Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1872 — General Sews Summary. [ARTICLE]

General Sews Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. In his letter in defense of his course in marrying, Father Hyacinthe professes to be bound by all the righteous tenets of the Catholic Church but not by its abuses. He still claims to be a priest, and expresses an intention to continue in the priestly call-. Five of the Arbitrators, the agents *of the respective Governments, several of the counsel, twelve ladies and ten journalists were present at the final fneeting of the Geneva Court of Arbitration, on the 14th. Count Sclopis, President of the Court, read the agreements of tho Arbitrators, concurring in the decision of the Tribunal announcing that the snm awarded the United States was $15,500,000 fngolcL SIF fflexander Cockbum refused to sign the decision of the Tribunal. Count Sclopis was applauded when he concluded. After the adjournment of the Court twenty-two guns were fired in honor of closing its labors. A cable dispatch of the 14th contradicts the reported death of General Albrechty t>fthe Russian army, and says his physicians entertained hopes of his recovery. The London Times of the 14th, in an edi"tßrtat ott the rcenH-of the labossef- tho h - eva Tribunal, says: “While England has been held responsible for the depredations of several Confederate cruisers, we yet retain the convictron that, morally, she is not to blame. The United States Government claimed damages for losses caused by a dozen vessels, but the Court of Arbitration hold England" liable, unanimously, only in the case of one vessel. This is plain evidence of a belief In the genuineness of our neutrality during the war in the United States, and -disproves the flagrantly unjnst accusations Of unfriendliness in the American case presented, at- Geneva. We cheerfully consent to pay the sum awarded as tending to obviate similar difficulties in the future.”

A London dispatch of the 16th says Edmund About, tho well-known political writer, had been arrested near Strasbourg, in France, by the German authorities. It was thought he had offended’ Germany in some of his late writings. Hop. Charles Sumner arrived in Liverpool on the 14th. On receiving information of his nomination by the Democrats and Liberals of Massachusetts for Governor, he is said to have announced that he would positively decline the nomination. King Amadeus, in his speech on the recent opening of the Spanish Cortes, declared that the Government was determined to shbdue th* rebellion in Cuba, and would send to the Island all the additional troops required to bring the war to a close. The London journals of the 10th rejoice over the conclusion of the Alabama Claims controversy, and express hopes that tbe-feun-dation has been laid for a permanent, good understanding between the two nations. The Standard, however, thinks the Trlbuna should have awarded damages only for the depredations of the Alabama. A Berlin dispatch of the 17th says the German Government had issned a second circular, in still more threatening terms than the original one, against emigrants, who, it declares, would be treated as outlaws over whom Bpecial- surveilliance and supervision has been Instituted. Despite the menaces of the Government, emigration from Germany had been only slightly affected.

A Paris dispatch of thn 17th saya Count Remusat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, had asked for an explanation from the Prussian Government respecting thearrest of Edmund About, Much excitement had been caused by the arrest. A London telegram of the 17th states that Charles Francis Adams and Jacob Staempfli have dissented from the Judgment at Geneva regarding the case of the Retribution. They also dissent from the decision regarding the Indemnity to be paid to America for the cost' of pursuit of the Alabama and otber culsers included in the Arbitration. The Tory journals in London condemn in unmeasured terms the action of the Geneva Tribunal, the’ Advertiser, Herald and Standard commenting on the same in bitter terms. Three of the Communists, condemned for ifiurdering hostages, were shot in Paris on the 18th. Late dispatches announce that the cholera was raging with great violence in some parts of Persia. In Bokhara, people were dying at the rate of one thousand per day. Edmund About, who has incurred the displeasure of the German military athorities at Strasbourg, will be tried by Court-Martial in that city.