Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-09
THE OLD WORLD.

The English steamer Becklow was wrecked
near Gibraltar recently, and twenty-five out of
twenty three of those on board were lost.
The treaty between Russia and Bokhara Is
published. It gives the Khivan territory on
the right bank of the Amadaria River to Box
hara, which, in return agrees to abolish slavery
and establish mutual trading facilities with
Russia.
It appears that Burriel, the Cuban butcher,
was relieved from his command of the Eastern
Division because in one of his recent pronun-
ciamentos he attacked the Home Government.
He was accordingly summoned to Madrid to
answer charges which had been preferred
against him.
Six more Communists have been sentenced
to death at Versailles. @ftt
Intelligence was received in London on the
31st ult,, that the steamship Elbe, bound from
London for Hamburg, had been lost at sea,
and that thirty-two of those on board perished.
According to the news from the Ashantee
war received on the 31st ult., the British
forces were driving the Ashantees before them
and had penetrated seventy miles into their
country. sJ
According TO Berlin telegram to the Lon
don Daily Teleg sph of the I'd, the German
Government had absolutely resolved to abstain
from any interference with the inner ecclesids-
tical organization of dioceses during their
struggle with the Roman Church, and to con-
fine its action to vigorously repelling any en-
croachments of the Bishops upon State rights.
According to recent dispatches, famine
was prevailing in five districts Of the Russian
province of Samara.
On the Sd the Deputies in the Spanish Cortes,
ON two votes, gave majority OF 20 against
President Castelar,. AS soon as the result was
announced General Pavia sent an officer to
the Chamber with a letter demanding the dis
solution of the Cortes. Senor SalmerOn
and others urged CASTELAR, to continue
in power, but their prayer was refused. A
company of the Municipal Guard then enter
ed the palace of the Cortes and expelled the
Deputies. General Pavia, with his staff, held a
position outside, with cannon pointed at the
building. General Pava was subsequ emily
arrested and his forces disarmed. A new Gov
ernment was then formed, as follows: Presi-
dent, Serrano; Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Sagasta: Minister of War, Zavala; Minister of
Justice, Figueroa; Minister of Agriculture,
Becerra; Minister of Finance, Echegarray
Minister of the Interior, Garcia Ruiz; Minister;
of Marine, Topete
The French Admiralty Court has pronOunc.
ed Judgment in the case of the sinking of tn
Vile du Havre, declaring the management of the
steamer to have been blameless, and holding
the management of the Loeb Erne as the cause
of the disaster. The Court complimented
Captain SurmOnt.
A Madrid dispatch of the night of the 5th
states that Senior CASTELAR,, in a letter addressed
to the country, says he must protest with all
his energy against the recent brutal coup d'etat.
He concludes: "My conscience will not per-
init me to associate with demagogues, and
conscience and honor refuse to allow me to
accept a situation created by bayonets." "
Several members of the majority which voted
against CASTELAR, have since approved-o of the
stand he had taken. The national militia in
Madrid was being quietly disarmed. The
force which was beseiging Cartagena accepted
the new Government.
The overthrow of the CASTELAR, Ministry has
been favorably received in Havana. The I'm
perial Spanish coat-of-arns has again been
placed on the palace of the Captain General