The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-05-02
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State of Minoesota, in lieu of certai
lands heretofore granted to said S;ate
passed
The bill giving $50, 900 to the Dis
{ trict public schools passed, and gue
to the President.
ROsToN. April 29.AThe Commercis
: Club of Chicago. in a highly compIi
mentary letter, has extended TO m
Southern Senators and Representa-
tives, the guests OF the Commercia
Club of this city, an invitation 10 din
with them In Chicago on Nav %. Tb,
invitation has been accepted.
DETROIT, April 29.-The Free Pres
building was burned from the explo
sion of gas pipe. Loss $50, goo. Tn,
editors lose considerable personal prop
erty.
Senator Conover made a notabl,
speech to-day, in the Senate. on the
passage of a resolution introduced BY
him calling on the President to know
what information the government has
respecting the intention of Spain &c
reform its commercial and political
policy in Cuba. Senator Conover re
viewed the history of the colonial ad.
ministrat.on OF Spain, in Cuba. as a
system of commercial pillage and
rapaclty of vast INJURY to the trade of
the United States. He claimed that
no progress has been made bv our rep
resentatives in Madrid in negotiating
new commercial treaty, but that the
United States has been constantly be-
logged and befooled by Spanish diplo.
macy. He quoted the opinions of
liberal Spanish statesmen con.
demning the policy of Cuba as an
outrage against civilized intercourse,
and denouncing the shareholders in
Cuba as the true rebels, who resisted
reforms.
Senator ConoYer favored wider in
depreciation of the American policy of
non-intervention, and believed the
time had come when potential means
should be adopted by the United
States to secure the abolition of sla-
very in Cuba, and to enforce the reclp-
rocsl rights of commercial inter-
course. 1t is said that the Presidents
policy respecting cur Spanish rela-
tions is somewhat foreshadowed by
Conover's speech.
LONDON, April Yesterday, which
was looked forward to in Constantine
pie with apprehension of consequences
when the Russian troops entered the
city under the pretense of hearing
mass in the Greek church. passed off
quietly. Only small number of Rus
| SLAMS came in Saturday night,
most of whom spent the
night in cafes. Only about fifty
attended church. The question of the
evacuation of the fortresses continues
to cause difficulty and irritation to the
Russians, who say the retirement of
their army and the British feet from
the neighborhood of Constantinople
could be easily arranged, but for Turk
ish obstinscy on this point, which de-
stroys confidence. The time for evacu
ation was left indefinite by the terms
of the treaty of San S.efano.
Last week Gems. Jobanowskv and
Zimmerman sent officers simultaneously
to Fazell Pasha, at Shumla, and All
med Kayzerti, at Varns, with formal
demands for the surrender of those
places. The answers IN both cases
were that no orders to quit had been
received from the Seeraskarati, nor if
such orders were received could the
troops be moved until transportation
should come. Threats were then used.
Finally the Russians begged permission
to occupy the outer lines, leaving the
inner ones and towns to the Turks.
This was declined, and the Russians
pressed the point. 'Let US talk no
more about this foollsness," was All
med Kayzerti's last answer. There are
forty-fve full battalions between
shHmla and Varna, with fourteen bat
tslions of artillery. The evacuation of
Batoum is rendered difficult through
the opposition of the population.
They refuse to submit to Russian rule,
and offer to pay ransom and remain
Turks. Petitions to this effect were
received at the Porte.
The Turks have twenty-four bat
talions and eight batteries about
Batoum; between Trebizond and Erze-
roum fifteen battalions; fortY-five bat
talions between E'Zsr9dtn and Mosh /:
il Thessafy, Epifus and Salonica, sixty
battalions; at Gallipoli, thirty bat
talions; about Constantinople, exclusive
of those at Scutari, one hundred and
twenty battalions, consisting of about
5000 men. There is a great and &C
knowledged want OF competent Off
GERS, but the condition of the army, in
health and spirits, is good.
Troops have been moved recently so
as to more effectually cover the land
side of the forts on the upper Bospho-
rus.
Grand Duke Nicholas and General
Skobelof, Senior Gourke and Nepo-
koitschitzky, the latter the Grand
Dukes chief of staff, leave for Odessa
Tuesday.
The tension in Roumania Is greatly
relieved by the circular Of N. Bratiano,
the Roumsnian minister-president, to
the projects, cautioning them against
the assumption that the military coz
Yention with Russia has expired, en-
joining courtesy and forbearance to-
ward the Russians, and calmness and
tirmness in the discharge of duty until
the question at issue has been submit
ted to the judgment of Europe.
The Illness correspondent Gays that
If this docum ent had been promulgated
when the Bessarablan and other ques-
tons were first preached, it might
have prevented an enormous amount of
violent and exceedingly impolitlc agi-
tation.
The negotiations between the Eng
lish commissioners and insurgents, for
the cessation of hostilities in Thessaly,
continue.
NJ. Trepoff, whom the woman Vera
Sassalihet sometime since attempted to
assassinste, has been relieved of his
functions as prefecs of ST.. Petersburg,
and of the police.
The rumor comes from Vienna that
Marshal Count Won Moltke the well
known German strstegist, who is Wis
Iting Copenhagen, is the commission
er to negotiate the league between
Denmark, Russia and Germany for
closing the Baltic. This rumor is
probably based on statement in the
North German GaSette, of Saturday,
that it wouldn't conceal the opinion
that the dispatch of the British fleet
to the Baltic, where many mutual in-
terests might be affected, would rem
der the situation immessurably more
complicated.
LONDON, April 29.-The Manchester
Guardian says the struggle in the cot
ton trade continues, but the prospect
for q peaceful settlement appears some
what less remote.
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