The Portland daily press., 1878-01-04
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will vote with him in this view of the case.
A Bucharest correspondent telegraphs that
thousands of draught animals persisted in
the recent storm, and details are slowly
coming in concerning the sufferiugs of
the Turkish prisoners from Plevna, on the
way to Roumania. They were unaccompanied
by any vehicle for the purpose of picking up
those who fell By the wayside. These were
left by the guards to freeze, as they had no
means of carrying them, aud halt would
only have been to Increase the number of vic
Tins. The absence of wagons was not due to
deliberate cruelty but to the thoughtlessness
which SO unfrequently subjects Russian sol
ders to unnecessary suffering. Roumanlan
officers who came from Nikopolis to Plevna,
after the passage of the Turkish prisoners, said
that they drove against number of dead bod
les in the snow. No provision was made in
the Bulgarian valley for the sustenance of the
captives, tut when the Danube was passed
supplies were provided, and from that time
their lot was never hard to bear.
After exceedingly difficult passage over snow
covered mountains and frozen foot paths the
vanguard of Russian division has occupied
the Balkan passes between Arobaknonk and
Sophia. and cavalry has already been stationed
on the Sophia road. The Turks we're taken by
surprise, consequently the Russians lost only
five wounded. Along the eastern branch,
namely the river LON, the Turks have with
drawn from all their positions, leaving only
all ornnod hodias nounynsed of troonS ond iO-
habitants. The latter with their arms retired
to the woods after burning their own villages.
OTHER FOREIGN NEWS.
1t appears that the rebellion in Punta Are
mas, Chilli, was organized for the purpose of put
ting down Captain Guzalde, the chief of the
garrison. The governor was at first entirely
unable to quell the rebellion. The rebels after
cruelty assassinating the captain set fire to the
buildings, including the hospital with all the
patients in it. The church and the house OF
the priest have escaped injury. The rebels
stole $47, 900 from the treasury and robbed all
the houses of commerce. In the confusion they
were killing each other OF the houses COM
prising the colony only about half remain
standing. The total number of killed was 40,
with IA wounded.
Don Carlos has left France at the request of
that government.
The Paris Moniteur says that Japan has re-
nounced all commercial relations and resumed
its right to revise customs duties at pleasure.
The Emperor of Germany has approved in
substance the propositions submitted by Prince
Bismarck respecting the new commercial and
financial policy.
1t is reported that the Pope is relenting and
wishes to concert n1oQUs vseenei with Ger
many.
1t is reported that gaDgreue threatens the
Pope's leg
President MacMahon denies that he ever
contemplated coup a. etat.
BRIEF MENTION.
Senator Patterson is improving.
Scharff has accepted challenge of Hanlon to
row five mile single scull race for $1,000
side.--The bodies of the victims of the Huron
disaster were robbed by thieves.--Congress-
man Ewing in a speech at Lancaster, Ohio, last
week, denounced the eastern press for its hard
money doctrines.--A letter is published in
Washington purporting to have been written
by Secretary Sherman in 1868, in which the pay
ing of the bonds in greenbacks is favored. 1.-The
Western railroads are cutting their schedule of
freight rates.--The season in the West is the
mldest within the memory of the Oldest inhab-
itont. The roads are almost impossible by rea-
son of mud. and in Laporte, Indiana the streets
are navigated in boats which are hauled
through the mud by mules --Courtenay, the
oarsman, challenges any oarsman in this coun-
try or Canada, to row with him prior to the
Trickett match in July.-The Tennessee leg
islature adjourned without having effected a
compromise on the debt question.--The Nez
Perces who joined Sitting Bull want to come
back to the United States--Gen. Geo. W.
McCook of OHIO died in New York last
week.--It is reported that the Locomotive
Brotherhood of Engineers is going to pieces,
but Chief Arthur denies 1.-THE coinage of
silver at the San Francisco mint for December
was ST. 100000 in gold and $3.50, 1000 in silver
q. S. Grant, Jr., has been appointed Assistant
q. S. Attorney General Of New York under
Gen. Woodford. "A meeting TO endorse Pres
| ident Hayes was held at Pittsfeld, Mass, Sat
| urday night. 1t was composed mostly of DEM
ocrats and was but slim affair.
Commissioner Murphy of New York who re-
Gently absconded. has turned up in Toronto
1SeY' oosopn ILL, d FeGeran VI Jne war OIL 1olz
died in Brooklyn Friday.--RalphW Waldo EN-
erson has been elected member of the French
Academy of Moral Science. loss of
property on Western rivers for the past year is
placed at $4,000, 0O0.-A severe storm pre-
vailed in the Southern Atlantic States Monday,
Railroad trains are blockaded with snow
John Bonner g Co., one of the oldest banking
houses on Broad Street, New York, has failed
Their assets amount to nothing.