Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-27

Inc AuIhs nave fetreated toward Med
Idle, on the line OF the Kustendje rail-
way, so that the whole north end Of Do.
brudscba may be said to be abandoned.
The Russians have made a second
crossing at Sirzova. A force Of IS, 900
men passed over and has effected a
junction with the d~etachments coming
from Matchin.
Ex-Congressman G. Wiley Wells, of
Massachusetts,, was to day commissioned
consul general to China, vice John O..
Myers, of Nebraska, suspended under
the tenure Of Office scts
1t is asserted at Constantinople that
the English consul at Rustcbuk, who
also acts for the United States, unavail-
ingly tried to avert the Russian FIRE by
hosting the American flag
General Sherman leaves Washington
to day for a tour Of inspection of the
posts on the Yellowstone. He will be in
st. Paul, Mimi on the Fourth Of July,
and at Bismarck on the eighth.
The entire population is flying from
Rustchuk, and the governor general of
the province has declared he holds the
authorities responsible for the lives OF the
fugitives, who are mostly Christians.
A letter from the United States consul
at Buenos Ayres says the losses by the
late storm Of cattle, sheep and horses
can not be estimated, but they must
amount to hundreds of thousands, If not
millions of head.
At a special election for seventeen
members of the legislature to represent
Charleston county, yesterday, the Demo-
cratic ticket, containing the nauei of
fourteen white and three colored citizens,
was elected without opposition.
The corps now entering Dobrudscha is
ordered to advance as quietly as possible
up TO the line Of Czernavoda and Kus-
tendje railway. Alter their arrival the
right wing Of the center of the army
will force a passage higher up the stream.
A Constantinople dispatch says that
advices from Erzeroum state that Mukh-
tar Pasbs has WOE a great victory and
taken 1000 Russian prisoners. A fresh
attack by the Russians on Batoum is
expected. Ten thousand Russians capt.
ulated at Bayazid.
General Mcdowell has been instructed
by General Sherman to have the Indians
pursued as fast as possible, and to pay
no attention whatever to the boundary
lines Of the different military command
ers, but to punish the Indians wherever
they may be caught.
The Servian minister of war has or
dered out for early camp drill sixteen
battalions Of soldiers who served in The
standing army during 1870 and 1876;
also, eight battalions regulars and mill
tia officers, hitherto a too valuable one
to be taken again into active service.
The report recently published Of a
conspiracy to blow up the Suez canal was
based on authentic information, but the
khedive is takirg effective measures to
prevent any such attempt on land, while
the sea police is being organized under
the command of two English officers.
The secretary of war directs that sub.
s~istence stores be sold to officers and en-
listed men on credit, they giving proper
receipts. The order is issued on account
Of no appropriation for the support Of
the army having been made. A similar
order to enable them to obtain fuel, etc,
from the quartermaster's department
will be issued.
Revenue Agent Brownlow reports TO
the commissioner Of internal revenue at
Knoxville, that he made a successful
raid on the illicit distillers in Hancock
county, capturing Doc Ray and Bud
Raines, the ringleaders, and a half dozen
small offenders, aud destroying two stills,
fourteen s%tillhouses, eighty.flur tubs Of
beer, and seventy,Rve gallons Of whisky.
The commissioner of the general land
Office has made the following apportion.
ment Of the gross sun Of three hundred
thousand dollars appropriated by con-
gress for land surveys during the next
fiscal year: "For the survey Of private
land claims in New Mexico, $35, 600;
Colorado, $1,000; California, $4,000; Ari.
zoua, $4,000; total, $4,000. For the
survey of public land claims in Colorado,
1876, 600; Louisiana, $1,000; Florida,
$s65O; Utah, $4,000; Minnesota, $l2,.
400; Dakota, $l7,7OO; Montana, SlT, 700;
Nebraska, $l4,4OO; Idaho, $l4,4OO; New
Mexico, $l4,4OO, California, ST., 700;
Oregon, sl6,O5O; Nevada, sl6,O5O;
Wyoming, sl4,4OO; Arizona, 1880;
Washington, $l6,O5O; total, $242, 900;
inspection of surveys, $40, 900; grand
total, 5000, 900.
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