MEXICO.

Southland Times, Issue 1684, 3 January 1873, Page 2

MEXICO.

Serious troubles are reported at Tehuantepeka where it is alleged that the Indians, 'being unwilling to obey Lazada, attacked the troops under the command of that general. Placido Vega was killed, and Lazada is reported dead. The accession of President Tejuda was inaugurated on the Ist December. A committee of Congress proposes to erect a monument to the inemorj of Juarez, and to give his widow a competency. It is said that the Mexican Border Commission demand that General Cortina be brought to a court martial ; that tbe Mexicans be held responsible for damages ; and also that the Texan frontier be patrolled by soldiers London, Dec. 4. Berlin letters say that the storm m the North of Europe on the 4th of November, raged with a violence unprecedented in the memory of living man. Indeed the annals of the Baltic coasts contain no account of a tempest so furious and destructive for nearly two hundred years. Lines of railway, going to different parts of the country, were encumbered with debris and broken. Business was at a standstill. Sea walls were smashed to atoms. A railway train was swallowed up by the waters. Accounts from Strasund, Kiel, and Griefswald are of a like description. A second deluge took place on Wednesday, when the gre.iter part of Grriefswald was under water. The water was five feet deep in the streets of that town. The total number of crafts foundered at Straaund was over eight. • All the fishing boats had gone to the b.ttom. Eighty people were drowned. All along the coast the inhabitants were suffering from want of water, the sea having flooded the wells. Large portions of the city will be in darkness to-night, from the gas being extinguished. The steamship Cresswell, from Falmouth to Cork, has been lost. Thirty-one passengers and the crew perished. Much excitement prevails at Malaga, I from apprehensions caused by the Carlist demonstrations. Families are leaving. Troops are quartered in the town. Inundations are feared in the north of Italy. Havana, Dec. 4.More Coolies are arriving. Bloodhounds are used in capturing the runaway negroes. San Fbancisco, Dec. 6. A rumor is current that the report of an epizootic disease being prevalent amongst horses has been found to be incorreefc.