THE WAR BETWEEN PARAGUAY AND BRAZIL.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 21, 10 June 1867, Page 135

THE WAR BETWEEN PARAGUAY AND BRAZIL.

DEFEAT OE THE BRAZILIANS. —SEVEN THOUSAND MEN KILLED AND WOUNDED. Another tremendous and to the Brazilians disastrous battle has been fought at Curupati resulting in a total rout of their squadron, and a fearful slaughter of the .Brazilian troops. On the 3rd of February the Brazilian fleet moved up and took a flanking position upon the batteries of Curupati, and immediately opened Are upon them. Troops were pushed at the same time to carry the place by assault. But the Paraguyans soon brought their artillery to bear upon the Brazilian ironclads, and shortly disabled three of them—completely destroying the machinery of one, and driving the Tamanche out of the engagement crippled and battered almost to pieces her commander dead upon her decks, with dead and dying in heaps around him. After the fleet were driven off, the Brazilians made another flank movement, and got close to the principal works of the Paraguayans without any loss at all, when, to their astonishment, after getting into a clear hollow space with Curupati almost within their grasp, artillery opened from every direction and mowed them down ike grass. Before they could get under shelter seven thousand killed and wounded marked the line of retreat of the .beaten Brazilians.

The Marquis de Caxis had been in secret treaty with General Dias for a number of days previous and had agreed, to give the General $300,000 to allow him to assault and effect a lodgement in that part of-the works defended by him. The wily Paraguayan General agreed, and prepared to receive his oppoaents. The Brazilians suspected nothing until it was too late, and the Paraguayan artiiery was belching death into their, ranks. '

The Brazilious navy is so crippled that it cannot convey away the troops. Should they attempt a retreat by land, they will be cut pieces, to stay is death by starvation. to fight is tp.be defeated, andunderthese circumstances

the vauuting Brazilians have sought ?he good offices of the American Mijuster. j'

The worst of all is that the allies allies have physically withdrawn from the: alliance or in other words, the Brazilians are about all in the field.