New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-04-16

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LeipsicM4od neesdaS Hhda y mi1!ia4
kussa9ns, ~ stxqy .Solo@ne marched
allies codf u6ite amy haze upon the ne
of the Oder i'll you'd not be- pQssihle to
save Berlin~r The Russian xAaAf passed
the Bosf6orus, took and Burned Constan-
tinople, and 6il66 toward the Ievaht,
followed by'ak urmy sUoiMing N se1orsl'
columns acruss Asis i1RtDor1 The third
Russian army crossed fsom T1Gkesten
into Cabool, and was delaoted md totally,
de61oyed BY the Anglo Indian army before
Peshawqf. At the Same time the Chinese,
Eastero allies of tie EnglisA, crossed the
A4ho6f at keOn with one column, took,
shd burned Ifkoatsk with another, and
Will tA4A4u 1O0
Dogtngueee forces. veue 5ormA ito two
corps upon the line Of the GuadiAna
river. while Spain sent $50. 600. TO- the
siegaupf Gibraltar, her entire fleet sailing
Eastsb reinforce that'of Russia.
Leaving the Prussian feet in the Gulf
of FinlaaA the English. Admiral sailed
- tha MedierranGn, reinforced as he
wept b tha Channel feet (which had a.
ready bombarded and Mdestroyed Ant.
werp, Bresf and Cherbourg., The Aus
TRAN army of the North halted at Bay
renth, and returned eoopl 6se the Turk6;
Itslisn forces, now largely reinforced,
that were advansing tDon B0da from
Belgrade. A series Of rapid German VIC
tories droye the Russians across&he Me,
men and the Vistula, compelled. the
French to retreat to Munich, and in
volved the Fianco- Belgian forces in q
disastrous conflict on the Luheberg
Heath. The pursuit did noe cease until
the Rhine was ssobsed, ands1 This w1 fol-
lowed by the advance Of Geruaa army
toward RheimA The campaign ended
with the defeat Of the Italo- Turkish army
at Deresienstadt and defeat of one of
the Russian columns 9t Kutaya.
In thssI meantime interest began to cen
tre in the Mediterranean. whore prepara-
tiaos were making for the greatest naval
battle OverAuuakt HAe French feet had
escaped from Todlon, snd coined the
Russians in the Sea Of Masmcra and tho
harbor of Alexandria. The Italian feet,
seeking safety through the Straits of
MESSING, was anchored at Spe3zia. The
English feet, waiting for the arrival OF
it's German allies, held line from Cape
Boa toOape Ressaro; it's left resting u9on
Syraopek. it, NceD0e defending and de-
Tended By Malls, its eight close in to tho
As the telegraph annSuneed the ar
rival Of the German feet at Gibraltar, it
also notified The British admiral (ths
Duke or Edidburg} ii the SAILING Of he
Italian feet from Spezzia, and that the
united French, Russian Spanish and
Austrian fleets wereconeentrating in COL
umns from the Straits of Otranto To- Nav
arino! and preparing for battle. The
combined fleets comprhod each of them
alaeat 80 ironclads Of the frst-class, with
of 10000 hesyy gafA In
addition, the British feet had about 900
vessels, frigates, etc.. while
til. Russian second line comprised 200
Zig kdrah gunboats, carrying one gun
each, drawing not more than five feet of
water, and bling heavily plated. It was
the boilding of .thiss feet Of gunbeats,
openly said to be intended for the Nile,
the Suez Canal and Indian waters, which
England into the conflict. ..
The German and Italian contingeuts
would be up h four days, when it was
proposed to attack the Franco-Russian
fleet at once, and fRht a new battle of
Neyarino. This was the moment selected
by NJ. de Lesssps TO strike his astounding
blow. The English, frigates had been
Smelling his works in the Gulf of Gabes
for some days, without, however, provok-
ing any response, but livery attempt to
lanAhad been SO vigorously opposed, and
in such foree, that it was deemed inexpe-
dent to persist in it. ,, just before sanset
on January Il 1886, the English. feet,
Malta, Gibraltar, Sicily and Naples. we're
shaken by the dull shock Of what seemed
to be AM earthquake. 1t was preceded BY
. heaN explosion not loud, but intensely
deep, and was followed by high wave,
which ran. from fifteen to twenty feet
high, across the Mediterranean, caus-
ing many disasters in the English
fleet, and was so persistent and
widespread in its effects that it
Hooded tho wharvesZof AlezsDdria and Of
Barcelona almost simultaneously. There
was q red glare in the air toward Gabes,
followed. by immense and continuous
clouds Of Dust, filled with nitrous vapor,
which gradually spread out beyond Malta
and enveIoped the whole feet. The Wort
aspasssd that De Lesseps Asa sprung
his mine, and, as the ensmy was expected
to attack at daybrsak, the English pre-
pared for action, and passed. most anx-
ious night. It YVES impossible, owing to
the unnatural darkness, to send out ves-
sells to reconnoitre. None Of the frigates
of the Gulf of Gabes returned to report,
but the telegraph was worked continually,
and the English Admirals finally learned,
by telegraph from Otranto, thatthe Franco
Russian fleet, drawn in q double line,
showed itself prepared for action, but
gave no signs of intending to attack. At
8 A. M. the telegraph from Gibraltar
reported. ''Severe storm on the West
ern Atlanic; the wave are rushing through
the straits with unusual violence. German
fleet, first division, under way at Cape de
Gaia; second and third divisions off
Trafalgar" About the same hour the
British sailing masters reported an un-
usual current setting toward tho African
coast, and it is said that at this early hour
the water had fallen five feet lower in the
harbor of Valetta than had ever, been
known. before. just at daylight two
frigates were dispatched toward the Gulf
of Gabes, to reconoitre and return at
once. At s Al NJ, the frigaees mot re-
turning, the ironclad Black Prince, hold
ing the extreme right eff the line, near