Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
Foreign Intelligence.


A Paris telegram OF the 11th says
"The police authorities profess that they
have discovered an extensive conspiracy
againstthe government, and are actively
engaged in searching for the parties i'm
plicated. A great number of arrests were
made last night and to-day. 1t is stated
that the editors of the MArseillaise and
two editors of the Receale were arrested
on charges connected with the alleged
conspiracy. The Marseillaise reap
peared today, and was eagerly bought on
the streets. Several citizens were killed
during the recent riot, and their bodies
have been placed in the Morgue, but the
police refuse any details concerning
them"
A Havana telegram Of the 18th states
that subscriptions for the family of Green
wald were coming in freely. The Captain
General had subscribed $1,000.
Paris was still quiet on the evening of
the 10th. There was strong feeling of
excitement under the surface, but the am
pie precautions of the government pre-
vented any manifestations of disorder. It
is reported that at the beginning of the
recent troubles the Emperor and his staff,
in full uniform, were prepared, if the riot
became an instruction, to join the troops.
The grand ball at the Tuilleries, an
nounced for the evening of the 9th, was
postponed on account of the disorders.
The great rock near Ismaila has been
successfully removed from the bed of the
Suez Canal The minimum depth of
water is now about twenty-nine feet.
Several additional arrests were made in
Paris on the 18th. Rochefort is not per-
mitted to see his fellow-prisoners. He
sent proposition to impesch the Minis
try to Deputy, to be introduced in the
Corps Legislatif, but the Chamber refused
to hear it.
The assassin of Isaac Greenwald. was
arrested in Havana on the 18th. He is a
Sergeant in the Fifth Battalion of Volun-
teers. A corrt.martial would be imme.
diately convened for the trial of the muir
derer.
The news from Mexico to the LIST in
slant is to the effect that the rebellion was
making rapid progress and seriously en-
dangering the Juarez Government. The
city of San Luis Potosi was the head of
the rebellion, and the powerful States of
San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Xalisco, Aguas
Calientes, Queretaro, Durango, Sinaloa
and Tamaulipas were more or less involved
in it. Juarez was invested with dictatorial
power, and had the ability to make a
strong fight for continued power.
Private intelligence received in Des
Moines on the 10Th, from ex-senator
Grimes, now in Europe, is to the effect
that his health was failing fast, and that 1t
was very probable he would not survive
the journey home.
Santa Anna arrived in Havana on the
14th, from Puerto Principe, with the in
tention of taking passage in a British
steamer on the Gath inst. for Vera Cruz,
but the Captain General ordered him to
leave the island by the first steamer that
should sail from Havana for Mexican
port.
Hon. William H. Seward and party
sailed from Havana, on the 10th, for Bal
timore.
The Cuban Congress has put General
Jordan in chief command of the insur-
gent forces.
Hugh Johnston, who was attacked in
company with Greenwald, was reported
out of danger, on the 10th. Foster was
also improving, and the physicians thought
he would recover.