The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-11-23
FOREIGN.

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The African explorer, Gordon, intends
to continue hi, explorations in consequence
of having discovered branch of the White
Nile river, which may possibly enable him ia
avoid the rcpids which hitherto barred hi,
progress and open water communication
from Victoria Nyan& to Kharton.
4 cable special to the Herald says the
Turkish fleet was about to enter the Black
sea, and will take up a position of Shopc
and Trebi,on, both Of which the Black sea
forks, and have been recently fortified. If
this occurs the history of 1858 may be re
of Sihope that the Turkish vessels were de-.
! Stroyed by the Russian fleet under the com
mand of Nakahomo, with Il loss to the Turks
OF four thousand mcn. This act ON the part
of Russia made the Crmcan war inevitable.
| The advance Of the Turkish fleet into the
| Black sea may fire a min" which all Europe
| is shudderng to see explode. Another
special from the lIcraId's correspondent at
Vienna declares that Scrvia has been ten
dered ten thousand brccch-Ioaders for her
militia by the Grand Duke Michael Con.
statine, commanding the Russian forces in
Be22a, Arabia Where the men will be
found who are to use these arms remain, to
be seen. The theory in Vienna is they must
come across the Russian frontier.
Adviccs from the City of Mexico to
the twenty-ninth instant report that Lcrdo
Teiada is declared elected president by one
hundred and thirty. one to iorty-fyc. The
in various directions. Their resources are
all exhausted, and final collapse is expect
ed Oaxca still gives trouble, but Gen. Diaz
and his followers are compelled to keep in
the mountains, and are afraid to meet the
government troops
4 telegram from Japan, dated the
sixth, SAYS n japanese naval and military
force attacked the insurgents that day at
Sagrie, in the province OF Nagato. The in
surgents were beaten and fled,
The section of the Brazilian cable be-
tween Rahia and Rio Janeiro, which was in
terrupted some time since, has been repaired.
Russia insists on an early conference
of the powers on the basis of the English
proposals. Gen. Ignaticil, the Russian am
bassador at ConstantinOple, has been in
.tructed to support energetically the large
measure Of administrative autonomy for lios.
MIA, Herzegovina and Bulgaria, with eillcI-
cous guarantees under the control OF the
powers.
The duchess of Aosta, ex-queen Of
Spain, is dead.
Russia il taking steps to promote cot
ton culture in Central Asia, where the an.
nual product is now about 10000 pounds.
American seed is to be introduced
The fruit cop in England this year
is poor, and large shipments of apples are
being made from New York.
The German navy list for 1876, Just
published, enumerates the German war navy
as follows: Ironclads, eight frigates and
three corvettes; cruisers, fourteen coryettes
and nine gnn.boats OF the tirst'class'
vessels for coast defense, seven iron
clad gunboats, eleven torpedo. boats,
ei,ht run.boats of the second-clasS,
81 ( avisos, and two transports; scholarships,
one shin of ;he line, one sailing vessel, four
coryettes, and nine brigs; vessels for harbor
ssryice. nine steam transports, three vessels
serving as barracks, five pilot-boats, and ten
vessels for the transport OF coal.
Japan is making progress In political
and social economy. a new census on ac'
curate principles is about to be undertaken,
and the codifcation of the laws Of the EN-
pire is under way. The Yokohama letter in
the San Francisco Atlas, from which we de
rive the above information, adds: Japan
nossesses two small railroads. Both Of them,
it is only justice to state, are remarkably
we'll managed and singularly exempt from