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EDITOEIAL COXMESTABIES. AK Ji Education of the Engineer. The time has gone by when, in any art, the ignorant and merely dexterous workman can compete with even a leas skillful shopmate, who possesses and uses brains as well as hands, and knows how to make the one direct and aid the other. We to-day find him occupying a decided vantage-ground who is at the same time familiar with the schools and at home in the For whatever department in the arts a youth may be designed, he must, to insuro success in the future, be taught not "in either the school or tke vorksHop I JOHN i RASTALL. NO.

121. BURLINGAME, KANSAS, APRIL 25, 1878. ESTABLISHED 1863. MARKETS. THE PAEIS C0MM1SSI0XEBSH1P.

others, Commissioner Killebrew, of Tennessee, has determined to make as complete a collection as possible of Indian relics to be found in that State. The Cniversity of Virginia Alumni Society of Alexandria 'held a meeting Saturday night for the purpose of setting on foot an organized effort to aid in raising the $30,000 necessary to be obtained in order to secure the Mc-Cormick telescope for the University. Dallas Commercial: It is said that the number of immigrants to Kansas this year will reach five hundred thousand. This puts Kansas key and Persia to the giant power of the northern colossus that England has felt any serious apprehensions for the safety of her Oriental possessions. But the complete prostration of the Ottoman power by the last war, and the peace of Adrianople: the grasping conditions imposed in the treaty by Russia; the further exactions, especially with regard to the passage of the Dardanelles and the navigation of the Euxine, 6ince or secretly at that time imposed; the defection from his allegiance of the Pasha of Eeypt; the vastly important alienation of Persia from the interests of England, and her present close allianoe with Russia; and finally tho constant aggressions and extension of power by Bus-sia, especially on her southeastern frontier, have impressed upon the British nation, particularly upon those who have a deep interest in the preservation of her Indian empire, a vivid sense of impending and formidable danger.

We shall not attempt, at this distance, to judge of the reality Or imminence of the danger. We prefer to detail facte rather than Indulge in speculation." Power of Correspondents. The foreign correspondents of the London papers are described hy the Spectator as irresponsible ambassadors who report daily to the English public, and whose influence it is difficult to exaggerate. The embarkation of the Russian "Guard at Buyukdere is cited as an illustration. One correspondent believed, or was told, or assumed a belief, that this embarkation was preliminary to one of the most astounding acts of treason on record the seizure, by a Power which had just signed a treaty, of forts belonging to its submissive adversary.

Instantly a whole country is in commotion, the funds recede, and there is a general expectation of war; and, but for the prompt denial of the report by other correspondents, 1t might have been impossble to prevent the passage of resolutions which would have rendered hostilities inevitable. It is not too much to say that, if four or five correspondents had combined, the policy of half the statesmen of Europe might have been overturned, and the world once more visited with tho gravest of calamities, a war without a denned object. Another instance, which is even more striking, is given of the mischief which can be wrought by a newspaper correspondent. The Spectator maintains that for ten years the whole position of a great country has been affected by the letters of the American correspondent of the London Times during the civil war letters written by a man whose good intentions were never suspected, but who sympathized so far with the South, or with English sympathy with the South, that he could not see which way the struggle would go, or what its inner meanings were. To the lasting injury of tho country, therefore, the Times went Southern, and with it the whole upper and middle class.

The conclusion is that, in view of the new standiing obtained by foreign correspondents, the anonymous ought to disappear. Ortr Permanent School Fund. State Treasurer Francis is just now very busy In preparation for the annual harvest from the permanent school fund investment. The Kansas-Nebraska Act pledged depositor a postal order on the V. B.

Treasury, which shall issue therefor 3-05 bonds, which shall be exempt from all taxation. Referred to Committee of the Whole The pro-rate Pacifio bill, the bill establishing a Pacific Railroad Commission, and the bill amending the Pacific Railroad acts identical with Thurman's bill, were also reported and referred to the Committee of the Whole Mr. Rice, from the Committee on Pacific Railroads, reported a bill extending the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Referred to the Committee of the Whole The bill from the Committee on Banking and Currency was reported, repealing the act authorizing the coinage of twenty cent silver pieces. Passed Mr.

Hartzell, from the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported back the bill authorizing the deposit of silver bullion and issue of certificates therefor. Referred to the Committee of the Whole. Thursday, April 18. Mr. Kelley, from the Committee on Ways and Means, asked leave to report a bill for the free entry of the article imported for exhibition by societies established for the encouragement of art and science.

Mr. Townsend objected Consideration was then resumed of the conference report on the bill making an appropriation for the employment of temporary clerks in the treasury department, and for other purposes. The report states that the Committee on Conference has- been unable to agree Mr. Foster, one of the Conference Committee, stated that the points of disagreement were the Senate amendments appropriating $40,000 for the salaries of Collectors of Internal Revenue, and $20,000 for railway postal clerks Mr. Oliver moved to concur in the Senate amendments.

Defeated. Ayes, 1 10 navs, 120. The 1 port of the Committee was then agreed to and a new Conference Committee with the Senate asked for. As soon as the conference report was disposed of the Speaker announced the regular order of things was the Senate adjournment resolution, and the pending question, a motion to lay on the table the motion to reconsider the vote by which the House, yesterday, refused to refer the resolution to the Committee on Ways and Means. Friday, April 19.

On motion of Mr. Singleton, the bill appropriating $200,000 to provide for the deficiency in the public printing office was taken up and passed The Speaker laid before the House a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury in response to the request of the House, giving certain information in regard to the tariff bill Mr. Bare hard reported a bill amending the internal revenue lawB. Walsh reported back the Senate bill increasing the pension of Gen. James Shields from $30 to $50 a month.

Mr. Mills moved to amend by increasing the pension to $100. Agreed to, and the bill was passed After consuming two hours in voting on dilatory motions, the House took a recess until 7 :30. At the evening session, Mr. Randall called Mr.

Vance to the Chair, and made a personal explanation regarding certain statements concerning the Sergoant-at-Arms An unimportant session was had, and the House adjourned. Saturday, April 20. Soon after meeting to-day, the House went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Cox, of New York, in the Chair, on the post-office appropriation bill. On motion of Mr.

Waddell the appropriation for the publication of post route maps was increased from $25,000 to $40,000. After the offering of several amendments and some further discussion the bill was dropped and the Committee rose. Mr. Tucker reported a bill relating to the tax on tobacco, incomes, etc. He also reported a resolution inakingrthe bill the special order for May 1 Mr.

Glover rose to a personal explanation concerning something the N. Y. Tribune had said about him. Monday, April 22. The Speaker announced that the first business in order was the disposition of the resolutions of the Maryland Legislature, re-opening the Presidential question.

following bills were offered and referred: By Mr. Whitthorn: Repealing the law imposing a tax on the notes of the State Banking Associations. By Mr. Buckner: Prohibiting the Senators, members and other employes of the government from receiving any compensation for services rendered by them in any proceeding, contract or claim in which the United States may directly or' jiirectly be interested Mr. Springer introduied a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting special legislation Mr.

Butler called up the motion to suspend the rules and the bill providing for the issue of fractional currency, and for the issue of treasury notes of the denomination of $1, $2, $3 and $5. Defeated yeas, 120; nays, 124 The rules were suspended and the River and Harbor appropriation bill was passed After much wrangling the House adjourned. The revived Beecher scandal seems excite considerable attention, but probably not as much as was at first expected. THB Tribune stock at the death of Mr. Greeley was valued at to control 51 old shares Jay Gould paid $510,000.

The Joplin Railroad, it is said, will be extended to Short Creek. It seems to us as If Short Creek might be reached by a railroad from a more eligible direction. Henry Meigqs, the South American railroad king, did not dio a bankrupt, as asserted, but left an enormous fortune to his tww sons, who have entered into new contracts with the Peruvian government. Alfred Gray's resignation as Commissioner to the Paris Exposition will be generally regretted by the poople of Kansas. He Is a man well qualified to fill such a position.

The new "Auxiliary Printing Concern" of Perry fc Krutz, at Kansas City, Kansas, recently started, is receiving a liberal and rapidly growing patronage from the publishers of Kansas. The wheat prospects all over Kansas are bright, and the harvest promises the greatest yield of any previous year. Our tremendous immigration and a big crop this year will make times easy in Kansas. Some of the capers cut by the recent great storm in tho Cottonwood Valley have been the subject of wondering commentary In many of the loading papers. It was a terrible "blow out," indeed.

The extract from the recent "Conkllng Interview" published in the New York World which will be found in this paper is mighty interesting reading. Much of it, however, is apocryphal, so Senator Conk-ling says. The movement In the direction of the State Fair Is taking active shape, we observe by a circular recently put forth by a committee of Topeka gentlemen, appointed to arrange the preliminaries for the fair. It Is to bo hoped the proposed programme will be a complete success. Some watcher of political events asserts that Gen.

Grant can carry New York State for President in 1880 by 35,000 majority. There arc many prominent Republicans throughout tho country who are in favor of Grant's nomination for a third term. It has been said of Russia that it is her particular desire to be esteemed a civilized power. She is as sensitive about any marks which connect her with Asiatic ignorance and savagery as is the fifth in descent from a negress about remaining indications of black blood. The last report of the Procurator-General of the Russian Holy Synod states that the Church has 38,602 churches, chapels and oratories, 98,887 arch-priests, priests, deacons and precenters, and 56,500,000 members.

The sum received by tho Church in 1875 amounted to $9,398,425. Capt. Eads in Memphis: There is not stretch of the river from St. Louis to New Orleans, fifty miles long, in which I have not stood on some part of tho river bottom, beneath the shelter of the diving-bell. I have known tho river intimately for forty years.

I have mado a life-time study of it, and I know what I am talking about. It Is said that Mr. Eaton, of Kansas, member of the Democratic National Committee, is to be disciplined when tho Committee meets for talking too much. Perhaps Mr. Eaton has heard of this, for he begins to hedge, so to speak, by writing a card to the Cincinnati Enquirer explaining some portions of his late "Interview." "Die" is a good one.

There is so strong a majority in favor of Mr. Thurman's Pacific Railroad Funding bill that there Is every probability that it will go through tho House at this session. As it is not likely to bo so amended in the Houso that any serious delay will occur in the Senate on a motion to concur, the measure is expected to become a law before the adjournment. The census of 1870 enumerated forty copper mining establishments in tho United States, employing a capital of and yielding an annual product valued at $5,201,312. At that time there were twenty-seven mines in Michigan and thirteen others distributed in Arizona, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Vermont.

The Lake Superior copper occurs in tho metal-lc slate known as native copper; while in others it is in a mineralised form of ore, like other metals. Four-fifths of the product In this country comes from Lake Superior. The Kirwin Progress states that the business done at the U. S. Land Office at that place, for the month of March, was the largest since the establishment of the office.

There were 315 homesteads, 49,263 acres; 188 homestead proofs, 20,692 acres; 84 timber entries, 32 cash entries, 1,360 acres; 458 filings, 73,280 acres; 33 soldiers filings, 5,280 acres; 1 warrant act of 1855, 80 acres; making a total 1,112 entries and 171,652 acres, being an average of 6,597 acres for every business day in tho month. Gxkebal Upton, of tho United States Army, in his recent work on the armies of the world, shows very conclusively that men are more thoroughly organized for fighting purposes than at any previous period. In the old world ho finds the military strength to be as follows: Peace footing. 30,440 HOO.OOO 190,000 60.000 330,000 620,000 300,000 420,000 490,000 138,624 War footing 46,050 1,000,000 500,000 120,000 869.316 1,640,000 1,040,000 1 ,340,000 1 ,730,000 541,624 0.220.09O Japan China India Italy Russia Austria Germany Franca Total. 1,981.004 Who would not like to make the tour of the world? Thos.

W. Knox, in the New York Herald, gives the following route and distances for the direct route around the n.Arit nrhinh win Ka fnnnd interestinsr: MII.K81 New York to San Francisco Han Francisco to Yokohama Yokohama to Hong Kong Hong Kong to Singapore Sineanoreto 3,450 4,764 1,020 1,150 1,200 1,400 1.664 to (Bombay Aden Aden to Sues Buss to Alexandria. 1.S08 250 1,800 Alexandria to Marseilles Marseilles to Paris 53 205 Paris to London 3,000 A Danyerous Improvement. The parlor match bids fair to rival kero sene as a dangerous element in civiliza- h. Many oases of from the matches becoming ignited while carried lb the alternative formerly offered him, but in the school and the workshop.

Here, then, arises the necessity for Technical and Trade Schools, in which, if properly conducted, knowledge is imparted so as not only to train the minii to habits of thought and study, to givv it capacity for logical deduction and thc-ipid acquirement of information, but in rueh manner as shall at the same time mak. fhe student familiar with the principles of the art which he is to practise, and shall prepare him to learn the lessons taught, in the workshop and in the manufactory, rap. idly and well. It is the tardy recognition of these facts, of this vital necessity, that has placed a great nation, formerly far In advance of all others in manufactures and the useful arts, in a position relatively to her neighbors that is causing the greatest uneasiness to the more intelligent of her people and to all her statesman. They see other nations, who were formerly far behind, now rapidly overtaking her, if not already taking the lead, in consequence of their earlier adoption of a system of technical instruction for their people.

Prof. Thurttton, in Pop-ular Science Monthly for May. One of the Highest Mountains. According to' recent geographical surveys, it seems that the Aconcagua Peak is the loftiest of the Andes range, and the highest in America. It is 100 miles east of Valparaiso, and nearly in latitude 32 dog.

30 min. south. Its actual height is not accurately known, but the measurements made by M. Pissis and other noted scientists make it reasonably certian that the elevation is between 22,400 and 23,900 feet above the waters of the sea. The French explorer made it 22,422, orfour miles and 1,302 feet over, which would be 998 feet higher than the snowy summit of Chlm-borazo, as Humboldt measured the latter, when in 1802 the great German made his famous ascent of that mountain with Bon-pland to a height of 19,286 feet Aconcagua, seen from the Chilian seaport of Valparaiso, is shown only as a peak, towering above tho heights of tho Andes at a distance of 100 miles or more inland, toward tho sunrise.

Aconcagua has been called an extinct volcano, but the best examinations yet mode of its summit do not appear to bear out that idea. The recent obsrvations make the height of the Chilian mountain 23,200 feet and "probably" over that figure. The elevation of Mexico's highest mountain Popocatepetl, or "Smoking Mountain" is nearly 5,000 feet less than that of Chilian peak, and Mount Shasta and Mount Hood fall short to about the same figure. Pike's Peak is about 9,000 feet lower than Aconcagua. A (jreat Desperado.

In Longley, the desperado, who has murdered thirty-two men, and is now waiting to be hanged in Lee county, Texas, the boys of America may study in real life one of those characters so often depicted in cheap and sanguinary romances. Longley is described bv the Globe-Democrat as scarcely yet in" his 24th year, with dark hair, worn rather long and slightly parted at the side; coal black whiskers and beard that shade a fine complexion; a nose rather after a Greek model; teeth white and beautiful as a woman's; eyes black as midnight, that seem literally alive with expression, which their possessor seems little inclined to curb or suppress." He is confined in a dungeon "as dark and dismal as any pictured in the pages of romance. A massive iron door from the rear opens into a corridor dimly lighted by rusty iron gratings. At the further end is tho cell of the desperado, the strong iron door of which is secured by massive locks, and whoso walls are also massive." This handsome highwayman and manslayer, a Dick Turpin and Claude Duval combined, will undoubtedly swing from tho gallows. Tho Court of Appeals has confirmed his sentence, and there is no further hope for him.

The Inventor of the Phonograph. Thomas Alva Edison was born at Milan, Erie county, Feb. 11, 1847. His father, Samuel Edison, is seventy-four years old, and in fine health. His ancestors were American for several generations.

TUs mother, a native of Massachusetts, died in 1862, at tho age of sixty-seven. Sh is described as finely educated, industrious, and of literary tastes. When Thomas was seven years old his parents removed to Porto Huron, and his father still resides there. All the large sums Edison has roceived from his patents and the royalty on them, amounting to over been mostly invested in experiments. Hs is sharp at a bargain, but just in giving a purchaser the worth of his money.

In person he is five feet nine and a half laches tall, wears a seven and Seven-eighths inches hat, and his short black hair is slightly gray. His chest expansion is flvs Inches, and his powers of endurance are wonderful. England and Russia. General Upton, in his book on the armies of Asia and Europe, highly compliments English rule in India. He believes the expulsion of the Turks from Europe would endanger India, as the Turks, encouraged by Russia, would overrun Persia and invade India.

He believes that, with the Russians once secure In Constantinople, the fleets of England can no longer oppose the designs of Russia. Converting the Black Sea Into an inland lake, thus insuring her communications, a railroad from Trebizond across to the valley of the Eu phrates, and thence to Damascus, will place Russia on the flank of England's line of communication. Thus brought face to face, it is not impossible that these two great powers may change the face of Asia on the famous plain of Esdraelon. Death, Life, and Death Again. pf.

T. Sun. The 22 year-old daughter of J. B. Bore- mus, of Willis street, Patterson, died on Tuesday, of last week, as was supposed.

The body was prepared and laid out in the coffin, and all the arrangemnts completed for the funeral on Friday afternoon. Tue father sat alone in his house on Fridav evening. The preparations were all readv the doctor cert'ficato filed, and the coffiu sat upon the benches in tho adjoining room. The door silently opened, and in her shroud and grave clothes the girl he had supposed to be dead tottered toward him, threw her arms his nock, kissed him passionately, and then fell back un conscious in his arms. A physician was called with all haste, but this time she was dead.

He Get it Bad. Congressman Ellsworth, of Michigan. while visiting his home at Greenville, last Monday, was assaulted by J. J. Shearer, a neighbor, a wealthy business man, and terribly beaten.

The external plate of the frontal bone over the left eye is fractured, and his condition is critical. It was reported on tho streets for months that bhearer Intended to horsewhip Ills worth and two or three other gentlemen for supposed interference in his late domestio troubles. Beecher Cheerful. Mr. Becher appears cheerful, refuses to read the papers, will make no further statement, will go right on about his business, and will fill lecture engagements as though nothing had happened.

Hs says if Mrs. Tilton had felt so conscience-stricken she should have made her statement to the Church, and not the newspapers. Mr. Beecher has received a large number of telegrams, assuring him that ths confession has fallen flat upon the country, and has produced no impression upon his friends. The expenses of the late Papal con.

clave amounted to 1,100,000 francs. Provisions, medicines, had' been stored up for three months, In anticipation of a prolonged session. M3IA11Y. WAS1 GTOX. The subscription to the 4 bonds on Saturday wjio $175,000.

per cent. The bill to provide for tho payment of the arrears of interest due the Chickasaw cation, was agreed upon by the Indian Affairs Committee on Saturday. This interest amounts to having acccrued between Jan. jl' iVtu t-T 8 'n Chickasaw nation, and is still due and unpaid. The Department of State has received information from Minister Foster that on the Utlf inst.

he recognized the Dinz government of Mexico. A private letter says that the recognition was received with general delight by the citizens or Mexico. The Committee on Ways and Means Saturday, by a vote of five to four, decided that if the Income tax is restored it shall not go into effect before Juiy 1, 1S70. The announcement is actually made tlmt.Senator Sharon will arrive in Washington and resume next Saturday. Edison, the inventor of many wonderful instruments, is a great lion here.

He is constantly engaged in giving audiences to Congresa-men, who find language inadequate to express their enthusiasm over the marvelous phonograph. Effoiits will be made to have returned to Japan $1,500,000 now in the United States Treasury known as the Japanese Indemnity Fund, retaining a small sum only to compensate for the actual loss to American citizens resuling from the disturbance sumo years ago in that country. A sub-committee of the House Naval Committee has agreed, it is said, to report a bill appropriating $3,000,000 per annum to be used in rebuilding our navy. This sum, if properly expended, would give us yearly a magnificently umured iron ship of the British pattern. Senatob Sabqent has written a letter to Gen.

Logan im reply to his strictures on the bill to place certain ex-Union Generals on the retired list. The statistician of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, says that half the counties in the United States show that the number of hogs raised annually is 20,000,000. Of this number 2,000,000 are annually affected by disease. PERSONAL AXD POLITICAL. It is reported that the independent voters of Kssex county, are thinking of running Caleb Cushing for Congress.

In the Oregon Republican State Convention Mr. C. C. Beckman, of Jackson county, was nominated for Governor on the fifth ballot. Bishop Simpson Is nearly 68 years old and is beginning, it is said, to feel some of the inseparable infirmities of age.

They do not, however, prevent his preaching with all his old eloquence. Prof. Swing, Chicago's liberal preacher, has been compelled to stop preaching for a brief season and recuprate his health. Robert Bonner's word is said to be as good as his bond, and his bond is worth A dispatch to "the Tribune: "Beecher's reception along the whole line of his progress is one of exceptional cordiality." M. W.

Baldwin Co. (Baldwin Locomotive Works) have for ten years had a suit for $330,000 hanging over them, the claimant being a former employe, Thomas M. Myng, of New York. Instead of paying this amount they have been awarded damages to the extent of If Dr. Mart E.

Walker, who has been very ill in Washington, is recovering. General Fremont, who is now in Washington, is shortly to become President of a Southern railroad. The Boston Post thinks the new Doorkeeper of the House will succeed because he was formerly an insurance agent. John B. Gough, the venerable Temperance Lecturer, will leave the United States shortly for a prolonged stay in Speaker Randall is said to be coaching Hon.

Uendrick B. Wright for tho gubernatorial nomination in Pennsylvania. THE WEST. The First National Bank of Grinnell, Iowa, resumed specie payments on tho 10th paying gold for the notes issued by that bank. DuN Co.

announce that tho failures for the quarter ending March 31st numbered 3,355 liabilities, For the same period last vear thev numbered 2,859, with liabilities, The Ohio House of Representatives has passed the Senate bill authorizing the issue of $2,000,000 in bonds to complete the Cincinnati houuiern Jtauroaa. The coinage of the now silver dollars commenced at the San Francisco Mint Wednesday. Crop reports from all parts of Califor nia, with a few exceptions, are most favorable. The Fourth National Bank of Nashville, has announced its readiness to resume specie payment. Four companion of tho Twenty-third infantrv.

Gen. Jeff. C. Davis' regiment, station ed at port Leavenworth, have received orders to be prepared to leave at once for the te country 111 gouuiern uoioratio 10 assist in moving xne Utes to tho Indian Territory. There is trouble between the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad and the Denver A Rio Grande on account of the right of sage through the Raton pass.

The former com pany seems to have tho innings. Twenty-one bankruptcies were record ed on the 20th in Chicago, the most of them be ing, however, insignificant as to amount. At San Francisco on the 20th, "Con troller was backed to beat 20 miles within an hour to a whcou for $500 a side. The track was in fine condition. The odds in favor of the horse were about four to three.

The horse ran in 58 :57, coming in fresh, the best time on rec ord. Col. RfD Kleeman, formerly of Chica go, and engaged at Laramie City in company with some Cincinnati men in opening and op erating tho Sunrise mine, was instantly killed Saturday evening by falling down the shaft of the mine. Wm. N.

McQueen, a pork packer of St. Louis, has filed a petition in bankruptcy His liabilities are $112,000, assets $95,652. THE EAST. Bancroft Davis, trustee under tho fifth consolidated mortgage, obtained leave Sat-urdar'to discontinue the foreclosure suit against the Erie Railroad company under that mort gage, as the interest has been paid. Two hundred horses per week are be ing purchased in the western portion of Ver mont, by agents of the English government.

On Tuesday last in New York Professor artier accomplished the feat of waltzing sixteen hours without stopping, a feat greater by two hours than anything of the kind before attempt ed. Samuel Steenbugh was hung the 20th at Fonda. N. for the murder of Jacob 8. Par ker on the nieht of March 17, 1877.

A Time special says there were fully 10,000 people in tho village. The New York Tribune says that the managers of the canal lines are making extra ordinary efforts to secure west-bound freight, and many contracts have been made already. Members of the old regiment held meeting in Boston on Friday in memory of their passage through Baltimore seventeen years ago. Thev propose meeting in Dmumuio uu twentieth anniversary. Secretary Evabts has addressed i.

Sruaaknr llnndalL transmitting the an nual report upon the commercial relations of the United States for the year 1877. Norman Wiabd. well-known for his nnnnnntinn with Koo.rptarv Robeson in the mat ter of ordnance experiments, wno nas own ab sent in Japan for a year, has returned to his res idence in asmngton. lirv. P.

F. Lyden. Vicar-General, arch diocese of Boston, died Saturday night arter brief illness. THE SOVTU. The Southern Baotist Convention will meet in Nashville May 9.

Rev. Benjamin Thornton, a promt nent Georgia clerevman. is dead. although the next-election win noi take place in South Carolina until next Novem ber, the campaign is already heated. The Legislature of Virginia at its last session passed a law making it a misdemeanor for any one to pay the poll-tax of another in order to get bis vote.

The Potomac fisheries are this season almost an utter failure, not only in the shad and herring catch, ous 01 rocs, perca ua cat-nan. all of which are becoming scarce. Dallas Commercial: The people of intnnin are besinninff to be thoroughly eon vinced that they cant indulge in the barbarism of two thousand year ago on Texas soil. Tw th tmiek farms around Charleston, 8. about l.OOO acre are planted in Irish potatoes and 225 acres in strawberries.

The po tatoes will render a gross income 01 lia GRAIN. Kansas Cm, Movdat, April 22. Wheat. There was a quiet market at the of the Call Board, and there were no sales, either for cash or future delivery of No. 3 and No.

4. The best bid for No. 3 cash was lc lower than the figures at which sales were made Wednesday, while No. 4 cash was offered at 97e, Wednesday a selling figures, and there were no bids. Corn.

There was a much better feeling in this certal yf storday, and trading for eash and May at the Call Board was larger than for some time. No. 2 mixed cash sold in ear lots at Mc, the closing sales have been made at the figures last givon, showing an advance of 3-ie over the best bid of Wednesday. FLovn. Kansas City, Mohdat, April 22.

Tho following are the current quotations for Jobbing lota iahis market yesterday Flour sack, flfftft. Fancy brands, 2.90; XXX, $2.05. Buckwheat, $2.25. Rye, Hoar, Graham, flour, $2.75 oorn meal girt, 80c; corn chop, Hoe: bran, ton. shipstuff.

ton, $10.50. CATTLE. A KAKSis Cm, Monday, April 22. FJd'Kc- quotations ft the Kansas City Stock Yards yesterday were a follow Extra native steers, av. 1,400 to 1,500 4.25 4.40 rrime, av.

1,300 to 1.400 4.00U 4.25 Fair te good, av. 1,150 to 1,300.. 3.65S 4.00 Native butchers' steers, ay 1,000 to 1.150 3.50 3.75 Native feeders, av. 1,000 to 1,150 3.15(4 3.40 Native Blockers, BOOtOI.OOO 3.10 Native cows, extra! 2.75(3 Native cows, fair to good 2.4CV? 2.75 Native cows, scalawag 2.00 2.20 Native oxen, 3.O0 3.35 Native oxen, fair to good 2.509 3.0 Native bulls l.oOtf 2.00 Calves, each 5.00( Milch eows, each 25.0030.00 nous. Kansas Crrr, Monday, April 22.

The following quotations show for yesterday the principal oe SALE. No. Av. Wt Price. 40 220 $3.00 61 213 2.f5 56 238 3.10 38 241 2.15 67 214 3.05 THE COSKLISU "INTERVIEW." Some Inirrntittg Snyingt about Senator and Politic.

Brother rN. Y. World. "How do the Southern leaders rank for ability, Senator?" "Senator Lamar is unquestionably the ablest of them all. Gordon is arrogant and domineering, but by no means brilliant.

But has very little honor, even in his own State, and his opinions are changeable. Butler, of South Carolina, is cool and polished, and will probably have enough to do to defend his own case in connection with his seat. Lamar is the Jesuit of the Senate. When Stewart L. Woodford went on his trip to Mississippi, Lamar took him in charge and bewildered him.

Poor Woodford! It was like a cat playing with a mouse. He came home with his head full of Mississippi levee schemes, and utterly oblivious that any wrongs had been perpetrated on Republicans in that State. Lamar talked to him about the political millennium, and must have chuckled to himself over his easy conquest. The wily Mississipplan always understands how to put his best foot foremost." THE PRESIDENT'S SEVEN WISE MEN. "What about the Republican Senators who voted with the administration "They are soon counted up.

There's Stanley Matthews and Christiancy at the West, "Hoar, Dawes and Burnside at tho East, and Conoverand Patterson.probably, at the South. ABOUT STANLEY. "Matthews is not a bad fellow, and I feel sorry for him sometimes. Not long ago the nomination of an Ohio man for a for-eigh consulship was sent into our committee, and I made inquiry about the incumbent and found that in every way he was an acceptable man, and so reported to the committee. Afterward Stanley Matthews came to me in tho Senate Chamber and said: 'You must make room for the man he's a good man and ought to have the said 'the incumbent is a good man, too, and under the rules of civil service reform I do not think it right to remove Matthews then said: You must do it.

The new man is a friend of mine, and I promised him the place in return for working for rac. I went to the President and asked for it for him. 'Well, Mr. I 'I have got to give the committee some reason for making a change Shall I tell them that the nominee was appointed by the President at your request and as a reward for political service?" 'Why, said Matthews; 'I have no objection As soon as he was gone I turned to Senator Hamlin, who sat next to me, and asked him what I should do, and if I should make his request known to tke committee. Hmlm said, Yes, him, it'll serve him just right if he's such a fool as Of course, I would not do anything of the kind, since it would put him in a very bad light before tho Senate, but I could not help wondering at what seemed to me the marvelous Innocence of the man.

HAYES OWNED BY THE SOUTH. "You think, then. Senator, that the President is wholly in the hands of the Southern Democrats?" am sure or it. A liepubllcan told me that not long ago he had occasion to visit the White House, and he found the President polite but chilly as an iceberg. While he was there Senator Gordon walk ed in without ceremony, and the President's countenance at once.

lighted up, and he rose from his seat, grasped the Senator's hand warmly, and throwing an arm affectionately over his shoulder drew him to the window, where the two talked together in confidential whispers, and then Ooraon wanted out as he came in with the air of one who was perfectly at home. The other guest took his leave at once In great disgust. THE LOUSIANA OUTRAGE. "Packard was elected, reeogniaed, and in Dower when Haves intervened. That man looked on and consented when Nichollsput himself at the head of 20,000 drilled and organized rebel veterans, placed himself In power, drove the police from the streets, the magistrates from the bench, and revolutionized the State It was an act of treason such as would have hanged a man in old times, but the President looked on and smiled, withdrew the troops, and, through his friends, con sented tnat armed treason should tnumpn.

There has been no similar scene witnessed since these United States were made a na tion, where the entire authorities of "sovereign State" were driven from office at the muzzle of the gun. You can fancy what would be the result in this State. II a defeated candidate for Governor attempt ed revolution, and yet Mr. Hayes seems to think it all right Nor is this the most singular part of it for many good and conscientious men. who ought to be jealous of their liberties, seem to take no note of these passing events, and deprecate all criticism by saying that Hayes is a good man and means welL If he continues to mean as well and be as good, you can see for yourself to what the country will come.

It is for this reason tnat I believe no recon ciliation possible, even if Haves should try to conciliate the Republicans, which he is not likely to do while he remains in Southern leading-strings. The breach be tween the President and the party that elected him cannot be healed. The secrets of the adminlstraaon are certain to come to the lisrht. and then nobody will acknowl- edsre allegiance to it. on one side or the the other.

I think even Patterson and Conover be ashamed of It." Sreretarn Gray' Resignation. We are permitted to publish the follow ing letter from Hon. Alfred Gray to Hon. John Kelley, the President of the State Board of Agriculture, setting forth Secretary Gray's reasons for forwarding his resignation as Commissioner to the Paris Exposition: Topeka, April 10, 18J8. Hon.

John Kelly, President of the State Board oi Agriculture, Wichita, Kansas: Dear Sir: I have resisted as Com missioner to the International Exposition to be held at Paris. To perform the duties to which I have been assigned as such Commissioner would require me to reach Paris about May 1st, remain there from three to four months, and then "report on agricultural subjects not later than January 1, 1879." To do this would seriously delay the work of this Board. The biennial report would have to be delayed as many months as I would be occupied in such other work. Ihe btate has expended noarlv $40,000. on account of the Philadelphia Exposition, purely as a business investment to direct the attention of immigration to our products, limitless agricultural resources, cheap homes, etc.

Information widely disseminated by virtue of tho State exhibit at Philadelphia, and ouraftatistical exhibits, has converted this orace into an immense Immigration Bureau. The work has more than doubled since the commencement of the year, and is daily in creasing. Saying nothing about the re vision of maps for the State and the sev enty counties, and the compilation of tho iteport for 1877-78, which will contain between five and six hundred pages, the ordinary work of the office is more than the clerical force is equal to. Immi gration to the State is so extraordinary that It surprises even me, with all mv san guine expectations of good results incident to tne work named. Unless the State Centennial Exhibition shall be supplemented by performing with promptness and fidelity the work it has incited, anticipated results will not accrue.

I deeply regret the necessity for the de termination to which I have come, for I believe I could be of somo service and could reach sources of information which would be of value to the State in our work hereafter, but I do not think I would be justified, with the limited clerical fund at our command, to delay or neglect tho work at this post of duty. It would take my best thoughts and energies from the time of leaving for Paris to the close of the year to fulfill reasonable expectations. The accumulation of work here during all this period would necessitate a mental and physical strain to which I feel I am unequal in my present state of health. 1 hanking you and the board for many kindly expressions in favor of my going, but believing that under existing circumstances, you will concur with me in the conclusion to which I have come, i remain yours very truly, Alfred Gbay. A Plan.

State Board of Agriculture. "I Office Committee on State Fair. opeka, Kansas, April 15, 1678 We submit the following as tho general plan agree upon by the Committee for the holding of a State Fair, and very respectfully ask that you call your people to meet and discuss, and take action in tho matter, on Saturday, the 27th of April, 1878. 1. That the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) shall be bona fide subscribed, and placed to the credit of the Committee in the banks of the several cities and towns where guaranteed.

2. That all the premiums offered by the Committee 6hall be paid in full. 3. That in offering to the citizens of the State an opportunity to subscribe to this fund, it is with rssurance that every dollar received from tlie exhibition shall be returned pro rata among the contributors. 4.

1 be present Committee desire that an executive Committee of one from each Congressional district be appointed in the general management and control of tho exhibiaon. 5. That all accounts, papers, books, are to be placed in the hands of a Committee appointed by contributors du ring the fair for examination. 6. The amount of premium list not to exceed $6,000.

7. It is expressly understood that the Committee will not take any stepe in the matter until the said $10,000 shall have been fully guaranteed or deposited to the credit and use of the Committee in the banks where subscribed, and the fact cer tified to tho Committee. Tho sum guaranteed for premiums not to be called for until the time of the holding of the fair. 8. There are to be no salaries paid to officers, except to the Secretary and Treas urer during tho fair.

Employes to be paid no greater sum than is paid for like labor bv individuals. The Committee hopes that our citizens in all portions of the State will respond, and that the sum to be used will be readily so-cured. The money only to bo called for, with notice, as it is required in the payment of expenses. Respectfully, IHOS. Ii.

UAVANACGH, Wm. Sims, j. w. johnsos, John Kell, Committee on State Fair. Land Grants to Railroads.

The following table shows tho number of acres of land donated to the different railroad corporations throughout the Uni ted States by the Government: 8. Alabama Railroad Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Kew Orleans. Baton Rouge and 570,000 897.920 1,600,000 066.7OO 365,539 458,771 864,000 1 $2,718 1,400,000 101,110 116,276 342.406 1,536,000 256,000 5SO.OOO 1,052,469 5H6.H28 531,200 128,000 243,200 375,680 18,800 675,000 350,000 2 15,000 000,000 750,000 500,000 725,000 Vicksburgh Railroad Cairo and Fulton Memphis and Little Rock Little Rock and Fort Smith Iron Mountain Railroad Cairo and Fnlton Railroad Saint Louis and Iron Mountain Burlington and Missouri River Chicago Rock Island Railroad Cedar Rapids and Missouri McGregor and Missouri River bioux City and baint Paul Sioux City and Pacific Jackson, Lansing and Michigan (re-grant) Flint and Pere Marquette Grand Rapid and Indiana Bay de h'oqnet and Marquette Marquette and Ontonagon Chicago and Northwestern Chicago and Northwestern. West Wisconsin Saint Croix and Lake Bayfield Branch Chicago and Northwestern (regrant) Portage and Superior Saint Paul and Pacific Saint Paul and Pacific Branch Minnesota Central Winons and Saint Saint Paul and Sionx City Lake Superior and Mississippi Minnesota Southern Hastings and Dakota Lea Ten worth, Lawrence and Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe. Union Pacific, southern branch Saint Joseph and Denver Fort Soott and Gulf 290,000 690,000 150,000 800,000 735,000 350,000 800,000 1,200,000 500,000 1,700,000 17,000 Southern Branch Union Pacific 1,203,000 Plaeeryille and Sacramento 200,000 Central Pacific, Oregon 1,540,000 Stockton and Copperopolis 320,000 Oregon and California l.BttO.OOO Oregon Central 1,200,000 Union Pacific, Central Pacific, and Kansas Pacific 35,000,000 Northern Pacific Railroad 47,900.000 Atlantic and Pacific Railroad 42,000,000 Southern Pacific Railroad 3,000,000 Central Pacific Railroad.

245,166 Texas Pacific Railroad 13,400.000 Total number of acres giyen sway, 285,000,000 Greeley the Present Crisis. The following Is an extract from an ed ttorialin Horace Greeley's Xew Yorker Of March, 1839: "It Is only since the subjugation of Tor- lead ot Texas Cox, Ryan, and Satterlee, the San Antonio murderers of old Brazil and his son, in 1 867, will have to hang. The scene in the court when the verdict was rendered was heart-rending. The wives of the doomed men screamed so as to bo heard a long distance. The Mexican troops on tho Rio Grande are deserting in large numbers to the Texas side.

Telegrams from Fort Concho confirm the news of the robbing of the mail near Es-condeds, and the murder of a Mexican, who was with the carrier. A Galveston Netcs special says that a large body of Iudians from Mexico are raiding the Ft. F.wall settlements. A large number of ranches have been plundered and many lives lost. Revenue Agent Wagnobs telegraphs the Commissioner from Greenboro, N.

that a raiding party just returned from Greenville, S. reports that Rufus Springs, a Deputy Marshal, waa shot and instantly killed by parties in ambush. GENERAL FOREIGN NOTES. The latest official census gives Italy population of 26,801,154 souls. The share of the United States to the total trade of the Russian empire for the year 1877 does not amount to more than $13,000,000, viz Imports from the United States, about composed chieflv of cotton petroleum agricultural implements, exports, $1,112,000.

Nine hundred cotton operatives have stopped work at Burnley, England, in consequence of the reduction of wages. A telegram from Vienna announces that the Austrian Government has concluded a loan of 55,000,000 florins gold with the credit Foncior and Banque de Paris. The jewels that the ex-Queen of Spain, Isabella is about to sell at auction are worth much more than was at first reported, their value being estimated at between 8.00O.0O0 and 9,000,000 francs, say $1,750,000. The Duke of Argyll owns 175,114 acres and has a pleasant yearly income of $252,000. The announcement was made the other day by telegraph that Hobart Pasha, commander of the Turkish fleet, had been given a furlough and that Achmet Pasha had been placed in command.

That means the end of Capt. Hobart's Turkish engagement. England has boueht a larero quantity of grain in Trieste and ordered it to be stored at Smyrna. Half of the Servian army has been granted forty days" furlough. It is stated that negotiations with tho Russian headquarters, relative to Old Servia.

have resulted satisfac torily. There is a fair prospect that the striking English cotton operatives of Manchester will accept tne io per cent, reduction and the diffi culty be accommodated. The Indian Government have charter ed five steamers for the convevance of troops from India. Three of them are" taken for three months, and their primary direction is Port Said. An English surgeon, who has just re turned from Erzeroum, says 13,000 sick and wounded Turkish soldiers have died since the evacuation of that city, and the Russians have lost 21,000 by sickness since thoy entered the plain of Erzeroum.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. SENATE. Tuesday, April 16. Senator Howe's Judge Whittaker inquiry resolution come up and was discussed. Senate bill to extend the time for the construction and completion of the Northern Pacific railroad was taken from the calendar and re-committed to the Committee on railroad 8 Mr.

Plumb moved to take up the Senate bill for the relief of certain settlers on public lands, passed The Senate then resumed consideration 01 the mil partly considered yesterday to incorporate the National Pacific Railroad and Telegraph Company, which was passed with a slight amendment Mr. Mitchell reported, with amendments, a bill this rooming to extend the time for the construction and completion of the Northern Pacific railroad. Wednesday, April 17. Vice-President Wheeler being absent, the Senate was called to order by Secretary Gorham, and Senator Ferry was elected President pro tern Mr. Windom, Chairman of the Committee on Approprintior, submitted a concurrent resolution directing the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House to declare their respective houses adjourned, without day, on the 10th of June, at 12 o'clock m.

Agreed to unanimously. Ferry, from the Committee on Finance, reported with amendments, the House bill to repeal all that part of tho act of 1 875, known as the spe cie resumption act, wmcn autnorizea tne secretary of the Treasury to dispose of United States bonds and redeem and cancel tne greenback currency Mr. Plumb, from the Commit tee on Military Ailairs, reported favorably on the Senate bill to make an additional article of war prohibiting gambling in the army Mr. Mitchell gave notice thaton Monday he would ask the Senate to consider the bill to extend the time for the completion of tho Northern Pacific Railroad The Senate bill donating a portion of iiie military reservation of Fort Harker to the State of Kansas for the establishment of an Educational Institution and to open the remainder of said reservation to settlement, was discussed at length and thon laid aside nnder objection of Mr. Plumb.

Thursday, April 18. Mr. Davis, from the Committee on Judiciary, reported with amendments the Senate bill to provide for the distribution of awards made the Convention of the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, constituted on the Fourth day of July, 1868. Placed on calendar Mr. uarnemcalled up the Senate bill supplementary to the act of March 3.

1877. in relation to the Hot Springs reservation in and it was passed At the conclusion of the morning hour, business consideration was resumed of the bills of the calendar not objected to under the four minute rule It was ordered that when the Senate adjourn, to-dav. it be to meet on Monday A number of bills on the calendar were passed, and ponding the consideration of such bills, Mr. Gor don moved to postpone tne pending ana ail prior orders and take up the House bill, to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious disease in the United States. Agreed, and the bill was passed without discussion Senate bill author izing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the Territories to fell and remove tun her on tne publie land for domestic purposes.

The benate Din in relation to uie i-acinc itaii- road funding bill, reported from the Railroad Committee, which still remained on the calendar. was indefinitely postponed The resolution providing for the appointment of 18 additional commissioners to the Paris exhibition, was in definitely postponed The House bill for the relief of the executors of the estate of Jno. 8 Miller, deceased, passed After an executive session the Senate adjourned. Friday. April 19.

The Senate was not in session to-day. Saturday. April 20. The Senate was not in session. Monday, April 22.

Mr. Harris intro duced a bill to repeal section 412 of the Revised Statutes, which provides for a tax on the notes of State banking Mr. Voorb.ee submitted an amendment to the substitute for the House bill to repeal the specie resumption it reported by the Committee on Finance Mr. Mitchell called op the Senate bill extending the time to construct and complete tne isortn am Pacific Railroad The Senate then re- inmgd the consideration 01 the duis on tne cal endar Mr. Sargent produced the petition pre sented by 150 lawyers in the District 01 Colum bia, favoring the passage of a bill, and said ma.nv State Legislatures had passed bills ad mitting women to practice in the State courts After executive session tne senate aajonrneo.

norsE. Tuesday, April 16. On motion of Mr. Springer the Senate bill authorizing the issue of passports free to colored citizens going to Brazil was passed The bill to establish a permanent government for the District of Columbia waa defeated. Yeas, 94; navs, 124 Mr.

Robertson reported a bill providing for the organization of a Mississippi aiver improvement commission, and for the improvement of the navigation of that river. Cox asked to have a day fixed to take op the Senate Pacific R. R. funding bill, but objection wa made A movement to reduce the per diem of special agents of the Post-norartmmt from $5.00 to $3.00 Was defeated Several minor bills were introduced and the House took a recess. Wednesday, April 17.

Mr. Phillips reported a bill providing for the deposit of savings in the popular loan, and for the funding of the national debt in home bonds. It provides that any person may deposit money, in any sum not less than 25 cents, in any postal money order office, and when inch deposits will reach ten dollar then the postmaster shall issue to the jYtuihits ior scnooi purposes one-eighteenth of all the Government lands lying within the boundaries of the State. To most of this land the State has secured title; and a part has been 6old, the money coming into the State Treasury. Besides, the United States gives to tho school fund of Kansas five per cent, of the proceeds of the sales of all Government lands sold In the State.

These two are tho principal sources from which the State Permanent School Fund has been derived. The fund is now nearly all invested and the fcvost-ment 6tands as follows: In Kansas State Bonds, $007,925 OO Lawrence City Bonds 100.000.00 United States Bonds 140,000.00 School District Bonds 579,936.61 Total $1,427,861.61 The interest on most of this investment is duo in June and July. That on the School District Bonds is nearly all duo on the first of June. In preparation for the annual collection of interest, the State Treasurer is now clipping the coupons, and making out notices for the County Treasurer, showing the amounts due from each of the school districts of each county whose bonds are thus held by the State. The number and amount of coupons thus handled in the Treasurer's office Is a big item of business.

The interest collected goes into the annual school fund, for distribution among tho school districts. Russian Diplomacy. From the Spectator. Russian diplomatists, as a bodv, are persistent, devoted and keen, but "they are trained in tho old way, they have a difficulty In comprehending nations, and they impede the success of themselves a great deal too much for us to credit them with, magical far-sightedness. What is value in our day of a diplomatic service which gives an impression that it is not to ie trusted? We do not know that the Russian diplomatists are a bit more tricky than all the diplomatists of the Old World, uie diplomatists trained to deal with individuals, always were.

Napoleon's diplomatists would say anytliing, and Prince Bismarck has admitted over and over again, with cynical frankness, that part of his business was to finesse. Their defect is that they do not see how their age is going, and apply their notion of "manage ment in Its old sense to nations who are not influenced like individuals, but in a to tally different way. The adroit chess player is not wounded because his adversary looks stolidly at the section of the board where the mate does not lie, but tho half ignorant on -looker thinks it deceit, and is ready In his wrath to knock tho chess-board over. What Kills. In the school, as in tho world, far more rust out than wear out.

Study is most tedious and wearisome to those who study least. Drones always have the toucrhest time. Grumblers make poor scholars, and their lessons are uniformly "hard" and "too long." The time and thought expended in shirking would be ample to master their tasks. bioth, gormandizing, and worry kill their thousands, where over-study harms one. The curse of Heaven rests on laziness and gluttony.

By the very con stitution or our being they are fitted to be get that torpor and despondency which chill the blood, deaden the nerves, enfee ble the muscles, and derange the whole vital machinery. Fretting, fidgeting, ennui, and anxiety are among the most com mon causes oi disease. On the other, hand, high aspiration and enthusiasm help digestion and respiration, and send an increased supply of vital energy to all parts of the body. Courage and work invig orate the whole system, and lift one into a purer atmosphere, above the reach of contagion. The lazy groan most over their "arduous duties, while earnest workers talk little about the exhausting labors of their profession.

Of all creatures, the sloth would seem to be the most worried and worn. IS. a. A or I hr op, Conn. A Historic Goblet.

From the dwelling of General Bradley T. Johnson in Richmond. there was recently stolen by burglars a silver goblet which had been used at the siege of Porto Bello, New Granada, in 1740, by Admiral Vernon, under whom served Lawrence Washington, and which, with the rest of the set, was buried at the sieee of Char leston in 17f, to save it from Sir George Clinton. It was again buried In 1865, at uaieigh, to save it from Sherman' cavalry. and was dug up after the capitulation of jonnsion to bnerman, Irom tne campground of one of EUlpatriok's brigades.

THE EUROPEAN WAR-CLOUD. SVMMART OF THE WEEK. Wednesday, April 17. Both from Vienna and St. Petersburg come reports of uneasiness and dissatisfaction in the latter city about Russia's position.

The Roumanians are alarmed about the occupation of their country and the possibility of an attempt to disarm them. They have withdrawn their army into Little Wallachia, where they boast they will make another Plevna if the Russians attack The new Free Prese learns from Berlin that Russia may ostensibly agree to England's demand to submit the entire treaty to Congress. If this course is adopted, it would show that RusBia had agreed with other continental powers, and that England will be isolated The Turks still occupy Batoum It is untrue that the Russians again aBked permission to occupy Bujakdere, or are going nearer Constantinople. Thursday, April 18 This afternoon's Echo stye: "We are able to state on authority that an invitation to the Congress will be issued to-night: The treaties of '5(t and '57 will be laid upon the table and compared with the treaty of San Stefano." It is reported that letters of the Pro-Russian party and the Turkish newspapers again assert that the government will resist the occupation of Constantinople by any foreign power Half the army at Belgrade have been granted 40 days furlough. A correspondent at St.

Petersburg says the situation is decidedly pacific in official circles. It is believed that Germany's meditation will very likely be successful, and that a Congress will soon assemble. The diBpatch of native troops from India to Malta is one of the mostominous steps yet tAken Dy the government, it is claimed to De only a precautionary moasure, but there is no doubt that Europe will regard it as direct. has been received here that an affray between the Turks and Montenegrins has taken place at Podgeritza. The Turks violated the line of demarkation and the Montenegrin at tacked some Turkish villages.

Friday, April 19. A special dispatch from St. Petersburg indicates that a new hitch has occurred in the negotiations. One corres pondent says that Germany proposed that a Congress should be summoned to revise the treaties of 1856 and 1 874. Russia accopted the proposal, but England has rejected it, and again insists on her original A Vienna correspondent thinks General Tolbeben's appointment tocommand at San Stefano may be the first step towards effecting a compromise by Bismarck touching the position near Constantinople that is a simultaneous withdrawal of the British fleet from the sea of Marmora, and the Russiyns from the neighborhood of Constanti nople.

A special from llerlin says Russia is willing to discuss all clauses of the treaty of San btelano, out does not concea. ner determination to defend its stipulations, sword in hand, if The Paris Journal Debat de clares its belief that German mediation really aims at the re-establishment of the triple alliance and iso lation of England It is said that Russia, in view of Roumania's demands, and the wishes of Lnrope for the effectual neutrali zation of the Danube, will abandon her claims to Rem and other points on the Danube about bt. ueorge canal, put will maintain ner claims on Ismail Belgrade. A special from Vienna re- portsjthat all convalescents in Russia have been ordered to join uieir regiment in xurzey as quickly as possible A dispatch dated Vienna, Friday night, say It is semiofficially stated here that Germany's endeavor to mediate has so far led to no result. Saturday, April 20.

Nothing new in the The Timet' Vienna, correspondent considers the change of ministry in Turkey a new element of danger, as Ahmed Vefyk's presence in the cabinet was a guarantee that nothing would be attempted against England The week closes with the prospects of the Eastern difficulty no brighter. Pera correspondent, writing on the military situation at the Turkish capital, says although many things warrant the suspicion that the Turk would fight to keep the Russians out of Constantinople they have not distinctly made np their minds to do The Russian naval reserve has been called out. papers publish a telegram from Berlin stating that England and Russia have agreed to the principle of simultaneous withdrawal of the British Beet and Russian troops from the neighborhood of Constantinople. Monday, April 22. In spite of the negotiations concerning the simultaneous withdrawal of the English fleet and Russian forces from the neighborhood of Constantinople the prevailingfeeling of the English press is one of great correspondents feel the same way.

One says the aspect of affairs is neither better nor Austrian Am bassador to Germany has come to Berlin. This is connected by some with the report of a preliminary conference. correspondent at Berlin of the London Daily Ifewi remarks that not much importance is attached to the present negotiations. as long asEngland andRussia continue active xne jMiglisn papers abound in sign in eant items concerning war preparations French papers are calling for the stoppage of the purchase of horses in Normandy for the English government. Cronstadt Menenger announ ces that tne equipment ol tne Russian Sect is proceeding witn an nasta.

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