Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1873 — General News nummary. [ARTICLE]

General News nummary.

THE OLD WORLD. The European anil American Postal Congress will meet at Berne, Switzerland, on the 9th of September. ———■ ~~ The case for the prosecution against the Tichbome claimant closed on the 10th, and the trial was adjourned until the 21st. In accordance with the treaty stipulations, the German troops commenced to retire on the 3d from the French Departments of Vosges, Ardennes, Meuse, Meurth and Moselle, and the fortress and arondissement of Belfort. The withdrawal will continue by detachment until the 15th of August, when the above-mentioned country will be entirely evacuated. A new Italian Cabinet has been successfully formed, and is composed as follows: President of Council and Minister of Finance, Signor Miuglietti; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Signor Visconte Venosta; Minister of the interior, Signor Cantelli; Minister of Justice and Eeelessiastical Affairs, Signor Viglaini; Minister of War, Lieutenant General Ricotti Magnani; Minister of Marine, Signor Saintbon; Minister of Public Works, Signor Spaventa; Minister of Public Instruction, Signor Sialoja; Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, Signor Einali. A dispatch from Breslau, Germany, on the 10th, says that a violent type of cholera had appeared in that city. There had been eighteen eases; fourteen proved fatal. In Lauterburg, thirty-four miles northeast of Strasbourg, there were eight eases, four of which were fatal. A Berlin dispatch of the 11th states that Bistnarck was about to retire permanently from the Prussian Cabinet. He would retain the German Chancellorship. It is announced that a marriage has been arranged between the Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess Maria Alexaudriiwna, only daughter of the Emperor of Russia. The Duke thus foregoes the right of succession to the Duchy of Saxe Coburg, which fact iri-_ volves important political considerations. A report prevailed at Bayonne, France, on the 11th, that the Carlist Chief Sabalts, with 3,000 men, had surprised 4,000 Republicans under Gen. Cabrinety, near Ripall; that Cabrinety was killed, one-half of the command taken prisoners, and all his artillery captured. Madrid advices of the 12th give particulars of an International insurrection in Alcoy. The Mayor and the Collector were assassinated, and their bodies dragged through the town by the mob. Five cotton factories were burned. The people of Malaga had also risen against the municipality and assassinated several cotmcilmen. The Governor of Malaga had resigned. The reported defeat aud death of Cabrinety is confirmed. Gen. Velarde, with seven battalions, arrived before Alcoy on the 13th. He was obliged to arrest thirty of his own men for insubordination on the march. It was rumored that the Internationalists had risen in Cartliagena and made themselves masters of the town, the forts, the-telegraph and the railway. The marines remained faithful to the Government, and held the navy-yard. Recent dispatches from Khiva give the following account of events subsequent to the capture of the city. The Khan voluntarily entered the Russian camp and gave in his submission, formally declaring himself a vassal of Russia. Gen. Kaufmann then restored him to the throne, and appointed a cdunoirdf administration to assist him in the Government during the occupation of the Khanite by the Russian forces. The Khan, in token of gratitude, issued, on the 24th of June, a decree forever abolishing slavery within his dominions. General Kaufmann has sent dispatches to Teheran notifying the Persian Government to make preparations for the reception of 10,000 natives of Persia released from slavery by the Khan’s decree. The Italian Parliament was prorogued on the 1211). A heavy rain storm, accompanied by lightning, swept over Yorkshire, Eng., on the 13th. The crops were greatly damaged and several persons were killed. A report was current in London, since the departure of the Shah, that there bad been a well-organized and elaborately-planned scheme arranged for the robbery of the Shah of his jewels, but which was accidentally discovered and frustrated before the plot reached a culminating point. President MacMahou, in a recent conversation with a correspondent is reported to have said; “There is no reason why the present regime, in its amended constitutional form, with a military executive who should reign over the country and rule over the army, should not become established in France. When the words ‘empire’ and ‘republic’ become synonymous with discipline, every citizen a soldier, and every soldier the servant of the Republic, there will be as little strife in the country as to who shall be Minister as there is at present as to who shall be Marshal." A Madrid dispatch of the 14th says that the successes of the Curlists anil the outbreak and atrocities at Alcoy, had awakened a strong feeling against the insurgents. War meetings were being held in the provinces. The Government troops had re-occupied Alcoy. Advices from Carlist sources otr the 14th state that the supporters of Don Carlos were gaining ground with such rapidity, and their numbers were so steadily on the increase, that there was a general cry from ail the Republican commanders in the North for reiuforccmenls, in order to hold their ground. The Spanish Government has promulgated a decree annuling all edicts of sequestration placed upon the property of the rebels aud rebel sympathizers in Cuba. By order of the Educational Department of Japan, in future all foreign teachers will be obliged to procure license, and no teacher of the Christian religion shall be employed. A recent accident occurred on the Caledonian Railway, England, by which two persons were killed outright and thirty injuredsome fatally. It was reported from Madrid on the 15th that the Government still found it necessary to maintain a strong precautionary force in Barcelona, to nullify the efforts of the Carlists to create disturbances which might enable them to seize the city. Arrests of Carlist agents aud sympathizers continued. Bayonne advices of the 15th state that the Carlists had occupied the town of Berga, fifty miles from Barcelona. The garrison of 500 surrendered as prisoners of war. A recent cable dispatch says that telegrams from tha-Continent, where.Jße cholera had been prevalent, represent that the disease was everywhere abating. ... - The German Government bought an additional $2,000,000 in United States bonds in London on the 14th. - The’rinderpest is said to be so general and destructive among the herd* of Russia that I the German authorities have deemed it neces-

sary to prohibit all importations of cattle from Russian ports. Cable dispatches of the 16th announce that Don Carlos had re-entered Spain, and issued a proclamation invoking the help of the God of armies, declaring that, listening to the voice of suffering Spain, he came to fight for God and his country, and concluding with the exhortation, “Volunteers, forward and save dying Spain.” The Carlists claimed to have 10,000 men under arms. Three members of the Spanish Ministry resigned on the 16th in order to facilitate the formation of a homogeneous Cabinet. All the workmen in the factories at Barcelona had struck, and the shops were closed. The Prefects of the occupied departments in France have been instructed by the Government to Interdict public rejoicings on the occasion of the evacuation of the territory by the .German troops. The earthquake in Italy on the 27th of June was extraordinary. The solid earth seemed for a time converted into a liquid one, and houses were tossed about like ship* at sea. There were fourteen movements, seven forward and seven backward, each occupying a second, as regular as the beat of a clock. Many persons were killed at Bellimo, aud many injured!