ARRIVAL OG THE SAN FRANCICO MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 4201, 14 August 1876, Page 2

ARRIVAL OG THE SAN FRANCICO MAIL.

Auckland, August 13. The Zealandia has arrived with English and American mails. She was lying at Kandavu seventy-eight hours before the City of bew York arrived with the New Zealand ontward mails. After receiving the Australian mails, the City of New York proceeded on her voyage to San Francisco on the 6th, The steamship Australia with the English mail arrived at Eandavu on the 9th. She left again at three o’clock for Sydney. She left San Francisco on the 19th July. On thp. voyage between San Francisco pnd Honolulu a case of small-pox broke out. The patient was an Australian passenger, and he was landed with attendant at Honolulu. The Zealandia left Eandavu on the 9th And arrived at one o’clock to-day. The Health Officer detained her two home . conducting an examination, but finding fumigation had been carried out, he allowed the mails and passengers to belauded. Passengers for Auckland—Mr and Mrs J. L. fTaM, Mr and Mrs Pratt, Messrs Augustus Wallen. J. G. Golbock, Mrs and Mis? Strange, and Mr Walker for Wellington. The Zealanclia's passage from Eandavu was the quickest eWfc made, 3 days 21 hours.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

The following is a summary of English and Foreign news to July 19th Gdblebrams relating to the war- between the Turkish Gouernment and the insurgent provinces and Servia fill columns -' of American papers. The ‘ Daily News ’ gives a detailed account of the atrocities committed in Bulgaria durmgthe insurrectionby the Tufkishirregular troops. All moveable property been plundered, houses and villages burnt, and all men, women, and children indiscriminately slaughtered! It is estimated that the province which heretofore yielded the Gpvernmentan annual revenue of four million dollars will not pay one quarter that sum this year and for years to come. Various estimates place the.number of lives kacrificbd at from 18,000 to 20,000. .A correspondent names thirty-seven Tillages known to have been destroyed. Among the refugees, the number of whom is very small, there is not a girl over ten years of age. In the v llage of Semstitza, in the district of Phillipopolis, 15,000 persons are known to have been killed. This village consisted of 4,006 houses, and was prosperous and peaceful. Every house has been burned and all the inhabitants killed, all except a mw women and children who took refuge in Phillipopolis, and some women who were earned off by the troops. These cruelties made a great impression at Constantinople. The English Ambassador interviewed the Government to put an end to them. ,

Bulgaria has issued a declaration of ihdependenco.

Servia has declared war against Turkey alleging as a reason her determination to secure special administration for Herzegovina and Vesina. Prince Milan has placed himself at the head of the Servian troops* nnm. berxrg 110,000. . The excited state of the population in Constantinople caused great alarmand 'the Kpssian Ambassador, receiving threatening and insulting letters, sent hiA wifiTancl family away, • > Several thousand Montenegrin krOopa were sent to the assistance of the’ Herzeaoinsurgents, and the Empress- of iiusaia sent a special hospital train. ’Rnanfftn sympathisers also contributed six months' provisions for the army and people of Montenegro. In a town near Bulgaria, the Turkish pasha , seized 500 leading inhabitants, and threatened to execute them, if the district reusted. The Turks hung many professors teachers m the district and crucified some pnests. The first engagement with the Servians is claimed as a decisive victory for the Sultaa’a troops. The Sultan subscribed L 20,000 to the people’s war fund. Servian forces marched into Bulgaria, and, aided by the namg of the inhabitants, defeated the Turks in one or two engagements; but the successes were mainly on the Turkish side. 1,800 Romans were defeated in an engagement at ruiag,. The Servian losses in the first ten engagements were estimated at 5,000. The Turks massacred all the Christian inhabitants at Beling. Twelve thousand Egyptian troops have to Turkey. x^™K f * naticiHmßll(l enthusiasm pervade the Turkish troops. One leader iii Bulgaria boastfully paraded the decapitated heads of women and children. Letters from Al<vriwi« gate that the Circassians burned twenty-on© Bplganan villages near Bagiuglava, murdermg men and cutting chUdreh to pieces. Officia! reports state that during the Servian attack on Nova Varasch the Turks placed Christian women and children in the entrenchments, and many were killed by the Servian fire.

The Montenegrins defeated the' Turks In several engagements, but &e Sermus“have almost invariably been defeated in every collision, and the forces are reported to be greatly dispirited. The British Foreign Office hak received a telegram from the British Ambassador at Constantinople, stating that a Turkish functionary of high position had been sent as Extraordinary Commissioner, to suppress excesses in Bulgaria. He is furnished with P owere “ffiict summary punishment The Sultan of Turkey is suffering » great deal of distress, and is believed to be coin? insane. His abdication is expected He never recovered the shock of thTsuicide o! Abdul.

The great powers maintain neutrality, andthe general peace is not likely to be dm-

. representations are being made British Cabinet not to enter upon

peared a ® ue has Almost disajiAt the meeting of the Durham colliers to consider the reduction in wages, 20.000 favored arbitration, against 16,000 in favor of a strike. Arbitration will be carried oat, In a colliery explosion at Birley pit Sheffield, six men were killed. . . The Governor of the Dutch East Indies telegraphs confirming the report of the loss of the steamer Lieut. General Orossan in the Straits. Two hundred and thirty persona WtiK drowned.

There is trouble in Athens, and a state of siege is declared: - While H.M. Thunderer wta iaainmr a trial of the measured mile at Stokes Bav Portsmouth, her boiler exploded, kiUini twenty-five of the crew. The bodies wens shcddngly mutilated, the flesh being stiint from their limbs by the escaping steam. The forWMd rtA.M., whwTtetS by watertight bulkheads; -The stokers in the latter were protected from the fnunnsnts caused by the explosion, but wets Hterallv boded to death by steam. The chief and -**• mg T &gtal.‘“ d Qa6ea o£ ««*»*«• vi*.

AMERICAN.

A fearful storm and flood ravaged Central lowa on the 4th July, The R&ik dale, near Dubtikne, was “entirelV away by an overflow of Uatfish Eiv2r.

Thirty>nin« petsons were drowned in Maddison and Warner counties, fifteen persons were killed, and fearful damage was done to live stock and crops. It is considered likely that many of the bodies were swept into the Missouri river. The railway was swept away for 9J miles at Burlington. A toruauo was experienced. In one squall twenty-nine buildings wi re blown down, two persons killed, and six freight cars were blown into the river. The storm was felt severely at Omaha, Nebraska, buildings being blown down, but no loss of life. The Sioux war on the Yellow Stone River and tributaries has assumed alarrjaing proportion)?. On the 25th June, Custer, with companies of cavalry, came up with the enemy on the Little Horn, crossed the river with five companies, consisting of 300 men. It is believed he marched into an ambuscade, as the whole body was surrounded and cut in pieces. The Indian chief Sitting Bull, with four thousand warriors, comprise the enemy. Colonel Neno, who had been despatched by Custer with three companies to cross above the camp, was afterwards surrounded, and was for thirty-six hours in fearful peril, when General Terry came to his rescue. Seventeen commissioned officers were -killed with Custer, including two of his brothers. Their success so elated the Indians that they committed fearful depredations and atrocities all round. Reinforcements from all points are anxiously expected. The war is not unlikely to turn out one of extermination. Be Crow. Stout, one of Custer’s men—the only survivor—escaped in disguise. He says the Sioux enveloped the force. Custer killed his horses, using the remains for breastworks, and fought desperately. The Indiana charged his position time and again, and losing heavily. One .company tried to cut its way to the rear, but were all killed. The bodies lay some rods from Custer’s, all in a knot. Custer was ameng the last to fall. Custer and his command were all killed within one hour.

Small-pox is very prevalent in San Francisco. The sewers are all flushed, and the streets sprinkled with lime. Fourteen fresh cases have been reported in one day. The outbreak is not confined to any particular locality, but is all over the city. Harwood Grant, hung at Rome, Ga., confessed to having killed four men, one of whom was General Hindman of the Confederate army, j

George Williams, alias George Magiiman, was lynched at Richmond, Ohio, for outraging and murdering several women, whom he had engaged as servants, and taken up countty. , The eastward-bound train on the Missouri and Pacific Railway has been stuck up by robbers near St. Louis, and 18,000 dollars taken.

Don Carlos has arrived in Washington. General Hnye’s steamer, of St. Clare, 16 passengers aboard, took fire on Lake Snpeperior, and was burned to the water’s edge. Only the captain, mate, engineer, and wheel man, and one passenger, escaping. 27 lives were lost. The survivors were picked up by a boat.