Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

According to a London dispatch of the morning of the Bth, a Russian Ambassador had reached that oity, bearing a letter from Prince Gortsctwkoff to Lord Derby, in which the former stated that Russia did not intend to interfere with the Sues Canal, Egypt, the Dardanelles, or the Persian Quit. Bhe disclaimed any intentiou of acquiring Constantinople, though the would not consent to Its possession by sny other Christian power. The letter concludes by stating that Russia’s sole object in the conduct of the wsr is to improve the condition of the Turkish Christians. On the Bth, the Russian official news, paper published a decree ordering a new levy of 318,000 men. Several Turkish officers have been shot for the surrender of Ardahan. A Therapis telegram of the 10th reports a naval battle of not large proportions at the Sulina mouth of the Danube, in which the Russians lost three torpedo boats and some prisoners and the Turks sustained the loss of oue iron-clad. The five days’ fight at Duga Pass, in Montenegro, was ended on the 10th, and rc suited in the utter defeat of the Turks, who lost over 4,000 men and large quantities of arms aud ammunition, left on the field, On the 9th, the Russians attempted to crosss,ooomen over theDanubeat Rutsebuk with pontoons, but were driven back by the batteries with considerable loss. The attempt was believed to be a feint to develop the location of the Turkish batteries.

A London dispatch of the 11th says the insurrection around Sukoum-Kaleh was spreading. A Bucharest telegram of the 11th soys there were 320 newspaper correspondents in Koumania. The Turkish Minister at Athens has been instructed to demand of Greece the reason for her extraordinary war preparations. A Constantinople dispatch of the 11th states that the insurrectionary movement in Crete, Epirus and Thessaly had grown to large proportions. The Russians began the bombardment of Rutachuk on the evening of the 11th. The Turks returned the fire. Over a thousand of the miners employed by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Companies struck, on the 11th, against a proposed reduction of wages. Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, reached New York on the 11th, cn route for Europe. Previous to leaving Indianapolis he was tendered a reception by the citizens, which was largely attended, and at which speeches were made by Gov. Hendricks, Gov. Williams, Senator McDonald,' D. IV. Voorhees and others. Senator Ferry, of Michigan, who had been seriously ill. at hia home in Grand Haven, was reported to be much better on the 11th. The Russians have evacuated Olti, a port oh the Black Sea, and occupied Penak. Turkish and Russian accounts of the 12th agreed in the statement that, up to that time, the cannonading at Kars had been ineffectual and indecisive. The Roumaniau Government has addressed a note to the Powers, protesting against barbarous acts Of the Turks, and stating that, if the Powers do not intervene, Roumania will be compelled to carry the war into Turkey. On the 12th, an election was held in Georgia upon the question of calling a Constitutional Convention. A light vote w.as polled, and, on the 13th, the result was considered doubtful. The Republicans generally voted against the proposition. The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle ot the 18th publishes an interview with W. W. Bishop, the lawyer who defended the late John D. Lee. He says that Brigham Young would stand a tri|l if he thought he could get clear; if he apprehended conviction, he would fight, and hia followers would stand by him to a man. Under the present jury system it was impossible to convict any of the other participants in the Mountain Meadow Massacre. He was convicted only because the District-Attorney made Young believe that his conviction would be followed by«4he admission of Utah into the Union as a State, whereupon Young ordered his conviction for the good of the church.

A New York dispatch of the 13th says the Attorney-General had returned Tweed’s statement or confession to his counsel. It was believed that he would remain in Ludlow-Street Jail until the $6,000,000 judgment was satisfied. In a letter to his counsel, on the 18th, Mr. Tweed requested that gentleman to take the necessary steps to confess judgment in all the eases brought against him by city, county or State. He was very much depressed in spirits, Benounced the injustice of" the compromise with Sweeney, and declared that the four criminal indictments found against the latter would have led to his detection had he not fled, instead of remaining, as he himself did, to meet the issue. Constantinople dispatches of the 13th report a great battle in progress at Kars. An official telegram stated that the Turkisli Commander had finally succeeded in forcing the Duga Pass, and that ihe Montenegrins were in full retreat The Turks had captured and shot a Russian spy in Rulsckuk. —The following Is given as a specimen of the conversation of Chicago young men: “Do you abbreve?” “Why, cert. Don’t your” “Bet. I think it’s splend, don't you V’ “Magnif.” “Going to hear Carl Schurz' leer” “ No, he’s on Haves’cab and won’t lec here.’ “Is that posr” “Dead cert.” “Well’-it makes no diff to me, I wasn’t going.” There’s nothing,” said Mrs. McKerrel, who keeps the boarding-house up on North Hill, ” that puts all the boarders in such a good humor as nice, tender, roast goose.” “ Ah, yes,” replied the scholarly book agent, waiting for an invitation to stay to dinner, “ a soft anser tumeth away wrath.”— l ■ Hawkeye. v;'.— 'v —A traveling man, the other day, checked a trunk, said to contain $20,000 worth of jewelry, from Worcester, Mass., to Hartford, Conn., and. on presenting the check at the destination, was handed a comparatively worthless bag, some skillful rascal having changed the checks ator between those points. —The latest invention Is artificial teeth that will not chew tobacco.