Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 24, 1876, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI. ENTATIVE, - REPIE ~& CARD. |ASSIGNEE ssible to do buainess without heing Tede "°§E$.‘:, men refuse toregard the valueof et radvertising altogether as being too n";;‘;:m"‘l for thele business; but still, all o > o to keep thelr names and occupa- mm;:r‘:;’:‘l’n.‘t: puh‘l‘lc fua mannce that scems e most. dignifled and ¢ffective,—~one man e mc-’(’:vnr lecturesunotherwill discuss the Dar- ki lhmr‘y of creatlon, another will discuss "mmmlxq: comet, and still another class will e mlcl.lors 1 the newspapers; the politiclan e 23 I:l:fld)' o muke o specch,—anything, in " Hh':l{'fl. will dosomething to accure publicity, {M‘fln‘t tho most fustidlous accept the com- s u-'uux that to dn business it s neccssary to Ev:nown, and favorably known if possible. in Artistle and Fino Goods for D;ll:l::cxmm and Feronal Use. VEDDING STATIONERY & INVITATIONS ¥ JaxseN, McCtunra & Co., 117 and 119 State-st. Dm‘m“ms‘ N. MaTsox & Co., Cor. Btate and Monroc-sta IC TAILORS— 42T Epwanp ELr & Co., 105 Wabash-av. ART WORK IN STERLING BILVERWARE— ManurAcTURING CO, o e omdsty New Yorke .VLATED WARE— SLVERY MzripEN BRITARNIA Co,, N. MaTsor & Co., Cor. State and Monroc-sts. 0l PAINTINGS, LITIIOGRAPHS, AND 1MPORTERS OF WORKB OF ART— M. O'Bricy, 203 Wabash-av. CARRIAGES— BTupEBARER BRoTOERS, Bouth Bend, Ind.: 255 Wabash-av, * FINE WATCHES— N. MaTs0R & Co., Cor. State and Monroo-sta, FINE WATCH REPAIRING A SPECIALTY with Hamiuton Rown & Co., - Corner State and Washington-sts. §(LES AND FINE DRESS GOODS— Ciias, Gossage & Co., 106, 103 snd 110 Htate-st, JEWELERS AND SILVERSMITHS— N, MaTson & Co., Cowper Btate aud Monroc-sts. PIANOS (Chickering & Bons)— s A. Rerp & Sow, Van Buren and Dearborn-sts. CLOCKS AND BRONZES— N. Matvon & Co,, Cor. State and Monroc-ata, BEWING-MACHINES— . Sinoen MasvracTuning Co., 111 Stato-st. BAFES— Harvr's Savn axp Lok Co., 147 Dearborn-st. GCALES— FAmpangs, Monst & Co., 11 and 113 Lake-st. CHINA AND GLASSWARE~ Bunuey & TIRRRLL, 83 and 85 State-st. CARTETS, FURNITURE, BEDDING, &c.— Cmcaco Caurer COMPANY, Old stand of ¢ Avnzy, Mackey & Co., 233 State-st. LO0TEL RANGES AND COOKING APPA- BATUS— (Bramhal!, Deane & Co.) ‘B, E, G1vAUDAN, \ 110 Lake-st. Travelors' Gulde, SHERMAN HOUSE— Hates reduced to 83 per day for all rooms above parlor floor wnhmfic bnlu’:’. A. ITuLserT, Proprietor. GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL— f Cor. Clark and Jackson-sts., Jonx B, Duaxz & Co., Proprictors. BREVOORT HOUSE (European plan)— Madisou-st., between Clark und La8alle, 11 M. Tioxrsos, Proprictor. Thecards will appear daily In thrst column frst page in Tue Crrcaao TRIBUNE, FURS, THE CANADA firHamnfaturing Co. Hadison-st,, N, W, Cor, Franklin, 1sthe only ostablishment where you can find tho largest stook of Furs in cadloss variety, and of bost work- Musnship, at manufactures’s prigos. Any article can be mado to order &t shortost notice, BEAK & BUCHER., e OLD TYPE, FOR SALE, A QUANTITY op OLD TYPE. APPLY AT The Counting Roow of Tl Office, i“\*‘fi_—,—— " va v i s !'IT 106 MADISON STREET HIEIN'S DOLLAR STORE OLL TANKS, s AN E DoLLAK | wWEREING OAXS, OXLX MG O S 0320 rou €avatosus, ATANUAKD SCALES OF ALL KINDS, QFAIRBANKS, MORGE & 0O, 1M &113 Lake St., Chicago, Becarefultobuy only the Genulng, MEATER, T e \ Mo OF THE SW’SKLME STOCK AND FIXTURES J. A, SMITH & 0., 83 MADISON-ST. 1shall offor ot private sale, for this waek, the large stock of HATSANDFURS At Tess than Manufacturers' Cost, + GREAT BARGAINS fn BEAIL, and SATILE BAQKS, MUFFB, BOAS, nnd CQOLLARS, PUR PRIMMING FO:. UFF3 and HOAS, &o, REN'S SACKS, MUFFS. HOAS, OAYB in grent varintios, FUR GLOVES, ROBES, LAY ROBES, and FUR BICINS, e variety of Ladios’ and Gonts’ BBAT Ang K CAPS and JIATS, atock of Men'n and Boya' Hats and Oaps, all of which will be sold at from 25 to 60 per cont loas than cost, This s tho largost and best selocted atock of the kind over of- torad the publia at Lhafirlnnn. H. i, BROMWELT, Assigneo. PMew’s and Boys’ Dress and DBusiness IHats, Large Varict)y. Low Prices, J.8, BARNES & CO., 70 Madison-at. EATS AND HAT B4 & B20 VERGOATS Must meet the ideas of the public, for they aro eelling fasi. S15 and $20 SUITTS Latest style and suro to pleaso, Edwards & Browne, 150 ST.ATE-ST. FPOLITICAL. | FOR TILEN & HERDRICKS, i H 1610, W. JULLAR, The Lite-Long Ablitionis, WILL SPEAR AT FARWELL HALL, Wodnesday, Oct. 25, Police (rookedness! THE POST Of this afternoon will contnin addi- tional rovelations concorning HICKE® S PARTNERSHIP WITH THIEVES, WO00DY and SANKEY Gospel Méeling Each Evening This Week, Fxcept Saturday, at 8 O’Clock in the GREAT TABERNACLE Monroe and Franklin-sts., Mr. MOODY will preach and Mr. SANKEY will sing, daslated by the Vabernacle Ghole. No Tickets requtred. Nugday Metiuge ot PAUSTELI, TTALL dally at 13 a'clock to L o'clock, conducted by Messrs, Moody wud Sankey, POOL 1ROOM, FOX’S POOIL, ROOIL. HARYLAKD JOGKEY CLUB, PIMLICO OOURSE, BALTIMORE, TO-DAY the Grent Dixle Stake, with 64 NOMI. NATIONS, and three other races, Pools sold, and mumuury recelved by telegrapl, at FOX'S POOL ROOM. g BINANCIAL, L m\;!‘n;mchnlnu loang on vary clioten \vu:lnl-ugzflwny at A1 (KRS, B0, U00," § 20, 00, $10, 004, Tt d, B E AT A HONEY AT LOW RATES Toloan ou Warchouse luceipta for Gratn and Provle. fons, un City Cortcateauud Vouchers, on 1ients aud Morigages, LAZARUN SILVERMAN, Hank Chambir of Conmieree, ACE NAWS, Best quality at reduced prices, 1. 0k & co., New York snd Chicago, T SPORTENEN'S GOOBS, GUNS, FISHING TACKLE, EIC. ] At I, B, EATON'S, 63 State-st. ESTABLISHED 1853, T MEDIUALL ARTINA AND IIRONIC BRONCITTS, 1 ? C The woat éectont vemody wik ATURA TATULA. D prepared Inatl forms, for smoking SAVOIIY & Joon! 08 Wow nond-ot, Lonton, and all Chemlits Fold by them, ane And. Ethrekoeners $hroughiout tia 5 United Statca and Cany QIIIMN. PAGHE'S OHIMNEY TOP, Ice Saws. CINICAGO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1876. FOREIGN. The Porte Is Said to Mave Agreed to a Six Weeks' Armistice. A Rumor that Roumania Has Declared Her Independ. ence, Proclaiming Princo Charles King, and Forming an Allianco with Russia, Discovery of a Plot in Constanti- nople to Assassinato the Grand Vizer, Several High Officials Impli- cated Sent Out of the Country. Horrible Tragedy on a Rail- road Train in Bel- gium. An Officar Murdered and Robbed by a Prisoner, the Lat- ter Escaping, Fears of Widespread Famine in India Owing to Short Crops, TIE EAST. 11AS A BETTER LOOK, Loxmon, Oct. 23.—The steady advance {n con- eols and other internationnl stocks, which foll during last weck’s pante, indicates the prevail- ing impreaslon here that warls not nminent, and that s peaceable solution of the Eastern question fs not {mpossible. The Times says: *There is, perbaps, dauger that the unrcason- able alarms may Le succeeded by unreasonable hope, but itis evident that we need nat despalr of seclugz tho crlsls pass away without an out- break of hostilities between Russla and Tur- Ley. The same opinfon {s noticeable in other quarters. The recent excitement las had the ¢ffect of demoustrating what would be the at- titude of the Powers tu the caso of un aggresive war by Russia,” A RUSAIAN OPINION. A dispatel to ths oflicia) Russian Telegraphic Agency says: “‘The departure of the British Ambassudor at 8t. Peteraburg for Livadls, und Gen. Ignatieff for Constantinople, should be interpreted as a further proof that Russla and Eugland ure endeavoring to arrive at s sound and lusting pacitication.” TOUMANIAN INDEPEXDENCE. Nrw Yonk, Oct. 23.—Tiernan's News sAgency received the following cable to-day : “LoxpoN, Out. ®h—A dispatch from Bucharest says Roumanls has resolved upon declaring her independence, The Giovernment relinquisies . all claim upon Luropean protection, replacine it with an alifavee with Russin. A proclamation §s about to be {ssued proclaiming t'rince Charles King of Roumania, The army will be mobllized and paper currency issued. The dispatch ereates great excitement, It {3 generally conslidered here that this action by Rownania will retard, aud perhaps break off entirely, the negotlatious for peuce now going on.” ROUMANIA, A dlspatch from Bucharest reports that the battle array of the concentrated Rouwmantan ary has been ofllclally published, and that Prince Charles assuumes commaud. This may refer only to the usual disciplination move- ments, TECENT PIGNTING. Fighting in the Timok aud Morava Valleys on tho Drina has been renewed with great stub- bornness. Gen. Tchernayell telegraphs that the Turks were repulsed olong the whole Hue, while the newspaper correapondents are unani- mous that the Bervians were budy defented, losing 1,500 men in the attempt on Saitschiar, and 3,000 about Deligrad, One correspondent telegraphs that the Turks have taken all the positions aronnd Drems, and will probably take Djrents, fn which case Deligrad, Alexinatz, Gen, ‘Tehernaye(l’s now headquarters at Kafonlk, and the whole Morava Volley, will be In their bunds, Ruasion ofticers, of whom there fs said to be fourteen for each Bervian battallon, suffered heavlly fu the recent fighting, Brronaoe, Oct. 23.—The Servians admit that the Turks captured Kerel Helghts, southwest of Djrenis, after three days® fighting. One bulletin says that, although tho position Is important, its loss is not believed to be declsive, as Djrenis commands the Servinn llue. Russin’s active atd % suxiously awaited, A rLOT. Loxnon, Oct, 23.—A dispatch from Constan- tinople announces that the Governinent has dis- covered a consplracy to murder the tGrand Vizler nud Midhet Pasha, und Lus consequently are rested two Ulemas of high rank and Ramiz Pasha. ‘The culprits have been exiled to various Islauds, Other arrests uro expected. JARMON Lonpoy, Oct, 23.—A dispatch from Vienna to the Zimes says the most perfect hirmouy reigna ounin nmone the Powers, Gertany's ‘auswer, uttered with that almost feynleal frankness which has more than onee startled diplomuey, muy be eredited with having brought the new understanding uhout, Whilo she saw no objoe- tlon to a sbx months’ armlstice, the only chance for preserving acommon uuderstanding amd common action of the gaarantecing Powers wus to declars ~ with ltussin i favor of the equally uuub}uctlunahlu alx weeks' arnustles, because Russia’s commlt- tats might not feave her freo to compromise, whils the other Powers had porfect lberty of uction, Evennow England, which had alrcady accepted the six months’ armistice, deelded to uceept the basts for the restoration of tho so- ealled harmony I.v{v offering no opposition to a slx weeks! truce, but having ut the same timo cisclalmed the lead which she hitherto held in the nezotiations with the Porte, the initiative now devolyes on Russle, and Gen, Iguatieff ins returned to takie it BIX WEEKS' ARMISTICE. Buussers, Oct. %8.—A special froin Viennn to M. Lestold, the vrgan hiere of the Russian Gov- crntent, unuounces that Gen. Tenatiell, Am- bassador at Conatuntineple, will insist on a six weeks' armdstice, 1le s instructed to explain Ruesta’s motivea to the Yorte. [t fs belfeved that his representations will ba mnderately couched, and not take the form af an uithna- tum, and that the other Puwers will support Russla*s proposals, TUE BNGLISIE PARLIAMGNT VANTHER PRO- noaUED, Loxpon, Oct. 23.—1he counll previously an- nouneed was held by the Queen ut Balmoral to- day, Parlinment was further prorogued from Qct. 80 to Dee, 13, Till: TURKISIL ADVANCE, Lonnoy, Uct. 24—5 1, m.~A dispatch to tho Standard front Djunls says thers was no fighte ing on Sunday, The Turks have advanced thelr lwml?uulcn five uiles. ‘The storming of the fortified mountain over which the highway to Krushcyatz runs Ls still to be done. DISTRESS, - ‘The Standard’s Belgrade correspoudent repre- sents that unparalleted distress prevails Iu both armies, and throughout Servia, Unless peace is speedily pmclujulcd, the country will be utterly sufoed, Vhere s no suflerivg (u Belgrade, but In the {ntertor thounands of people are starving, The majorily of the soldlers are wearing their tummer luen untforms, and have o blankots. Chere are 150,000 Bulgavian and Hosnfan refu. gees In Seryla, " TUKSIA'S TRRMS, The same correzpondent reports that Russian diplomats eay that Gen, Tznatiell has been in structed to nfurm the Sultan that Russia makes the Engliah proposals hers, with additional Guars ontes If Llie Porfe rejects them, interyention wil) begun simullancously by Liussia, Greece, und Roumanta, AUSTRIA, : A telegram from Vienna states that the Inter- rclhuon relntlve 1o the Eastern question which t I8 proposed to Introduce fn the Refehsrath, 44 regarded fn diplomatic eireles as an error of Judgment, as Austria’s policy s ctill adhesion to the triple alliance, AccEpTs. LoNnox, Oct. 245 a. m.~In a semi-oficlal statement. the Post announces that the Porte ac- cepta a alx weeks' arnistice, suzgesting @ fur- ther prolongation of six weeks If at the conchit- slon of the first six the dellberations are neom- Dlete, and if at the end of twelve weeks no set- tlement fs reachud that therc be s further arinistice of two months. Thie Reuter Telegrain Company confirms this atatement precisely exceptas to the proposals Tor a prolongation'of the armiatice, whicit they say are made as condftions not. ns suggestions, ‘The Logt denfes that Rusaia lns aent” an ulti- matumn. ‘The Ottoman Government has_tiot been summoned to rubjeet its retorms to Come ml»slununlprntccml by auarnied force. It s tohe hoped that the two Powers which are In direct nerotiations may come to a speedy under- standing. I d, whilo having withdrawn Interference, will resent any infraction of the stl))t)ulaunns of the treaty of Parls, cuter's telegram friun Constantinople an- nounces that Gen, Iznutiel will have a private audience with the Sultan to<iay. A Times dispateh from Berlin also rays the Torte fa ready Lo grant Itussla’s latest deinands, provided thé integrity of the Ottoman Ewplre 18 guarantecd. A (100D STORY EPOILED. A dispateh to the Daily Tn’rg{m ph from 8t. Petersburz states that ford Loftus has no diplomatic miesion at Livadin, The Caar pro- longs his etay there until December, therefore the ordinary conduct of polltical” busiuess fs transferred'to Livadia, A PREDICTION, Loxnon, Oct. 24—5:30 a. m.—A rpecial to the Daily Newes from Pesth says the Lusslans belfeve If " the Turks take Kinseheratz Russin will make an armed intervention, From Belzrade comes the news that Gen, Tehernayofl has withdrawn from Dijgunls, and the road 1s open to Krusehcrati. LATEST. It 13 reported that the Iospodar, Prince Cliarles, {8 to be prochaimed Kiug of Roumania. LOID RUSSELL ON RUSSIA AXD TUBKEY, London Timea, Oct, 5. In reply to an invitation to uttend the meet- ing which fs to be lield ut $t. Jumes' Hall oa Monday next, uuder the Presidency of Mr. Stansfeld, Earl Russcil writes as follows: Pryunnoxe Lonan, Oct. 5. —Sm: I have recelved your letter and a ticket for the workmen's mceting on Oct. 0, at B n. mi., butl feel myself quite un: cqual to' the heat and the hurey) the nolse and the tumult of a great pubdlic. meeting, beginninz at 8 p, wish 1o sce Christian precepta than Christian Taith ndopted in the Enst. Men should love ano auothar, ani not practice atroclons crucltics cither for or ‘agaiust the Tarkieh Government. The Crimean War was a war not for the defonee of Turkey, but to oppoke the designa of Russin, It 18 well known that the Emperor of Russin opposey clvil and rellgious ilberty. 1 cannol wish to avg Ruslu at the head of the Government of Tar nor will | do anything to promote that object, there is to he cliange Tn Turkey, 1wish o +co the puonle of Turkey lutrusted with fhe government of thelr own conntty, und to udopt na their maxim trath and justice—that is, to wpeak truth and Justice. I remaln, your falthful scrvant, M J. A Glles, Lrsscin, EUROPEAN ARMIES. WIHAT THE GREAT FOWENS COULD RELY ON IN CAST: OF WARL New Yerk World, Bome notes upon the armaments of the gev- cral great Buropean Powers mgy not be without futerest at this moment. RNGLAND, England hasa regular nm't of 120,251 men, and a regerve of about 30,00 of nll ranks, arme, and degrees of effectiveness. The mnlitia numbers 189,018; the yeomanry cavalry, 15,575; the volunteer artillery, 29,788 and the voluu- teer ritlemen, englneers,'nud uht-hover, 123,408, There are alse 10,000 pensiouers and srmy-re- gerve men fn the first line aud 22,000 i the second. ‘The navy includes In commission 109 sca- polng stemners and 131 reserve steomers and salling vessels, The iron-clada are sixty-one In uwnver, with 710 guns, Ship-huilding is at present beims conducted with unusual activity; forty-two vessels, four of which, the Ajax, Agamemnon, Nelean, aml Northampton, are armored, being on the stocks or Iu hand on the 1st Inst. m, more TURKEY, Turkey’s army. under the scheme to be comn- pletely carried ‘out n 1578, should consiat of 50,000 rewrularg, 50,000 men of the thrsf 120,000 first levy, 120,000 wecond ) 320,000 hijade, or landsturm, or 780,000 men fnall, Capt. Vineent's estimate last June wuy that tho Turks could place I _the fletd 180,956 regulars, 145,650 reserves, and 75,000 auxillazies, or say W00 iufantry and 40,000 cavalry, with 648 guns. The “Infantry have 200,000 Sniders, 08 many Martini-llenry ritles and per- cussfon muskets; the envalry fiave Winchester rliles and vevolvers, and the eannon are Krtpp's breech-loaders, four and slx poutlers,with three- pounders for niountaln use. ‘The flect conslsts of twenty fron-clads (reven frigates, eight corvettes, and five pun-boats) and seventy steamers, manned by 30,000 saflors and 400 inarfnes, The fron- superlor clags, and monunt. 149 guns, HU=SLA, Rugsta’sarmy I8 in prucess of reorganization, and looks larger on paper than §t really is. The Storutk, of 8t. Petcrabueg, clalms o war strength of i,«:mm mon, includive frregulurva, or 780,000 rnmlluui reserves, 206,000 garrisons, 120,003 depots, 957,000; Cossacks, 70,0003 local forces, malnly Axlatie, 50,000, Capt, Vin- cent's esthmate {8 54,000 combattant” infantry, 172,000 cavalry,.und 2,768 guns, fucluding 400 mitrailtcuses. The navy [n Mareh, 157, contained twenty- nine froncluds with 181 guus, sud 163 me war with 5,601 officersand men. The total nnm- ber ot veescls of all kands is nearly 200, mount- ng 1,500 guns, TIER POWERS, o Austrin (including 1tungary) clud fleet, er effeetive forcy s try, 62,740 cavalry, and 1,610 guns, Ltaly has 447,264 infunt; the Remington ritte, 15,850 cuval el 1,210 guns, 1ier navy conelsta of ninety-tive vessoels, Wit 1,256 gung, nine betugs {ronclids, with 346 guus, Its condition [s doubtinl, Germnny this year bas in her standing army ineluding the trahy and 67,845 eay’ WUST artillery, with 2,4 war-footing she lus 1,504,8- of the landsturm 15 135,500, and the see- on: 3 will bring the total shiength up to 1,700,600 men. The tleot lxst Nove: includ- o 1l _dron-clads, with 105 Bung; steamers, with 821 gans; ond 4 salling v cin, with 2 gzuns ~—in all, 37 ships, with 475 guns, and manued by soumething over 0,000 men. Franes i3 nlso rcorzanlzing hee srmy. Tts ef- fective foree at Jast reports was 277,000 Infaut- Ty, 63,251 cavalry, 65,00 ertiifery, und atumt 20,000 enginoers, ctewy—lu all, 480,702 men, The navy last - December cansisted of 63 {ron-clads, With 700 guns; 251 serew-steamers, 02 paddles steamers, und 113 sullfng vesscts, carrylng i all 3,078 guns, 3 THE DISCIPLINE, FIONTING QUALITIZS, AND LQUIPMENT OF THE TURKII ARNY, New York World. Yesterdoy a reporter of the World had an in- terview with au Amerlean who now holidsn promlaent l:usmun In the ‘Turkish urny. The gentteman 1s an old soldier, aud hus hal experi- encein the Amerlean undt several Enropean armles, and hus held his present position for a number of years, He saids *They havo in the tleld to-day” 460,000 men. The regulur cavalry conslsta of 20,000 horee, and the ariilery num- Ler 15000 men, The rest ore infantry, All ave fully and thoroughly equipped, anil’ with the most modern plec The Bueider pun wus formerly the vegulation wrm, but it s now belng changed for the Martinl-Heury, mud the Bnelders are given to the wilitia wid nu\\'lf—cnwllml troops. 'The infantry have the Martini-lenry; also, the Winchester rifle, and the latest puttcrn i revolvers and swords or sword-bayoncta; the an]l& liave tho same, bree ading carblues, and revolvers. Tl field-hatterics are nquHcd with Krupp's twelve- pounders, breech-loading s alse with® the Broad- well guns of tho same calibre. Thelr mountaln batterles aro very Hine; they have the Whitworth threc-pounders ustened “upon the bLoacks of asmall fron- 9,172 Infun- mortly with males, and theyare no contract snnles cither. There are alsv clahty Gatlin guns fn th army Trom the fonndry of aget Brothers, at Viensa,” & Whyr,src are thelr other equipents manufac- tu Mot If not all of thetr other heavy guns are of English make, A few of their swons ave of domestic make, but nost of them Gernan, The rifles are aluost entlrely Amerlean, When it was |m:{umul to_chatgze toe regulation gun frum Snclder to Marttul-llenry, the contract was cagerly sought after both by Anerjean ‘manufacturers, bt iv here by old Gov, O, L., Wincheate of the “Winchester Repeating Bitte Con uny of New Ilaven, Ile Look the contractut w great risk, hardly knowlug whether he would male or lose by it. e hld it a4 meh a3 anytiing fn the cutse of American Industry, for If it had pone to Enwlund three or lour new cumpnnies would have been started to il the contruct, It wos for (00,000 picces; part have been furnished, and the rest under way. The Turks are hnmensely aatfelicd with thest, 04 you may judge |? the honors conferred tipon Gov. Winchester by the Sultan; over 50,000 lave bren distributed, 20,000 being In the hands of theartitlery and cavalry, A man with thirteen charges at his dieposal, withont having Lo stop fo reload, is a pretty dangerous creature, Those repeating riffes ure as tmuch superior to the ordmary breechi-loader as an ordinary breech-loading " guu 1 to the old muz- zle-lowling pleces.” “What sert of an engineer corps hiave they 1 " Alargeone and o good one. Most of the eugincers ure Gernans, especially the senlor oflicers, Sume of the oldest cate over with Von Moltke, who you know surveyed all the military lines, defenecs, and roads In” the vicin- (’y ot Constantinopte, The Turks at first thouzht that Vou Multlke was a fool, but alter they hud suen the value of some of his work they made hitn Clilef of the Topographieal Department, and now lllc()‘ prefer n German engiueer to rm[)' otier, and afl of Lis compantons have buen wil- vanced one grade,—a few of them are Ilunga- riana. The Arul‘cry and Engineer Department is separate from thé army and navy, something as it used to be in England, and Ita heud, the Grand Master of Artilicry, is one of the Cabinet Ministers, " £What §s the condition of their navy1" “I conslder it sccond only to that of En- glund. Tt consists ot twenty-sevon lron-clad shuu of Englisk build, and as completely eyuip- pedas any fi the Englsh service, ‘There arcalso nbout elghty wooden ships of the linc, nll first- class a3 to build and equipment. They are wanned by ot feast 40,00 seainan and marlnes.’ + 3 this larie foree well discplinedi? “ Yes, us well a3 any armny in - Europe, unless, yerlmps, you except the Germans, You ser liat at tic ago of 19 cvery man is oblized to surve for six years in thie remular anag, or with- the calors, as they call jt. ‘The fegu- lar artny fs called the” Nizam, After their i3 six _ years' service they are entitied to a discharee, and are sttoched to the Reaif, lilose belonging to the firste cluss reserve, or Cadles of the Iiellef, obligred 1o erve two tunths cach f‘unr inthe spective provinees to which they helong. They are etllelent s regulars, and supply the oflicers uud non-commizsioned ullleers 1o the frreg- lars, or Bashi-Buzouks, The secoud-class Redit consdsts of the older ve 3, or thuse who have been retired from active service. They arc on duty only one month of esch year. No Christians” are “allowed to serve In the army, they b xempt by the nent of u pofl- tax'of nbout 34 per aumum. The Turkich regl- ment conslsts of 3,000 men, commanded by a Mrali Bey, and iL is divided fnto three batfale Iuus of 1,000 men, cach commanded by a Bl barhe, o rank equivalent to major, “You see that they are thoroughly o military people, by custom as well ns by nature, for they have t fight In them when tiey once et arotised.?” “Whut wonld be the result if some of the Earouean Powers should combine with Ru -Um%”hs how would it affect other Mus 2 £ Luny of the faith are now flocking to theald of the Turks from Syria, Barbary, Exynt, and other countries. As 'son as they arrive they are placed In camps of {nstruction for awhile, then well equipped and sent to the front. And if close prested, <o that thie Sultan wis obliged to bring forth the green flag, and Prophet’s breeclies, from the nosque at Cunutnnunuplc, aud makic un appeal in the naue of the Prophet, and as lils suceeasor, all the Mussulmans to u man woule gather around him, and wonld make no small ariy, a8 there ure 79,000,000 of thew fu India alone,” “Do i-nu think there s a passibility or proha- [ls}lllly f‘)“lflugl:nd’a taking up arms agufnst the urks “There s a possitility, hut hardly a proba- bility. The English don't. fizht for sentiment when they take up arms it Is & matier of dollars and cents, or, more correctly, shillings and pounds,™ **How do the Turits fecl about the result of the wart" *“They feel thet war with Russin s tnevitas ble. Same 4,000 of the Russians have stolen {uto Serviy, mauy of them acting as oflicers, and Turkey will never accept Russla's ulthnatam of suceding Servia and other Christtan provinees, for it would be a suleidal paliey, They are con- fident s to the result if Russla is noi atded by somo other Power, 1‘lmf' have po. fon, which Is nine-tenths of the law, and thoush the contest may be n loug oue, they will retain ft, I believe, ‘e Danube frontler ix strongly garrlsoned, aud the defenses ure of the best, "Fhe Danube 1s full of swall lron-clads, and its mouth, us well as the seaconst of Turkey, Is amply defended with torpedoes, Al the [ins. slans can do_is to come down to the opposite bank of the Danube and halluoi they will hibit os much indiseretion teylng to “cross ns Gien. Lee would in nuum‘nunc o crose the Lower Potomac into Maryiand, It would be equal folly to attempt to enter by way of Tur- key in Asia, for the mountalne are tliled with desperato fighters for the faith, who will have every advantage, at least Russhe will euller greatly befors she galns anythlng; the Turklsh ileets wiil “nt once Iny e every Ruastan port aloms the Black Sea, for there s only one vessel to prevent themy they will destroy Odessa and materdally fnjure the'grain trade,” The United States witt reap the advantage of such o blockade, and they would derive a still greater heneflt from the war ILour laws were more geuerous, so that. we could purchuse and run Engl it steams shipa, There §s already an fnimense amount of freight to be cavried from this ecountry to Tur- kuy—arms, ammunition, el but it " will Fall hiave to be doue by Liuropean steamers, as we have none fit for the husiness, 10 the waris prolonged, the United States will protit by it more thaw any other watlon, hut thero §s no pre- dleting {ts lenatl, We ure preparing for a des- crate resfstunce over there, aud I think we rave some reason for being sanguine of success, GREAT BRITAIN, ENOLISIL TRADE REPONTA, Suecial Dispatch to The Tribune, Nuw Yous, Oct. 23.—Adispateh from Loudon Bays: ‘he alarming European telezrams of the last few days had the effeet of further depressing Government sceuritics, which have been unusu- ally low for sI< months past. Tea stores, how. ever, are rising, owlng to favorable accounts from the Assam and Cactar Garden, This s a remarkably good year for tea, and the quantity exported will greatly exceed any former year, The Caleutta wheat trada has had & wonder- ful rise lately, 1In 1870 the lulmllflly exporteid was 800 tonsy I 187, 1,000 tonsg i 1574, 80003 Jast year BW4000, and this year already 12,000 tons have been exported from_ Caclutta wlone, This wheat Is grown chiefly in Punjab, o ‘The Murk Lane Ecpress, in L8 veview of the Britlsh corn trade for the past weck, savs: “#The land has become s sodden with recent rains thut the greatest ditlleulty has been ex- perienced In the nutamn tillage, "It s now most lmporlunt that the sowing of winter wheat by no Jonger delnyed, ‘The offects of the past threo weeks of wet weather Lus been most dis- astrous iu tho North, where the wretched comdition of the outstandiug crops bas been further deterforated by - heavy floods, which have submerged conshlerable tracts of lamd, and done frreparabile dunuge, It {8 ulso mueh to be regretted that the damp at. mospliere aud bigzher temperature have tended .| to greneral blight in the putato crop; and the disease has uot been confined to Scotland,whers the ralu hus done most mischlef, but several dis- tricts in Eugland speak of its recent appears ance. ‘The raptd growth of root-crops has rendered the prospect nbundunt, Winter feed i more hopeful, although such exceas of mwolsture can scarcely - tend to in- prove the rll:xnllty. The welghity authorlty of Mr, Laws confirms the upinton that our rrnbnbla requirement dur- ing thie cereal yeur will bo 14,000,000 quarters, whilst the hn&n:)msluro Bept. 1 bave been at the rate of 8,000,000, In the present disturbed condltlon of afairs it Is almost fmpossible to quote the local trade with any degres of accuracy, Bellers are not Isposcd to leb wheat © go exvent at an bnprovement of 273« per quarter, but for the moment buyers act with conslderas Me cantion, There has'been o 1imited amount of bisiners In ol ing cargoes during the weel, owinig to the scarcity of arrivals, and sales indi- cate an Improveinent of 10228 grr quarter,whilst fmportant transsctions have taken place in ear- #avs on pagsage and for ghipment at fully this advaties, TIH VATICAN. A SCHEME WITI REGARD TO PALESTINE. Roste, Ot 8.—~If there is any truth in the In- formatlon contaiucd In the following extract from a letter the Lomlardia publishes from its correzpundent in Bome, the Lapal Raflway fn "alestine Is but a feature of & much more im- portant scheme Monsiznote 11 mn, the Armenlan Patniarch, entertaing the idea of converling: Palestine Into an nppanaze of the Pope, and it apgeara that ho has 1ot ouly the rupnort of Pins Ix., bat, stranze to #y, alsn that of the Turkish ment. to which the Court of Rome i rendering finportant services at this moment. Hin fntention wanld be to attract to Ialestine a powerful carrent of emlzrants from all the Catholic countries of Eutope, to aliot land and - cattle to them. to hufld’ workshops, and to enll Into nctisity the principal in- duatries throngh whicl the ofher conntroa of the sworld flonrish.~ The Capital of the State wonld be Jeruralem, which by means of railways would be li]llu‘lllxl connection witl Jethl m, the Dend Kew, and the vther holy places. At Jaffa 5 grand pori wonld bu constructed and *Teaser ports pro- vided forthe emaller cities on the coant, Thie project, fantastic and improbable as it [s, has nevertheless obiained a number of suphorters in the Vatican, heginaing with Pius IX, himself, who perhaps desircs o socure o his muccavsoss the laculty In that classic land of exerclsing buth the temporal and the splritual powers, INDIA. THREATESD PAMINE, Loxpown, Oct. 23,—A Caleutta dispateh to the Times etates that prospects for the crops In Bombay hecome daily more gtoomy. The dis- tricts of Khandaisk, Nassiek, Almendnuggur, Pooual, Eholapore, Kaladg!, and Dhurinal, con- talulng a population of nearly 6,000,000, are threatened with severe distress, The local Governnient estimates that over 200,000 per- Auns must be relieved in three districts alone. It ts stated that the Moncoon erops have en- tirely falled, and the absence of rain prevents the sowing of rubbee and winter crops. The Collector ~ of Poonali reports that ol a sinale blade of grass Is visible for miles, The tanks and rivers are drying up, snd cattle aro dylue from starvation. ‘the’ Collector ut Shola- pore gives a still worse report. The Govern- ment has opened rellef-works, and {s employing people lu excavating tanks and making roads. BELGIUM. A HOKRIDLE THAGEDY, Loxpoy, Owt. 23—Leonard Amblam, a Beletan, who was arrested in July tast on board an outward-bound eteamer from Liverpool, ac- cused of the robbery and murder of M. Mursut, o hanker, and his housckeeper, at Clury, near Bruseels, was delivered on Friday to a Belglan oflicer ut Dover. Arriving at Ustend, the af- Heer and bis prisoner, the litter manacled, took o speial compartment in the Brussels train, On the arrival ol the traln at Brussels both were missing, The compartment they occupied was deluged with blood, and bore murks of u terrlile strugale, The body of the oficer was found he- #ide the track with skulf sud face battered, All hie valuables were missing, It is conjectured that Amblan watched an opportunity to attack the oflicer with liis wrist irons, and beut him to death, after which ho unlocked the manacles and eseaped. He has not yet been recaptured. SWITZERLAND, A TOLITICAL ROW. Benryn, Oct. 23.—Intelligence lhas heen re- cefved iere of a fight between the Liberals and Ultramontanes at Stablo, Canton of Teasly, in consequence ol dissensions over the appol ment of a representative in the Grand Council of the Cantons, Two Liberals were killed and four wounded, CUBA, ANRIVAL OF TROOTS, TIAVANA, Oct. 23.—Two steamers have ar- rived from Spaln, bringing each 1,000 soldjers, Partlal accounts from the interlor of the Island report that the cane was mnch broken by thbe burricane, und the dunage done wus serious, ROME. \PROPOSED MEETING OF CANDINALS Loxpoy, Oct. 23—\ dispateh from Rome @ “Altthe Cardinals residing abrond nre pected hiere Lo diseuss successively the fm- {v‘ul‘l:l’lll propositions offerc! by the ‘vongrega- uns. ¥ FIRES. CHICAGO. At ahout 4 yesterday oftornoon Austin Tuins, a boy in the cmploy of Owen Ruane, ve- cupying n portion of a tenement at No. 167 West ‘Tuglor street, discoverced a tlre {n the ban in the rear, which wns evidently the work of an iucendiary. The bullding ts owned by Michael 0'Day, and cecupied vonjolutly by Ruane and James Murphy, la whose portion the fire occur- The flaines wers extinguished by a few pails of water, without necessitaung the sound- ‘ug of analarm, e —t—— 8T. LOUIS. Sapervisors of Election to o Appointed. St Lou1s, Oct. 2~A few days ngo apetl- tion, sigued by the Ilon, Jobn I Henderson, ex-tiov, Thos. C. Fleteher, Emil Fretorious, editor of the Wetliche Lost, James Withrow, Clairman of the Kevublican County Committee, District-Attorney Dyer, and several other prominent cltizens, waa sent to Judge Diilon, United States Judge in thls clrcult, wsking that Su}mn‘l«ors of Elee- ton be uppoluted uuder the United Stafes stututes tor the Eastern District of Miesouri, To-lay the petitlon was received by Judge Treat with fnstruct frouy dudie Dillon to wmake ths sppointments usked by petitioners. Judge Treat' catled {nto Court u nuber of membera of the Bar, smong them eeveral slgners of the petition, with a view of Learing snggestions from thew, Gen. Henderson sald ho™ was convineed the electl franchdse here was at the merey of the hailot- box stutfers, and a3 the low provided for a Sn- pervisor from eseh party, ho favored it us aneans of protecting the will of the people aealnst lawlessness, Ho wus satlstied, how- ever, that the frauds were conlined to neither party. Col, Brodhead opposed the petition on the groumd that there was no law permitting the course proposed, The luw was certalnly an invasion of the rlshta guaranteed to every Stute by the Constitution, und he would ke them daru to enforee it in Buston, | After conslderable conslderation and varlous fuzeestlons from different pereons present, Judge ‘Freat appointed g£dinund T, Allen, one of the Commlesioners of the Courf, as Chict Supervisor for this district, who will report to Court the numes of the Supervisors for the espective districts, The matter has heen the cause of n good deal of comment here, and will prohably contiuute to Lo so il the doss of the clection day. e —— A CENTENNIAL AWARD, Special Dispateh 1o The Tribune, Prmavcrris, a., Oct, 83,.—=The reports of the Centennlal Judges are now promulzated ofilefally. Each extibitor to whom u medal bas been awarded recelves a diptoma speeliylng whereln bis display uxcels, The subjol! gowl example of the aost commenda ports, it being wliteral transript of the vertith of distinetion bestowed upon the Wilson sewing-inachine of Chleazos An excellent machine for family uee, for slmpli. ity of coustruction, adoptabitity 1u u varicty of cloth work, for goud works perforiied, und for good wolkuranshilp and woterlaly, The report i3 signed by the full group of Judizes, the Prestdent of the Commission, and the Director-ticoe e i ——— THE MISSOUR! PACIFIC. G 87. Louis, Oct. 23.—Atter o good deal of vex atious HNtlgation and delay thy United Btates Circult Court to<lay mado an order that, upon payment of §50,000 cash and the execution of » properly-securcd bond for $550,000 tho Missourl Pacitie rajlroad be turncd over to James Baker, trustes for Cornelius K. Uarrison, aud that a dued for the property bo given to hit by L. D. ‘Thompson, Master in Chancery, y MITICAL. E ifle=-Clubs Strictly ng Orders in Louisiana. g & s Tw«rg:: ored Republicans Dig~- poaud of Recently Near Monroe, Wade Hamplon's Rangers Raid- ing in Novth and South Carolina. Points in Tilden’s Income Af- fairs that Have Not Been Explained. Preparations for Senator Blaino's’ Speech Saturday Night. The Municipal Reform Club Wak-.- ing Up=+=The Democratic Candidates. Republican Ward Iectings---Arrange- menta for a Thorough Canvass, WASHINGTON NOTES, BOUTI CAROLINA, Speclal Dispatch to The Tridune, . WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct, 23,—At the Cabingt meeting to-morrow It is expected that the situa- tlon at the South will receive carnest attention. Sume most slgnificantreports, many of themof n private character, have reached the Government which eall for gruve consideration. Some officlal statement concerning Louistana and South night. Information of the most positive charace ter has been recelved that armed bodies of mounted men from Georgla are ridlng through portions of South Carolina, intimidating colored voters by threstenlnz and actual outrages. ‘These bodics are armed, equipped, and drilleq,, and are in all respeets rebel cavalry. They ride fn | connection with what appear to be organized companies of Wade Humpton's cavalry, with their old officers. Some of these organizations have also appeared fn the western and southe western counties of North Carollna, and their work there is the same as that of Georzla rafd- ers operating in South Carolina, TUE NEBEL GAME. A letter has been received from a former Cone federate oflicer, 0 man of Southern Lirth, cdus cated at the South, aud an extensive land-owner in his native State (Missfssippi), who, since the War, without belng an active Republican, has voted the Republican ticker, He detalls o gys~ tem of outrave and luthmidation In that State which scetns incredtble, and gays the fact is well understood among all his Democeratie nelzhbors that Loutsiana and South Carolina are to bevar- ried for the Democracy by fraud and whatever force mny be necessary to keep the Fots avay fram the polls, or so threaten and o thewt that they will not dare to vote the Republican ticket. ®Hcwrites that, althouch n Southern man, whose lile-lonw ascocintions have beenwith Southern men, hie will be compelled to nbandon his property in case Tilden Is elected, ‘The plan of carrying South Carolina by such means a8 have been described seema 10 be understood here, and, if it falled, dependence was placed upou tho House to throw it out under tho twenty-sceond joint rule, FIO3 A FINANCIAL $TAXDPOINT. Sceretary Morrill is devided In tho expression of hisopinion that a change of Administmtion would cerlously interfere with and retard alt K-rcu-nt sttempts to complete the new loan, WVbile the Scerctary declines to make public the character of the ‘Information be bus received coneerning the feellnr on this sullect I Jeading European fnaucial clreles, und more especially “uamong prominent reyre- sentutives of the Syndleate Interests, it {s known from other quartérs that nons of the speclals that Lave ns yet appeared on the Aub{cct. in the Jiepublicau press hove exaggerated the gravity, of the situation. In fact, letters recuived hera, from persons uswell acquuinted with one branch of the Byndicate affairs us Mr Belinont himselt, state explieitly that’ is card_lately publisned deltberately misstates the juside situntion. LOUISIANA. THE DUCKSHOT AKGUMENT, 2 The following report of amilitary officer In. Loufsians shows how ‘Tllden’s rifle clubs ure dolugz his work fo that State: Heanquantena Usitep Srares Tnoors, Mox- La.,Oct, 11, 1870~ Assistant Adjulant-Gen= Jleadquarters Dagartment of the Gulfs I the honor to reporl that on orabout 7 o'clock yenterduy morning, the 11th inst., at thoir resl- dence on the fsland, eight miles above Monroe, P'rimus Johnson, a colured preacher, witd shot and instantly killed, und Eaton Longwoud, ulse cale ored, shiot and very danguronsly wounded, by two dirgulsed white men, At the tine of the shoote i doliron was standing an the gallery of his house, holding his Infunt girlin hisarma, Eaton Longwood wne employed In front of this house (the two nen, Johmson und Longwaod, belng jouint oce cupants of the eatwe kiouar) 1 loading seed-cotton on bis wagon for the porposs of hauling itto o nelehbor's g, The two disgulsed and’ armed’ white wen uppeared from behind the Lank of ay bayou near the road, advanced to a picket feuco in Lrn)xll of, and about ifteen yards distant feam, the ouse, MLITING THEI GUNS ACKOS3 TIE FENCE, one af themaddresacd Longwool, énying: ** Euton, old fullow, is that iuu! Gi—d d—1 you, I have got 0 N0W, ia gan at Lon:swood while say- nie 80. Lonzwood attempted foecicapo by ranning, but was shoi by (e disgubeed msa_ referred to just g he (Lousmwoud) was uiout to runaround the core nerof his liouse, o full load of buckahot entering mtn his back, neek, and shoulders, Jntiicting very dapgerons wonn At about the same time, oran {nstant later, Pris mus Joliuson, white yet standing on bl gallery and Loldins the ehikil In i neime, wus whot ‘by 1o other diegdlaed white man and died In o few mos uents, Tho two disguined white men, after siys Ang that {f they bad nol xed it all Aubi they would return and tolsh it, walked slowly ulong tito roud, crossed Iuta n fleld, went down to the bayou and f"'"’“’ on & log, after which al trace of them was oat, A number of wagons londed wilh eotton pasaed tho houve @ hort time before awt Just after the shoothiug, Thowe pasaing Just besurs the wurder was commitied were STUPEED BT TUHLED ARMED AND WIITE MEN at Sharon Bridge, which is somo distance beyond Longwood'n house, townrds Monroe, Tho armed e Thus pieketing the road interroguted the drive ers of the wigons, asking whose wero the teama, ad, on being nformed (hat they belonged 10 Mr. Tiswell and Mr, Swan (twa white planters vn the 1), permitted them o pise, l\bu{lhynlchmn livinz on the Eland, when scnt for, refused to vieit Longwood, The hrother of Lonawood then started 1o Monroo fov one, nud Whils on the way wuy shopped by two monted white men and quistioned us ta his huelness, sk had his person vearehied for wrusand papers, uimd When he told then that ko was volng for u dictor they sakied bim whether it wag for Eston Longe wood, und told hiw if it was ho could not pu, 1o suceeeded b pettin: oway from ther, and reachied town, Lut none of the physicians there could be ced 10 ko ont, Longiwood bad sl rent a Dinkyrare, Depuiy ney-ul-faw, that bo wished Inini1o Lis proporty, the wission tou dangere MOUH LD States Marshul and n to see b ax to wmaiters 1 i” tderi ou, decllned going, ' Ihess fucts fi'lm comuenicated to me ot abaut 2 ocivck In the atternoou, After consulfation with. Mz Ilandy, tho Mstrics Attorney, who Fonsidered it important to obtain i LONGWOOD'S DYING DECLARATION (ho was then decmed to bo wortslly wounded), T deamod I heceseary Lo take such ¥teps as would: | ehiable him to doau'ln vafety, sud ats o'tlock p. o, Laent a detachment of eizht men, under command - of Licat, McCauley, ‘Thirteenth Infantry, accol B-nlcd by tho Distrlet Attorney, to Longwo ouse, (mnfmrfln thom I the Ghvernment wagon belongingto the post, 'They reaghed Longs 'wood's about 10 p. ., and found a large crowd of colorud people there, Al of thew complitely cowed and eubjugated, and in constaut apprdiension of the return of the musdervrs (o carry vuliho threata vling affairs will be given to the press to- .