The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-08

From Apnlefons Lournal.l

March 26-Adylces from Madrid: A
desperate battle before Bilbao, between
the Carlists and republicans, is said to
have resulted in favor of the latter I'M
der Marshal Serrano; but dispatches
from the Carlists claim successes.
Advices from Havana that, in a bat
tie at GuasimOclara, near Puerto Prin-
cipe, the Spaniards lost heavily, the
cubans having possession OF the field at
night the killed and wounded fell into
their hands, A financial crisis in Hava-
ma.
March 27.-Advices from Rome that
the bands of brigands in Calabrla are
completely exterminated.
Advices that Sir John A. Macdonald
has resigned the leadership Of the Cana
dian opposition. DR.. Upper is proba-
bic successor.
Dispatches from Santiago de Cuba re-
port that the insurgents have reapp6ar-
ed in that section of the Eastern De-
partment.
One thousand employees of the Erie
road on a strike at Susquehanna, Pa.
Death. at Boston, of Rev. DR.. klrke;
aged seventy-twO.
March ga treaty signed at st.
Petersburg between Russia andthe Uni
ted States, protecting the interests OF
American manufacturers in their rights
to trademarks.
Advices from Vienna that resolutions
have been offered in the Lower House
of the Austrian Reichsrath requiring
the expulsion of Jesuits from the coun-
try.
Rumor in London of trouble between
Roumania and Turkey, On the subject
of fixing customs-talritfs with other
European powers.
Collision between two trains on the
Harsimus Branch Of the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad, at Jersey City; two
men killed.
Indian depredations reported from
Wyoming. The Indians in Oregon be-
coming troublesome.
Death, at Philadelphia, of Rev. DR..
Stork, editor of the Lutheran Home
Monthly.
March 29.-Advices from Spain: A
successful attack on Pedro Atlantic by
General Serrano. Carlists driven be-
yond Santa Guiana. Carlist forces in
Valencia under General Santos defeated
by Government troops with q loss OF
eighty killedand two hundred prisoners.
Report that General Primo dc Rivera
was killed in the battle before Bilboa of
the 27th.
March 3O.-The steamer Nil, from
Hong-Kong to Yokohama, lost with all
on board, numbering eighty persons.
Japanese commissioners to the Vienna
Exhibition were on board. .
The returned troops of the Ashantee
expedition reviewed by the queen at
Windsor Park. The queen made Sir
Garnet Wolseley a Knight Commander
of the Bath, and conferred on Lord Gift
ford the Victoria Cross.
Henri Rochefort and Paschal Grous-
set have escaped from the penal colony
at New Caledonia.
Advices from Spain News from Bill
boa thorugh Carlist channels report that
fighting was resumed on Saturday morn
ing, the 28th, lasting all day, the repub-
licals making no impression on the Car
list lines. ~
The Bloomingdale cotton factory, in
Duchess CO., N. Y, burned. ts
March 31.-Adviees from Spain A
heavy fire kept up upon the Carlist posi-
ton before Bilboa. Troops to the num-
Der of fifteen thousand on the way to
re-enforce General S~errano. Report
that the Carlist General Clio has been
killed.
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Cologne arrested for violation of the
ecclesiastical laws.
Death, at Philadelphia, of Henry B.
Hirst, once well known as a poet; aged
sixty.
Death at Clifton, s.. l., of General Har-
vey Brown, US. A.; aged seventy EIGHT.
April Central Hotel, of Millers-
town, Pa, destroyed by fire seven per-
sons burned to death.
% FE1,u ~ ~ sa&. n1o1r., that Nj. u,1af# Co.,
ran0 has failed in his movement against
them before Bilboa. NJ
Advices from Central and South
America: The different states Of Cen
trail America has nelapsed into a state
Of quietude, The Provisional Govern
ment Of Honduras, under Don Poncram
Leiya, remains in power. IN attempt
at revolution had been made In Costa
Rica, but was suppressed. It is pro-
posed to refer all questions between
Chill and the Argentine Republic to ar
bitration. Senior AdOlfo Ballivian, Pre-
sident of Bolivia, died ON the 18th of
February. The revolution, under Santa
Cruz, had been suppressed, and the
leaders made prisoners; but other chiefs
were struggling for power, and general
anarchy through Bolivia was aDpre-
hended,
Deaths, at Berlin, of Peter Andreas
Hansen, German astronomer, aged sew.
at Yarmouth, Mass, of Rev.
Nathaniel CogsWell; adviees Ofthe death
of Rufus Mead, late United States con-
sui at COrinto, Nicaragua.
Intervening week already published.1
April g.-Report from Spain that Mar
shall Serran0 will return to Madrid, and
General de la COncha succeed him in
Ofthef forces operating against
the Carlists.
Terrible steam boiler explosion in a
factory near Glasgow; part of the boiler
thrown into a school-h0use, and three
children killed and many injured.
Boilers OF the Polar steamer pigress
near St. Johns, N. f.; twenty
mem killed and Others injured.
Death, at Syracuse, N. Z, Of William
d. Stewart, ex-mayor of the city.
April 10.-Advices from London that
Sir John karslake has resigned the at-
tOrney-generalshjp ON aceounto of illness.
Sir Richard Baggallay will succeed him.
Advices that the famine In Bengal is
everywhere under control.
Death of Baron Somerhill, Lord Dun
the Marquis of Clanricade; aged
serenty-tWo years.
April 11.-SeriOus e~reYasSes In the
Mississippi levee, fifty miles above New
Orleans, are reported,
Death, at Parrytnwn, N. T., OF Gen.
eral Henry Storms, aged geventy-nine.
April 12.-Advicesfrom Pedro Atlantic
that Marshal Serrano has made pro-
for q settlement, which the Car
lists rejected.
Advices of the death, at London,
March 9th, of General Sir w. III. Elliot.
aged eighty-two; and of Albert MAY,
eminent Archaeological, aged sixty-nine.