Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-12-18
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE MOROCCO FAMINE.

THE MOROCCO FAMINE.
Says a Madrid cablegram of Dec.
18th: Advices have been received from
Mogador, that terrible famine pre-
walls there The deaths number TWEEN
ty-tiye daily.
SWISS ELECTIONS.
A Berne cablegram of Dec. 10Th says:
Col. b. Hammer has been elected
president, and DR.. L. Weld, vice presi
dent OF the Swiss confederation for 1879.
VESSEL RAISER.
Says London dispatch Of Dec. 18th:
The contractor for raising the GroSSer
kurttust has signed contract to raise
the P0mmerdnia.
GOOD EXTRACTION LAWS.
A London cablegram of Deem
Der 18th says: VIM. Johnstone,
formerly clerk in the Saline county
bank at Marshall, Mo, arrested in
Scotland, was examined, to-day, on a
charge of forgery, and held for extra
dlctlon.
THE AMEERs REPLY TO ENGLAND.
The following is Il text of the letter
of the ameer of Afshanistan to the
Niceroy OF India, in reply to the ulti-
matum, received Dec. 10;
"Be it known to your excellency that
| haye received and read from beginning
to end, the friendly letter, your excel
lency sent in reply to a letter dispatch
ed by Nuwabgholah Hussim Khan,
with regard to expressions used by
your exce!lencv. In beginning your let
ter referring to the friendly character
of the mission, and the good will of
the British government, | leave it to
your excellency, whose wisdom and
Justice are universally admitted to de-
eide whether any reliance can be placed
upon the good will if evinccd by words
only; but if on the other hand the good
will really consists of deeds, then it has
not been manifested by the various
wishes expressed and proposals made
the British officials during the last few
years to the officials of this God granted
government. Proposals are made
which from their nature it was impos-
sble for them to comply. One of these
referred to my undutiful son, the i'll
starred wretch, Mohamed Yakoob
Khan, and was contained in letter adj
dressed 10y officials of the British gov
eminent to the British agent residing
ut Cabul. 1t was written on that letter
that if Iakoob Khan be released and
set at lit erty, our friendship with AT
shanistan viii De firmly cemented:
otherwise 1t will not. There are sever
al other grounds of complaint, similar
in nature, which contain no evidence of
good will, but which, on the contrary,
were effective in increasing the aver
SIGN and apprehension already enter
tanned by the subjects of this God
granted government. With regard 10
my refusal to receive the British mis-
sion, your eXcellency has stated IT
would appear from my conduct that |
was actuated by feelings of direct hos
tility to the British government. / as
sure your excellency, on the contrary,
the officials of this God-granted gov
eminent, in repulsing the mission,
were not influenced by any hos
tile or inimical feelings towards
the British government, nor did they
intend that any atfront should be atiix-
ed but they were afraid that the in
dependence of this government might
be affected by the arrival of the mis-
sion, and that friendship which has ex-
listed between the two governments for
years might be annlhilated A para
graph in your eXcellency's letter corrob-
grated the statements which they have
made TO this government of the feelings
of apprehension aroused in the minds
Of the people Of Afghanistan 10y the
mere announcement of the intention of
the British government 70 send mis-
sion 10 Cabul before the mission itself
had actually started or arrived at Pesh-
.mur have subsequently been fully jus
tilted by the statement in your excel
lency'S letter that | should he neld re
sponsible for any injury that might be-
/ fall the tribes which acted as guides to
the mission; that ! should be called
upon for compensation for any loss