Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Fighting between the Turks and Miridites has taken place during the last few days. The first day the former were beaten at Menadi, bnt on the seoood day they captured Muel*,haU a day's journey from Scutari. It wa» reported in Constantinople, on the 13th, that Brians had formed an offensive and defensive alliance with Persia. Nearly 40,000 Persian troops were concentrated on the frontier of Turkey. A Vienna telegram of the tame datentates that instructions had been tent to the Russian Charge <T Affaire* at Constantinople to declare war against the Porte. The bodies of a man and woman were recovered from the Southern. Hotel ruins in St. Louis, on the 13th, and identified as being those of H. J. Clark and wife, of North Adams, Mass The engineer of the hotel states that there was a pile of mattresses and a lot of loose hair in one comer of thestece-room and a box of matches. He did not know anything definite about the origin of the fire, but thought these had a great deal to do with it. A yienna telegram of the 15th says Austria wjiq resolved upon the armed occupation of Bosnia. An international outbreak is said to be Poland and contiguous On’the lSth, it was reported, at Dead-wood.'D-.’T., that 100 of Crazy Home's band had taken to the fieM again. in consequence of the decepiton prabtired by Spotted Tail, who stated that only the pans captured in the Custer fight would hafetahesuatetdeted, when the Govern meat ann® and ponies. On lh£l4ife, GiMr. Hampton requested the Chamberiaio State officials to fam overtbeir offices to their contestants, subject to the aefiten of the Supreme Out This they refused todo,

asserting that they held their office. by dealerstom of the State CSnvhmara; that their oootestants bad Uken lb* caaea to the Supreme Court; tteat n* sQltotolmd no right Is anticipate the judgment of that Court, or in any way pea* upon their title, apd that hi* action was in violation of ma pledges to leave disputed questions to Iffgwl RCttloilMinta Vienna telegrams of the 16th say Austria would not long remain an indifferent spectator to the action of Turkey and Itusria, but would assume the position of defensive neutrality. On the 16th, the Nicholls Senate passed resolutions approving of the President’s determination “to rcatore local self-government to the Southern States by a return to a rigid following of the wise principles of Constitutional government,” and declaring it to be the purpose of the Government of the State of Louisiana, represented by Francis T. Nicholls: To accept in good faith the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution; the rigid enforcement of law and the suppression and punishment of violence and crime; the promotion of kindly relations between the white and colored citizens of the State; the maintenance of an equitable puplioscbool system, and the discountenance of any attempt at persecution from any quarter of individuals for past political conduct. The House caucus eubsrauentlv indoreed the resolution*. A New Orleans telegram of the 16th says the Nicholls Legislature has accepted a proposition made by the Commission that seven members who bad been seated subject to contest should be unsealed, and that, with this exception, the roll should be called as when the Legislature first assembled, and the present organization remain intact. The House would thus include sixtj-two Democrats and fifty-seven Republicans, one Democrat having died. On the 16th, Gov. Packard addressed a letter to the President, declaring that the efforts of the Commission to secure the removal of the obstacles to the acknowledgment of one of the State Governments would fail, and that the reported purpose of the Administration to withdraw the United States troops was a standing menace to the Republicans of the State, “and encourages the Democracy to emulate the arrogant policy of Gen. Hampton in South CaroUna.”

On the 14th, 1,000 Northern hostile Indian* formally surrendered to Gen. Crook, at Spotted Tail Agency, in Nebraska. A Vienna telegram of the 17th says efforts were making by Austria and England to use the eighth article of the Treaty of Paris a* a starting point for fresh negotiations between Turkey and Russia. -- A Berlin special of the 17th says 200,000 Germans in Russia were preparing to emigrate to Brazil and the United States to avoid conscription into the army. The Montenegrin delegates left Constantinople for home on the 17th, the negotiations with Turkey having failed. The Roumanian Government has decided to concentrate 100,000 men to protect the capital from an expected attack by Turkish irregular troop*. | A Constantinople telegram of the 18th say* the Porte had decided to proclaim a state of siege throughout Turkey. Eight Turkish ironclads had arrived at the mouth of the Danube. According to a St. Petersburg telegram «f the 18th, the Russian Government had issued a formal declaration of war. Both houses of the Packard Legislature met in joint caucus on the 18th, and adopted resolutions declining to accept the proposition of eosnpromise forwarded by the President’s Commission, and avowing their determination ,to consent to no trade whatever. The resolutions were handed to the Commissioners, and by them forwarded to the President. A report prevailed at Camp Robinson, Neb., on the 18th, that Crazy Horse, with 2,000 hostile*, was moving toward the Agency with the intention of surrendering. This would leave the country clear of hoetilee, with the exception of Sitting Bull’s Band.