New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-06

Turkey-A Decisive Encounter Expect.
ed-NIartial Law In Standardization
Pretexts- Strength of tho Turks Both
sides Claim to have Gained Advantages.
LONDON, July 4-In Lord Derby's reply
to the question from Lord Camperdown, he
said there was no reason to suppose that
the Russian officers had entered the Servian
army with the consent or by the authority
of the Russian government.
The Standards correspondent at Paris
writes that military men there think q de-
-cisive encounter must take place within q
week in the neighborhood of Metcsh.
The Standards Vienna dispatch says the
Turks have only 80, 600 men in Metcsh, but
are we'll fortified there.
A dispatch to the Standard, dated Con.
stantinOple, July |, announces that Hobart
Pashs had sailed for Smyrna with a fleet of
eight first rate ironclads, four wooden fri
gates and two dispatch boats. 1t is sup
posed the Turkish government apprehends
disturbance in Crete and wishes to have
fleet near the island. The correspondent
says:
II do not think there is any ground for
fear OF disturbance there. The Cretans
will not stir without the aid of the Greeks,
and am able to assert positively that the
Greeks will exert themselves to their ut.
most to maintain neutrality, and will in no
way ipjure Turkey"
The Standards Vienna dispatch says:
Semi official advices from COnstantinOple
represent that the Porte is confident it will
be easy to dispose of Servia. The Porte is
hoping that Prince Milan will soon sue for
peace.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Bel
grade, because q disturbance was threat
ened. The Princess Natalia, wife of Prince
Milan, and 200 ladies meet daily to make
lint for the hospitals.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Standard says: A review of nearly all the
Independent newspapers of Germany shows
that the opinion is general that the pre-
texts for war are some of the most frivolous
ever advanced. 1t is unanimously believed
that Russia instigated the war. 1t is con-
sidered certain in Berlin that Russia is
making war preparations to great extent.
A correspondent of the London Times at
Cattaro telegraphs that advices from Get
TIME represent that the Turkish expedition
against the Kutschi tribe, which refused to
pay tribute to the Governor of Scutari, has
been driven back to POdgOritza by Monte
negriHs and Kutschi.
A telegram from Constantinople to the |
Times eports that great distress prevails |
in Asiatic Turkey.
Berlin memorandum. 1t generally cor.
responds with the version already pub
lished. |
The Times has Vienna dispatch which |
says that the Turks do not intend to operate |
on the Danube with gunboats.
Cattro scouts report Mukhtar Pasha |
abandoned GatechkO, retreating into Bos. /
MIA.
The Times, commenting on yesterdays |
debate in Parliament on tho Eastern ques. |
ton, concludes: The British people do not |
think it incumbent on them to pull down
the Turkish authority which they aided in
maintaining twenty years ago, but they
will not allow Themselves to be drawn into
another Crimean war by the belief, which
in the disposition of the present dominion
of the Sultan implies the advance OF the
Russians to Constantinople.
EUinor, q newspaper, the organ of the
Hungarian government, asserrs that thOus-
ands of Russian volunteers are expected in
Servia.
A correspondent of the Daily TelegruM
writes from Berlin: The Turkish ambassa-
dor positively assures ns that the Porte |
has 10000 of it's best troops Oh the scene of
war.
A Vienna telegram 10 the Daily Ners re-
ports that GOrtscbaka ii will have an inter.
view with Bismarck 1t Kissengen before he
Joins the EmperOrs of Russia and Austria
at Reichenan.
The same dispatch mentions report that
seventeen Turkish gunbod = are at Wedden.
ready to lombard lselgrade.
Earl Russell writes to Lord Granville,
pointing to tn. treaty which was made il
1897, between England, Russia and France,
to secure the independence Of Servis.
A special dispatch from Belgrade to the
Echo says: The Servians have captured
the Tui kish Outworks near Belina, and the
town y, is-lina is on fire."
The Eerlin correspondent of the Dailv
Telegraph, in special telegram to that pa
pei, Gays: am able to state that the North
ern powers have forwarded to England
most satisfactory assurances in regard to
I h. war. They express q determination to
remain completely neutral, and evince q
strong desire to lOcalze the struggle.
A special from Vienna to the Meas says
10000 of the imperial guard are leaving
ConstantinOple for Servia.
The Turks claim further success over the
Servians, near Nissa and over the Mon
tenegrins near P0dgaritza, where it is
stated the Montenegrins lost 300 mon.
SlavOnic advices on the contrary claim the
counter thus far.
From tho Turkish Standpoint = Official
Advices.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-Aristarchi Boy, |
the Turkish envoy extraordinary and min
ister plenipotentiary to this country, has
received the following dispatches:
The Minister of Foreign Affairs-To the Turkish
Minister at Washington:
CoNsrANr1NoPLE, July 4, 1876.
The princes of Servia and Montenegro,
without any legitimate motive and without
eny provocstion on our part, have been de-
blared in war with us. The Servisns enter I
pRr territory by three different points. !
Troops have been sent against them.