The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-10-11
Foreign.

DEATH is knocking at the palace-gate in
Europe. The death of the King of Sweden
has just thrown the English Court into
sister of Queen Victoria, is dead, and the
King of Denmark lies very low 1.-THE
German authorities recently stopped the
tran mi sion by telegraph of a cipher dis
patch of 500 words, signed by Nap~oleon......
The King of Abyssinia has sent a message
to England with letters for the Queen, ask
ing COR the Intervention of Great Britain
against Egypt. 1t is said similar appeals
have been addressed to France, Russia and
Germany......It is announced that the French
Government will shortly release about one
inement, and that only those accused of as
sa5sination, thievinc and arson will be tried.
GANBEfrA is making speeches in France,
in which he advocates thu dissolution of the
National Assembly ......T The Sultan of Turkey
has dispatched messenger TO Egypt to pre-
sent to the Viceroy q frman sa~nctioning his
title of Khedive, and making it hereditary.
IT is reported that an effort will be made
by the British Government to compel Messrs.
Laird, contractors of the Confederate priva-
teer Alabama, to pay a portion Of the dam.
ages awarded to the United States......The
bark Newcastle, from Liverpool for Havana,
has been wrecked. and thirty Of the crew
lost.
SIR SIDNEY WATERLow has been elected
Lord Mayor of London.....A Berlin letter
states that during the reception of the i'm
| perial party, in that city, eight persons were
| suffocated and trampied to death in one
night, and fifteen more were MORALLY
wounded...... health of the ex-Empress
| Carlotta is improvip Carlists are
| again becoming troublesome in SPAIN.
President Theirs has received positive assur-
ances from the Emperor Of Austria and the
| Gar of Russia that neither would have al
lowed themselves TO be decoyed to Berlin had
anything inimical 70 France been contem-
plated.
The Lord Chancellor of England (Lord
Atherly) has resigned. Sir Roundell Palmer
is spoken Of as his probable SUCCESSOR.
Victor Hugo has been nominated by the Re-
publicans Of Algiers for member of the
French Assembly......It is reported that
Spain will submit to the other European
powers the question Of the justice of her
claims against the United States for damages
by Cuban 6libustering expeditions. ..... For
the first time since the occupation of Rome
by Victor Emanuel, the Pope has Just ven
tured beyond the sacred precincts of the
Vatican.
ADvIcEs from Japan report a crisis in pub
lie affairs, and indicate the ascendancy of
the old Japan party over the Reformers, and
an end for the present of the spread of
civilization in the Empire. Minister Mort,
Horace Capron (who wen from Washington
as COMMISSIONS of Agriculture to fill the
same post in Japan, and Mr.. Smith, who
went to organize a Law Department, have
all been dismissed, and succeeded by repre-
sentatives Of the non-progressives. And
thus the dreams cherished by some en-
thusiasts of seeing that ancient Empire, in a
few years, living, moving and having its
being American. wise, must be abandoned. |
1.-The exodus from Alsace and Lorraine is |
on the increase, and bids fair TO almost
wholly ~depopulato those departments.
Over 200 men, women and children left in
one day for French territory, recently. The
railroads are taxed to their fullest capacity
in furnishing transportation to the self
exiled emigrants.