ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 26, 30 January 1877, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

newspapers state that the captain of the whaler Jan Mkyson, of Peterhead re^ cently encountered an; Exquimaux, who informed him that; a tribe of Exquimau? living far to the* northward of Cumberland Gulf, many years ago' massacred Captain Crozier, the secqiid in^ command of the Ftanklin ejjpeditioiij~and five, other whites because they refused to surrender theitf guns and ammunition:' : It is stated that Captain Allen Young, who is in commaig^jof the Pandora, will next spring attempttjie north voyage in the same vessel. ; The London Globe asserts that Russia .has ordered the whole fleet to rendezvous at Ashakorf> as apprehensions art entertained; of active measures being taken by the Turkish fleet. Ashakorf is on the right bank of the Dnieper, at its mouth on the Black; Sea; | 40 miles ,NiE. of Odessa. /It was beseigejdahd taken by the Russians from the Turks in 1757, and again in 1788. The town has since gone;into decay, having a population of only about 1000. : - ■ Lieutenant Baldwin, with 100 men, drove Sitting f ßull's., camp across Missouri on the Bth of December, Bull, when last heard pf , was ; camping on Bark Creek with : 6000 warriors..,.. . The crews of 37 ice-boand vessels in Maggoty ißiyer, near Baltimore, have suffered great privations. . In one vessel four men were; found dead in the cabin. .. - Tlie steamer Centennial, value 520,000d01., and several other vessels hare been totally destroyed in ah ice crush at St Lou-s.