The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-05
FOREIGN NEWS.



LONDON, March Ain the House o.
Lords this P. NJ, Lord Derby, in reply 10
question by Earl Granville, said: The
Government has received the terms oil
peace, but in snch an imperfect state that
he could only say the terms do not in.
clude the cessiou OF the Turkish fleet
the indemnity is reduced to twelve mill.
ion sterling, and the Egyptian tribute ia
not affected.
RUSSIA FEELING HER POWER OVER TuR-
KEY.
CoNsrANrINoPLE, March 4.-Previous
to the signing Of the treaty Of peace,
General Ignatietf demanded that Turkey
should unite with Russia in defending all
It's stipulations before the Congress. saf.
uel Pasha refused, General Ignatieff then
telegraphed to St. Petersburg for instruc-
tions. It Is not known how the question
was settled. Russia agreed not 10 include
Salonica in Bulgaria. 1t includes Bosr-
goR, Varna and Kustendje. The money
indemnity Of forty million pounds orig.
inally claimed, in addition to territorial
cession, was finally fixed at twelve mil
lions.
coNaRATuIAToRY pfsPATCH FROM MICH.
oLAs.
Sr. PETERSBURG, March 4.-Grand
Duke Nicholas has sent the following
dispatch 10 the Emperor:
SAN SrEFANo, March 8.
do myself The honor Of congrstnlatipg
your Majesty upon the conclusion Of
peace. God has vouchedsafe to us the
happiness Of accomplishing the holy work
begun by your Majesty, and on this an-
niversary Of the enfranchisement Of the
Seris your Majesty has delivered the
Christians from the Musselmen yoke.
MAKING THE MOST OF THE sIuATIoS.
LONDON, March A Pera cores
pondent writes: By giving up hostile
Europe provinces at the same time recoy.
ering tribute from them Ur saddling them
with u portion OF the national debt and
concentrating musselmans in territory
contiguous 10 Constantinople and making
the concentrations required by the terri.
torial concessions in Asia Minor, the
Turks will create a new ottoman power
ten times stronger than when II was
spread over the vast badly organized and
hostile territory.
RESURRECTION IN THE PROVINCES.
Special dispatches from various points
in the Greek Provinces Of Turkey indi-
cate that the insurrection is spreading.
They FAY that two thousand insurgents
are encamped within sight Of Vaio, in
Thessaly, and are entrenching. The dis.
trict between Mount Olympus and PIN.
'dus Range Is in revolt. The Epirus in.
surgents defeated the Turks at Ghesta on
Friday afternoon, alter a four-hours
fight, killing eighty and wounding one
hundred and fifty. Another fight took
place at Carolimpei with a similar result,
the Turks leaving seventy dead on the
field.
A provincial government has been
formed at Lycursian and union with
Greece proclaimed. Two hundred and
fifty refugees, women and children, from
Lycrrsian have arrived.
At Corfu great panic prevails among
the Christians' population OF insurrec-
tionary districts.
Consular reports from Larisso, the cap.
ital OF Thessaly, say that sixteen un:
armed men and thirty.fye women and
children were massacred by the Turkish
irregulars, and all the women in the town
violated.
NOT RECEIVED THE TREATY.
CoNsrANTINoPLE, March 4-Midnight.
-As the foreign ambassadors have not
received a text Of the treaty, they are
not certain whether il is defnitiye. II is
underatood. however, that the exchange