The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-09-01

likely the expected great battle at Alexintz
or Delegrade, will never be fought. The
officials continue to assure the public of
their ability to beat the Turks, nevertheless
CONSERVATION prevails, and must increase as
the number of runaways increases in the
streets.
A dispatch from Belgrade says that
while war preparations continue actively,
and while even the peace party consider any
fate preferable to the deposition of prince
Milan and the annexation of any part of Ser
via to Turkey, or even for period of Turk
ish rule, there are at the same time a de-
preston of spirits and a desire for peace
among the moderate party and the Servian
people, and the Intervention of the powers
is anxiously looked for, in the hope that it
would bring peace without any of the above
conditions, which, it is feared, the Turks de-
sire to impose. Rather than accept any one
of these, the moderate party will support
the government in continuing the struggle
until Servia conquers or can not fight longer.
They say the deposition of prince Milan
would occasion dynastic civil war, which
would retard the progress Of the country
twenty years. AS for Turkish rule here, the
foremost men of Servia, and even the Op-
ponents of the war, say it is better that all
the servians perish in the struggle than sub
NIT to it that it is evident that if the in
tervention of the powers does not bring
peace, that no arrangement between the bel
ligerenUs themselves is likely to.
A railroad disaster in Spain has re-
suited in a law providing that when an ac-
cident in any way chargeable to the railroad
company occurs, the company shall pay $15,-
900 to the family OF each person killed, ST.
600 to the family of each person ineapaci-
tated, and S. day to each injured person
until recovery.
Thirty-six thousand six hundred dol
lars was paid by China to satisfy the claims
of the German minister for indemnity and
retributiOn in the case of the ship Anna.
Viceroy Fukeim, reported in disgrace in
consequence of this affair, was summoned to
Peking to give explanations.
Panama advices to the 5th inst. state
that warlike troubles loom up in the Colom-
bian republic. The first outbreak, in the
sIdtt Vi Oducd, on July lVbn, mas spread ana
pronunciamentos against the government
have been rife in that section, and the con-
servative Catholic or clerical party are in
open rebellion. There have been several
fights in Cartago. One hundred liberals
government party were killed or wounued
by the conservatives, who gained the fight
at Videla, near Palmyra, July 18th. The
liberals defeated five hundred conserva-
tives, and another body of five hundred
conservatives, under Daniel Herrera, were
at Mount Pacheca, Herrera losing his life in
the fray.
DR.. Yakshich, of Belgrade, great au-
thority on the subject estimates the popuia-
ton of European Turkey, exclusive of the
at 100000, of whom 100000
are slaves. Add to these latter 100000
slaves among population of 100000. The
number of Mohammedans is estimated by the
same authority at 1000, and although these
are inferior in number to the christians, they |
possess all the advantages to be derived from
holding the reins of power.