The Hickman courier., 1877-11-30

she war ia Tsfe East
The Russians have lost, in killed. woun
ded and missing, from the commencement
to November 7th, 81 ,863 men.
4 Adispatch dated Veran Kaleh. Sunday
evening, says the fortress of Kars. with
three hundred caunons. stores. ammuni.
tion and cash fell into the Russian hands
The Turks lost five thousand killed and
wounded, ten thousand prisoners and
mnv flags. The Russian loss is about
tgenty seven hundred. The Russian
soldiers made but t5ifing BOOTY. and
/ spare peaceful citizens. women and chill
dren. General Melikof directed TIE
battle during the dav. Grand Duke
4IehHl was also present.
j Russian 6gent Is in Philadelphia 10
4 contract for a bridge ecToss the Danube
! in ROumsnia. The requirements are
} such, however, that, the leading company
lin Philadelphia distrusts It's ability 10
meet them, snd has declined the contract.
I IL Is provided that the bridge shall be
I iron and 2l00 feet long, but without q
Ssalpoaytin2 pier from shore TO shore, the
ehoR 10 be completed before tie spring
campaign. For such bridge the Rus
sian government Is willing to pay So, 000,-
I UUO. An order was received Friday from
et-l4-E - " C4 l4-4AG.ita 4DA alAtF lOtOslD-
lyes, but the terms offered were not sat
lsiactory, and member Of the Baldwin
Locomotive works company sailed atOnce
70 negotiate further at 81 Petersburg.
Kars has been captured and
occupied by the Russians. after
siege Of nearly seven months. IN
ISIS kars surrendered without defense.
In the Crimeau war it was starved out
rhar,
placed entirely around the town and
citadel, commanding the surrounding
country. The Russians have had q
hundred heavy siege guns operating
againt these works, and have stuck to
their task, with the exception of a few
weeks in August, with great tenacity
The capture OF hars removes every OBJ
structiOn IN Armenia, except Erzeroum
and BatoUm. The former is not likely
to hold out long, as the Russians can
now rapidly re-enforce General Tergusa-
koH Batoum Is strongly gsrrisoned by
the Turks and is backed by the Turkish
fleet which could make the place uuten-
able even If the Russians took il. The
capture Of Kars, however, goes q long
way toward the sUbiecti0n Of all Turkish
Armenia to Russian rule. and will be re-
garded at C0ustantinople as fatal to
Mukhtar's security in ErzevOum.-C C0u-
rier Journal
\ correspondents at Constantinople tele-
graphs the following A council, over
which the sultan presided was held yes
terday. [ am informed that 81 general
feeling was expressed, aud by no one more
strongly than the sultan, ia favor Of
making an effort to put an end to the
war, IN which enough had been done on
both sides for glory, and which, II con-
tinued, must indict lasting misery upon
the two empires Tt was felt, however,
that at present sufficient reliance cannot
be placed upon the declarations Of Russia,
and that even while speaking To obtain
an honorable peace preparations tor q
prolonged resistance must be vigorously
carried OF. I am told that subject 70
this determination TO prosecute the war
If an honorable peace cannot be main
tanned, II was resolved that the time for
to put an end % the war
had arrived. If my information IS cor
rect. the grand vizier viii to-day inform
council, in the hope that England win
aid in putting a stop TO the war which
greatly damages her own trade and
threatens to compromise her best inter
ests. Special dispatches say that Count
Andrassy, the AUstrO-Hungarian ire
mier, has declared his belief that Servia
viii not bAak the peace"