The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-03-22
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.

LONDON, March 2l.-A Vienna dis.
patch reports that the Montenegrin
troops are concentrating on the frontier.
Prince Nicholas will starton the 10th for
the camp at Medun. The Her1sgoy yenian
corps are concentrated at BAgani. GeneF-
al Despotyich Is marching on Banjahika-
A circular from Moscow urges all the
sl1vOnian committees to raise fresh
funds in aid Of the MOntenegrin war.
LOOK OUT FOR MORE NAssACREs.
A dispatch to the Timss dated PerA,
March 10, says: "Not few cases Of the
rifles and cartridges upsn which so vast
part Of the Turkish shrunken recources
are wasted, have been sent into the prov.
inee, especially the European districts,
and along the eastern frontier, and dis
tributed TO the Musselmans. The popu.
lation is now being organized as nation.
al guard, which il only another name for
Bashi BaEouks. The only task assigned
these irregular bands is to overcome and,
il need be, crush and aunihilate the
Christian popuIation,-ior this is after
all the real war to which long continu.
ance OF armed peace is likely TO lead.
LoSDoS, March 2l.--A ConstantinopIe
telegram SAYS the Montenegro delegates
have received dispatch from the Prince
Of Montenegro in which he abandons the
claim to Spitza, the right bank Of the
Marc river, the fortified islands Of Lake
Sentarie and some other points, be-
sides the territory already conceded by
the Porte, and merely asks for the dis
tricts Of Niesies and Koutsehi and por-
ton Of Kolotschin and the right OF free
navigation OF Boyana. He does not
agree TO eede NaSsoyevitz TO Turkey.
The delegates communicated these re-
duced conditions to Sairet Pasha, and
the council Of ministers considered them
this afternoon. ltis stated that the Porte
persists in refusing the Princes demands,
especially as regards the cession Of
Niesies. Safret Pasha will communicate
the Porte's decision to the delegates.
LONDON, March 2l.-The Pof m.
nounces that the Cabinet has not accepted
the Russian notifications, and requires
before considering them distinct pledgeso OF
Decentralization. The Government is ask.
ed not only to submit to the amended YER
sion Of the protocol, to which it is dispos.
ed to agree, but also to concur in
arrangements BY which they would
lind themselves after the sigma.
ture Of the protocol, bound to ask
Turkey to disarm before Russia would
demoralize its army. This condition has
seempd inadmissahle
AYienBa special says that the Monte
negrin government is about to address q
circular to the Consuls OF the Powers 1t
Ragusa, declaring that Montenegro can
not renounce the territories she has con-
quored. She will continue TO occupy and
defend them against any attempt at re-
capture.
LONDON, March 2l.-The T'raea con.
firms the Posts announcement that the
protocol has not yet been signed, but says
the trouble may vanish in few DAYS, or
even hours. To all appearances Ru,sia
is eager to find any honorable means to
retreat from her perilous position. The
European Cabinets are anxious to aid her
as far as they can without compromising
themselves.
LONDON, March 22.-The NsrzP CORES.
pondent remarks that the large majority
(7l) which favored Leipsig as the seat OF
the Imperial Law Court caused great sur.
prise. This is the severest blow vet dealt
At Prussia and the work Of Capitalization
and consolidation.