SUMMARY OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS TO JULY 19.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 388, 18 August 1876, Page 3

SUMMARY OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS TO JULY 19.

The 'Daily News' gives a detailed account of the atrocities committed in Bulgaria during the insurrection by the Tuikish •irregular troops. All moveable property has been plundered, homes and villages have been burnt, and all men, women, and children indiscriminately slaughtered. It is estimated that a province which heretofore yielded the Government an annual revenue of four million dollars will not pay quarter that sum this year, nor for years to come. Various estimates place the number of lives sacrificed at from 18.000 to "i'o,ooo. A correspondent names 33 villages known to have been destroyed. Among the refugees, a number of whom is very small, there is not a girl over ten years of age. - In the village of Serustitza, in xlie district of Phil'.ipopolis, 15,001) persons are known to have been killed. T his village consisted of 4000 houses, and was prosperous and' peaceful. Every house has been burned and all th.p inhabitants killed, except a, few women and children who took refuge in Phillipopolis, and some women who were carried off by the troops. These cruelties hrv~e made a great impression at Constantinople. The English Ambassador has been interviewed on the question of asking the Government to put an end to them. Bulgaria has issued a declaration of indepence. • Servia has declared war against Turkey, alleging as- a reason her determination .to secure. special administration for licrzegoviua and Yesnia,, Prince Milan has placed, himself at- the; head of the Servi;. u troops, numbering 110,000. ." The excited state of the population in Constantinople has caused great alarm, and t'>e Russian ambassador receiving threatening Dud- insulting letters, has sent his wife and family away.' Several thousand Montenegrin troops were sent to the assistance of the Herzegovinian insurgents, r and the Empress of Kussia' has ; sent a special hospital train. Russian sympathisers also contributed six 'months' provisions for the army and people of Montenegro and Bulgaria. * " • In a town near Bulgaria the Turkish p'ssha seized 500 of the leading inhabitants, and threatened to execute them if the district resist. The Turks hanged many professors und teachers - in the district, and crucified some priests. The first pngagemnafc .with -Servians is claimed as a decisive victory for the Saltan's troops. . ' - The Sultan lias subscribed £2Q,000 to the people's fund. The Servian forces marched into Bulgaria, and, aided by the" rising of the inhabitant#, defeated the Turks iii' one or two engagements, but the -successes were mainly on the Turkish side, 1300 Servians being defeated in an engagement tit Tuivu Servian losses in the first 10 engagement were estimated at oijOO men. The Turks have massacred all the-Christian inhabitants at Beling. Twelve thousand Egyptian t.roors were despatched to Turkey, and great fanaticism and enthusiasm pervades the Turkish troops. One ie der in Bulgaria boastfully paraded tho capital w'tk the heads 'of women and children. Lett-era - from Aleksintz state that the Circassians have burned 21 Bulgarian villages near Baginglava, murdering the men and cutting the children to pieces. official rpports state that during the' Servian attack the Turks plac. d Christian women a?id children in the entrenchments, and many were killed by tho Servian fire. The Monti negrins.' dofeated the Tu:ks it several, engagements, but. fclie Servians have, almost invariably been defeated-in every collision, and their forces are reported to be greatly dispirited. The British Foreign Office has received a telegram from the British Ambassador at Constantinople stat ing that a Turkish functionary of high position hud bet-n sent as an extraordinary commissioner f.o snimress t.he excesses in Bulgaria. lie is furnished with full poweia to infli't summary punishment. Ihe Sultan ot Turkey is suffering a great deal of distress, and ir is bplieved that he is going insane. His abdication is expected. 'H<> has never recovered the shook of the suicide of Abdul. The Great Powers • neutrality, and the general peace is not--likely to Vie disturbed. Inliucn'iai I'vpii-i-e -lotions ar<*.being ai«d«» to the British Cabinet. Nt to enter upon war. Kurp.penn (advices- from--multitudes of sources p represent, and all productive enterprise as being worse than they have been during t- f pre*«nt g»-! etatiunr. auQ -.rithai uu risible s'gn of change for the better. The proposed roduetioti -of-.10 penr cent-. oa

R.he waees of 6'>,000 Lanenyter ;b&9 C.iu-ia>*l. eseiteir.. nt. A. deputation has secured the postponement • i -i reduction.At.a meeting of Duriwrn colliers, iacoiwfclef the reduction'of vr:i ! ».-s, 20,000 favored srbtratiori agains: 18,000 lit favor of a strike. Tho arbitration has b»«n carried o:iK A- colliery ezp!oi>ior. occurred at Birley Pi*, SbelQeld, and six men were killed. The (3-orornur of iiatol: In<'i-s telegraph* confirming the reported lota of tho steamer LiV.utenaiit-troneral Crossci in tils Straits. 230 persons were drowneJ. AMKRICIV NKWS. The 9ioi;x war mi "SferwiwsT-one Siver and tributaries has assumed alarming proportions. vm"2sih Judo Custer, with several cunip*n:«3 of cavaJrr, came up with the enemy on the X/stt.ie. Horn, and" crowed the river with St.? companies, consisting of .300 rasn It is believed he marched into a ambuscade, as tho .whole body was iWronuded mi'i rut- in pieced. The Indian chiefs, wi'.h <L; )UU warriors, co«— prised the - ' enemy. Co; on el Neno. who ha-. I been despatched by Guster with three compinies to cross above the c.nnp, was afterwards surrounded, and for 35 hcur» sras in fearful peril. When General Terry came to tho rescue 17 <-cnuriiss!oned -officers vrero tilled, including. Custer -ind two of hi 3 brothers. Their success go elated the Indians chitfrtiiey con) mi lied fearful depredation* an-.l atrocities all round. Reinforcements fr---in all points are anxiously "expected. The mr i* not unlikely to turn out one of extermination. Decroa Stout one of ".. uster's men, the cnlv su-vivor, escaped i» digitise. He tlia Sioux enveloped the force- Custer ki'h'd hi» horse, using the remains as a br-astworir, and fought desperately, the Indians charging his position time and again, and k-?ir,t; heavily- One. company tried to cut its way to t'.o rear, but were-all-, billed. Tho bodies lay some rods from Carter's all in a knot.. U » was amen* , the last to ihII. Custer and hi» comTCtmd. wsrrs »ii Kille-i within one hour. Small-pox is verv preralent at San Franeiß'O ; tho sewprs have been all flushed, anil the streets sprinkled wit., lime. Jj'uurieeo fresh esises reported in'one. day. • It is n::' confined to nay particular looality, bet is ail over the city. Small p-"'s is devnst»*ing Santiago, CliilL COMMSECIAi. "00l exhibits a decided improvement. Tho manufacturer! show by their actions that they are satisfied. T'he'deeline in price has been checked, and boners are more disposed to inert the views-of sel.ers At' Boston 'rat suctions in wool have no'; been larger for a very long lime, comprising million pounds, prices remaining the same.