The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-30
EASTERN WAR.
Disorder I'm ConstantinopIe.

Disorder i'm COnstantinople.
LONDON, January 29.-The Turkish
government is having difficulty to main
tain order in the Capital. Among the
tens OF thousands of refugees from Rou-
mania are many armed Circsssisns.
These have already pluudered Lalch,
Bsurgas, Chorlu and Rodosto and other
towns, and are now hocking into Con-
sEsntinople, laden with booty. The gov
ernment wishes to dissrm them and send
them into Asia, but it Is doubtful wheth.
er they will be able 10 do so.
Appalling Misery
prevails from the Bosphorus to the Gulf
Of Sslonics. The whole coast is crowded
with terrified MOhanmedans seeking for
transportation across the Straits. Hun
dreds are perishlng from cold, hunger
and exhaustion, and no succor is possible
until the panic and confusion in the capi-
tol has abated.
Advices from Athens up TO yesterday
afternoon say that order has been re-
established, but the evaporation of the
people is increasing, and their disposition
is very wsrlike. Many volunteers are
crossing the frontier.
Delay III Signing Peace Con uiiions.
VIENNA, January pa special from
Constsntinople says that the delay in
signing the conditions OF peace is attrib-
uted to the Porte's opposition to the
temporary occupation of Constsntinople.
A London correspondent at Vienna
telegraphs that among rumors current
is one that no regular srmistice will be
concluded, but that Immediately after
the arrival of the Grand Duke Nicholas
with the Turkish Plenipotentisrles and
General Ignstieff in AdrisnopIe, definite
peace negotiations will be entered into
on the basis of the preliminsries accept
ed by the Porte. There is
nothing improbable in this as
the preliminary questions are
so general and so elastic that they
will only receive their real significance
by their definition in the final peace in.
strument. They may be made infinitely
harder than they are already or else
softened down so IS TO leave TO Turkey
the senblsnce of an existence rs a
European power. He would be bold
man who would now venture 10 affirm
what will ultimately best suit the
purposes of Russia, whether she
will aim at radical solution, or
merely TO prepare the way for it. Much
will doubtless depend on the course OF
consultation with individual powers,
which seems TO be going on sImultsEeOus-
ly with negotiations with Turkey.
Whether Russia may think il more sd-
vsntsgeous TO crush Turkey or protect
her, an armistice with affixed date
would certainly be more in the way than
that sort of tscIt suspension OF hostilities
which seems for moment 10 exist, but
which Russia may put an end to any
moment.
LONDON, January pa special from
Pers Gays that Odessa is named IS the
place for signing the peace conditions,
hence the expectation that the Grand
Duke Nicholas would pass with his e.
cort through Constsntinople. The same
correspondent says thst he has been told,
az an explain nstIon of the delay IN signing
the preiminsries, the order TO sign was
telegraphed 10 Shipks, via Vienna.
A Vienna correspondent telegrsphs
that whether the preliminary conditions
hav' been signed or not, it has become
of purely secondary importance. The
Porte at any rate has approved them,
and according 10 all accounts is quite
ready to accept slmoet anything else
which the Car msy propose merely
70 prevent the Russians from executing
the threa: Of marching on COnstantinople.
The population OF the capital is kept in
constant alarm by the daily rumOrs,
spread By those working in the inter-
est OF the Russians, OF the pre- ject Of the
Turks 70 burn the town, blow up the
mosque Of Sofa and make general
massacre Of the Christians and foreign
ers before retiring 10 Asia. Il looks
very much as if all further steps
in the negotiations would be made
dependent on the issue Of communics.
tions among the powers. The mysteri-
Gus delay in the signing OF preliminsries
may have been prompted by wish 70
see the view. Europe would take Of the
matter before proceeding further.
The sItuatfoni I'm England.
LONDON, January 29-Ths vote OF Tie
supplementary estimate has become pure
ly party question, aud the Liberals will
contest il a. such and sccept the rezuli Of
the division As decisive. Lord Darby,
las. evening, N opposing Lord
! SlrAthedeqs' resolution said that
opposition TO any occupation Of ConEtsn-
| tinople wJuld not be 8 breach OF nsu-
trslity. he very strongly iHtimaied his
] personal conviction that the Temporary
Russian occupation Of ConEtsniipOpic
woald furnish no ground for Brtish iS-
/ tsrierence.
weather Indications.
WsHIyGroS, January 30, l A NJ