UNITED STATES.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 852, 1 December 1877, Page 2

UNITED STATES.

The'odinmissiont') Sioux Indians m, Canada failed. Sit; ing Bull with difficulty' was persuade/I to meet tfie American poramissibiiers. He sunpecred fcreaehei-y and accuse I. Canadian officers of design to surrenrender hjm." He deblared he would not believe anything the Americans said. Tha Americans could not fight. They lied, cheated^betrayed, but were women m battle. At- the interview with G<m. Jetry and Commissioners they offered to provide food and a suitable location for Sitting Bull and his people, on the condition ohey would surrender their arms and live quietly on their, reservations, .. aud no osfiiiZHiice would be taken of past ofltances Sitting Bail required the conamt.-sioners to sit m f dl : vii>w of hi.4 armed Indians. Hrn mad* no reply after Jis ening to the terms but witlidrew, Bud the com mis. sione» 8 a Ijourned as wise as wh«n they started. Sitting Bull's* complaiut is well founded. Tao Indian Departmen-of the Unite I States is the most corrupt branch of the Public service. E 'idence of a .lamnatory character is cumulative. The tribe was goaded by despair to aght, preferring dea.h on the battle tield to starvation and utter degralation. Gigantic lind friuds disojver.-^d m T'-xas. The ram ficaliousj- exten- • led thtoughout the dtate. The 1 'nemhe> s of the ring were lawyers, tankers, clergymen, and hi^h )fficiais.- 30 were arrested. Twenty ■j»urt houses, m Varims parts of Texas, were barne I, to destroy •roofa i if forg«ri«s. Tue fi-.tnls over a period of i 5 years, and ar« h tid to affect the tibia to an imuense uea of territory. -

[PKR TUB iLHAVMBHA AT TUB BLOFcJ London, November 1. Turkish deserters from Plevna oe numerous. There is a report Uiafc tho, garrison is short of provisions and am'.iriUioti. The fate of Osiria Pasha's army, ■xcites sjreab uneasituisa ab Comcantiraople. Chetkot Pasha is forfcif/ing Orohanif, on ihe road between S <phi;t md PLvu.i. London, November 2. The * Russians are advanooijf on he Sophia road, and took Kndouize, beyond Telic'ie. Ciefket Pashia, with twelve bit tailing of infantry, fl*d, and was porsued by he Russian cavalry. It is reported it Bucharest that Chetket Pasha ;v .8 repulsed with great loss m at einpbing to retreat to Telioke. Ihe Russian head-quarters have oeen removed to JBujfol, mil way between Plevna and liof.cha. Eight thousand Turksh troops, the best regulars loft m the cipital, .jave bee.i sent to the front. Two hundred an I tiftv housam ; . nvn have been sumaioued co the tanks. Ooasrautinople telegTaoH states Suliema i P .sha has been ordered to resume the off ens ye. The Russians a ivance.l to Vetjva half way between Kustchuuk an i Rasgrad on Friday (November !?), md wer^ repulsed with loss ot swveral hundred men. 25,000 iServiaus are massed on feni j frontier. Skirmishes have commenced. London, November, S Ismail Pasha conaraauus the Curkish forces at Erzeronm. London, November. 6 The Russians attacked the Turkish )ositt iv as Erz r nun |on M mday, sth inao. After ten hours' ti^hfctu -»• he Turkish oen re was sha tered, nd Mukhtar P«isha's position ai DevenboyuQ, near Erzerjuin, wa-» untenable. The combined Turkish forces haw reached Erzeroum. At Hassui(Caleli on the night of the 3J h October, the Russians surrouu-le-i he rear-guard of the Turkish army. | »n'l captured two battalions, The coivespo ttlonfc of the ' tyxdy Tyleufraph * was made a pi isoner, but was allowed to escape afoer bein^j plundered by the Cossacks. The Ru-siin divisions are cone in«rated at Kopdkoi, to tue northeast of Erz j roum. London, November 8. The capture of Erzeroum is not confirmed. London, November 10. Mukhtar Pasha's reported retrea< fcom Erzeroum is inaccurate. Sic Arnold fCumbaH, British Vlilitary (Jo nmissioner, has gone to Baiburt, The Russians attuckel the re■lo ibt m fro&t of Ez j roum, and after nine hours' fighting were repulsed with heavy loss. Mukhrar N Pasha puigued the Russians to Devenboun. Eighteen Turkish officers showed cowardice during the engagement at Devenbouan. In repelljog a sortie from I£irs ■ >ti che 5.1 i -ust nt, two •>» all >us of Uissiau infani'-'y nuCere.i s> t ir t >vit.iin th« luki-h line* that- bhuy > bdyonei-ted ma y or the defen iers, spiked some guns, took fifty t [jfis mers and a 'terw-irdu Withdraw*. ! j !■/ is r-pn'-tec- ill if- 'he if*' 1 ! i«ou at I Xit i-3, cjusi^riii; of 12,000 nipfi. are' • nlf -nu-f from ( Ce.n S.-arOity of Wjpd j md water. LonD w ? No vein her 12. A Turk's > i couu.isanqe on ihe r liom, mav|e >v \iq 9 h ins „ .ill iw«d i Uut tt lar^o \ )ruo.» . oi tho C»4ie. (

witches army had be>?n withdrawn to aid m investing Pievna, L'he Ri\93i in3 atinoiino-i the Captare of Omlz 1, near Oroh t *nie, the 9th inst, with severalithousandwagons containing p: ovidiona. | A letter 'from ay Ciirre^pon lenti who enteriid fPlevna wiihv^he lastj Tmkish cohyby,; reports provisions at famine- pritiek -- The ' TimWs? says that the failure to capture Et-sai'') >na o n Friday, the 9th inst, by a coupdemditt, miy be re^ar.led as making it, secure for the winter. Londov, Nov-mber 13 Russian, ca'yalry , are sotuu'ing .al i theo juntry between Plevna, Widdin, and Orbhahier ; ' vi A. Turk ten Pisha is leaving Bosnia for: Oroiiariie w'ixh " fifty nihe-bVttali-ons of inUntry ani <» bit-tery 01 Kruppguuu. ;