The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-06-19
FOREIGN.

preparations against the Carlists in Navarro
The state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, ha
determined to re-establish capital punishment
for murder and other henious crimes.
Dispatches from India report seriou
famine riots in the districts near Dajeeing, il
Sikkim territory, The troops were obliged tt
fire on the rioters, number of whom were
| killed and wounded.
A dispatch from the Spanish frontiers
SAYS numerous bands in the Basque provinces
have revolted against Don Carlos, demanding
peace. Don Carlos has ordered that upon
capture they should be shot.
An international conference to discuss
measures to prevent the spread of cholera and
for the regulation of quarantine will meet
at Vienna on the 18th inst. All the European
powers have accepted invitations to send del
egates.
French papers publish a letter writ
ten by the bishop of Laranda, upon the mas
sacre OF christians at Zong-Tng church. The
bishop says that with his mission were eighty
thousand christians, but ten thousand have
been strangled, burned or drowned, and he
adds he has no hopes of escaping martyr5om
himself. This startling communication bears
no date, but is generally credited in France.
The feeling at Versailles is gloomy.
The proposal for dissolution of the assem-
bly, has been signed by 125 deputies, who have
hopes of securing in addition the signatures
of 1875 members forming the left centre. The
motion for a dissolution will be presented in
the chamber at the earliest opportunity. The
left centre is determined to have settlement
of the question of republic or dissolution
before the August adjournment.
Liberty of speech is not one of the
blessings now enjoyed in Germany. A SEN
tence of imprisonment for year and a half
has been passed upon a deputy, Herr Most,
for certain speeches delivered by him at some
meeting of workingmen. The most serious
charge made against him that he had de-
nounced standing army. Ibis was regarded
by the minister of war, Won Kamelke, as an in
suit to the members of the army, and the
prosecution was set on foot at his request.
The insurrection at Fez has been
quelled. The sultan's troops on the 10Th ult.
opened heavy cannonade on the town and
kept it up for several hours. Many houses
and stores were burned. The troops after
ward entered and sacked a portion of the
town. Ninety Of the inhabitants were killed.
The loss of the troops was trifing. The in
surgents gave up the fight and submitted and
the sultan granted them amnesty.
The London Times, in an article on
the American pilgrimage to Rome, expresses
surprise that a race priding itself its
shrewdness and precision of thought should
indulge in such antiquated superstitions.
Probably after contrasting the desolatiou and
Indebtedness of the late papal states with the
cultivation and fertility of America, they, as
ominently practical people, accustomed to
judge of institutions by their results, will find
their minds disabused.
In consequence of the order OF the
captain-ge general of Cuba, designating the daily
premium which will be paid on gold, many
brokers have given up business. The govern
ment has firmly resolved not to issue any more
bank bills account of the treasury, but it
cannot disregard the peremptOry financial de-
mands made upon it for the coming campaign
against the insurgents and to meet the same
has decided to issue bonds to the amount of
S5, 000,0 900 at eight per cent. interest per an
mum, to be funded in six months, and Sc
cured on income from the Havana Iottory.
Capt. Gen. Concha has issued a de-
cree intended to arrest the rapid rise of gold
which is considered to be solely due to the re-
cent law compelling importers to pay 25 per
cent, of the duties in gold, the treasury no
longer Ieceiying the equivalent of this 25 per
cent. in paper, as was done at first. COncha
orders the Spanish bank to sell gold on ac-
count of land to the treasury at less COM
mission than that quoted on exchange or by
brokers. Concha fixes the amount of the
premium for which government gold is to be
sold daily, the rate for the current day being
posted at the entrance of the bank every
morning at o'clock, that merchants can
make their calculations before business hours.
The London Times publishes a dis
patch from Berlin, which gives the probable
action of the congress which will assemble at
Brussels next month, to consider the subject
of international rights in time of war. The
Times correspondent says: "The congress
will codify the recognized ussges of an inter
national law in so far as they affect the actual
conduct of war. A new code is to be en-
acted, in the form of an international
treaty, which promises to become the
first law common to the whole civilized world.
The draft of the treaty which is to be sub
mitted to congress has been prepared. It con-
tains sixteen clauses, which state in detail the
rights and obligations of belligerents, from
the mutual claims of belhgerent states down
to the relations of those states to private ind-
viduals. They also specify what classes of
arms shall be legitimately used in war, and
make regulations for the treatment of pris-
oners."