Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 9, 1876, Page 10

' THE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE:" b MOSLEM FIEND Z ;"_rho Fearful Turkisk Atrocities in g Bulgaria. ofrible Scenes in the Villngo of Batali. ‘Women and Childron Tortured and langhtered by Thousands, ".i'he Demoniac Proteges of the Chirisilan Qovernment of Great Britain, Can Ohristendom Allow Snoh Barbarities 2 to Go Unavonged ? eureespondence London Dally Heice. ‘TATAR BAZARDIIR, Aug. 2.—Since my letter ¢ -of yesterday I havo-supped full of horrora. 7' Notbing laa yet been eald of the Turks that I do not now believe: nothing could be sald of 1 them that 1 shiould not think probable and Hke- . Iy, There Ie, it would scem, a point In atrocily ; ‘beyond which dlscrimination {s impoesible,— when mere comparison, caleulation, measure- ment, are out of the question~and this point the Turks have alreedy passcd. Xou can follow them no further. Tho way Is blocked up by . mountains of liideous facta that ropel ecrutiny * -~ and favestigation, over and beyond which you " cannot ece'and do not care to go. You fecl that it is supcrfluous to continue measuring these: * wnountalns and declding whether they be a few feet ligher or lower, and you do not care to go o seeking for mole-hills among them. You feel - that It Is timo Lo turn Lack; that you have scen +nough. But let me tell you what we saw at Batak. FEZARPUL SIOHT NEAR THE VILLAGE. . .Asweapproached our attentlon was directed to somodogs on the elope overloaking the town, + We furned aslde from tbe rond, and, pussin ¢+ aver the debris of two or threc walls and * through several gardens, urged our Lorses up the ascent towards the dogs. They barked at usfnan angry manncr, and then ran off Into the adjoining fclds, 1 obeersed nolmng‘) Pee cullar as-we mounted_until my horse stumibled, wWhien, lookiniz down, I percelved he hud atepped ona human skull Jortly Wid smang the grsas 1t was quite dry and hard, and might, to all ap- pearances, bave been thero for two or three years, 8o well had the dogs done thelr work. A few steps further thers was another, and Ueelda it part of a skeleton, lkewlse white and dry. As we ascended, bones, skeletons, and wkulis hecamo more frequent, but here they had mot been picked eo clean, for thers were frag- anents of half-dry, half-putrid flesh still elinginiz | ¢ tolhem. Atlost wecametoa kiudof liitle platcau or shelf dn the hillslde, whers the ground was nearly levol, with the excoption of salittle indentation where the hend of hollow furoke through, We rode towardas this, with the ‘Sntention of crossing it, but all suddenly drew txein with an exclamativn of horror, for right Fuefore us, nlmost beneath our horges’ fcct, Was +\a slght that made us shudder. i A ILIAT OF SKULLY “Sntermingled with bones from all ports of the Tumsn body, skeletons nearly ontiro rotting, - clothing, Numan hafr, ond putrid fAesh lying there in one foul heap, around which the gruss ,was growlug luxuriantly. It emltteg o sicken- 4ng odor, Hke that of a dead horse, and it was Zere the dogs had been secking a liasty repast when our unthnely approneh interrupted thim. In the midst of this heap Icould distinguish ~onu slight skeleton form still Inclosed fn ‘cliemlse, the ekull wrapped ubout with a colored ihandkerchif, and the bony ankles incased i the cmbroldcrcd footless stockiugs worn by the “Bulgarian giris. We looked ubout us. The ground was strowed with bones in every dfrec tion, where the dogs had carried them off to gnaw them st thelr lelsure. At.the distance of +100 yards bepeath us lay the town. Asseen ‘fromn our Ammlimlnl. it reminded one somewhat of the rulps of 1creulancum or Poinpeil There waa not a roof left, not a whole wall standing; oll was a mass of ruins, from which arose ns we llstened o low plaintive wall, lilte thu “keenlop? of the Irlsh over thelr dead, that filled the lttle valley and pave h volce, We had tho cxplanution’ of this curioun soungt when we afterwurds deacend- ed luto the village. We looked again ut the %icap of skulls and skelebons before us, and e observed that they were all small, and that the wrticles of clothing Intermingied with them and dying about were all parts of wumen's apparel. ‘hese, then, were all women sud girls. From any saddle 1 counted about s hundred skulls, Aot including those thnt were hidden benoath “the'others In the ghastly heap, nor those that. wrers acattered far and wide throngh the flelds. Tha ekulls were nearly all separated from the xest of the bones, the skeletons were nearly afl ‘ucudless. Theso women had all been beheaded. f TAR GCENE IN THB VILLAGE. i Wodeseended futo the tows, Within the " shattercd walls of the firat house we came to ‘was & woinan sitting on a beapol rubbish, rock- ing beraclf to and {ro, wailing a kind of monot- guya chant, hall sobbed, that was nat without @ wild, discordant melody. Inher lap she held = babe, and another child sat beside her patient- Wy und sllently, and looked at us as we lmsud with wondering eyes, 8he pald no stteution to us; but we Lent our ear Lo hear what ahe wis saying, and our Interpreter sufd it was na fol- dows: My home, mg homne, my poor home, my sweet houie; my busband, my husband, my poor husband, wy deur husband; my home, my sweet home,” and so on, repeating tho same words over and over again a thousand thnes. It wos In the next houss were twu, engaged in the way; ons old, the other 1y fentlcal, 1 xoung. repeating words near ad a home aud now I have none; I had o hus- band ond now L am o widow; I had s son and now 1 huve none; 1 had ive children and now I tive aney'’ while rocking theinselves to and fro, beating s‘mir Leads and wringing thelr hands, "Lheee were womnen who lad escapod from the maussucre, snd had only just returned for the Crst thue, huving Laken” advantuge of our visit, orthat af Mr. Baring, to do mo. They might hovs returned 1m|F ugo, but thelr terror was so grent thut they had not dared without the presence and protection of u forelginer, and now thoy would go on for hours fn this way, “keen- ing?' this kind of FUNENAL DIRGH OVER THEIN NUINED HOMES. ‘This was the exptaoution of the curlous soumi we bad heard when up ou the hill, As we ad- ‘vanced thero were more and more; some sitting on the heaps of stonea that covered the flonrs of their houscs; others walking up und down be fore thedr doors, wringing thefr hands and re- weatlug the same despalring wall. There were + Tow tears (n this universal mourning. - It wos dry, hard, and despairing, The fountuin ot tears bad been dried up weelks before, but the tide of sorrow aud inlsery waa as greab s ever, and hed to fud vent witfiout their sid. Aswe proceeded moat of them gell futo llue bohind us, aud they flually formed a procession of 400 or 600 people, mostly women aud childeen, wha Tollowed us aboul Wherever we went with their mournful crivs. Such a_sound as thelr united 'Vu;&;u scut up to heaven I hopo uever to heur ugdlo. LATAK AXD ITS INIABITANTS, 3 It may Le well, bofure going turther, to soy evcihing about Batak, so that the reader inuy fura: w better kdea of what took placs here, 11e wes n place of 900 houses, and about 6,00 or §,000 fubabltants. Edip Effendl, in bis nrorl, dtates that there were only about 1,460 fnhabitants in the village, all told.” A more fm- \pudent falsehiood was r uttered, even by a ‘ark, 2, Schuyler has obtained thedr tax-fist for this yeay, aud tinds that there were 1,491 uble-bodied tnen assessed to puy the miliary exviption tax, This uuinber In any Europeah country would indieste o population of about 18,000, Lut brre it would not give more than frumm 8,000 to 10,000 souls, ull told, and this {3 the Nglire at which tho popation Is estimuted ;“,’ the fulnbitants, as well as by the prople of cotern. 1 think peoply In Eu;ilund and Furope gen- erally have a very hnfler oct fdea of what theso Bulgarians ure.” 1 have slwsys heard them spoken of as mere savages, who were in reality not mugch more ovilized than the American In- diuns) awit 1 confess that 1 myscl! was not far from cutertuining the same upinfon not very loug sgo. 1 was nstonished, a belleve most of iy 1eaders will bey to learn thot there seurculy a Bulgarian villago without Its school that thiese schuols are, where they have not been * burat by the ‘Turke, {0 & very flourdshing condde tivoy that ey aro nu{»puuud by & Voluntary tax levied by thie Bulgarlans on théemsclves, nut only without betog foreed todo it by the Gov- erntnent, but fu spite of ull sorts of obatacics thrown In their way by the per 'un(y of the + ‘Turkish autborities; that b instructfon given . An theae schools §s grutuitdus, und that all yrofit i aliko by it, poor us well as rich; that there (3 : coly & Bulgarian child that cannot read and ‘rite; and, finully that the pereentage of peopls 0 can el wid writo 1s as_great In Bulguria w England and France, Do the peopls who D 1Y 1 the Bulgarlaus as savazes happeu to be aware of these fuctsl A vnln,‘l lad " thought . that tho burnfog of & Bulzurfan village mcant the burohig of 4 few wud Juts that wers fu re- ality uf Jittla valuy, and that could be caally re- buift. 1 was very inuch astonlshed 10 flnd that Sbe wajority of theao villuges are tu reality welle B butlt towns, with eolid stone liouses, aud that there are in all of tham & cnmmrnlivc!y large number af peopls who have atfalned to nome- thing ke comfort, and that sotae of the villages ml;?u. stand a not very tinfavorable compnrison ith an English or French village. The truthis that these Bulgarinnes, (nstead of the savages we hiave taken them for, nre in reality o LARDIONKING, INDUSTRIOUS, HUNEST, CIViLe 1ZED, AND PEACEFUL PEOPLE. Now, as regavds the fnsurrection, there wasa weok attempt at an fnsurrection (n three or four villnges, but none whatever fn Batak, aud it '-I’ucn not appear thut a single Turk was' Kllled there. ‘The Turkish authoritica do not even pretend that there wae any Turk killed here, or that the fnlmbitanis offered any resistance whatever, When Achmet-Agha, who commanded the mas- sacre, came withh the Hashi-Bazouks and de- manded the surrender of their arms, they at (st refused, but offered to deliver them to the regular traops or to the Kalmakan at Tatar Ba- zard)ik. This, iowever, Achmet-Agha refused ta allow, and fnsisted upon thelr arnis belog de- livered to him ond his Bashi-Bazouks. After considerable hesitation wnd parleying this was done, Tt must not be supposed thint theso were arms that theinhubltants hud especially prepared for an {nsurrection. They'were simplythe arms that everybody, Christlans gnd Turks allke, wore openly, a8 is the custom here. What fol- towed the delivery of the arms will hest Lo un- derstood by the contiuuatiou of the recital of what we eaw yesterday, 9 TIE BCRNE ALONG THD ROAD. At the polnt where we descended into the - principal etreet of the pluco, the people who tiad gathered around us poiuted to s heap of ashes by the roadskle, among which could be distingulshied Agrcnl numnber of ealeined bones. Ilcre 8 heap of dead bodlies had been burned, and it would scem that the Turks had been mnklnfi some futlle and misdirected attempts at erematlon, ‘ A little further on we came to an ohject that Nlled us with pity ond horror. 1t was the skeleton of a youoi girl not mors than 1, Iying o the roadside, und pactly covered by the debivia ofafallen wall, It wasatill clothed I a chiemise; the ankles were inclosed in footless stockings; but the little feet, from \hich the shues liad Leen taken, were naked, and, owing to the fact that the flesh had dried Instead of decomposing, were nearly perfeet, There was a large gash in the akull, to which o mass of rich brown halr nearly a yard lonyg clung trailing fi the dust, It 15 to Lo “remarked that il the skeletons of wonien found levu were dressed [n the chemise only, and this poar child had avidently been stripped to her chemlise, partly in the search for mouey and fewels, * partly out of mere brutality, ‘then outrareid, and afterwards kiiled.” We have talked with mauy wortnen who lind presed through all parts of the ordealbut the last, sud the procedare scems to have bren as followa: They would sefke o woman, strip her earefully to her chiem- fae, laying aside srticles of clothing that were valuable,” with any ornatnents or fewels she might have sbout hier, Theu ws many of thein ns cured ‘ WOULD VIOLATE HER, and the lost men would kill heror notas the humor took him. A At tho next hiouse a man elcchd us toshow where u blind - llttle brother hud been burnt alive, and the spot where ho had found his cal- cined bones, and the rouggh, hurd-visaged mun sat down antl subbed like w child. ‘The foollsh man did not\eeci to understand _that the poor Difnd boy was better off now, and thatbe ought really to huve thunked the Turks Instead of crying about ig. On the other stde of the way were the skele- tons of two children 1yiug wlile by skie, partly covered with stones, and with feightful sabré- cuts fn their little skulls. The number of M- dren killed in these munssacres fs something enormous, They were often spitted on hay- onots, and we hiaye several storjos Irum cye-wit- nesges who suw little babes carried about the streets, both here umd at Olluk-kul, on the pojat ol buyonets. The reason in shinple. When a Malwmetan has Killed a certuln’ nunber of infi- dels, he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sins'muy be. Mabomet prebably fntended that only arined men ahould count, but the ordinary Mussulman tiukes the precopt i its broader né- ceptation, gnd conuts women and children us woll. The advantage of killlng ehildren is that {t can bo done withont danger, aud that n ¢hild counts for as much as an urined man. Here in Baluk the Bushl-Bazouks, in oryler to swell the count, ¢ RIPPED OPEN PRRONANT WOMEN, and killod the unborn Ifants. As we ap- proached the middle of the town, boues, skelo- g, and skulls beeaine more numerans, There wus not o house bencath the ruins of which we did not previve huinan reinains, and the street besides was strewn with them, . Bofors many of the doorwuys womien were walking up and down wailing their funeral ciant. Oue of them caught me by the arm and led wne {nstde of the walls, und there in one cornery, half covered with stones kd mortar, were the remaing of suother young girl, with her long hale fluwlnfi wildly ubont among the stones and dust. And the mother fulrly shricked with agony, und beat hier hiead madly azalnst tho wall. " 1 could only turn round and walk out sk at heart, lcaving hor alone with her skeleton. A few steps further on eat a womun on s doar- atep, rocking herselfl to snd fro, and uttering moans heartronding beyond anything I could have Smupined. Tier head was buricd fu lier hiands, while lier fingera were unconsviously twiating and tearing her balr us she gazed {uto her lap, where lay threo littlo skulls with the hate still elinging to them. How did_the moth- -er come to Lo saved, while the children wero slaughtered? Who knowst Perhaps she wus away from the villoge when the mussacre oo curred, Perhaps she bad escaped with a babe In her arme, leaving these to be saved by the father; or perhinps—moat fearful, “most pitiftal thing of wll—she had been so ter- ror-stricken that sin had abandaned the threo ruor Httie ones Lo their fate and suved her own ife by fileht, If this fs g0, no wonder she fs tearing ber hafe {n that terrlble unconsclous way 8s slie guzes at the three Mttle bends lylng In Lier lap. HORRIBLE S1GUT IN THE CHURCIYARD, Aud now we begin to approach the church and the schonl-house, Tho ground s covered liers with akcletons, to which are clinging articles of clothing and bita of putrid flesh; thesir fs heavy with a iaint stckening odor that grows stronger 88 we advance. It {8 beginolng S0 be horribie, Tho school is on one slde of the rund, the chiurch on the otlier. The schiool-house, to fudge by the wally that are fu part stauding, wns a fing farge bullding, capable of necommodating two or three hundred children. Beneath the stones und rubbish that cover the floor to the helght of scverul feet nre the bones and ashes of two hundred women und children burned alive between those four walls, Just beside the school-house is 2 broad shallow pit, were burned a hundred bodles two weeks after the massacre, But the dogs uncovered them in part. - ‘Tho water flowed in, and now it Jea there o horrid cesapool, with human- remaius floating about or lylng hall_exposed in the mud, Newr by, on the banks of the little streain that runs through the ylliage, s nsuw- will, The wheck-pit benvath! 15 tull of dend budies loating fn the water, Tha banks of this strenin were ut one tine literally coversd with corpses of menand women, young wivls amd ehifidren, that lay thero festoring i the sun and EATEN UY DODS. . But the pitiful sky ratned down s tarrent upon them, aud the little atreatn swelled and ross up and carrled the bodies nway, and strowed them far down ita grassy hauks, throngh {ta narrow f,urguu and dark deflles benenth thie thick under. srush and shady woods us fur 18 _Pestors, snd even Tator Buzard)tl, 40 iniles distunt, = We entered the chureliyard, but theodor here becane 80 bad that {t was aliast impossible to proveed, We take o hundful of tobace, and hold It to our noscs whilo we continue our investigations, The church was not o very large one, nud It was eurrounded by a law stane “wall, Inclosing n small churelynrd sbout 52 vards wide Ly 75 lonre, At firstiwe pereelve nothing In particnlar, und the stench fs vo great that we scurcely cave to look about us, bub we sve thut the placo s hieaped up with stones und rubbish to the helght of five orsix feet above the level of the street, and upon fuspection we discover that what ur- peared (0 be u maxs of stones and rubbish is [y reality an imincnse heup of humun bodies coy- ered aver with a thin layer of utonea. Tl whole of tha littls ehurchyanf s heaped up with them to the depith of thres or four feet, and 1t fs (rom here that - the fearful odor eomscs, Bomy weeks after the suassacre, or- ders wers sent to bury the dead. But the stench at that time hud become 8o deudly that it was inpossible to exceute thy order, or even to remain i the nefghborliood of the vil- Jage. The men sent to pecforin the Work wn- tented themselves with burying a fe bodics, throwing u Hele earth over “othiers as they lay, wnd hero Iu the churchyard they bad tried fo vover this nmeuse heap of fustering humanlty by throwing iu stones and rubbish over the Wals, without daring to enter, They had only partially succeeded, The doge had been at wark thero sluce, snd nuw could o seen pro- ine\lu- from_this monster grave heads, urms, g, feot, and hands, ip borrld confuston, W were told thut there were 8,000 rrorLs Jylng hero in this Hitls churchyard slone, and we could well belicy 1, It was a fearful sight, i elght Lo haunt one through Nife, Thers were Nttlo curly heads thive in that festerlog nines, vruehied down by Leavy stones: little feet not as lulbf; ud your “finger, on Which the flesh wos drled Biard, by the ardent Leat before {6 had time to deconpuse; Ntte baby hands stretehed out a4 If for belp; Dables that bad died wonder- 1oy st the bright glewn of subres and the red bauds of the derceeyed meu who wietded thew; childron who bud Qled sbrickivg with fright i ' and terror; yonng girls who had dled weeping, and sobbing, and berging for mercy; mothers who dled trylng to shield thelr Hitle ones with their own wealk hodles, all fying there together, featering In one Morrid ~ mass, They are filent enongh now. There are no tears nor cries, no weoping, no shricks .of terror, nor rmyurs for merey. The harvests are rotting fn Iie” fields, and the reapers nve volilng here in the churchyant, We looked Into the"church, which had been blackened by H‘m btirning of the wondwork, but not destroyed, nor even much njured. 1t was alow butlding with a low roof, rupported by heavy irregular sarclica that, as we lovked In, secmed” senrcely high enouih fora toll man to stand under. “What wa saw there was .TO0 FRIGHTIUL for more than n hasty glance, An immenso number of bodles had belul{:nrll‘{ burnt there, and the charred and blackened remasing, that seemed to 61§t hall-way up to the low dark archies atd maike them lower and darker still, were Iving in o state of putrofaction too fright~ ful o look upon. Ihave never imnzined any- thiug so horrible. We all turned away sick and falnt, and staggercd out of the fearful pest- house glad to get” into the street apgaln, - We walked” about the place and saw the same things repeated over and over n hundred tiines. Skeletons of men with thelr clothling and flesh still havging to and rotthng togethier; skulls of women, with thy e drogglue In the dust; bones of children umd of fnfants everywhere, Hiere they show ua a house where 20" people were buried allve; there another where a dozen girls ind taken rcfugz and had been alaughter- cdl to the last one, as foclrlmm-n amply testificd, Everywhere horrors upon hortors. NARNATIVES OF TIIR SURVIVORS, We talked to many of the peovle, but we had not the heart to hsten to many of thelr stovies n detall, and we restrivted onrsclves to afm- ly asking them the number lost in each ainlly, No other method would probably give a Dbetter fdea of the fearful charncter ol the massacre, and the way +n which whole famllles were swept out of exlstencs, ** tlow many wera n your family? we woull ask, “Ten,"” the answer would be, [wrhnpp. “ Tow many _remalnd” % Two? W Iow many in yourst" GE[ht,” ¢ Ilow many remiln?” ¥ Threa.” * Hlow many in youra ' Fiftesn," 4 How many remaind” “ ¥ Five, And so on fn families numbering from five to 20, fn which only remnlned from one to five persons. Oune old woman came to ux, welnglug her hwnds nnd crylug in that hard, tearless muuner of which I have “already spoken, and, when we could get Tier sulllciently ealmed o tell us her story, she suid she had three tall handaome sons, Glilorghy, Ivantehu, und Stoyen, snd they were all inueried ta good and duttfil wives, Refka, Stoyanka, and Aukg, and they had = between the B heautital eiMdren, Anghel avd Trm.inu, and Ghiorghy und Ivantebu, Letko, Assany Boydun, 8toyun, Tonkw, Gingka, Marlka, and Rolka, so thut the family counted al told 10 persons living nnder the same rool, Of all this large flourish= |n‘|; family, the tall handsomne eons, the dutiful wives, anu the 13 beautiful children, there ro mained andy this poor old grandmother. They were all brittally slaughtercd to the fust one, Of thiw flourishing family tree there remalned onk this lifeless, withered trunk, und the poor old wotuan sat down and beat her head ngafnst the ground, and Lajrly ‘' BCREAMED OUT LT DESPAIR. There wus anold man_who toll us of lils unele, Blagol Christostofl, n vencrable patrinreh of the grand old type. le had five sons ar- ried, who hnd ampng thein 27 chitdren, thus making o funily that with the wives counted up & s total of 3 persuns Hving under the same vool. Of this cnoruious family thers are only eight left, We inlzht iave zone on for lours lstening to thers stories had we but tine, There was nnother fanily of 15, of whom seven were loft; one of afl whown efriit were left; numbers of them ol 10 to 15, of whom one to tive were left: und we heard besldes of many familles that had been completely nunihilated, not une remaining, The geople who comtltted this wholtsnfe slauguter wero not Circassfuns, ns hus been sup- posed, but THE TURRS OF TNIE NLCIGHBORING VILLAGES, Ted by the Achmet Agha nlready epoken of, ‘The village of Batak was compaatively rich nnd prosperous; it hod exelted the cuvy wnd jealousy af ita Turkisl nelghbors, and the opportunitics of plunder offered a temptation Lo the Turka which, comblned with their religious fanaticlsm und the yretext of an lusurrection in another part of the country, was more thun they conld vestst, The man Acttmet Agha, who commanded the slaughter, has not been punished, snd will 1ot be, but, vn the contrary, ie hns been pro- moted to the rank of Yuz-bushi, and decorated, We were told that any nuinber of ehildren and young glrls hul been” carried off; that (f was known in what Turkish village they were kept, sud that the Turks slmply refuscd to restore them to thelr parcuts, Mr. Schuyler afterwards obtaiued a 1lal, wilh the names and nges of 87 girls and boys thay hod been carried off, with the numoe of the village Ju which each was kept, IRESENT CONDITION OF THE FEOVLE. As to Lhe'prcucm conditiun of the prople who aro here, {t {3 slmply fearful to think of. The Turkieh nnthoritics "have built u fow wooden slieds fu the outskirts of the village In which they alee;, vt they have nothing to live upun but what “they beg. or horrow from thelr neighbors, * And, In additlon fo this, the Turkish nuthortics; with that cool eynicism and utter disregand of Buropesn demands for which they are so distinguished, huve ordered these people to puy their regulay tuxes and war contrivutions [\lu“ as though nothing had Lappened. Ark the Porte aboitt this at.” Constantinople, sud it will be denfed, with the most plaustble protestations and the most reassuring promiscs thut everything will be done to help the sutferery, But ‘everywhere the prople of the burnt villages come to Mr. Bclmflerv« th the antne story—-tliat unless they pay thelrtaxes und war contributions they ure threatened with expulsion from the nooks and corners of the crumbling walls where they have found u temporary shelter. It ds simply finpos- sible for themn to pay, und what witl be” the re- sult of theae domands {t Is not casy to foretell, But the Government needs money badly, and muet bave it, Ench village must “inuke up its vrdinary quota of tuxes, and the living must P :‘x[) for the dead, herw were no dogs In the place, s they had all been driven away when the fohabitants be- #an to return, und’only hung around the out- akirts of the village: but I suw one or two cats, fut and sleek, thut sat numrlneum.ly upon the walls and watchud us with sleepy eyvs.” 1t may be nsked why the people who are i the village now do not Hiuky thicae skeletonsand these bones, instend of ullowing them to be * UNAWRD HY TIlE DOGS AND CATS. Somie of thass who have been able to {dentify the bones of friends have made weak nttempts av burylng them. , But they have no spades to dig graves with, and they are weak aud atary- Ing. Besides, many of tha survivors are wom- en, who lave made fruitiess cfforis to keep the hodies of loved ones covered with a little enrth, Wa had amplo proof that wherever bones could be identified, they woro tenderly carod for,, Wu saw many well-kept graves decornted with fowers, We'suw othera that had been uncover- el by the ralu or the dogs, leaving parts of the skelcton exposed, thut were still decorated with fowors, Weovensaw slulls lylugon the ground, within a doorway or a gwrden wall, with s bou- quet of Howers lying ulmn thein, us though a0lio ong waa carliyg for then, aud was yet loth 10 bury thein awuy out of sight. I saw oue half- burled, with the faco upward, and its hollow eyes Ruzing reprouchiully up at the sunny sky, with ® bonguet caretuliy” pluced in Its thouth; but most of these skeletons and bones have nebody to look after them, O the 5,000 vr 9,000 peopli whu mads up the population of fhe place thers sre only 200 or 1, left, and e have nefther. tools to d}g ¢ graves with nor strength to use spades §€ they had them, But why have tho Turklsh authurities not burled them out of sfghtl TheTurkish author. itfes will tell you they lmvo\bumd them, and tiat thero were very iew to\bury, Ofall the cruel, brutal, feroclous thinga the Turka ever did, the massacre of Batak (s AJNONG TG wonsT! Of all the mad, foollsh things they ever dld, Teaving theae bodles to le here rotthip for three wonthis unburied Is probably the maddest wid inoet “fuollsh | But this vifloze was fnun fs0- luted, ont-of-the-way place, ditlleult of acceas, und they ney hought Europeans would go lmlilng their noscs hiere, eo ¢l eynleally mhl, * These Cllstians ure not even worth burlat; Iet the dogs eat them,” Wo asleed abuut the skulls and bones wo had seen ur on the hill upon first arriving fn the vil- luge where the dogs hud barked avus, These wo were told were the bones of about 200 young glrls, who hatl rst hesu captured aud pirticu- 1arly reserved for u worse fato thau death, They had beey kept till the lust; they hud been In this hands of thefr captors for soveral doys,—for the burnlnz and the pitluging had not all been ace vomiplished’ In u shizle day,—and during this time they bl sutfered all 1t was possible thut poor weal cmbling ‘girls could suier at the hands of ‘Lrutal suvies. Then, when the town had been pillaged and - Lurat, when all their friends “had heen slaughtered, thesy poor young things, whose very wionge should lmr Ineured them safcty, wlioss very outrages sfloulil have insurcd thom protection, weroe takun {u the broad lleht of duy, beneatl the smlliug canopy of Heaven, 3 COOLLY UBIEADED, then thrown in o heap there, and left to rot, ' Mr, Disracll was right when he wittlly re- marked that tho ‘turks usually terminated their vonucction with Ipeaplu who fell fnto their hands In & more expeditious manner than by fmprison- Ing them. Audso thoy de. Mr. Disracl| was ngh‘l(. “Av. the tims he ‘;ixw; u&h«u vulv witty re- mark, thess young girls eu .thero wusy dayse e g . fourth day togetlier, 1 fecl nl: 11 bad kuown the A NOSE AND A NATF. Precleely 8 month after our marrtage, I— Mrs. Algernon Eidney Westmoreland—was In- forined by my lord and master that such and suth businees—{mperative enough, T owned— enlled him tinmealately to the Continent; and, althiough both Mr. and Mr, A, 8. Westmore- Tand murmured somewhat. at fate nnd £600 per annum, Algy was compelled to leave e “mny Iane,” and go on his way the wifeless husband of a month’s atanding, 1o was to be back cer- talnly [u three weeks, if not sooner, and I was charged to write hourly, to telegraph it I had the hicadache, arfd to keep up a good heart Le- sides! Instend of fullilling which commands, I wrote—well, {t {8 true, almoet lourly—In serapa; forbode from telegraphbing cither my Mead or my heart nclics; ang, alas for cheerfulness! 1 moped about my bit of » houso fn Bayswater os though I was a widow {ustend of n bride; stared ot Algy’s big pholo over my bed; remembered, almost with tears, that I liad watched bim completely out of sight,—a most unlucky procecding; tried the plauo, but found it but a sad reminder of our courting days; poked my fingers inall the pockets of tha coats Algy had left at home, but found nothing save a fow old envelopes; gazed at nll my new gowns, and felt no {nelination to put them on; aud last, but by no means least, feasted my eyes on my sole’dot,~a superb sct of disinonds that had been in my family for over &0 mony years, and that 1y father, even In his darkest days, would in nowise part with. There was a necklace and cross, a brooel, #nd a palrof carrings with exquisite pondants that one could detach at pleasure; o bracelet and ring, that put Algy's eolitaire, sparkling on my small third flnger, to the most unguestionable Llush; but I loved the solltalre with most unreasonable pass ston, and, In contrast, looked coldly on the nine- stoned gem Iylng among 148 splendid fellows In the big moroceo case; nothing would fnduce mo . to wear it h One week, two, three; Algy ®as not at home, and was not coning, I was to joln bim at La Mancho. e could not Ue apared to chine and feteli e, so I was to go to him, andalone, with- out even the meagre ¥ protection’ of a matd, e gense of heinz Mra, J\l;';j rnon Sldiey Westmorelandans a shield and 8 buckler for my timidity, -m(\"lfl years and babylah face, aud & journey of Hve days’ durn- ton. St £ did not dread it The {den of travel in {taelt alone was enchanting to my un- traveled goul; the iden that I was tosce Algy in something short of a wéek, and feol his big hrown mustache on my mouth, redoubled the cuckantment (n a8 most siugulur manner; and, moreover, In the faet of performing this voyago unattended there wes to me.n sweat Savor of unaccustumedness, so to speak, that quite be- witched me, a8 T rehearsed the deportment I shontd display to admiring tourista over the pocking of my brand-new trink, 1 erosged the Chapuel, sullice It to sny, not less a sulTerer from mal-de-mer thait any wom- att on board the pitehing, lurching vessel; und, nfter three hours nt the fotel Nntounle for re- freehment and rest, I took my seat in the rail- way-cars hound lor P—, whero I was, ncord- o to Aly's express fujunctlons, “to stay at the Hotel "du Bon-Dict over mfht,"—urmud with n small traveling-bag, confalning sindry necessaries, o the one hand, and my Illn“‘f' strups In the other, glrded cround my thick blanket plukl, which, {n its turn, was filded se- curely around wy dot,—tho precloin diamonds, which [ was too nuuch afraid of losing to trust In my teanks, knowing full well that the company winld nbt be responsible for oven a titho of their valie, 1 sotticd myaelf and iy posscrslons quita com- fortahly, when, fusths (e cars were abont to sturt, some ona topped me on the shanldor, und & pleas. unt voiee, with Just the falnteet fiavor of a forelgn aceant, #poke: **Are you expecting a companlon? Ta this seat zed 17 ponting tn the one beside me, S o—oh, 10! L answered. - s \\'IlII()‘mlr permission, then? ™ £ Certafuly, mudnme, " A up thenat (b person whose two small Lor haslint were deposited Lie tugease [n the ido- pechi ploid uso the mildor form—eldetly lady, with bunches of roft gruy curls on oither side " of her face, a coffce- colored. complexlon, two bright gray cyes, o small motth—and a nossl ‘I'lic foregolng exclamation lm!nl 18 not Intended to fmply thut I was In_the habit of associating with hersons whooo faces lackod thut fmporiant featuro, the mnose; but Almply to hulicate the extreme astouishment § felt on bohalding thds particular nose, To say thut it was long gives buta faint 1den of the actunl state of the caee, Lut It wis of o yroat Tength, nnid very thin, and very pluk, and a vast deal inore thon ¥ery unpleasunt: it wecmed, 28 it were, to bo peerhisand investigatiug ‘everythlng, 10 be Inquiring sl ferreting ont all visihla and fn- vialble objects. and ta have quita un_independent characterand time of its own, It extended wells aver the old lady's Joug uppor lip; and, In briof, itwas not only anoss that my companion wad wlstrexa of, but o nose and a alf. *<l hwopo I do not incdimmeds yenr™ The ploasant, caurteonn voica recalla tas to my sense: +*Not in the lenst. 1 aesure you,™ I reply, o Inqa more fogitive glance at'the nove, **Tn & little chilly—is {t not? 1 think I uecd mare wruppings. With which the nldrfl{ 1ily arose and took datn one of her smull canvas bags, drawing therefrom a Diue cloalk, with which she envelaped herself, au, nlmpplnu the catch, roinstated the bLag in {in place, 3 **Can T not hand you your platd! the elderly Imlliy waked me, courteously, boforo seating her- elf. 1glanced np as 1 answered her, and_readl the amall card that was neatls tacked on the bottom of lll’" satchel, **Almo. 1a Comtesae de Glrondelle, rle ), thanks, Ah, Ibeg pardon, it {s tmll{. !Inm torzy to trouvle yom, hut ¥ will take it, eirg. " W Anl she hiands It to me, resaming lier soat with a nice, chevrfnl amile. 1 unbucklo the straps, un- roll mgnplnhl. and Ienve my preclous morocco caso quite bare with its Tirans monnting and padlock, G;xd nae new plate pupa Lad put on 1t for wy wed- ng-day. . ‘'Let'me asaist you,' Mme, Ia Comtcsse says Xmlllcl)'. helplng me on with my ULig nhaw * Follow-travelers should ba on excellont terms, espoclnlly when they chunce 1o be two ladien voy- aglug alotie. Youhave been on the Continent bi- fure, 1 presumo? Phe English ladies sre auch ludicn for sight-acelnys,* **No, " Lreplied, hnshfully, and—why I know not—feeling mortided to think that 1 hod not been ubroad befure, **No! 1a it possible? You are ko solf-powserscd that 1 Inugined yon fanllar with a1 theso wcenew. ™ Worthy Comtesso! ller eyes woere beginulng to fafl her, 1 feared, & R ‘‘1-ah, helas! T huve been maony tines ovor lI:m'npu and alono also, siuce the death ol my hushund, " 1ero it oreurred to moe to wonder, with another. furtive glance, how any man conld have marded such a noae, ** You ars poing to Baden to Join your mothar and fathor,—to F—1 1 will 8o gladly cbaperona {uu #0 far us in my poor power.. | kiow what It 8 10 be 80 youny, though nover so pretty,"—with | —*Vund voyaging alone. You nroe very kind," Irep g. with 4 feellng of rent satisfuction aa [ tike in the den of onco mory ielng dependent upon wome one, —which is, to tell the truth, my normal state,—and that som ane n worthy ulderly lady, although with tars than (ho neual “eharo of mode, .**Hut [ am uwol guing to F—, only tn Daden—" 801 Interrupts the Comte: with a amile of genuine delight. **I go to lisden mysolf, Tho ‘waters have been prescribed for me by iy bhysl- clun, **Yeat" I nay, intercatodly, **Tam sorry that T do not stay thore, T go righi on by conch to P—, aund thence to La Manchy, whero "1 blusli paintally at this point—"*my hueband awalts me. " **Your husband"—Tho Cfomtess utfers a littla acream of astonishment, ** My child—uno enfant | voritablament! Ab, what s thls uge arciving atr'* Tlangh & small, hippy, foolish lawgh, aud pro- coud 1o zlve the Comteass n brief romume of the Yl"llfl psl ovents In my histary, ~chifolly conulsting, cun axauro you, in iy couriship, warcloge, wods dinz (Including my which repuacs in the rack), Algy's luperalive tour, and niy now golng on to he with Wi once more uller nearly four werks of cruel wepuration; to all of .which the Comteasu latened attentivoly and courtooualy, with futerest, and lirtle. ayrapathetic, womunly willes utid nods, - Biefore [ lave unished, | think her the wost delighttul, mutherly, charmiug lady that [ buve ever euconutersd=wers it not rnr her 3 but I enteavured to avold ’"flk“llLl‘ that, ond strive (o rivet my attention solely on her bright lensunt amile, intesie T retirn confides to me her nule of that o neatly taoked to ler nd tella e that Ja Comta s long sluce |, Jeaving her the aulsiress of a snall inde- a; that ¥ho rezides 1 London, ** a0 siie and just now fa en routs and 1 would be.to knuw 40 charming aml our [ l.‘;lll. undenca loves the dear Enlish torgiadon to drini Vi famous waters. Weopet on famowsly, the Comtyme anil I, thinkc joyoily of how glad Alky of my peing wider the Wing o cducated w persan, In fuci at tho ond o Comtusneall iny 11f0, aid { foel wure ulao that she 1ikes mo. IL'lio novo oppresses meo frequently, but 1 contract a habit of taiking and listening to hor withont looking, sud this” somewhab amellorates the situation, Ou Friday evoning at 4 o'clock we arelvo at Ta- den, and, as thesouthiern tiaju doca not start for twi huuu‘ul. I uccopt my new (riend's offer of :lmmflng the (o with her ut her hotol quite grato- ully. . 1 ain Installed In the little parlor of tho Com- {ewso's peetty apartisent—en trofsicmo, it In truc, but affording a delightful viow of everyihing sud ererybudy Gt whafl puve, L am aeatod"slon, for my (rlend ban gono down tu sco L0 the arrangement of her baggoge, Khe relurns, hor fuce Jull_of alarm, and 4 coarss, reddish cuvelopo in her ad, 5o not alarmed, my child; ‘s & telogram you, I think. *me, A, 8. Weatmorelan vends the cldorly lady from the wretched thing in Lier band, . 3 ' SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1876~TWELV .ll.‘l PAGES, “* Monslenr Von Linden just gave it to me now an T pareed hy the ofiice, 1 take it, xnd with trembling fingers tear open the envelope and unfold the bit of paper, A smile breaks aver my face and the blood resmmnes ita piaco fnany cheeke, —nothing mora terriblo than at ‘*\Walt over a day at Daden. Saturdny wvening. I read it alond to the Comteess, who shares my oy in charming fashlon, and intantly nffers to ring tha bell, summon the hoetess, nid recura me A room &t once for my stay, 1 accede gracefully, and ere long nam_ comforrably —nay, lnxurlantly— ensconced in a bright, clegantly-furnfeled room adfoining the auito of the Camtasse,—In fact, com- municating with 1t by a door, which 1 hc‘: mn( stand open, as [ am conslderally more than fimid. Allera stunptuous aupper, served fn my now friond'a apartment, with greal neatness, by it pret- ty, bluc-oyed German girl, 1 make my exciiaes and veltre, 1am, In trath,” worn_ont with slcepleas |>I§l|ll In ralliwvay-coaches, and am very' thankful when I find myself once more In A veritabla bed, 1 dream—n qucer, confuecd mass of nonrente, —and, smid the vagaries of my night In the hotcl of Mon. slenr von Linden, 1dream that 1 am suffocating, amothering with some strange-smedling stufl tield tightly over my mouth; then that it {s removed, and that [ can see distinctly, although 1 cun move no nore thon if I wereastune. Iace that the com- - mynicating door belweew 1ty room and tie Camtesse’s little parioratands apen, lotting in a flood of bright, warm umlllu-lifl acca woman in & rose-colored wrapper gliding stealthily abtut my apattment. She xyauu‘x. and a pretty woman with short, very blonde halr curling all” over hee head, and "sho keepa walking = carcfully aboul my room, proring Into ihis comer and that, ‘under’ my cluthes, nnder the Immxin- cushlon, and into the chost of drawoeras und flanlly #ho cracpa up to the bed. 1 feel lior handa erawling aver the blankets, and ut Inst searching onder the piled-up pillowa bealie mne—for what? My dot, my precions diamonds, which I have placed there for eafoly. 1 try toecream, but cannot: 1 nin as silent an tha dead, und 1 watch hor, helplossly, recross the room, glille through the door, close It, and then no more, When Iawhkein the morning, the bright Baden sunshiine Iv streaming Inmy windows, and 1 feel strangely unrested: my cyos ache, and niy tomples throb. I rise und closc the crenking shuflers, * As 1 do g0 1 hear a low wall from the apartment of the Cowmtonse, and like a flash of lghinlug my dream occura to me. T wmaka one plunge to the Led agaln, pull aeide the pillosa—y ot In gone? A Tock comesnt the communleating door, accom - punled by anothier louder. wall, ! o Gome InI" T cry, as Lait storing distractedly abont 1 ‘4 Al Mme. Westinoreland! What have I horo? Antait} iy few jeweln gone! The lhfeven, the burglarst AD! I will have aatisfaction from Mons, van Linden! Ahl what will become of mey" The Comtesse had, then, been robbed also, poor Jadyl Nlie was well nigh beside herself na sho re- cetinted to me almoat ny own experlonce’ tho sen- sution of suffocation, und of hearing some one walking stealihlly about her. room. As my new friend said nothling sbout liaving seen the robber, T iield my peace, beiny rather -ashamed of telling whut L now know must hare heon a dream, mixed up, oddly enough, with trath, ‘Whon ‘1 told her my misfortuno, £he condotoil with mo fn the most tender and henttfelt mnnnor, and, hetween her fears over hee own petit bijous, triod, in her pretty Fronch fashlon, to suggest ways to me of recovering my aplend!d pgeins, lsuty while tho Comtesse mada her tollet n el pussi- Die haste, and tow down to_wurthy Mansienr vou Linden, 1 sat like a xmnll statie stariugat tho tumbled plllws, anid then hogan Lo r.rglil:n hahy, which performance I kept up a full hour at least, and at last determined to do notbing, Tu reaifty thore wua nothing fur me todo, for mny hushand wan traveling toward me just us fast as steam conld hring him, and, as Tassared (he Comtesse, 1 felt that, **wlen Alyy caitie, all would be dis- covared.™ f So 1whiled awny the long day gazing at thb pnssera-by out of (he Comtesae’s windows, nud istening 1o hier allornato moans over hor gems, and dosceiptions of the gayelics of Taden tn the Rone gaming doys, when she was voumd, She was 4 ttwe donghtor of La lielle France, volatility itsolf, and indeed 1 onvied her flllmlz splrita that monrnfal day in Baden. At6 o'elock Alsy would Do with me, ud 1t wua § olciock nuw, A kuock st the door. Another of thoso detestable, lerlluhbli piukisti envclopes the Comieses hands' me, nnd red 1L while stie, with adjusted glasses, poruscy her own document **"hia {4 too wi tears, a3 my ey +* Tmpoxsibl 1 will Join you on Aviy," " 1 ray, falrly Lursting into fail on the scrawled mcssages to cuine ouj aturt at onca. . T ALar " ‘AN, mon enfunt!what in it! Lot me asslst ou, Ab, mon angeldry those tears, for your uxhand must not deo your beautiful cyes spoiled when he comnes, ™ . B not eomingt™ Texclaim, with o fresh ead ity Midumo, " +5A0, ‘tis too much?. Well, ho eays to poto him, my darllng, and o you sce him just now, lin- mediatoly, Yes—though'T grieve to part with yon aifli—the (rain hour, "utid "tts bést i} -pant* o o of the Comtesso, T hnatily yack iy thingy i iy bag, wnd steap wh' the, ulanl Sy kil array el iy traselio lintand +veil, mul, eheared by ner kind, mothorly words, [ wturt in the littlo hackney-carringe for tho depot, Xarrive Uiure, buy iny ticket of the surly Austrian ofllcial, with quivering fingcs, and am s abont toktep Into the coach, when I meet my huslind fuce 10 face! 1 fmll filo hin apen arms without regabld to the 100 waiting travelors, and e, with enual fudifference, exclaimas *+My God !y Iittle Dorothen, what {8 the mat- tert, Whore huve you been? \Where uro you go- iy lle pnts me Into the tinclk, and bids tho man drive back to the hotel of Monsienr von Linden. During that twenty-minute drive throngh the ttrects of finden, 1 wannged—being o brief, direct every word_and ft Dover until 'lllm o litlls woman—Lto tell Algy mx movement, from thé mowent 1 e moment I fell into his big, protectin utlers ot the conciuslon a prolonged and m whistla, and thon, in a most ferocioun voice, in one breath, *'1f any mun has xpoken to ar Inoked at me on the jonriey 1" and tu ** show hin the two lalegrums. "~ [unsivored ** No,"* emphat- ically, to the question, and produced ihe two bits of coarse paper fur my husband's inspoction, **Thexc are not gontine telegrania, 1eent you no telegrumn, " auys Algy, In u yory ciirlons vofco. V¢ walted and waited Tart night and to-day till T almost went mad; and then I cume after you. " We reachied the hotel, ' My husband {s'a gentle- man of few words, but _he liia given mo some very minute instrnctians, I go upestairs and kuock, much after the manner of a mald, oa_tho daor of Mmd. In Comtesse de Girondelle, No answer. Again T knock, this time even louder, with a like result, A walteeconies by, and informs mo that the Comtease Lax gone out to spend the cvening with a sick rlend in the Heldelberg steaene, 1 ro- turn 10 Algy, who bids mie array myaelf becoming- 1y; that he Ia golng to take ine to “tho Kursasl to sevn Jttle n{uly and liear a_good deal of good musie. Mr, Westmoreland has a dark, not a sinlator, cxp: on his comncly face as hin lasues his mandntes, and at the samo time puls Bimself intothe dress wall I have brought In” my trunka from London for him. Wo nre soon driven to the Kureaal, soon hear the hand playlng one of tha luvullest things under tho #un—the ** Dichter nnt uver ™ overture, T march around on Algy's ari, too buppy to speak, with only the vialon of my iost dat 10 troublu me, about which Mr. Westmorelund s slugularly reticent and slnguiarly hopetul; und accaslonally the foce —onpacially the noso—of Lhe Comtesse comen across me, and I Inuocently wander what she will say to-morrow at breakfaes wlhen sliv seon Algy and me bnok sgain? We nre mesndoriug round, when Tsuddenly give a llttla scroam, . **What s it ' Algy rnys, frowning. 1al don't’you scct with a1l m; dinnonds on!" That'w the womun, Algy—thut's the woman " Algy looks: sodol. ANd Iklean. ing her arm on one of the tables, and sinping wine from a goblet,—lhe sanme womun that watched in my dream, only I veo-her clearly now, Tall, with a” falr complexlon, a small mouth, a prefect litlo strsight nose, two beight-groy syes, enhancod by the srtful black poncil, and lovely blonde luir, dreescd with supert aetificiul bratdss #ha fn aitired In a rose-colored natin gown, cover- ed with binck lace founces, uml ahe wears all my dot sparkling und shimmering in her ears, on hor neck nmd hosom, and arima and fine ey tells ma to keep very ntlil, and presently l»nll me ju the eab and lenves “me, whl strict in- tuctions to the deivor 1o take me hucl: fo the hotel of Monslvur von Linden. Aw wuy bo imagined, { sleep but ittlo thot wight: my hosband comon home late, verys aayw thera Ian'‘certainty, ulmost, of recovering iy fJewals: calls me **a nervogs, fooliali litle wife "™ and hids me ** go to sleup, " Auuln the Baden sunlight ehines {n the windows, and agatn L haar the Comtesse moving abont hor apartmont, without wailiug, howaver, this morn- ing, At 10 o'clock, Jusl us Mine. n Cointesso's brenkinst was belng et hefore hier on (he pretty, volished table, a burly gentleman, aceompnnied by wo polies oficers, waime clattoring up to her daor, —nuy, into hor very parlor Stsetf, —and Algy and T at the enme moniont ‘wlso appeared to puy our re epeeta 1o my kind friend, $ % Sho groeted us with clmrmlnf polltencss, but ut- tered Hitle scream on beholdiyyg tho burly e- man who entered shmultaneonsly with oursclves, ¢ Nejn, nelnl™ sald the hurly’ gentiaman plada. antly; *'no scroaming, Comtesse. Pormlt mel" 1looked on with indignation while the burly gen- tleman Nterully pro led to ecalp the Comtcssa do SGitrondelles with Dugers defter than en Indiay's ho removed the entire chevelure l\l’ pray, soft carls, 1eaving axpored A heautlful heod of. blonde, weving Iialr. "4+ Neln, neln, no sereaming:” repeated the burly gentleman, wnavely; sud then—1 blush to record {t—he acized the long, pointed, Investiyating nose of thu Comtessu delley y hetween his thumb and forefinger, and—llited it gracefully lnto the ulr, 'Fhe Conteseo did not followy alie remninod eeated on Ler char, divplaying wnother nose'—a winally vtralght, pretty, white nosc! I wou terrified. “Yah, yaht exclalmed the burly gentieniin, Thersupon he took up a et napkin and procecded to rob ihe fice of the Comiesss Wwith vigor, Ina fow oments tho coffeo-colored complexion had disappeared, and the tited lady rejoiced fn o akin watehing tho hue of Ler uew noso. ¢ Ver ure dis ladeo's dinmoudst Inguired the offteial, courtvouely, The(‘omlcesc at unco fuluge ofly vovived, sercamed, called on all the aaints and demons in the calendar ta proteet lier and annjbls Tate thy burly fiemhm" yespectivelys tnully aho ced dn the dircetioh of tho wardrubo, enca thy oificlul drow my moroccu case—my ot Algy took me awny wholly In hysterles. A) aworo (hut no earthly power should luro bim inlo lcaving o aloue for Aive wioutes again, 20 lony s we both llved. And 1—1 cavnot help §t—1 look with distrust—nay, aversion of tho miosl poaltive Lind—upon uny ‘ono who hawa nose thut b pluk aud polited, aud even ono nall's breadth longer than it ought Engliah dagaine, arms, e m——— | A Clerloal Jack-of-all-Trades, Tall Ml Gazalte, An fnteresting Instancs of clerieal versatility fu France fy wentloned by M, Alphonse Daudet " demand in the Journat Offictel, The Tsland of Hount, which lies off the const of DBrittany and s at- fachied to the department of the Sorbihan as {he 1ale of Wight Is to Hampshire, contalns only 210 luhabltants, over whom the parish priest wielda supreme power. In addition to hix pricstly atuthority he exerclses evcr( kind of admiufstrative functlon, e s Mayor and Munietpal Councit all §n ones he has the charge of tho military fortifications in the {sland, and whenever ho “isherinen of the fstand have n dispute as to thelr respectivo sharea {n the huu! he has to act na juge de {er. “When his rnrlnhlancra malio too much naiee at the public- iouso he slips the .\ln{ur'l tricolor scarf over his cnseock and acts, I clreunatances render it necersary, a8 village pollccman, A few years ago there was no Auch a thitg ax a pubtic-liouse upon thq Island, and the pricst had the monopo- ?' ol the snleof wine and apirita, which wero Istributed by u 8ster of Charlty from behind a grated window of the presbytery. e also held the key of the ong oven upon the ialand, to which ‘all the Inhabitants were compelled to brlng thelr flour, These were “aurylvalat from the time when communication with the majnland was only pusable at raro aml un- certain Interynls, and whon it sometimes beeame neeessary for the privst, rsawming the nuthority of the Captainof a vessel, Lo put the fulnbitants upon rations, , e ——— THE SILVER OQUESTION, 1o the Kditor of The Tribune, DostoN, Mnss,, Sept. 4.—Thut the abroga- tlon of the double standard by the act of Fab. 12, 1873, and by the Revised Btatutes of June, 1874, was efTected without discussion, and with- out the knowledge of the country, I8, as o mnt- terof fret, perfectly notorious, e people of the Unlicd Btates know well whon o matter fs debated and when it I8 not debated, and they kuow that this sitver question was not talked or written ahout until 1876, two full years afte the mischiet of demonctiziug silver was con- summated, so far as Inws of Congress can do that.” Mr. Halman, of Indlana, declored recently, upon his responsihility as u member of the " United States Housd of Representatives, that a8 Inte us March, 1870, “a letding Senator of the United States! Inslsted to him that sitver had not been demotietized, aud would not belfeve it until he was slown the laws which do demone- tze it, - Tt is, in fact, not cortaln that even now a majority of the people of the country know that it Is so. Al tenders ore made In greenbacks, ond the Revised Statutes of the United States maoko a large volume which not one persou In a thousand ever ltos seen, or ever will see. Evenof the legal profession, only a smnll minorlty possces it, ‘It is trie that the Cotnage act of Feb. 12, 1873, did recelve a nows- paper publieation, but that act did not demone- tize theold silverdollar, andits prohibition of the further striking of that coin was by a general cluuse, the effect of which would be understood only by a eareful examination. It Is snld that the met which was approved Feln 13, 1873, was beforo Congress threo or four sensions, and printed soveral Limes, and that the fact that this act “*abolished " aud * demonctized " the old sllynr dotlar should not have escaped nt- tention, That the nabrogatton of the double standard did esceape attentlon s shown by the entire absence of discussion, fu and out of. Con- ‘grese, and 1t 18 fdle to controvert that by tho circultous and 'fnferential argument that ft might have attracted altention, or even ought to have attracted attontlon. It did wot, ns & mattor of Jact, and that is the end of It. The time aclected was skillfully chosen to eseape attention, In1873 and 1874 the cutire * cireulution was paper. No gold or sllver cofn whateyer was {n use as mohey, und the expecta- tion of the time wlen any would be was only » shadowy hope, with ne_thne, place, or_cireuin- stance fixed for the renlization of 18, What, at such a time, to this mass of members of Con- grena, oF of the people, could have been more uninteresting than u coinage act? And, pro- vided such en net was long enough,—and this contajusseventy-four tedlous seetions,—\what op- portunityimore adilrable could be concelverl of 1or slipplng in alnost anything, with the con- nivance of the few men having the matter in charge! ‘Tiits uct was debated, but by whom and upon what'potntal It was fought over [n the Senats two long days, but the coutest was between the Pacific Benators und the Chalrinan of the Fl- ounce Committes, on tho question of seignor- ageon theguldcolns,—amatter of importancs to thie mining Interests. Not one ward about de- mongtizing silver, or abrogating the double staundard, was uttered y Senator. < monetize or “abolish " But how afd this act the old atlver dollar! 1t did not * demonetize™ theold sityer dollar st alls Every coln struck nt the Mint as full legal-tender, [neluding all picces Jeas than a dol- Tar, of full welizht, struck prior £01853, remafoed u full legal tonder as before. What the act of Feb, 12, 1878 did, and all that it did, was to_de- monetize tho apeclal silver colna deftned in it. Tho demonetizing of the old sllver dollar was accom- plished, as wo shall presently ace, not by the act of Fob, 7, 1873, but by a.clauso in the Rovised Btatutes ndopted in June, 1874, 10 the Feb, 12, 1873, uct did not. ¢ demonetlre" the ol silver, 6o It dId not * abolish ™ it, in any way ealculated to aftract attention. It contaius no clause or word speclally naming or referring to the old silver dollar, What it contalns, after the section specitying the diforont coins of gold, sliver, aud ‘nlckel, which it authorizos aud regulates, 18 o general clause prohibiting the fssue of any coins not speelfied in the act. This eneral clause, of course, Includes tho old stlver ollar, and in that way prevented its further cofnage, and practically “abollshed " it for the futuro, untll there should be new legislation, But it 18 casy enough to comprehend liow this wmight have escaped uttention, Thes uct of ¥eb, 12, 1873, originated in tho House, Lo which it was reported by Mr, Hooper. As ho prepared it, and as the House pussed ft, 1t provided for a sllver dollar of the exuct valuo ol a Frunch five-franc piece, and conformed the sunller nilver colns to the samo proportfonate valuo. As the law then exlsted, and had exist~ ed since 1853, the sliver colue below one dullar wero under welght, und therefore a mere token currency, aud a tender for only five dollars. The new feature introduced by Mr. Hooper was an under-welght dollar, and this being a more to- kon, he very pmslerly IntNted fts” legal-tender ower to Aive dollars, In _polut of "principle, hiers was nothing new in thot,. There was no demouctizing of the'old eflver dollar in Mr, Hoaper's bill ,;ml 1o aasertion In any form, di- rect or fmplled, of nn authority In Congress to demonetize any gold or siiver cofu of full wefght und standard, In tho Benato, among othier amondments, one was aldoptedd, without a alngle word of dlscus- slon, stnking out Mr. Hoopur'a underwelghted dollar, und Iullntllutln;i the trade-tollur, slight- 1y exceeding the old dollar in weight, and at'the same Lime IMniting its Iefinl»mndur rapucity to 85, This was undoubtedly an sssertion of o power 1u Congresa to demonetizo sllver of tull welght, but thut was edded ut the end of the Iezfilnllvu procesdinga in relation to the matter, 1t tormed o part of “the bill, the printing of which sleven times, and il consideration of which durln;i successiys sesslous, ure 10W s0 ostentatiously paraded. IL waa onc of thoso tlings eo often slipped Into laws at the ver, last momeunt, and casentiully changing thefr charneter, 'The Senute adopied It without ob- servation, and the Houss never acted upon it ut all, axcept o rojoct it pro forma wud sund the bill to a cauference cutumitice, The et of Feb. 12, 187, did pot demone- tzo the old eliver dollar, wnd tho fact that “the probibition of lta colnoge wus eiffected by a peneral cluuse _ attracted no uttentlon fn or out of Congress, The actun) currency of the country wus paper. The Pacitle coust, whtleh produved sfiver, had fn the trade dollar just whut it wanted for export to China and Indln, sid (€ Wus “co nobody amatter of pructieal inportauce, for the timo bcln¥. that the colunze uf the olil silver dollar was no Tonger :Blu at the Mint. 3ubstantluly nobody, except the few who were In the sccret, kuow what hud been dane, or antivipated wiut wus saon afier planned and exoeute by a falaitica- tiun of the Reylecd Btatutea. i3 ‘The President of the United States was cer- tatuly kept in ignorance, as we Hnd bim writing, gn l‘l‘lfl mL ot October, 1673, to Mr, Cowdruy, 0 anker s % I wonder that sliver Ja 1iot_already coming {nte the murket to supply the doiclensy tu tho virculuting ‘medlum, " ., Bxperlence hos proved thut [t tukea about $40,000,000 of frac- tlonal currency to make the small change noces- aary for the transaction of the businees of the country, Bliver will gradually take the place ot thiy curreney, and, turther,” will become tho standard of values, which will bs hourded fn o amall way, [ eatinate thot thls will consuing from 300,000,000 Lo 300,000,000 fn Ling, of this specles of our elreuluting medium, ., o confess ta o desire to sev a limited hoarding of money. It fnsures o fiem foundstion in time of need.” Dut I want to.sce the hoarding of some~ thing that has u standurd value the world over, Bliver hox this, . . “Our tmines are now productng sjmost untimit- ed wniounts of silver, and it 1s Lecontng @ ques- tlon, { What aliall wo do with 162§ suggest liore a sojution Lthat wlll suswer for soins yuurs, to dm it {u cireulation, keeplug It thers uutil it Is fixed, bhnd thew we will Und other murkets.' Guen. Grant ds more slrfliful with the sword thanith thepen. Mo ducs uot wilte with the Ve . s T LR vracticed preciston of n professor of econviny, bt it 18 plaln enongh that 1y had e hat'lives wan o el s o enrrciey, Huited I ils tender enpacity by for ddollars, dud unly 1 b substituted fe pr (178 tiobal ‘paper. carreney o forty milione 1 looked “to I8 o u standard of vylyes 19 which portions would be hioarded, which hoy fuge hee rathier npproved than regret e that twe or three hundred 1)) abigorbed in this way, aml e pe {n addition to other aitvantag ket for our abmudant mings, until w Spind other mavkets,” 1f everybol; 08 I8 now pretemded, that the it ut'}' polltieay o col, _n!lm7knrw? demonolized sifson'tho Preskient, whe Jo0 the nct had mrmmlif. not. found b out fi’ gy, e elght montha from February to October, At the noxt sesslon of Congress the qul!nn. debated were how long the frredeemabl Bieen. Dbacks shouldt be continued a8 the curr and hen the ol eurrency of gold and si l:r'mm bl fnto them, should b rertarel. vas dentonetized, wobudy secmed g know It The rentroveray wns betwen Rew sumptlonlsts and nnti-Ieaninptiontstr, On tue st of A\vrll, 1834, Uen. Hawley, of Conneetient, recapitulnted the ideas of Ty speeed for reaumpiion 1o these words: ' L The preclous mietals furnlsh’ the standard of values for o medfun of exchange, Y8, The proper currency s one compoeed of old, sllver, and paper convertible on Presenty "i" :‘lw c{} "l'lnl States II 1 1] n the Unlted ates Ilouse of Neprese tives, Apell 11, 1874, the pending bill beine o rclmhq; o the currency, the Ion. B, R, flm, of Mawsachusutts, offeied the followlng ay g e thom and atter tho tet i hat from und alter the 1st day of Beptem. ber, 874, othing bt gold anl Tiver the United Btatvs shall be a legal-tender In thy wpayment of any debt therealter contracted,” bsequently, Juage Hoor modified his ofg amendinent Dy subatltuting July 4, 1830, for Sept. 1, 1874, and on the $4th of April, g discission bemr permitted under the prevloy question, the amendinent was lost—yeas, ; naye, 178, With the exception of Gcn. iler all’ the Massachusetts Ropresentatives presenf and voting voted fn the afirmative, fucluniy, Mr, Hooper, and 80 dft the resumptionists froq all the Biates, Eyvon Mr, Huu¥er did not seer to understand that his Act of Veb. 12, 1673, Ly demonetlzed silver. ‘The truth I8, that the final and formal demone stizing of silver was cffected by a clause in the Keyised Statutes adopted in June, 1874, declar ing that no silver colns of the Untted Btates should Le a temdor beyond $5. That this oy inserted inproperly anit without the kuowledgy of Congress {8 not attempted to be denfed, ‘Ihat it was contvived and froudulent In thy interest of those who profited by It, 18 an fofer. unce not difMcult to be drawa, What Congress had dirceted was an exact re vision, or consolldation without chinnge, of the Inwa na they existed December, 1878, The Com. miltecs on' Revislon, to whom the worl wa submitted, nssared it that no new matter hag been Inserted. (en. Butler, of the House Committee, always cuergetle o lan. §nngw Junlnrml, a3 the Congresional tecord Wil shiow, thut the Yoluma containa not one eordt and nat one letter " of ad- ditfon to the old Jaws, dudge Polund, of the sama Comnittes, sald the same thing: if ot with equal empliasls, certalnly with the sawe Dositlvencss. HBut instend of quoting what Judge Poland said to the Ifouse, when it tas actiig on the Revised Statntes, I prefer to quote Whai hc bas alnco more deliberately written, on the 4th of Jdanuary, 1870, In it lotier to the Sceretary of the Treasury, The point discussed fn this letter was whether a certaln clause In the Revised Statutes chnmicd the duty on a purticular clasy of wools, and the stresa of Judge oland’s argu- ment wud that the Sceretary should not cune strue the language ns making n change, unlesy its plainneas ubsolutely compelled him to do ko, it not having been the'intention of Conizress to moke any change fn anything, e says in Lis letter: *'The Commiitee repeatedly and publicly de- clared in the House thefr purposo not to fiave the revislon make any change i the luw, and fo tholr mction on this subject they ine tended to et with serupulous regard to this pledge to the House. . . . Tunderstand very well that, tn the construction of a statute, its meaning and purposs mnust mainly he sought i its own junguage, but the history of and con current elfrcumstances ultending leglslation huve often been considered fn dutormining the true intent and meaning of a statute whose Ianguaze left ita object and purpose obscure snd doubtful; so In the construction of any scction of the ravision, whera it bucomes o question of doubt and ditliculty whether o change of law was Intended, the fact I have stated uboye—that the Cominittee so oftenand su publicly declared their purpose to make no change, &nd upon which Congress acted—Is a matter proper (o ba considered.” it 1s possiblo to establlsh anything, it 1 Lilahed that any new mattér b the Jtevis Btatutes was put there improperly and W tho'’knowledge of Congress, And certadnl; demonetizing of all the stlver colns of the United Btates was ncw matter. The act of Feb. 13 od 1878, demonetized nelther the old gllver doliar nor the smalicr aiivor colnaof full weight struck prior to 1 of which large numbers yemain in existence. 'The ailver coined from 1702 to 183, ;\;;{': Dollurs, $2,653,000. Swaller colus, &5 The net of Feb, 7, 1873, demonetized nothing, except the pecullar and speclal cofus which it authorlzed, That sct {mplied no obioxious assertion of the richit to demonetize nny coln of full weight, Lossibly the trade-dollar moy b an exception, bus the circumstances in that case have been already sufficiently stated, Tacked tothe Jaw at the'last moment, and without dis- cussion Ia the Benate, aud never consldered fn ho Jiouse at all, the trade-dollar may be a bad precedent, but (s cumlnl‘y not a weighty one. If the niotive of the falsltlcation of” the Re- viscd Statutes, In respeet to the demonctization of Unitcd Stales silver vains cauld be matter of doubt, abundant light is thrown upon It by suother falsification” in the samo chap tor, in respect to foroign colns. o demonetize United Btates sflver colns would not of itstll uccomplish the thing aimed ot Evuri'budy who i3 old enough to recollect the metallic money fn usobefore the present era of greenbacks, knows that there was more for eign than domestie sitver in clreulation, Of tho dollar plecy, ninety-ning in o_hundred had always been olther Spanish or Mexican, 'The Constitution contempluted and provided for the currency of foreign coing, Congress hLus no Buwnr to moke them a legal-tunder, or to pro- [bit thelr belng o tondor, having no jurisdic tion of any kind in the matfer ot tender. Tho an){{ potver it Lias in respect to forslgn colns s 10 © regulats their value, that 15, “to_ declare st what rates they shall be a tender, and, us Col. Bentou once sald, it s o preposterous pervers ston of such a poier to probibit thulr use asa tomler altogether, 1 Congress did that in the Itevised Statutes, It was not by intention, but ou the assuranee that no new matter bud beew introduced, : ‘The better to avert observation from theirreal attack, which was upon sflvor, they put into the chupter on money & prohibition of both gol and allver colns s o tonder. Thoy refer futbo mlulrgigl 5? l}-s% ;ullowlng third section of jthe wt of ¥eb, : “That ail foriner acts authorzing the curren: ey of furelgn gold aud sitver colns and declarig lfiu samo a tonder in the payment of debts are heroby repealed ; but (¢ shafl be tha duty of the Dircelor of the Mint to cause assaya to be made from timo to thao of such furelgn colus us inay be known to our commerce, (o determine theie averago welght, Ancaces, and value, and to ent- brace in his auunual report a atatement of the results therdof," Any lawyer will soe that tha marginal refer enve ‘docs not at all fluutl{y this pretended re vision, 'The work of flonest revislon in reapect to repealed laws s to omit, them, which Jeaver the casp Just us A such laws had never beet enacted, 'The Congress of 1857 did not take | away the legal tonder cepucity of forelgn colus. Wha It did was to repeal former cnactients fixing the rates at which they should be tonders, and to substitute o now regulation of their valua by annual ascertatuments and 1o ports from the Mint. If there could bo soy doubt about the construction, ft s scte tled by the consideration that If the. lan guuge [s susceptiblo uf two constryctions, that ongshould be wdopted which fs ju hurmouy with the powers and dutles of the legislative body, Congreds possosses und hud siways ext ereised the power to regulste the value of for- clgn colng, Lut hod no_Dower to prohiblt them as tenders, A construction of the uet of L within thy legistative powers of Congres: also the obylous construction, ‘Theve 18 no pro- hibitfon of foreign colne as tenders fu the act, The prior {awa rupealed wery luwa rc;:ulnmllx the values at which they should e curront. placo of thess laws, tho act preseribes neww mode of Axing and proclalming thele value hou car 10 year, ” g Who {wru the falsiflers of the Revised State utes s us_Indeterminable 68 the qmfiflzfl whether the lato, Bultan of Turkey perdelic K suleido or assudsluation. Tho comwiitees o8 tho yevision novessarily trusted the Imlule“'.l- of the revisers. An’ actual, critlcal "Z“'","n tion of every part of such un funnenso worl coutd not bo imade by members of Lun'nil without negleeting all thelr uther dutles. it 1 fimpossible to locito the respousibility \\II‘L_N su many were employed n vnrlmsunpm-u‘ul and where opportunitics were so nunierolis ul urtful suggestions from persons nob umpluyv‘é What we Kiuw with certaluty js all that wn»:‘ to kuow, and thut i3, what classes und futeres! hery and in Eurupe, proiited by the fulsiilcations and who tho uen ate who now {ndlat that theet falsiieations shull rymaln uncorToctel , d Gsonoa B, WaIOL € 3