New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-21
FOREIGN.
Loss of the Steamer Isabel with all ON
Board.

Loss Of the Steamer Isabel with all ON
Board.
LONDON, March 2O.-The steamer Isabel,
from Rochelle for Brietol, was wrecked
Saturday night, on Penderver rocks. All
on board were undoubtedly lost Six bodies
have been washed ashore.
Pavia's Explanation and Castelar's Reply.
A Daily News dispatch from Madrid, CIV
ing the details of the recent debate on ad-
dress in reply to the speech from the throne,
says Pavia, referring to the coup d'etat Of
1874, defends his action, and says it was the
only course lett open to save the country
from still greater dangers. He alone was
responsible for that step, Senior CASTELAR,
being unwilling to act.
Senior CASTELAR, said, in reply, that if he
had been aware Of what was intended, he
should have been justified in ordering
Pavis shot.
Charles Kekule, q merchant, failed, it is
reported, in consequence OF operations ON
the Stock Exchange. His liabilities are
heavy.
Showed Up.
Nearly all the railroads north of the river
remain more or less blockaded by snow.
The CaledOnian line is covered with snow
twenty feet deep near Aberdeen. Twelve
trains are standing, showed up, at one point.
More than q dozen trains are blocked on
the Great Northern line. The telegraph
lines are buried at several points north OF
Aberdeen. The mail from Dundee to Perth,
yesterday, took fourteen hours, instead Of
the usual forty minutes. The cold today
is intense.
The Boatmen.
The rival boat crews from Oxford and
Cambridge Universities have arrived IN
town, and will begin practicing on the
Thames to day.
Cold Weather.
The weather is very cold.
The Gordon Expedition.
Letters from the Gordon exploring expe-
dition contain the following particulars:
Colonel Gordon, upon finding the Forta
rapids impossible, conveyed his steamer,
which is fifty feet long, and two steel boats
overland to Dufii. He decided to put the
boats together again there. Colonel Cor
don, mean h:le, proposes TO march to
Merooli, the capital OF kabarega, and thence
to Magungo. After returning to Duf1i he
proposes to march westward to Markrada
An Armistice.
Reuter- telegram from Paris states that
intellipence has been received that the
twelve days armistice between the Turks
and Herzegovinan chiefs concluded to COM
mence yesterday.
Arrest of an InsurgeDt Leader.
VIENNA, March Cot is stated that the
roted insurgent leader. the Priest Musslch,
having taken refuge in Austrian territory,
was arrested by the Austrian patroi MoeiA-
vich.
The Captain Generals Orders.
HAVANA. March l9.-The Captain General
has issued DEGREES prescribing severe penal
ties tor all frauds perpetrated against the
treasury. 1t tdeclares that hiding of articles
subject TO taxation, prevaricatiOn OF officials
aud acceptance by them of bribes, be con
sidered as treason, and Off nders to be tried
| by court martial.
The Raid Of the Insurgents.
! The VoS de Cuba gives the following
/ account OF the incendiary raid in the Color
district, reported in previous dispatch
On the morning of the sixteenth, q party
of fifteen insurgents appeared in the neigh
bOrhOod of Colon. After setting fire to tw'
small farms, they burned San Jose ant
Santa Susana plantations. They next trie'
to destroy Tgnaro plantation, but wer
driven off by the owners. Richard Patten
an Englishman, fred on the insurgents
wounding several, when they fed precipl
lately"
The 9panIsh Army.
MADRID, March 20.-A decree has bse'