Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1877 — GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

The Czar wanted to buy 30,000 horses for the Russian cavalry service, and had made arrangements to purchase thorn in Germany, hut the Emperor William can’t see his way clear to sparing that many animals, and has issued a decree prohibiting the exportation of liotses from tho empire. An offer was made by Gen. Garibaldi to tho Roumanian Government to send experienced officers to form an Italian legion. The Roumanian Government, after consulting the Czar, refused tho offer, but expressed its gratitude for the offer lo the veteran hero. The Paris 7Vu/s, referring to President, MacMahon’s order of tho day to the troops who participated in the review, recently, says : “At last, wo feel that we aro ruled by a hand that wields a sword. The chief of the army has appealed to bayonets, and all must now return to heir duty.” The great ran-Prcsbytonan Council convened at Edinburgh on the 3d inst. Delegates were in ttendanc’o from all parts of ilie world. Inundations in the orovinco of Murcia, in Spain, have seriously damaged the railways. Twenty-two persons were drowned. Turkey has authorized the issue of paper currency to the amount ol one thousand millinns of piasters. A Turkish piaster is worth a little less than 0 cents. Russia is also making urge issues of paper money. It is said that the Mussulmans are preparing to flee from the scenes of last year’s atrocities in Bulgaria, fearing the vengeance of tho Russians and Bulgarians. Ex-President Grant is sojourning in Switzerland, having left England on the sth inst. Telegrams from Rome report that the Tope is again in a critical condition. lie is suffering from dropsy in addition to the weakness incident to his great age, and an operation attempted for the purpose of relieving him has failed to produce that effect. Urgent petitions have been sent to Vienna by tho Christian population of Bosnia, asking the occupation of that, province by an Austrian force, as a means of preventing apprehended Moslem outrages. . The Mexican oilicial newspapers bitterly attack tho -American Government on account of the instructions given Gen. Ord for the suppression of cattle-thieving on the Texas border, charging that it is seeking pretexts for territorial aggrandizement. Sir Stafford Northcote’s reply in the House of Commons to the inquiry as to England’s purpose in sending a fleet to Besika bay is, in effect, a notification to all Europe, and to Russia in particular, that tho time is at hand when England will be ready totake part in tho war at a moment’s notice. Ex-rresidoiit Grant dined with the King of Belgium, in Brussels, on Sunday, the Bth inst., and on the following day left for Cologne. Spain has decided to send 15,000 more troops to Cuba in August.