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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 171, 21 July 1877, Page 4

[* J -^e _»err correspondent of t_e Daily Telegraph ; .writes^ that five leading Circa^Ti-jghiefs. started from Con- ; stantinbo'r.f9r.Batoum. Their name's T^9,l^^j]^Haßseio Bey, M'andkambafeat Maveman Bey, Hadji Alt Bey, and Mehemet Bey-r— They" had arranged a carefully considered^ rplaa o^ac^ioja, with the Ottomaa-__fchorkiesj ; f^-'tVeir own c^-B^W?ti : '% r iv9d ai Batoum hey ■-^rem^or^ata^the" squadron of gaßsari CPaHhWj.Mh6)®rthwith sailed with five iroae|pd^for[fiihe;;Russ!_n f ;p„ri and* forti ress of Sukhttia Kaleh-.£ The Turkish men of war made their destination in | **h_» d^klie^p of the ea^moMwngjcasti I __Mri«Jiii_9!'_ofelock j | Ppsf landed, the-oCR* cassiad party of men carrying 600 mußkets"ond ammunition, which! we"f.Q3 _istflibated / a__ong the! expectant 3 Thej neighbosuigJeoohtry Wasr_o thoroughly! and quickly r©_sed r t__t by broad day-: IJ&hy&SJIISJ '& jiad got tQgatha&asi i_s_-yj raerrahdea an additional force, ~oom-j pgsad^l&'fJ^ lß_r_, oF'o^fierV.eircasftians, 1 Kurds, Lazjeoiiaod. Turks, and while th^- ißOttclads opened &J vjgofojas ' cannonade upon thejortreasi the Beys, with their, volunteers and .auxiliaries, attacked ■ 'the place With desperate o^i-ifßSNi* 3?h* Russians offered' a determined, hut vain opposition, losing i terribly.;, A^ter this the insurrection ia *ae_crib_d 'as having /spread like wildfire. The inhabitants of the surround.ing .districts gathered by. thousands;, •gijb wie_patis of all sorts, to t_e Turkish standard ; they drove .She Muscovite garrison and guards all over the district, chasing them vtoGangara,- ;whioh they alnordes^px|d. : ',.'Wheif these successes ftere reported, Hassan Pasha f landed a I new Supply and - e^rtndges to equiji the Cifcassians, and ft formidable ' local force -.Was-organised to march upon j the railway line tdTiflis, aiming at the dire(Jtiorar of ' Kntsais. .Another large j baud' 1 Wat 'despatched fo raise the ; country^ in the. rear of the- Russian I columns which are attacking Batoum. IGraafc iniporiahde is ! attached io tho , rising in Circasaia. A large force of i Circassian eoligranta with Government : stores of arms and. ammunition "have I been .shipped frotn the Bcsphorus for a; |pdrrife f; oh the Black Sea. j "The following telegram appears. . in ! the i Australasian :— " An old woniaa loanied Margaret Cranslow, maoyiye&pa jresdent at r Ba'^ley Town, 12 milea from Baech worth, was burned to death ion-Saturday night. She wr. i a widow, ■68 years old, living alone in a shanty. She was sitting by the fire when hor Icloth'ea caught. A raaQ pastiog saw her run qnt all ablaze, and put out the flames. He then ran into the house and found it burning. He extinguished the fire. The woman, -who was drunk, came in again and fell, on the fire, her clothes getting alight again. The man, a farmer, named, Holihaus, again put the fire out, and: procured assigtance. Tho died on Sunday morning.