Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1874-03-14
FOREIGN.

De Chambord is prohibited in France
The Spanish minister states the pro-
posed blockade of the coast of Cantabria Is
suspended for the present,
A dispatch received at the Indian
Office, London, states that over million peo-
pic are starving to death in the famine-stricken
districts of India
A dispatch from Gen. WOolseley says
g Coomassie has been captured and burnt
The king has fled The British troops have
commenced their return march unhndered, y
A letter from Havana says that since
the late DEGREES were promulgated the nltiyos
among the Spanish volunteers are constantly
defeitng to the insurgents, and that whole
families are fleeing to the mountains.
Fifteen of the crew of the ship Grace
Darling, wrecked on the Scotch coast in the
recent gales were washed from the rigging
and drowned. Four life-guardsmen, going to
their assistance, lost their lives by the swamp
ing of their boat.
Dispatches from Calcutta report that
the distress among the famine-s'ricken poo-
ple in Eastern Tshost is increasing. In one
village there have been eighteen deaths from
starvation in four days. The number OF ap-
plicants has increased from $1,000 to 10000
within week.
A party of fourteen Spaniards, who
had escaped from conscription in Cuba, have
arrived in New York. They had volunteered
to 20 to the front, receiving in bounty seven
hundred dollars, but not liking the prospect OF
war. they deserted, and by practice of strategy
and bribery, succeeded in getting on board a
fruit vessel about to sail.
Senior Aldoma, agent of the Cuban
republic at New York, Gays the patriot forces
more than hold their own. They number
about Il, 900 armed men, and could put three
times that number in the field if they could
get arms and ammunition. Native Cubans
arc ali on their side. Nearly half the island
ia in their possession. Spanish troops in the
field number $4,000 regulars and 25,OOO volrm-
eers. They are asking for reinforcemonts
from Spain.
A special dispatch from the Ashantee
expedition says an immense force OF Ashsh'
tees. under leadership of the king in person,
a;ded by his principal chiefs, opposed the pas
cage of tho river Dab by the British fore As.
Two officers of tho Highland rs were Killed
and thirty white men wounded, Tho Ashall-
tces were routed with heavy loss, The KING
and bis chief abandoned their army and took
to fight. At the close of the battle Comassle
was occupied by Sir Garnet WosCly'S forces
without opposition.
The Brazilian mail steamer from hlo
Janoiro has arrived. Probability OF war with
the Argentine states on account OF new iu-
surrection in Paraguay was increasing troops
and vessels were going forward to Paraguay
Al Buenos Ayres elections were III Progress
ond attended with intense excitement Troops
were being dispatched to various points Oh
tbo frontier and war with Brazil was looked
rnon as liable to break out at any moment
Munitions we're arriving from the onl'eo
states Cholera continued aud deaths from
disease averaged seven daily
The report of the killing OF ex,fresl'
dent Cespodes by the San Quentin ba'talllOn
!. confirmed On the 9th of February the
troops captured negro, who was ordered t'
be shot. He promised, if his lifO was spared
to lead his captors to Cespedes' Inc propo
si,ion was accepted, and the ox-prealdent w@'
discovered with few friends, five league'
from Ascerradoos. His companions hed' ou
ho could not escape, and fired on the troop
loa by sergeant who returned the fr'' AM
Cospedes received bullet in the head ait
breast causing instant death. His body wa
brought to Santiago de Cuba, and buried o'
the lst inst.
A Paris letter auent the approach 0
March i6, when the Prince Imperial VIII AZ
tain his majority, eighteen years, and Dc 0
AGO TO govern, says For several months pas
tSo postoace has been showoring million 10,
unon millions Of Bonnpar'iet tra'ts' hana-D,I''
aud e,ngs over tho country PfoSin'l'' NV, ~"
to,s, both IN town and country have receives