Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-01
GENERAL GRANTS CONDITION
Is CRITICAL.


LONDON, March 30.-A Paris dispatch
saws; The Exchange Telegraph Company
states that war with China will be officially
declared to-day. Fifty thousand rein
forcements will be forwarded, and the army
will be ordered to march on Pekin. 1t Is
expected that Admiral Courbet will bonn
bard Canton.
lie Figaro states that the French killed
and wounded in the fight at Lang Son,
number 1900.
Some persons express themselves in ia
vor of impeaching the Ministry.
PARIS, March 30.-At 3 p. M. the French
rentes had fallen to 76 francs 80 confines,
on reports that there would be popular
demonstrations outside the Chamber OF
Deputies. Fears are entertained OF serious
disturbance.
General Negrier, who was wounded in
Fridays engagement at Lang Son, mas
been promoted to be General OF q division.
The newspapers generally have urged
the country to act with energy and cool
ness. They also expect of all Frenchmen
that at such q crisis party feeling and
prejudices should sink into insignificance,
and there should be unanimity OF senti-
ment in demanding a general national
effort to put forth q relief for the army in
Tong King.
Orders have been issued directing the
immediate mobilization of all the Fourth
battalion of the infantry. The Govern
ment has decided to ask for volunteers
from each regiment, and call for $4,000
maritime conscripts.
The excitement over the French defeat
at Lang Son is intense. The feeling against
the Government is so strong that an out
break is feared.
1t is reported that France has officially
declared war. This, with the fears of a
serious riot and the downfall Of the Ferry
Ministry, has caused a panic on the bourse.
All the Radical newspapers request an
impeachment of the Ministers. Rochefort
demands the head of the French Premier,
Ferry, for the many blunders committed
in the Tong King affair.
A dispatch from Paris says: President
Grevy presided at the Council of Ministers
to-day. He insisted on immediate action
being taken for a prompt and vigorous
prosecution of the war with China. The
Cabinet decided to mobolize two divisions
of troops, to be commanded by four Brig
adler Generals for immediate service in the
Tong King, also to send 100 0 men to re-
inforce Admiral Courbet.
SHANGHAI, March 30.-The British
steamer Orestes, from Liverpool. for
Penang, collided with and sunk a Chinese
steamer. Seventy persons were drowned.
PARIS, March 30.-The Ferry Cabinet
has resigned, owing to the adverse vote in
} the Chamber Of Deputies on the Tong King
question.
England and Russia.
LONDON, March 30.-The British Govern
ment has chartered the new Cunard steamer
Etewua and the steamers Oregon and
Alaska for service as armed cruiser-trans
ports. They will be fitted with ten guns
each. The Admiralty has ordered the
men-of-war Iron Duke, Hotspur, Hecate,
, Conquest and Hyacinthe to be prepared for
service. 1t is presumed that they will go 10
the Baltic Sea.
The Admiralty has also ordered into &C.
tive service the ships I~nflexible, Devasta-
ton, Cyclops, Rupert, Oordelia, Voltage,
Active and Emerald. They will be ready
for sea in a few days.
d. IEIEhobuhtj mdECu OUs-lu6 dcT-
! man Zeitung thinks that the dispute be-
tween England and Russia is of too trivial
a nature TO fight about. The Zeitung says
7 that it is difficult TO understand how a ma
ton with such experience as that Of the
Soudan disaster can assume such a war
like attitude toward q powerful military
I state.
!, The Journal de st. Petersburg believes
the reply of the Russian Minister of For
) eign Affairs will have q conciliatory effect,
and that the Marquis Of Harrington. ex-
pecting this, postponed the debate on the
Queens message calling out the reserves.
LONDON, March 30.-The Daily News
says: "There Ia no reason to believe that
a the reply of De Giers. concerning the Afghan
frontier, is on its way to England, and
l that it is distinctly favorable to peace, for
which we must thank the irmness of
England and the Princes meeting at Rawul
Pindi. There is increasing ground" it
continues, for a belief that some resource
Of diplomacy will enable Russia to abandon
her claims without loss of prestige. II
not, England's duty still is clear, and any
, arbitration Of the dispute would be inap-
! plicable."
The st. Petersburg correspondent Of the
: Times says: "Russia's reply was ready on
the 9th instant. Both Governments de-
! sire to keep the contents secret. England
E proposed another frontier line. II is not
known whether Russia will accept, but
official circles rely upon a peaceful COM
promise. Great irritation was caused by
q the preparation Of the Indians, which, it is
stated, far exceeds Russia's preparations.
! Everything is calm. Indifference is ex-
0 hibited by the Russians, except in small
Q military circles indirectly interested in the
Afghan question"
Q Count Vogue, brother-in.law of Gen.
Anakoff. in a letter to the Journal des
Debats, of Paris. estimates the army OF
the Caucasus at 100, 900 men. He saws
this army could easily be replaced by an.
other army Of equal strength from the
western frontiers of Russia, which are I'M
/. menaced, and that this army could soon