The New York herald., 1879-08-11
FOREIGN NOTES.

remember being told . saws st. Petersburg CORE
spondent ei the Daav fsegraph. ION very excellent
authority. that the fire which had Just occurred,
accidentally or otherwise. at Adrianopie had com-
pleely destroyed that portion OF the Russian military
archives compromising certain exalted personages
III command during the late war
report appears in the Vienna Fremdenbldu that
the Emperor will shortly receive q private letter
from person of exalted position in Spain. the con-
tents of which will be of the highest interest to the
re,gnng families in the two countries. The contents
of this note. adds the paper, will only be made pub
lie in November. This very mysterious paragraph
probably refers to the possible marriage OF King
Alfonso with the Austrian Archduchess Marie
youthful Highness in Barritz. where she was stay
ing with her mother. King Alfonso was three years
was during these student times that he first made
the acquaintance OF the Archduchess. then hardly
more than child.
The Empress Charlotte shows great signs of i'm
provement since her removal from Tervueren to
Bonchant. At Tervueren she was under constant
and rigorous supervision, and she evidently knew
and felt it, The only walk which she was liberty
to take up and down one particular avenue of
trees. At Bonchant she has the entire grounds at
her disposal which tastefully laid ont, with
changes rom park scenery to flower gardens and in
which she can roam about at pleasure without feel
has already produced satisfactory results. The En-
press has not thrown of her habitual melancholy
more ease and she has OF late been absolutely free
from the painful and distressing attacks which made
her life wretched at Tervueren. The Queen of the
Begians visits the poor lady frequently.
The Vienna Political Correspondence of this evening
states that sanguinary conflict occurred on the
2oth July in Northern Albania between the Mus
sulmans ana Fandesians In consequence of u Moham
medan who had murdered Bosnian refugee being
allowed to do unpunshed. On the 2sd the Fande-
found necessary to barricade the church at Djakova
in order to protect it from the violence of the rioters
Some of the clergy sought safety in flight. 1t was
stated that the following day an attack would be
made by the Malissores tho Fandesians aud the
hospital ut Lunibi was also threatened with attack
The Porte has taken vigorous measures to put an
end the and has sent instructions for
that purpose to Nazf Pacha, Vail OF Kossova and
Nukhtur Pacha, Governor Of Monastu. The latter
has despatched special commissioner to the scene
the disorders to investigate the causes of the out
break and prevent further rioting.
official salaries very low in Germany compared
with those in England. The entire salary OF the
Imperial Chancellor. Prince Bismarck. from all
sources, both Prussian Minister and Chancellor
of the Empire, is only $4,000 marks ($l3. .5OU) The
The highest salary OF Prussian Cabinet Minister is
SCALE They are settled on analogous principles to
those which the English civil service pension
system. the pension amounting to as many eigh-
tiehs of the salary which was being received at the
time of retirement there have been years spent
in the service OF the State. Ten years added to
the record OF service in all where misconduct
has not called for censure. But where the salary
exceeds II 900 marks S3.000 only the half of such
Minister of Public Works and Education. entered
the service Of the State in 1S47 He has consequently
thirty-three years of public service plus His
salary as Minister was 36, 600 marks which becomes
reduced "a 900 for the purpose OF estimating his
pension. which will be 42-s0Ihs of this amount or
The Circassia families implicated IN the Caucasian
revolt last year are being carried into punishment
batches except OF course, those who have not been
despatched by the rope the sword. A letter from
Russia says the sutferings OF these poor people are
terrible and they excite compassion wherever they
90. The steamer Peter the Great belonging to the
shipping company, Merkur, arrived at Saratov
the lst inst, with cargo of such wretches, 500
families on board. They were to be conveyed from
thence to their final destination Nikolaevski Goro-
dok, by rail. The prisoners seemed unhappY, but
passive and resigned. There were considerable
number of women and children among them. Some
of the spoke Russian and they inquired sullenly
il they have yet much her travel and il the winter
was very severe in their new home. One young
Lesghian wearing officers cloak, excited particu
lar interest and sympathy. He is the son OF late
major in the militia. M. Braginoff. His father
hanged by the Russians last September and his elder
brother sent Siberia to work fifteen years in
the mines. The younger brother was sent into
Punishment.
the details of the Great TransSaharau Railway met
recently in Paris and proceeded with the work they
have in hand M. Soeillet, who spoke at one of the
meetings, dwet on the agricultural and commercial
importance of the route via Mzab Golea Touat and
Ain Sala. Water, he said was abundant along
this and would spring up
either side of the railway The Sahara would resume
its former appearance. that of green and fertile
plain M. Soleillet declared that he was ready,
certain conditions. to explore tho regions beyond
Ain Sala, which he proposed to do by starting from
Senegal and passing through Timbuctoo. NJ Say
observed that the question was not so much
the of tho desert the union of
Algeria 70 to- she ~ nay o. ros e line ne
looked upon as practicable was that of the
Hoggar. NJ. Say spoke of the Touaregs. who
and he mentioned that he had taught them to hunt
ostriches. Large parks OF these creatures should.
said Nj. Say. be formed and they would prove rs
productive a source of wealth those ut the cape
OF Good Hope. He thought these Touaregs, the in
habitants of the district between Algeria and the
Niger, might be turned to account by the French
colonists. and that they would be valuable aids in
the construction of the railway. NJ Drponchel
urged the necessity OF beginning the works without
overcome all obstacles.
General Grant received most enthusiastic well
come in Shanghai" says the correspondent of the
London Times; "he himself says he has met with
nothing like it since his departure from Philade-
phia two years before his arrival in Shanghai. We
Engshmen were aware. of course that we were en-
tertaning the most famous and the most prominent
citizen OF the great Republic. and one who when
III power gave unmistakable PROOFS that the Key
stone of his foreign policy was peace with the old
country; but we had also debt of honor to our
American fellow residents which we glad of
an opportunity to pay of. On occasions when
own the princes or any other leading Power have
visited the American citizens here, our rivals in
peaceful commerce. have WED with in doing
honor where we English folk deemed honor to
be due. 1t was only due to them that we should
join hands in giving hearty welcome to General
Grant. and with such spirit did the whole COM
munity enter into the rejoicings that our little
word-mercantile naval and otfcial-was tetc
tor nearly week. or his reception by the Chinese
government l am not yet in a position to speak.
Such welcome as he received from the Viceroy at
Canton was only obtained after considerable dlplo
matte activity the part or the American Churgc
Afiaires helped by the foreign head of the Custom
House. or that which the General received ut
Shanghai the less said the better; but have reason
to believe that better spirit annates the central
government and the Governor General of the metro
potan province, and that he will be received in the
North with honors and attentions almost royal"
wonderful underground lake has been discov-
cred at Hcmclen, Algeria, near the picturesque
cades OF that place. some miners had blasted an
enormous rock the cascades. and on removal Of
the debris found II had covered large opening into
u cave, the floor OF which covered with water.
Constructing a rude raft and providing themselves
with candles the workmen sailed along this under
ground river. which at distance of sixty metres
was found to merge into large lake of limpid
water The roof OF the cavern very high and
covered with stalacttes the brilliant coors which
sparkled under the light OF the candles. Continu-
ing heir course the workmcn had ut certain
places TO navigate their craft between the staactites,
which, meeting stagamites from the bed of the
lake, forped enormous columns which looked IL
they Lad 1een made expressly TO sustain the enor-