Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1878, Page 1

The Thicage Daily Teibn CHICAGO, MONDAY. JANUARY 7, 1878, VOLUME XXXII. ACCIDENT (NSUSIANC HAPPY NEW YEAR! %, 1878, e 08 Semi - Anmnal STATEMENT OF THR TRAVELERS. HARTFORD, Coon., Jan. 1, 1478, ASKETR, . FURS, Hurrah!" Up to n late hour visits of con- A e eratulation were made, and newspager.editors were hescized by friends and acnnaintances stho wished to know the detalls. Their carlosity, however, eould not be nstistled, for the newe. papers knew 1o more than the general pube ie. No o telegratna hed yet been recetved from the currcspondents at the reat of war, FOREIGN, Accounts of a Desperate En- gagement Near Bo- . FURS MARKED DOWN! Iield, Leiter & Co. . EXPOSITION BUILDING, Call attentton to recent great reductions in prices. | Faehaand” e’ waole” arme i et captured—-thnt was al hat could he grov, Jan. 2, aaid, Tut that whe aquite enough. AL t last that horrible nizhitmare §s at anend. eto God! Hurrah!" The ray of Heh wis al) the brighter hecause 1t was reen nzafnat a very dark background, We hai just heard of the ferlons affatr of Elena, in which tio Rus- rfan reglments had been nearly annibilated, and cotpetent mlitary authoritics feared that Sulel- man tight ruceeed fn breaking throueh thetine of defense between the Lom and Tirnova, On Tuceduv morning no one could speak or think of angthing but the great event. Two triymph- al mairches were published, % Plevna by taken and & Pleena vurs!” Hut there were atill no decills, and the morning papers ha to content themeclves with vague expressions of patriotic enthusiasm: 1t s accomplished! Plevns has falien! Osman Pashia has i hin arme! s whole anny hae eapitalat, Pletna, swhica hae tonz and s obstinntely chalned to St4e1f the attention ‘of Hue. i, all Exitope, all the world - that Plerns whose natural fortreseea shattercd all the heroic eiforta of the Russlan army. 19 accnpied to-day by one Sroyt Honoe i siory o e Cominghicr-in- i The Turks Attempt to Surround the Russians, hut Leave 1,000 Dead, Fifty-three Russian Soldiers Prbzen to Death, and 820 Badly Frost-Bitten, Thousands of Turks Fall Vie. tims to the Inclement o 1 AN d Sl mort sed N Jye of sam Weather, Chief{ Foaturma place with Ruasian. (roope 14 prieret diedndc not diicalt, bt to aurround the enomy and com- Lashs o calatar pel Lim to capltulate withost bloodshed, thereln les the genuine art of war., Honor and’ glory to the Tinealan soldlers, by whass labors the ulan wae executed! flanor and clory ta the officers Wity gwvo thelr men n wortly efamplet On receving tliat elorluns news from bevond the Danube, erery dene Russtan wlil Srat of all devoutly eraes himesit, aml, thanking the Almighty for the victory cun- ferred, will pray fram the depths of Lis heart, **May the Lord of [losts be with us:™ In the evenlng there wis u regular offiesal (1. Tumination; and two sections of the Geographic- al Boclety, which hnd assemiled to conskider the beat means af fnvestigating the varlous formsof ¥hlage convnunities, began thelr proceedings withn hearty cheer for the brave Russian sol- diers, Itany of the other lenrned eocetles ha&»- lwnud taussemble that trcnln;]n I have no duubt liey beuan thele Erm-cudlnzn n the snine way, In Moscow tie public enthustasm naturail samed a lln;i: of local vosering, Not only in the Cathedrul, but also fn ail the *forty-tinies forty ™ ¢lrchics of the anclent capital, o re- figfous service was perforined, aml ut a given The Intrepid Gourko Pushe ing Forward Toward Philippopolis. cle aeenn nited Rtates Govoromen: L ou wtocke Are homss i ank and Insurance stocks. SACQUES! Newest shapes, of our own make, and guaranteed first- class in every respect. SEAL AND MINK HUFES AND BOAS! 2,702, 120,83 108,514.67 112.425.00 833 103,36G6.20 $1,210,341.03 Statlstles for ho Year 1877, LIFE DEPARTMENT. g,nmlm of Life "ul lefra written in 1A} liols number Life Policies written 1o daie. Whola numbor of Life Policies In farcy $mouns Life Insuraiice (n force. .8 ‘ot&l Claima I'aid {n Lifo Doparim s, 81,033 Turkish Evacuation of Shipka Pass Because of In- tense Cold. Total Liabliities, Burplus as regards pollcy-holders. England Assures France that She Will Not Lay Hands on Egypt, 3 ACCIDEST DEPANTMENT. Irom $10.00 up, great bar- moment, o3 on Easter morniug, the innumerable ’c"“?."’"""*:‘.’.“?fié‘r'.‘.’f.'x’" 2] ins. g helfries ‘sent forth o merry deafening appeal, iain in Premiuma avor 11 g * The King of Italy Lying Very Sick, = and Some Apprehen- sion Feit, which mingied straugely with the enthusiastic hurrahis of the dense crowd gathered together in the Kremlin, The thioughts and feelings in- articiiately expressed by this tumultions din are thus rendered fnto words by the Muscow Gazette: Very recently we celebrated an event which' {n almost withaut paralicl i mllltnrfv history, —the miraculonstakitiz by storm of the fortress of Kara, Hut the nationut fecling given to_the oresent teie umpha peculiar significance. Plevna was, as it were, an expistary wicritice, It wos {or ue ana for our caure a vreat trisd, Lot s bless the memory of our brethren who have fallen on the felun und Inlls of Plevna. ‘They have-magnitted and glortded thele nution, not in the valn worldly, Uni " in tie true Christian ecnve df the word, \With their bloud they have juatified and guarunteed the snecess of our great national undertaking. Plevan will re- main sacred in tlie mewmory of the people as the bigheat glory of onr belaved monarch, as an act of Christian herolam before God, e the 'cross which onr Czar- Emancipator has borne with reslgnation Dbefore the whole world, The love which he las therehy evokied from the depths of the popular feeling finds expression to-doy {n the shouts of the axsembdled multitude, On Wednesday we began to think of the mil- tary and political signlficance of the event. Bome peopie were still i the dithyrambie frame of mind, and spoke thus:, . An yot we know nt least one thing, that right has triumphéd, and that we have not heen deceived by the fuith and hopes with which we wera Inspired, The clonds i the horizan have disappenred, and the bright raya of the aun shed Ife-giving forco on tho Russian people. In the Lastall s brightucss, but in the Went dark clouds are visible, Germany alone congratulstes us on onr victory., From Black Beaver, Coon, B'ack Fog, Loy, and Silver Box MUFFS AND BOAS At less prices than sold clse- where, Large varviety of Children’s Turs unuswally cheap, Ladies’ and Gents’ Secal Hats, Caps, and Scal and Ot- tor Gloves. I'ull line of Iur Trimmings, also reduced. Carriage Robes at less than Jormer prices. A handsome Pratrie Wolf Robe at $15.00. Whale number Accident Claima f'ay WRols ambunt Acctanms m: ‘Tota) Losscs Pald, both Departmonts, $3,842,34 4,24 JAN. (i, BATTERSGN, President, RODNEY DENNIS, SBecretary, JUHN E. MORIIS, Assistant Becrotary. JOHN H. NOLAN, GENERAL AGENT, 84 EaSallcs=st., Chicago. BOARD OF TRAD ELECTION! REGULAR TICKET. For Prestdent, N. K. FAIRBAMK, For Becond Vice-President, JNO. 11 DWIGHT. WAR TELEGRAMS, SOPIA CAPTUNED, 87, PrTERSBURG, Jon. 6.—An offlcil telegram shows that Sofla was entered on the fd justant after a skirmish, in which the Ruesians lost only twenty-four men. OOURKO, A telegram from Gen. Gourko snnounces that n deeperate engagement oceurred on Jan, 2 near Bogrov, Tho Turks attempted to surround five battalions of Kussian {ntantry aud a brigado of cavairy, but were defeated, leaving a° thousand dead on the field. The Russiaus lost 200, FROZEN TO DEATH. A Russian detatcbment under Gen, Dande- ville, which supported Gen. Goutke In lis movement over the Batkaus, had fifty-three men frozen to death 1n one night, and 820 froat-bit. ten. Auofticial dispateh states that the Ruse slan loss fn crosslug the Bolkans, however, was not g0 great as at first suppored. The Turks suffered enormously, aud immense numberas of slck and wounded were found in thelr positions, OnDee. 31 the whole plain of Kamerlt was strewn with Turkish corpses, N, B.==Frec Stages run every flve minutes between State and Ran- dolph-sts. and Exposition Bullding Tor Directors, & Jor uso of our patrons. THE ARMISTICE, the banks of the 'Phmwes come otnor TZUA 1. WHEELER, of Fikins & Wheelcr, m— —— | Loxpox, Jan. 6.-A telegram received in foniceale, to e BT TR AS . of MeConmlck, Advia & C e LOULPRY EXHIBITION, )an rkm:: ‘Conn‘lnmlx:;:l::l_: pues lf::;‘t the Porte | quick! Tt us stop Rumin In her Victorlous carcer, ANDREW BHOWY, Packer. ias asked for au armistice throug England, | nnd snatch frows ber by o Europesn concrst the A . & CHROSDY, X Anather Constantinovls dispatch savs Minlster | fFalte of ber efforts, hue sacrificer,any Jies binods N. E, PLATT, of Matt & Thorne, Russian answer to England’s note that | graph. Dut the nmnlnmsmc.lxnnl-u spasciat For Commiitee af Arbitration, TAN, 9, Turkey should apply for non armistlee [ We Cun alao divine,~hoid, independent wordy, worthy of u grest Power, wilch alone undertook the work, und atone whil finfshit. Ruesia will not wimit {ntervention, and will nul allow that what has been sown by her should be reaped hy othiers, She atone defended and defends the idea of eman- cipation, and elic will know low to protect ot the #ame time Ner own Interests, 1t W, BOLOSON. i dircctly to the Russlau Commander-in-Chief, The transmission of this reply to the Porte has heen delayed pending the deliberations of the Euoglish Cablnet. TOLITICAL DISBEXSION, Is OPENING DAY of the NATIONAL POULTRY ago. u, of Bibley & Porry, DATEIL For Commitice of Appeats, o o7 cople went o Metle further, and had - JORIAM STILES, OLDERSIIAW, A dispateh from Constantinople via Syria "50""-' peop] P 3 ERMLY, - [ON, - ¢! o vision of the future and the womders tint B MODERU 0 e ¥, culi, NITON says tho sceued in tho Turkish Chamber huve | CR) be."" Elere, for fustance, 48 the vision of the Assooiation’s Grand Annual Exhi- bition, at the Chicago EXPOSITION BUILBING, This will be the mont interesting display of Paultry, Pizoona, Dogs, Rabbits, Singing and Ornamental Birds, and Bmall Petaof a1l kinds aver soon in the United Btatos. For any additional information, call upon or addross. J. C. WARD, Becretary, 184 Clark.st. __BOARD OF 'TIRADE K3 BN, BOARD OF TRADE ELECTION! . OPPOSITION TICKELT. Fur Prestilent, MU 130N, For Eocond Vjce-I'restdent, 30 bW IAIE F¥or Direciors, EZRA L. WIHEELER, of Llkins & Wheeter, THOMAS HEEIRMANS, of Clinton Lriggs & Heermags, W. 8. cuosny, NDREW LIOWY, CYRUS 1. ADAMS, of McCortalck, Adams & Cu, (To Ml varancy), N, B, PLATT, of I'iatt & Thorne.' o Commiites of Arbisratton, . T. BEERE, . W, ROLOSON, b, E. 5IBLEY, LEUI“‘E J“?»\fll‘: been very stormy, An unconflrmed report states that the Urand Vizier, Ediem Pasha, has tendered his restgnation. It s believed the Chawmber will bo ether prorogued or dissolved if 1t contiuues to attack the Ministry, ACIIPKA PASS, Loxvow, Jan. 6.—A Bucharest correspondent says an ollleer fram the Czarewlteh's headguar- ters states that Gen, Radetzky has crossed the Balkans through Schipka Pass, the Turks hay. inie abandoned thelr positions previously be- eause of severe cold, TNE DARDANELLEY, 8. Prrnrsnong, Jan, 6,—It Is rumored that Austria and Gennany have vetoed the fdea of opening the Dardanelles to Russian veasels only, Ruzsta has consequently determiued notto raiso thequestion at all, Llection Monda Y, Jan, 7, 1878 e _N¥ PURLICATION, G. P. PUTNAMS SO} 182 Fifth-av., New York, Havo recontly published for “The Boolety for Ethical Oulture,” CREED AND DEED, A SERTES OF DINCOURNEN, By PHBLIX ADLER, Ph. D, y Octavo. Clotl, Extras §1.30. Noee Vremya: ‘The entrance to the Black Rea ls gnarded by Rus- sisn_cannon. Czargrad (Constantinople] hns bo- come a free usylum of various races, nd the Rua- slan_feels himeelf “thero at omo, ‘The Uoilen Horn i filed with Iuselsn sbips, walch huve broagtt thitier e productions uf our wouthern proviuces, There we sea the mosq; ¢lezant minutets, and besido them urlous guedens the cross uf Kt, Kof taken from tho Christian God { and wnany other Christlan temples proudly ratso their donies surmountud with the cross, Tho Diack Hen glitters with Itusian flage, and all its perts are ooen tous. The glzantic work of rallway con. struction procceds apace, und the towns of the coast vibrate with activity, Tho Russian looks holdly ‘nnd confidently on’ tho accne, and saye, *Thut s all my works it wan bought with great Iabor sud nt a Lreat price, but great, too, ure the resultn oblafned, " Indulging i dreams of this kind ls an uu- profitable ocgupation, called fu the language of Russfan proverbs, *sclling the fur before the bear {8 Killed “Recognizing this, the Sovee mennlya Irnvetiya - covsiders 1L uecessary to Ineasure tho distance which the various corps huve to truverss in order wo reach the Turkish Capital, Thoe result of thy calculation, if the verst by transformed futo English miles, 13 as tollows: From Etropol by Slatitza and Bofla, i mbless from Tetewceu by Karlova aud )')lllln?npohl‘ 303 miles; from Blipka by Kezonllk, 22 wiles; from Slivao, 105 mlve. But tow srd when are these spaces to be traversed] Now that *the Ilevia period " of the war s alshied, ought * the Constuntinoplc period” to bo at once begun! On this poit ovinions are divided. Bome reason thus: All the abovc-nsmed points of departure aro held and fortited, Sinco thy full of Plevon the ruar {s completely guarantead from attack. Tha left funk tu protected by the army of tho Cesaro. witch, whilo the right rests on Sufla, from which our advanced guard s only sowme_twcaty or thirty wiles distant, famous Quadrilateral and Widin are puwerless and larmiess, Froub Pasha'e movement forward on Tirnova was evidently o dl- verulon n favor of Osmau Pasha, nil ho will core taluly soun be driven back. W have, therefore, metely to turi Melemset All's flank und gt ronnd 10 the utkier side of the Halka hon Slehomet All tetreats townrds Uhie Capl ouz troups will sliect o Junction before Adrianopie. ~ We nevd not louk furlher, but 1t svems that all tho kuys of 1he must complete yuccess are uow In our kands, Many peaple do not share this rauguine view, and think that between the Plovna aud Con- stantinoplo periods of the war thers must be a Lf (fuudrilulcrnl porfod,' "« Befors crosstug the Balkuns," suy these, *we must luke measures to sure the safety of var e vl operutions. For this purposs we ouiht to Holsh with Bulels man Pashi and parutyzo cowpletely the great fortress of Eastern Buleurki, Sulelinan has maved the muin_ body of his troops from Hus. grad 1o Elenu, aud bis Jeft flank ow extends tcyoml the Balkaus to Slivio. The centry of ravity of his army ls thus at Eleous, and it is Fhemum againat that point that the trat Lluw will prubably be directed” To the sanguine peopls who talk about the Bosphorus gud St, soflw, the Golvs thinks it nee- es3ary 1o udimluister o rebuke Since the capltulation of Osman Pash we hear more sud wore frequently (he TUE CZAR for tho present has nbandoned his fntention of returning to Buligarla. BINEWS OF WAl Loxpoy, Jan. 8.—Tho British Government has embargood 2,000 cases of .cartridges on board the steamer at Cardiff destined for Con- stantioople. ? FPRANCE’S SOLT APOT LoNnoN, Jutet.—The Ubserver publishes tho folluwing inan oflicial form: * We have reason tu befioye thut France within tho lust few days has requested fuformation frowm tho Britht Furelgn Otlles as to whother Englund contein- plated any action with respect to Ezypt, and thiat assurances have been glven fu reply that nuue was contoniplated," ANOTIHER CARINET COUNCIL “has been summoned for Monday, EGYITIAN AlD, ALBXANDHIA, Exypt, Jan, 6.—Five thousand mior troops huve salled from Egypt for Turkey, A turther reluforcement is preparing, MONTENEGHO. Lownoy, Jau. 6.—A dispatch from Hazuss reporta that the Prince of Moutenego has re- assumed command of his army in Albania, Autivari still holds out, although it has been burniug In soverul places sinco Friday, It is ro- ported to bo provisioned for another mounth, The Turks are warching from Karitze, to cn- deavor to succor tho besleged. Tuikish fron- clads bombard the works of the Monteuegring, A TELBOHAM YROM EKZEROUM soys the Hussian lufautry and cavalry who ad- vanced to Ilidja to destroy the telegruph lnes have been totally routed after & desperate en- Kagement, RUSSIAN SENTIMENT. JNOW TUR NEWS OF TILE VALL OF PLEVNA Was KECEIVED AT 8T. PETEKZNURG AND MOs- cow, **A book that fe s sttinutug to thinkiog. . . , No ana can read I without galotog Informatian, snd be- Ing dreply lnpressod by tls moral and tatcllectual olo- watlon."—Jewluh Jiesormer, 5 **The ook Is very readabla, The stylo | Statemonta are clear, the sentiment s retin siural alis, 80 far &y conduct “and_character tend, v i J0f1y."—¥. ¥, Tmee, *A logler a0d valusblo work, . . ., tho fruit of a cuurageo 1y maseuline, and yeb sy, LEvening Telcaram, 00d. the d the con- iotlo and poesic mind,' 'd sent propsid oa recelpt COAT,. MAIN OFFICE AND DOCK, Corner Mavket aud Randolpl-sts, Otfice and Dock, 1 North Market-st, Oltice and Dock, 267 Avcher.av, Otfice and Yard, 711 West Lake-st, All Coal freshly mined and teceived stnco the atrike. in afl parts of the city promptly T, W. DATER. For Committes of Appeals, AOSTAT RTILEN P. T. OLDERSHAW, _NTOCKEIOLDEIRS 25 s st GO RO NERN MERTING, ‘The Aouual Meeting uf'tho Stookholders of ll:l VESSEL-OWNERS’ TOWING €0, of Cl!lcl’n‘ Il e Lield st the ofice of the Company, 0 Fouth Water-st,, Clicaga, 111, un Tuesday, Jan, & 1a78. at Lolock i, i £ eiccilog s Board o . and the Ro) Cosl delivered sad{n good order, + o Drders trom countey aui city solicited and flled an day of recelpt of order. VUEA NATIONAL LINE OF STESMSHIDS, o Now York v Queenstown sud Liverval, & fifl?ziu;flié.%ufih"fli %::‘5:‘:‘3:.5"-&935‘.’“' i i To Lowdon. Ialy, Dec. 31, o4 8. m. | Holland, Jan, Tk anelnion, e el Beitia Vioiiyie b iR "3 batth Cias ., fUr the irang lon of sucn uther Lual cutne before it Chicugo, Dec. o, 1077, NTOCKBOLDERS NZETING, Notleels hercby given that there will Le s mectiggot . 1he stockhuiders of the Merchianie' ~aringe Loao. An “Trust Lowpany st fte uftice ui WJaih. ¥, 1374, bes Iween the hoursof 104, 1. and {uF 108 LiFjuso of e Lorrespondinca London Times, Constantinople!™ ‘Thoat Wha tabre Grent Western Steamiship Lins. ;':::‘:fx'}:r'u;)-}m Sctian ‘6 such oihel Lianasog | BT, PaTenssumg, Dec, 14, tho grest nows of ot tonsider caretally wht { s, T o . GBrstal (!fll‘l.flndhflll :I:l.l ;g;‘ul.u. ":-n the meeting. CIIAHLES HEN- the day 1s the tak ug of Pleyoa. The snnounve. 10 Conetantivople 1o by nu means s0 short as the ur Pl.‘!}fi!{“ul" ment was recelved at the Palace about 7 o'clock ou Monday evening, and was ut ouce dissemi- b sgmr ALY Wil MEHBET. Statuver. .. Cabia passiqe, 50; G4 sy uF dhdae ot s Chstuiblis, ey Sy tuns Tleh forget 1hat, In vrdes 1o sirlye 8t Lhielr vromise I:Il‘l we st sarwount o whole serles of ob- 81, S, AL TVED (Y ted b, stacles, ju tbe Nret line of which a7¢ the armics of ald Stecray certlacatc DE pated by ieans of little potes to inthuste | S id Al Pashia and tho fescrve snny of B T rriineglys COUNTY ORDERS friends. A much-esteomed member of tho | Rteal Pashu. Wo heliova now, v formerly) th furce of the Russidl arme; Uot we think Lhat, atter tuklng the frat step (tho crowsiug of tho Danuber, sud befure aking the (8ind (b fuvasion 10 fake the sce- Council of the Empire, vnsrecetving the futellj- eence frow one ol the Mlusters, rushed out to tbe Nevski Prospect, the princioal street of Bt. And City Vouchers Bought By LAZAKUS ILVELALAY, Toa steamera of tnis ¢ wili sat ever Clisinerof P SR P S s AL T 300 this Comny sall v 5 , 0 thoru! 1) E.i'l.'gllu‘a:t‘-.muh‘ e, 1..\..;"5?{;-.:? tireet, H = Tons = 2 | Petersturg, ""‘: "'l“';.“““' 10 the pacsera-by, | B0 e etk OF th Mtk UrIK our T o AR e = NS AN 7 Sy o] [l cratul ll;vmau Jakus! ' obe | Beides the willtary. diticuities to Lo over- R Soldaacraie, 8 currens MASONS AND CONTR AQTORR, | passers-by cougratulated aud cmbraced each | come, it tsquite possible that diplumutic o other, us is dobe on Easter morniog. * Soon the POl SALE~ £ TAREN DOWN=THR LARGE & news found its way Into tbe thestres, and 3 o lications muy arisc; but thuse, It L thoughr, STORENCITNING :}Tm. cnd of North-u. Uid 2 ¢ ¢ o y will uot tead “to serfous consequences. Sioce OE . = 3 Dowl(og Grean, New York. ‘was played, aud each time the public cheered LEGAL. Sapas £d until Tuesday, the #th (usl., the recent declarations of Lord Derby sng R T e Moo | f1 B oltlie 0 ta0 CHICAGO "EAND GO b tho public demanded the Natioual Anthem. | t8 i I 3 Ogden . ¢ " Count Andrassy, every oue lere belleves that IIEASURYDEPARTMENT ity 27 T Soithecit comer Lakv dad | Avain and sgain God Bavo the Caart | GOUSE Andraie ereey oue hero b over, and Orrics or CourraoLtax o 7ux ¢ that, consequently, Russia Lias nothing to fear ¢ T, Was \t . IxeTox, ey, [577.~Notlce ls he veu o al) i k: " vociterously. Hero and there, In the principal | from foreign fotcrveation. Many people sre ua oy Lae cinione scatons i Fabd Hailois Gold ~iae i convioced, oF st lvast iry to couviuce thew- u'fxfaé'.'xfi.?’;:“‘fi l‘lg: _n?fx"x\.'e‘n‘-fix'.:nm"mm' nted n'i‘n:eu:'f..a“""l dtreess, restaurants, clubs, and orivatd hapees selves, that Russla will mzke terms with the acksoa, Mecelver, with the legsl ( thereot. wii) 7 it bk riibin three mOBR from e duse. O wed. NU. JA VX, Compisullor of the Curreaay. were lluminated, Those whobad not yet beard tho mews guessed at ouce Lhe causo of the re- Julciog: “Whav s it} Is Plevos takeal KLATE MANTELS. Poite sad obtawm s tewiporary sottlement of tho Euatern question without cousultlug the West- eru Powers. Othiers do not° Ko quite a0 farus that, hut consider that in dlmmlng~ “the fu- titre decting of the Christian East ™ the vofce of the Western Powers will have little weight, hetause diplomatists must now perceive dearly that in the nrecent polltieal condition of Esirope an suti-Russian coslition {8 imposeible. WAR MISCELLANY, THE TURKISI ANMY AT ERZERODM. Fraeronm Correapendence Londan News, Victors on Runday, the 4th of November, on the helghits of the Devt Bogun, vanquished on the tollowing Friday before the fortifications, the Russfans now cmpluy themselves In sfrengthening thelr aiready atrong positions on the neighboring hills and waiting ubtil the fall of Kars ahall admit of suffictent reinforcements Lelng forwarded to this place to enalle Heimann to seize the capital of Armenfa by a coun de maln, Fhize the 10th of Novemnber the army of Ghazt Mukhtar Pasha has been reinforced by mne battaliuns, of which five are com- momed entirely of men from Lazistao, wenerally considered the finest and bravest soldicrs In Anatolin. In the last four days upwards of 4,000 of these men have focked in—great, straputog fellows, with broad, de:p thests, svell-gnit Himbs, and hardy constitutions, With these welcnne aditions {ihaz1 Muhktar Pasha has now about 25,000 men s, all armed with breec -Iunuk»F he has abundance of amuni- ton, This cives him upward of three men to cvery yard of nis front, a force surely more Lhan sutlicient to repel any assanlt. The Russlang cannot hiave less than from 40,000 to 5,000 me) oppusite to us, We have this advantage, hot ever, our e are all housed wnd can fight | und strong ramparts, ‘The Russians are en- camped on snow-¢lad hills, fror 8,000 to 9,000 feetfabore sealevel, and are alreadyexperiencing the “greatest diliculty fu procuring provisions and . keeping vnen communications with thefr base of vperations. Tit, SIEOK OF PLEVYNA. Pt Hatl Gazetts, Herr Victor Lorie, continulog the acconnt of his experfences at [devon in the Frankjurter Zriturg, says that ot the end of Scptember the appearance of the Turkish eamv wis far from c{wwmz. Heavy raln had fallen for more than a weeky It was Ditterly cold, and the constant wet hiad made the wrodand into's morass, Those #oldicrs who had Russian cloaks shared them with thelr comrades, but many hiad to sit fn the trenches ou the wet ground without uny sheiter whatever. ‘The hospitals were consequently full of sick rom’ dysentery, typhus fever. and even small- pox. Yot theve was not a trace of discontent or demoralizations the troops seemed to put thelr trist in Allah and their commander, to tliom they were passionately attached, Herr Lotie having once made a portralt in pencll of Osman Pash, he wwas constantly stopped in Iiis wander- fors through the camp by otllcers and suldiers who begped him to show them the drawing, * Each mian, as 1 handed kim I“{ shetel-book, pressed Lis lips on the lmazo of his adored com- mander, and the result of all thly kisstug {s that there §s seurcely o Lrace of the portralt left,” As to the provisions uty Plevna, Herr Lorie, savs that at the end of September eggs, milk, and suiar were not to be bad, and bread was only served out sparingly ih rutions to the troops. The mll{ meat to be obtained was huf- flo flesh, and this wus so unpaintable that only the fear of IzelmiJ starved could fndiee Herr Lorte to eat it. On the other land, there was Jentyof jum, which the Bulgarians fold ut 'nuum: prices. *This part of the population of Plevna ufew had Isrze stores ol provisions con- cealed in thelr houses, wnich they carefully kept frow the Turks, hoping that the Russians would reward thein for thus hastenlng the capitulation of the tuwn,” ITALY, THE KINO ILL. LoxDoN, Jan, 6.—The King of Italy ia very {IL A telegram from Rome says the King on Eaturday was attacked with o violent fever, which produced pleurisy fn his right fung, 1lis symutoms cause appreliension, and it ay prove to bea complicated caso of missmatic fever. TUR PALL OF TRE MINISIAY. Prepatch (a the London Times. = Roxe, Dec~19~/Tho crisls Is over, a8 vester- day (Sunday), in tbe alternoon, the President of the Councll, 8ignor Depretls, announced In the Chumber that tho Cabinct had resigned its vowers, and that he had recelved the King's or- ders to proceed to the formation of 8 new Min- Istry. The present Ministers, of courae, will retaln thelr places till thelr suceessors sre ap- poluted. Bignor Depretis, In the meanwhile, has o very arduous task before him, It {s expected thathe will tey to patch up n new Cablnet by retalning for hinisclf the Mintstry of Fiuance, and choos- inis for the other departments some of the old colieagues of Hattazzl,—Gen. Duraudo for For- efgn Affairs, Confort! for. Grace and Justlee, Mordtul for the Hume Offfee, and Bpantigat, formerly a clerk and purtner in Rattazzi's office at Alessaudrya, for Public Works, Coppino, who has just resigned the Mintstry of Publle In. struction, s niso named s 0 possible Minis- ter of the Interfor. All thesu mien, honur- able, though somewhiat uscless, will uot enable Depretis (o overcoms numunfdlmculuu, norto withstand the jolut opposition of such men as Zsnardelll, Calroll, De “Sanctls, and Tella, each of thent at the head of a hostlle group In the Chamber of Deputles, Nor s it Hkely ho can Wit over any of these oppouenta without racri- ficing that’ Rajiway Conventlon which was his own espectul work, and for the sake of which he deprived himsclf of the support of his ablest collengue, the Minister of Public Works, Zanare delll, " Thut Rallway Conventon, to judge from oll appearances, {8 iow doomed, and he will have to fall buck upon that scheme of Stats nanagemeunt of tho rallways which oaused the' fall of the Mioghett! Admintstration fu March, 157, the Intervening twenty months haviog thus been of no avall towards the settlement of the particularly thorny Jquestion, Blgnor Nicotera's ill for tho alters. tion of tho Elcctoral Luw, with an extension of the suffrage, and Blgnor Mancini's penal code, with the shalition ol capital punisbnent, an the admission ot thes democratie or humanitus rlan principles Involved In those measures, will ¢ausy o little embacrmssment to thelr success- ors, ‘Tho suund sonsu of the country is decided- 1y against the demolition of the ‘scaffold tn country wliere erime, and espectally murder, {s i the nscendant, and aguinet the “widening of the suffrage, where the electors are remiss in tho discharge of their duty; but Bnplllur frele iz has been aroused ou “such subjects by the elamor of fulse Liberalism, and will ot be éastly withstood by legtstative wisdom ur discrotion, TIHIE WEST INDIES, QUANU, Kinaston, Jamaics, Dec. 47.—A number of Amerlean cltizeus from Balthmore, who have \taken forcihlu possession of Morunt Keys, a de- pendency of Jamales, aud who have catablished the Haltfmore (fuano Company and have been shipping guano desplts the warniugs of the ‘nited Consul bers and the Government of Jamules, hayve been driven off the Keys by Her Mujesty's steamer Blanche and brought to Kiugaton, A Captain Jennet claims to have dlscovered the Keys, und to have taken posses- slop of tfiem in the name of the United Btutes, aud protests against the condurt of the Junasican authoritles. HAYTY A Cubian who was charged with baving will- fully set fire to the International Hotel ti Port A Prince hus been trivd, contletel, and scutenced to death, The Spanlsh Consul has tuterfered, sho the Commander of u Spanish Sriate, tian Qovernment {s nevertheless firtn dn fts resolution tu carry oub the senteuve, umd s now becn potlficd by the Spanish Repreagntative that, {f 1t docs, & Spaulsn fNeet will bombard Port Au Prince in retalistion, Preparations for this contingency are belng wmade, A wan of war has been dlspatebed from Jumaica o wateh Beitish (ntereats in Huyil. MEXICO. RELATIONS WITIL SI'ATN, Havaxa, Jan. - 6—ten. Corons, Mexican Minister ot Madrid, bas signed a treaty by which the natursiization ot Spanish subjocts as Mexlcun citizens siuce 1375 is declared vold, GREAT BRITAIN, OBITUARY. Lowpox, Jan. 6.—The Marquls of Aylesbury 18 dead, sged 74 years, UEAVY PAILUBS. Loxvux, Jan, 6,—Plerce. Davies & Co.,, tim- L&y T her merchants, of Liverrool, have f; /t? é’ billtles cetimated at £750,00. k 3 4 Saids 4 GERMANY, NICARAGUAK RELATIOf Loxpox, Jan. 6.~A Berlin states that the ‘prospect of an amicabie ssttle. ment of the dispute hetween Germany and Nicaragua bas tmproved. GEN. GRANT, P THE SILE L.ONDOX, Jan. 0.—~Gen. Grant has Jeft Alex- andria for Cairo. CASUALTIES. LUMBERMEN KILLED, Brsetal Diszatr to The 15iruar Trilune, EAST $A01NAw, Mich,, Jan. 6.—A man named Michiae! Hivera, 53 years of aze, was kifled by a falling tree at Stimpson's lnmher-«canp, in Clare County, Friday, Deteased formerly resided at Montreal, A Frenchman, name not ascertained, wes In. santly killed at Goodeng's eamp, on Molosses River, zestentay, He was sawing logs, when o talling’limb atrnck hin ou the head, smashing itinto a_leily. and breaking a lew of his con- panion, The body was hrowht down bt night, and will b forwanled to Canada to-tnocrow, Wheru deceused had n wife and ehibl, BURNED TO DEATIT. Spertat Dispateh a The CMeugn Fobine, Prrraneig, Pa., Jan, —A child nomed Mary Houe: dicd this moruing from the efects of burns sustained last nigut at her parents’ rest- dence on PiRestrect. Her clothing caught tire whiles she was putting coul in the sitting-room stove. i wax burned almnost to u crisp from head to feet, and died In great agony. She was 10 years of age. DROWNED, . HarIPAX, Jan. .—~A cab broke throngh the fen on the ontskirts of the city Jast ngeht and two younz women, Fiorn McDonald und Ida Boutilter, and doln Witson, the deiver of the vehicle, were drowned, sl i RS * FIRES. A COAL MINE ON PIRF, Tortavites, Pa. Jun. 6.~The fire ln the mine at Summit il sthl busns tercely, The grounad continnes to give way, and, In nddition to the engine-house with {ts valunble machinery that went down yeaterday, it 1s now feaved that the fan-house used for purllying the alr In the mines wiil soon fall in, Five men working at the burnlvg mine were overcome by sulphur, but 1t > thought they will recover.” The luss thus fur Will probably reach 850,000, Al PITTSBURG, PA, Speclal Dirpich tn FAe ehicazn Tribune, Prrruvne, Pa, Jun. 6.~The rrocery store and resulence of Willtam Boltz, No. 130 East street, Allegtieny, were destroyed by fire about Go'lock s afternoow. The total Joss is er:,ulv Insurauce $LO0) I Plitsburg com- vunles. AT RIPON, WIS, Sueelal Lsapateh (o The Chicaga Tribune, Miwavker, Jus. .~The Sentincl's special savs aflre destroyed Kelluge's block at Ripon this moruing, with the stocke of Clark Bros., dry goods, snd several sminller dealers. Loss, $30,000;5 Insured, 825,0005 salvage small, e THE MINERS AGAIN ENRAGED. Gowen Gives Notler of n Suspenslan of Labor to Further the Coal Monopoliats® Schems, Whercupan the Ellen Gowen Breaker Smie niediately Burna Up, Hpecial Diapateh ta The Chicaga Tridbune. BueNanpoan Ciry, Pa, Jdan. 6.—Last even- ing, mbout n quarter before 7 o'clock, fire was secn fssuiug at the Ellen Gowen breaker, Le- longinz to the Phiadelphia & Reading Conl and Iron Company, and before miduight the entlre structure, which conslsted of the breaker and n small engine-honee, was consumed to cinders, including about 300 tons of eval which were dn o the breaker at the thme, and which arc stiil Durnivg furfously, This breaker was the lest one owned by the Readine Company. on account of Ita tnost extensive muchinery, its capacity being 100 cars per day. The destruction of this break- er throws out of employment over 200 men and boye. The loes 8 roarhly estimated at $100,000, vartly covered by Insurance, mustly in Phijudei- phiz compunles. As there has bieen eome trou- ble with the differeut Presidents, the operators failing to forni a combination, President Gowen, of the Philadeiphia & Reading Coal und Trun Company, has tssucd orders for o suspenson of about two weeks, commencing dondny, Jan. 7. The destruction by firc of this large breaker fs suppored to have been the wark of Incendinrivs, an account of the ordir for the wispansion. Trouble has broken out fn different placed in this recion within the last fow davs, and the operators are becoming greatly alarmed over the uamg'n—'un :l){ nflflurn.’n oA 54 inerto reh (0 he hcagn 3 Porravit, "‘.’inu. &—Tlue’nflmkc: ":; the Ellen Gowen colliery, one of the mnost vafuable worked by the Philadelphin & Rtendiug Coal und Iron Company, - situnted near Matanoy City, cought tlre Jant night and was burned to the ground with two noller-houses, the raw-mill, and valusble hoistiugemnchinery, The fire wos dlscovercd near the top of the breaker holsting- oad the structure wyus soon enveloped in fames, It ouly tuok an hour to destroy the whole breaker, 8ixty cars of coal {n the bresker wero also destroyod, and the llire communicated tothe dirt bauks. No fire apparstus fs kept about the colllery cxcent hose, aud the men had two jets playing on tho tire without effect, Three hundred inen and boys are thrown out_of emnlufmont. The colllefy tad been working on full time for over a year, and the Company depended on it, with $wo others, for o large sunplv of coal. The loss will reach $50,~ an which thero s no isurance. Although it was the {ntention of Mr, Gowen 10 susy ond minlnz operutions in this county for two weeks, commencing to-morrow, yet it wus wiven out yostenday that the proposed stoppage would hot take place, owing to the - unsatisfac- tory result of the conference of Coal Prestdents, and the fullure to form a combinstion, To the surpriss of the cosl tuen Mr, Gowen has ordered “u suspension, bo- inning on Mounday, but for no detinite periad, This gives riss to the opinion that anothor weceting of Coal Presidents will be held this cky and that Mr. Gowen {6 confldent that u comblnation will be effected, Otherwia e would keep the miners ut work under the regime of 1877, Following the onler for suspension came the Incendlary firu at tho Eilen Gowen breaker last night, the At ot forty belonzing to the Company, 1t {s belicved that thisisa revival of the breaker-burning manta, snd jndie- atlve that the Coal Company will buvs troubls with the wminers, To the Waatern Asssctated Pross. PHILADRLEMIA, Juno 6.—It fs thought that the call for another meeting of2Coal Uresidents Lo scttle Bnally the percuntsies for each of the coulcarrylig compaules to be represeated {n the cowbination will be made Tuesday or Weduesiluy uext, Arnm?lmlenlu It i bellved, have been perfected by which the Lelibzh Valloy can Lave un increnss of 2¢ per cent over that wiven iLin the allotment made at the last meet- fug, “Thls witl wot touch the wllutment of Guwen, but will take three-quarters of 1 per cent from the Deluware, Lackawauna & Western, three<juarters off the Deluware & Hudson Cavsl Company, and 1 per cent off the Pennsylvunia Ratlrvad Company. Thlsstatement wasuado un goud authority ‘on Waluut street yesterdav afternoon, sud It is thought the agreetient wifl Ppass tho wmecting without trouble. i - et AT THE POINT OF DEATH. SrriNOFiBLD, Mads,, Juu. 6.—Bumue) Bowles bad & recurrencs of the serous effusion at the Laso of his brain Satu night, aud now lies in a vory prostrato condition. Apectal Disvaich ta TAs CAlcago Tribuse. OMaua, Neb, Jau, 6—Gea, Jobn O'Nell), who beculue somewhat noted as & leader of the Feolan rald ou Cauads fn 1803, Is Iying st the point of death at Mercy Hospltal, from a pars- lytic stroke recelved about thres months ago. ke was the fouuder of the fourishing colony of O’Nelll City, und otber colonles of lrish people lu Nebrasku, tho wemvers of which bo fuduced to awterate here frow lirgs Easters citics, PRICE FIVE CENTS. “| 1S THERE A HELL? Prof. Swing Practically Joins Hands with Beecher and Farrar. The Old Theological Mountain Indicates an Approach- ing Eruption, An Eternity of Torment Incom- <patible with the Love of God. A Positive Repudiation of the Cruel Doctrine of Fore- ordination. God Should Be Worshiped as a Kind Friend, and Not a Monster. Heaven for the ‘Saints, and a Less Exaited Placo for Sinuers. Dedication of the Jefferson Park Prem, byterian Church with a Union Service. Dr. Gibson'’s Lecture on the Con«- necting Link Between Gen- esis and Exodus, TITEOLOGICAT: OUTLOOK. BENMON BY PROF. SWING Yesterday forenoon Prof. Bwing preached to a farge congreaation at the Central Church, tak- ] ing for his theme * The Theologleal Qutlook. ! Followlng 1s the sermon: Watchinan, what of the night? Watchman, whats of the nightY The watchman sald, The morning cometh, and ale the nigtt.—featah, 2xt,, 11, A year In the present s equal to many years ot the old past, The moderti world {8 an aroused world, It has added to its hours of Industry, bas leesened the hours of fta pleasure, has re. duced its hours of elcep, has quickened its footsteps; hus quickened the speed of fts cor- rlages upow the land snd Its ships on the seay Lios quivkened lts messages from city to clty; has quickened, hence, the whole braln and beart of the soclal mass, All these external forine of rapil otlon are only tho scusuous miracde proving the actiye spirit within soclety, There are vel- catoes Which have slept for hundreds of years, apd meanwhile great trees have grown upon thelr slopes, and even cities have lald ont Jung streets and bullt palnces at their Teet, Bur these tmountaiia were not dead, but elecping, Muttering soutua are heard for asys nnd weeks, and at Just the scene is suddenly changed Into oue ol earthquake, storm, and fire. Diellers In voleanle lands cannot count upon the peace- fulness uf thelr subline mountaius. The secret forces of the carth le ready st suy hour to spring like savages from an ambush, Dwell- ers i 8 mental world cannot count, either, on long-continued rest and peace. Phere are too smauy seeret, unmeasured forces anderground, Homiantst und Protestant have secn all guiet around them with o quiet won by the wide distribution of lgnorance or fear, and_ have sald, v Now tet us coatinte thus, world with- out end.” Meauwhilo great trees of doctrine have grown upon the slopes of the peavefnl hllls; {n the shadow of them have sssembled Fopes aud Bishops, .or Presbyters and Elders, and lol fn an hour when they thought nat, thoso same mountato-sldes have bLegun to trembl und thoae assembled by such quictness have been cutnpelled tu take to tight, and to look back ‘u‘yulllh\: ruln of the former peacotul things, We all live i volcanlelands, Qur political hills, aur sockul hitls, our theologlest hilly, are historia mountatus of fire and smoke. This fact mada the grand old propliet ask his mtdnight questions, * Watchman, what of the night{" for it was & watder, even so Joug 110, what was coming nesti huw the uncertaln hours were deporting themseives. To uw, the question returns an returns, It hae been s most thrilling wonder- meut, and has evoked thrilling answers i the years gone, Marksume of these great exchanges b sulutation tn history—What of the might, watchmund ‘Tho fiftenth ceotury, and Rmerkea {8 dlzcovered, What of the night, watchman) The sixteenth century, aud Luther haa np- peared. What of the iifght! The seventeenth centuryy und Buperstition falls, and the Western fepublie Is founded. What ofgthe nlght! The cighteenth century, and the Unlted States are on the landscape.” What of the night, wateh- mant ‘The winetecuth. century, and all the clvitized world b riseo fromw (ts old, soft couch. “Thus havu the watchmen on the walls of clvilis zatlon been busy sending to and fro mizht: questions aud wighty responses, with deep, sad, or bappy vulce, The quickened brain of the passiug sge has not leit our common 1eiizion untouched, For ageneratiou or two ull the tenets of the many- ITormud cimarch have been subjected to a scrutiny the clusest thoy bave ever encountered, suud this serutiuy Is Zong on to-day, with no sign of wearineas, Could suws watchman staud upon walls high enough to enable him to look over Intu the” next contury, or to the last dn‘{- ot tuls one, he woull sce changes of wonderful quality and worth, ‘I'i¢ Fidludelohia clergy are ssld to have cons vened lavt week, aud to luve passed unauls tously, a resolution of entfre confidence {n the cwllesstiess of future punlshmen ineettig and thelr action shiow that they confess ton ’»uwcrlul disturbuuce of the theological alr, and feel that the thue has cowe for thie chame Dlons of tie old ides to narch around tawn ln full wrm uod unlforw, that temerity way check itaclfy ur know ut least what toexpect, Allthig seusibilley of the olaer weliool of theologlans showa that the woustain ou whose sides wa have lved lP:-mwmlly solong, 1s at lust moved within, and may not, v the morrow, be such sa cublem of repuse. Enceladus b Lndor Nuunt Aitus be 1i It la sluraber, 12 18 not deatb— For e atruggics st tlmes (o arlse, . Aud abgve bl tho lurld akies Lot with ble flery breath. An earucat resolution ls oven, when powers less t 0 effect chauge, » proof of zmwlx‘)f cumult aud xiety.” Just befure alavery dle y the Soutnern clergy arose 1u all digulty of & resolution, und by & vote resolved that tho ins stitution wust be colserved from sge to uge. And from day o day, while Mr. Dayls was stiugullug o establish tho Confederacy, he en- Joyed trom all foyal frieuds votes of entire cons fidence. While wil persons ‘lullll to Jogleal: forma of thoughit canuot but segret that the Plladelphis clergyumivn did not bring to thelr idea suy suppurt, excent that of the resolutton, you thuik actlon Douscuses this worth, that it shows how fully swake w\'le:’v 1s asto the merdt or dewott of fthuse us which bave: fur so tauy bundreds of years been culled the Beence vl Gud. — Let us a1l refolee, thut this wwakeniug has-fully cotue. Tho term, *theolugy,” meaus slmply the iul'luull ufuflful. It b “hau's e I.nmeh 1! the nfiuite. Belng the greateat suicnce, belog va cllort of mats b paint u uroral portralt of tbe Buvrewe Belug, to this task nas stiould bring Lis highest jotellect; bis purest heart: hid widest learviog, To detiue Gud, to say what e is aud does, I3 to ussunic au awful respoust- bitlty, sud certainty should we &l do with e3~ trenie care this part of our daug thiokiog. But this new tiinking wiilch we behold uround us wust be done, for If the ever-increaslng study of soclety can Hud better truth In politics, and sclcnce, and Inventlons, and arts, 80 cuu It tind better deBoltions of the Heavenly Futber. It can futerpret wore truthfully the words of 2oy Writ, und cau reach purer below: P e ]