THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERACY.

Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 373, 4 June 1868, Page 3

THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERACY.

The accountg of the ravages of cholera are still deplorable. Th 9 Buenos Ayrea Standard of the sth of February says:— Official returns give the number of deaths in the city and province of Buenos Ayres. since the re-appearance of cholera in December last at 20,000 which we believe must be under the mark. The same paper says regarding Montevideo : — All the accounts we receive from the sister city give a deplorble picture of the 3tate of things there— cholera raging — the streets deserted and the bolsa an empty wilderness. It is reported that that lawless lout, Fortunate Flores, had clapped info jail all the. doctors in Montevideo, because twenty of his soldiers had been carried off by cholera. The greatest trado going on at present in Buenos Ayres is in ballast, there being some thirty vessels at present in port loading ballast. This may be taken as a genuine sign of the times. The Chile Consul at Mendoza, under date of the 28th of February, says the cholera has notably diminished in Buenos Ayres, and that its ravages are

only felt in the country towns. The province of Catamarea, where it had just appeared, is suffering terribly from it. At San Juan it has also broken out in a most violent form ; between the 10th and 24th February, 148 fatal cases had occurred, and the deaths were daily on the increase. An armed force had been sent out by the Governor to prevent persons flying from San Juan entei-ing Mendoza without a rigorous quarantine, which fortunately, the plague had not reached. A revolution broke out in Montevideo headed by Colonel Fortanato Flores, son of Gen. Flores, on account of a quarrel between tho father and son, originating in the former refusing to accept the next Presidency. Atter some fighting and the interference of the foreign naval forces, it seems the rebel was defeated, and had loft for Europe. A report has reached Rosari > that another revolution broke out at Montevideo on the 22d January, headed by the Blancos, and that President Lopez and the Minister of War, Balte, had been killed by a gang of desperadoes whilst passing through tee rtreet in a carriage. Owing to the telegraph being destroyed no further particulars had been received.