The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-07
Last Nights Dispatch IS.
FOREIGN.
The Eastern War,

VIENNA, March 5.-A special from St.
Petersburg says it is confirmed that the
treaty includes clause providing that the
rati6cations must be exchanged at St.
Petersburg within fortnight.
A report is current that Austrian
troops have already commenced south
ward movement.
PERA. March 5.-Gen. Ignatieff visited
Constantinople in military uniform yes
terday.
LONDON. March 5.-A Paris CORES
pondent hears FROM thoroughly reliable
sources that France and Italy intend to
propose the naturalization ot'the Bos-
phorus and Dardanelles.
Lord Lyons has arrived here from
Paris
LONDON, March 5.-A special from
St. Petersburg says it is belived in well
Informed circles thatAustria will eventually
occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina.
4 Vienna correspondent telegraphs
that the time of the Russian occupation
or Bulgaria has been reduced to eight
months and the western extension of
Bulgaria is reduced so as not to include
the railway from Salonica to Metrovitza.
| The Austrian government intends to
demand vote of credit from the dele.
cations Friday, as well as 60,000.O00 for
| ins for use should circumstances require
| it of the Minister of War. Three million
is to be demanded to be used under any
circumstances.
LONDON, March 6.-St Petersburg anl
| Constantinople dispatches state that the
exact boundaries of Bulgaria are on tn,
west Servian. frontier, thence IN line pas
Mitrovitza. Wranja, and along the rive
Karosa to Yenidje, on the Kgean Sea
THE southern coast extends from Yenidj'
to point midway between Kavola ant
! Tedeagatch; thence the line runs north
ward to Tchermein and skirtiDg Adrian
ople turns eastward to the Euxine sea
The eastern coast extends from Hekiu
Tabiassi to Mangoli the line runs north
ward to Rassova on the Danube.
The election of the Prince of Bulgaria i
to be under the surveillance of a Russial
commissioner and another Russian com
missioner will superintend reforms il
Turkish Armenia. The Soghauli rang
will form the boundary between the Rus
sian and the Turkish possessions in Asia
A special from ST. Petersburg says Ger
Ignatieff will probably embark for Odess
; Friday, taking With him the treaty 10
! ratification.
It is suspected 10 official circles her
that England will purchase or seiz
MityIene for naval station, to counter
balance the increase of Russian inhuenc
at Constantinople. 1t is said that such
step would be looked upon with compare
tive Indifference by Russia, as England
= already able to blockade the Dardanelle,
A correspondent at Berlin says: In COZ
, sequence of the reiterated request of Rus
] ala. Prince Bismarck will probably conser
to nreside over the congress at Berlin
England agrees to be present.
A Vienna dispatch says Gen. Ignatie
J has returned to San Stefano with SAT-,
T Pasha This has revived the suspicion /
l. an intention to conclude a secret treat,
Although Gen. Schouvalof, who started Q
the 4th inst has taken the treaty of pest
to ST. Petersburg for ratification.
e A special from San Stefano says
9 appears that RouOanIa asks for the d
l. briaia islands. at the mouth of the Danub
and the fortress of Widdin and 25O. .OOO. .O(
of francs indemnity, without agreeing
It cede Bessarabia.
- snecial from Pera, announces tn
!. the Grand Duke Nicholas will visit d
- sultan Thursday. He will enter Go
= = s,an,inople at the head of 200 officers.
: A Paris dispatch states that M, Wa
ssf d;ngton. Minister of Foreign Affairs. "
" certainly attend the congress at Berlin.