The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-13

| The Assembled N0fi0naIe states that General
Cavaignac has announced his intention of with
drawing his prctensions as a candidate for the
Presidency OF the republic. "The wish" was,
on the part Of the writer, sthe father 10 this
thought" for the Bulletin de Paris authori-
taiively contradcts the rumor.
AUSTRIA.
The Milan Gazette of the 10Th Of July con-
tains a proclamation by Marshal Kadelzky, alIeg-
ing that fresh attempts making at insnrrec-
ton, and that he is prepared To adopt very rgor-
Gus me ssures He adds, that in the present State
of things. he is compelled to revoke his promised
deliberations Of the state Of siege, and to keep
it up with all the severity required for the
maintenance OF order against its enemies"
| Vienna correspondence, under date OF the
10Th of July, states that per cent loan OF
30 millions OF forms was concluded on the oath,
between the house Of Rothschild and a COM
pany of bankers The exact conditions were
not known.
The Cologne Gazette states, on what it repre-
sents to be good authority, that tho protests OF
France and England against the entrance OF
Austria, with all her States into the German
Diet was not rejected unanimously tho ministers
OF Holstein and Luxembourg having been OF
opinion that it ought to be accepted.
SPAIN
The Heraldo of Madrid SAYS, that Mazzini
has circulated a proclamation in Spain, calling
upon the friends Of liberty to BIO prepared. 90 for
the hour OF ltaly's regeneration is at hand"
DENMARK
Two Engishmen, Messrs. Sheppard and Bot
ton, have received charter for the construction
OF submarine telegraph between the Danish
islands and the Duchy Of Scheswig.
The Senate of Hamburg has placed severe
and almost prohibitye restrictions on the truns-
port of emigrants by the agents of British ship
owners. The senate has also requested the
Prussian government to adopt similar restrictive
and hostile measures, and it is stated that the
city Of Bremen proposes to follow up the ex-
ample set by the city of Hamburg.
GREECE.
1t appears by the following article, which we
extract from the Courier d'Athens," that the
brigandage in Greece, which has been so fire.
quently spoken of, remains almost unchecked -
band of bigands recently stopped the mail
on the road from Sparta to Tripolitza, and took
from the bags all letters which enclosed any bank
notes. Two of the robbers had their faces black
ened, and the whole of them were very well
dressed and armed with costly weapons. Eighty
travellers have been stopped and robbed on the
same road. On the Sd, Caamata, accompanied
by So brigands. attacked the village of Cheimer-
MAXI, in the commune of Ypate, and killed one Of
the Inhabitants who had last year denounced him
to the authorities.
"On the following day he went to the village
Of Kampa, and after robbing all the inhabitants
set fire to and destroyed it. He told the villagers
that he had procured a list of all traitors, and
of all those who prosecuted the brgands, that
he might chastse them at his leisure. In order
to inspire his victims with greater alarm he told
them, AT the village of Kyriacochori, you will
find Capt Protopapas, and at Selma, Col Phar-
makis is quartered go and ask them to assist
you so brigands attacked the village Of Gous-
tariza, and robbed all the inhabitants, and the
village OF Neral has met with similar fate"
TURKEY.
A telegraphc despatch from Constantinople
of the 18th of July, in The Kolner Zsitung, an
nounces another conflagration in that city, by
which no less than l44 houses were reduced to
ashes.
EGYPT.
The Viceroy has made final arrangements for
the construction of railway between Cairo and
Alexandria, and has signed an agreement for
that purpose with Mr.. Borthwick, who is there
on the part of Mr.. Robert Stephenson.
1t is calculated that the line will be completed
in about two years and a half. The whole length
will be about 100 miles, and it will cross the
Nile at the barrage, where substantial bridge
is already nearly finished, having been made by
French engineers with the object Of dammine
the Nile for the better irrigation of the land
The differences existing between the Sultan
and the Viceroy of Egypt, have been nearly set
tied by the latter agreeing to introduce certain
constitutional reforms proposed by the Sublime
Porte.
FROM THE EAST.
The overland mil brings advices from Bonn
bay to June 18th, aud Calcutta June 14th The
rainy season was proceeding favorably A move
ment has taken place at Calcutta, with the view
of placing British and American vessels trading
with that port, on more equal footing than they
at present occupy.
The following account Of hail storm, taken
from the Bombay Times, throws our Western
hall-storm stories in the shade:
"On May 22d, an extraordinary fall of ice oc-
Cured near Bangalore, during storm of thun-
der, lightning, and rain. The hail-stones which
at hrst made their appearance, were about the
size of lines and oranges and broke through
the tiles and roofs of houses, and destroyed gar
ueHs ana fruit trees. some OF the -stOnes
found next morning. were as large as goose
eggs, some as big as pumpkns--one block.
found in dry well, measured four feet and a
half in length, three in breadth, and one and
half in thickness II was probably the result of
the concentration of several of the smaller
pieces into ore lump, although the fall of pieces
of ice of this size is not unfrequent in India.
"lu the reign of Tippoo Sultan piece was
found the size of an elephant which took sew
eral days to melt; in 1896. piece of similar
size fell in Candesh in 1898, block of ice,
mass of cemented hail-stones, was
found near Dharwar, measuring twenty feet in
Col. Ogvie, Judge Advocate General, died at
Poonah on the 18th Of June, of paralysis sue
ceeded by gangrene. He was Ga years old, and
had been 40 years in India.
COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE.-It will be re.
membered that the steamer Europa when near
Halifax on her last trip, ran down n ishin o
schooner The particulars of this distressing
accident are given by the captain of the schooner