New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-13
FOREIGN.

! FOREIGN.
Important Victory Of she Cuban Insur
| gents.
| N.N YORK, July i2.-Le:ters from Hava
na say the cause Of the sudden departure
of General Nalmaseda from Havana on thu
twenty first ultimO was the news Of S0(
rebel cavalry having captured Spanist
convoy between HOlGnin and GObora, ir
which the Spanish loss was 800 killed. The
rebels afterward captured fort in ths
town of Msjagua. in which the Spaniards
had taken refuge. and after executing the
garrison blew up and burned the fort and
| houses.
BLnauetisE the Rihemen.
Eo1SEURG, July i2-Robeson. the
American consul, gave an informal banque.
to the rifle team to night at the city club
| Several residents OF Edinburg were pres
ent and expressed their regret that there
haG been no opportunity to give the Ameri-
cana an official reception, as q manifestation
of ScOtland's kindly feeling towards the
United States. Colonel Gildersleeve says
nearly all the members of the team will!
reach London in time to take part individu.
| ally in the several matches At Wimbledon
on Saturday.
Deaths by the lnundntio..
| PARIS, July I2.-An official telegram cor
| rects exaggeratiOns OF the number of lives
lost at Toulouse. Only PIG bodies have
| been found.
In the Assembly.
N the Assembly to-day the university
education bill was discussed clause by
clause. All the amendments moved by the
Liberals have been rejected by narrow ma
| joli.ies. The clericals are jubilant, and
| congratulate Bishop DupanlOup on their
success.
A motion vii, soon 6e introduced in the
Assembly proposing recess from July %
to November I. The left will meet this by
moving that business be proceeded with
uninterruptedly with a view to bringing
| about an early dissolution.
Retreat Of the Carlists.
MADRID, July l2.-An official dispatch
says General Deiatre has driven Dorregaray
FROM Torsici!la Guard, Sieste and Boil
tana. The Carlists resisted the AlfOnsists
stoutly, and lost many men in killed,
wounded and prisoners. They retreated to
the valley OF Aron, in the Pyrenees Gen
eral Delatre is still pursuing them, and
General Martineic Campos is making forced
marches to join in the pursuit.
The Pursuit Of DorHeEaray.
Tho government announces that military
combinations have been made which will
force Dorregaray to take refuge in France,
or to accept battle under circumstances
which are sure to result in disaster, especi-
ally if, made desperate, he should attempt
to turn back on his line OF retreat.
The Weavers on . Strike.
VIENNA, July l2-Ths Presse reports that
the weavers, on strike in Berlin, have as
sumed threatening attitude. Three bat
tallions OF infantry and two s4uadrOns of
cavalry are held in readiness to preserve
order.
Turkish Border TreubIes.
LONDON. July IA special dispatch to
the Standord represents that the disturb
ance in Herzegoving cOnsists, apparently,
habitants of villages in tho western district,
who have been aroused to resistance by the
endeavors of the Turkish officials to collect
arrears of taxes. Large bands of fugitives,
composed mainly of women and children,
cross the border into Dalmatia daily.
Turkish troops, on the night of July 4,
made an attack on the defenses erected BY
the insurgents at a bridge over the krupa
river, near Ce!evO. After long and bloody
combat they were defeated and fell back in
disorder.
Damage by the Floods.
The Paris special of the Ne,rs reports that
the country between Vile Franche and
Macon has been laid waste by floods to the
extent of forty kilometres. Fine wheat and
wine crops in many places have been utterly
destroyed.
The Nova Scotia Csai Interests.
This mornings Post says: Earl Derby,
Foreign Secretary. has been requested to
receive a deputation Of persons interested
IN Nova Scotia coal fields for conference on
the subject of the oppressive tariff in the
United States, which is said to all but pre-
vent the importation of coal into that coup
try.
General Cabrera's Movements.
The PoH Mall Gazette says: 1--WE have re.
ceived the following from specially we'll
informed correspondent, at Hendaye, che
ninth instant: General Cabrera has lett
Biarritzl for Bagneres de Bigone, having
abandoned his intention of going to Madrid.
He has small faith in the ultimate success
Of General Jovellar's operations against |
General DOrregaray.
Apparently Dorregaray has already es-
oaped by an extraordinary march of ninety |
kilometers. ThisIagrees with Dorregaray;s
avOwed intention not to fight except in the !
Basque provinces. The Carlist artillery |
now numbers 10 guns and mora are ex.
pected daily.
Marine.
The steamer Scythia lost one blade Of her |
propeller and had another crushed by !
whale. The steamer. not otherwise in
jured, returned to Liverpool. Part of her
passengers go By the China. the remainder |
By the Russia.
They Decline to shoot.
Colonel Gildersleeve has officially replied !
to an inquiry from the London agent of |
the Associated Press that the determination |
Of the Americans not to shoot another team |
on this side of the Atlantic is final. He |
says the members of the team are now |
separated and can not be brought together
for any purpose before next week. Five or
six Of them would probably be glad AZ in
divlduals to shoot at Wimbledon Saturday |
if the Lloyds' cup is offered.
House Of Lords.
In the House of Lords this evening the |
Earl of Derby. Minister Of State for the |
Foreign Department, in reply to question |
put by Lord Penzance, said the German note |
to Belgium, dated February 3, 1875. laying
down certain principles, had no application
to Great Britain. which was not asked to
acquiesce therein. The subjects of that
were now settled, and
it was useless to discuss distractions.
The words of the German dispatch,
v hich had been quoted by the noble lord, |
of judicial Interpretation. If they meant
that all acts having a tendency, however
indirect or remote, to cause disturbance in
another State ought to be prohibited, that
would be the most extraordinary and pre-
Dosterous claim ever put forth in diplomacy
If they only meant some acts which inter
national law forbade, that was a principle
which within certain limits every govern
nent would admit, bat for one government
to require another, under menaces, to
silence its press or public speakers was an