Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-01
Foreign News.

Foreign News. .;,..f
Rumors were rife in London on the Goth,
of the death Of the Tycoon, of Japan.
The Emperor of Austria is at Prague,
where very cordial reception was rendered
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Twenty steamers are to be sent to Mexico
in November to convey home the French
troops.
Colonel Lynch, of Buffalo, one of the
Fenian prisoners in Canadian custody, has
been convicted and sentenced to be hanged.
The execution will take place on the 18th
of December.
Macmillan continues to use the Atlantic
cable extensively, his last message having
been one of 478 words in cypher to the
Empress Carlotta 1t cost him the snug
little sum of $4,780.
Australia has had financial panic which
causes great agitation, and has resulted in
the overthrow of three successive Minis
tries and the oensure of the Government Of
the colony by a large public meeting.
The Quebec papers report that the fire in
that city causes immense loss to the stock
holders Of local insurance companies, the
stock of which has largely deprecated.
Nearly all the English companies have with
drawn since the fire.
Dates from Madrid to the 22d announce
that Spain has announced her intention to
uphold the temporal power of the pope,
after the French forces leave Rome...... The
people of Venetia have voted almost unani-
mously for union with Italy.
Maximilian's prospects AIRED ally growing
more discouraging French troops have
begun to arrive at Vera Cruz, from which
port they will embark for France. The
attack on Metamoras by the Liberals has
probably taken place ere this.
Intelligence from Europe is to the effect
that the Empress Carlotta is maniac at
Rome. The Pope declined to comply with
her requests, and by this, the last of a
series of disappointment, she was driven
to distraction.
The French claims which it is proposed
this Government shall assume, in order that
Macmillan shall clear out Of Mexico,
amount to $135, 100000, and it is not be-
lieved that the Administration intends to
compromise the Mexican question on any
such basis.
The Court at Ottawa, Canada, is rushing
through the Fenian trials in manner more
rapid than agreeable. On the 26th, Rev.
John Mcmahon, a Catholic priest, alleged
to have been impressed in the Fenian ranks,
was tried, convicted and sentenced to be
hanged on the 18th of December. The
trial of Rev. DR.. Lumsden has been post
poned. f..atze fo.
1t appears that the greatest receipts the
cable company has yet gathered in, were
for two dispatches; the one containing the
speech of the King Of Prussia to the Cham
bers, and the other the account of the great
prize fight which took place in August, be-
tween Mace and Goss. Official notice has
been given that on an after November 1st,
the rates will be reduced fifty per cent.
In little more than year the Suez
Canal, which was projected but never be-
gun by Napoleon the Great, it is expected,
will be completed. The Cape Of Good
Hope, at the southern extremity of Africa,
will become to European commerce what the
Isthmus Railway has made Cape Horn to
our Atlantic and Pacific trade. Africa will
no longer block the highway between Eu-
rope and the East. While we are endeav-
oring to reach the Indies by road across
the continent, Louis Napoleon is connecting
the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and
the Arabian Gulf. 1 adf
Turks Island, on the 30th of September
Sunday was visited by terrible hurri-
cane, destroying over eight hundred houses.
Twenty lives were lost, and q number of
persons were crippled and otherwise in
iured. Over three thousand persons were
rendered houseless, penniless, and almost
naked. The whole laboring portion of the
colony is in the most destitute condition.
The Government house and public Offices
were shattered. One hundred and twenty
thousand bushels of salt were swept away.
Six foreign and twelve island crafts were
lost, and twenty Of their crews. q 1-osi
The extortions practiced upon Americans
visiting Niagara Falls by the hotel keepers