Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1878-04-24
mn. CLIPPERS, Correspondent.

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London, April 16.-The Pail
Mall Gazette in a leading edito-
rial says: Whether Prince Bis
marks proposals succeed or fail, we
have no reason to disturb ourselves
about the situation. We are strong
in the justice of our diplomatic
position and can afford to wait un-
iii our natural strength begins to
tell in support of it by way of a
merely passive pressure. If Rus
STA accedes to our stipulations for
congress well and good. 1t will
be held, and we shall begin to put
our hands to the most arduous,
dauger-fraught piece Of information
al work which has been attempted
in Europe since the beginning of
the century. II Russia refuses to
accede to these terms there is no
necessity for us to declare war
against her, and it is to the last de-
gree improbable that the govern
ment will resort to declaration OF
war. 1t will be sufficient for them
to continue their ornaments, to &C.
cupy certain points Of territory not
necessarily provocation Of collision
with q Russian force, and keep
Russia in her present position
that is to say, with an unrecognized
treaty in her possession, but no
other gain from the war but such
as she can retain by actual physi-
cal possession at ruinously increas-
ing cost, and there to let her re-
main until she returns to a sense
Of her duty to Europe.
London, April 1.-THE news
from the various centers Of inter-
est is not reassuring. A semi-offi-
cial dispatch from Calcutta says !:
The Indian Government has re-
ceived orders to send troops to
Malta, and the following regiments
are designated to leave: Ninth
Bengal cavalry, First Bombay light
cavalry, Second Ghoorkas, Thir-
teenth and Thirty-first Bengal in
fantry, Twenty-fifth Madras infant
ry, two regiments Bombay native
infantry, two Bombay field batter
les, two companies Bombay sap
pers and miners, and two compan-
les Madras sappers and miners.
The native infantry will be bril-
gaded with the British at Malta.
Bucharest, April I'm. Cogal-
niceans, Minister of Foreign At
fairs, in the Chamber to-day, con-
firmed the statement that the army
would not allow itself to be disarm-
ed, and had withdrawn to the Car
pathian Mountains to avoid col
lision with the Russians. The
commandment of the Russian d.
vision, near Bucharest, has inform
ed the government that his troops
would remain until they returned
to Russia.
The Roumanians, alarmed about
the occupation of their country and
possibility of an attempt 70 disarm
them, have withdrawn their army
into Little Wallachia, where they
boast they will make another Plevns
If the Russians attack them.
London, April 49, There have
been Nihilist riots in the streets o.
Moscow, the nature and extent o.
which it is impossible to determine
from the official reports. The al
legged occasion was the arrival o
fifteen students from the Universe
ty of Kief going into exhile, whom
the crowd surrounded crying
"Tbese men suffer for the truth"
An official account says: Act
of violence ensued. The student
, were conveyed to prison pendinI
, their dispatch to Siberia, and tran
guilty was restored. Private in
formation, however. attributes tb
, disturbances to the excitemen
: growing out of the trial Of tn
,, woman Vera Sassulitch for her at
tempted assassination Of Trephof
Chief Of Police at st. Petersburg.
: She admitted shooting Trephof
!, and said she fired without carin
, whether she killed, wounded @
, MANNED him, but with determine
] ton to bring his conduct before tn
. people. She herself had spent tn
: best years Of her life in a dungeo
! because she was friend of q relativ
! Of conspirator. There she learr
Q ed to pity those who suffered In
similar manner. When she read