Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

In consequence of the Sofia demonstration of the preceding day, martial law waa proclaimed In Constantinople on the 28th. An order waa simultaneously issued, forbidding the carrying of arms, authorizing domiciliary visits, the banishment of suspected persons, etc., etc. In Government circles the Soft* demonstration was regarded In the light of another revolution. The Sultan fled, on their approach, to the Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus, and only returned after the proclamation of martial aw. According to an Associated Press dispatch of the 25th, a secret meeting was held in Washington the night before to organize a National party in the Interest of Senator Blaine. About 150 persons from different States were present Those from the North expressed themselves as strongly opposed to the course of the President and Cabinet *1 be representatives from the South declared that the States which elected him had been discarded by the President and the offices given to the enemies of the party. Resolutions were adopted organizing the meeting into a National joint body. Permanent officers were elected, with power to institute branches throughout the country, with headquarters at Washington. * On the 36th, two Russian officers exploded torpedoes under the bow of a Turkish monitor, causing her to sink, with all on board. According to a Vienua telegram of the 27th, the commander of the Turkish forces at Erzeroum had notified the Porte that he would have to abandon that position, as the Russians had appeared on his flanks and were likely to capture his army if he remained. - A Constantinople dispatch of the 28lh reports the recapture of Ardahan by the Turks. A council of war bad asked Mukhtar Pasha what his plans were. He replied that a scheme was in progress which was certain to insure success, and begged to be let alone. The Ministerial crisis continued, and -the abdication of the Sultan was expected. Gen. Grant and party arrived safely at Liverpool, Eng., on the 28th. The American Consul-General at London, and other prominent citizens of the United States, gave him a suitable reception. While a lighter laden with oil was be - Ing unloaded in the North River, in New York, on the afternoon of the 28th, a terrible explosion occurred, and in an instant the whole body of oil was in flames. When the flames were extinguished it was found that three men had been burned to death and another fatally injured. News was received at Bismarck, D. T., on the 28th that, on the afternoon of the 7th. Gen. Miles with four companies of mounted men had attacked an Indian village on Little Muddy Creek, ninety miles from the mouth of Tongue River. The Indians abandoned their village and took to the bills, where a brief stand was made and where Gen. Miles attacked them. Fourteen dead Indians were found on the field and many others were known to have been killed. A herd of 450 ponies was captured and an abundance of agency goods. The band belonged to the Minneconjous, and ware led by the Chiefs Lame Deer and Iron Star, of whom the former was killed. The troops lost four killed and eight wounded. Notice was given, on the 28th, by Secretary Sherman, that the principal and accrued interest of 110,000,000 additional coupon bonds of 1865 ($4,000,000 registered) will be paid on the 28th of August next, interest to cease on that day. The Secretary also gave instructions that- on the close of the month (May) an amount of greenbacks should be added to the special fund, under the jointrresolution for the issue of silver coin, which, with the $6,000,000 already set apart, would bring the fund up to the amount called for at this time—about $7,600,000 — that being the legal tenders received in exchange for the silver held for the redemption of fractional currency. A Constantinople telegram of the 29th says the Russians had evacuated the whole coast line of Abasia. The Cabinet of King Otho, of Greece, resigned on the 29th. There was great excitement in Crete on the 29th, and at a meeting of the notables it was decided to give the Turkish Government twenty days in which to redress their grievances, failing which an appeal Would be made to the Great Powers, asking for the appointment of Gladstone, under the title of the Prince of Crete. The Cabinet at Washington decided, on the 29th ult., that a letter should be addressed to the Mexican Government by the Secretary of State, notifying that Government that it must take immediate steps to prevent raids across the Rio Grande, into Texas, otherwise our military commander in Texas would be instructed to follow marauders into Mexico and punish them upon that territory. A Berlin dispatch of the 30th ult. states that it was believed there that an armistice had been signed by Turkey and Russia, and that peace was about to be concluded, through the mediation of Germany. The Turkish positions at Batoum were again attacked by the Russians, on the 30th ult The result was a Russian defeat, after ten hours’ fighting. Ex-President Grant was received 1# the authorities and citizens, of Manchester, England, on the 30th ult., with very great enthusiasm. At the corporation dinner, Gen. Grant made a graceful and appropriate acknowledgement of the attentions shown him. After a twelve days’ session in Chicago, the Genetai Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America closed its labors on the 30th ult. —“The great American novel is in the far future. It cannot be written until the railroads are all laid. When the house is built, then you can furnish it. Dickens found character ready for his hand. He did not create it. In America there are no fixed characters. The people are constantly changing. To-day you see a grand man tn the field, his hair blown back by the Wind and his breast bared to the sun. Tomorrow he has sold his farm, his family fortunes are in a covered wagon, and he is climbing the Rocky Mountains. The next year yon find him a Congressman—or a filibuster. He will not sit still long enough to be photographed. There are, therefore, no American novels of character. Only the Indians never change, * fixed cussedness-’