Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

Letters from Havana received on the
31st ult., represent the Captain General as
being greatly displeased with the course
which affairs were taking in the interior,
and also that he apprehended some opposi-
ton to the departure of Espinar, on the
part of the volunteers. The reports from
the interior were generally favorable for
the revolution, and one Spanish Officer
gives it as his opinion that 100000 more
troops from Spain will be required to con
quer the island The cholera was making
fearful havoc at rNuevitas, two hundred OF
the troops there dying daily Of that dis
ease. sqs. ,.l ...t.k s.sr a
The military authorities in Canada seem
to be preparing for another invasion ot
that country from the United States.
Gen. Sickles, Minister to Spain, present.
ed his credentials to Marshal Serrano on
the 31st ult., and said that the United States
more than ever appreciated the .:amity
between the two countries, to which Ser
.rano replied that the Government would
endeavor to increase the amity so happily
existing.
The smallpox has broken out in Va,
paraiso, and the yellow fever at p
neiro 'i aa3ti -sio ia
A Havana telegram cf
that on the 2Sth r :. the 31st ult. says
tackled puersl 100 negro insurgents at.
raid ~ -4so Principe, making general
1S9i through the city. Spanish troops to
, the number of 1000 men attacked them
A severe struggle ensued, in which the
ground was contested inch by inch, the
insurgents retiring in perfect order, hay
ing achieved the object for which they
made the raid. They captured and des-
troyed provisions valued at $4,000, and
made good their retreat.
An immense Fenian demonstration was
made at Limerick, Ireland, on the 1st.
Twenty thousand people marched in pro-
cession, and at the meeting held afterward,
letter to Gladstone demanding the re-
lease of the Fenians then in prison was
read and adopted. The proceedings were
most enthusiastic but the tone of the
speeches was moderate, and there was no
disturbance of the peace. St.
A Madrid telegram Of the Sd says there
had been several encounters between the
Government troops and Carlist insurgents
in all of which the latter had been beaten
A number of insurgents were killed and
wounded, and many taken prisoners.
<x
Gefe, in Sweden, was destroyed by fire
July 10. Seven hundred tenements were
burned 7'ni
A terrible accident occurred on the I'd
inst. in the coal mines in the mountain
district, near Dresden. Over 300 persons
were killed. sus }a.
A dispatch from Madrid on the 4th de-
nies the report that Spain has opened ne
gotiations with the United States for the
independence of Cuba.
La France newspaper, August 4th, re-
ports that Queen Isabella is disposed to
abdicate the throne of Spain in favor of
the Prince of Asturias
Al an early hour on the morning of the
9th, during the session of the English
Parliament, great excitement was caused
by a loud explosion in the building.
Search was instituted, and tin case
which had contained powder picked up on
terrace near by. Not much damage
was done. There were no arrests, and the
whole affair was involved in mystery.
The Irish Bishops, in conference at Dub
lin, have resolved that general synod,
composed of the 1aity as well as clergy,
shall assemble at an early day. They will
also convene provincial synods to consider
the local changes necessary to be made
under the present circumstances of the
Church.
The three cardinal points conceded by
Napoleon in the Senatus Consultum are
First, that the Legislature will have the
power to elect its own officers and govern
itself second, that it will have right to-
initiate laws; third, that it will have
power to control France
DOMESTIC.