EUROPEAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XL, Issue 199, 14 August 1876, Page 2

EUROPEAN.

Cablegrams relating to the war between the Turkish Government, the Insurgent provinces and Servia fill columns ot th- American ptp .rs The Daily News gives a detailed ace m >.t of frightful atrocities committed in Bulgaria during the insurrection by the Turki-h and Irregular troops; all the moveable property has beeu pluntered, homes and villages burned, and all mea, women, and ehildre?. indiscriminately slaughtered. Estimated provinces which heretofore yielded Government an annual revenue of four million dollars will not pay the quarter of that sum this year, and for years to come. Various estimates place the number of lives sacrificed at from 13,000 to 20,00\ Thirtyseven villages are known to have been deatrojed Among refugees the number of whom is very small there is not a girl over ten years of age in tbe village of Servestitz*. In the district of Phillipopolia 1500 persons are known to have been killed; the village consisted of 4000 houses, snd was prosperous and peaceful; every house has been burned, and the inhabitants killed except a few women and children wbo took refage ia Pbillipopolis aad some women who were carried off by troops. Bulgaria has issued a declaration of independence. In a Bulgarian town, near Belgrade, the Tu.kish Pasha seized 500 leading inhabitants and threatened to execute them if the district resisted. The Turks hung many professors and teachers in the district, and crucified some priests During the first engagements with the {Servians Cclained as decisive victories by the t-ultan'a troaps), the Sultan subacriiei £20.000 to the peoples war fund. The Servian forces marche i into Bulgaria and, ai ltd by the- rising of the icbabitants! deeafc-jd tlie Turks in one or two engagements, but the successes mainly lie on the Turkish side. I sno Servians were killed in one engagement at Tursto. The Servian k'B»es in the firet ttn engagements are estimated at 5,01)0 men. The Tnrks massacred all the Christian inhabitants at Balind \ Twelve thousand Egyptian troops were despatched to Turkey. Great fanatics,-, and enthusiasm pervades the Turkish troops; one leader in Bulgaria bo-rtfully paradad a cartload of heads of women and chilJren. The Sioux war on the Yellowstone Biver and its tributaries has assumed al«rmin«r pn. por lions. On June 20, General Castor, with companies of c.valry, came up *ith the enemy on ihe Little Ham. He crossed with n»*e companies, consisting ot' 300 men, and it is believed he marched into an ambuscade, as the whole body w.s surrounded end cut to pi ces, the ludian chief sitting still with the 4000 warriors that comprised the enemy. Colonel Neno, who had heen despatched by ( ustor with three companies to cross above she ape, was afterwards sarround-d and ior ihirty-six hours was in fearful peri), when General Teny came to the rescue. Seventeen comm ssioned officers were killed with Custor including two of hia brothers. Their success so elated the Indians that they committed depredations and atrocities. Archund's reinforcements from all points are anxiously expected, and the war is not un'ikely to turn out one of txrermination. Decrawsc.nt, one of Ustor s mm, ie ths only survivor- he escaped di-guised.and says the Sioux completely < nveloped the forces of Cuator, who killed au horsed, using the remains forbreistworks and fouglit desperately with the Indians! charging his position again and again, but losmg heavily. One company tried -.to cut its way to the rear, but were all killed, and the bodies lay some rods from Custor all mglic.

Small-pox is prevalent in San Frunciaco, and in Metico. The Sultan of Turkey is suffering a great deal of distress, and is believed to' be goiog insane. His abdication, is expected. He never recovered the shock caused*- by " the suicide of Ab iui Azz. ' The great Powers maintain their neutrality, and the general peace is not likely to be disturbed.