Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-02-06
Grand Duke Nicholas would pass with
his Escort through COnstantinOple.

Grand Duke Nicholas would pass with
his Escort through Constantinople.
ANYTHING TO SAVE coNsrANTINoPLE.
| A Vienna correspondent telegraphs
under date Of January 3Oth. that
whether the preliminary conditions
have been signed or not has become of
purely secondary importance. The porte
at any rate has approved them, and ac-
cording to all accounts Is quite
ready to accept almost anything
else which the car may propose,
merely to prevent the Russians from
executing the threat Of marching on
Constantinople The population at the
capital is kept in constant state Of
alarm by daily rumors spread by those
working in the interest of the Russians,
OF the project of the Turks to burn the
city, blow up the mosque of Sophia
and make general massacre of Christ
ians and foreigners before retiring to
Asia.
! THE CIRCASSIAN FREE-HOOTERS.
Among the tens Of thousands of
refugees from Roumania are manv
armed Circassians. These have already
plundered Sulaha, Bourgas, Chorler and
Radesto and other towns, and are now
hockihg into Constantinople laden with
booty The government wishes to dis
arm them and send them into Asia, but
it is doubtful whether they will be able
to do so.
THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE.
War advlces from London under date
Of Jan. 2Sth give the following as Rus
sia's preliminary conditions of peace.
FHa-Autonomy for Bulgaria (boun-
diaries not definedD under Governor to
be appointed according to the stipula-
tons of the Constantinople conference.
The Turkish military forces to be with
drawn to certain localities to be de-
termined upon.
Second-The independence Of Rou-
mania, with compensation for territory
near the mouth of the Danube, which
she will make over to Russia.
Thim-Local autonomy for Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and the independence
of Serva with territorial rectitication.
This rectifcation of Servian frontier
may mean the transfer of Little Two.
rink TO Serva, but in Difference to
Austria and other powers, the question
is left quite open.
Fouth-Aggrandizement for Monte
negro on the basis of the stata quo post
bellum, subject to the approval of the
powers.
EfM-The cession of Batoum and
the payment of indemnity money, ter.
ritory, or the same equivalent, to be de-
termined upon.
FinuAy-The Sultan to undertake to
consider how to protect Russian inter
es.s in the passage of the Dardanelles.
THE CONDITIONS SIGNED.
A Constantinople special dated Jan.
% says the Porte has received tele-
gram to the effect that the prelimina-
ries CT peace have been signed, and that
the Turkish delegates and the Grand
Duke Nicholas would reach Adrianople
Saturday.
TIE DARDANEIL.ES.
The same correspondent states that
England had the Porte's permission to
enter the Dardanelles.
RUMORs CONTRADICTED.
The Agence Russo contradicts the ru-
mors that the Russians are marching
on Gallipoli, and that peace conditions
contain special arrangements relative
to the Suez Canal.
A cable dispatch to the Chicago Tri-
bunc of Jan. 2Sth says the feeling in
Turkey against England is as severe
as that against Russia, and there is even
a strong reason to believe that Turkey
will hereafter side with Russia against
England. although the question of open
ing of the Dardanelles is nearly the
only enc which needs the consent Of
Europe. 1t is believed that
DIRECT UNDERSTANDING
exists between Russia, Germany, Aus
tria, and perhaps Italy, to consent to
the opening of the Dardanciles, and
that Turkey will secretly pledge herself
to make no opposition. A st. Peters
burg correspondent states that, on that
point, Russia will never yield to Eng
land again, and that she would rather
go TO war about it now, if war be neccs-
sary, than have her fleet shut out Of the
Black Sea at England's dictation.
SHE IS IN A BETTER CONDITION
to obtain this important advantage than
she is ever likely to be again, while Eng
land is in worse position to resist the
Russian claim than she has been for
many years. For these and other rea-
sons there is no great certainty among
diplomats and politicians that war has
been averted, and many even believe
that the situation is now at its worst for
England. The English feet on its ar
rival at the mouth of the Dardanelles
received a countermanding order. and
has returned to Besika Bay, only few
miles distant.
RUMORS
have arrived here that tho Russian od