THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4803, 14 August 1876, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.

ARRIVAL OF THE ZEALANDIA AT AUCKLAND.

GENERAL SUMMARY OF ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS TO JULY 19.

(per press agency.)

Cablegrams relating to the war between theTurkish Government and the insurgent provinces and Servia fill columns of the American papers. The Daily News gives a detailed account of the atrocities committed in Bulgaria during the insurrection by the Turkish irregular troops. -All moveable property has been plundered, and houses and villages burned, and all the men, women, and children indiscriminately slaughtered. It is estimated that the province, which heretofore yielded the Government an 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 sacrificed at from 18,000 to , 20,000. A correspondent names thirty-seven villages which are 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 village of Serustitza, in the district of Pbillipopolis, 1500 persons are known to have been killed. This village consisted of 4000 houses, and was prosperous and peaceful. Every house was burned, and all the inhabitants were kiiled,except a few women and children who took refuge in Vhillipopolis, and seme women who were carried off by the troops. These cruelties made a great impression at Constantinople. The English Ambassador intervened with the Government to put an end to them. Bulgaria has issued a declaration of independence. Servia declared war against Turkey, alleging as a reason her determination -to secure special administration for Herzegovina and Bosnia. Prince Milan placed himself at the head of the Servian troops, numbering 110,000 men. The excited state of the population in Constantinople caused great alarm, and the Russian. Ambassador receiving threatening and insulting letters, sent his wife and family away. Several thousand Montenegrin troops were sent to the assistance of the Herzegovinian insurgents, and the Empress of Russia sent a special hospital train. Russian sympathisers also contributed six months' provisions for the army and people of Montenegro. In a Bulgarian town, near Belgrade, the Turkish Pasha seized 500 of the leading inhabitants, and threatened to execute them if the district rises.

The Turks hung many professors and teachers in the district, and crucified some priests. The first engagements with the Servians are claimed as decisive victories for the Sultan's troops. The Sultan subscribed £20,000 to the people's war fund. The Servian forces marched into Bulgaria,, and, aided by a rising of the inhabitants, defeated the Turks in one or two engagements; but the successes were mainly all on the Turkish Bide, 1300 hundred Servians being defeated in an engagement at Tursta. The Servian losses in the first ten engagements were estimated at 5000 men. The Turks massacred" all the Christian inhabitants at Belind.

Twelve thousand Egyptian troops were despatched to Turkey. Great fanaticism and enthusiasm pervades the Turkish troops. One leader in Bulgaria boastfully paraded a cartload of heads of women and children. Letters from Alexinatz state that the Circassians burned 21 Bulgarian villages near Baginglava, murdering the men and cuttingthe children to pieces. Official reports state that during the Servian attack on Nova "Varosch, the Turks placed the Christian women and children in the entrenchments, and many were killed by the Servian fire.

The Montenegrins defeated the Turks in several engagements, but the 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 telenram from the British Ambassador at Constantinople, stating that a Turkish functionary of high position had been sent as Extraordinary Commissioner to suppress the excesses in Bulgaria. He is furnished with full powers to inflict summary punishment. The Sultan of Turkey ia suffering a great deal of distress, and is believed to be going insane, and his abdication Ib expected. He never recovered the shock of the suicide of Abdul Aziz. The Great Powers maintain their neutrality, and the general peace is not likely to be disturbed.

Influential representations are being made to the British Cabinet not to enter upon war. European advices from a multitude of sources represent business and all productive enterprises as worse than they have been during the present generation, and without any visible sign of change for the better. Tho Admiralty intend to investigate the Samoa disturbance. The Barracouta was ordered home for the purpose. , ' There [is great' depression in the Cleveland iron trade. .:,:./'.!,."

An earthquake has occurred in Vienna, Rents are visible in many houses.

The proposed reduction of 10 per cent, on the wages of 60,000 Lancashire cotton spinners'caused great' excitement, .AL "deputation Becured the postponement of the reduction. The plague at Bagdad has almost disappeared. At ft meeting of Durham colliers to consider the reduction in wages, 20,000 favored arbitration, against 16,000 in favor of a strike. Arbitration is to be carried out. By a colliery explosion in Bairley pit, Sheffield, six men were killed. The Governor of the Dutch East Indies telegraphs confirming the report of the los3 of the steamer Lieutenant-General Krossan in ths Straits, with two hundred and thirty perBons drowned. • , . . . There is trouble in Athens, and a state of siege has been.dechtod,' While H.M:SiilbC ! was waiting a trial on the in'e&ured i rrnle at Stoke Bay, Portsmouth, hor boiler - exploded, killing twenty-five of the crew. The bodies were shockingly mutilated, the flesh being stripped from their limbs by the escaping steam. The forward stoke-hole, where the explosion occurred, was divided from the after stoke-hole by watertight bulkheads. The stokers in the latter were protected from the fragments caused by the explosion, but were literally burned alive by the steam. The chief and assistant engineers were killed, and the cap- \ tain's hand blown off. The King and Queen of Greece are visiting England. AMERICAN. A fearful storm and flood ranged in Gontral lowa on the 4th of July. The hamlet of Rockdale, near Dubuque, was entirely swept away by the overflow of Catfish river. Thirty-nine persons were drowned. In Madison and Warner Counties fifteen persons were killed, and fearful damage done to live stock and crops. It is considered likely that manybodies were swept into the Missouri river. The railroad was swept away for 9 1 miles at Hurlington. A tornado was also experienced. In one squall twenty-nine buildings weie blown down, two persons killed, and six freight cars blown into the river. The storm was felt, severely at Omaha, Nebraska, buildings being blown down, but there was no loss of life. The Sioux war on the Yellowstone river and its tributaries has assumed alarming proportions. On June 20 General Custor, with his companies of cavalry, came up with the enemy on the Little Ham. He crossed with five companies, consisting of 300 men. It is believed he marched into an ambuscade, as the whole body was surrounded and cut to pieces. The Indian chief Silling Bull, with 4000 warriors, comprise the enemy. Colonel Neno, who had been despatched by Custor with three companies to cross above the camp, was afterwards surrounded, and for thirty-six hours in fearful peril, when General Terry came to the rescue. Seventeen commissioned officers were killed with Custor, 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, and the war is not unlikely to turn out one of extermination. Decrawscant, one of Custor's men, the only survivor, escaped in disguise. He says the Sioux completely enveloped the force. Custor lolled his horses, using the remains for breatworks, and fought desperately, the Indians charging hi 3 position again 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 Custor all night. A Negro riot occurred at Georgia. Several negroes and whites were killed. The affair is said to have arisen from the fact that the colored citizens had formed a volunteer military company, and were parading the Btreeta. Sections of the Press the riot as the result of the democratic politicals trying to scare the negroes from the polls. Small-pox is very prevalent in San Francisco. The sewers were all flushed and the streets sprinkled with lime. Fourteen fresh cases were reported in one day, and the disease is not confined to any particular locality, but is all over the city. Gorwood Grant, hung at Home, Ga., confessed to having killed four men, one of whom was General Hindman of the Confederate army. George Wilham, alias George Maguman, was lynched at Richmond, Ohio, for outraging and murdering several women whom he had engaged as servants and taken up country. An eastward-bound train on the Missouri and Pacific railway was stuck up and robbed near St. Louis, and 18,000dols. taken. Don Carlos has arrived at Washington. The General Hayes' steamer St. Clair, with sixteen passengers aboard, took fire on Lake Superior and was burnt to the water's edge, only the captain, mate, engineer, wheelsman, and one passenger escaping. Twenty-six live 3 were lost. The survivors were picked up by a boat. Mexico, June 16. The military situation is unchanged. The Government General Alotorre, with 15,000 troops, is at Assizaco. The campaign is expected to finish the revolution. A political revolt at Cuzco was suppressed after eight hours' street fighting. Thirty were killed and wounded.

Small-pox is devastating Santiago, Chili. Senor Soldman was elected President of Salvador. Commerce in Central American States ia slowly reviving'. In Ecuador an attempt was made to assassinate a prominent leader of the Advanced Liberal party. New York, July 15. The record of failures for the half-year reached 107,000,000d01., or 31,000,G00d01. increase: over the corresponding half of last year. Reports from various quarters indicate a turn for the better. The last sales of sperm oil at New Eedford were made at Idol. 31c. Holders are asking an advance. Nothing doing in whale oil. Refined petroleum is active ; opening at 16 cents, closing strong at 17 J cents, ca3ea are quiet at lOf cents to 20J cents. Wool exhibits a decided improvement. Manufacturers show by their action that they are satisfied the decline in prices has been checked, and are more disposed to meet the views of sellers. Boston, July 15. The transactions in wool are the largest for B, long time, comprising 3,000,0001 b. Prices remain the same. A New York telegram of July 18 reports : —Hides quiet, 16 to 17 cents ; wool quiet, fine, 19 to 26 cents; pulled, 26 to 37 cents. Whale oil, 55 to 58 cents ; sperm, Idol. 32 cents. Liverpool, July 18. Wheat, 9s. 3d. to 10s. San Francisco. Local wheat market quiet, Idol. 50 cents. Barley, feed, 90 to 95 cents ; brewing, Idol. 20 cents. Oats, receipts large, Idol. 50 cents. ENGLISH SHIPPING. Arrived : June 11 —Christian Mc from Bluff; June 11 —Howrah, from Wellington; June 18—Nelson, from Port Chalmers. Sailed: June 23 Waitangi, for Canterbury, with Zii passengers ; June 28 —Mataura, for Otago, with 50 passengers ; June 29 —Waimea, for Wellington, with 280 passengers. The follow!"" vessels are announced to leave:—July" 1 ,. r.XKpne, for Napier ; July 28—Howrah, i*oY\veflington ; July 25—Waimate, for Canterbury j July 30—White Eagle, for Otago,

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