Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-11
Heavy Indemnity Demanded by the
Spanish Government From
San Domingo.
Dread Of the Black PIague---NeN
Paper Money to be Suhsti.
tutod for Old.
The Proposed Treaty Of Commerce
Between France and the
United States.
All Cattle Shipped to England to be
Slaughtered Ten Days After F."
Arrival. ..,

PARIS, February H. - Governor
Noyes, the American minister, and
staff visited the committee on the pro
posed treaty Of commerce between
France and the United States. The
governor expressed an ardent desire
for the development of commercial
relations.
Monseigneur Despreez, Archbishop
Of Toulouse and Harbourne, has been
created a cardinal.
LONDON, February ll.-Details of
the disaster to the British force in
South Africa show that the guns we're
spiked before they were captured
The Times says, editorially, that the
government is bound to send rein
forcements without an hours delay
and spare no expense or effort.
The Times, commenting on the news
from Cape Town, says Nothing can
exceed the frankness of the recital,
for it is clear that nothing has been
held back. 1t would be useless to
deny either sadness or the extreme
gravity of the catastrophe, whether
there was or was not any want of vigi-
lance ON the part of our own force.
1t is clear that the Zulus are
even more formidable than our mil
itary authorities expected them to be.
1t was known they were we'll drilled
that great numbers are armed with
breach leaders, and that they could
fight courageously. We now know
too well how large force they can
mass at one point. Sad as the loss of
our troops is, still graver is the peril
which must arise with defeat. Zulus
will be emboldened, and the colonists
be exposed to fresh and formidable
dangers. In these circumstances the
duty of the government cannot admit
of the slightest doubt, and it is to send
ample reinforcements to Capetown
without the needless delay of single
hour. 1t may be they can be more
quickly sent from Mauritius or India
than from England, but at all events
no effort and no expenditure must be
spared to save the colony from disas-
ter and the power of the country from
grave injury 1t is melancholy conso-
lation meanwhile that the gallant
troops of the Twenty fourth regiment
did their duty, and died at their posts
like Englishmen.
Lord Chelmsford, commander of
the Zulu Land Expedition, sets down
the British loss at 30 officers and
about 500 non-commissioned officers,
rank and file of imperial troops, and
70 nom commissioned officers, rank
and file of colonial troops. A court
of inquiry has been ordered to collect
evidence regarding the affair. 1t
would seem that the troops were en-
ticed from the camp, as the action
took place about mile and quarter
outside of it.
ST. PETERSBURG, February IL
General Louis Melikoff has proposed
to the governors at Rachan, Samaria
and Saratoff that all paper money cir
culating be exchanged for new through
the Kama Nolga Bank and destroyed,
The attention Of the medical authori-
ties is concentrated on the Selitreno
and neighboring districts.
The sanitary committee propose to
cleanse the canal and organize large
hospitals which could be anchored in
the Gulf of Bosnia; also to organize
sanitary committees in each district Of
the city and the province.
BERLIN, February 1.-THE ompe,
ror will open the roichstag and deliver
a speech from the throne tomorrow.
LIVERPOOL, February II. The or
der Of the privy council, revoking, af-
ter March 3, article 13 of the foreign
animals order, SO far as it relates to
the United States, was a great sur
prise. All cattle from the United
States, after March 3, will have to be
slaughtered in the abattoirs now pre-,
pairing on the docks at Birkenhsad and
Liverpool within ten days after land
ing.
MADRID, February ll.-0n receipt
of an official report from the Puerto
Plata government it will be necessary
to dispatch a man -of-war to San Do
mingo to exact a heavy indemnity for
the families of the two generals takes
from the Spanish steamer and shot,
and satisfaction for insult to the Span
ish flag, The government purchased
all private rights in Cabrera of the
Baloaric Islands, on the Mediterran-