The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-04-21
FOREIGN NEWS.

VIENNA, April 2O.-Half of the Nicsic
garrison are sick. Moukhtar Pashas
losses during the retreat were enormous.
The mountain passes admitted only five
men abreast Rocks were continually
hurled down on the Turks rs they strug-
gled through.
PARIS. April %. The Bourse was con
vulsed at the close by n report that 1000
Montenegrins had joined the insur-
gents.
CoNsTANrINoPLE, April 20.-The Minis
ter of War has the official report from
Mouktar Pasha. He reached Fort Pre-
geka in three hours from Nicsic, where
he left provisions for Nicsic and re-
turned to Gatzho had six days fighting
against 1900 rebels. The Prince Of
Montenegro made war on him.
Some 1000 well armed regularly or
ganized Montcnegrins joined the rebels
LONDON. April 30, 1876. The Le-
want Herald of April IL, pub
lished at Constantinople, says that at
Hillah, a town Of Asiatic Turkey, sixty
miles south of Bagdad. from March 2S
to 81 inclusive. there were sixty-sx new
cases of plague and forty-two deaths.
| At Bagdad there were, from March 2S to
| April l 145 new cases and seventy-five
deaths. The plague has now crossed to
the left bank of the river Tigris. which
had previously escaped it.
The Eastern Question.
A dispatch to the Reuter- Telegram
Company from Berlin says the mainte-
nance of complete agreement between
three Northern powers is affirmed
From all quarters, moreover, it has bee1
decided not to take any further steps III
the Eastern question without pre-
vious understanding amongst them
selves and with three other guarantee
'0 Prince of Wales.
The Prince of Wales sailed yesterda,
from Gibraltar for Cadiz. He will visi
Madrid and Seville before going t.
Gray. the Forgcr.
William E. Gray, charged with forger,
in New York, was arraigned to-day
Can't. Thomas Sampson, detective 70
the United States Government. tn
Stock Exchange. and Sub-Ireasury
produced the necessary papers, and tn
Justice formally committed the prisone
10 the House of Detention for at leas
, fifteen days, after which it will rest wit
the discretion of the British Governmen
whether he shall be extradited or moi
l Counsel for prisoner urged on behalf {
his client his right to claim that h
should only be tried for the crime &c
Z which his extradition is claimed
! namely: Forging and altering Ne'
York State bonds originally for on
i thousand dollars to ten thousan
| dollars.
a The Eastern Question.
, The Berlin correspondence of the Itm'f
, reviews the situation in the East as 10
lows: AS the suspension Of negotiation
is the only measure which has .followe
: the refusal of the insurgents to lay dow
9 their arms, the insurgents are MOI
& than ever convinced that the Russia
5 Government, although bent upon pr
f venting the immediate dismembermer
S Of Turkey, is too much influenced Q
f the Slave party to allow Austria TO r.
= store peace. Under these circumstance
:. the increase of the rebellion IS on
S natural.
: According to numerous contIadictt
y statements. NJ. krassaff, the Russia
a diplomatic agent at Belgrade, has i
d formed his Government that the Sc
d yians mean to take the field in May.
It The Russian representative at Nlenl
has informed the Servian Minister tn
Seryia need fear no foreign interventio
a The Insurgents have received consi
Il erable sums of money from Russia. 4
o these facts have gradually convinced
s large portion Of the German press a.