The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-03-27

From Appletons, Journal

states that the Uncpapas made n raid on
the herders near the Grandfather Agen-
cy, killed Private Collins, of the Sew
enth Infantry also that the Indians in
tend concentrating at the foot of the
Black Hills by April list, preparatory to
q general war upon the whites.
Death, at Concord, n. H., of Ira Per-
ley, ex-Chief-J Justice o New Hampshire ;
aged seventy-fiEe years.
Feb. 2.-Professor Huxley installed
as Rector of the University of Aberdeen.
Dispatches to London from Central
Asia report N attack on the Russian
Notifications by the Yamud .Toorko-
mans, who were defeated. va.
Advices from Japan that the insur-
gents have advanced to the walls of
Nagasaki. There has been some fight
ing, but the result is unknown.
Adyices from Spain. that General
Morlones has been repulsed three times
by the Carlist forces before Bilbao.
February 28.-The Tichborne clai-
mant convicted of perjury, and SEN
fenced to fourteen years penal servi-
tude.
Advices from Madrid: Senior Serrano
has been officially declared President of
the Republic OF Spain; and Senior
Zabala, Minister of War, is appointed
President of the Council of Ministers.
Amporta, a town on the river Ebro, has
been captured by the Carlists. General
Moriones, unable to force the Carlists
from their intrenchments before Bill
baO, has called for re-enforcements.
Advices from Central America, pia
Panama: The war in Honduras still
continues. President Arias, after being
besleged in Comayagua, the capital, by
the united forces Of Salvador and
Guatemala, capitulated on the 18th
inst. he was made prisoner, with Senior
del cid, his minister. The conditions
OF the capitulation are not known.
Senior Leiva, as president, now remains
in full possession of the Government of
Honduras. A shock of earthquake was
felt at COpiapo, Chill, January 18th. q
The West India and Panama Tele-
graph. Company have laid q second
cable between Jamaica and Porto Rico.
March 1.-Adyices from Spain: The
Carllst forces occupy the city OF TOlosa,
in GuipuzcOa, and Andodin, q town in
Biscay, near Sebastian. Typhus fever
and smallpox are rayaging in Bilbao. =
The P~ittsburg, Fort Wayne, and
Chicago Railway depot at Valparaiso,
Ind, burned.
Eight persons burned and ~suffocated
to death by the burning of a car, while
the. train was in motion, on the Great
Western Railroad, near London, On
tafio. Fire caused by the falling ola
lamp.
Intelligence of deaths as follows: At
Norfolk, Va, Hon. John S. Millson, a
distinguished lawyer, and for a number.
of years member of the United States
Congress. At San Francisco, Judge
Pablo de la Guerra, of the First Judicial
District of California; aged ffty-fve
years. At Austin, Tex, Judge John T.
Smith, n of the oldest settlers OF
Texas; aged sixty years. At London,
9th u1t., John Pye, an eminent engraver,
who produced the plates, after Turner,
OF The Temple OF Jupiter in EginaN
and misunderstanding aged ninety
Naples, by drowning, Matthew Mog-
gridge, we'll known among Psychologists
and naturalists. At London, 14th ult.,
John c. Schetky, marine painter, in his
ninety-sixth year; he was the friend
of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Brougham.
On the 8th ult., Charles Moorehouse, an
ex-political Irish leader; aged twenty
nine years. At Pekatu, island of TIE
Arei, Arapata Whatitiri, ii famous New
Zealand chief. In Prussia, 18th ult.,
John Prince Smith, for many years
President of the Association of Politi-
cal Economy and of the Permanent.
Populations of the Congress of German.
Political Economy. On January 18th,
Aim Jah, Prince of ArcOt, India; aged
seventy-twO years.
March 2.-Advices from Spain: Five
thousand republicans, eneamped near
SOmOrrOstro, surprised by the Carlists,
and defeated. Report that Bilbao has
surrendered to the Carlists.
Terrible explosion in Lancashire, En-
gland twenty persons killed.
The bark Grace Darling wrecked on
the Scottish coast, near Aberdeen fif-
teen of the crew drowned.
The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
reports one million seventy thousand
persons starving in the districts affected
by tho famine.
Death, at Buffalo, N. Y, of Judge n.
n. Hall, of the United States District
Court. At Detroit, Mich, of Morgan
Bates, acknowledgements, aged
March 3.-Adyiees from Japan that
the insurgent force which appeared be-
fore Nagasaki has been defeated.
"a dispatch from Tucson, Arizona,
states that Cassador's band of Apaches
has surrendered to Lieutenant Bache.
March 4-Reports from Havana that
ex-President Cespeaes has been killed
by members of the Sal-Quentin Bat
talon. His body reported to be at San
tiago de Cuba.
Death, at London, of DR.. Forbes
Winston, eminent physicianeandTmedi-
cal writers agGd SiXty-f0M years.
The liquor-crusade continues in the
West. Ladies' are organizing in all
parts of the country into prayer-meet-
ings, and bauaEf for visiting saloons, in
the hope of suppressing the liquor
traffic
How GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS
SNUBBED-Itis q extraordinary fact
that the life Of no man of any age or ma
ton who iIas risen to- greatness affords
so few anecdotes q stlat0f Washington.
The early writers sought in9vain among
his friends and neighb0rs for those lit
tie incidents which so often enliyen the
page of the ~biographer. Among the
scanty number of anecdotes the follow
ing is one of the least familiar: When
Washington compelled the British to
quit Boston, General Ward, who was
second IN command, resigned his COM
mission, of which circumstance Wash
writes a letter to Congress: "No
sooner is the seat of war removed from
the smoke of his own chimneys than
Gen. Ward resigns his commando Gen.
Ward was elected In the second Con-
gress, and soon after his arrival at New
York, then the seatOf government, watt
ed on Gen. Washington and asked if it
were true he had made use of such Lam
guage. The President replied that he
did not know but he kept copies of all
his letters, which he would examine and