Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-08
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
st. Domingo has got rid of its Spanish in
vaders, but has again become involved in do
mestic difficulties.
| The progress of the rebellion in Hayti is
decidedly favorable to the revolutionists
Atrocities by the rebels continue, and white
persons are threatened with death if they ap-
pear on the streets.
Two ships of the Russian iron-clad squad
ron were wrecked on their way to Stockholm.
The Russian Car has gone to Moscow, to
present the Czarowitch to the Senate and the
people.
Apprehensions of the approach ofthe chol-
era are increasing in England Theepidemic
has reached Marseilles, France.
Prince Francis, Duke of Cadiz, father Of
the present King, died recently, aged II
years. He was brother of Ferdinand VII,
and consequently uncle of Queen Isabella II.
The Suez Canal was opened on the 18th
inst, and a vessel laden with coal passed from
| the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
The French festivities at Cherbourg contin-
ued until the 18th, when the French and
English squadrons left for Brest. All passed
off well, although the brilliancy of the earlier
proceedings were marred by stormy weather.
Petroleum has been discovered in Cuba,
and company to proceed with boring opera
tons has been formed in Havana.
A submarine cable is to be laid from the
town of Porto Rico, Cuba, to the United
States.
United States Generals on the Rio Grande
and certain dignitaries of the Maximillian
Government have been hobnobing and toast
ing each other in true convivial style.
| Responsible parties have contracted to car
ry the mails between Brazil and the United
States for the next ten years.
1t is thought that if the Captain General.
ship of Cuba is changed, the African slave
trade will commence again with renewed
4 vIgor.
Another prize fight for the championship of
England is arranged to come off on the 1st
of November, between Jem Mace and Joe
| Wormald.
Prince Napoleon has been requested by the
| Emperor to abridge his visit to England.
The reason is alleged to be fear that the
Princes Ajaccio speech lin which he so
strongly eulogized American institutional y
should be made the subject of political dem
onstration in his favor.
Rumor says that the Emperor Napoleon is
considering a scheme for annexing Belgium
to France after King Leopold's death, and for
giving the Danubian principalities to Austria,
the territories in Northern Germany to Prussia,
and Yenetia to Italy.
The shop girls of Paris request their en-
ployers to relieve them from Sunday duty.
Maximillian intends to have 100, 600 Reb-
els in his service within year, to keep
watch on Sheridan along the Rio Grande.
Saunders now goes armed by permission
of the authorities at Montreal, and wears a
belt in which are slung his revolyers and a
bowie knife, while in his. side pockets he
carries his small revolvers.
About dozen deserters from the United
States Navy have been engaged in piratical
operations on the coast of Honduras, hav-
ing murdered the crew of small schooner,
and, setting sail in it, captured several other
vessels.
The Canadian customs for six months
amount to forty four and a half million dol
lars, of which nineteen and half million
were from the United States.
The Rebel nest in Montreal is becoming
fuller every day. Tucker, Sanders, III. S.
Foote and others are there, and JEFF Da-
Wis family is quietly living at hotel.
An Imperial victory has occurred near
Peubla, Mexico, and salutes of rejoicing
were fred by the forts and the French and
Austrian vessels in the harbor of Vera
Cruz
The cholera is making sure and steady
progress in France.
A backwoodsman, seven feet four inches
in hight, recently entered the city of Neg
poor, Siam, where he caused the most in
tense excitement among the populace who
believed him to be Beelzebub himself
The King of Portugal has invented pro-
JecJlle WHICH PROMISES 10 excel eNcFyCulhS
hitherto attempted.
Prince Napoleon has been spending large
sums at the Dublin Exhibition The pa
pers praise him extravagantly, because ne
is extravagant, no doubt.
Shanghae China) papers are advocating
the thorough cleansing of the city, anticipa-
ting the advent of the Russian plague.
The Japanese Government have ceded
land for coal depot for the projected Cali
fornia and China Steamship Company
Ten young girls were recently burned to
death during a church festival in Russia, By
the falling of a lighted taper on their mus
lin dresses.
The employers of miners in the iron and
coal districts Of Wales have become alarm
ed at the reduction of laborers by the tide
of emigration to America.
Rebel sympathizers in London are getting
up statue of Stonewall jackson, but do
not know where the Government will allow
it to be placed. |