TERRIBLE SCENES IN HERZEGOTINA.

Colonist, Volume XVIII, Issue 2016, 6 January 1876, Page 3

TERRIBLE SCENES IN HERZEGOTINA.

,7 New Yoek, December 2. A private letter from Eagusa, Dalmatia, Austria, from a lady who is ah eye-witness of the sufferings of Herzegovina refugees, contains the following:—" Very many of the children had only one garment, tied together, and principally composed of patches, one mass of rags, which seemed to make their nakedness more pitiful. Yet, of all the refugees, those at Eagu<-a are the most' fortunate, being the best fed and clothed. There are now present in the district of Eagusa alone, about L 2.000 refugees, nearly 1 all woman, and old men. In Montenegro there are 50,000; in Crotia and Servia thousands, the whole number of fugitives amounting to nearly 130,000 With the means received up to the present time. 16,000 or 18,000 people might be protected to the extent of a blanket apiece from the winter's cold; but the remaining 100,000 or more, with no food, and no roof to cover them, to say nothing of the wounded men brought in from battle, the sick and dying, the child-bearing women, and the pest-stricken people, are unprovided for." The lady makes an earnest appeal for help to keep from death by cold and starvation a whole popu- . lation, whose sin is that they are "Christian dogs," and adds: "My husband wa-\ on the frontiers of Bosnia, where the river divides Turkey from Austria. He was entreated by the people of the Austrian villages not to cross tho. river and enter the Turkish town, as he cerlainly would lose his life; but by allowing himself to be introduced as a merchant from Trieste, he was unmolested and walked through the streets. The headless bodies of Christians lay all about the streets. On the river he had seen boats full of refugees, striving for. dear life to reach, the Austrian shore. The Turks fired into them and one of the boats was sunk. The other " reached the shore covered with blood from wounds. The headless bodies of women were floating on the water, and in the streets of the town the swine were feeding ou the corpses of Christian women." The weather in England hasbeen intensely cold. Wesley Eichards, the well-known gun-maker of London is reported to have been frozen to death while on a hunting excursion. The failure is announced of William Spatten and Co., linen manufacturers and bleachers, of Belfast and London, the liabilities are placed at one million five hundred thousand dollars. A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at Swathe Colliery, England. The latest accounts indicate the total number of lives lost as one hundred and forty. The explosion was caused by careless blasting operations. Another disaster of a similar character is reported in a coalmine near Pentrich, in South Wales. Twelve persons were killed and ten injured. The German up-town, New York Savings Bank has suspended. There are about four thousand eight hundred depositors. Liabilities about eight hundred aud thirty-five thousand dollars. The officers expect to pay eighty cents on the dollar. A Galveston, Texas despatch says there • have been very heavy rains throughout the State; at Henipslead, twelve inches fell in seven hours. The whole country is flooded, and much damage done to railroads. A passenger train ran off the track near Courtney, on the Central railway, and an engine which was despatched to its aid was thrown through a culvert which had been washed out. The scientific corps of the Challenger has met with a great loss in the death of one of its number—Dr E. Yon Willemoes Suhm, who is reported to have died of erysipelas on the passage from Hilo to Tahiti. A Hindoo employed on tbe Constant Spring Estate, Jamaica, beheaded five children. He was afflicted by religious mania. There has been a heavy and disastrous gale off the coast of Eifeshire, Scotland, and some fishing boats have been lost. Sixteen fishermen are known to bave been drowned, aud fourteen are missing. Eugene Schneider, the French statesman and mechanical- engineer is dead. Accounts represent the Eussian losses heavy in the recent rising at: Kokland. A part of the garrison were massacred. The extensive dry goods store of W. T. Marcy, of Buffallo, JNew York, closed its doors. Liabilities, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the assets are supposed to be one hundred thousand dollars. The creditors are mostly Eastern firms. Baldwin and Sleeper, of the Coaticooke Mills Company at Montreal, Canada, have failed. Liabilities, fifty thousand dollars. One hundred skilled artizans and laborers ar& thrown; out of employment by tbe suspension. John: Brown, a colored man, at Port; Valley, Georgia, was arrested on November 21, in the act of attempting to commit an outrage on a highly respectable young lady. He knocked: out Borne of her teeth in the struggle, and otherwise maltreated her. Subsequently a band of disguised men took him from the 'custody of the Sheriff, and hanged him. ■ * In the military arsenal at Kendsburg, a fire has occurred, destroying the greater portion of the building. Forty thousand * Manser rifles were destroyed. The loss is five million marks. I The funeral of Madame Dejazet,. the*

Celebrated actress took place in Paris onjh December 8, in ; Trinity Catholic Church, s /Though the • edifice holds 4,500 '■ persons,5 v A thousands ceuld not enter, so great was the throng. The remains were buried in Pere s la Chaise. " 1 A French gentleman, named Baume, who t had for some years resided at Douglas, Isle "-' of Man, has just died, bequeathing his pro- t perty, exceeding £50,000 in value, on trust 1 ' for charitable purposes. ( The Pantechnicon at Manchester, a store- t house for furniture and pictures, was burnt down on October 30th, and property to the - • value of £50,000 was destroyed, but the 1 loss is believed to be entirely covered by - j,. insurance. - Information has been received of the 1 burning of a large, new .American ship, the i John Pascal, on her voyage from Calcutta i .to New York. The crew were saved by a < passing vessel. The proprietors of the ironworks in Yorkshire, known as Blockow, Vaughan, and Co., who employ upwards of 10,000 men, have / given notice to terminate all engagements on the 15th of November, alleging as a reason the great depression of trade. '1 he Treasury haye undertaken the prosecution of an undertaker at Southampton, ', named Blundell, upon whose premises were recently found the unburied bodies of 15 children. Two men were killed and five others severely injured by an explosion of gas in the Volister coalmine, Somersetshire. The mail train on the Irish Midland [Railway was run into on October 30th, at Castlebar station by a special train, and one passenger was killed and several others severely injured.—Four persons were killed, and eight or nine others much injured, at Inis, county Cork, by the explosion of a petroleum lamp, whereby the house was set on fire. A large ironclad war-ship, the Magenta, caught fire on October 31st iv Toulon harbor, aud was sunk by the explosion of her magazine, but no lives were lost. A large factory at Tamworth, belonging to Messrs Cook and Soi.s, was burnt down on November 10, and about 600 persons are thus thrown out of employment. J. H. Saddler, of London, and E. W. Boyd, of Gtteshead, rowed a match on November 13th for the championship of the Thames, in which the first-named was the victor. An ironclad vessel of war, 5000 tons, built for the Turkish Government, was launched | on November 16, at Blackwall. 1 Tbe death is announced of Sir J. G. L "Wilkinson, a distinguished Egyptologist and archaeologist. An unarmoured composite-built corvette, 1 for the Eoyal i>avy, the Tourmaline, was successfully launched at Middlesborcugh on October 30. She is intended to carry 12 guvs and to travel at a high rate of speed. An ironclad vessel, of 2500 tons measurement, is being built on the Thames for the j Japenese Government, and two other smaller I vessels are being built at Pembroke and Hull I respectively. I A cotton mill belonging to Messrs f Catterali, at Preston, was destroyed by fire I on November 1, and about 200 workpeople j are consequently thrown out of employment. I Mrs Urafreville, wile of a gentleman I living at Greenhitbe, died recently from the I effects of a wound caused by a stone from a L catapult. | Two colliers at Leek, in Staffordshire, I qunrielled and fought. One of them went I to his house, and taking a gun shot the other 1 man dead. I A collier at Nottingham was filling ■ cartridges for blasting purposes, when the I powder in the barrel exploded, blowing the I cottage to pieces and, and killing the man I and his two sons. I Two bequests, one of £12,000 and the I other of £8,000 have been made to the I Liverpool charities by wealthy citizens who I died recently. I An English gentleman has given £10,000 I to the Church Missionary Society, in res- ■ ponse to Stanley's appeal for the ChristianiI sation of Africa. I Samuel Wood, one of four brothers enI gagec- as wholesale brokers in New York, I has given five million dollars for the erection I of a Musical College in Central Park, .New I York. I The death is announced of America's I great capitalist, W. B. Astor, son of the I celebrated John Jacob Astor. When the M father died some years ago he left his son I some twenty million dollars in valuable I freeholds in New York City. The property I has ever since remained in W. B. Astor's I'- hands, and is to-day valued at one hundred I million dollars—say twenty million pounds B sterling, Mr Astor was in his 84lh year. I Insurance experts estimate that the total ■ damage-by the late fire in Virginia City I amounts to twelve million dollars. The I insurance companies have lost two million : I dollars. The city is being rebuilt with I wonderful haste, and in another month the I burnt district will have entirely disappeared. X Two large factories in Glasgow, the spin- ■ ning mill of Eobertson and Co., and the I weaving mill of Young, Strong, and Co., H were destroyed by fire on Friday, Nov. 12 I The total loss is estimated at three hundred I thousand pounds, and about one thousand H two hundred persons, mostly women, are I thrown out of employment. H During the stay of Baron Kothschild in H* San Francisco, he negotiated a loan of H; twenty million dollars to leading capitalists ■ in that city at 6 per cent. H/ A terrible explosion took place on DecemI ber 4 in the Powell-Dufferin pit, near H Tredgar, Wales. Twenty miners were H killed, and ten seriously injured. IH A telegram from Alexandria on November IH 29, says tbe Abyssinians surprised and |H killed one thousand two hundred Egyptians, II including seventeen:officer*?. IH Tbe Cologne Gazette publishes a report IH that the Khedive; has ordered fifteen thouIH -sand men to march against tbe Abyssinians IH A telegram "from EagUsa (Turkey) dated II December 6, states that'Eavuf Pasha has H succeeded in throwing fresh provisions into H Goransko. but -the insurgents'assent that

'-•■'*,.- ': •■* •" .'! .■'■ •■ *. he was subsequently defeated near Goran- "c sko- losing one thousand killed and ( wb.unded7- '"■-■ Intelligence from Spain.'"of December 1 r states that the authorities had closed the a Protestant churches at Toledo, and expelled \ ] the pastor and schoolmaster. '.'" { A telegram from Sering, Belgium,' states that the loss of life by' the explosion in the, £ I Mariahaye Colliery is appalling. Forty-two dead bodies have been taken out, and it is , thought that several are still in the pit. A telegram received from Quebec, by the Hon P. For ten, dated November 23, states E that four vessels, bound for the Magdalen . Islands with supplies, are lost .with many 1 lives, and it is feared that the rest of the fleet have suffered the same fate. The -telegram asks the Government to despatch a steamer immediately for Picton with provisions, otherwise a large portion of the inhabitants will be in a state of starvation. ; Captain Gundersen, who has just returned to Norway from an Arctic voyage, has brought home a highly interesting relic from asmail bay on thenorth coast of NovaZembla. It is known that the Dutch Captain Barent passsed the winter of 1596-7 in this port, and here Captain Gundersen has picked up in excellent preservation a journal of this navigator from June 1 to August 29,1580, being that of an earlier voyage. The 70th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar was celebrated by the Eoyal Naval tlnb on October 21st, Admiral Sartorius presided, and two other officers who had taken part in the battle were present. The 21st anniversary of the battle of Balaklava was celebrated on October 25th by a banquet given at the Alexandra Palace to about 120 of the survivors of the Light Brigade. About 40 officers, under the presidency of Lord Lucan, dined together at Willis's Eooms, The Eev. J. Hanks, an Independent , Minister at Malmesbury died suddenly on October 25th in the pulpit while giviug out ■ the text, " But man dieth and wasteth away." i The death is announced of the Eev . Theodore Williams, who had held the i valuable living of Mendon tor 63 years. Mr Williams was in the 90bh' year of his age. A woman bas recently died at the age of 102 in the Union-house of Cranbrook, Kent, of } which she had been an inmate since 1554. By an explosion in a coalmine at Ashley, near Leeds, six lives were lost. ; London, December 2.—A Eeuter telegram 1 dated Khokand, Nov. 30, says:—Notwithstanding the defeat at Namanghan, the . Kiptschaks assembled on the left bank of i the Nairn and Syr-Daria rivers in large numbers. Their head quarters were at , Balyktschi, where they concentrated 20,000 i strong. The Eussians, under Geueral Skoi beleff, attacked the town on November 25th, I and the Ciptschaks were defeated with immense loss. The Eussian troops, after the - victory, returned to Namanghan. It is i believed that security is re-established on f the right bank of the Syr-Daria. I A Carlist court martial has sentenced General Dollar to four years imprisonment. ) In the French Assembly the balloting for 3 75 life members gave the Left a large 3 majority over the Eight. The vessels ordered from the East l Indies to the Mediterranean compose tho b detached squadron under the command of i Eear Admiral Lambert, which, according to the previous arrangements, was to have , remained iv East Indian waters till March. i; The combined crews number over 3000. On r receipt of the new order the squadron will sail for the Eed Sea, and proceed through 1 the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean. This b will be first time that a whole squadron 3 belonging to a European power has passed i at once through the canal : A special from Berlin says the Prussian b Government has formally summoned the 3 Archbishop of Cologne to resign. ' This is 0 preliminary to legal proceedings to depose him. 3 Count Yon Arm'tn has refused to obey the - summons to attend his trial for treason on - the plea of ill health. The Prussian Cross Gazette reports that - Turkey has given her assent to the Aus- , trian Count Andrassy's scheme of reform, i It is very coll in the south of Spain, nd f some soldiers have been frozen to death. The Carlist General Tristany has re-entered a Catalonia and issued a proclamation urging 3 the people to rise. 3 It is stated that Max Muller, Professor of i Comparative Philology at All Souls College, i has offered his resignation, and will leave 7 England in 1876. s Placards censuring the arrangements 1 made by the Chinese Government with 3 Wade, British Minister, were posted in Pekin,but were immediately removed by the 1 authorities. Native officials are uneasy in 1 regard to recent negotiations. Information 'i implicating Molisn (?) authorities iv the ■ murder of Margury has been received. ) The M'Mahon Ministry expect to obtain 3 a large legislative majority at the general • election for the members of the Assembly. Duke de Casse, French Minister of , Foreign Affairs, states that the reason why 'he Government refused to purchase the Suez Canal shares when the property was [ tendered for sale to the Ministry, was that [. M' Mahon's Cabinet feared war with Germany. _ The Fedral Provisional Council has passed a resolution adding 100,000 marks to the [ sum already voted to facilitate and promote f the display of German products at the 3 Philadelphia Exposition. Egyptian troops have occupied the district . of Juba and Kestary, disarmed the Zanzibar r forces there, and hoisted the Turkish fiag. _, Asiatic cholera is violent at Madras. Committees of Eight and Left Centres of r the French Parliament have agreed to report [ (hat the dissolution is to take place in December, and the. elections for Senators to be held on the 23rd January; meeting of t both Chambers on 26th March. The action of the Peruvian Government i regarding the ratification of the conj .tract for the sale of guano, hypothecated for payment of interest of Peruvian j 'fines has caused a panici • ■■■■•■' I fc Foochoo officials say they have at length

captured the murderers of Mr Blacklock, Custom-house officer at Eangoon. *,■■ A.'-, correspondent says the news of the reported settlement of the Chinese difficulty aud projected opening of a"trade 'route,'between. Bu'rmah and Yunam is received here incredulously. On the 25th October Chief Justice "Will, at Hong Kong, passed a sentence on prisoners guilty of murder, arid piracy. The i accused bad boarded a junk, forced tbe passengers aud crew, in all twenty, below the hatches, fastened them down, and then scuttled the ship. Three were sentenced to death, two to ten years, and one, a woman, to five years. A report that a boat's crew of H.M.S. Sylvia has been chased by Coreans, is confirmed. Pekiu is rapidly improving. Buildings are better constructed and roads kept in order. A jury has been struck in the suit against Tweed to recover six million dollars on behalf ot the City of New York. Meanwhile Tweed has disappeared, and detectives are searching for him in Canada. It is reported he went with accomplices to South America. The survey made of the route of the Nicaragua canal to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific is highly spoken of. There are further indictments of Mormons at Salt Lake for bipainy. A te'egram from Oka, an Indian village on the Ottawa Eiver, says the Protestant Indian Church was completely wrecked by a crowd of French Catholics. The first raid on the opium dens by the police of San Francisco took place on the 6th December. Four captures were made. The raids are to be continued till the dens are suppressed. The Erie Eailroad Company is about to sue Jas Henry and the London Banking Association for claims held by the company against them exceeding five million dollars, j Judge Douohue to-day granted leave to Mr Jewett, Eeceiver, to send funds to England 1 1 to institute proceedings. At Tolado, Dil, agent of Eobinson, after being missing five days, was found terribly • mutilated in the river. No clue to the tragedy. i Chas. O'Connor, the noted billiard expert, died suddenly in New York. 1 Amercian papers still harp on the Beecher 1 scandal. \ At a Plymouth prayer meeting Beecher : declared that the policy of silence was at an ' end. ; Montreal, December s—On Saturday ' the Eev. Father Murphy, editor of the True " Witness, and a famous lecturer on papal i infallibility, and Rev Father Lynch, a talented • young priest lately from Ireland, drove out - to Back Eiver, seven miles from Montreal, • and stopped at La Jeunesse Hotel. At ■ night, after retiring, a fire broke out in the hotel, aud Fathers Murphy and Lynch, and ■ Madame Champagne, a lady sleeping ou the • third flat, were burned to death before assist- " ance, could be rendered. The La Jeunesse - Hotel, a large wooden building, burned very rapidly, and the flames spread to Marcott's •- Hotel, opposite, both houses being burned to 3 the ground; 5000 persons visited the scene • to-day.