Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-24
Foreign Intelligence.

A London telegram Of the 10th says
Russia is arming extensively and has
formed an alliance with France against
Germany and Austria.
Sir Rounded Palmer has been appointed
counsel, and Earl Russell, arbitrator, on
the part of England, in the case Of the
Alabama claims.
The Russian Registrar General, in re-
cent weekly report, says that the Asiatic
cholera, as it was painful duty 10 an
nounce early last June, is entering West
ern Europe through Russia, where Dr.
Zeutzer says it is fast advancing on the
German frontiers.
Captain Halls Arctic expedition has
been heard from at Port Disco, Greenland
All were well, and officers and crew in
fine spirits.
The Mont Gents Tunnel is prononaced
o complete success, and the announcement
is made that it will be formally opened in
September.
Specia! private information received in
London on the 18th from correspondent
at Salisbury says that the military organi-
zation in Russia was being vigorously
pushed on the system of compulsory ser
vice, and vigorously carried out without
exception.
The Emperor of Austria received the
Emperor William, of Germany, at Wells
on the 11th Cordial greetings were ex
changed, and their Majesties departed in a
special train for Ische.
The London Eoening Post of the nth
attributes political significance of friendly
character to the meeting of the Emperors
Of Germany and Austria.
The Pope has written letter to COM
mittoe who have offered him the title Of
Plus the Great, and throne of gold. He
refuses to accept the proposed title of
honor during his lifetime, and suggests
that the money which had been subscribed
for the throne be employed in procuring
exemption for students in Catholic sem
inaries, everywhere, from military ser
vice.
A London dispatch of the 18th says !:
"The mission of the United States Treas
ury Agents to Frankfort is fulfilled. The
whole amount remaining of the new loans,
$130, 100000, has been placed on the terms
fixed by the American Government"
Twenty thousand people attended a
meeting held in Hyde Park, London, on
the 18th, to protest against the suppression
of the Phoenix Park meeting in Dublin, on
the 9th. Communist and American flags
and banners, with the Irish harp and SUIT
able notices, were displayed.
A Berlin dispatch Of the 18th says the
imperial government, as well as the local
authorities, had adopted the most stringent
measures for the prevention of the chol-
era. Twenty. three persons were attacked
with the disease at Konigsburg on the
nth, thirteen Of whom were already
dead.
A gun, cotton explosion occurred at
Slowmarket, England, on the nth. by
which over twenty five persons were
killed, and fifty seven injured, some seri-
ously.
wang, on the small island Of Tagolanda, in
the Malay Archipelago, was accompanied
by CONFUSION of the sea, and wav
forty yards in height swept all the human
beings, cattle and horses from the island
The number of persons who persisted is
stated at 418.
News from Corea states that recently
two Englishmen and one German engaged
in saving material from a wrecked German
schooner, were captured by the Coreans,
bound hand and foot, slung on . bamboo,
and packed off into the interior. The
British fleet had gone from Japan to in
quire into the matter.
Queen Victoria was reported to be Ill
on she 14th, and her sudden indisposition
created much anxiety In the royal house
hold.