Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-01
FOREAGN.

An allcSou CdDle OISpdGCu VI ChO 1OCiA
says collision between the mail steamer
Normandy and the steamer Mary, from
the Danube, has occurred in the channel
on the Guernsey coast. The Normandy
was sunk, carrying down with her the
Captain and thirty persons, who were
drowned.
st. Patrick's Day was celebrated
throughout Ireland, on the 17th, in the
usual manner. So far as heard from on
the 18th no disorders occurred, and the
extra precaution taken by the authorities
to guard against riosing was needless.
The High Court for thetrial of Prince
Pierre Bonaparte, for the homicide of Vic
tor Noir, convened at Tours on the 18th.
Prince Bonapa1te arrived there on the
10th in charge of an officer. The city
was excessively crowded with strangers,
eager 10 witness the trial.
News from Yokohama to February %
states that the affair of the Oneida had
agitated the community for an entire
month. Captain Eyre was allowed pas
sage in the Bombay, Notwithstanding re-
peated requests to prevent him. There
was great pressure upon the British au-
thorities for his arrest, criminal trial, and
punishment. The sentence of the court
suspended Captain Eyre six months.
The vote in the city of San Domingo,
on the question of annexation to the
United States, was 1,006 for to 8 against.
In Zorro the inhabitants are said to be
largely in favor Of annexation.
The trial of Prince Pierre Bonaparte
commenced before the High Court of JUS
tice at Tours, France, on the 21st.
The Canadian Parliament on the 22d,
by large majority, voted to open negoti-
ations with the United States, through the
British Minister, at Washington, for a
commercial treaty.
A London telegram of the 23d says
the testimony given by the officers OF the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Bombay,
before the court of investigation at Yo-
kohama, had been received. 1t goes to
show that no one of the Bombay was
aware of the condition of the Oneida,
while there was much alarm for that OF
the Bombay, and it was deemed necessary
to make for shoal water with all speed.
According to the news received from
Paraguay by the recent arrival of the
steamer Merrimac, from Rio Janeiro, the
country was one vast ruin. Towns were
depopulated, and the peple were literally
starving. Gangs of deserters were prowl
ing through the country, robbing and
numbering. Lopez was in the mountains
succored by the Indians, but the Brazil
ians held possession of the whole coun
try with that exception. 4, 4, gsT
During the proceedings in the trial o1
Prince Bonaparte on the Gath, one Of the
lawyers for the prosecution used an ex-
preston offensive to the Prince, and the
latter denounced the lawyer and his party
as a faction, whereupon Fouvielle called
the Prince an assassin. At the conclusion
of the argument for the prosecution, Fou
yielle was sentenced to ten days confine.
ment for contempt of court.
The San Domingo correspondence in
the New York World of the oath states
that the vote in favor of annexation was
large, but the government had apparently
facilitated ballot box stuffing by its agents
and there was strong feeling against
Baez and annexation in San Domingo. il
spite of the reported vote in favor of thu
scheme.