The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-26 00:00:00

RUSSIAN CONQUEST IN CENTRAL ASIA.

General Kaufmann, Governor-General of Turkestan,
has made the very important announcement that the
Russsian Government designs no further conquest in
Central Asia, and that a time of peace will now follow.
It is rarely, indeed, that Russian diplomacy, formidable
for its reticence, makes an admission of this kind, &nil
considerable value must be attached to it. Affairs in Cen-
tral Asia are now comparatively quiet.

RAILWAY ITEMS.—The Illinois Central Railroad
Company gives notice thattbe annual meeting of the Stock-
holders will be held at th 3 office of the company, in
Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday, May 26th.—At a meet-
ing of stockholders of the East Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, in Reading, the directors were authorized to
declare a stock dividend of 100 per cent. clear of all
taxes, payable to btockholders on the 12th of May, and
also to lease the road for nine hundred and ninety-nine
years to the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.—
The track of tho Crawfordsville Railroad is laid to within
six miles of Indianapolis, and the road is being rapidly
pusbod to completion, as track layers are at work from the
junction with the Terre Haute Road to meet those from
the west of Eagle Creek.—The St. Louis Republican
states that the work on the Rockford, Rock Island, and
St. Louis Road, between White Hall and Shipman,
and cars are expected to be run-
is progressing rapidly,
ning between the above points by the Ist of October,—
Articles of association for the Lake Michigan, Walla.* and
Cincinnati Railroad were filed April 28. The capital is
$3,000,000; John U. Pettit, of Wabash, is President.—F.
11. Delano, President of the St. Paul and Pacific Bailroad
Company, has purchased the iron for 115 miles more of
that road ; 1,250 tons have been shipped by rail, and are
already at La Crosse, and 8,000 tons aro to be shipped by
water. The iron is the English rail, and that which ar-
rives first is to be used to complete the road to the Big
Woods, and the wholells miles are to be laid this season.—
A contract has been signed with General E. F. Winslow,
of lowa, to build the long-talked-of railroad from Ashley
to Mount Vernon, Illinois. The contract provides that
Winslow shall complete the road by the Ist of
January, 1870.--The Burlington and Missouri Rail-
road Company has just received from the United
States Government and Stale of lowa, 375,000
acres of land, lying within twenty miles of its road.—
The Free Railroa 1 Act, which has just been adopted by
the Ohio Legislature, is novel as a source of railway en-
terprise. It provides that " whenever in any city of the
first class, having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabi-
tants, the city council thereof shall, by a resolution passed
by a majority of the members elected thereto, declare it to
he essential to the iutarest of such city that a line
f railroad, to be named in said resolution, should
be provided between termini designated therein,
one of which shall be such city, it shall be lawful
for a board of trustees, and they are hereby autho-
rised to borrow as a fund for that purpose, not to
exceed the sum of ten millions of dollars, and to issue
bonds therefor, in the name of said city, under the corpo-
rate seal thereof, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed
seven and three-tenths per centum par annum," and that,
" whenever there shall be between the termini designated
in any resolution passed under this act a railroad already
partially constructed, or lights
of way acquired therefor,
which can be adopted as a pod of the line provided for
the in
said resolution, the trustees of said line may purchase
saidrailroad and rights of way, and pay for the same out
of the trust fund."— !Vali-erect Journal.
Before the close of the last session of Congress,
the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Print-
ing renewed the contract for publishing- the debates
din the
Globe, at an increase on the prolitic rates wh been
previously. One item of the proposals of the pro-
paid
nted from stereotype
npiric'ent.orsTohfc
ct:hoe,gc.losbseioniL pGelconbletai3ri
plates.
The reporting and composition are paid for sepa-
An allowance is made of 2} mills par page, and
rately.
the msult is ab-'Ut $208,000. Deduct for paper $48,009,
and the press work alone amounts to nearly $160,000.
These rates would give eight cents for each copy, includ-
ing pa and press work, if this work were done at the
Government Printing-office.— Tribune.
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