, 1876-04-18
The Turkish Difficulty Becoming
Daily Moro Complicated.
No Terms but Independence Acceptable
to tho Insurgents.
Limerick I{omc-Ilnfcrs and Nationalist.
Indulge In Mighty Row.
4 Hundred OF More Heads Broken. and
Several Persons Fatally Hu.:,
Miscellaneous budget Of Nows from,
China and Japan.



sAs Francisco. Cal, April lily the British
steamer Crocns wo have dates from Shanghai.
March 10. and Hong Kong, March Is.
English diYosa azo non. at work on tho wreck
OF tho Pacific steamship Japan.
Tho Fle.chor buildings, NJ Hong Kong. wore
destroyed by fire March ".
A d1sastroua ep!lemio prevails pear soochow.
Tbs disease is lmperloctly knoun, hnd donth Ia
stmoat immediate after setzuro. Several villages
hays boon dopopalated.
Contributions to tho Philadelphia Exposition
coutlnue to 10 dispatched frum various porta.
Two formidable iusurrections mo now dis
turbpg tho peace Of ChIna.--ono iu Kivo1yng.
which has gained great strength, tbs rebels lay-
lug baon joined by tue Imperial troops so1! to
qucll them. Beyoral Interior e!sfea have boon
taken, and a1e now held By this body. 1llo acc
ord Is In Thans, tho Importance Of which may
10 ostimatotl by tho fact that tho vicoroy of
Kansu IL endeavoripg 10 negotiate loan Of
10000. GOO taeIs, expressly to pay tho troops anu
purchase l. rms and InatesaI to aubdue It. Tho
payn.ont of the loan IL to be secured by the
hypotlecstiou Of tho cnatoma of porss Oh aie
iangtze River.
frontier OF Yunnan Fab q.
Tho Investigation Of tho MarFaty murder case
by Ly Hun Chang vas proceeding In innnsn
The difficulties at bfacao had hnoil Rettlcd ny
tho Chinese yioldtnE aud abandoning tho posi-
tion. Tlsoy wero intsndatetl by tho threats OF
the Portuguese. The intention was TO establish
= uativo custom.houao on patosn lsland, near
Macao. The Portuguese authorities declared
their purroee 10 realss Il by force, ghrriaoned
their forts, tnd occupied tho disputed island
With large body Of troops. Ia consequences OF
thosa energetic propositions tho ohinese stopped
tlloir proceedings. Notwithstanding it !s . vol.
koown fact that no part Of tho territory held by
Tho Portuguese in Chtua VAS ovor coded to them
it is occupied in defiance Of China OF which 1t
ia a. much psst aa any other place In tho En-
ptso.
The attonpk to establlsh railway betvosn
Shanghai and Wo!aung, dietance Of ! few tnilos
only, 10 vohomanty opposed by tho Chneso nu-
t4oFities. and tho work 10 temporarily auHpsnd-
cd. Tho enterprise was ptojocend By Foreigners,
to avoid tho difficulties OF navigating tho river
~ fur up aB Shanghai, Weisung being moro
caai'y accessible.
yoxonAuA, March 25.-Iha United States flag.
ship Tennessee Is expeoto1 at Yokohama tlay I.
The Raco leaves for san Francisco carly IN April.
Tho Aehuelut will ronh!n at Yokohama durpg
tho summer.
Hanjo s3anoyosi, tho Primo Minister. or DatJo
Daiin, OF Jnpau, Ia preparing to visit Amer!ca
and Earopo. Ills purpose III not ret dlvnlKed.
A military station ID TO DO established at Loo
choo lHlRnd at a CoBt of $8j.000
reception aud banquet In to DO 9tyon by Tho
Mikado. :tarch a. 70 coloLrAto khs settlement OF
Tho Corenn question: All tho fore!gu Ministers
aro Invited.
fro in Yedo March 10, dcatroyod 200 houses.
Two tircmeu wnro killed mud 30 eeral Houuaed.
Tho German frigato Hcrthn sailed from Yoko-
hama to join tho squadron aostiued to enforce
tho clntms sxainst China in tho caao Of tho Cor
man Anna. ...
A yiolent hurricann occurred March II. Houses
| in Yokohama nut Yeuo MeIo blown t}own, and
ghfps in tho harbot woro capszed and Bnnk.
Only ona foreign vossoi waa Iost.-ths British.
bark Mary Jano.
The Bsi.ihh man-ot-rar Sylvia had sailed for
Corea, with the intentton OF initiating tho Jap
anose proceedings 10 hopnn ot similar guccsss.
Tho competition between tue JapanoBe stoau,..
ship Liuo to Shanghai and The pculnsnlar aud
Oriental Company continues 1norKetic. Tho
Tapantao reduced tho fares to 81 par loo miles,
aud freight to 81 per ton far 1,0o' mies. Tho
Government Indirectly supports tho natlso ahlpa
| in this. struggle. by compelling the Japaucao
trAvslcts in foreign botsosna to procure sppo!a
permits. The foreign Mluiatore protest, aud the
result is d tiuo diplomatic ID well as mercantile
| quarrel
Stringent rules for preventing tho sproad Of
| tho cattle poHtenoe bavo boen circulated and
| enforced In nll parts Of tho Empire.