New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-22
FOREIGN.



MADRID, December 2l-General Jovel-
lar Minister OF War, has been appointed
Captain General OF Cuba. in place of VAL
maseda. General Jovellar will shortly
leave for Cuba. General Quesada will be
appointed commandments Of the ar
mics of the North. General Ceballos will
succeed Jovellar as Minister of War.
ItaIy's Centennial Commissioner.
ROME, December 2l-Signor Blanc.
Italian minister at Washington, has been
nominated as centennial commissioner.
The Senate.
PARIS, December 2l.-The following
named were elected mem bers of the French
Senate to day: Admiral DeMontaignac, Min
lister of Marine, and NJ. Leon Laville, mem Der
of Toru st. Garonne, of the left centre.
THIS completes the list of senators SO far as
the National Assembly is concerned, sew
enty five members having been elected by
that body. The other members, 225 in hum
ber are to be elected indirectly by the peo-
pie of the several departments.
The Louisiana sunk in ten minutes after
she vas struck. The Gironde rescued loG
of her passengers and the crew. All the
persons drowned were passengers, except
the captain.
A Rupture.
The senatorial balloting yesterday was
fruitless. A radical leader introduced a
motion that amnesty be granted TO the
Communists and requested it be declared
urgent. An indescrlbable tamult followed
and the previous question was almost unan-
imUusly carried, the left considering the
motion, which can not pass, an electioneer-
ing trick. The affair causes a complete
rupture between the extreme radicals and
the LETT.
Loss of the Louisiana and Sixteen Lives.
BORDEAUX, December 2l.-The Transat-
lantic Steamship Company steamer Louis
lana, from the West Indies sunk in the
Gironde river from collision with the
steamer Gironde, bound for Brazil. Sixteen
persons, including the captain, were lost.
New Eruption of Mount yesuvius.
New YORK, December 2l.-Mount Vesu-
vius is in an eruptive condition. Instru-
ments in the observatory are in motion, and
Professor Palmieri predicts long period OF
eruption.
Chinese Riot at Mnlacca.
LONDON, December 2l.-A dispatch from
Governor Jerveys reports a Chinese riot in
Malacca. He has sent troops there.
Thompson and His Internal Machines.
A letter to the Times, from Berlin, SAYS
Fuchs, the mechanician, had not delivered
to Thompson any of the twenty additional
machines ordered by him. The Daiiy NetcS
is informed Thompson positively denied
that he had any accomplice in his plo..
Harriet Lanes Murderer Hanged.
Henry wainwright. who was recently con-
victed of the murder of Harriet Lane, in
Whitechapel road, in this city, was hanged
at Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, to-day Just
before he was pinioned he handed the gov
ernor of the prison written statement,
which he said he desired to make public
In this paper he acknowledges the justice of
the sentence, and says he deserves his fate,
though he does not explicitly admit that he
murdered the young woman.
Execution Of n sympathizer with the In.
surgents.
HAVANA, December 2l.-Juan Ituryal a
merchant of Villa Clara, owning a planta-
tion in the neighborhood having been con-
victed of corresponding with the insurgents,
furnishing them with money, provisions and
other articles, was executed at Villa Clara
on the eighteenth instant.
Money to Do what Troops Fail TO Accom-
plish.
With view to put stop, if possible, to
the continual burning of farms and punder
OF farmers by insurgent bands, and, as the
proclamation says, the dishonoring of the
daughters of country people by the in
surgents, the Governor of Sagua has issued
tain General: IAN countrymen bringing in
one of those bandits called insurgents
dead or alive-to headquarters, will receive
ten gold doubloons, and eleven if bringing
also his musket."
A recompense of from three to ten doub-
looms will be paid to all countrymen bring
ing information enabling the troops TO de-
stroy or surprise insurgent camps. Farmers
killing rebel project or sub-prefect, or
giving information producing that result,
will be paid fifteen doubloons. He also
announces that any person proving that
any party furnishes the insurgents any
thing will receive six or more doubloons,
according to the Importance of the case.
The orders of the insurgent chiefs to their
are to risk no encounter with
the troops, but always to scatter and divide
into parties of less than ten, and to commit
all possible depredatlons.
A Bad Thing for Cuba.
Public opinion is strong that the depart.
nre of Valmaseds at the preseut time is not
a good thing for the island, especially re-
yarding military matters and advantages
to be gained by the troops.
Fast Time.
The steamer City of New York, which ar
rived here to-day from New York, made the
passage in four days and two hours, which
Is claimed to be the fastest time on record,
MISCELLANEOUS.