Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-01
Weekly News Summary.
FOREIGN.

go FOREIGN.
A Madrid disp atch of the 10Th says it
was rumored that Napoleon had tele-
graphed to his Minister at Washington
that France desired that Cuba should be
retained by Spain.
The Bishop of Exeter died on the 10Th,
aged 81 years.
1t is estimated that one hundred and
twenty vessels were wrecked and several
hundred seamen lost or injured in the late
gale ON the English coast.
Brazilian advices to August 10 state that
the Allies had captured Lopez's strong
hold in the mountains, and that he had
fled, and the Paraguayans could no longer
continue the struggle. The above news
caused great rejoicing in Brazil, and the
Argentine Confederacy was considered at
an end. Buenos Ayres, Montevideo and
Rio Janeiro were Illuminated. Henry T.
Blow, U. S. Minister to Brazil, had arrived
at Rio Janeiro.
A meeting of Fenlan sympathizers,
comprising some 5000 persons, assembled
in London, on the 21st, and passed reso-
lutions urging the unconditional pardon
of the Fenians now confined in British
ails.
The London Standard of the Goth says
Prim's attempt to induce England and
France to join in protectorate for Cuba
has failed A Washington dispatch of the
Goth states that the Cubans have deter
mined, sooner than submit to Spanish
rule, to render the island untenable for
the Spaniards, and will destroy all their
crops rather than have them seized by
their enemies and used as means to
carry on war against them.
A cable telegram of the 21st states that
the Spanish Ministry, after discussing the
propriety of returning Gen. Sickles' note
unanswered, have decided to postpone
their reply until the return of Prim. The
London journals are particularly severe
on Sicldes, and say his first diplomatic
movement has proved to be a serious blum
der
Several severe shocks Of earthquake
were experienced at africa, Iquque, and
other points along the Peruvian coast,
from the 18th to the 10Th OF August On
account says that in africa there were ne
less than forty earthquakes on the 10Th, al
more Or less strong.
Gen. Prim arrived at Madrid on the
22d, and at meeting of the Council it was
decided to use every effort to retain Cuba
and to send more troops to the island.
The Emperor Napoleon presided at 6
council of Ministers on the 22d.
The Paris papers of the 21st publish s
letter from Father Hyacinthe, addressed
to the Father of his order at Rome, an
nouncing that he abandons his convent
and ceases, henceforth, to preach in the
Church of Notre Dame of Paris. AS 6
reason for this step, he declares that he
cannot obey the orders of the Holy See
He protests, before the Pope and Council
against doctrines and practices of the
Romish Church which he says are not in
accordance with the principles of Chris
tlanity. The Paris journals regard his
detection as great religious and political
event.
The sugar crop of Cuba, this year, it is
said, will be failure. Considerable cane
was planted, but there are few hands tc
gather it or few mills to crush it. The
slaves have run off, the mills have been de
stroyed, and work has stopped. Sugar
merchants in Havana are holding the
stock and buying all they can lay hands
on, expecting an advance in prices
There was considerable excitement in
Havana on the oath over the rumored war
like relations between Spain and the
United States on the Cuban question, and
dispatch says it was not safe for an
American to be in the streets alone.