Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-08
FOREIGN.

J. River and Kanawha Canal was adopted . The
Tariff bill was further debated in Committee of the
| Whole. Adjourned.
FOREIGN.
| Advices have been recently received
| that the Government of Liberia is prose.
cutting active warfare against the neigh.
| boring nations.
The belief prevailed in Liverpool on the
25th that the steamer City of Boston was
sunk by collision with an iceberg. Cap
tain Bulmer, of the Marion, had arrived
at Spithead in distress, from New York,
for Antwerp. He states that he left New
| York on the same day as the steamer City
| of Boston. On the night Of the 29th OF
| January he met with hurricane from
| the southeast to the southwest, which,
while hove-to, took away his foretopmast
| and iibboom, although he had no sail set
at the time, and his new sails were taken
completely out Of the gaskets and blown
away. He believes the city of Boston
must have been in the same hurricane.
The jury in the trial of Prince Bona
parte, at Tours France, after being out
an hour, brought in verdict of acquittal
on the 26th. AS soon as the verdict was
announced the counsel for the partie cioize
demanded 100000 francs damages. In
consequence of this demand the Prince
was not relieved from custody. He was
exceedingly indignant because he was not
allowed to leave the courtroom immedi-
ately. He said he wanted to show that
he was not afraid of the menaces made
against his life. A Paris telegram of the
27th says the news of the acquitting Of
the Prince produced everywhere immense
sensation and astonishment.
According to the report of the Yoko-
hama correspondent of the New York
Tribune, the testimony of the officers Of
the Bombay, in the case of Captain Eyre,
shows that the time which elapsed be-
tween the order to stop her engines,
when the collision became imminent, and
the order to go ahead and leave the Onei-
da to her fate, was only four minutes !;
that the Bombay herse4 was not sup
posed to be in danger-itdeed, was MAX
ing water in only one of her seven COM
partments, as the Captain well knew /;
that the Oneida, after the collision, hailed
the steamer ahoy, and the hail was heard
and reported to Captain Eyre, who never
theless refused to stop. Nobody on board
the Bombay seems to have heard the
Oneida's guns, but the court justly re-
marked that if Captain Eyre had kept a
proper lookout after the accident, he
could not have failed to see the flash.
There can be no question that the dam
age to the Oneida was supposed to be Sc
rious. Upon the question whether the
Oneida or Bombay was to blame for the
collision, the court pronounced decidedly
in Captain Eyre's favor, but the case is
by no means clear. A further inquiry
had been instituted by the commanding
officer of the United States squadron in
Asiatic waters. T.
The High Court at Tours has con-
demned Prince Pierre Bonaparte to pay
$4,000 francs to the family of Victor Noir,
and also to pay the expenses of the civil
suit "
The Paris journals of March 20 an
nounce that the Emperor had requested
Prince Pierre Bonaparte to leave the
country. It was reported that he would
go to America.
The first number of the new religious
journal La Concorde, of which Pere Hya-
cinthe is chief editor, appeared in Paris,
on the 31st ult.
Late Havana correspondence, received
in New York on the 3lst ult., states that
two battles had been fought in the Las
Tunas district, both of which resulted in
the defeat Of the Spaniards. 1t was
thought that General Jordan commanded
in the last fight The report of these Gu
ban victories was not credited in Madrid
on the 31st.
- DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 31st