Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-24
FOREIGN.
FOREIGN.
Extensive Labor Strikes in Ger
many
The Progress of the Cholera
Revelations of the Communist
Trials.
RUSSIA.
No French Alliance.

NO French Alliance.
New YORK, August 23.-The Russian
Minister Catacazy, has informed the cor
respondent of city paper that he placed
no reliance upon cable reports of an ALI
ance between France and Russia.
Extensive Preparations for War.
The mails by the steamer Russia con
tain the following important dispatch sent
to the London Telegraph from Salesburg,
August 10.
81 have the best authority for stating
that the military organization in Russis
is now being pushed on at high pressure,
The Prussisn system of forced service,
without exception, being vigorously car
ried oEt. In view of the enormous ex
tent of the Empire, provisional depots are
to be established. Officers are examining
the frontiers, and are making reports to
the Government of the same fashion
which has given the Germans such ad-
vantage il their offensive compaigns.
EThe experiment is also being tried
how soon a corps d'srmee advancing can
lay Gown lie of railway to brig for
ward its supplies. If what l am assured
be the actual fact, and my information IS
from a good quarter, everything in po-
litical sense promises fsVorably for the
future relations of Germany and Austria.
The only ground for apprehension is un
derstoOd to lie in the possibility of an al
lance between France and Russia, aud
l have reason for believing that this con-
tingency, if not the main cause of the
meeting of the Emperors at Gastein, will
be one of the questions most seriously
discussed during their interviews"
A Direct Post.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 12.-According
to the Gales negotiations have been open
ed between Russia and the United States
for the establishment of direct postal
communication between the two coun-
tries.
The Ravages of the Cholera
Late foreign papers contain accounts
of the cholera in Russia, from which it
| appears that there is heavy mortality
from the disease in that country, in pro-
portion to the population. From the
| first appearance of cholera on the 29th
August, 1870, there have been in st. Pc
,ersburg 6,8l7 cases, and 1891 deaths.
In Moscow and lis enVirODs, the cpl
| demic is of very malignant character,
and in some remote villages; where medi-
cal assistance is difficult to obtain, it has
committed fearful ravages. The follow
ing is the report from Moscow of the LIST
instant: Cases remaining, 523; new cases,
| SO; deaths, 80. Since the 18Th of March
there have been 3, 56S cases in Moscow,
| and l, 643 deaths. The cholera has sp.
pesred in several parts OF the government
of Vladimir, but the proportion of fatal
cases is small. At CrcnsIsdt, up TO the
29Gh July, there were 459 cases, and 2ll
deaths. AT Riga there were 100 cases in
Two days. At Wilma, up TO the 18th of
July, there had been l, SO cases, and 5l2
| deaths. At Famb0ff, q town of about
| $4,000 Inhabitants, 2, 504 cases were re-
ported up to the 21st of July, and 1912
deaths. At Regbiusk, very important
corn depot on the EOlga, more than half
the cases proved fatal. Many of the
inhabitants were leaving the country
where the disease was most prevalent,
but in some sections the accounts are
| more favorable.