The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-07-22
FOREIGN

A Copenhagen dispatch states an ex-
the secret soundings last week taken by a
Pruesan vessel.
A cable from London says Sir Edwin
Watkins who has accepted the craftsmanship
of the Eric Protection Commission, will sail
for the United States in two weeks.
The Spanish ship Bayones was wreck
cd near Motries, on tho BIscayan coast, The
crew were saved by Carist fishermen. 1t is
said they will be held as hostages, and COrlists
threaten to shoot them if the Royalists bonn
bard any more coast towns.
Masters of cotton mills in Ashton,
Staley Bridge, Dunked and Mossley, decided
to give notice OF tho commencement OF q
lockout on the oath inst, because work-peo-
Pile employed in certain departments refuse to
refer disputes in regard to their wages to ar
biration, Other employees have quit work.
The American team and their friends
visited Abbotsford and Melrose July 18th
Wm. Nelson, leading citizen of Edinburgh,
gave them a banquet. In the courre
OF which he made a speech warm in eulogy OF
America. Col. Gildersleeve responded in
fitting terms. The members OF the team
have gone to London.
The Standard publishes advices from
Zara, capital Of Dalmatia, which represent
that the Pansavic emissaries have spread the
reports among the Herzegovinians that tho
Turks intended to extirpate Christians. The
faleehoods caused an insurrection. Masses Of
insurgents surrounded the towns OF Gasko,
Hevensin and Stolatz. Six hundred families
have fled into Croatia and Servia, and ono
thousand two hundred have arrived in Dalma-
tia at different points along the frontier.
The west coast mail OF the 29th OF
June states that during the recent terrible
storm in the harbor of Valparaiso, at least
forty boys belonging to the training ship were
drowned, between twenty and thirty sailors
aud from twelve to fifteen boatmen, exclusive
of eight persons who went down in the unfor-
tunate Eyrie, No correct estimate Of the loss
OF property has been arrived at, but with the
strandng OF vessels, sinking Of hulks, damage
to vessels destruction Of lighters and boats,
(the last two exceeded one hundred in num-
ber), the destruction Of baths and other prop
erty the amount will be very heavy.
Dispatches from Madrid announce
that the new constitution provides that the
senate shall consist OF 800 members for the
lower chamber. Deputies are to be chosen
for five years, one representative to every hve
Thousand inhabitants. The king has the right
to dissolve the chamber of deputies, and the
elective portion Of the senate simultaneously
or separately, but must convoko new cham
bers within three months. He appoints the
president and vice president of the senate,
and has the right to veto bllls. Any person
arrested must be brought before the tribunal
or released within seventy-two hours. Either
the Cortes or the government may decree
suspension of constitutional guarantees, but
the banishment Of Spaniard from his coun-
try il prohibited.
The steamer from Panama brings
later details Of the great earthquake in South
America Cucuta il in ruins, not single
house remaining. The killed are calculated
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Juandeureno, San Caye'o, San Cri i.iobol, La
Grita and adjoining villages are in complete
ruins Salazan suffered severely and the ad-
Joining country is nearly devastated. Chinaco-
ia, Chapo, Pamploura, Cuautilo, Arboldos, San
tiago, Gallindo, and Gramelote have also been
great sufferers. The number of the dead in
Cuata are calculated at three quarters OF the
entire population. The few families saved are
on the outskirts OF what was the city, but they
will soon be obliged to retire ~ putrefactlon
OF the dead will not allow them to remain. 1t
ia beartrending to sec the wounded who
bayo no care and cannot remain long alive in
their present condition Thieves and robbers
have swept down on the Inflated city, and
hardly single safe has been saved from the
custom house. Pillage is general -Four hun
dred mules were killed in the streets, and as
there is no one to remove them, the stencil is
becoming frightful. The store-house at
Puerto do Los Cachos was sacked and burned
by bandits. In Piedecusa the town hall is
destroyed, ard at Pamplano the cathedral is
in ruins. The Venezuela side has suffered,
il possible, more severely than tho Colon
bian. $4,000 were sent to-day from this city
for the relief OF the sufferers.
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