The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-06-12
FOR EIGN.

A congress to consider the subject of
international rights in time of war will con-
vene in Brussels the 9th of July next.
A semi-oficial denial is given to the
reports that the candidature of a Hohen-
zollern prince for the crown of Spain is to be
revived.
A Cuban letter says the government
has commenced the collection of the twenty
dollars per head tax decreed some time ago
upon slave holders for each slave in their pos
session. Indications point to a sickly season.
The yellow fever has begun to make its ap-
pearance and smallpox, scarlatina AMI mea-
sles abound.
In the house of commons last week
the proposition to raise the salary Of the
British minister at Washington S., 900 was Op-
posed, on the ground that ThorntOn's resi-
dence had been series Of diplomatic disas-
ters, which the Disraei government could not
indorse in this substantial manner. The un-
der-secretary explained that Thornton was
not responsible for the results OF Geneva, and
the increase was demanded by the high cost
of living at Washington.
The following is an extract of pri-
vate letter from Havana, received by promi-
Bayume has been in possession of Cuban
forces since the goth inst. In the neighbor-
hood of Crenfueges a fight took place, when
Col. SantaIis, in charge of the Spanish forces,
was killed and his column cut to pieces. The
Cuban forces are at the gates of Manzillano
and Will probably soon attack that place. The
Spaniards in Havana are much depressed, but
angered against Concha, and say he is making
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add that he shall not leave the place alive.
In the English house of commons,
last week, George Anderson, member of Glas-
gov, called attention to losses of British sub
! jects throughthe escape of the Alabama and
other causes. He complained of the high
handed manner in which the late government
had prevented timely criticism of the treaty of
! Washington. There were three classes of
| British subjects who deserved compensation
! first, residents in the southern confederacy
who lost their property through the inability
/ of the United States to enforce the laws sec
ond, those whose property was destroyed after
| Lees surrender third, owners of goods on
board of confederate cruisers. He believed
the United States were willing recognize these
| claims. Mr.. Anderson then moved that in the
/ opinion of the house it is wrong that individ-
uals should suffer loss through a national
wrong that as England has been adjudicsted
/ at fault in permitting the escape of the Ala
bama, and has compensated Americans for
losses incurred thereby similar compensation
| is due to British sufferers from the same
causes. Mr.. Burke under secretary for the
| foreign department, replying, declined to
enter upon the discussion of the merits of
the treaty of Washington. The joint high
/ commissioners have decided that the United
States Government was nOtresponsible for the
acts of rebels, and as that government had
! agreed to appoint a commission to examine the
claims for losses arising after Lees surrender,
he hoped the subject before the house would
not be pressed. The motion was then re-
/ iected.