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which she lost in 1856, extending from
the Pruth to the Kilia Valley. The Con
gress also decided to transfer the Do
brudscha to Roumania. The frontier O.
the new territory is to be advanced SC
as to run from the neighborhcod O
Silistria, without including that town
to Mangalia, on the Black Sea. Rou
mania will thus acquire fertile tract O.
country, and be established on botf
banks of the Danube. The Congress
has recognized the independence of Rou
mania and Montenegro. Doc.
Additional conclusions arrived al
by the Berlin Congress are, the autono.
my G Western Roumelia, Epirus, Thes.
sally and Crete, to be secured by Eu.
ropean control; to maintain the Oar,
danelles closed, as at present, to ships
of war; to eede Batoum to Russia and
make it free port. There remain the
questions OF dismantling the fortifica-
tons and forbidding the Russians
to fortify the coast. The anx-
iety to finish and the desire
to maintain the present agreement,
however, are so strong that no doubt is
felt that SEINE compromise will be found
by Prince Hohenlohe's committee suffi-
Gent to calm the apprehensions of the
powers without infringing the Csar's
dignity. The occupation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina by Armenian troops has
been postponed till August to give time
for the restoration of railways and for
the organization of future admimstra-
ton Of provinces.
England and Turkey have privately
concluded a defensive treaty, by which,
in consideration of the cession to Eng
land Of the Island Of Cyprus, the latter
agrees to defend the integrity of Asiatic
Turkey, by force of arms if necessary.
In case Russia should see fit at any time
to restore to Turkey Batoum, ArdDhan
and Kars, England agrees to evaeuate
the island. Sir Garnet WOlseley will
be appointed Minister of Affairs of the
island, and British troops are supposed
to be already in possession.
LATER advices from Gen. Towards
command indicate that the hostile BAN
nocks, instead of retreating to their
mountain fastness, have gone northward
to join other disaffeeted tribes in Oregon
and Washington Territory. A dispatch
from Baker City, Oregon, ast, says that
the hostiles are pouring into John
Day Valley, apparently being pursued
by the military, supposed to be por-
ton of Towards forces.
Additional encounters with the hos
tiles in Oregon have occurred at Camas
Prairie, about 40 miles from Pendleton,
and at Cummings's ranch, near the fork
of the John Day River. The advance
of Gen. Towards cavalry had reached
John Day Valley on the I'd and were
pursuing the Indians, who were thought
to be making for the Columbia River
with the intention of crossing near the
mouth of Snake River.
Information was received at Port
land on the Sth, from Umatilla, that
Captain Sperry's company of volunteers,
about so strong, had been almost en-
tirely annihilated in fight with the saw
ages at Willow Springs, some 80 miles
south of Pendleton, on the previous day.
In view of the urgent demand for
troops for service on the plains, orders
have been issued to the various recruit
ing officers to hasten, as far as practica-
BILE, enlistments, in order to bring up
the numerical force of the army to 25,-
300 men, the aggregate number au-
lhorized by law. BY direction of the
Secretary of War, regiments in the In
dian country, engaged in active opera
lions, are to be increased to the maxi
mum strength, while such regiments as
are retained on garrison duty at the va
rious sea-coast Notifications are to be
reduced below the minimum.
THE Treasury statement for July
shows an increase in the debt during
June of S2,l49,3Sl. Total coin bonds,
81, $50, 745, $50; total without interest,
Pass, S75, 602; total debt, 3, 256, POS, 1872.
Coin in Treasury, Sl97 ,4l5,lS2. Debt,
ess cash in Treasury, S2,0S5, ,sSl.
ACCORDING TO Poor's Railway Man
lei the gross earnings of American rail-
rays for 1877 amounted to S475,OOO.-
90, against S526, 10000 in 1873, since