Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1877, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MAY 6 1877—SIXTE arrested yesterday when they presenteq r “Sovernment could di ) turope kindled into the flames of war. Tam, te., T. CARLYLE, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelses, May 4. # BRITISH TRADE AND AMERICAN SECURITIES— THE COURSE OF POLITICS. Correspondence New York World. Loxpox, April 2.—The London papers: have gt Jast begun to discnss the subject to which I long. agzo called your attention=-the decline of Britich trade. Probably there is scarcely any journal which would venture to tell the whole trutb, for fear of belng cafléd an alarmist; but still the Times and the World have given the public plainly to understand that the depression in every branch of business is not & mere pass- ing evil. Mr. Goschen performed the same un- pleasant office in-the House of Commons on Thursday night, and was called a *croaker for bis pains. It is easier, howeyer, to dub him a crosker than to dispose of his facts. That En- giish trade with America has fallen off till 1t reaches & comparatively insignificant amount cannot be disguised from anybody, for the great steamship companles no longer run weekly ves- sels, with one exception. ' What we all seem to want now is a new market. The old ones are overstocked, and if the Chinese’ could be in- duced to take all surplus wares off our hands, the long-talked-of revival of trade might at last be seen. \ar, with its inevitable destruction, would perhaps snswer the same purpose, especially if it extended toother nations besides Russia and Turkey. During the last three or four dsys there has been a decided improvement in the demand for most of the best American securities. People begin to see the obvious fact that the United States capnot be injured by the European, war, butthat inall probability thelr railroads will ain immensely by it. - Congequently, buyers of the leading bonds - have once more appedred in the market, for the first timein many weeks. Some of the papers—notably the JDaily Tele- aph in its city article—still do their best to mp up the scarc; but the public genu'allflhl\‘e returned to calmer feelings, aod show a disposi- tion ‘to pick up the stocks which they were © receptly throwmg away in wild confusion. Although quotations are very little, if any, higher, vet the leading dealers all agree o recognizing a_better feeling in the market. 1 have no doubt that the corner bas been turned, and in the sbsence of more bad news from your side prices will from this time con- tinne to sdvance. _Should, however, there be any more agreeable little surprises like that of I Pladelohia & Reading collapse in_store, the burnt child will once more run as as le can from the fire. There was sn_advance vesterday in New York Central bonds, Pennsyl- Fania Consolidated, Alleghany Valley, and other_descriptions, but & fall of 1 per cent in New York Central stock, in sympathy with the cont'nued depression of that stock in the New York Exchavee. 1 see in a London letter to one of your weekly contemporaries in New York the opinion ex- pressed that the Laberal party in England is fraining ground. and that the leaders of that party in' the House of Commons are rather anxious to bring about a dissolution of tbe pres- ent Parliament. I am not, of course, professing 10 quote literally, for I quote only from mem- ory; but this, I believe, was the gist of the let- ter in question. It is hard to imasine what foundation any writer can_discover for these opinions, In the first place, opportunities without end have been afforded to the Liberal Jeaders to test their strength, -ana the Government lhas gone out of its way to sapply theordinary facilities for bringiog about a aigsolution. If the Ministry can be defeated 1in the Honge of Commons on any important measure. it would, ol course, resign, and a new Parliament would doubtless be elected. — But the fact is that the Liberals are not united, the Ieaders do not with the follow and meu like Mr. Fawecett and 3ir Charles Dilke will not acknowledge any leader, but fnsist upon having a poticy of their own. Any at- tempt, therefore, to inflict & defeat on the present Ministry breaks down, and even if it could be carried ont with success, thers is no reason to suppose that the Liberals would carry the day in the country. On the con- trary, tisfied that the people are getting more and more afraid of the Liberal 8s it i3 at present constituted—afraid of fln;nng the Government of the country in the ds of Mr. Gladstone, whose eccentricities Tave become too marked to escape observation; afraid of the revolutiopary ideas which .are avowed by many of the rank and file; afraid of that flirtation with the Irish Home Rulers which Liberals with some reputation to lose are now ashamed to on. This feeling of distrust 1s well expressed by a Liberal who writes to the Daily Tefimpll this morning, and who declares at the course the Op- positfion bas made him and others re- golve that their ‘‘vofes shall be given to Tories on. evr;:x oceasion, because they, at least, are determined to uphold the Empire whenever angd whereve: its territories or its influence may be insidiously undermined or openly assailed.”” Thereis no doubt whatever that this kind of eentiment is at work much more actively in the country than some writers or politicians sup- pose. Facts on such a question are far more impor- tant than nanjectnres&:md one fact of the great- est importance has tobe cited this week in proof of the continued popularity of the Conserva- tives. It is the defeat of the Liberal can- didate at Salford and the refurn of the Con- £ervative. At the last gencral election two Con- gervatives was returncd from this Lancashire ‘borough, and upon.the death of one of these a determined effort was iade to recover ove of the seats for a Liberal. A strong man was put up in Mr. Kzy, who has contestéd the borough liefore, and the constituents were specially ap- pealed to by the Liberals to express their feel- ings with reg 1o the Government policy on’ the Eastern question. No doubt they have done this, but the result has been tbat Mr. Koy was _defcated and the Conservative re- turned. Thisisone of the greatest disapoint- ments which has befallen the Liberal party for many & lo:g day. You may gather how it bhas affected them from the remarks in 1o-day’'s Spectator: * The result of the Salford clection is a great blow to the Liberal party. There is no use in concealing that or any other disagreeable fact in polities.” "The writer goes on to admit that the Conservative vote has greatly iniTeased, as well as the Liberal vote, and he adds, *This{s not what was expected, and the defeat isa disappointment which Lib- erals who believe in their principles are bound to acknowledge frankly.” Mr. Kay's trucklin) 10 the Home Rale party is gencrally looked upon as one of the great causes of defeat, and 1o doubt with justice; but the other forces to ‘which I have referred have not becn without their influence. This is a subject of some im~ ‘portance, es ly at a time when Europe is onthe eve of a war. . No one necd supposc that the present Ministry in Englana has not a large amajority of the people at its back. : Louis J. JENNINGS. : RUSSIA. > DISTRUST OF ENGLAND. VrERKA, May 5.—The official Abend Post's St. Petersburg, advices state that general distrust +prevails sgainst England. - Batteries on the Baltic are belng repaired and armed, and hun- dredsof torpedoes are ready for the Gulf of TFinland, and & number of houscs have been re- served for guarters for troops. : power. o shoald be dome and all | the payment of commercial soceptances: until the end of the war.’ : The Chamber of Depnties bave adopted 2 bill for the organization of {the militia”'and the na- tional guard. GENERAL. - 'COULDX'T MEET. ¢ BucrAREST, May 5.—The meeting of the Eu- ropean Danube Commission, appoiuted for the 7th inst., connot. be held. .The Turkish and Russian delegates decline to attend, and .the ‘British and French delegates left Galatz before the port was closed and canpot return. PROBABLE PROGRAMME. MANCHESTER, May 5.—The Guardian gives great prominence to the following: “Informa- tion reaches us from a trustworthy quarter that Austria has determived, as a precautionary measure, to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina. Acconding: to the present arrangement; move- ‘ments of troops for that purpose will . begin in abont a fortnight.” - SPECULATIONS. . WILL THERE DE A GENERAL EUROPEAN WAR} Correspondence New York Times. Loxpox, April 21.—England is walting and watching. She has given up all hope of avertiug a collision between the armies that have been confronting. cach other for s0 many weary months. Shewill takeno part in the fighting unless her own interests or the calls of humani- t5 compel her to o to the front. The campaign wil1 either be short, sharp, and decisive,or it will cntangle other Powers, and lead toa general Eu- ropeanwar. Itissaid that asecret treatyhas been sigmed between Germany and Rassia, in which the former consents to a Russian acquisition of territory on_the Danube, in return for a sur- render to Kinz William of a slice of Russian Poland. This rumor is desd acainst the hope of localizing the war, though it is asserted with equal positivenese that one of the great Powers bas proposed to the others a, simultaneous oc cupation of Turkey as a material guarantee, in which England is offered Constantinople. Bis- marck, in his chatty moments (which are few and far between, mowadays), still expresses himself in favor of spolling both Turk and Egyptian, letting Evgland nave-the Khedive's territory, and giving European Turkey to Rus- sua Germany, and Austria. It s mot' a Jitile surnlficant how - thoroughly these general reports- ignore all consideration for key. Rumor sits upon the Ottomite as if he had neither rights or The only exception’ is an on dit that comes from a private correspond- ent, who declares that Turkey is negotiating an alliance with Sweden. A special envoy is re- ported to be on his way to the Swedish Court with the promise of the restoration of the Finnish - provinces (which Russla wrested from Charles XII.) in case tlie armies of the Czar are vanquished. Ana the Turks be- lieve. that they will be able ‘to-crush their ancient foe. Their faith is shared by some_of the most experienced of English oflicers. The Moslems are a fighting race. They will be strengthened in the coming war by a ferocious fanaticism and the well-founded belief that they are making their last stand in Europe. -1f they have to resist soldiers better trained than themselves, and in greater numbers, there are many geographical advantazes in their favor, and they will frequently have on their side tne ald of fighting behind fortifications. The officials at the English War Office, however, do not share the sanguine. hopes of the Turks. In a conversation with some of ‘the heads of departments, I gather that they expect that Russian strategy, efficient equipment, and toe capacity to ponr vast numbers of troops into the field will end jo an early defeat of the Turss. Then will come Russia’s greatest diffi- culty. Ifshe is not c.ern;rtefl to go too far, she will nave secured a moral victory 128 well asa military triumph that would give her the rieht to dictate to the Sultan in regard to his Chris- tian subjects. But one false’ step beyond the line which the other Powers will assuredly draw for her, and Russia’s real trouble will begin. Neither Austria'nor Germany "can permit the Danube to be converted into a Russiau river, and England will never sanction the capture of Constantinople: 1oy . g _ Thie various reports “just mentioned have 'in their company a rumor _that may be leit for special consideration. Itis-said that Austrin will observe a strict meutralitv. 1 neitber be- lieve this nor the reported treaty between Rus- sia and Germany. It is far more probable that Austria should by and by be found on the side of the Turk. It is, indeed. quite ou the cards that internal and external pressure will compel Austria to occupy Bosnis and Herzegoyina, and it is tolerably certain that Russia would rezard such action #s a casus belll. Should Austrin be drapged into the war in . defense of the integrity of ber own Empire against Slav ideas aud plots, the Russians would. in all prob- ability, find the grave of their ambition in. the region of the Balkans, for the Austrian troops would be a splendid accession to the Ottoman And; supposing the Russians did get as far as the Balkaus, the Turkish soldiers would assuredly be released from the defense of*Con- stantinople by an - Engli garrison, thus giving to the. fleld an important Otto- man reserve. The most terrible combina- tion - possible in the impending conflict 15 that any great success of Russis, leading to an “ambitions seizure of territory, may bring Germany into the field ageinst Ler;foritis certafn that. upon whichever side Germany +draws the sword, France will be her oppouent. Then we should arrive at a war of Russia and France, and possibly Italy, against Austris, Gumw. and Eneland. This would, indeed, bea calomity. France would be as loath to fire a grin against the English flag as England wonld be to sce the two banners waving over rival ships and armies. ‘It will be no ordinary event that will break the neutrality of Germany, but France would be unable to resist the opoor- tunity of attacking the Germans should the ‘Emperor William call onee meore upon his peo- vle to lay down their lives upon the battle-field; and France will make no move until she has ample proof of theintentions of Germans. The weather at present is not_favorable to a general Russian advance, and military men predict that no fighting of importance can tske place until late in May or early in June. HOBART PASHA. FRARS OF ENGLISH LIBERALS TUAT THE FLEET WILL BE USED TO COMMIT TAE NATION IN ITS rLLICT. Correspondence New Fork Tribune. LoxNDox, April 21.—Ffew Englishmen, I think, are quite satisfied with the present position of their country with reference to the impending war. Few who know anything about the real ‘purposes of the Government feel secure against another Crimein crusade. - So timidly and clumsily have the Liberals of Ilate man- aged matters that they bave pretty much lost the lead they had gained, or which the ’| country wished to put into their hands during the recess.. The Government, on-the other hand, are fomenting by every means -in their power that anti-Russian feeling of England which is the natural legacy of the Crimean war. The toue of the House of Commons is more ngeressive on the Tory side, aod more confused on the Liberal side. The Turk- RUSSIAN LOAN. . ‘Loxpox, May 5.—Russia is stated to have ef- fected a loan of 100,000,000 francs in Paris, from French, German, and Dutch bankers, - GORTSCHAKOFF'S NOTE. Bexuww, Mav 5.—The Zagblatt states that * Gortschakofl bas instructed the Russian repro- sentatives, 1o communicating his drealar to the Powers, to_declare that Russia’s only object is to compel Turkey to accept the measures neces- sary to insure internal pease, such measares to be determined at the proper moment, not by Raussia, but by the concert of the Powers. In this matter the Czar will imit himself to insuring the reforms agreed betweenthe Powers. Count Schouvaloff was specially instracted to declars to Great Britain that Russia entertains no plan not intended <xclusively for the improvement of the condition of the Eastern Christians. QUESTIONABLE. Lospox, May 5.—A questionsble authority #a5s Prince Gortschakoff §s about to resiem. He will be replaced by Count Schouvaloff. Priace Orloff, at preseat Ambassador to France, u:fll succeed Count Schouvaloff at London, and Gen. Ignatiedl replace Prince Orloff at Paris. STROUSBERG. - 5 - The Russian Scnate has decided that the Mos- cow Tribunal of Commerce has power to ad- juage Dr. Swrousberg, the raltway. specnlator, a benkrupt, and issued an order that Strunsberg be declared a bankrupt. BOUMANIA. CA!:(PAJDE COXTRIBCTIONS. . - Bocmarrst, May 5.—The Official Journal pub- lishes 8 letter from the Prince to the President of the Council, .announcing a. contribution of £20,000 from the civil lst towsrds campaign eguipments for Roumanian officers, - FOUMANIAN PARLLAMENT. . Senate’ has: adopted the . bill postponing The sh .press . fs _more Turkish than ever. The constituencies, as in the case of Salford, permit themselves' to be drawn into side issues. Some 500 Liberals in that borough care more to express their detestation of Home TRule by withdrawing their votes from Mr. Kay, than to express their detestation of Turkish misrule and Tory support of it, by securing, as they might ‘haye done, the return: of an apponent of the Ministry. No formal chal- lenge to the:- Government is ventured upon in either Honse. When a debate occurs on a vagae -issue or a collateral point, like that last night on. Hobart Pasha, the merits of the particular éase are lost sight of in the fee- bleness with which they are supported. Alone | among the great political forces which govern England, the press still speaks for the opposi- tion with vigor and cournge. The Parliament- ary leaders have abdicated, and it is left to a Tors, Chancellor of the Exchequer to rebuke and disown the pospel . of selfshness, aud tho dangerously-compromising - declaration of symi- p‘m ay with'the Turk utterd by a Tory Secrefary of War. In conversation, eminent Liberals make n secret of their fear that the British flect ma b: 5o used as to commit the British nation to ios- tilitieg with Russia. Why, then, do thev not, make it impossible h?; such a line of public.con-" duct as should - pi their conviction that the people of this conutry will not again go to war against Russia for Turkey! They mirht at least jpsist that” a British naval officer shall not command the Turkish fleet,— that the.. Hon. Augustus . Hobark shall * make” his clection . between the service of the Queen and the- service of the Sultan. That is precisely one of those points on which Lord Derby would, if resolutely at- m&edhl.'l\'e way. Bat the attack 1s never reso- lute; thoueh ft remains to be seen what will be- come of Mr. Mundella's motion, whichis to be brought forward soon in the Commons. If Ho- bart Pasha is 1o be retained on the.English naval list, the. Government may at lesst be invited -to siy - whether his~retention will still be advocated, in Lord Derby’s language, as & matter of Im; policy.” * His speech last night indicates he is disposed to retreat from a,position clearly untenable, and that When war breaks out Hobart Pasha will cease to-hold;an English commission—{or mere pru- dence and decency’s sake. Meantime the re- fusal to caocel it is one more proof to the Turlk that England Is, at heart, with him and ngai'ns: the Russian. The secret of " Turkish obstinacy is to Dbe sought = in the conviction, - which Le has thus far seen no cause to_ gbsndon, that England Will stand by her old ally when ft_comes to blows. \What private assurances support him in this belicf can only be conjectured. The one thing certain i5 that’ Lord Beaconsfield desires 1o sustain Turker. Ifhe can persuade Eogland to belleve that Russia is-aiming at Const anti- nople. he will casily the conntry with him in‘a policy of armed resistance to_such-an at- témpt. Short of that, England, if time be given Tier to decide for herself, will not take ‘852 in the struggle. == -+ 2 G WL B THE ADMIRAL'S SINGULARL CAREER. *New York Tribune. May3. - The conspicuons service which Gen. ‘Williams rendered to the corrupted and demoralize amy of Turkey during the disssters of 18545 in Asfo, has a parallel in the work of anothrr Ep- giishmau—Capt. Char] Augrustus Hobart, les ow called Hobart Pasha, Admiral'of the Turk- ish fleet. Gen. WVilliams b) his hc&olc cundfin:t won the title of Baron of Kars, and was scnt to P;u-linmem.;Bflobanthsh{:lls the third son of he Earl of Buckinghamshire, P 3 ; He was born April 1,1622, and entered the navy in 1885, becoming a Commander when 33 vears of age. Hemade himself known through preat haraihood and endurance and a fondness for adventures on the seas. Ten years azo the condition of the Turkish navy was aeplorable. Corraption. want of discipline, and an impovers ished treasury had reduced it to the lowest de- e of inefficiency. A loan was uegotiated y the Government for the purpose of repairing jt. The bonds. found a ready sale among nations which werc interested in the military power of a people they had been allied with In war twenty years before. Capt. Hobart. was then. an officer on half pay, aud the Porte was naturally anxious to secure the servicesolsa man in the English navy. It offered bim great ecuniary inducements and the dignity which Ealong; 1o the rankof Pasha. The Admiralty was not pleased with Hobart’s fuclination to accept -the - offer, -and it “warned. him that if- he should do- so he would for- feit his professional rights at home. Mesnwhile the Cretau insurrection broke out, and Capt. Hobart was employed by Turkey in forting a blockade at _Crete against the Greeks, When the Admiralty heard of thig an explanation was called for, and be intimated that "he had - been made & member of the Board of Admiralty and the Directd--General of the Naval Schools of the Ottoman Empire. He prayed that if his name should be taken from the active list he might remain as_aretired oflicer. He begzed in vain, and on the 10th of March, 1865, his name was removed altogether. Not long after- ward he applied for & reinstatement, and_the subject was postponed. In 1869 a Liberal Min- istry.was installed and the request was rencwed ouly to be promptly refused. . Ln 175, however, 8 Conservative Ministry had succecded to the Liberal one, and Capt. Hobart renewed his ap- peal, reciting in eloquent phrases the disgrace attending his dismissal, aud remindiog the Min. istry of the praise he had earncd by organizing the Turkish navy, He wasthen restored to the retired list with balf pay, £400 a year, and such he now is. A This _question—whether an English_naval officer, bound to- serve his country by the re- recelpt of pay from it, and by hirh oflicial rank, should conduct warlike operations against a friendly power—has already been the thieme of debate in the House of Lords, as a London let- lex;‘{)rinued in these columns to-day, will show. Lord Derby in that debate did not defend Hobart Pasha’s brea of * discipline. but- he gave some precedents in favor of his restora- tion to English honors. In his argument, ho ever, the London News says he scemed to sa) @True, Turkey’s systef of Government {s a burlesque. True, her courts o justice areadis- grace to civilization. 1‘1‘“% the miserles of her Christian population have for generations been a gource of trouble and pain to Europe. Is there, however, no praise due to the man whohas given her a good navy, who has thus far at least put ber in & condition to defy the public opinion of Europe with impunity, and to maintain her sovercign right of misgovernment and opbres- sion?”’ The subject is likely to vrove a source of unusual interest to the British public. ‘The fimes of April 21 says: “We shall see the full measure of the apomaly if we ask what the United States would have said had Capt. Semmes, of the Alabama, borne her Majesty’s commission - and been in receipt of nalf-pay from her Majesty’s Treasury.” Itis a matter of record, however, that Capt. Hobart was aut- ually engaged in blockade operations during the late Civil War. He made Charleston the base of his work, and' one authority says that he ran the blockade at Southern ports eighteen times. The important fact remains, however, that Ho- bart Pasha is the creator as well as the Admiral of the Turkish flcet. Attheend of 1875 that fleet consisted of ninety steamers, of which twenty were iron-clads, the E‘nlfl' number of them “having been buflt in England. Two of these iron-clads are each 332 feet long, built on the broadside pl’im:lplei and Lave on the main deck o battery 148 fect long, containing twelve eighteen-ton guns, throwing 400-pound shot. Two- others are potable for their speed and heavy armor. The entire navy in 1875 was manned by 30,000 sailors and 4,000 marine troops. What- goever credit is earned by this showing belongs in large part to Hobart Pasha. What the atti- tude of Turkey toward the protocol, the Berlin memorandum, the Apdrassy note, and other diplomatic papers, might have been without this naval power to stiffen her courage is probably an interesting if not 2 pleasant subject for the Engiish bondholder to contemplate. Hobart Pasha’s first commicsion was that of Rear-Admiral. In the latter days of 1569 he was 'made Viee-Admiral, and early in the following Marchreceived the commission of Admiral. and ‘wasplaced in command of the Imperial squa-iron in the Mediterranean. On the 6th of April this vear, while he was temporarily absent inspect- Ing the flect, his wife, Mary Anne, died at Con- stantinople. The shock 6f the mnews was 5o great to bim that he did-not attend the funerel at which were present many Turkish dignitaries and Europeans who were then in the city. She wasa daughter of Sir Colquhoun Grant, of England. ANew Tork Tribune. ‘The exploit of Admiral Hobart Pasha, of the Turkish navy, in passing down the Danube un- der the very guns of the Russian batteries at Galatz, as described in the recent London dis- patches, recalls to memorg the career of this adventurous man 25 a4 . blockade-runner in Americz during the War of the Rebellion.- Capt. George Forsyth, of Charleston, formerly an officer in the Confederate navy, and at present visitiog- in _this city, gave o Tribune . reporter on Wednesday evening the following particulars of Admiral, then Commandant, Hobart’s experience in this coun- try. At the outbreas of the war a number of ‘wealthy merchants in England formed an asso- ciation, the object of which was to assist the Southern cause. Commandant Hobart and several other officers in the English navy were enlisted in the cause and sent to the Southern States, where their services were eagerly ac- cepted. Hobart landed at Charleston in the summer or fall of 1861, and was at once assigned to naval duties. He soon developed a taste for daring adventure, and attracted at- tention by his success in capturing several small Union vessels and greatly demasing others.. In the following spring he was placed in charge of a blockade-ranner on the Atlantic coast, where be did valuable work for the Con- federates. £ e He was soon after recalled to the Gulf, and for nearly a year was on the staff of the Admiral commanding at Pensacola. The numerous suc- cessful attacks upon the Union flects and the daring blockade runoing in the vicinity are credited in the main to His planning and bold execution. In 1863 he was_again put in com- mand - of . several blockade-runners, - and then began the series of exploits which created admiraticn for the skill and bravery displayed In their execution. It is esti- mated that Hobart was cogaged in no less than twenty suck undertakines, all of which were exceedingly annoying, and in manv instances disastrousto the Unfon cause. Hobart was about 40 years of age when he arrived in this country. " He was a heavy-built mian, of dark complexion, and was noted for his imverious bearing and the ardor with which he prozecuted every undertaking, He went to England in the fgfl;fi q{hl».ii ol‘lnnwuum, itis_said, of a difi- culty with the officers of - bty the Coufederate Goy- KARL BLIND. WIS ““REVELATIONS OF EUROPEAN DIPLOMACT.” The last number of the North American Review contains and fnteresting and Instructiye article by Karl Blind on *‘Revelations of European Diploma- <7," which asalsts materiallythose who bave only acquired a supericial knowledze of the Southern ZEaropean complication to a elearer. understanding of the hidden wires. Karl Blind says that fn Aprl ©f 1870, while the Herzegovinian insurrection was going on, a number of startling diplomatic docu- ments were published at Vienna dated 1870, but of meaning at the present time because promi- nent men, including the Russisn Ambaseador at Vienna, and Comnt Andrassy, who ‘figure conspicuously in them, are now in the front of af- fairs. When Prusela and France were at war the Czar determined upon-abrogating the treaty of Paris of 1856, which provided- for-the mentraltea- of the Black Ses. - He expected strorg resistance {rom Turkey aud Anustro-Hungary,and to cointer- act this he inclted theinsurrection In Herzegovina., donte, ipher telegram from e Novikof, the Russian Ambsssador at Vienna, to M. Tonln,; ‘the Ruséfan Consul at:' Ragusa, dated Sept. 14, 1870, ,-and, dtv names the sgents’ who dre”to fomish the Montepgrin Prince with ‘means for making war on Turkey. The Consulls also ordered to hasten the armament by drilling. The Consul replied a week ofter, eaying: **The depots in Czernowitz are quite full, the povalation is enthdsinstic, and awnits -with impatience the order for rising. A perfect understanding has been come to with the Miridite Chieftains. The Chris- tians in Popovoand the Suttorina are, bowever, demoralized in conscquence of the Turkish vexa- tions. There Is no possibility of conveyingarms tothem in Dresence of ihe great watchfuluess of the Tarks," 'A<spy in the Embassy sent & copy of this telegram to'the Ottoman Embasey, s that Rus- #la’s intentions were known at once. ‘The plans of the Tnrkish and Austro-Hungarian statesmen, on the ‘other hand. were made known in three confidential reports from the Turkish Am- passador, Khalil Bey, to the Grand Vizier, Alf Pasha, dated Sept, 23,'20, and 27, 1870, By these it appeared that Count Benst, who was st the head of afisiro. in. Austela, was st political variance with Count Andrassy, the Hangarisn Premier. Andrassy's pro-Turkizh views were apparently un- derstood, but Count Beust scemed to huve special reasons for Jeaning the other way. The Turkish Envoy pointed out -the movements that were in Montenegro and Ieérzegoving, going on. and."the :transport of arms through Aus- tria, bat Count Beust made _Jight of the matter.and.said he did not believe Russia mumnnilh}ngflo]enl. Tn a_enbsequent reoort from Khalil Bey a carioan revelation is made. At a dinner at Count Beust’s house a few words were rapldly exchanged between Count Andrassy and Khaljl Bey which led fo Count Andrassy’s calling on’ the other, when " Andrassy cxplained bhis idea that Austro-Ilungary ehould endeavor to avoid war: but If It were forced upon them it shonid be carricd_on untfl a rectification of frontiers both in. Asia: 'and: -in_ the Dlack Sea had been obtained.’ . All the territories “inhabited by Mussulman populations near the Black Sea were 10" be' ‘reconquered and Poland _restored as an independent country. To do this Turkey prom- 1sed 500, 000 men if a'loan of £10, 000. 000 could be obtained. Austria was to furnish 800,000 men. At this meeting the Hungarian Premier complained of the frivolity with which Count Beust treated the crisis, and concerning whose conduct he had made very serious complaint to the Emperor. The reve- 1ations stell us than when the Czar wos asked his opiefon 18 to the prospects of peace in the East he replied, **If 1 am srming, it:s certzinly not against Prussia,” and that this was taken to mean . against Turkey, or Tarkey and_Auetrian Hun- gary, and therefore Count Andrassy suggested ito Khalil Bey that they must try to detach Prae- 'fia from the Russian councction by forming o ‘compact league between Tur) England. The Prussian Ambassador, however, Wheneyer sounded upon the subject, aliways enaed bfl saying: **Still.we must maintain our friend- ship with- Russia,”. and_Count Andrassy under- stood by this that Prussia was bound fu some way'to Russia, and could not recede. When the Otioman Envoy could not otherwise move Count Beust,. be ~showed * him the cipher: telegram to the Russian Cons=al at a2usa, - which: rather stazzered the Auetrian Minister, who was surprised to -find_thot Turkey knew -the secret:| springs of the Herzegovinian and Montenegrin movements, but on being pressed to the purnt suid that the Treaty of Paris, 0 far as it related to the Black Sea, had become a chimera, Then Khalil Bey told thus to the Enzlish Ambasaador who said Tarkey conld count with [certainty upon the sup: port of the English Government. These doca- ments have never been denied. Further revela- tions were made in'n_document called **Les Re- sponsibilities, " published at Constantinople—with the private sanction of Midhat Pasha—showing the efforts of Panslavistic agents, in_connection with St. Petersburg, to draw the Khedive o. Egypt into insurrection azuinst the Porte. Atter commenting ,upon theattitude of English partiesand the speeches and publications of Lord Shaftesbury, Mr. Glad- stone, and Mr, Freeman on the Tarkishguestion, the writer discusses at length the history of the sev- eral Pollsh insurrections, and gives u most striking picture of the sufferings of that country and the part taken by Koscinszko in the attempt. to liber- ate his couniry. He quotes the remark of the Russian Gen. Fadeyeffl—an uncompromisiug’ en- emy of the Turk, and:bellever in a great Sclav Em- ire with Constantinople as a federal city—os say- ng: **No one can imagine that the Polish gnestion is In reality settled. All its component parts are quite as alive now as formerly. The western prov- inces of Rsei in their present condition, and not only the Kinzdom of Poland but even the Prov- ince of Volhynia as well, where the Catholics num- ber only 10 per cent-of the population. will cer- tafnly become thoronghly Pelish and hostile to TRassia on the first appearance of 8 foreign foe. " ‘The writer utterly explodes the popoular falla- cy that at the battle of Macielowice—in which the Polish- insarrectionists were, delented’ by the TRussians—when Kosciuszko fell, severely wound- ed, he cried out: ** Finis Polonig.” e publish- cs 'for the first time an original denial of the sto- ry by the Polish hero himself, addressed to Connt Segur, author of the ‘¢ Decade Histarique, ™ with {esgliénin the alleged ** Finis Polonim™ of Oct.- 7, 17940 1430 1E Coxte: In handing over 10 you yes- terday the paperreferring to the case of ilr. Adam Poninski, concerning his conduct in the campaign of 1704, ‘another fact in connection with the un- fortunate battle of Maciclowice ought to have been mentianed, which [ have o great desire to clear up. S N **Ignorance or m:ngnlty. with flerce perestence, has put the cxpression Finis Polonie into my mouth,—an expression Iam stated to have made useof on a fatal day. Now, fiist of all, I had been almost mortally wounded before the battle was decided, and only recovered my consciousness two days afterwards, when I fonnd myself in the hands of my enemies. In the second 1nstance, {f an expression 1ike the one alluded to is inconsist- ent and criminal 1n the mouth of any Pole, it wonld have been far more 80 in mine. *“When the Polish nation calied me to the de- fense of the integrity, _independence, dig- nits, jflury. and freedoin of our father- land, it- knew well, ‘that I -was mot the last Pole in existence, and that with my death on the bottle-field or elsewhere Poland conld mot, and would not, be at an end. Evervthing the Poles have done since. or will do yet in the future, farnishes the proof that if we, thé devoted soldiers of the conntry, are mortal, Poland herself is im- ‘mortal; and it 1s therefore not allowed to anybody elther to utter orto repeat that insulting expres- slon (Foufrageante epithele) which is contained in the words Finis Polonie/ *4\What would the French say if. after the battle of Rossbach, - in 1757, Marshal Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubive, had exclaimea Finis Gallicc? Or what wonld they eay if. fuch cruel words were attributed to him In his biozraphies? -\1 ghall, therefore, be obliged to yon if1n the new edition of your work you_ will not speak any more of the Finis Poloni@; and I hope thut the anthority of yonr mame will have its due effect with all those who 1n futnre may be inclined to repeat those words, and thus attribote to me a ‘Dlasphemy against 'which T protest with all my s ! 3 A fy consin and pupil. the young George Zeno- , Will have the Lionor of handing this letter to you.” Althongh he intends devating himself to the military career, he will nevertheless be bappy to merit vour kind protection if ever circumstances - _The restiess Titan hiccups In hls dea. l'ho\thl place him in 2 position to take advantage *Recelve, Monsfenr le Comte, the assurance of ‘my greatest respect. T. Kosctuszio. ‘D'al;n'r'lz, 20 Bramalre, year XII. (~30 October, FRIENDS OF PEACE. THEIR APPEAL TO THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. Pams, April 18.—The French Soclety of the Friends of Peace have addressed the following ap- pesl to the Emperor of Russia: . ‘'Sme: The state of anxiety in which Europe is now placed has inspired uswitn the dea of making reqae:tfnl representations to your Majesty in favor of the cause to which we have devoted ourselves, ithont conridoration, of nationality or usty. in the sole interests of humanity and civilization, Peace, which for eome time was thought secured Dy the efforta of the Great Powers of Eurone and by a recent nct emanating from the initiative of your Majesty's Government, seems at this mo- ment, judging by . the peneral unensiness, more’ mendced than ever. Interests, as well 2s men's minds, aro profoundly troubled. Credit recedes more and more; the labor of manafacture slackens: and millions of humsn creatutes are citheralready depnived of their means of subsistence orare on-the eve of beinz 8o if the etagnation continnes. 'To you, Sire, after the pre- dominnnt part you have played in_ Enstern afiairs, after the proof of power you have given by muster- ingina fewdaysa formidable army, and in view of the unanimous _confidence which” the nation as well as the Governments of Enrope have placed in you. to you it appertains to put an cnd fo this gisastrons situscion by generonsly sctting, the gaumple of disarmament. This nct of magnanimity, by relieving the West from the weight of u cruel anxicty, would not be loss for the Eastern Chris- tians, - It would increase your mornl ascendency. and the authority of your counsels by the vrestize of aisinterestedness ‘coupled with force. It wonld take away from the Ottomnn Government all pre- text for deferring the reforms promised and partly bepun. By removing from it the danger of an armed interveution and the necessity of piving fts* whole attention und devoting its whole resources, to the defenscwof its frontiers, it will enable it to' accord to its subjects, withont distinction of ori- Bin or creed, the institutions required by humani- 13, by justice, and by the Powers which represent the civilized world. “If. on the contrary, the troups you have assembled with such marvelous rapidity from all varts of vonr Immense Empire remain concentrated, the Ottoman frontier will be crossed s0on. for a condition equally perilous for both par- Mes cannot gubsist long. - Then there will, be war. The war once bezun. no one can 8a; where it will end. Tt will be dificult. pechans jmposcialer fo confifie it within the Iimits of the Balkan Peninsn- la. It s not Tarkey alone that will suffer, but every State ‘in_Europe, the first among them thac of “whicn your Majesty s thé glorions sovereizn,” and which has ~ made - in & few years of peace eigantic strides in the path of clvilization, Whai will be the result of the war for the oporessed Slavs of the East, whom ;‘Dn! AMajesty propozes to protect. no one.can a5, 'he first and most certan’ consequence -of the it vasion will be.an incresse of.their-misery—even more than that can be sald ‘without exagearation: andthere may be expected a revival_of hatred, g - 1resh explosion of fanaticism, fnstead of the spirit of justice and conclliation which the internal nets of the Ottoman Government geem to. ing ire. .To substitate for peace, scarcely re-cstablished in Europe, the profoundest perturbation, to let loose the most terrible and ‘most- barbarons passions in The East and in the Wea, is, Sire, the dangor yors ust renown for numanity and your soverelsn re- s i One of the documents printed shows how it wos | ponsivility ran if the Russian army at this mo- t collected or the Turkish frontier receives the ovder to advance. Wa ehall ndd nothing to these words. Delgn to receive, etc.™ ¥ DYRON'S ACCOUNT OF ITS CAPTURE IN 1790. Toledo Blade. The left of the Rusian army in Roumania now rests on the historic town of Ismail (is-ma-eel). This was, until the end of the last century, onc of the leading cities . Esstern Europe. It -is sita- ated on one of the branches of the Danube deita, and near the mouth of thet river. It was formerly to the Danube what New Orleans was to the Mis- slasipp! in the palmy days. of steambonting. .Asit Hes near tho Russian border, it was always an ob- Jective polnt of the Russiun armies in the invasions of .Turkey. They succeeded. in-capturing it in 1770, and again in 1700 it was taken by the Great Su'warofl, after a terribly destructive battle, in which the Russians lost 20,000 men. The forti- Heutions were stormed, 30,000 ‘Turks ere pat to the sword, and the place, which abounded ' in mag- nificent buildinge, destroved by fire. --This battle and town are deseribed in detail in the seventh and cight cuntos of Don Juan. Byron makes his hero do wonders of valor in the attack on the city, and he Iy rewarded by being_made the bearer of .dis- patches to the Empress Catherine. announcing’ the glorious victory. A few. of the descrintive verses dregiven below. They are more historically ac- curate than is usnal in pocty, as in many respects they arosimply versifications of the ofiiclal reporta of the battle: y ; The fortress Is called Tsmail. and s placed Upon the Danube's 1eft branch and left bank, With bulldings in the Orfental taste, - of the foremost rank, O was, at Jeast, unless 'tls since defaced, Aud measures round of tolses thousands turee. ' k. ‘The Russlans now were ready to attack; But oh, ye goddesses of war and glory, ‘How shail I spell the name of each Cossacque ho were Iminortal could one tell tholr story? Alas! what to thefr memory caa Jack? : ‘Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory ‘Then thousands of this new and polished ntlon, Whose names want nothing but—propunciation. ‘Thenicht was dark, and the thick mist allowed -Naught to be seca but the artillery's flame, Whicli arched the horizon like a flery clond. And In thie Dagubo's waters shond the Almirrored hell! the rallyin: I on penl o'ercame ler; for heavew's tiashes, ‘Lousr boownings of esch pe: Thie ear far more than thund Spare, or amite rarely—man's make millionsashes! The column ordered on the asszult scarce passed Beyond the Russian batteries a few tolscs, When up the bristliog Moslem rose at last. ‘Answerlng the Christian thunders with ifke volces; Then one vast fire, air. carth, and stream embraced, Which rocked, ds ‘twere, beneath the mighty nolsés; While the whole rampart blazed like -Etna, whea ‘The town was entered; first one column made , 1ts sangalnary way zood—then sother: The reeking bayonct and he reeklag blade - *palnat the scimitar, and babe and mother int shrieky were heard Heaven 10 npbrald:— Stil! closer sulphury clouds bega to smother - Tho breath of morn and man. where foot by foot The maddened Turks thelr city still dispute. .- taken, but not eurrendered! Xo! 0t a Moslem that hath yielded sword; Tlie blood may gusit out asihe Dinube's low the eity wall; but deed uor word Acknowfedye auzht of dread of death or foe: Tn vain the sellof victory is roared By the advancing Muscovite—the groan 07 the last foe fs echoed by his owa. ‘The town was taken—whether he might yleld ilimself or bastlon, little mattered nows i3 stubiborn valor was no future shicld. mali's nomore! The crescent’s sllverbow . Sunk, and the crimson cross glowed o'er the field, But red with no redeeming gore: the zlow. QF burningsrrosts ke mogalight on the water, Was Iniaged back In blood, the 43 of slaughter: (And all that the mind would shrink from of excesses; " Al that the body perpetrates of dad: All that we read, hear, dream, of man's distresses; All that the devil would do If run stark mad; All that defies the worst which pen expresses; ALby which liel s peopled, or a3 sad A8 helf~mere mortals who their power abuse— ‘Was here (as heretofore and since) let loose. But let me put an end unto my theme; “There was an end of Ismail—hapless town! Far flashed her burning towers o'er Danube's stream, Anu redly ran his blushing waters down. The horrid war-whoop and the shriller scream Fo8e stlll; but faluter werc the thunders grown: Of forty thiousand who hiad manncd the wall, Some hiundreds breathed—the rest were silent all. ade, hiseyeslike thatch nilayed. ch, ; Blaz ‘With bloody hands he wrote his'first di; And here exactly follows what be sald: 2 **Glory to Gad and to the ipress!™ ‘(Fowers Eternal I such names mingled /) ** Ismail’s ours.” The Russians gave the town up again to the Tuorks, but recaptured it in 1509, made it a strong’ Dlace In the province of Besaarabis. which they had won from the Turks, and held it until_com- pelled to cede it back by the treaty of "1857. In 9500 it had a population’ of 20,860, Itis siill & place of some importauce, but Galatz, Bralls, and Sucma have grown up at its expense. . THE FLAG OF THE PROPHET. Wllddelphia Press. . ™ A What {s this Flaz of the Prophet, around which the tarbaned, **the Faithful," are called upon to rallyt The best authorities state that it was originally of a white color, and was composed of the turban of the Korclsh, captured by Mohammed. A black fiug was, however, soon substitated in its place, conslsting of thie curtain that had hung before the door of Ayeshab. the favorite wife o the Prophet, whose aflection for her was 50 strong that he was wont to say that she would be the first of his wives to whom the gates of Paradise wonld be open! The Sanjak-Sherif is regarded by the Mohammedans as their most sacred relic. It first came . into tho possession of the fol- lowers of Omar, the second Caliph of _the Moslems, and generally rezarded as foander of the Johammiedan power, as from a inere sect he raisea it to the rank of a conquering nation, and left to Lis successor an Empire greater than that which Alexander of Macedon had made and ruled In the olden time. It was this Omar who assmmed the title of **Commander of the Faithfal™ (Emir-al- wmurienia); by which, s the readers of the **Ara- bian Nights' Entertainmenta ™ will remember, the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid, who was contemporary with Charlemamne, was alwsys nddressed. The Flag of the Prophet passed from the followers of Omir ut Damascus fnto the hands of the conquer- ing Abbasides, in the middle of the cighth cen- tury: mext into those of the Caliphs of Bagdnd and Rabira. It was brought Into Europe towards the close of the sixteenth centnry by Sultan Amurath 1II., with whom Queen Elizdbeth made o treaty of commerce in 1579, It was deposifed in Constanti- nople, where, covered with forty-two wrappings of silk, it was deposited in a chapel in the interior of the Seraglio. where it is perpetnally gnarded by several Emirs with constant prayers. It is known, however. that tne banucr unfolacd by the Moslems at the beginning of a war, and likesvise carefully preserved, & 5ot the eamo as the identical flag which Mohammed had made ont of the white tar- ban of the Koreleh. ‘The Noslems belleve that it s, and will fight bravely under It, thus verifyfog Afokanna'a famons declaration, thac i Falth, fanatic Faith, once wed ‘To one dear falschood, hugs l‘t g: ‘g:!l:lL " FRANCE. SIMON'S SPEECH. _ PArIs, May 5.—Mimster Simon, in his speech on Deputy Leblond’s interpellation, pointed ont the scrupulous mauuer in which Italy had ob- served the'law of the Papal guarantees. The Italian Ambassedor’ has since called on' M. Si- mon and thanked bim for the manner in which he had referred to Italy during the debate. Paris, May 5.—Republican newspavers ex- press. great satisfaction with the order of the day voted by the Chamber of Deputies -yester- doy, and_also with Gambetta’s speech and Simon's declaration. They say the latter makes amends for the apparent weakness of Thurs- day’s speech. : ——— A TAMMANY'S TRICKS, Special Dispatch to The Tridune. NEw York, May 5.—Joseph L. Perley, Presi- dent of theé Board of Fire Commissioners, has been voted out of his office by his associates. One of them, Joba J. Gorman, is Mavor Ely's new appointee. Thisis done by direction of Boss Kelly, who had Gorman. appointed for. such- uses. - The Tammany Democrats have long been dissatisfied because they could not coutrol the patromage of the Fire Depart- ment. They ,arc mow . in clover, the new ' President, Vincent F.. King,. being a tool of Tammany. Perley has made the D partment one of ‘the best'in the -country, as’ shown by the fact.that the underwriters elzht- cen months ago reduced ‘the rates on all risks {rom 25 to 33 per cent, altogetlier on, account of Lis cfficiency. His removal in this manner cre- ates much apprehension, and the underwriters say they will.auvance .the ‘rates again -should the politicians carry out their flp%tu‘#nt ‘burvose to put their servants into the e) - gardless of efficiency. SRS I ——— - - MAK'NG SAILORS.” + o .: . Special Dispateh fo The Tribune. New York, May 5.—Preparations are being made Gu the school-ship Supply, lately put in commission ‘at“the Brooklyn Navy-Yard, as a tender for.boys to the training-ship :Minnesota for a summer cruise of three months’ duration, with 2 Jarze number of boys. The ship will crossElhe Atlantic to Madeira and to ports on the European coast. Admiral Porter ‘says t] sétool has been started Godee sieh. favbmble ausplces ' a5 to create the hope - that the system will be so' extended . as.to mect -the pressing requirements of ' the Davy; that it is the best step toward the advancement of the naval service, and if carried ' out will place the navy ona proportional foot- lug with those, of otter Powers, by elevating the position of seamen and pettv.oflicers. The nautical school ship St. 3arys, transferred to the State for the purpose of iristructing b;);? in Seamonship for the merchant marine service,: | check at the bank, They were Sl Start mexs week on asummers cruise. . She 7 cogre bound orver tyy morning in the sum of $1,000 ea | will spend a weck in Long Island Sound toallow | - 2000 each for trig). the boys to become familiar with the ropes,. |- then go to Fayal, Lisbon, Madeira, and other Euronean ports. About 140 pupils will go on the cruise. = E: CRIME. NOT GUILTY. RicmoND, Va., May 5.—In the case of Crittenden, Doorkeeper of the House of g‘u‘& gates, charged’ with ralsiog’ pay-Sértificatizgy embers, the jury returned a; e B ey e L L l:] Jl:tlze fm"dg“c“““ Drosequi T - RN ¢ other indictment against Crittenden PINNEY RETURNS. Gischarged from eustody, - oden, and by | was . 8ax Frmaxcisco, May 5.—George M. Pinney surrendered himself to the authorities to-day, and was held in bail of $20,000 to answer to two charges of forgery of Government certificates of indebtedness. Pinney is very reticent, and declines to be interviewed, but District Attor- ney Murphy and Capt.'Lees, detective, state that he arnved in- Oakland a week ago yester- . LARGE HAUL BY BURGLARS, Bostox, May 5.—Burglars. entered th, dence of Harrison Prescott, at Newton' Centzy, last night, and robbed a fafe of $21,6001y Government bonds, $400 in money, and Totes, large amonny, - mortgages, etc., representing a. day, coming from Montreal. “As to the object FIRES. of his return, it is admittcd he comes by the intercession of prominent bankers MICHIGAN. ¥ and capitalists of the city who hold certificates ' Special Dispaich to The Tridune.” ; ~ Y of purchase bearing , the alleged siznature of EAsT SAGINAW, "Mich., May 5.—The Wus & Little shingle and saw-mill, three miles eat gt Ldomis, on'the Flint & Per Marquette Rallwag! was totally destroyed by fire this orning, Loss, $5.000. No insurance. v 13 The planing-mill of L. Pendyer & Col, atgr. Charles, this county, was_destroved by fire thi; evening. Loss, $3,500. No insurance. < . NEAR CEDAR RAPIDS. Special Dispatzh 10 The Trivune. CEDAR RaPIDS, n., May 5.—A" bart "belong. ing to John Lugo, = farmer living seven miles south of here, was burned last night, together with five horses, seven calves, atid a'quantity.of hay, Loss, $1,500.. Insured in’ the Farmary; of Cedar Rapids, for. $500. AN , AT SANQUOIT, N. ¥.: 18 Pay-Inspector Spalding, and the intimation is given that contractors, political associates, etc., bad no connection with the negotiations for his return, Pinucy avers that he was_directed to issue the certiticates produced in evidence at the trial of Spalding before the National Court Martial. So far as the certificates which he (Pinuey) hypothecated are concerned, he says he left money for their. redemption, and the trial will show in whose - hands "the money to take them up was placed. This one point he is anxious to establish, He wants the “public to know the facts, and wants the bankers to get their mouey g < Capt. Lees s% Pioney took away with him but about $10,000. Pinney says that the stories to the effect that he has returned with the par- |- i| children residing with Mrs. White. Fannie pose of zetting even on his enemies and stirring up a terrible tempest in the political world, is ronscnse. He has a story to tell, but declines to make it pnblic until called upon to give shis testimony In court. 1t is dlso ‘stated that he has entered into no negotiations with the United States except 50 far as to obtain assurances that the charze of desertion should be dropped, which, he claims, is his only offense against the Government. 5 United States . District-Attorney -Coghlan says lie has received no Instructions to proceed azainst Pinney, and is cognizant of no negotia- tions between the Government and Pluney for the . suppression of suits. - It is understood, liowever, that the Government has given Pin- ney assurabces of protection provided he be- came tie State’s witness fo suits for the recov- ery of the amonnts loaned and the certificates. He knows who got the money, and can render valuable aid in recovering it. He will be ar- rugned early next sweek, but the trial may not commence until the next term of court. - | Umick, N. Y., Moy 5.—The Frankiln ‘safion - mill at Sanquoit, built in 1812, owned by’ B:5pS Brownell & Co., burned last night.: The: firg. was caused ,by the explosion of a. watchman's; lantern. Loss, $i7.000; insurance, $10,000. A Lundred persons are thrown out of ‘employ. ment. e L NEAR CINCINNATI ! CiNcrvsATT, 0., Mav 5.—The residénce of J, N. Doniphan, at East Walnut Hills,"was burned to-night. . Loss, $10,000. Insured for. $7, Cincinnat! officés. - s ""“lni"{ng R : IN NEW YORK. - ¥ ._ NEw YoRE, May 5—The furniture; ‘store of Horace J. Farrinzton, 179 Canal streot, was :!nmmcd by fire $25,000 worth early ' this’ mom-" ng. by PR TS CHICAGO. ] A still atarm to Hook and Ladder Company: No. 4,at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was caused bya fire at No. 138 Archer: avenue: Damage nominal. kigs — —— - TO VESSEL-OWXNERS. . i . DeTROIT, Mich., May 5.—The. Vessel-Ownery';. Association of this city, throne} its Chatrman,; Capt. Joseph Micholson, and fts Secretary, 4. McVittie, have sent iuvitations by circulars to; vVessel-owners at every port on the lakes, Can- ada included, urgently requesting. them te send one or more delegates to a.convention:* to be keld at Detroit on Weddesday, May .16, 5t 11 a. m., toconsider the feasibility of ‘any. plan of relief irom the present ruinous' competition amongst themselves of carrying freights at les” than cost, and to ask the co-operation of Maring Underwriters in securing a more thorough aed equitable classification of their vessels.” " ° " * . ABDUCTION. D Special Dispatch to The Tribune. . ‘New York, May 5.—Mrs. Ann- White, of Philadelplia, a woman ncarly 70 years of age, to-day asked md of the police here in searching for her gronddaughter, Mary Masterson, who - was. abducted. April 1l. The missing child is 7 years old, aud supposed to have been- -abducted by a woman - known as Fannie Brown, who made her living by sell- ing perforated card-board, mottoes, and telling fortunes. Little Mary was one of three rrand- Brown fs described as of medinm height, wrinkled in the face, with brownish hair, and wearing 2 knitted hood and a weather-worn water-proof cloak. Anout two weeks previous | to the abduction, the woman hired from Mrs. White a vacant room in ber house, and while there was visited by a woman named Mary Emerson. The child attended public school, and, wnen she had reached home on the even- ing of April 10, told ber grandmother that she, had met the two women, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Emerson, and that they had tried to ‘jndac 1 Gty = THE CANAL. BRIDGEPORT, May 5.—ARKIVED—Ontario. Ls- her to go . away ‘witn them in a | Salle; 2,200 bu’corn, 2,200 bu dats; Cataract,i strelizlfi—mr, ]l\?' ofle{‘i)gt her ml:fles ) ;ntl, ZLaSalle, 6,000 bu corn. St R candies. rs. Vhite ~ warne: er i & %‘?ndchj}‘d “,’;“3 o a o ‘W]ml ht‘l-‘ ;!11 M(s;;?;in—l!nuhnt, Morris, 12,000 ft lumber, at night Mrs. Brown Dot sleep in’ her | 40 inira N e W L ¢ 25 lodeings. Mrs. White has not seen her since. | BRIDGEPORT, ‘May 5—9p. m.—ARRIVED G As the little girl was returning from school the | 8. Booth, LaSalle, - 6,000 ;bu cora; Mornlog next day she was met by Fannle Brown near the sctiool-house. Children attending tne school say she was coaxing the child, and soon after they were seen going along Monroe street in an opposite direction from her home. The police were at once informed, and dilige: search has since been made, without result. Light, Ottaws; 5,200 bu corn, 233 ba'rye. CLEARED—Pheenix, Loakfort, 10,000 £t lum- ber; Neptune, Joliet, 74,431 1t Jamber, 100,000 shingles: Cataract, Uticq, - 80,160 it lamber;.. Ed. H. Heath, drew Jack- 67,214 ft lomber; An son, 100,000 shingles. N B @ PORT HURON. " Special Dispateh to The Tribune: 13, * Porr Huros, Mich., May 510 v. m.—Dowy —Props Passaic, Starucca; schrs Emma C. Hatchinson, William Preston. John 3. Hutchin FLEECED. - " Special Dispatch to The Tridune. *. .~ NEW YoRrg, May 5.—An Oregon cattle-dealer, Nicholas Macoy, complained to the police to- day of being swindled out of $5,000 in gold by | S two Italian barpers. Macoy left Orezon for this m“dfisfi‘hf o 5 i, SROR city with the gold sewed in the pocketsof 3 | WiND—North, fresh wee_ ° ime. ot buckskin waistcoat, and - pockets made in his - < trousers’ legs. On the way he fell in with three INDIANS. Tl CEETENE a1 | Ttalinns, and soon showed them where his money Was .concealed. One of them leit, the train at ' Omaha, a second at. St. Louis, and the third came on here with Ma- coy, arriving last night. This morning the Ital- fan invited Macoy to teke a walk, having got thoronghly into his confidence, and put up at the same hotel with him. The twain went to Union Square, where they met another Italian with a satchel. The last' Italian opened the A Visit to Crazy-Horse's Band. z " Special Dispatch to The Trivune. f4 Rep CLoup, Neb., May 5.—Your correspondss ent; in company with a small party- of officers and civilians, visited the Crazy-Horse campto day. The village was still fiftecn miles distant, located on the edge of the Bad Land ravitss,, and the miniature plateans were crowded witt :]n::l elI and shaged thle nsltlon hed cat- | Some two hundred tepees, and the hills sm+ ealer & pile o ogus - gold | rounding fairly darkened with herds’of. pomles votes, - $:00,000, he had inherited; | Tpe latter are estimated at 2,500. " Enteringihs and with which be was about to sail for Italy. Macoy agreed ‘to take the same steamer, and was induced to put his gold in_ the satchel in- stead of being loaded down with it. Next came rome experience in a beer-saloon, and Macoy was lett with the satchel, which contained rolls of lead nstead of zold, while the ltalians ran away with the $5,000, with which the cattle man meant to visit his native land. - He will now go ‘West again. MURDER CONFESSED. Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Forr WAYNE, Ind, May 5.—An immense: sensation has been created at Van Wert, O.; by o confession made Iast night by John “Anson, o farmer living eleven miles from thas place, that | in March last he had ‘murdered & man named Arthur Anderson. - Anson’s statement- is sub-- stantially that about the st of January Ander- son came to his house to board, andsoon formed a criminal intimacy with his (Anson’s) wife. On the 1st of March she left his house and came to this city, and shortly afterwards a letter sent by her to Aunderson fell into ‘her' hus- | &Point 150 miles north of Tongue Biver ex band's hands. He opened it, and discovered | [00MeRt- R that Anderson was to leave and join his wife in . Fort Wayne. Anderson was still boarding at i his house, and at the supper table 2 row took § place over the matter, when Auderson picked up an ax_and struck Anson, whereupon the lat- ter seized n large buicher knife and stabbed Anderson three times through the heart, cans- ing instant death. He then took the body'io a shanty on the farm .and buried_it, and burned the shauty over it. He says he was unable longer to carry the puilty secret, but claimed to have acted in self-defense, tepee of Crazy-Horse, we were-greeted by a circle of half a dozen Chiefs, among them Cray- Horse, Little-Big-Man, Little-Hawl;- and He- Dog. Crazy-Horse is . apout 80 years:old, of slender, wiry frame, and very ordinary featares, ‘His face is considerably disfigured by o bulle: wound. The Chief was utterly indifferent{oont fi)magt solatations, and would . say- nothings ¢ has, however, told the interpreter that be” intends surrendering his arms, -war-ponies, &od ‘war-clothes, and will make a lasting peace. Little-Big-Man is the Chief who, in 1570, rode 1nto the.circle of the grest Commission armed to the teeth; stripped to the dkin, and declareds for war. 'Neither of thesc Chiefs have ever listened to overtures for peace, and with then, are 500 warriors of the same vositive stamp.-— Tle village contains about 2,000:souls: i ram of the suffering of the band are thorough- v confirmedd by the appearance of the village. All their dogs have been cater, while “msny ponies have similarly been disposed of. 3 The band will reach the Agency to-momow. These Indians report Sitting-Bull oo DryCreek;: UTAH. The Saints Becoming Belligerent | New YORK, Moy 5.—A Salt Lake dispatch states that the fecling aroused throughout the United Btates by the testimony ay Johm D Lee's. trial, relative to the Mounain Meado¥* massacre; has led the Latter-Day Saints; t03p pretiend the arrest of Brizham Young and other Teads of the, Church, acensed of sanctioning the - commission of that horrible crime. . i+t The Saints have determined to resist 807 movement against Brizham Young by the Fed= eral authority, aud to this end they are lfif‘" arming and” drilling. Orders have been/ pri- vately” issued by the military commanders of: the famous Nauvoo Legion, requiring that 0. genization to be in readiness for active & by the 218t of the present month. , Night mesk’; ines and drills are going on in: Salt Lake Gty itself, and it is- reported -that Brigbam Yous asserted, witbin the last few days, that th‘em!{nrg " . OAKEY HALL. . Special Dispatch to The Tribune. NEW YORK, May 5—The World says Oakey Hall's family “positively assert that Hall has neither communicated with his family nor any; of his friends since his departure in any man- ver whatever, and a private letter from Jen- nings to a friend of the ex-Mayor says letters which are forwarded to him by Hall’s friends in this city he had tendered to Hall, but that Hail :uq r:(uscd to receive them or to see any of the, }nans,nvlflgn gflve begn driven so often and & merican newspapers. . The famil -to-. | far, will be driven n longer. ; o, Hall tookt Dat Hifle money A%ay with bl | i Four Daxes of - broechlosding rifes wers 50 far a8 is known, and will probably attempt | Shipped last week to the sonthern settlementr” ; o cupport. himself In London, Whether the | 1rom the co-operative store at Salt Lake Ci State'or city will Institute suits against him ———————— :5:3 ;he :t;l}:emegn Lx;l‘?de by Tweed will de- COFFEF. & * e gflflson :rx_mi on taken wuchhfg‘}he release Special Dispatch to The Tridune. . b NEW YORK, May 5.—The overland moyeme nl!; . GEORGIA ITEMS. of coffee from California ports hes fallen 3 ATrLANTA, May 5.~George Clark, son of | Wonderfully within three years. In 1874026000 Judge Clark, of the City Court, hns been acquit- | Pounds were sent east from San Franclsco; 12 ted of the murder of Thomas Talbert on the | 1875 1,251,000 pounds, and in 1576 ‘only 106,000~ ground of: insanity.. The husband. of Mrs. | The ambition’of San Francisco aspired tores® Shaw, of Milledeeville, Ga., who was killed-| tWo-thirds.of the way across the continent, andf about a week azo, has been arrested on acharge | 187 a beavy hand on the whole coffee trade G- of murder. Two negrocs had been previously. | the Mississippi Valley, but the irresistible ' arrested for thie crime, but the Tittle daughter | ment of freizhts was against_her. - It. cost Bef- sald the father killed the mother. = | from 37 to 52 cents more per 100 pounds ‘7"5 collge in Chieago than it costs New York 1) THE HALLECK STATUE, Special Dispatch to The Tridune.- . ;22" New Yok, May 5.—At the.unveiling of the. Fitz-Greene Halleck statue in Central Ptk Muy' 15, President Hages will unveil ;20d prel: * 77| sent the statue to the city on bebalt of W8 » subseribers, and Mayor Ely will respond. . {am Cullen Bryant will introduce the '-:d William Allen Butler deliver-the a3dress, Gen. Jawes Grant Wilson read the poems. ™ ten for the occasion by Whittier: The Seventd Regiment will escort President Heyes. ~POSTMASTER ARRESTED. < New Havex, Conn., May 5.—Henry P. Barr; Postmaster ‘at - Westport, has been held ona charge ‘of receiving a rate of postage for third- class matter not authorized by 1aw. i CATGHT. Spectal Dispatch to The Tridutie, Oxama,; Neb., May, -5.—John Green, a dis-» charged soldi.r, was garroted and robbed of & checkof 8219 and $70 in * money: by threé men. named Maloney, Dwyer, ind McKee, Who” ¥ere | E:S