Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-10-05
Foreign Intelligence.

Foreign Intelligence.
Recent dispatches from ConstaLtinople
announce the appearance of the Asiatic
cholera at Constantinople and Smyrna
A recent earthquake in the island OF
Tortola, one of the West Indies, has in
ficted such damage that seven thousand
persons were rendered houseless.
Rochefort's trial has been concluded,
and he has been sentenced by the court
martial to transportation to penal colony
for life. eet
The Chief Justice of India died on the
Goth. His murderer has been appre-
hented, and feigned insanity.
A London dispatch of the 22d says
convention relative TO emigration had been
arranged between the United States and
Great Britain. The British Commissioner
of Emigration had approved it, and the
scheme had been transmitted TO Washing
ton. IFS. - ttsf
A correspondent of the Independence
Beige positively asserts that Nsp )leon has
advanced money to bride French regi-
ment to arrest the leading members Of the
present Government of France.
According to a London dispatch to the
New York World of the 21st Carl Marx
(who was recently reported as dead) pre-
sided on that day over the Congress OF
the Internationals, which had assembled
in London. .f...,
The wheat crop in France will, it is said,
fall short Of the average by S5,0O0.OOo
hectolitres, but the yield Of barley and
minor crops is abundant The London
correspondent of the New York World
estimates the deficiency in the wheat crop
of England at $4,000, 900 bushels, and there
were fears that the potato crop would also
be partial failure.
The Congress of the Internationals, in
session at London, adjourned on the 23d,
after making arrangements for movements
in Germany, Italy and Spain. @'
The Paris journals of the 25th have re-
ports of the discovery Of conspiracy in
Paris for the restoration of Napoleon. Il
is stated that Napoleon's Project of Police,
Pietri, was at the head of the conspiracy
there, and that he was acting under direct
instructions of the Emperor. A dispatch
from Versailles to London on the 25th
says President Theirs was disturbed by
fears as to the safety of his life; that his
bed chamber was guarded at night by
patrols.
The annual session of the Congress of
the Universal Peace League opened at
Lausanne, Switzerland, on the 25th.
The Gar of Russia has ordered that in
authorized private schools and in estab-
lishments of public instruction in Poland,
the German language should take the pre-
cedence of the French.
A special dispatch from Havana, re-
ceived in New York on the 25th, an.
nounces that the instruction had been
subdued, and that proclamation to that
effect would shortly be issued by the Cap.
tain. General.
A cable dispatch of the 26th announces
the completion of the evacuation by the
Germans of the four departments contigu-
GUS to Paris.
Rochefort has petitioned the govern
ment for Communication of his sentence.
He was quite i'll on the Goth from ner.
vous complaint.
M. Disrsei made speech at banquet
at Hughenden, England, on the evening Of
the 26th, and different reports of his ad-
dress are given. The New York World 8
correspondent says he declared that the
Queen was physically and morally inca
pacitated from reigning any longer; and
the regular press dispatch says he pro-
posed q toast to the Queen, and accom-
panied 1t with speech in fervent eulogy
Of Her Majesty. Her duties, he said, were
excessive, and no Englishman had such
complete control of the political traditions
Of the country as its sovereign.
A London dispatch of the 9th says the
health Of the Queen was not improved.
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