10 surrender, and the republican troops
the bombardment Of that city
last night. The citizens of Alicante,
fearing an attack from the insurgents,
have made an urgent application to the
Madrid government for reinforcements.
In the cortes to-day Senior Gonzales
of war, read a dispatch an
that the insurgents had COM
menced firing upon the city of Almeria
this afternoon. The insurgent project
lies had demolished the house occupied
by the German consulate, notwithstand-
ing the consular flag was flying over the
building. A body of seven hundred in
surgents from Cartagena surprised the
garrison Of Orihuela in the province of
Alicante, captured that town, and are
now marching on the city Of Alicante.
The insurgents in Valencia are reported
as becoming more discouraged. General
Martinez anticipates an easy victory
over them.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, July 3l.-Bradlaugh has is
sued call for meeting in Hyde park
on Sunday next, to protest against an
increase in the allowance to the duke Of
on the occasion of his mar
riage. Demonstrations in opposition to
the proposed increase We're made yester-
day at Nottingham, Birmingham, and
other places in England.
The bill granting an annuity of twen-
ty-five thousand pounds sterling to the
duke of Edipburgh uponIhis approaching
came up on its second read
ing. p. n. Taylor, the member for Lei
cester, moved that the second reading of
the bill be postponed for one month from
this date. He spoke at great length in
support of his motion. In the course of
his speech, he protested against the fire.
quent applications by the crown for
grants of annuities to the royal children.
He stated that such applications placed
the queen in an unfavorable and unsat-
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