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The insurgents had proclaimed »*!•- 4 Provisional Government and declared for #2t^-^Ninion with Greece. j ON ihi' WI^ULUG c* the Treaty of Peafee Wh| ' Isu,; >-H; •3 .saGp - L tU -1 " ^ tr. jBie Sultan of Turkey and the Emperor of , .luesia exchanged congratulations by tele­ graph, and expressed the hope ,that the relar Hons then entered Into would be lasting and friendly. ^ A VIENNA telegram of the 5th says %H appeared to be the Intention of the Austrian »(®k>vernment to secure the Immediate annexa- j jMon of Bosnia and Herzegovina, i , A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the gives the u Preliminaries of Peace,1' lately ed between Russia and Turkey. It con- twenty-nine articles, and fixes the war Indemnity at 1,410,000,000 rubles, of which 1. 1(00,000 ,000 rubles are covered by territorial fmcessions; gives Simnitza, Novi-Bazar and ranja to Servia; gives Antivari, Spuz, Podgo- itza and Nicsics to Montenegro; directs that : *st5 .. . •till Bulgarian fortresses be razed and Turkish «l 11 troops withdrawn; remits arrears of taxes in p, . Bosnia and Herzegovina; declares the naviga- . . • , * tlon of the straits to be free to merchant ves- ilti'tf' • iels in peace or war; Bulgaria to be occupied % Russian troops until the formation of the ' 1*1 lO h.tis ttnrt [ UMiaH-# ;' -ni nitiAf" Bulgarian militia; authorizes Roumania to ; treat direct with the Porte; disclaims indem­ nity for Servia and Montenegro; the Bulgari­ an tribute to be hereafter fixed; cedes Arda- lian, Kara and Bayazid to Russia; Asiatic v • 'Turkey to be evacuate within six months and European Turkey at once; the Porte to under- teke the expense of re-establishing navigation ?n the Danube; the cession of the Dcbrudscha ibr exchange for Bessarabia; the rectification the Turco-Pereian frontier, and the treaty tljo be ratified within fifteen days. ILL* A PARLIAMENTARY crisis prevailed nirt'ti In Rome, Italy, on the 7th, and the Ministers '" -n't '"'trtitn- • 0* Public Works and Public Instruction had U ^ ( lendered their resignations. The Premier A' undertaken t° construct another Cabinet. *AT . A ROME telegram of the 7th says S/iij ^ ihe Swiss Guards at the Vatican had, on the m - ^ 'preceding day, demanded the three months' ^ U<si>.if"::• J>ay usual on the death of the Pope. Upon re- .-jlaBal, they loaded their muskets and bran- w. ,f *' % dished their halberds, but were finally quieted " ' J>y concessions. *rt "ni The P1̂ ® has made its appearance *** \ ' %t Reshd and other Persian cities. ^ VIENNA specials of the 8th say AUS- $ >*H jjQ intention of occupying Bosnia and J MenegovlDa, R';' ' A VIENNA correspondent telegraphs, fj tfnder date March 8, that the Russians had, • «!» i *tro days before, occupied the principal towns • w l f uii * ^ Bessarabia. The Roumanian Council had f *' 'framed a vigorous protest. f t The Cretan insurgents have accepted , - *J ', alQ armistice offered by Turkey. - ^ A LETTER to the Cologne Gazette, ^ from Pera, published on the 8th, says that ( Sl'.w ' • ®uleiman Pasha had been drowned. His pa- / '* rpers proved that he was engaged inaconspira- I -w i ^.fiy to dethrone the Sultan. &*U\ *'̂ *f »' . A COLLIERY explosion occurred, near «iq iri ' on 40 the morning ol v' - i\ "ZienrviK' • • I'.. . THE NEW WORLD, I* HON. A. G. PORTER, of Indiana, has •***•«' c •' ^y. <#8:.^" îe 9th, only two persons had been recovered. Seventeen were still in the pit «Jae# ? m te& lt tu /! »«t.? i :n nominated First Comptroller of the treasury, and A. C. Botkin, of Milwaukee, United States Marshal for the Territory ol Montana. The Senate, on the 4th, confirmed the nomination of Bayard Taylor to be Minis- • Ipr to Germany. *! TH® Chief of the Bureau of Statistics ffeporte that the exports of merchandise during January exceeded the imports by $33,445,907, «nd during the seven months of tho current (iscal year by $135,609,137. -MTM'KTM, A TERRIBLE tornado swept through County, Ky., on the 2d, doing frightful , liamage in the neighborhood of Rich Hill. The > ^^rhole of the famUy of Vincent Wesley, living **%• i«fear Ricb Hill, consisting of Wesley, his wife, If «i««s C? ̂ aUf?hters' a nePhew, and a neighbor, was #-• iS®? outrigbt Many other Pewone were j^ffled or sustained frightful injuries. The ndamage to (Hroperty was about S50,<X)0. THE business portion of Hot Springs, was destroyed by fire, on the 5th. «fuh i«*:oI#hout 150 buildings were burned and 1,000 U ••¥ft" i '*|>eople were rendeiedhomeless. The fire orig- : *v ,* feted from the upsetting of a kerosene lamp. * * loss of property is estimated at $300,- t ' 1 K - - . ' o n w h i c h t h e i n s u r a n c e d o e s n o t e x c e e d . . . *IU« .«• ••<• THE Khode Island State Prohibition ^Convention met at Providence, on the 5th, fly hi w i^jjjfad renominated the present State officers by "acclamation, without a dissenting voice, as follows: C. C. Van Zandt, Governor; Albert ,•> toward, Lieutenant-Governor; J. M. Adde- loan, Secretwj of State; Willard Sayles, At- *4 bU; : •; i^orney-Gec^cal; eMwel Cterk, State Treae- •ii U wiif™-- . - persons, named Grasslieim, .s ou? - %*• 'I!j^ere arrested in Cincinnati, on the 5th, for 4Hiounterfeiting trade dollars, half dollars and ,; .;.«•>« Wfiickele. Three hundred spurious trade dollar* •i£yfru*.-frere captnted, as wfll as the molds from *v̂ tcl1 they were made. &»* I j THE recent floods on the Sacramento CI* River have been very destructive. One t fci* » ^rmer lo8t6>°Q° aeres of wheat and 20,000 vL^^t5'4rf#«leep' R i9 8iated that the loss between ; r • ' ISacramento and Monroevllle, a distance of 190 1 similes, will reach the enormous sun of 9800,- « -«.* Jl Alt? « AHE President has appointed Hon. J. ' f;" Y'-} ACCORDING to a Philadelphia di«- j I ri'ipatch of the 6th, the Superintendent of the • aA« jWnt at that city was about to issue 250,000 of ̂ « Jt V* n®w doUar8 being coined at that in- i^tnti0tU ' " » f THE New Hampshire state Green- £rJ'4ten Convention met at Portsmouth on the >•i* , ®th, and nominated Samael Flint for Gov- THE Secretary of the Treasury and Director of the Mint have Issued a circular of­ fering, at all times, to purchase bullion in quantities not less than 1 ounces, the ?*i»e to *?e determined by the mint assay, and to be paid for In gold or silver of full legal- tender. GOT. NICHOLLS lias convened the Louisiana Legislature In extra session for fif­ teen days, to consider Revenue aad Appropria­ tion bills, and such other matters as may be referred to them. JUDGE MARKS, a member of the Louisiana Electoral College, telegraphed, on the 7th, that there was no prospect of a par­ don for Gen. Anderson, and that the hearing of the motion for a new trial had been post­ poned for two weeks. IT is announced from Washington that the Secretary of the Treasury will, until further notice, receive subscriptions for the 4- per-cent. funded loan of the United States at par and accrued interest. The forms of ap­ plication will be furnished by the Treasurer at Washington, the Assistant-Treasurers at Balti­ more. Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco, and by National Banks and bankers generally. A HAVANA (Cuba) telegram of the 7th states that the number of insurgents who had surrendered from Feb. 28 to March 5 was 1,230, with 180 stand of arms. A RECENT fire in the City of Panama, Ceatral America, destroyed over twenty build­ ings in the business center of the city, includ­ ing the Grand Central HoteL Loss about 951)0,000.' THE Dairymen's National Conven­ tion*, recently in session In Chicago", elected J. F. Joyce, of New York, President, and R. M. Littler, of Davenport, Iowa, Secretary and Treasurer for the ensuing year. * , A DECISION has recently been made by the Nebraska Supreme Court that dealing in grain ^options in Chicago is gambling, and all contracts made in Nebraska, founded on such dealing, are against public policy and Toid. J1-"' " f.t •; TJBNGRKSSIONAL*! ' - "Sfetfitoi.--Bills were ihtrodifiye&,i^ the 4th--to authorize the • deposit of silver bullion or bars, and the issue of certificates therefor by the Secretary of the Treasury, »n sums of not less than twenty dollars, in the same form as that provided for certificates for gold bullion, such certificates to be receivable at par for duties on imports and all public dues; to authorize the payment of bounties to heirs of soldiers who were enlisted as slaves. ... .The House bill making appropriations for the payment of claims reported to Congress, under Section 2, of the act approved June 16, 1874, by the Secretary of the Treasury, was called up, and, after discussion, on amendment of the Committee of Claims to strike out a clause appropriating §6,530 to pay the claim of Samuel C. Ludington, of West Virginia, wss agreed to, and the bill was passed, Mr. Ludington's claim being subsequently referred to the Committee on Claims. HOUSE.--Bills were introduced---for the exchange of silver coins of the United States for United States notes; reducing the number of customs officers, and regulating their compensation; appropriating $469,000 for deficiencies in the Interior Department for the fiscal year ending June 80, 18<6; to regu­ late immigration... .A resolution was adopted directing the Secretary of the Treasury to in­ form the House whether he * had authorized the sale of any bonds for outstanding legal- tender notes at par, adding the current New York premium tn gold and the commission for selling, or whether he had authorized the it, 4 c % v u T ? ? i < v i t > 'A '»*'> iW--i ' <>•' ' S" •» StkntJSjit Oft" * 4 gold and the commission ,, sther he had authorized the sale of such bonds for legal-tender notes on any other terms than above stated; and if so the number and amount of the proceeds of such bonds, and who were employed as agents to dispose of them The Senate bill amend­ ing the laws granting pensions to officers and soldiers of the War of 1812 was passed--217 to 21. SENATE.--On the 5th, an adverse re­ port was made on the Senate bill extending the time for presenting the claims for collect­ ing, drilling or organizing volunteers for the War of the Rebellion, and the bill was in­ definite!}* postponed The House joint reso­ lution providing for issuing arms and ammu­ nition to the Territory of Idaho, under the act of July 3, 1876, was passed. HOUSE.--The Senate amendments to the House bill making an appropriation for the payment of claims reported and allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury were concurred in--An adverse report was made on the bill to establish the Territory of Pembina. ....The Fortification Appropriation bill ($275,000) was read in Committee of the Whole--A bill was passed authorizing any person or persons having any claim against the balance of the fund designated as the "Chinese Indemnity Fund," for losses sus­ tained by the plunder of the bark Caldern, in 1854, to commence, within the twelve months next after the passage of this act, proceedings in the United States Court of Claims. SENATE.---On the 6tli, the bill known as the " Wallace Long-Bond bill," providing for the Issue of bonds of the denominations of twenty-five, fifty and 100 dollars, redeema­ ble in coin after fifty years, and paying 4 per cent. Interest in coin, was passed without a roll-call. HOUSE.--'The Fortification Appropri­ ation bill was passed....Several reports of committees were made. A message was re­ ceived from the President returning, with­ out his approval, the House bill authorizing a special term of the United States Cir- cult Court tor the Southern District of Mississippi, to be held at Scranton on the second Monday la March, The message states that there was not sufficient time to give no­ tice of the holding of said special term, and that the Government could not prepare for triat at said term, because no funds would be available for that purpose. The bill and mes- sage were referred The Deficiency Appro- the^Vhole was con8ldered in Committee of SENATE.--Bills were introduced and referred, on the 7th, to provide for the organ­ ization of a Mississippi River Improvement Commission, and for the correction, perma­ nent location, deepening of channels .and the navigation on that river; re- Ihi i? ̂ ̂ ,«?™phic communication ^between A IJ J and foreign countries.... Adjourned to the 11th. HOUSE. A bUl was passed removing the political disabilities of Robert Chilton, of Georgia.... A resolution was adopted--133 to 104--authorizing the Committees on Ex­ penditures in the several Departments of the Government to employ each a clerk or ex­ pert, pending the investigations, and also au­ thorizing the Committee on Postoffices and Post-Roads to employ two experts... .The De­ ficiency Appropriation bill was considered in Committee oi the Whole, reported to the House and passed. SENATE.--Not in session on the 8th. HOUSE.--The Senate amendments to a bill suspending the operation of the Revised Statutes in regard to the Guano Islands were concurred in A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretaries of the Interior and of War for all information in regard to the geographical and geological surveys conduct­ ed by their respective departments during the past ten years... .The bill for the payment of certain ante-bellum Southern mail contractors was further considered in Committee of the Whole. --A woman in Dumfernline, Scotland, died recently from the excessive drink­ ing of strong green tea.' "The cup that cheers, but not inebriates1' is not Pardon of an lnneeeat Man After Three Years' Imprisonment. ONE of the most singular instances in recent history of the wrongful con­ viction and sentence of an innocent man has lately developed itself. About Sept. 1, 1874, one Alexander Arnold, a young man upon whom, to some extent, devolved the support of his mother and sister, removed them from Shelbyville to Effingham, in this State. On the night of Sept. 4, 1874, a team of horses belonging to H. H. Iiuels, who lives a mile east of Effing­ ham, was stolen. The day prior to the stealing, three persons, one of whom was believed by Mrs. Huels to be Arnold, were seen about the premises. A neighboring shoemaker saw several times that day r person resembling Arnold in the vicinity, strolling about without apparent business. On the morning after the stealing, a man who looked Eke Arnold was seen driving the team in the north part of Fayette County. The Sheriff met a man who looked, like Arnold driving a team. He made some inquiries of the Sheriff about the roads, and passed on. Arnold was not to be found in Effingham, and sus­ picion was directed against him. About the middle of the following week Arnold appeared in Effingham, and was imme­ diately arrested. He protested his in­ nocence, and insisted that he had left Effingham before the crime was com­ mitted, and had not been in the place till the day of his return and arrest. He gave a somewhat contradictory ac­ count of his wanderings, but was posi­ tive as to one point, viz.: that, on the day and night of the stealing, as well as for some days following, he had been at work for a farmer near Dor­ chester, Macoupin County, some eighty or ninety miles distant from Effingnam. Nobody apparently believed this state­ ment, and no effort was made by his counsel to obtain the witnesses to prove it. The case was evidently miserably defended, counsel probably relying up­ on the inability of the prosecution to fix the crime upon Arnold. The pris­ oner's mother and sister testified that he had not been in Effingham for some days before and after the stealing, or they would have known it. Of course this was a sort of negative testimony, and this, as well as Arnold's own state­ ment, was disregarded by the jury. Arnold was convicted, and, as his previous record had not been entirely spotless, he was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment at Joliet. A few months later his sister visited Macoupin County, and obtained the affidavits of several citizcns, stating that Arnold was, on the 4th, 5th and 6th, working for John Fogarty, a farm­ er, living two miles north of Dorches­ ter, in that county. These affidavits, with a petition for Arnold's pardon, were presented to Gov. Beveridge, but he declined interference with the action of the jury on the proofs presented. Arnold's mother and sister removed to Indiana, and, on Gov. Cullom's acces­ sion to office, they renewed their earn­ est request for Arnold's pardon to him. He also declined taking action, until James C. Allen, the Judge who sen­ tenced Arnold, addressed him a per­ sonal letter stating that, if the Macoupin County affidavits were reliable, Arnold should be pardoned. This letter in­ duced the Governor to send a confi­ dential agent to Dorchester to investi­ gate the circumstances. The agent made an investigation, and made a re­ port to the Governor a few weeks ago. He found everything stated in the affi­ davits to be true; that the persons making the affidavits were of good character and standing, and, from many circumstances, found as a matter of fact that Arnold could not by any possibility have stolen the team; that he began working for John Fogarty on the day before the horses were stolen; that he slept that night with Fogarty's son; and that he worked there until Saturday night. The proof of these dates, after three years, was found first, at the mill where the sacks provided Fogarty in which to put his threshed wheat were charged to him as of that date; and, second, the account of the owners of the threshing-machine, show­ ing when they threshed Fogarty's wheat. These were corroborated by the fact that Arnold's whereabouts for the two or three weeks prior to the stealing were well known, and the fact that the following week he was arrest­ ed, and has ever since been in custody, so that all the proof and circumstances show his statement to have been true. On receiving this report, the Governor required the usual notice of applica­ tion for pardon to be published, and, the time required having elapsed with­ out protest or opposition, he yesterday forwarded Arnold's pardon to Joliet, and he is now a free man.--Bprinafiel4 t (IK.) Journal. . ' A Balloonist's Adventure. MR. SIMMONS LYNN made an ascent in a balloon at Calcutta, on the 29th of January. He descended safely some miles from the city, after an exciting adventure with a crocodile. Owing to the density of the gas supplied for the balloon, Mr. Lynn did not deem it advisable to take up with him Mr. L'Estrange (Blondin), who was much disappointed in conseqence. The bal­ loon first moved in the direction of Bal- ieanj, but afterward shifted toward Dhappa passed over the eastern boundai-v of and the Salt Lakes. Having Calcutta, Mr. Lynn found that at 4:40 o'clock it was beginning to move rap­ idly toward Tiger Point, in the Sunder- bunds. He descended from his then altitude of 13,000 feet into the current which was blowing for a few moments from the southeast. In this current he could not remain, and; at five o'clock, a descent into the jungle seemed inevi­ table. He at this time observed there was not a breath of wind over the sur­ face of the jungle for 3,000 feet in height. Either he must come down at once or be enveloped in darkness, and have no chance of getting out of the jungle. Even with light the chance of being extricated seemed small. While slowly descending, and at an altitude of 10,000 feet, in an otherwise perfect­ ly clear atmosphere, a vast plain of in­ tense white toward the north w^ open to view. He could not form any con­ ception as to the cause of this phenom­ enon, except that the rays from the set- | sun had come in contact with a cold blast from a jnowy range in the Himalayas. He continued his descent, and very soon the phenomenon Wia lost; but although every moment's delay in­ creased the risk in landing, he ootiidnot resist the temptation of reascendlhg to try and fathom this mystery, but did not succeed. At 5:15 he was within 1,000 feet of terra firma, a rather inappro­ priate name for the locality. A huge crocodile was moving toward him with impressive steadiness, and when he came down into the mud and rushes, which for miles around were over ten feet in height, he could see the monster's head level with the bulrushes. Fortunately, there was enough ballast left to throw overboard just as the monster was with­ in fifty yards of the balloon, and this enabled Mr. Lynn to rise above the thick jungle to the length of the grap- pling-rope, about thirty feet. The story that the crocodile cannot turn rapidly was in this case disproved, as this one ran round the grappling- rope. Having called lustily for help, Mr. Lynn found some natives making their way toward him, wading through the thick mud and rushes. As the rushing sound was mad$ on all sides, the crocodile made off. About half a dozen natives were induced, after much persuasion, to hold the rope, and, ulti­ mately, the balloon was wafted over the jungle and across creeks, for nearly three miles, until a small, dry space was reached. MM A Turkish Clalrvoyante. NECROMANCERS, seers and seeresses, who profess to commune with the spir­ its of the dead, are to be found among the occult scientists of StambOul. One of these was said to be an ecstatic medium of great power. She was but eighteen, and married, and had just re­ covered from a serious illness, when I heard that some Khanums of my ac­ quaintance were going to visit. her. Attaching myself to them, we found the Eulu Faldje Kare in a lonely, wind­ ing street of a poor neighborhood of Stamboul. A crowd of all sorts of women, rich and poor, filled her little sanded ante-room. There mothers with sick infants in their laps, come for a "cure;" there were daintily-dressed slaves from the Seraglio, wrapped up in shabby feradjis; there were married Khanums with the threat of divorce hanging over their heads. There they patiently awaited for hours their turn to be admitted to the inner room. This was as poor as the other. The seeress seated on a low stool in the midst of the uncarpeted floor, leaned over a low brass mangal (or chafing-dish.) She was a plump, fair young woman, with flaxen hair and eyes of a peculiar tint. She appeared to be excessively ex­ hausted, and could not repress long and repeated yawns. She told us there was great demand on her powers, and that her strength was almost entirely tone at the end of the day. She woulcl o her best for us, but in such a state of exhaustion her visions were uncer­ tain. Then, placing us before her onlow wicker stools, she bent over the brazier and sprinkled on the live charcoal a powder called ambara, the fumes of which presently affected her as one has seen mesmeric passes affect a mesmeric subject. Her eyes were raised and had a fixed look, but she sat upright and answered intelligibly the questions which were put to here by ourselves or by the woman who acted as her second. I do not remember what she predicted for the others of our party, but for me she foretold a voyage over the sea, which was not a very clever hit, since she must have known that I was a for­ eigner in Turkey, intending some day to return to my native land. Still, I must do my fortune-teller the justice to acknowledge that I did make an un­ foreseen voyage to India, not long after. But the seancc, on, the whole, was a failure; and as the effect of the ambara soon passed off, the seeress returned to her normal state, and begged us to leave her to repose, which, in pity to her weariness, we presently did. A medjidieh (about four shillings) was looked on as a liberal gift from our party, some who had consulted having offered only a beshlic or two (a beshlic is about one shilling), and some had given only a few paras, or pence. The woman seemed still quite poor, and ev­ idently lived very miserably, saving most of her gains and having to sup­ port a husband who had no calling. It was said that grief at the loss of her baby had made her a clairvoyant. She was much sought after, from the fear that her " gift" would wear away as her sorrow healed. Hers was "looked on as a case of genuine mediumship, and, to see her, I could not doubt that she believed in her mission and powers. --Tinsley^s Magazine. Time For Economy. A MAN from the lower walks of life entered a drug store yesterday and in­ quired the price of an ounce of arsenic. Being informed, he drew a paper from his pocket, consulted some figures, and said: " That's two cents more than they asked me in Chicago." " Well, those are my lowest figures," replied the druggist. The man took out a stub of a pencil, figured for three or four minutes, and sagely observed: "It's time to practice economy, and 1 might as well begin here. Two cents on an ounce is tnirty-two cents on a pound. Thirty-two cents on a pound is thirty-two dollars on a hundred­ weight, or six hundred and forty dol­ lars on a ton. Great Heavens! but do you think I would recklessly throw away six hundred and forty dollars?" The druggist could make no reply, and the man looked terribly indignant as he went out .--Detroit Free Press. . --When Abraham Lincoln was a poor lawyer, he found himself one cold day at a village some distance from Spring­ field, 111., and with no means of con­ veyance. Seeing a gentleman driving along the Springfield road in a car­ riage, he ran up to him and politely said: " Sir, will you have the goodness to take my overcoat to town for me?" ." With pleasure," answered the gentle­ man. " But how will you get it again?" " Oh, very easily," said Mr. Lincoln, "as I intend to remain in it." " Jump in," said the gentleman, laughing, ana the future President had a pleasant ride. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. A BBRiotrs railroad accident occurred the other night near Hillsboro, on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. The Wagner sleeper flew from the track, sod was whirled twice over. Conductor Aslopp, Brakeman Wheat- ley, General Baggage Agent Hotchklss and several passengers were considerably Injured, but none fatally. Conductor Aslopp was put out of the wreck. THE Appellate Court, at Springfield, has or­ dered that the 11th of June next be set apart for the examination of applicants for licence to practice law. JOHN H. CAUTXER was recently sentenced, •t Danville, to twenty-one years' imprison­ ment in the Penitentiary for the murder of Wm. Felderman in Dee«mh«r last. AT Mount Vernon, Thomas Green, a citizen of Centralis, was recently fined |25 in the Circuit Court for contempt, for attempting to induce a witness in the case of the People vs. James O'Dyer to skip the country. O'Dyer was indicted for malicious mischief in placing obstructions on the Southwestern Railroad track, and the witness, Belle Wilson, referred to, was his step-daughter and the mainstay of the prosecution. THE State officers to be elected this fall are the Treasurer and the Superintendent of Pub­ lic Instruction, and these are, of course, to be voted for by all the people of the State. Each of the nineteen Districts will also electa Congressman, and each of the orfrf-numbered Senatorial Districts, as the First, Third, Fifth, and so on, will elect one State Senator to serve for four years, while every Senatorial District will elect three Representatives to serve for two years. There are four Appellate Court Districts and three Supreme Court Grand Divisions. The First Appellate Court Dis­ trict is the County of Cook; the Secondare the Counties in the Northern Grand Division, except the County of Cook; the Third, all the counties of the Central Grand Division, and the Fourth all the counties of the Southern Grand Division. Each of the Appellate Court Districts is to elect a Clerk for six years, and each of the Supreme Court Graud Divisions a Clerk for six years. THE following were the postal changes in Illinois during the week ending March 2, 1878: Discontinued--Elba, Gallatin County. Postmasters Appointed--Attila, Williamson County, Lafayette Cain; Cleveland, Henry County, Joseph H. Sale; Shabbota Grove, De Kalb County, Joseph H. Cook. WILLIAM CART, an insane citizen of Spring­ field, recently from Jacksonville, who was about to be returned there on account of a re­ currence of his malady, took arsenic, on the 3d, and died. A Coroner's inquest developed the fact that he had threatened suicide rather than be sent back to the Asylum. A LARGE flouring mill at Prentice, In Mor­ gan County, belonging to Graff, Cram & Co., worth $8,000, was burned to the ground, on the morning of the 2d. THE official canvass of the votes cast at the recent election for Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit shows a majority of about 2,000 for Hon. J. y. Eustace, and a commis­ sion has been issued to him. JOHN RIGGAL was shot down and killed by Wesley Howard, in iflpley Township, Brown County, on the 2d, dying within an hour after being shot. A personal difficulty had existed for some time between the parties, and How­ ard, becoming exasperated, shot Riggal down in his tracks. Howard surrendered himself, and was placed in }he County Jail. Howard claims that Riggal was advancing in a hostile manner when he tired the pistol-shot, but the range of the ball would indicate that the vic­ tim was retreating or turning to retreat when hie received Howard's shot. CHARLES FARR, sixteen years old, In at­ tempting to board a freight train at the depot in Winchester, Scott County, on the 2d, fell under the cars and was instantly killed. An older brother of the deceased witnessed the accident, but was unable to rescue the unfor­ tunate lad. « A STRANGE case of killing by a passenger train occurred near Dudley, on the Indianapo­ lis & St. Louis Railroad, on the night of the 5th. An unknown man appeared on the track, and walked toward train No. 4, looking into the headlight of the engine. He was thrown by the engine about fifteen feet into the air, and, landing, died against a fence. The engineer thinks he intended to commit suicide. THE Railroad and Warehouse Commission­ ers have directed suits to be brought against grain men in Chicago for unpaid inspection dues. THE Warden of the Penitentiary makes the following report for February: Prisoners re­ ceived, 73; prisoners discharged, 77; largest number during month, males, 1,855; females, 22; total, 1,877. Smallest count during the month, males, 1,830; females, 21; total, 1,851. Number in prison at the close of the month, males, 1,838; females, 22; total, 1,860. THE following Is the Treasury statement for February: £4,887 96 . . . . . . . . 1 ,720 80 187 44 State revenue fund State school fund Local bond fund Total DISBCKSEMEKIB. .... §6,240 26 ....$113,039 43 217 00 State revenue fund Local bond fund... Total... $113,256 43 A FEW nights ago, at a festival in the Free byterian Church in Charleston, some young men got to playfully jostling one another, re. suiting, after the ̂ festival, in a fight in the street between Wm. Steene and Melville Starks, both of respectable families. Steene shot Starks dangerously in the right thigh. ON the sccond Tuesday of April the Grand Lodge of "Knights of'70" for Illinois will meet in Sringfield. This is a semi-political organization, and has for its object the en­ couragement of an absolute independence of thought on political questions. IT appears likely that the Commission of Claims Against the State, provided for by statute passed by the last General Assembly, will have an abundance of business when It meets for the first time, on the second Monday of August, in Springfield. The State Auditor is ex-o£lcio Clerk of the Board, and two claims have already been filed with him. A MALICIOUS person recently set fire to the ljarn% of Mr. Ike Hartllne, near Anna. The entire structures and their contents were de­ stroyed. Loss, $3,000. AT the late municipal election In Rock Island, the Workingmen elected three Aldermen, the Collector, one Supervisor and one Assistant Supervisor. Tie Treaty of PeAce. The Treaty of Peace between Russia and Turkey, signed at San Stefano, definitely settles the limits of Bulgaria, Servia and Montenegro. The bounda­ ries of Roumania, fixed by the Treaty of Paris, could not properly be consid­ ered at San Stefano, ana the boundaries of Modern Greece, fixed by England, Russia and France, could not be changed by any action of Russia and Turkey. So the Treaty of Constantino­ ple, signed at San Stefano, covers only questions in which Russia and Turkey ̂ are directly interestML It was the aim of Russia to include* in the new tritnrtary Kingdom of Bulga-~ ria all the territory of the-ancient King-- dom of that nat&e. The section known! to the Turks as Bulgaria only included? what would be properly Northern Bul­ garia, or the section between the Dan­ ube and the Balkans. Central Bulga­ ria lies between ranges of the Balkan^ and the Rhodope Mountains, and in­ cludes Adrianople, Phillippopolis andi J Sophia. Southern Bulgaria lies be--*- tween the Rhodope .Mountains andv!t frontiers of Ancient -Greece, and in­ cludes Salonica* Xiesudjs and other*? ports on the JEgesn Sea. j™ The friends of Bvilgirjbn Nationality have ia very many wayf aimed to keep-, alive their language, to maintain the National spirit 6t the race. In this - interest schools haye been established and societies formed. 'JPhc real centers. of this National feeling were Sophia, Phillippopolis and Yenidie, on the iEgean Sea. Russia would have failed , to accomplish her purpose had she not insisted on including in the new King­ dom of Bulgaria the greater portion of the Bulgarians. There arc as many Bulgarians south of the Balkans as north, and all are Christians. As fixed by the treaty, the Bulgarian boundaries - will include Northern, Central and a part of Southern Bulgaria, as known on the old maps. "The line extends southward from the Servian frontier, taking in a part of Old Servia, until it strikes the River Karasu, vflrich is made the western boundary to the sea. The coast line takes in Kavalla, Lagos and other points. The boundary line ex­ tends northward to TcHifmen, about twenty miles north of Adrianople, and then turns eastward to the Black Sea. The coast line on the Black Sea ex- tends northward to Man^ia, and the- boundary then cuts across through the Dobrudscha to Rassova, on the Danube. The additions make the'new Kingdom twice as large as the, Bulgaria of the maps, and take in Phillippopolis, So­ phia, Burgas and other important towns. All the Balkan Passes are, in Bulgaria . as now constituted, and al# the Quadri­ lateral and DanubianFortresses are to- be razed. Turkish territory proper at no point touches the Danube. The Provinces of Bosnia, Herzego­ vina, Albania and Macedonia are sepa- • rated from the portion of the Empire near Constantinople by1 tfiat part of" new Bulgaria extending t6 the iEgean Sea. But on one side Turkey retains^ t h e S a l o n i c a l i n o o f r a i l r o a d a n d o n . the other the Masitza Valley Line. Russia, long-headed ahd prudent,, leaves open the question of the dispo­ sition of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia and Albania. Austria claims the first two and Greece the others, and there is little doubt that ultimately these Provinces will go to Austria and Greece. Turkey in Europe proper will then be reduced to a territory not larger in extent than the present King­ dom of Servia. Bulgaria, erected into a tributary State and Government by • Russian troops, will soon take the steps that made Roumania virtually inde­ pendent. Montenegro secures what she conquered in battle, gaips two sea­ ports, and rounds out her territory,, southward and northward. The little Kingdom has been for many years under - the protection of Russia, and her action was without doubt a part of the Russian programme. * The Servian boundary is extended southward so as to include nearly all of " Old Servia, or the territory recently oc­ cupied by Servian troops. This makes the Kingdom larger by one-third. The greater part of the Dobrudscha, taking in the mouths of the Danube, is ceded to Russia, with the understanding that it is to be traded to Roumania for Bes­ sarabia. In all these changes it will be ob­ served that Russia has carried out her declared programme without venturing to dictate as to matters that would give • Austria and England any excuse for in terfering. The questions left open will go before the Congress for settlement,, and the indications are that Russian in fluence will be as strong inlbhat body as that of any other Nation.' In Asia, Russia, while securing Ba- toum, Kars, Bayazid and Ardahan, has ; not ventured to encroach upon the Euphrates Valley, the tender point with England. The possession of Bay­ azid gives her control of, the great road to Persia and the East, and Ba- toum gives her a good trading port on the Black -Sea. From Tabriz, in Per­ sia, two roads extend northward, one by way of Bayazid and Erzeroum to- Trebizond, ana the other by way of" Alexandropol and Kars to Erzeroum. Two roads extend from Kars te Ba- toum, and Russian enterprise may make Batoum the rival of Trebizotta and a great commercial pqdrt. All in all, Russia seems to have taken every possible advantage of the result of the war, without going so far as to endan- her own interests in aiiy direction.-- Chicago Inter-Ocean. THE MARKETS. NSW YORK. 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