New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-18
FOREIGN.

Railroad Collision in Spain-Large Num-
ber of Casuaities-Grand Duke Alexis
at Hong K Ong-SumnerG Going to Paris
Edmund About Arresfed-EnEernatiOna
Society Meeting-EngIish Tory Jour
nRIs-DlssRtisfactiOn with Geneva Arbi-~
tratiOn.
MADRID September ia serious acoi-
dent occurred last night on the railroad be-
tween Corona and Barcelona. Two passeu-
ger trains, while running rapidly, came in
collision. The casualties number twenty,
including several killed.
QUEENSTOWN, September 'l7.-Arrived-
Steamships City of Paris, City of Limerick
and Oceanic, from New York.
LONDON, September ia dispatch from
Hong Kong announces the arrival there OF
the Russian trigate SHETLAND, with the
Grand Duke Alexis on board, accompanied
by other vessels of the fleet.
Mr. Sumner will leave for Paris in a
short time.
The dispatch received here announcing
the arrest by the German authorities of Ed
mund About, the French author, was
treated as a trif1ing affair. It now appears,
however, that the cas3 presents a serious
aspect, and creates considerable excite
ment.
About is confined at Strasburg. His wife
and children are not permitted to see him.
The cause of his arrest is said to be the
German occupation of the French prov
inces, which have offended the former gov
ernment.
At meeting of the members of the Inter-
national Society in this city yesterday thirty
persons were in attendance The subject of
the enfranchisement of the working classes
was discussed. The majority of those pres
ent were IN favor OF complete secession
from the Karl Marx section of the society.
The English Tory journals express great
dissatisfaction with the result of the labors
of the Geneva arbitrators.
The Tory journals condemn in unmeas-
ured terms the action of the Geneva tri-
bunal.
The London AdvertiSer says: "What farce
has been played at Geneva, where England
has been adjudged to pay tribute to a
bully who repudiates his own obligations.
America is not yet cOntented with the set
tlement of the claims against England'T
The Herald breathes defiance and hatred of
America, and says that "the breach between
the countries has been widened. Of course,
had the arbitratOra decided upon larger
sum of indemnity, England would pay. If
they awarded nothing America could but
show her teeth. What humiliation next
awaits us :"
The Std2ldurd comments upon the award
in similar strain. 1t says: "We went to
Geneva for justice and reconciliation, but
instead met with inveCtives from the
American counsel and partially adverse
award, dictated rather by desire for COM
promise than by equity. The whole pro-
ceedings in connection with the arbitration
are entirely unsatisfactory to England
1t is reported that Princess Beatrice, the
fifth and only unmarried daughter of Queen
Victoria, has been betrOthed to the Marquis
of Stafford. The princess is now in her
sixteenth year, and the marquis in his
tWenty-second year.
dianatch from Lausanne saws all thaa
American gentlemen connected with the
late board of arbitration have left SWitZer-
land. Caleb Gushing will remain some
time in Paris, and on leaving that city will
60 to America, as it is his intention to visit
Mexico at an early day.
The difficulties between the bakers of this
city and their employers, which threatened
to lead to a strike, have been amicably ar
ranged
The suicide in this city of young Amer
lean woman named Alice Blanche Oswald
has added a fresh impetus to the project for
the establishment of a strangers home.
Hundreds of persons are anxious to sub
scribe money to carry out the idea, large
number of whom are Americans.
The London journals of this morning be-
stow much praise upon John Blenham, an
American, who yesterday plunged into the
Thames at great peril to his own life, and
saved drowning person.
BERLIN, September ia dispatch from
Panau, Hesse Cassel, reports the death at
that town of Louis Fenerbach, the dis
| tinguished German philosopher.
Herr Won ThiIx, Prussian Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, has resigned, in conse-
quence Of disagreement with Prince Bis
marck.
| The German government has issued cir
| cular IN still more threatening terms than
the original one against emigrants, who, it
| declares, will be treated as outlaws over
whom special surveillance and supervision
has been instituted. Despite this menace
of the government, emigration from Ger
many has been only slightly affected.