The Osceola times., 1877-04-14
FOREIGN.

A telegram from st. Petersburg says
in spite of the signing of the protocol pessi
mist views again prevail, and war is con.
sdered inevitable.
The prince OF Montenegro has refused
to command the Bosnian insurgents. alleg.
ing thai consideration for Austria Obliged
his doing SO.
The British revenue returns for the
financial year ending the 3lst of March,
shows total revenue of G7s, 566 ,036, which
is fl53,o36 in excess of the budget estimate
and 81 ,i33,3i3 in excess of the revenue of
the previous year.
The Times correspondent at Vienna
points out that the question OF disarmament
still remains the real question at issue. 1t
has not been solved by the protocol, but only
postpo The chances of an eventful
agreement about the disarmament have not
perhaps been greatly improved by transfer.
ing negotiations from the powers to the
parties Immediately interested and inilu.
enced by the popular feeling which affairs
have t'ken, undoubtedly favorable, as it re.
moves the danger of an immediate collision
and places the powers in a position to exert
some influence on the course of affairs. Al.
though no agreement seems yet made con.
cerning the future mode of proceedings; it
| is.probable that England will be allowed to
take the lead in negotiations in Constan.
tinople, as she has done in those with Rus
! sia.
A London dispatch from Pera says that
letters from Eszeroum, Asiatic Turkey state
that there is great agitation among the
/ kurdS. Troops who were stationed upon
| the plain of Monshbtlis were recently or.
dered to Erzeroum Immediately. On their
departure some of the Kurdish tribes rose
and burned the barracks and commenced TO
plunder christian villages. The inhabitants
! fled to Bitlis. The Kurds have now been
scattered over the country for three weeks
robbing caravans of travellers. The cavalry
which has been sent against them are too
few to driveSthem back. The movement of
troops between Trezbond and Erzeroum is
more active than ever. The weather is Sc.
we're, with heavy, continuous snowfalls. Al
necessaries are at famine prices, Commerce
no longer exists. Distress is extreme. The
/ pay Of troops is thirty or even twenty-five
months in arrears, and they are il.fed and
| illclad
Further particulars of the arrest and
! imprisonment of John A. Sutter, United
| States consul at Acapulco, are as follows
| Previous to the occupation of the town by
the forces of Diaz, under command of Gen.
/ Jiminez, Gen. Alvarez, who held place in
| the interest of Lerdo, levied contributions
on the citizens to obtain funds to carry on
the contest against Diaz Among those who
| paid the amount assessed was Henry Hasten
an American VINO owned considerable prop.
erty including a plantation in the vicinity.
About this time, Consul Suffers house was
entered one night by Mexican, with view
/ 10 robbery. Suffer shot at and wounded
him, for which act he was examined and
| discharged by due process of law. When
| Jiminez entered the city, this same Mexican
/ turned up as one of his adberents with
large proportion of the rabble element, and
/ there is an impression that his private en-.
nifty LAY have had some weight in subse.
/ quent proceedings against Suffer- more par.
| ticularly as many threats were uttered
against him by the rough element. Jiminez
at once began to levy forced contributions
and seized lot of cattle belonging to Kas.
ten. The latter lodged protest with Sutter,
as the American representative, and then,
fearing personal trouble, he left the city.
On the morning Of the 9TH ultimo, Sutter
sent a protest to Jimnez, receiving a reply
to the effect that he had better be careful
how he protested against or interfered with
the action of the Mexican authorities, or he
would get into trouble. 4 few hours after
Sutter was surrounded on the street by sol.
diers, and marched of to prison. Subse.
quently Jiminez apparently concluded that
he had carried the thing too far, and he in.
formed Sutter that on making request, in
proper form, he might be liberated. Sutter
replied he would accept his liberty il offered.
but declined to request it, and still remained
in jail on the departure of the steamer. In
q letter to his brother here, he says ths. he
has sent letter to Ahe United =. psul
general at the city d Nj