Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-25
FOREIGN.

bill was further considered in Committee OF the
Whole Adjourned.
FOREIGN.
Concerning the Oneida disaster, letter
from the wife of prominent merchant
at Yokohama says: "Captain Eyre is a
relative of Governor Eyre, of Jamaica,
and the case of the Bombay and Oneida
has unfortunately been made national
one, the Americans and Russians denounc-
ing Captain Eyre, as deliberate, whole
sale murderer. 1t was just at the entrance
of the bay that the collision happened,
and the night was clear and starlight.
The part of the Oneida where the rockets
and blue-lights were kept was carried
away, as well as one of the boats, SO they
had nothing to do but to fire minute guns,
which was heard here, even to that last
smothered one just as the vessel sank"
The Count Montalembert, chief of the
Liberal Catholic party, died recently in
Paris, in his Goth year.
A Liverpool telegram of the 10Th states,
concerning the missing steamer, "City of
Boston," that the belief was general that
she would be heard from at the Azores
Confidence in her safety had been strength
ened by the arrival of the "Smidt"
A Ameeting between the Prince Henri de
Bourbon and the Duke de Montpensier
took place seven miles from the walls of
Madrid, ON the 18th. The former was
shot through the head on the second fire,
and expired in few minutes. The Duke
was uninjured.
The Havana correspondence published
in the New York World of the 18th states
that the report of the resignation of Gen.
Jordan as the Commander-in-C Chief of the
Cuban army is untrue. He was doing all
he could to increase the efficiency of the
army. The summary execution of Cubans
by the Spanish authorities continued
wherever the Spaniards had foothold.
The funeral of Prince Henri Bourbon
took place in Madrid, on the 18th. No
public demon stration was made.
Captain Eyre, of the British steamer
Bombay, who ran into and sank the
United States steamer Oneida, in Japan
ese waters, has ..been suspended by the
British naval authorities, because he neg
lected to inform himself of the serious
ness of the damage that had been entailed,
and because he took no measures to pre-
serve the lives of the drowning crew.
A Rome dispatch of the 18th states that
$40 votes were sure for the Papal infalli-
bility dogma, in the Ecumenical Council.
A London dispatch of the 18th states
that, owing to the threatening aspect of
affairs in Ireland, arrangements were being
made for strengthening the garrisons
throughout the island. A Dublin telegram
of the 18th says disorder prevailed in the
County of Tuam, and large bodies of
troops had been sent to the locality.
In. the Spanish Cortes, on the 18th,
Gen. Prim denied that he had sent propo-
sitions to Senator Sumner for the sale or
cession of Cuba to the United States. He
also stated that no election for Deputies to
the Cortes had been held in Cuba.
Letters received in London on the 18th
from Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa,
mention that the prevalence of cholera
had deferred the movements of the expe-
dition which recently set out to asc ertain
the whereabouts of Dr. Livingstone.
General James Watson Webb writes a
long letter to the New York Tribune, from
Havana, March 5, favoring the accordance
Of belligerent rights of the Cubans, and
saying if President Grant and Secretary
Fish had been permitted to know the
whole truth, they would have been con-
ceded six months ago. He says the Gu
bans have $4,000 to 10000 well armed
troops and as many more carrying pixies,
scythes, &c, and that on the authority of
Spanish volunteer officer, if 100, 900 arms
could be landed, they would find Cubans
to carry them, and Havana would fall in
a fortnight.
A cable dispatch was sent to New York
on the morning of the 10th, announcing
the arrival at Queenstown of the steamer
shows the first statement to have been a
heartless hoax, and the New York Asso-
ciated Press directed it's agent in London
to offer $500 reward for the detection and
punishment of the author of the false re-
port.
A gang of postage stamp counterfeiters
has recently been discovered and broken
up in Canada. Postage stamps to the
amount of several thousand dollars have
been counterfeited and sold to dealers at a
heavy discount. Several arrests were
made, and measures taken for the appre-
hension of the whole gang.
The funeral of Prince Henri de Bour-
bon was conducted by the Free Masons,
of which order deceased was a member.
When the remains were brought to the
church, the officiating priest, seeing the
Masonic emblems on the coffin, withdrew
the insignia of the church and refused to
perform the religious ceremonies.
The London Post of the 17th says the
false report of the arrival of the City OF
Boston originated at the Stock Exchange
in that city. There was universal indig.
nation expressed on account of the cruel
hoax. The Agent of the Associated Press
in London telegraphed that the dispatch
announcing the arrival of the City OF
Boston at Queenstown reached London
an, n Manchester and that the neue we