Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 7, 1877, Page 1

VOLUME XXXI. CHICAGO, MONDAY. MAY 7, 1877 would willingiy have refrained from any obsery- ances In regard to [t, but ss Prince Gortacha- kofl seems to sasume In his declaration sddress- the Governmonts of Euarope, that Russin -fs ‘wcting of Great Britain and of the other Powers, they {eel bound to state, in & manner equally formal anid public, that the declslon of the Ruselan Government {s not one which can have their concurrence or approval, LONDON. TUDLIO OFINION, Loxpox, May 6.—Notwithstanding the tards- ness of operations and the meagrencas of {n- formation, even the most pronounced friends of Turkey begtn already 1o forebode an casy vie- tory for the Russians, TIIN BXCITEMENT over the Parliamentary battle which {8 to begin fnthe House of Commona to-morrow almost overshadows the interest in the dilatory opers- tions of thewar. Itisarranged todevotoMondsy and Tuesday to debate on Gladstonc's resolu- tions, and a division Is to be taken the sccond night, At the conferencs of Liberal leaders on Friday 1t was declded to follow the couras provisionally agreed upon Wedncaday by voting for 8Ir John Lubbock's amendment In favor of the previous question, and therefore in con demnation of Gladstone's resolutions. b THE GENERAL INTERPRETATION OF THESE DAMAGED CLOTHING. FIRE!FIRE! CLOTHING Slizhlly Damaged by Water. = NOTE THE PRIGES-* 4 very strong feelins wing {n favor of Glad- stone throughout the e vbly lead to the disergsatistion 5T probal 8 dlse an| jon 0 ¢ Liberal pnrty’. g THE CAUCABUS, Lowpow, May 7—Latest—A ZTimes dispatch from Vienna reports that rumors come frum Constautinople that Kars has been taken, and that Erzeroum fs In danger, The correspondent saya: * Although these rumors require con- firmation, yot what we do kunow already goes far o excite a susplcion that ail fa not for the ‘Tarks a8 it should be,—nay, that there s a good deal that should not be." ADVANCING TOWARDS BRZEROUM. Loxpox, May 6.—In Asia the Russlan forces arcadvancingein a seml<ircle towards Erze- ronm, whilst the Tarkish forees are concentrat- od fn atrianglo of Erzeroum, Oty and Kars, According to informatlon recelved here, thero 8rono less than 140,000 men conducting and supporting the movements, so that we may ba prepared o hear of the first battle having been fought soutl of Kars, followed by an advance, forcing tho passes beiween Getshovan and Dellmusa to Midachinger and Hassan Kalel, where the Turks will bave to: take u a the defensc of for, If once the crest of mountains bordering Erzeroum on tho east fs won"by the Russtan troops, the town fs lost. The Russlan Consuls ol Batoum, Kars, Erzeroum, and Trebizond ac- company the headquarters, and will be intrust- ed with d‘.h“ civil administration of the districts THE WAR. Publication of Lord Derby's Reply to Prince Gort~ schakoff. The Note Unexpeotedly Outspoken in Its Terms of Dissatis- Her Majosty Views Present Action with Deep ‘Cosa suit (7 siyles Al wou} Caas anits, 1lght (1 [l Choviot ruits (froc! i e e caket puith (enck and Irogk) All Ita, ight welght (frock) .. @33352 baite, light welght (frock] 0dd Cass coats... Good working pa; cont frol o ts from 82,25 up to $4.50, best, from 84 o $12. s (age from 3 to 0), short panta, from $1 Dojw suits (age from 7 1o 11), long pants, from 84 Youihs eulta (age trom 12 to 16),11ang pasts, from Boys! good pants, from $1 up 1o §2.50. And Regards Her Justification of That Action as In- Fever Heat in London Re~ garding the Coming Par- liamentary Debate. Terded oale ana is,that the calliupon Parliament to aflirm thatithe responaibility for war rests with the misgovern- ment and oppression of the Porte) that British sympathies ought to be on the side of Turkey's assallants, and Britlsh power ought to be ex- erted iu conjunction with Russia in order to bring about dismemberment of she Ottoman Empire fn Europe. Itls estimated that soue- what more thana_hundred Liberals will voto with Qladstone. The argument of THOSE WHO DEPRECATE GLADSTONE'S COURSE is, that, If' he sould Lo supported only by a smail scction of Liberals, he will have cast un- Just discredit on tho strength of the party op- poscd to any armed {ntervention on bebalf of ‘Turkey. If he musters a creditable followlng Le will havo rendered Lord Hartington's posi- tion almost untensble. In cither ovent he will bave divided the Opposition into two camps, and thereby played foto the hands of the Gove VERT SIGNIZICANT for the thoronghness of the Russlan advance so far {8 the fact that each corps has kept up com- municition with the others throughout, This has been accomplished by Cossacks. Tho nuin- ber of Turkish troops at aud between Erzeroum, Kare, and Batoum amount to 64,000 regulars, of whom 2,000 arc cavalry and about 4,000 ar- In nddition, there aro some 6,000 5,000 Kurdish irregnlar cay- The Russians Said to Have Twice Assaulted Kars with Heavy Loss. Call and examino our stock, and satlety youraell (hat you can save GO per cent in buylng atthe FIRE STORE, 168 South COlark-st. FOR RENT. DESRABLE OFFICES IN THE TRIBUNE BUILDING TO RENT. Apply to WM. C, DOW, Boom § Tribuge Building, DOCK FOR RENT. Dook and Yard 208x300 ft, North Branch and North-av. Bridgo, suit~ oble for Lumber and Coal Yard, Rent moderate, OHARLES GOODMAN, * Room 43 Exchange Building. L OIU B;d‘. erMthIL L, MORTGAGE LOANS. ALTER 1. MATTOCKS 40 Desrborn-st, REMOVALS, (.0. TENBROEKE, Agent, HAS REMOVED Iis large and elogant stock of CARRIAGES, TRosd Wagons, Phastons, &c., &c., to 365.70 319 W. RANDOLPHST. Taving thos materlally decresecd our expenses, stock at LARGELY REDUCED Report from Constantino- ple that They Have Captured Fortress. militla sod about EARS is well armed, but the detached forts are badly placed, and cover each other {nsufficicatly, or not at all, nor ars any of the fortresses woll pro- visloned, with tho exceptlon of Erzeroum,whero there is & largo stock of rice and Indian corn. A RUSSIAX NEPULSE. Loxpon, May5.—The Erzeroum dispatch of May 2 saysn Russian column numbering 12,000, operating east of Kars, atlempted to force Sognaule Pass at Varishan, and was repulsed. Tho Ruasians twico assaulted Kars, but wore repulscd with heavy loss. Tho Russians Also Moving in a Semi-Circle Towards Erzoroum, THB SATUNDAY REVIEW esys: “The moderate Liberals and regular leaders of the Opposition perform a palnful duty In separatiog themselves from their for- mor clifef. Mr, Gladstono can for a moment soc nothing but Bulgartan massacres, and Lo s insensible to the imminent risk of destroying a bistorical English party.” THE PALL MALL GAZETTR says: ‘‘In bresking through the feeble or qanlzation which bis party, in the course of three scaslons, has barely secured, 1f 1s not at all impossible that Mr. Gladstone has destroyed the party {taslt.” THE SPECTATOR asserts that thereis nothing atallin any one of Gladstone's resolations to embarrasa the Qovernment, unless it 1s bent on plunging us sooner or Iater foto war for the protection of Turkey. Every change which tho Spectator can noto in the attltuds’ of the Government is chango {n one direction; change hostlle to Rus- sls, favorable to the Turkey; changs in the ai- rectlon of reproschiog Russia and apologizing to Turkey; change toward suspicion of Nortn- ern power and aympathy with Orlental power. If Lord Hartington and his colleagucs peralat aupport Bir John The Russian Army of the Danube Mass- ing at Bilistria and Rustchak, the famous Kurd Chief of Van, isabont to start with 10,000 Kurds for the Russlan fruntier, MUKDTAR PASHA. A dispatch from Constantinople states that Mukhtar Pasha telegrahed on Thursday last that In consequence of the recent engagoment before Kars thie Russians were obliged to move back their camp, Eight thousand Russians are encamped near Ardahan, but Ardaban had not 3ot been attacked. DERBY’S NOTE. IT REACTIES ITS DESTINATION. Loxpot,May 6.—A telegram from;8t. Petors- burg, dated Bunday, says: 'Lord Loftus to- day handed the Russian Government Lord Derby's revly to Qortachakoft's circular. It is stated on good authority that Russladocs not intond to reply. The Jndependencs Belge's Paris special asserts that Derby's reply is vory The coounandant at Batoum, telegraphing Loxpon, May T.—Lord Derby's answer to Thursday, announces a small successful on- Gortschakofl's circular noto Is published, Itis in the form of a noto from Lord Loftus, Brit- ish Ambasssdor st 8t. Petersburg. Following THB MOUNTAINS CROSAED. An Akbalzik diaputeh, dated May 9, says five columns of Russians traversed the mountains and effected s junction with the bulk of the army near Kars, THE DANUBE,.. TIRROUGI ROUMANIA. BucmAREsT, May 7.—The Cossack advance guard {5 within four kllometres’ of Bucharest, Quarters for Grand Duke Nicholas aro nlrcady engaged at Plolestt, The Russ Ing themselves very strongly between Ibrall and Reni, and mounting heary guns ju the {ntrenchments. A letter from Galatz states that 80,000 Russfans with 100 heavy guns are between Ibrall and Ronl. The probability of a Russlan corps moving up the Timok Valcy has been Increased by (ndicstions observable withtn the past forty-elght hours, The Russlan Gens, Kattlel and Btolgenwald have arrived at Bucharest. Eleven trains loaded with troops and baggage have also arrivea. Other tralug will follow, making a total of 12,000 Russtansto reach Bucharost befors Monday, They merely pass through towards the Danube and thelr cx- act destination {s unrevealed, RUSSLANS COMING TOOKTNER AT SILISTRIA. “LoxNvox, May 6.—Tho bulk of the Turkish forces appear to he massing towards Silistria and Rustchuk, and this is the direction Inwhich the Russians, by their movemeats, would ap- pear ‘o Indicate a desiro to pass the river, but the Turks scem still content toremain passively on the defensiva and mako no endeavors at any counter-stroko or forward movement which might ald them to form an mccurate judgmnent s to the polnt at whuch tho attack may bomade upaon thelr positiun or by what forces thoy may “‘Lonpox, May 1.—Iforwarded your Exeel- ency on tha 24thult. acopy of Princo Gorts- chako(I’s circular announcing that the Emperor had given orders to cross the frontlers of Turkey. Hcr Majesty's Government have re- celved this communication with deep regrot, best chance for the Liberal party is to rid itaelt of tho dead wolght of loaders who cannot Icad, and replace Gladatone, whether he will or no, CANNOT ACORPT THE STATEMENTS AND CONCLU- | in the old position which heought never to have L OBION T with which Princo Gortachakoff has accompa- nled it as Justifylng the resolutfon thus taken. Tho protacol towhich her Majesty’s Government, at tho Instance of Russia, recently became a par- ty,required from the Bultan no fresh guarantees for raform of his Administration. of enabling Russia better to abstain from jso- Inted actlon, It afiirmed the interest taken in common by the Powers {n the condition of the Christian populations of Turkey. It went on to aeclare that the Powers would watch carcfully the manner In which the promises of the Ot-- toman Governmoent wero carrled Into effect, and that, should their hopes once more be dis- appolnted, thoy rescrved the right to consider in common the mcans they might think beat fittod ta secure the peace and well-bolog ot the Christlans, To thess doclarations of the Inten- tions of the Powers, TIX CONSENT OF TUX YORTH WAS NOT ASKND OR naare {ntrench- 8I% STAYFORD NORTHCOTE, spoaking yesternight at a banquet of the Royal Academy, and evidently in allusion to Mr. Carlyle's letter, sald: “Certalnly, nover was there & timo when we had more need, Iu poll- Llca at lenst, for good sense and good taste. It ia important that the peoole of England should keep their heads cool, and not believe too hastlly in idlo rumors," Lonpow, May 6.—Operations In war risks formed an Important part of business In ma- rinc-Insurance during the week, but the tone has boen calmer than last week, though rates cannot be sald to have decreased atall. Very large amounts have been fnsured on British property in British bottoms, sgainst war risks only, from China to the United Kingdom by ships or steamers warrantod to sall on or beforo tho 81t of August, at 5s por cont, or 7s 64 if on or befors tha 8lat of October. that as much an B per cent has beeu pald on English merchandiso in ¥ngliah steamers to Gibraltar.and 10s per cent to Constantinople. But provalllng rates would be nearer 2s 6d per vent and Ga per cont, respectivaly, as much as 10 guincas por cent having becn paid againat the risk only of blockads of or prohibltion of ex- port of graln from Russlan Baitls ports, and much higher rates agalnst the same risks at Russian ports i the Black Bea. The rate against war risks only by ship or shipa to or from Inain or Pacific ports {s about s per cont. CARLYLR OX DISKANLI'S POLIOTY, - Loxpon, May 5.—Thomas ;Carlyle, I 10 the Times on the Esatorn question, say: 5 ltorof tAe Times—Sin: A rumor eve whero prevalls that our miraculous Promier, In apite of bis Queep's preclamation of neutrality, Intends, undoer cover of **cara for Britlsh inter. asts,” to sond the English fleet to the Baltie, or do some other feat which shall compel Raseia to de. clare war against England, Latterly the romor haa shifted frous the Haltic, and becoma stil) more sin- lstor on tho eaatern side of tho acene, where & feat {s contomplated that will forco not Russia only, bus all Surope, to declare war agalnst us. This latter I have como (o know as an indlsputable fact in our prescnt atate of affairs, and tha outlook is surcly a grave one, Asto Hritlsh interest, there 1a none visible or concelvable to me oxcopt the taking strlct charge of our ronte to Indis by Sues and Egypt, and for the rest rcsolutely stecring cleaz of any copartnery with the Turk. In regard to this or any other Dritish interest whatover, it ‘should be felt by England to bo as real ignominy to bo connected with the Turk at all, Nay, had, as in fact we ought to Lave, & wish fo save bim from perdition aod annibllstion {n Qod's world, the one future for him that has any hope in it, is even now ihat of belag conquered by fhe Russlans and grad- ually schooled and drllled tnto a peaceableattompt at learnlog 1o be hlmself governed. The newspa- per outcry sgainst Rusals ® na more respectable to 106 than the howling of Bedlam, procoediug, sa it does, from the deopest Ignorance, egotism, aud national Jealousy, These things I write noton bearsay, but on scute knowledge, and to all fricnds of their conntry will recomtnend Immediato atten- tion to them while thelr is ye: time, lost | woeks the maddest and wost criminal thing Britiah Goverament could do should be dons, and all Europe kindled fata the flames of war, & Cheyne Row, Chelses, May 4. X A¥D THE LinERALs, Heraid, y g deal of fecling is now insnifestiig itself among the Liberal with refereuce to the motion which Mr, stous has announced that he will mako on Mon- day night uest. A jactiou of the Liberals under tbo Jeadership of John Bright and 8lrJohn Lub- boc alresdy declared his intentlon of moviog 3 prertviu ‘)muon ou Mr, ve resolutions), proposcs tho ex-3ialstor, Lgnl Hartiogton will act with g:‘ c}eclu:u that lnlthe e\;n:it‘ of m'n;il; stons recely! the vote ol & majority or ¢ large miggm of the Liberal party, he will resiga toe cadership, on the grouud that if ha arty together he will not bold on. Lord Hartiogton's suc- cessor will be gither Mr. Goschen or 85 Mr. Gladstone will under no circumstances Toturn Lo the Jeadurahip of his party. There b GAS FIXTURES, GAS FIXTURES AT COST! JOSEPH HOGAN 32 West Madisonest. BUSINESS CALDY, NEW FIRDM. GO0ODMAN, GATLLOWAY NO. 87 FIFTH AVENUB, Patent Stoam Heatfog and uates for all kiads of aicam ‘The Porte, no doubt, has thought fit, unfortu. nately In the opinlon of Her Majcaty’s Govern- ment, to protest agalnst the expressions in queation as fmplying encroachment on ita indes pendence, but while while so doclarlog sider the protocol as having any binding character on Turkey, the Turkiah Government bavo agaln afiirmed the intentlon of carrying Into execution the reforms, Her Majesty's Government cannot, therefore, admit, tended by Prince Gortschakof, that the auswer of the Porto removed all hops of defer- wishes and advice Europe, and all sccurity for the application of the reforms, mor nccessarily preciudes the posslbllity of tho concluslonsof a poace with Montenegro or of an arrangemeut for mutual TEE OREAT BIVER WIICH FLOWS TROUGH THX BCEXX OF TUN BASTERN wall, ‘The Danube, from its source to its mouth, In a0 alrline, 18 1,000 miles (says an oxchango)g but the stroam is so tortuous that its actual length s 1,820 mlles, and it traverses ucarly 23 degrees of latitudo aud 53¢ of longitude. The Davube and its tributaries drain an area of 800,000 square miles. At Belgrade, the Capital of Servis, it recelves the water of the Bave, and then pursucs an east- erly cousse, constituting the boundary botween Austria and Bervis, nntll 1t rcaches Tranayl- vanls or Fastern Carpathlans at the cxtremo western end of Roumania, Its coursa through this rango {s elzhty miles, and the pass offers & great obstacle to payi tion. ‘Tho rlver is narrowed to loss than Lialf breadth above, aud in seven differcnt places vaplds and whirlpoo] In the so-called Iron Gate, Lol are the nost violent. At this the sinall village of Ticheviztha narrowed from o width of & mi| with & depth, can bo sscertaiued from tho violgnco of the currant, of from 500 to 1, mountalus on elther side are very 1y 5,000 tect high, thoso on the Anstran. side belug 1,000 feet higher than thoss on the o) Tho mouutains rlse sheer for about 8,000 fect abuve the strean; rpendicular, rather over- hen tho niver 1s low, tho slarp crucgy poluts of subaqueoits rucks bo- n to suow thomselves above the stream, and tween theso tho passage is most narruw, winding, and shallow, and, in passed by steamers es) purpose, of Jight draug! dlc-wheels and FINANCIAL. oo FINANONAL, BANKCNG HOUSE of CAZARUS STLVERHAN Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, Humone; lr:‘g'&“ Real Estaly g Exciounes oura INTEL, “Yrivune oince, GENEHAL NOTI0ES, Great Wes_tcll Railway. citon of the Buspension Dr dver, of which dne notica b ic, baviug deen oomiploted by thirsa nously fecomnicnd (he rosu e, A a0d afler the S34] 12105 Wil el b fua v IER MAJESTT'S GOVERNMENT ATILL DELIRVES that, with patlence and moderation on both sldes, these objects might not improbably have beon attalued. Prince Gortschakoff, opening {s now closed for attempts st concillation. peror resolved to uadertako the task of obtain- ing by coerclon that which the unanimous efforts of the Powers falled to obtain by per suasion, snd ho expresscs Lls Majesty’s con- viction that this step fs in accordance with the seatiments and Intercsts of Europe, 1T OANNOT BR BXPECTRD that her Majesty's Government should agree in this vlew. They have not concealed their feel- Jog that the presencs of large Ruesian forces on the frontiers of Turkey men- renderfug disarmament awakenlng feclings of e, Produce and Pro. of which_thoso polut, oppuaite 0¢rordob Printing UMce, the stream |s ¥3 fa the Nortijweat, TS aud, where not hang tho water, apprehension and a materiat obatacloto pacification and reform. They cannot beliove the cntrance of thoss armies upon Turkish soll will alleyiate tho difl- culty or finprovae the condition of the Christian population, but tho course on which the Rus- sian Goverument bas entered involves graver and more serious conalderations. 17 18 1% CONTRAVENTION OF THE STIPULATION of the Treaty of Paris, by which Russian and the other Powers agreed to respect the {ndepond- ©caco aud territorial Integrity of the Ottoman Emplre. Iu the conferences of London In1371, 8t tha close of which the sbove stipulation with others was again contlrmed, the Russian Plenl potentlary, in common with those of other Yowers, signed a declaration affirming It to be AX RISENTIAL PRINCIYLE OF TUN LAW OF ¥A- 0! Buspeasioa Lnidge, F. BROUGHTON, General Manuger, flamllion, fact, can only tw of water, four pad- imincuso powe:, sud even these steamers mako use uf a chunuel out thruugh tho ledge. At tho bresking up of g of 1670 the tloating leo amony the crags in the [ron Qute, wiich causcd the streaum (o buck up uutil vast tructs in Hungary wero under water, Such adeluge waa uuprecedented, sud ft sugecsted at the timo the feasibility of producing s simiiar effect by urtificlal means, os s ineasurs of war, Z up of the preciplcs of Mount on tho Anstrian efdo of ths puss, would bring down mauy milllous of tons of rouk across the Iron Quie, and long befure the obstruction could be Ii;sum Euarops would be turued into a; {3 Having passed the Carpatbiaos, the Danube takea a southerly course, botweon Roumails and tance, and then b rest of its course, tho Houmsunla and the Bulgaria. Below - PRESSED BRICK. BULYE, RUNSELL & 60, a 5 0] Comluaton s L S bdge o€ A e ree Modal of Meris for 0 HUSSELL & Co., the fco in the 8 MEFRIGERATONRS, 'ORS ! There are none that equal tho L N, House Furnisher, O 102 Biatost . URATES AND SIANTELS, & SLATE MANTELS F. B PROBOSCO & CO., 0. 63 _STATE.ST. wfunou NOTICES, DISSOLUTION., Tetofors exlating removed & vust that no Power can liberato itself from the en- Kegement of & treaty nor modify stipulations thereof unless with consent of the contractiug parties by means of an amicable ar- ravgement. In taklug actfon agalnst Turkey part, and baviog recourse to arms witbout further consultation with his allies, the Eviperor of Rusals has separated Limself from European concert, and bas at the samo timo departed from the rule to which he himself had solemuly recorded his consent. Itis JMPOSSIBLA TO FORESXE THE CONSEQUENCES of such ag acte Her Majesty’s Governmeat forming tho boundary rvia for a short dis- throughout tho Turkish peavioce” ot url provisee ol Widdln it takes s twn to the cast, which it pursues uutll it reaches & y thirty-two miles from the Black Sea. hen 1t takes a sudden turn tg the north, fow- iog in that direction 100 miles, to the junction with the Bereth, near (al “Thy Again to the eust, rocelving the waters of tho Pruth, which marke a part of the Russisn fron- tier. After flowing east about fort: the vicinity of Lamall to vote ogalnst ihto several branchee, Thean wind sluggishly | descent taward the rivcr. On these emincnces through the low and dreary alluvial gg‘mlr‘; alone no less than aizty wind-mills are closely known as the Delta of the Danabe, and empty | crowding each other. Some few batterics the waters of the great Hver Into the Black Eea | planted ~ here are enough [n the hour of by three principal channels—the Kilia, Sullna, | danger to protect the baok of the Danube and Bt. George—snd four losser ones, The | againat a violent assault, Hawever, Tultacha inost_northerly of these—the Killa—is the | 18 no port, and it will hardi, be cxpected to re- hnundnr{ at this point hetween nulfimn aod | slst a reqular sicge at any time, whileagainat an Roumanis, and ia only about twenty-five miles unexpected attack the' Dmldnn of Tultscha distant from the Russtan boundary Hine, might render the very best and abundant ser- The rapldity of ita current in {ts upper course, L(cu. el::cm"] to m'fn a forced crossing of the anuy its tortuous windings, the shallowness of the water of the partion which flows through Hun. | - Tultacha has fitteen places of worship— eleven Christian churches, two mosques, and fil;yr, n;n:l in ll):lu out‘llcuhl'n:o '.hlc ml::‘ccl': fle.u,k-ml ie recls, rapide, and whirlpools which mark its | two synagogues. Greeks are the predominant course at many polnts, have rendered the navi- Dopullll?fil,,i.‘l:nugh there aro mn’:’ny Tussians gation of the ‘Danube so difficult that fts com- | here. The latter are represented by no less than eight religiovs sects, Notwitfstanding mercial use has not yet been fully developed. 8 Introduction of steam {n 1830 Inaugurated | the many Russian inhabjtants, no confiicts with thie Russian papulation are known to oceutr, nor anew era In its hlltor(. B{nthe convontion of he B are the Russlaus of that place, it is sald, any ov. 7, 1857, hetween tes through which theriver flowa, vessels of all nations were al- | o kindly disposed 1o thefr own country. ASBIA MINOR. lawed toascend the Danube from its mouth to an: Fclnu above, but navigation between tho dif- erent polats was reserved to the subjects of tlecountries along it banks. The Treaty of | PESCRIPTION or Ty CATTURED TOWN—TRE MAIN ROADS FROX THE RUSMIAN FRONTIRR— RUBSIA'S DESIGNS. 3 Nro Tark Trivune, Marth 80, 1871, anthorized the lovying of apro- Visional tax on all cominercial vesnels for pay- Tgn town of Bayazid, which the Russians havé aqaired Apparently without realstance, is Ing for the removal of the remaining obstruc. tona at the Iron Gate, In case that work should in Turkish Armenta, adfacent to the frontler, It Is ifteen miles from the foot of Mount Ara- be undertaken. An Austrian cnmRmH, which 8 Five rat, decmed the sccond cradle of the human almost mnnuamllud the traflicof t ery has erace. A large plain lles between the mountain a very largo fleet of atcamers and transports. Its veu:rhlf make the voy#:q from V(cn:g to ) and some precipltous hills behind Bayazid, The Pasha Palace is ou the summit of & crag overs Constant{nople in seven days, This company flmplnj'l 150 vm:llln lun“hlm qu;,wexilm:nuhe.&nu licss are now uj the impendin hostilities. e b ) looking the town. ‘This once splendid bullding was despoiled durlng a Rusalan Invasion. The town liasa diiapidated appesrance, with very bad bazaars. 1tis 150 milcs east southeast of the Turklsh fortroes of Erizum, nioety miles from Kare, and ity miles from_the Russian townof Erlvan. The road to Erlzum Ppneses over the vast PMM of Passiuand Arcsh Kerd, It 18 a good h Fhwnv. and, excepting where the mountalns which némnw these great platcaus arecrossed. it 1a adapted for vehicles, Tha country 18 well cultivated and watered, In the capturcof this place the Russians show that the line of operationa in Asia is alinost un- mistakably indicated by the teachings of former campalgus and by the gmdly of roads practica- ble for' an srmy. The Russian and Turkish frontiers are conterminous for a distanco of about 200 miles from o pofnt on the Black Sca n few oitles_south of Fort 8t. Nikolaia to Mount Ararat. This fronticr {s crossed by threa matn roads, ‘The most northern fs that whish runs down by the shiores of the Black Bea from Potl, 'the terminusof araliway from Titlts, amil distant twenty miles trom the frontier. This rond, after “crossing the Turkish frontler, forks at Lstum. One branch runs along the aca-coast. direct to Trebizond, the other wounts the Val- Iey of tha Joruk direct to Erzeruin. ¢, The sce- ond road crosecs. the frontler close to the Ruaslan fortrcss of Akhaltsfkh, and thence to Kars. Tho third is tho direct roaa from Tifils 0 y_crossing the frontier at tho Huesian fortress of Alexandropol. From Karstho road 18 open to Erzcrum. Besides theso thirce roads across the frontier thoro Is the road from Erivan ints Armenia, This road crosses tho Russian Irontier ‘to the east of Ararat, aud thereforo a:n!ea for 8 few miles through' Persian terri- ry, but the Perslans are not likely to offer any yery violent protests upon the subject of tho vlofatlon of thelr territory, sud as onc of Paske- witch's columns entered Turkey by this routo In 1825 it must be taken into cousideration. In discussing the probable Line of march of the Ruselans upon the European side of tho Black Bea, ong as -lvuil to consider Constantinople as the objective of thelr journcy, This conld hardly be the case on ihe Aslatic side. The distance from the Russian frontler to tho Hos phorus {s about 1,200 miles, o distance which could not be traversod by a large army in one campaigu. The object of the Russfan campalgn, then, will buthe reduction of the Turkish strong places, the defeat of the Turkish army in the fleld, and the subscquent. uisition of terri- tory. For ecenturics Rusain lias been aendily and surely areulnfiolnrw-rd in this direction, The great natural undary of the Caucasus has been paased, Clreasela has disappearcd, from among natlons, Erivan was wrestod from Por- #la. and Akhaltaikh and Gumri—~now Alexandro- pol—{rom the Tusks in thy campaiin of 182, and Ruesta {s now ready for a long atep for- ward. . Tho linc of the next frontler appoara n- dieated by nature. If the frontier line, fustend of belng drawn near doc weat from Mount Ararat, be taken southwest but a very short dlstance by the fortress of Baya- zid, {t will tonch tho head-waters of the Eastern Eunhrates, Follow the riveralong until, sbout tho Sith dearee of longitude, It meets the Weatern Euphiratea. Ascend this river as far s Ersinjlan and thenco draw a straight line up to Trebizond. A great slice this, but not ong hit 100 lurge for the Russlan appetite. =1t would eive thom the greater portion of Armenla, It would place them upon the Euphrates, would give them a linc of frontler marked out for tho gficnter Dortion of Its vourse by the two arme of that river, and Bzuunied on the south by the fortresscs of Bayazid, Melazgero, and Palu; would take them over the Saganliz Mountains, which have hitherto proved almost us uncon. gueruble s the mountains of Circassia, and ¥ould give them Knrs, Erzerum, Batun, and ‘Trebizon, Ouco sottled union thla line' they could afford to walt. They would have pasacd the last natural defenses of Asia Mivor, and its broad plains would llo open to them whenever they choso to excito another robellion or get up any equally plausible ground for a war, TIIE CZAR. M8 BPEECH AT MOSCOW. Moscow, May 6.—The Czar, addresstng the Estates 8nturday, sald: * Bix weeks ago I ex- pressed heren hope of a peaceful solution of the Eastern question. I wished to spare to the utmost the preclous blood of my subjects, but wy cflorts have been in vain. My Kischencft manifesto announced to the Emplre that tho moment I foresaw had arrived, Tolay Iam bappy to be alle to thank my people for their patriotlsm, which hos been vroven by decds. ‘Thelr readiness to undergo sacrifices cxceeds our bxpectations. May God assist us to fullll our task, and bless our troops who aro about to engage in combat for the faith, Em- peror, and fathertand.! A SOLEMN ENTRY. 81, PerERSNURG, May 6,—~The Czar will make o solemn entry Into Bt. Petersburg Monday. While in Moscow ho recefved a deputation of merchants and German residents, who present- ed to the Empress 25,000 roubles for the wounded. THOE PRINCIPALITIES. ROUMANLL h§nos. May 6,—A Bucharest tolegram says the Roumanian Senate Saturday adopted an ad- dresa in reply to the Prince’s speech. The ad- dress declares that the Senste will never coun- 8¢l any hazardous or dangerous policy, still lcss any attack on Turkey, which would be an unpar- donable att of thoughtlussness, and concludes: * Nevertheloss, we will defend our hesrths if sttacked.” During the debate on the address the Minlster of Forelga Affairs, explalnlng the Government's policy of neutrality, sald, “We shall defend ourselyes, if attacked. Wo slgned no convene tion with the Turks, who arc savages. They Liave {nformed our Consul they will burn Tult- cha {f tho Russtans cross the Danube. They in- sult us continually. They bave suspended the functions of our acnt, treating lim s an ordi- nary Ottomon officlal, No other Power has protested opajust our convention with Russis. Without ‘the convention the Russians might have taxen extremo measurcs and driven away our Government.* SERVIA. * A Belgrada gpecial says that the members of the Miitary “Adminlstration, which dissolved last February, huve been summoned 2o rosume thelr posts within the week. Tho Government is purchasing warlike stores. The question of Bervia's neutrality will very shortly bedeclded. The Turkish Cuamber of Deputles has voted urgency for the bll proclaiming a state of slege. A apecial committes will examine the blll, which, however, will not bo enforced fm- mediately, VARIOUS, GERMANY'S PROTEST UIEEDED, BeRLIN, May 0.—The Torte has officially no- tified Germany of its nceuptance of the German protectorato over Russlan subjects, although the porsons who formerly were in Rusaian of- ficlal service will bo expolled, IN EGYPT. Loxpox, May 7.—Au Alexandria dispatch says the Russian Consul-General and the whole stall of the Consulate have left for Trleste. DOBRUDJA. TOE TWO TURKISK FORTIPICATIONS COVERING 3 TUE LOWER DAUNDE, Translated for the Sliolouts Giobe- Democras from the s Gasetie, AMERICAN. A correspondent of the Gusette describes the THR JEWS IN TURKEY, two Turkish fortlfcatlons covering the Lower Bpecial Dispaich to The Trioune. Danube, and thus Dobrudja. flo says: Isaktscha, Nk most of tho towns on tho Danube, fa situated on a bill. Back of it.a short distanco hills and mountains o abundance, ‘Those hills next to the Danube are fortified, and 00 tho east slde of Isaktschs, In the dircction of the river, we observe two rcdoubts and one fort. Icould not discover any guns on them, but was struck by the yery considerable height of a battery, planted, it Is sald, by the Russians in tho Ilast war. At any rate, much care. has been gRlven to {mprove tho forner fortifications of the place, However, I could not understand why they should sclect so high an clevation, and entirely fsolated, to place connon upon. A camp contalning soms fow tents was secn on a hillock right on the bank of the Danube, Already the troops are observed camplng In tho open alr, Bteaming past thelr camp the Turks crept out of their tents, and withlu a short time sbout 100 soldiers were secn standing on the bauk, All types of the Orient wero represented smong tho handful of men, Thele complexion ranked from the white raco ot the Caucasiau to the very blackness of the African, Bume of thie Osnianll wore evgaged with thelr morniug toflet, and tu view of thelr different complexians, stripped to the b, they prescoted quite a chockered and pleturesquy spectacle, un they wers standing. or squatted before thelr whitened tents, ‘I'ultacha, properly called the * town of wind- milly," is the other fortiticatiun, dlstant about twa Liours from Isaktacha., Moro thuu 120 wind- mills aro ubserved on the suburbau eminenves, ‘Tultatha Is & town of 23,000 Inbabitants, beautts fully sltuated, aléo akut n by bills, whils in terraces tho soutliern part uf the town ascends tho hills on which the windmills are erected. fv may, {ndeed, be sald t the credit of Tultscba, that tue town withio corresponds with 1ts outsido Bspecty for the streets aud liouses are jore trlendly and cleaaly than anywhere clso fu Tur- Twy. Next to Rustchuk, it is the noat ugrecaole town I bave mct su fur on wy travels through Bulgeris and Dobrudfs, Lhere 18 & garrison stas Uoted ters of abuut 1,600 fufautry, - Sowe elzht davs ago GO0 cavalry and a battalion of lufautry were sunt from here Lo Babadogh, thivty kilo- meters distant frow here. ‘The fortitications ol Tultscha arc to tho weat and southwest, Two redoubts are erected on a mountain some 1,500 feet above tho level o the ses, crowded fu be- tween the Danube, the Girrls Creek,snda mnareh situsted wn:nwnr-ll{ of the town. Those redoubts are weil supplied with caunon, coin- wmsending the Danubecumpletely. Kouud about that bill the old town was bullt, burnt by the Rusalans n 1823, To this day the inhabitants of Tultscha call that spot Old Tultsche. Direct) south of those positions there 18 aoother hifl, 730 feet above the level of the sca, on which, (n 1855, tho so-callel old Arablan Stas Fort was thrown up. On the soutlicastern slupe of this Lill wo sce twa other fortifications, dirceted toward tho towu and theeastern branch of the Dunube, also {ndebted to the Crimean War for thele origin, These old works Lave Jatterly becn repulred, considerably nulug;x!, although not yet supofied with ordnance. Ths Krupp canuon arrived at Tultscha were 8t once delivored to the monitors aod. war-shipe of the Daoube, belng geeatly in waut of ordosuce up to that time. Nuwmerous aud bigh hills ariss on the east sldo of Tultscha, woat of thew of steep Wasmnaron, D, C., May 6.—Simon Wolfe, loog time Recorder of Deods here, a Gorman of much promincnce, and a candidate for Consul- ate, makes the following statenient with regard to the porsccution of Jews in Turkey, He clalms to speak from personal knowledge. e ssys: *“I have no desire to enter Into contro- versy a8 to the present conflict, but I do most positivcly say that in Turkey proper not a Jew has been persecuted for tho lost seventy years, On tho contrary, they stand on equallty, and only recently quite a larce number were clect- ed as membors of - the Turklsh Parlament. The persccutions have been, and are as report ed by cable this ‘week, in Roumanla, whcre the Greek Church holds sway, Itistheold story of blind, stupld ignorance funned Into flame by fanatical pricsts, and these barbarians nre taking advantage of a atate of war to continue thelr inhwinan and dastardly practices, The poor Jow can gain nothing by becoming a Rus- sian, - The only thing that can be dono to ald him in his dlre dlstress is fur the great Powers, strengthencd by tho moral encouragement of our great Republic,toremonstrate and fusist on the recognition of the broad and enlightened principles of modern clvilization,” TIE FENIANS. To the Western Assoctated Tress, Darrox, 0., May 8.—~A Fenlan movement is In sgitation smoug Irlsh citizens. A vall has been lsaued for a meeting fu regard to the par- ticipation of Englaud [n the European war aud tu take meusures for obtalniug a unity of xction anioug Irlshmen, with the purpose of o gencral movewent toward regulnlng possessivn of Ire- Jand. The call {a signed by several promiucut Irish citizens, TUB STATB DEPARTMENT . Wasuinaton, D, C.,,May 6.—Tho Departmen of Stato has not yet beca officially lnformed tbrough the proper Russian source of tho exist- eace of wur letween Hussla and ‘furkey, The Latter, it will be recollected, mads known tho fuct to the Dopartment scveral daye ago. When HRusala shall b hieard from the Departinent may frame such reply to each usour position towards the bellizerents requires. Every proper meas- ure will be taken to strictly obsérve our neutral sclations, whils yielding no rights of our citl- Zens ubacr the treaties and intervational law, ‘There {8 reason to belicve the Russian ships will s0on depart frum our waters, WAR MISCELLANY, TUR WABL IN BOSYIA, . Belgrada (Aprit 19) lcgram to London Times. The volunteers from Boswa who entered the Bervian servico last summer have returned pea- atless to the campa of Despotovich in the Krains, Kozars, and Moaitza districts. Tho Kozars Mountains and tho cuvirons of Banjs Luka are 1ull of insurgents, who have frequent skirmishes with the Moslem forces. An insurgest force uuder Jove Gavrich Las hsd an eogagement with & force of mized Turks and Roman Catho- lics at tho Village of Mravitza. The Catholic coatiogent was cmmanded by Pajo Doditch, who Is also a Cathollc. An en; reported in the Village of Biby: gagement i also tch, in the Kozars - Monntalns, near Plskairtza. 1in this confitet the villages ¢ disappeared,”? thorlties express surprise at the ‘tourage snd determination manifested by the Ragah Insur- Rents, who have hitherto always been 0 sube missive. The rebellious tho Monteaegrin tactics, uipon thelr sandjaks in thelr enconnters with the Turkish troops. Several marders are reported 8 having been committed by the newly-called- out militia proceeding to thelr rendezvous. A 8, on thelr way to Banja inn in the valley of Mach- iskao, whera they found Stefan 8imme, o well- known and popular Christlan, and aleo an old man of the neighborhood. The recrutts killed them both, saying that **if they conld not reach’ the insurgents they would make sure of thess two.” The {nsurgents are reported to be Raln- ing successes in mearly all thelr collisfond the Tarkish troops, as they have the adrantago of being ablo to concen~ trate in some mountaln retreat and then tally out upon tho Turks, who are gencrally taken by surprise by superfor numbers. Seven pleces of artlllcry havo been sent from Travalk to Mostar, the Capital of Herzegovina, and troops are belng sent continually through Sers Jevoto the Insurrectionary districts. The Mos- lems gre sald to have become thoroughly aroused to the real nature of their situation, gto the future with gloomy peasants are following and depcod principally party from Gradischk Luka, stopped atan and to he lookin; DRITIMI MILITARY PREPABATIONS. London Dally News, Aprit 21, The Central News Agoncy says tho War Offica have invited tenders for 100 hospital tents and the tatter to be promptly do- tents to sccommodate 50,000 men are being made for the EBoglish Govern- vilian states .that the employes in ng Department, Piifico, n twics called upon to work mmuoition makery of ays Iron) are not bon- tern crisls, for most of uro belng filled by the mall-arm manufactur- ers, however, are well au; our own Government., speets uniayorably affected by the polltical aftue stlou, Thete arc many contracts placed in that town for sheet-Irone, 1o be delivercd in the Dal- d_sbould war break out it fa be- orders will be countermanded. 52,000 sand-bags, the Birmingham district (s cfiting langely by the Eas: the present requiremonts Heved that these ‘Tho fall n the prico of Iron, too, wer of many 8heflleld houses to I ALAVIO SECRET SOCIETIES, Fienna (Jorii 17) Correspundence London Standard, 0 years aco tho Slavie Comnmitteos firat co under pretenss of caring nsurgents in Herzegovina and tives, and there they first une ith the red cross; insurrcction fn Bosnia broke out; then they drove the Serviaus and Monten- ezrins to begin war, recrul volguccen; last Novembei me Is likely to put camo into cxlsten: for the wounded | assisting the fugi folded the white soon afterward the iting and pagin: rlhgywm])’!cile tho they are forcing. Russla to o war witl n take care of the wounded,” & ald to me, ** womust have accomplish this—that is, provoke tenths of our of the slck and Under the protoction of the cannon ond muskets were smugp] and Montenegro, and thie Russian Court, under the delusion that it could make use of tho commitiecs for its own contributed large sums to tho coll were made. Now it tremblos before the com- - mittees and obeys hesltatingly, it is true, Before wo ca Rusatau doctor but for the care them,~unwillingly and but they aretho masters. BURSIAN DIILL AND EQUIPMENT, arta (Avril 20) Correapondence Landon Siandard, armament of this huge force ) It I8 far from uniforn. Ths rent kinds of muskets, sowe cotps huving the Berdan rifle, othera the man Iz supposod to go rounds of atamunition. K the Russizn army), nfantry has two diffes Kruka musket, Each into actlon with sixty It hns been recently.ordered that an ame should follow cvery battalio A cart carrylog a few trenching tools fs attached to each company, The arma- ment of the cavalry {s peculisr to Russfa, In e exception of the drgoons, K arc armed with lances and ro- volvers; the second rank have nelther lanca nor revolver, but a Herdon rifle. The di alone have the Kruka musket, The arc armed with lance, sabre, and musket. The men armed with rifies bave twenty rounds of ned with revolvers only every corps, with thy ball cartridge, thoso arn elghteen rounds. The training of the Russlan army leaves much 1o bie desired, and the drlll scems in a transi- tion state—between the closc arder of former rmation which long-range red necessary. Tho men are tralned i marksmuonslilp, 1s admlrable—thelr movenien sibly not rapld, but thoy will follow their oflicers h unquestionable docility, will tako good aim, and not fire wtthout orders. Whoever encounters them will have to deal Neverthicless, there s days and_ the loose fo fircarms have rendes with a formidable foe, unquestionably a falling off in the in tho smart perforiance of niovements that used formerly tobe a charncteristic feature of Russlsn fufuntry, There is, perhaps, a 1ttls too much of tho Frenels lalsser-aller } and, as reards the drill for action inloose order, it Is performed without elther tho precision or dash of tho Prusslun or Austrlan ‘armies, cavalry, all that can be mald {s that tho addition has deprived It to sotne extent. of its gallant and soldierly bearing, lars biuve learncd from the Cossucks thelr bad The teams of the artlllery arecxcellent, novewents rapld, Thero {s, f men able to lay a gus distlaction butwekcn divisional and corpaartitiery Allss AXD AsiUIITION FROX TIS COUNTRY. e1o York Tridune, M The beginning of actua) host! 80-Turkish war hias not caused tho arms and am- munition factories In this country to abato thelr activity, The Unlon Metallic Curtridgs Com. pany of Bridgeport, Conn., and day tiliug unders, Cul ford is sald to b liftea tu the Rus- Is employed night ave received a large order from overnment for navy revolyers. Bmith & Wesson have lately compleicd an order revolvers for the Turkish Govern. ment. A Turkiah ofticer whio has been tu Wa- terbury, Conn, for o year, superintending ufacture of cartridge of Brown Brothers, stll remains on . Tho Winchiester Arms Com basthe contract for flling thess shella. stated that several steamships, amoug them the John Dramal), havo lett New Haven fa tined 1or Coustantinople, other port, and ealllug uu ct clearing for ane er the Engilsh flag, MOBILIZATION IN RUSSIA, dorit 5)) Corresyondance London Siandard. ilization fu Russla fs 'a wstter of oo amall duliculty, on acvount of the extent and scanty population of th territory, of communication, and the uire to be taken agalost the population in lund and other provinces. The country loe deed 1y divided into u certaln number of recrult- ing districts, but ns thio curps belougingto these districts are generall forth thero 18 a chasser-croisca of men and horses all over the Ewplre. As regands the artillery, its mnobillzatlon requires o supplement Under thu moat favorabla cir- cumstauces the mobllization of the Russian srmy canuok be effected under from five to six weeks, Asregards tho army that Russis can Lring foto the dcld azainst Turkey, ing ber frontiers fn Europe an: requlilto 10 bear in mind that the popular chare acter of the war would enable tha Governmeant e garrisons 1o the fu- a couple of divisions ust pow to kee) divisions with iheir ot 40,000 horscs. to dispense with any terior of the Emplre, at Warsaw would sufiice Llieadquarters at 8t. Vetersburg would be epough to wuteh the froutier fu thc nosth and two divislons would be uecded to cover Olect the coasts there would remaln avallable for of operation thirty-ive divislons of infantry, ous of rilles, forty-two regi- meuts of cavalry, twenty reziments of Cos- sacks, and 244 batteries with 1,881 a total of upward of 550,000 on the Danubo; while 113! available for tho war in A Ti# DEFENSES OF BUATCEUK. Busichuk (4orl 14) Corresponde Black Bea, T tweuty-four bat wcn for operat!, 500 would qu g - S ace London Dally The bealth of the Turkish troops has very [Continued oa ¥ifth Fage]