Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-10-03
NEWS.
FOREIGN News

NEW York, OCT. "a dispatch from Paris
dated Yesterday, says: The opening session q
the Congress of Workingmrn took place TO
night. 1t was attended by 253 ParSiaD and
| 90 provincial delegates. All the gIea, cities OF
France were represented. The hall iu which
the meeting took place was decorated with the
| flags Of tho various municipalities. The gal
| Ierles were filled with women. Chanert was
elected president, and DcPrere, IL Lyons, was
ohosep secretary. The CHIEF Objects o! the
| Congress we're 10 devise plans la ottaihinS
higher rates of wages for workiurmcu and
women and share in Parliamentary repre-
sentatiou. Louis Blanc is their god ani Gre
mieuy their prophet. Many apct phts ,rc d.,
Iiyered, one orator d dared the Congress in
depcodeut and high above tho press. There
are POI ora ors inscribed already, aad lie uiue
days sitting will only give six inmates 10 each,
which time is far too shcrs for even the most
fluent to give express % to his views upon the
subject before the convention.
A Herald special from CnGstantinorlc says:
The Herald correspondent At Consianlinope
tcIegraphs that the situation there is really
very critical, rendered 50 hy the lncendilry
character Of the articles 10 the nuh!i,, prints.
He thinks it urgept that an American ct be
sent to the Bosphorus to protect the lives and
property of Americans
LONDON, Oot 3.-Ihe steamer Idaho. re
ported yesterday as returning to Liverpool with
her machinery disabled has arrived there.
The Daily News publiahes a special a'spa eli
from Bucharest, which states that il is rumor-
ed there that MIR. Abbott. brnlh:r OF Henry
Abbott, the German Consul ii Saioniea, who
was assassnatcd last May, has been massacred,
together with his family, near Salonca.
The Tioancier says $50, 600 worth OF Amer
loan eagles were Withdrawn from the Bank Of
Eoglapd yesterday for shipment 10 New York.
These shipments are expected 70 continue, The
value of money 10 the london market being
so low that the loss of interest Tor the ten days,
whic the gold Is on passage to New York. is a
matter of 10 Importance, the rate Tor short
loans being ouiy about i,rr cent. per annum.
Reuter- Telegram Company have dispatch
from Paris saying lit is stated here that the
Pores reply to the proposal Of the Powers Of
fers suspension of hostliIles but not an arms;
tice. The Porte does not grant The autonomy
which was demanded for certain provinces but
promises reforms throughout the empire which
will render autonomy unnecessary.
BELGRADE, Oct. 3.-Doubts having been
expressed at St. Petersburg concerning the in
telligence that the s,ar7ian government had re-
jcced the peace proposals made hy the powers
to the Porte, aud resolved TO coalinua Tie var
a poutranco, it is now officially confirmed that
tho Servian government will only j;eh to
foreign military intervention, end viii 40; ca
terrain peace conditions unless they are hrst sub
mitted to Seryla.
PARIS, October THE Temps publishes u
from The Russian Embassy III
his city, iu whiuh it is stated that the Car Is
still 10 favor OF peace. 1t Russia slloula cycntu-
ally intervene it would only BE- with the entire
agree meut OF the powers aud that iutcrvention !
u aoy case would be prccc led by a conference.
LONDON. Ott. "A dispatch to Reuter-
Telegram Company FROM Constitutional" s,ya
The Porte yestc, day communicated 10 t!H a..
oassadors OF powers = plan Of r"!ui.ns anpica
Die to the whole empire, incIu Ing the rrlnuv,l /.
II all disabilities from chr-ti.nS. Tuls PLAZA
) drawn up 81 a. t. imply that local autonomy
or Bosnia, Bulgaria AMI Herr goyina' would
,e useless. although it does not form l'y refuse
autonomy,