The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-24
Last NIGHTS Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Question.

ATHENS, April 23.-It is reported that
the insurgents Of Thessaly refuse to lay
down their arms, but FIVE days truce has
been arranged.
LONDON. April 23-Pera corresron-
dence shows that the Musselmen insur-
rection is formidable. 1t engages 10000
Russian troops and extends over an area
of 10000 square miles, from between
Tatar Bazardjik and Phillipoplis to Gum
uldschiua and Tchermen. The insurrec-
ton was caused by the intolerable op-
preston Of a Russo-Bulgarian regiment,
and brought to a head by the abduction of
Turkish women by Bulgarians Cannon
and musketry firing are heard daily near
Tchermen. A saDguinary and indecisive
engagement was fought near Demotisa on
the 18th inst, In which the Russians lost
500 men, including eighty officers killed.
The commander of Demotisa has asked
for reinforcements. and 1000 infantry and
two sotnias of Cossacks have been sent
from Adrianople. The demand for REIN
forcements greatly reduces the garrisons at
Adrianople and Philipopolis.
A Vienna a''correspouden hears that Rus
sia, fearing that the Turks will permit the
| English to occupy the forts in the Bosphor
TO guarantee the line of demarcation dur
the negotiations, Prince Bismarck is
considering the request.
A st. Petersburg correspondent tele-
graphs: The report that Prince Bismarck
intends to abandon all further attempts at
coucilliation, is now believed in well in
formed circles. But little confidence is
| placed ln the ultimate success Of the
| negotiations
ENGLAND
LONDON, April 23.-The Daiiy Ne1cS
says the policy of the British ministry is
ecoming a matter of growing Importance.
The military preparations may be mere
| precautions, but there is not one of them
| which does not mark our progress to a
state of war. They are so understood
abroad and every one of them increases
the difficulty of maintaining peace, The
most important of all, the dispatch of
native troops from India, has been passed
over with very little remark, although the
measure marks a revolution in the Indian
military policy. Of its effect on India
there will be only too many occasions
of speaking. The Indian government was
wise to gag the yernacular press before
calling the natives OF India to the aid OF
the nation which holds their country by
the right of conquest. Just now We are
concerned to know where these troops are
about to be put. At Calcutta it is given
out that their destination is Malta, and it
may be, but if so, where are the troops
going who are already III that garrison.
We may take it for certain that the Indian
troops will not be landed in Malta il
addition to those who are already there,
Malta is full and the only inference which
can be drawn is that in the plan of the
government by the time the Indian regi'
ments arrive, destination at present un-
known will be found, either tor them OF
for the corps they will be dIsplace. 1t il
quite as likely that these troops will bt
landed at some Turkish port. Very little
time can elapse before we know what il
intended. The practical lessen of the pas
few weeks is that in these matters a reso-
lutte hand is guiding the mysti6ed people
to an appointed end.