Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-06
T|ELEGRAPHIC BRRyITIEs.

The grand sheriff of Mecca is dead.
The reported occupation of Terneva
is declared premature.
The Turkish parliament will be re-
opened on the first Of October.
St. Petersburg dispatches deny that
the siege o: Kars has been raised.
Coastantinople is quiet, the popuIace
being apparently uumoved by the news
Of the passage of the Danube.
The porte has promised Minister Lay
ard that it will take measures to assure
the safety of its christian subjects.
The porte officially denies that the
Turkish generals have issued orders to
give no quarter to Roumsnia soldiers.
Advices from Turkish sources state
that the Russian left wing is ~retreating
in disorder in the direction Of Bayazid.
The Russian Geographic agency states
that the British feet has gone to Beshek
bay for fear Of disorders at c.. nstanti.
nople,
After the departure Of the Turks every
Turkish house in Sistova was sacked and
utterly wrecked by the Bulgarian resi-
dents.
Since the 10th of June, the Russians
have been defeated FIVE times; it is be-
lieyed that they lost 10000 men on June
Both. Their wounded ell 800 wagons.
Suelimau is now marching from Pied
goritza toward the Danube with iorty.Gve
bAttalions. Another army corps, hitherto
operating in Montenegro, has started for
Epirus.
II is announced that Suleiman pasha
occupied Cettinje, and will conduct the
affairs Of Montenegro until peace, which
Austria is endeayoring to arrange, is
concluded.
A correspondent at levin t~elegraphs
that in the battle on the 29th ultimo, the
Rgssians retired after enormous losses.
The Turks buried 1000 Russians. The
Turkish loss is less than 500.
A dispatch from Rome states that the
i'll health Of the pope is aggravated, and
that dropsy has set in. An operation
was attempted, but the weakness of the
patient prevented its success.
A Berlin dispatch says that German
fnanciers are alarmed at the large Rus.
sian issues of paper currency 1t is sta.
ted that since the outbreak of the war
6 5000, 900 roubles have been RENTED.
Mrs. Frances Preston Blair, relict Of
tia late Francis p Blair, ST., aud mother
OF Hon. Montgomery Blair, died sud
denly at the family mansion, near Silver
Spring, Maryland, yesterday morning.
The Presbyterian council opened it's
sessions in Edinburg, Scotland, yester.
day. Several American ministers par.
ticipated in the first days deliberation,
among them Rev. Stuart Robinson, Of
Louisville.
The governor of Erzeroum telegraphs
on July Sd: We have occupied Kerker,
and the Russians have abandoned Itch
k%illisso, eight miles south Of Kars. They
have also evacuated the districts Of Kara,
Killissa aud Alashkert."
Atelegram from C%oostantinople, dated
July 5, says the Russian ~retrograde
movement from Kars will it is believed,
be FASTENED by the report which has
reached Erzeroum Of a great spread Of
the iDsurrection 10 Caucasus.
When the Russians first crossed the
Danube two small cannon and six bat.
talions OF seven hundred aud fifty men
each we're sent against them, but for
some un~explained reason only four bat
t~alions were brought into action. ard
these we're badly cut up.
A Turkish account of the crossing Of
the Danube at Sistoya says that there
was only one Turkish company at the
point where the Russians landed, and
the latter had established their positions