Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-26
Forefe.n xmteiIigence.


| The bill for the abolition of capital pun
ishment in Austria has been rejected by
the Imperial Diet.
| Some radical Cubans celebrated the
execution of Macmillan by a dinner,
at which the Monroe doctrine was toasted.
The captain of the Mexican steamer
Tobasco, at Havana, says that Juarez will
erect a monument over the remains OF
Macmillan.
The remains of Macmillan are now
stated to be on their way to Vera Cruz,
and will be delivered to the Austrian Le-
CATION.
Vienna letters received in London state
that the Archduchess Sophia, mother to
the Emperor of Austria and Macmillan
shows signs OF insanity.
The Paris Mor,5te1r states that Chill and
Peru have accepted the mediation of the
United States, with certain reservations,
in their quarrel with Spain.
President Juarez emphatically declines
a re. election, and has ordered o new cleo
| ton. He will return to the mountains as
soon as his successor is chosen.
A New Orleans dispatch states that the
officers of the United States steamers INCA
and Heroine from Tampico, confirm the
report of the death of Santa Anna.
A st. Thomas newspaper publishes
correspondence to show that Senator
Doolittle is charged with negotiations
for the purchase of the Island of Den
mark.
1t is concluded that the dividend on the
Atlantic cable stock, as far as that stock
represents the whole expense of laying the
cables, will be 80 per cent for the present
year.
The Russian journals are highly dissat-
isfied with the verdict rendered in Paris in
the case of the would-be assassin of the
Gar, and with the light sentence imposed
on the prisoner.
The Jamaica Cleaner, of the 24th ult,
publishes news from Hayti of the election
of General Salnave President of the Re-
public. The term of office is for four years,
instead of life, as under the old Constitu-
ton.
| The Mexican Government is about pub
fishing an address to the world justifying
the execution of Macmillan. 1t will treat
of the killing of $500 Mexicans for defend
ing their native soil, and cite precedents
which they clearly think will prove their
acts within the range of propriety.
Hong Kong papers denounce the Coolie
trade as practiced by the Portuguese at
Macao. They state that personal punish
ment is inflicted on Cinnamon who refuse
to ship, to induce change of their deter
mination. They give instances of their
kidnapping girls and women, who are car
ried to Macao for purposes of prostitution
A Paris dispatch states that Napoleon
still continues to purchase large numbers
of horses for the army, and that the mill
tary workshops are overtasked with work
These military preparations in France have
caused much uneaslness in financial
circles in Frankfort, and fears are open
| " expressed there that war is approach
| ing.
| The naval review in honor of the Sui
| tan took place on the 10th. The squadron
| numbered so vessels, and mounted 1,100
guns. A Thousand vessels filled with spec
| tators were within seeing distance, and
the shores Of Gosport and the Isles of
| Wight were thronged with persons to wit
ness the evolutions of the fleet. The dis
play is represented as the most brilliant
and imposing ever seen in English waters.
A proposition for the annexation of
Mexico to the United States, which is said
to have the sanction of President Juarez,
and other leaders of the Liberal party of
that country, Is being talked of in Wash
| ington It is said to have taken shape
| through the agency of one Abbott,
brother Of the historian and that JUarez
favors it, fearing retaliation from Europe
| for the death of Macmillan.
Escobedo has written letter in which
| he states that the country should be made
entirely Mexicas, and that the property of
foreigners should be taken from them, and
they hunted from the country. He appre-
bends no danger of Yankee interference,
and says that before they get through with
foreigners, the Yankees will think they are
in earnest. General Marquee has not yet
been discovered. Twelve more of Maxi
milian's Generals and Colonies have been
executed. Juarez has called Congress to-
gether to elect President. Santa Anna
was still alive, but it was generally supposed
that he would be shot.
A dreadful pestilence prevails at Nancy
lus, an island in the Chinese seas. It was
first confined to the natives, and is supposed
to have originated in the unwholsome food.
When the Ajax left, the people were dying
at the rate of two hundred day of the
disease and bilious fever, similar to that
seen in the West Indies. The state OF the
island was dreadful, people lying In scores
dead and dying. Nearly every other house
was closed, hospital accommodations
were insufficient, and miserably neglected
huts were erected for temporary hospi-
tails, into which the sick went to die. Qui-