The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-10

The trial OF The Count and Countess OF Bocarme, in
Belgium for the murder OF brother OF the Countess,
has recently created much excitement HE was poisoned
by nicotine and the government refused to allow the
trial to be published in Austria, lest II should promote
crime by teaching the people and speedy means of
murder The trial has resulted in the jury hndlng the
Count Bocarme guilty, and acquitling the Countess.
The jury absent hour and hall celebrating
When the verdict delivered slight momentary
flush passed the Counls face bat he eyinced no
other sign of emotion. On hearing "not guilty" 10 his
wife, an expression OF internal satisfaction animated his
features He look ed afectonatey towards his wife, who
gave no visible signs OF emotion She left the dock with
firm step. without speaking to her husband The Pro
cueur du Ro having asked the prisoner II he had any
thing to say, he replied, No, except that perfectly
innocent" He then entered calmly INTO conversation
with his counsel At eleven o'clock the pronounced
sentence of death upon Hppoyte Vsar de Bocarme and
decreed that the execution should take place in OF
the public squares of Mons The prisoner left the court
under guard with firm step.
KossUTH AND HIS coMPANIoNs-A late letter from an
American gentleman travelling in the East dated in Con.
stantnope, and published in the Baton Rouge Democrat
furnishes the following authentic information in regard
TO the Hungarian exles
The brave and usrous kossuth still continues at
Knayeh, some forty miles distant. The period for his
release has been, understand, definitely settled Tor
September when i Is said ne will be ready to proceed to
of redeemng his beloved country from the grasp OF the
yrana hope which all agree in these parts TO be Of the
most fororn character meet daily with many OF the
brave Hungarians who, having embraced the faith Of
Islam, engaged in the service of the Tarksh
IN the army Their case is an
nation being the harsh instrument OF converting to Ma
hommedanism Christian people. We hear great deal
about converting heathens TO Christianity but il not
time that Christians should commence the work OF ref
ormaon in Christian Austria She presents wide
field Think for the exercise of the good abors of the
missionary but perhaps she might prove as dead to their
religious influences as the MahOmmedan East has always
shown itself.
Roph Marsh esq, the American minister for Consan.
nope who has been absent for months. and whom
met in Upper Egypt travelling with his wife for the
benefit Of her health, has not yet returned but is daily
expected Among the very clever and amiable gentlemen
have met with in the East is the Rev H. G o. Dwight,
author of Christianity Revived in the East" He 10
one OF the American missionaries having charge OF the
American station at Pera. He is proverbal for his kind
attentions towards his travelling countrymen had the
pleasure OF hearing the Rev. DR.. Scott, OF New Or
leans preach at the missionary chapel on Sunday last
the congregation respectfully large, and composed
principally of mericans Business matters appear brisk
here, and the hand Of Improvement is busiy at work,
especially in Pera. where government palaces private
residences stores &c, upon the elegant and costly
scale are going up IN various directions The people here
desiring ran having experienced long drought and
are beginning some what to suffer from growing scarcity
of water may write you again from Greece
! IMPRrsoNMENT OF AN AMERICAN BY THE AUSTRIAN
GovERNMEKT.-Ihe Berlin correspondent OF the Boston
Traveller in a letter dated June nth. has the follow.
| ing
"No little excitement was produced in our midst few
days ago by the intelligence that Mr. Charles L. Brace
of New York city, had been arrested in Grosswardein
province OF Siebenbugen, about 200 miles from Pesth
in Hungary, on the 2Sh OF May, spy and emissary
of Kossuh and Ujhazy, and that he had been thrown
into prison. He managed, by the aid of mercantile
friends to communicate the information OF his arrest TO
| the legation in Vienna and Berlin. Every step was i'm.
mediatey taken to his release Mr. Barnard and
Mr. Fay called upon the Austrian ambassador, and made
full explanation of the character and standing of Mr.
Brace and OF he fact that he was travelling as an i'm
/ at 40 ha hoon
parts OF Europe"
The Hartford Couran OF Friday last gives the follow.
ing additional intelligence:
Letters have been received in this city from the Hon
Mr.. McCurdy, minister at Vienna, dated June ish
which inform us that this young gentleman is still in
confinement The facts in the case these He has
been travelling IN Europe for information the poli
cal and religious condition OF the countries he has visited
After examining al Vienna all that could be learned of the
nature OF the Austrian government he went foot,
has been his custom elsewhere into the Magyar coun
Try in Hungary He Hospitality received among The
lae rebels as citizen OF that land which had sheltered
the Hungarian exiles and he visited many of the coun
try seats OF the leaders. The jealousy of the Aus
TRAN authorities in that section being aroused by
the attentions he received, he arrested at Gross.
werden, a village the branch OF the Thesis in
the eastern part OF Hungary three hundred miles east
OF Vienna, and flung into prison as a revolutionary
agent, Prince Schwarzenburg informed Mr. McCurdy
that the accusations against him that he had letters
OF introduction 10 the late rebels from refugees in Ameri-
ca that printed copy OF revolutionary pamphlet had
been found IN his travelling bag, and that he took cir
cutous paths to visit suspected persons From the rep
reservations made 10 Mr. McCurdy by the Austrian .u
houes would appear that he undergo regular trial.
which will be painful thing for young man OF twenty.
hve separated far from every coun,ryman, in nation
that looks with jealousy upon every American Our
minister observes that he has been promised by the hyh
est authority that nothing harsh or unjust shall bela
him. An investigation has been made in Vienna OF bis
character and pursuits while there, and that has been
favorable 10 his final release
We think that this is a which calls for the i'm.
mediate prompt, and energetic action OF our government
and we are much mistaken such appeal will be made
in vain. The young man is innocent OF anything but
philosophical curiosity TO investigate the character OF
interesting OF men"
We regret TO learn that Mr. Fennimore Cooper il AT