Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-03-10
Foreign Intelligence.

Foreign Intelligence.
The missionary packet Morning Star
was wrecked on Strong's Island, Pacific
Ocean, on the 18th of October, and was a
total loss. The passengers escaped and
were taken to Honolulu.
The Captain General of Cuba has issued
decree granting liberty to over two thou
sand negroes, prisoners of war, who had
boen hired out to labor by the government,
with the understanding that they were to
become slaves after certain date.
Gustave Flourens has been sentenced,
at Paris, to three years Imprisonment for
having aided the desertion of two soldiers.
A Havana telegram of the 25th states
that Insurgent Colonel Garcia, with five
officers and eighty soldiers, had surren-
dered voluntarily, at Villa Clara, and
taken the oath of allegiance to the Span
ish Government.
The four cared rowing match for $1,000
and the championship of the world is
definitely settled between the champion
English crew Of NeWcastle-upon.Tyne,
and the Paris crew Of St. John, N. b.
The race is to take place at Lachine,
Canada in July next.
Three Of the editors Of the MarSellGiSe
who were arrested in Paris for violation of
the press laws have been liberated.
Dr. Liyingstone's brother at Fernando
Pc writes to London paper expressing
his belief in the safety of his relative,
1t is reported that one of De Roda's
guides, named Bars, or Bart, is the MUIR
derer of Greenwald.
A cable dispatch states that Minister
Curtin will take charge of the remains OF
Mr.. Burlingame in connection with the
members of the Chinese Embassy. The
body will be embalmed and lie in state at
the American Legation, and finally be sent
to America in charge of representatives,
both of China and the United States.
The submarine cable from Bombay to
Alden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, has
been successfully laid, and England is
thus placed in direct telegraphc communi-
cation with her Indian colonies.
Santa Anna has been sent to Nassau
from Havana, on Spanish man-of-war
The United States steam corvette
Oneida, of nine guns, was sunk, with all
souls (120) on board, the latter part Of
January, about fifteen miles from loko-
hama, Japan, by collision with the Brit
ish mail steamer Bombay, of the PENN.
sula and Oriental line.
The funeral of Hon. Arson Burlingame
took place at st. Petersburg, on the Goth
ult. The English, French, and American
Ambassadors acted as pall-bearers. The
remains will be sent to America.
Dispatches rec we'd in London on the
1st state that fifty-si1 lives were saved at
the sinking of the Oneida.
Late advices from Red River say that
Riell was unanimously elected President
of the Provisional Government, after the
adjournment of the Convention which
framed the bill Of rights.
The Dominican Republic has formally
declared, by large majority for annexa-
ton to the United States
The attendance at the Burlingame OBJ.
seouies at st. Petersburg on the LIST was
very large The Emperormade a personal
call upon Mrs. Burlingame,
The detailed accounted the disaster to
the Oneida shows that the Bombay,
British mail steamer), with which ii col.
lided, vas hailed three times after the
disaster without effect, although the guns
were heard at Yokohoma, twenty miles
away. The Captain of the Bombay did
not stop to rescue those on board the
Oneida, nor did he, upon his arrival at
Yokohama, report the accident OF inform
the authorities. Had the Bombay sent her
boats to the assistance OF the Oneida, all,
or nearly all, might have been saved. The