Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-03
Weekly News Summary.
FOREIGN.

new Constitution for the Republic o
Cuba. 1t protects the freedom of religion
the press, public meetings, education, anc
the inalienable rights of the people.
The Suez canal Inauguration feet, con
sisting of forty-five steamers, arrived a
Suez on the 21st, having experienced NJ
difficulty in navigation except that, owin1
to their numbers, several fouled with eacl
other and were crowded on the banks
The water between Suez and Ismalia wa.
found to be fully twenty feet deep at the
shallowest spot
Vincent Collier has arrived at San Fran
cisco with petition from prominent citi
zens of Victoria to President Grant, pray
| ing for the annexation of British Colum
bia to the United States.
Advices from Jacmel to the 10th state
that the insurgents in the south of Hayti
were victorious. Salnave's most trusted
Generals had deserted him and joined the
insurgents, who were endeavoring to force
his abdication. e
The English ship Royal Standard was
recently wrecked off Rio Janeiro and
eight passengers drowned. Seventy three
saved.
on the 21st say that sugar cane crushing
in Cuba was much more extensive than
the Havana authorities had yet admitted.
The work, it is added was, to be made
general.
A destructive earthquake has visited the
Philippine Islands Buildings were thrown
down, and the loss of property was very
great. At Manila, eight persons were
killed.
A telegraph cable from Port Said to
Suez is to be laid along the bottom of the
Suez Canal.
All of. Victor Emanuel's ministers have
resigned.
The recent supplementary elections in
Paris for the Corps Legislatif passed off
peaceably, and resulted in the election of
Rochefort, editor of the Lanterne, in the
First Circonscription; Cremitux in the
Third, and Arago in the Eighth. No can
didate had legal majority in the Fourth.
West India advices received on the 22d
state that the cholera, yellow fever, and
small pox were raging fearfully at San
tiago de Cuba, 800 having died from chol-
era alone within a month.
The Governor of Bombay recently re-
ceived a letter from DR.. Livingstone,
dated Uiii, May 13, 1869. The Doctor was
then in good health and everywhere well
treated - - -. '-S-- -. ---~--"
President Cespedes writes that since the
5th of July $4,000 men have enlisted in
the Cuban army; that the army is conf
dent of success, and willing to submit to
'hardships. They need arms and ammuni-
ton. Recently the Spaniards took 1872
them all.
Mr.. Burlingame has arrived at Berlin
with the Chinese Embassy.
News from an insurrection which has
been going on for some time in the Red
River Settlement, B. N A., up to the
10th, is to the effect that the insurgents
had taken possession of the storehouses
of the Hudson Bay Company, and were
distributing rations daily. Fort Garry
and the whole country was in possession
of the rebels, and their object was not to
throw off their allegiance to the Queen,
but to oppose annexation to Canada. A
special from st. Paul to the Toronto Globe
on the Oath, says the English half-breeds
and whites take little or no part in the
demonstration. The insurgents were
chiefly French half lfbreeds. The Canadian
officials, who had been expelled from the
Red River regions, were at Pembina on the
10th, and Governor McDougall had rented
house and settled down for the winter.
1t is reported from the insurrectionary
district that there is strong organization
there, including many .half-breeds, await
ing favorable opportunity to declare in
favor of Gov. McDougall.
Gen. Dulce, late Captain General of
Cuba, died in Madrid on the 23d.
O'Donnovan Rosa, in prison for Feni-
anism, has been elected to the British Par
lament from Tipperary.
The London Times of the 26th consid
ers the election of Rochefort to the Corps
Legislatif as the last impotent protest of
an angry populace, and adds: "The
gamins have sent one of themselves to
the Chamber, but this does not prove that
France is ripe for gamin government"
A New York telegram of the 26th says
GA Havana letter writer states that the
Captain-G General is very low spirited since
his return from an inspection tour to
Cienfugos. Twenty estates were burned
near Cienfugos, and the Spanish garrison
there dare not leave to attack the Cubans
in the vicinity. Fires are raging through
out the island. The Captain General
has telegraphed his family, who were
about leaving Spain for Havana, to re-
main at home"
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Goth
at 12424.
1t is estimated about 15, 900 were present
at the opening of the Georgia State Fair,
on the 18th.
1t is stated that Ogden has been decided
upon by both companies to be the junction
of the Union and Central Pacific Rail-
ways.
The lower portion of the city of George
town, Colorado, was destroyed by a tor
nado on the 18th. One lite was lost and
many persons seriously injured. The loss