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Dunstan Times, Issue 820, 4 January 1878, Page 3

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—o— ■ " (Prom the Daily Times.) The foßowing is a summary by the Srn Francisco Mail : A special telegram from Romo says the P -- pa receive 1 the French pilgrims, and spoke a few words with grea 1 difficulty and fve’deifosb of vou-e. His sufieiiua marie a mc’ancho'y impression on Ins visi-ors. The American warship Huron went ashore in a fog shortly after leaving Fort Monroe. Soon after the vessel struck a boat was lowered, but it was immediately swamped. The vessel s'ewed broadside to the sr>a. which m ine a clean breach, sweeping everything before it. Many seamen and < ffi ceis were washed overboard, an I several killed by pieces of wreck. The vessel broke rapidly. The surf was furious, and it war. beyond human efforts to bo’d on to the vessel Signals of distress hal to go unheeded. The bodies drif.ed ashore mutilated.

Mexican troops co-operate with American in snpp’cssing the border expedition. An engagement has taken place in Cuba ■ o'ween 400 insu'gents and 300 Spanish regulars.

"he Spaniar’s suppressed the outbreak, with a 10-s of 22 ki'lel and 53 wounded. The Mexican Government have »ent a force of men to the frender. This has caused uneasiness at Washington. The Mexican representative explained that the reinforcements were only intended to replace unreliable irregulars. The The yenne Indians are causing tronb’e. There are fears of an Indian troub’e at Utah. Lieutenant Riellis with a small party of scouts crosse 1 the Rio Grande, an 1 was attacked by 590 Indians and was compelled to retreat. Ilia loss is rot stated. Go'on cl Young 'eft Governor Clarke with 290 oava'ry to reinforce Biolles. Survivo-s from the wreck of the Huron give th“ following account of tlte disaster; —The vessel was healing herco'trse S.S.R., the wind blowing strong from tlm S S, R. She was lit er after sail to steady her, and steaming along. " At T49 the vessel struck, when a 1 hands rushed on deck. Y'o one knew whine they were. All who did get ashore wc-e tvashed there by the surf, which made the Vessel go further southwest than the course indicated. The number of American troops in Western Texas is so small that, 11 e Indians rob and plunder with impunity. Year Stockton the Indians capture 1 a coach, killing the driver.

If is expected that Sitting Bill’and Hs chiefs v ill return from Canadian trrritorv. The President, in a speech, state ! that timuoil and Violence having disappeared in the South, the troops would now he with* drawn. " He invited Congress to consider the question of the protection of Samoan independence. A thousand Chinese are Wanted for sugar plantations in Peru. The working men of San Francisco nr* agitating against the further introduction of Chine e. There .are said to he 30,0.0 Chinese labourers in Sfth Francisco.

A fire at Chicago cause I a loss equal to 1,000,000 dollars. Twp men were killed and several injured, Jnmaun, the chief stronghold of Jowakah in India, has been taken hy the British. The loss was trifling. The expedition was an ntil termpled success.

A’ Po'e hSvlicch' arreSted'bn suspicion Af attempting to assassinate the E.npcror VTil-

liana and Prince Bismarck, He was recognised as tho forger whom the police tracked from West Prussia. When arrested he voluntarily stated that ho came to assassinate the Emperor and Bismarck, bat when recognised ho confessed the lirst statement was untrue.

A Chicago Times (London) special saya the terms of peace between Russia and Turkey are the subject of much discussion, and the attitude that Germany will assume causes much anxiety. It is thought that Russia would be willing to grant acceptable terms, but it is feared that Germany may urge Russia to demand terms which England would not permit the acceptance of. The impression is that the state of affairs is full of danger for Europe. England is more alarmed at Ger.mmy than at Russia, not knowing where to secure allies in case of a rupture with the former.

The papers that support the Premier's foreign to'icy are daily and vehemently demanding the active intervention of England. It is stated that the Premier informed the Russian Minister that if Adrianople were taken and Constantinople jeopardised, theie may be such an outcry in England as may make war on their part inevitable. Infor mation of this declaration was sent to Russian head-quarters, and ma le a stiong impressnon there. On these circumstances there is reason for fearing that the country mayhedraggel into the present conflict. Further ground for such apprehension is that within the last few hours orders were issued for immediate prejaration of army no ps. Wap. Summary. Large Russian subsidies have arrived in Servia, and the latter prosecutes the war. At the capitulation of Kars, 15,000 Russians c'imbed the steep rocks and rampart wai'a, and storms 1 an equal number of the Turk’. The latter made a headlong flight over the ditches and parapets. The principal alt mk was'made at the southern forts. General LazmolT commanded the right wing and a=saultc I Hafiz Praha’s fort, crowning a steep rocky bright. Genera! Count GtaMie attacked Hafiz Pasha ou the contra. The Khanlie taken Sauvarra raillied (sic) three towers an 1 citadel.' The left wing assailed Fort Inch s. The attack began at the centre rn Saturday evening. Count Grabbe hid the brigade against the Khanlie redoubt him e’f, and was killed at the first onset. The redoubt Mirrendere I early next morning- The throi towers almost simultaneously maintained a stubborn resistance until daylight, when all those of the garrison who con'd escape fled to Erzeroum, but were subsequently overtaken with dragoons and Cos-cks, and male prisoners. The Russian official account gives the losses at 2500.

There has' een some excitement at Starahoul cause I-ly summoning the reserves. The servants at the Palace were armed with roVnlvc r s.

Ciiicial telegrams from Mukhtar Pasha admits that the Russians compclle 1 him to retreat from Dcvehoynr. ’ 11c says some of the olfioers who were panic stricken, and who abandono I several guns, will he courtmarsh .lie 1. The dispatch condoles ; “We are now occur yiug the fortifications of Erzcroum and prepiring a means of defence.” Tele rapldn» a day Intel - from Erzcroum Mukhtar says“At four o’clock the Russians attacked our fm titled position at tzhpue. our troops fighting with great va’our. Wo repulsed them, and pursued them four or five miles from Erzeroum. The Russians w - re to'aEy defeated, and the trench s filled with their do id.” Early advices received at Constantinople show that before this success <he situation at Eizoroum was very critical. The inhabitants demanded that the authorities should capitulate.

The reports of a battle near Erzernum show that the lighting lasted 11 hours. Two Russian nolmnns attacked the redoubts •south east of Krzeroum, and one co'umn sncee ded in occupying the block-lions •, hut was dislodged. The other co’umn, ) crceiving the enormons lo.s of the forme-, retreVel. The Tuiks pursued them as far as Deve Boynn, but were driven back from there, when the Turks rallied and drove the Russians back again to Deve Boyne. The Russians lost a large quantity of ami? and ammunition, but only a few prisoners; A Russian official dispatch states tint General Hermann advanced against Eznroum on Tlmrs lay night, hut his column lost their wav in the darkness. At Plevna. General Skohelol? has eatah. lishad himself in a newly Capture 1 position The final 3 nrkish .attack was repulsed by the file of 70 cannon. The Turks lest heavily. SkohclnfT was wounded by a shell ' A special telegram from Vienna says the Czrrewitch’s army now consists of eight infantry and four cavalry divisions, numbering from SO.VOO fo 90.000 men. Though it must cover the line from the Danube to the vicinity of Tirnova, it would not be easy for the. Turks *n make much impression ripen them, since the Russians by forced marches can concentrate th«ir four divisions on anv given point in a Single fay.

Oenc al Meliknff, when summoning Mukhtar Pasha to evacuate E z roum, informed him of the canlnre of Kars, an- Ith t if lie resisted he would lie attacked hy 80,000 men, with an ore-whelmimj a.itillcy force. Mukhtar Pasha replied he would hold Erzeronm to the last. Mukhtar Pasha te’enraphs from ErSoroum that the Eiissian B-stazi-1 column is eh-campc-1 between Rdidekan and Kir. kilim Everythin;: indicates that the Russians are preparin ' to suspend operations, and go into winter quarters. V* I T w 1 ftl hj n i IB It

Kev. Dr Kincaid tel s a “ fisti story” in the Christian Advocate which, if true, discounts the Bible story of Jonah heavilyHe says, in brief, that a carpenter'on board a vessel at sea was taken sick, and suffered such an acute pain that he swooned. As he was supposed to be dead, he was thrown into the sea, with a grindstone attached to sink the body. Soon after his son, despondent over the loss of his father, jumped overboard, and was lost. The next day the sailors harpooned a whale, and on cutting it up they heard a grinding sound inside, that they could not account for. Going on with their work, however, the mystery was soon solved. The whale was found to have swallowed both the father and the son, and the former, having recovered from his swoon, and feeling refreshed by his saltwater bath, had rigged up the grind-stone, and with his son to turn it, was sharpening an axe to cut his way out. As already intimated, if the I lev. Doctor’s story can be established, tho doubts and slurs which Paine, Ingersoll, and other critics have thrown upon the Testament narrative, will prove to be unreasonable.

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