The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-03-13
The stipuIations of the Treaty

Aho btIpuiaIl0nS on the Treaty
OF Peace,
4 LONDON, March Ga dispatch
from Constantinople. under date Of
March 5. to Reuters says the treaty
bears the title, "Preliminaries of
Peace" and contains tweuty.nine za
articles. Tie opening articles relate i
to Montenegro, Servia and Bulgaria
The indemnity is fixed at fourteen
hundred and ten million roubles, but
eleven hundred million are covered
by territorial cessions. Nothing is a3B
fixed concerning the terms and peri
Cd Of payment Of the three hundred r
and ten million. No guarantee is
given. nor is there any mention of j.
the Egyptian or Bulgarian tributes ~
or the Turkish feet. The treaty
simply states that Russia and Tur-
key shall agree subsequently about ~
payment. Perot remains Bulgarian;
Servia includes Simnitza, Noyilaza
and Vranja; Montenegro includes
Antivati, Spuz. Podgoritza and
Nicsics. ALI Bulgarian fortresses
are TO be RACED and the Turkish
troops Withdrawn. A military road
will be established for Ottoman posts,
and for telegraph and the passage Of
troops. which, however, must not
make any considerable halt while
passing through the country. Mus
snlmans may return to Bulgaria. and
any property of Mussulmans who
have not returned which they leave
undi5posed of, will be sold after two
years for the benefit of the widows
and orphans fund. All arrears Of T
taxes in Bosnia and Herzegovina are r.
to be remitted. The revenue until -
1880 IS to be applied to the indem.
nifty for sufferers by the insurrection,
and to provide for-local needs. The
Austrian and Russian commissioners
will arbitrate in oil disputed claims.
The navigation of the Straits is de-
clared free for merchant vessels dur
ing peace or war. Six divisions of
Russian infantry and two Of cavalry
will occupy Bulgaria until the for a
nation of the Bulgarian militia, the
strength of which shall be fixed La o&
ter by Russia and Turkey. The
Russian army OF occupation will
preserve its communications both
through Roumania and the Black
Sea, the expenses of the Russian
occnpationto to be borne by Bulgaria.
Roumania is authorized to make her
demand for indemnity direct TO the :
Porte, and to make direct treaty.
No indemnity is stipulated for Servia
or Montenegro. The Russian Turk.
ish and Bulgarian commissioners
will determine the Bulgarian tribute.
The reform programme of the Con-
stantinople conference will be appli-
ed TO Bosnia. Nc mention is made
of Greece or Crete. Erzeroum and
. Trebizond are not mentioned, except
that Russians may embark at Ire
bizond Oh their return home. Asiatic
Turkey is to be evacuated in six
months. The evacuation Of Euro
pean Turkey is to commence inn
mediately and be completed within
three months. The Perte UNDER
takes the expense of re. establishing
navigation on the Danube and in
Identifying private losses, the =
amounts OF which are to be deduct
ed by the Danube commission from
sums it owes the Porte Russia re-
ceives Dobrudscha to exchange it
for Bessarabia, The question OF
the Turco- Persian frontier shall be
speedily settled. The treatyis to
be ratified within fifteen days, but
its provisions become obligatory i'm
mediateIy. Nothing is said about
the ratification by Congress, nor
about capitulations, nor of a Russo
TulCsh alliance ti aHt
The details about the payment OF
the indemnity, which were to have
Deen arranged at San sStefano, have
been postponed and tlle-Regotiators
have arrived at .ConstantinopIe.a %
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its beauty" A sort of Hollands gin
we suppose LoaoeH Courier.
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nesday morning. He was injur.
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