ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 4953, 17 January 1879, Page 4

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

'I The Russian oruisers Asia and Europe left Philadelphia fur Cronstadt amidst great' enthuBiasm, liussian seamen manning the jigging, wharf, and batteries, and firing salutes. A despatch from Nashville; Tennessee, report^'a terrible fight' between the revenue oJficers;4nd''smugglers; six were killed on each side.' ■*''■■■■ •■•;.;.• : :<c Hongkong advices report Asiatic cholera there. The American Government pioposeto quarantine all vesselsfrpm Hongkong The Sioux Indians'in* the Dacotah territory left 500 lodges; 2,000 warriors have assembled, and are supposed to be: preparing for war on a gigantic scale. The Governor of Guadalaxara, Mexico, having decibed-an extraordinary tax of 1 percent on teal -property and.capital,!"the citizens assembled to protest; The troops were called out. Many prominent citizens were killed. ;: . The emancipation of the slaves is proceeding inOuba. Five thousand were freed in thirty days'. . ,:: ... Uping the election quarrels at Louisville men crazed; with whisky, charged through .the-streets brandishing knives and revolvers. Four were and seven < wounded. , The military suppressed the t riot.; ;j .., f-v^Aiterribleißte.am.boat collision occurred on the the. steamers Morgan and . Gotten Valley.- (f Twenty; lives were lost. '.".A; serious reSeilioh has broken" out in Kivypn-si (Chma) under General Li,.who has 50,000 men under him and is carrying all before him. The Abbe Debaize proposes to penetrate Central Africa.- Stanley advocates a railway f roßji Zanzibar 'to Lake Nyanza." He' thinks a grand trade could be developed with Central Africaiaffprding employmeat for English looms.' -The' French also project a railway from Algiers to Tlmbuctoo..?XKujpuchel, the engineer, thinks the water difficulty oould be surmounted. . An extraordinary story is circulated that Cyprus was required to essure England p'os=e<ston -of Captain JBurtpn's gold disoove ies in Midian and'Hedjaz. Gold disebveries are rlso reported near Hindoo Koosb, on the river Hi. ■ r .'A. recent conspiracy at Constantinople was a attempt to replace the Sultan by his brother Keshid Pasha. The Sultan had to be dissuadeifrom executing Keahid and Mahmpud Domad Pasba. The former has been confined, to his seraglio, It is reported in club and military circles that the; Czar intends to propose the Duke of Edin- : burgh as .the Prince of Bulgaria. ;....Captain George Graham Duff, R,N. (on the retired list), died on the 21st November of .wounds received at the storming of the Gate Pah in 1864.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Vienna 'Evening Post 5 affirms: the statements that the Russian Government has offered its good offices as mediator in the Affghan difficulty to England. The same correspondent announces that a good road, practicable for heavy vehicles and artillery, is being made by the Russians from Samarcand to Termez on Amodarya, in the directicn of Balkh and Cabul, and that the road is to be completed in four months. Eussian newspapers express astonishment at the* prompt and successful action of the British troops in Affghanistan, but they warn the English not to boast too soon. The Eussian Govern-: ment are much surprised at the speedy success pf ,the British troops, and is .quite unprepared fori active interference. ~ The 'Cologne Gazettee'remarks that danger of collision between .England and Russia in Central Asia is less remote than, the English newspapers - appear "to imagine. There are Russian .troops at the present stationed not more than:seven or eight, days' journey from Merv, ;and,--the distance from Merv to Herat might be traversed in .twelve or fifteen days. The road leads. thrpugh a fertile district, abounding in food'for man and beast. It bu»h't tobe.borne.ininind, Bays the 'Gazette,' that Russia has. an army, of 100,000 men in the Gab casus, which might, without difficulty, be conveyed across the Caspian Kea to the mouth of > the river Attric. Once there the Merv is within easy reach. The Russian army has once been more placed upon a war footing. Three hundred thousand, men are in ths annexed proyinoe, and a force of 40.000 will pass the winter in large:,camps near Gumri and Erivan. Recruiting is going on incessantly; •Some heavy guns are being mounted at Kara.