Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-04
THE OLD WORLD

The Porto Rico emancipation bill provides
that slavery shall be abolished Immediately
upon it's passage. The emanclpated slaves
will, however, be obligedto serve three years
with their present masters or other residents
on the island, but will enjoy political rights
of Spanish citizens after five years nave
elapsed. The indemnity to be paid to the
slave-owners is to be charged exclusively to
the account of the Porto Rico budget. Ihe
Spanish Cortes voted dissolution immedi-
ately after the passage Of the bill.
DISPATCHES from Madrid say it is reported
there that Bismarck refuses to advise rec
ognition of the Spanish Republic, declaring
that it does not represent the true will OF
the Assembly, which yielded to the pressure
of the masses in proclaiming it. 1t is also
rumored that the Russian and Austrian Gov
ernments have intimated that they withhold
a recognition on similar grounds.
A Berlin dispatch, 25th, says that squad
ron of German vessels has been ordered to
cruise in Spanish waters.
The Lord Mayor of London gave a grand
BANQUET at the Mansion House on the 10th,
at which two hundred guests were present,
including the Mayors of a number OF Eng
lish towns members of the Cabinet, and For
eign Ambassadors at London. Glandstone, in
some remarks made in reply to a toast, said
the Ministry had had q fall and recovery
and were ashamed of neither. Though they
had failed to give Ireland national univer-
sity, history would prove that the principle
was indestructible.
| cable dispatch says chat one hundred
! farmers sailed in the steamer City OF Bristol
from Liverpool for America on the 25th, who
intend settling on the line of the Northern
Pacific Railway.
Count Won Bernstorf, German Ambassador
to Great Britain, died on the Goth.
The veteran historian of France, Amad1e
Simon Dominique Thierry, died at Paris on
the Goth, aged rs years.
| dispatch from Paris says that judgment
had been rendered in the Memphis d Ell
Paso Railroad case. The defendants are
pronounced guilty of swindling, and SEN
fenced to various terms of Imprisonment.
Gen. Fremont is condemned IN co1at~nadcsan'
to five years. confinement. The other de-
PENDANTS who were present were arrested as
they were leaving court.
A decree has been published by the Span
ish Government, ordering elections for the
Constituent Cortes.
The Republic was declared for by meet,
ing of English workingmen held at Sheffield,
a few days ago.
M. Felix Pyat, an ex-Communist, has been
sentenced to death by court-martial sitting
at Versailles.
Advices from Barcelona. in Spain, show
that the partisans of Don Carlos in that vi
cinity are rapidly gaining strength. They
recently captured the town of Berga,
place of considerable Importance from
strategic point of view, taking about five
hundred prisoners At other places in that
neighborhood they are reported to have
gained some advantages.
According to a London telegram of the
2Sth, a severe fight had occurred in Spain, il
which the Carlists were victorious. Th'
Government troops retreated to GranollerI
de Walls, much demoralized, where the1
were captured by Saballs. The small garri
son also surrendered.
Senor Olozaga has resigned as Spanish
Minister at Paris, because he disapproved
the insuficiently conservative policy pur
sued by the Spanish Government.
Spanish dvices of the 31st announce tn
burning by the Carlsts of the captures
town of Berga, who before applying tn
. torch saturated number of buildings wit
petroleum. The town contained hospita
and several goavsats, and had over GOO
population. The news GRATED great 81