The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-10
FOREIGN.

The Turks were totally defeated in
great battle fought recently near Vassogo-
vich, in Herzegovina.
The Carlist Gen. Dorregara has taken
refuge on French soil. The Carlist cause is
considered hOpelessly lost.
The submarine cable between Sydney
and New Zealand has been successfully laid,
and is now open for traffic.
Don Carlos has almost reached the
end of his rope. He and his men are re
ported as trying to gain the French frontier.
while large bodies of Alfonsists are in close
pursuit.
The jury at the inquest over the bodies
of the victims of the late Strath-Clyde disas-
ter, have returned verdict of manslaughter
against the captain of the steamer Franconia,
which ran down the Strath-Clyde,
A Berlin letter says that the colossal
statue of Bismarck will be sent to the CEN
tennial exhibition at Philadelphia. A copy
is to be erected at Kissengen, on the spot
where Kullman attempted the chancellor's
life.
A Washington dispatch states the Mis-
mously in favor of an appropriation of from
$S,OOO,OOO to S5,OOO,OOO in the shape of a
refund of a portion of the cotton tax ille-
gally collected from the states to be directly
benefited by the construction of Ievees.
The London Times concludes its lead
ing article, "The Cuban Question:" by re
marking: Ono country seeks to interfere,
by force, with Spain's possession OF Cuba ;
but if she cannot govern it, she would do
well to consider how she could best prepare
it for the freedom which always follows a
colonial misrule."
Statisticians say that 100000 men
will soon be in arms on the continent of Eu-
rope. Russis will have 100000, France and
Germany each 100000, and Austria and
Italy 100000 each. The Saturday Review
thinks that the statisticians are far wrong in
this estimate, and that so large a total is
purely imaginary.
On the first instant party of Mexi-
cans went into a store that was kept by an
old man named Carols, near Edinburg Texas,
on the Rio Grande, and murdered him and
his wife, two grown daughters and several
| Americans. The store was entirely emptied
of its contents. The next morning party OF
| citizens went out in search of the murderers
and succeeded in capturing eight of them
and hanging them to the nearest tree.
Jamaica advices state that the condi-
| ton of affairs in Hayti is alarming. The
revolutionists have purchased the steamer
! 0ctavio, taken in ammunition and sailed
! from Jamaica to Port au Prince. Presid enl
Dominique has ordered the Cuban refugees
to quit the country within thirty hours, on
penalty of being delivered to the Spanish
| gunboats. A monetary panic is imminent
Bills of exchange of large houses on New
| York have been returned prostested.
1t is officially announced that eight
Carlist battalions have refused to fire upon
the royalists. After conflict between the
officers and men, the force was disbanded
and surrendered in parties at TolOso last
week. The Carlists are soliciting amnesty
| by the thousands. a dispatch from the rev
alist Gen. Martinez Campos announces thai
nine battalions have surrendered at Pampe
luna. 1t is generally believed that a com
plete break up of the remaining Carlist force.
is imminent and the war is regarded as vir
tually ended.