The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-12
Germany.

Germany.
The Roiner Zeit,ing, of the 10th instant, has the
following Geographic despatch from Berlin; s'The
Administrative council for the affairs of Germany
Central German Parliament are to take place on
the 3lst of January, 1850, and that the said Para-
ment is TO meet at Erfurt, "a Prussan fortress.')
Russia and Turkey.
A Malta correspondent, in postscript TO letter
of the 18th, announcing the confirmation OF the set
tement OF the Turkish question, states that Sir w.
Parker was TO proceed the same day to CONSTANT
nople in the Odin steam frigate. The English were
in the Dardaneles, and the French fleet lying at
Vourlat.
Letters from Vienna of the 18th instant have been
received III London and at Paris calculated to con-
vey the supposition that new complication had
arisen in the extradition question between Russia
and Turkey The question, however, may be re-
garded as completely settled; all that the Emperor
insists upon, and to which the Sultan is willing to
comply is the removal of the refugees into the in
terror OF Asia Minor, at all events from the from
tier, as dangerous to the peace of both countries.
There is no truth in the rumor that Turkey intends
abandoning her sovereignty over the Danubian
prnclpaties; the rumor arose in the withdrawal OF
portion of the Turkish troops under Omer Pacha,
the reason for which to quell insurrectionary
movement in Bulgaria
Algeria.
We read in the Ordre: Sc We have received from
Constantania the details of an engagement which
took place near Zaatcha. Commandment Pierre
Bonaparte had been sent with battalion, COM
posed of companies of the Foreign Legion and
Zephyrs, 10 dislodge the Arabs from clump OF
palm trees, where they had fixed themselves. The
Arabs having opposed a strong and persevering
resistance, the combat long and inveterate.
Ammunition becoming scarce on both sides, Com
mandant Pierre Bonaparte, with dozen men, was
surrounded by large body of Arabs, against
whom he and his small band maintained them
selves with the greatest energy. He was aimed at
by an Arab, whom he shot down by firing at him
h,,h hoI~ tad H.
fled"
The Constitutional publishes the following letter
from Gran, 9th inst.:-"Oran is in state of the
greatest CONSERVATION Seven hundred soldiers and
three thousand seven hundred civilians have died
of the cholera, exclusive of the Jews and Moors.
This amounts to about sixth part of the popula-
ton All the shops are closed, business is entirely
suspended, fires arc made and cannon discharged,
and yesterday there was grand procession. The
cholera is frightful, whole families having been
swept off. In one house the Inhabitants, to the
number of ten, all died in one night. The Arabs
also decimated by the disease. Thirty con-
demned offenders employed in digging graves,
and the bodies collected every evening in carts.
battalion of tiraieurs, four hundred men strong,
have lost two hundred; the I'd African chasseurs,
eighty General Cuny has been ILL his aid-dc-
camp is dead The four sisters of charity have all
fallen victims to the scourge."
Another letter ofthe 10th says:
"The terrible scourge which had already carried
off NJ Pouain, head surgeon of the military hospi-
from us M. Gedorp, the chief physician of the
same establishment The epidemic appears to be
most violent at this moment in the direction of Sidi-
bel-Abbess. At Mers- ell Kebcr, near Oran, forty
one deaths from cholera have taken place"
Japan.
Certain documents in the usual style of the ia
panese authorities had been secured to a bamboo
and thrown on board the u. S. man of war Preble
warning them where they were to anchor, and pre-
scribing certain prohibitions.
Austria and Hungary.
Kolosy, who stands charged with giving the first
Pesth, in September, lS4S, has been apprehended
A lady named Korosz, aged sixty years, and the
mother of three children, has been tried by court
martial at Retteg, in Pennsylvania, for holding in
her possession two handsome fowling- pieces left by
her deceased husband. six years since. Instead OF
being publicly logged, she has been condemned to
three weeks imprisonment in irons, and to be de-
prived of food two days in each week.
The Jews of Buda having been found unable to
pay the fines in which they were mulcted it has
been determined to divide the two and half mil
lions fine among all the Jewish communities in
Hungary, excepting those of Presburg and Temes-
The resolution of the Austrian government to an
null the bank notes of Kossuth, without making
any compensation to the holders, has engendered a
feeling in the people of Hungary that threatens dan
gerous results Sanguinary conflicts have already
taken place in Pcsth in which city great gloom and
n total cessation Of business prevails.
Armed bodies swarm about the country, and
though they shgmatized as bands Of assassins
they numerous that their proceedings par
take of the character of guerilla warfare, and they
do not hesitate to attack columns of the Austrian
troops, so that every day numbers of wounded are
carried into Pesth
The Emperor left for Prussia on the l4th inst.
There is every probability that reduction will
soon take place in the Austrian army, which now
numbers 900 men.