Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 9, 1877, Page 1

LUGE, ig VOLUME XXXII. a CHICAGO, TITURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1877. OARPETS, FURNITURE, Etc. MINEMAL WATER, WAR S CHANCES ho could rapidly move up andco-opcrate in nn | {t Dench fo as to leave the event as little as | lected for special treatment, the fettice at the EERE Pe Cee le attempt to overthrow Mukhtar. Unless, Dossible te fortune. With this object Sulina mouth were begun in 1858, and were Peet adte ones rb pee tae peunrseeed ene mene nins mRNA ee If is EVES PROMANLE completed in a provistonal manner in 1861, when EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS therefore, the Russians, taught by ox. {| thatthe new Asiatic campaign will be post- | the denth had iherenses frome nine feet to seven In . perience in Bulgaria, aro forbidden to at. Panel tliat the Hustians will only assume the | tecn and a half feet. In 1863-IS71_ these jetties + i oftens efen' The Russians Again Suffer a : i! Ps | 4 Fy ; sg PRICE. 3/E CENTS. 3 onenly at rage with tho existing Adminis tration. oa Numer zits have been mado by the Governmen' efly among peraons soapeeted of betng secretly engaged In rovolutionacy g A Jong and important dispatch from Mr. Bae : 3 FURNITURE, WALL PAPER, And all Housefurnishing Goods, CARPETINGS., Velvots. B el Body, oe Brussels. $1.78 L235 I ing... 5O Hneraing es low ashe ccs 30 FURNITURE. =! ber Bots.. ++845,00 Bitor falter? plecos 4888 WALL PAPER. Brown Bianks, por roll &o Buff Blanks, per roll** 6a White Llauks, per roll To Damasks, per rol: Satins, por roll. Gilts, per roll.... bought the Bankrunt Btock of Havin BTOVESand RITOHEN WAKE off. Me WATKINS, ot 50 ota on the dollar, wo aro Prepared to offer great bargains fn this de- partment. CHICAGO CARPET CO. 233 STATE-ST., Old Stand of ALLEN, MAOKEY & Co, Opposite Exposition. Hest Lees houso in America. Passenger Elevator. Colored rvants, Elegant Furniture. 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Aug.18,9a.n. [CANADA Auga3, p.m. Tickelaat tedden raise, Ateeraga fokete, $24 cur: cy. Drattefor £1 and upwardrou Great Heteata Fela, ADpIS tol By ea Bout CUNARD MAIL LINE, Salling turov timex a wook toand from Urltish Ports, Lowest Urices, Apply at Company's Ofiice, northwest corner Ciggh aha Lanalplicate. Chicka: Pel, DU VERNET, Geueral Western Agent, WHITE STAR LINE, Carrying the Metl, between NEW YORK and LIVER+ ¥ . | Ce faomice, 44 Routh Cl FOOL™ Aipiy'ak coat oaes oe * dienersi Wealern Agout Drafts on Great Britain and Ireiand, “PROPOSALS. _ DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, O1 4. INDIAN APratus, Bealed proposal: mu Rupe tar nour is, Sudo ud ‘. Sede or (edu eh oe antes iuiee Q., Ue eA) Sluux Clays da. will bo re: vatay, uration or iinet isaith ‘¢ago, soux City, St. Paul, or Yi my plies for the {nulun service, viss ‘Nawua pounds of naar, 4,440,000 pounds of corn, 20,000 pounds of wheal, A, 15.O pounds of salt, cane paan of cabin, do, golds steerage, 820 ¢ crpeuage apply to Ker att fos tanptemene iy CC, Liste OF W. 4. ML. Bingsley, 0 Chit Hucea sluux Cy. Ca Capt. Charles Meciutes nt,’ Pail, Kans, Onal the fudiaa onlice. whl be opeucd In the presence of the pur- chasing committee of the Board of ludlan Conunls loners, and read publicly, begluulug at ite huur above Dance, Wuderaare lovicou tu be present, eh bid must give the naities uf all partics Interested duor partica tu it, and must lave scopy of this adver Mscuiens attached, “No bids will be considered from [staas wo have in auy respect defaulted in any bid wivtofore. Any or sil lilds, or any part of any bid, aventie, 1 awe Siltbe rejected, If deemed fur the best Intercete Uf the Government. Bren bid must be accompanied by # certified check or drat # able to (he order of the Comunissiouer of Jodian Aftalrs, ta be. the contract,” upon su whitch check or draft ti if the tothe United stat award shalt fa) to pronipity enter tote furulsh a audidient turned ta the bla dhe tour mu equal tu the bea States Depoaltory, forfeited ontract, oF ty nd therewith; olberwise tobe ree ba fresh uround, of sound wheat, Unda wust aveotpany each bid, eald samples to latiuctiy marked with’ tho namo of the Didder, a humnver, If more than one sa:nple ts aubmultted. The corn wy Nema thas fas strony yuunies, rescwed. Hatton pou to the Dine wewed. Ata ara Cul head-lined. i at, ty Weigh BoE te af cilvered fusirong sugar muss ve pa ogghtgtalttaaat ‘bo ury ‘sud packed jue priccscamed must be ‘snet.” In no case wi any al wwance be ade for sacks, boxes, or barrels. credar the uaied fur their reception, aud be trace he Fight will be reserved ty the Winereae urdiariniah ihe quaatityet aay Of tue arte flea cuubraced in the forrguing schedule, aud the fur- a edto lacressc or decrease the shcclfied 1a avy contract to a0 extent HOt ex: ther Ff cbs will be resery ent, ing seeding 25 perc Soli aid ssverat buod, tn the full amoust of the Contract, duly executed, with two or niore sureiles, and oF Ue falllital peforwance of the cuatyact adttloned £ sans barticulary, uiust sccompany the same, aida cy Vit a8 to the value of thelr pro; i ry. ech COBUtact, oF part thereuf, will Permitted to be let or aatzned to, oF filled by, wny other party, Wiibu c t Tater ue the writtea conscat uf the iets ect h te 101 4 Cotmmisnoner. ed __ SUIMER HESONTS, rot pee WATSIN'S Glis N.Y, ‘Terme 34 wo $3 per day, Mineral Water, HIGHLY EFFERVESCENT. elight#ul beverage, * Most gratefal and 1 Abeolutely puns rior ta all for daily uses free. ne urged againat Croton and ra, he ob artinetally acrated well sitted “for Dyspepsta, a2 “*stildly antactds agrees with vyspeptics, and where there te @ gouty VCE BARKER. * iy far the mnst mixed with wine, or Bladder, and In fiout.” DIR. Se MARTON MIMS, **Notonlysluzury bat ‘A necessity.” cares uf acute diten ne Calarrhs of Stomnac! all Wine Merchants, Grocers, Drng- (2. soa Stine fers Urroughiout the United Rtates, and wholesale o FRED'K DE BARY & CO,, 41 & 43 WARRREN-NT,, NEW Yok. SALE OF THE CAPT OF THE National Life Insurance Co. OF U.S. OF A. Ry virtue of an order from the Cirealt Court af Cook 4 the undersigned, a Tee! - Slnstrance Company of cl luviten: tor thirty da I stock of the Nat jor tale apd hereby nal Life ineurance ue $100 per shared, bein the whole expits y no ry for Capital Stock," an reigned ty be subinitted by hint u urt for Lis action at the end Uereafter as practicable. Mecelver fen. LAfe- 7 PER CENT. We now tave moncy to loan at 7 per cent on Im- proved city real catate, LANDS AND LOANS. ta 10 per cent interest. jolce Hterldence in Mighlind Park; 51010 actos .e and ftesidence nnd (0., 157 Lasatlest. op the el roperty In the «1 Property fn thee BANKING HOUSE of LAZARUS SILVERMAN Chamber of Cummeree, Chicago, tolosnon Kent tstate, Produce and Pro- y und County Grers, nnd Mercuntile laper, sha iaciiing Exchangn on all countries Ss Ce ee RE MOVAT. ig to Removal to CALIFORNIA, | Propose to Close Out my Entire Stock of JEWELRY, CLOCKS D SULVER-PLATED REGARDLESS OF COST. Fixtures for mate and Store to Rent. JOHN G. ASHLEMAN, 136 State-st., Chicago, Ill, _MMSCELLANEOUS. SON AT. HUSBAND OF INE, Will meet yon Saturday at the Library, he Excursion Will (o. y recelved ao many ai pacurmon Round the are convinced It wilt athe delivery and ‘Thors who have already applied cketaat unce, a3 We cannot ro PER ONLY NIX DAYS MORE! 20 PER OT. DISCOUNT ENDS 15th OF THIS MONTH. Keays, Jeans, and Thle institutlon ia now completed fn all tts details, nd open to the public. Onr Fait and Wi 1ai?, for . 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Our Fall and Winter Guods rtlstie Tallors, Wabaah- GRATES AND MANT ‘of the sureties must ve ovidenced by their SLATE MANTELS, Severe Defeat in Bulgaria. A Battle Between the Grand Duke Nicholas and Os- man Pasha, The Turks, as ‘Usual Hicreto- fore, ILave the Choice of Position, And the Attacking Invaders Are Mown Down in Groat Numbers, Gen. Gourka Retreating from His Position in the Shipka Pass. Itis Intention Being, It Is Sup- posed, to Fall Back on Tirnova. Seventy Thousand Russian Troops Now Goncen- trated at Plevna, The Portresses at Gallipoli to Be Greatly Strength- ened. Austria Will. Not Oppose a Declaration of War by Servia. An Important Battle Believed to Be Imminent in Ar- menia, Prophetic Prognostications of Events Liable to Occur in Bulgaria. Millions Destitute and Thousands Dying of Starvation in India, is ANOTHER BATTLE. THE NUSSIANS SAID TO DE THE LOSERS, (By Cable to The Chicago Tribune.) Lonnon Orrice or Te Cnicaco Trrnone, Saususonr Street, W, 0., Aug. I—t 3, m.— Osman Pasha in reported to have once more’ beaten his determined foe, ond to have again shown that ho kuows how to chooso offective positions and forco his opponent to take the offonsive. As tho Russians conld not or would not oblige him to be an asanilant, the —exigoncien of tho situation compelled them to strike at the most dangorous antagonist they have ever encountered in Bulgaria, Accordingly the Grand Duke spent soveral days in work concentrating the army, which seomed suf- ficent for tho enterprise thrust on him, ond Tuesday he directed the gallant troops AGAIN TO ADVANCE upon the Ottoman position. ‘The scene was no longor in front of Plevna, For somo reason, perhaps to guard against no flank movement on the left from Nikopolis, Oxuan Pasha took up now ground. His cavalry wai sont: well to the front, and had gequired the priceless informa. tion that the onemy was gathering to o head, intent on effecting his ruin, and he thought dt to move hu army closer to Loftcha, eo asto hold back his left, cover tho road to Sofia, and edgo away nearer tho Balkan passes. y 4 NEW AND SUITABLY FIGUTING FosrTION was found noar the village of Viadina, on a spur of the mountain ridgo running south. west and northeast, nod lying botwoon tho Osma and the Vid. Seated on -hills, his right was protected by the rapid Osman and the town of Loftcha, and his left was 60 disposed and intrenched as rendered o turning movement perilous if not im- practicable, Here ho calmly awaited the Russian onslaught, fecling doubt. leas confident that his valorons soldiers would enable him to repeat his previous ox- plofts. Early on ‘Tucaday morning THR ENGAGEMENT BrGAN with a florco artillery fire, and when, in the Judgment of his opponent,—probably the Grand Duko himsclf,—tha moment had arrived to overwholm the despised Ottoman, tho guns had done their work, the infantry wero thrust into tho fight. AN day, so long as the light lasted, the ba'tle raged, but when the sun went down behind him Osman Pasha, for the third or fourth time in his brief cam. paign, stood victorions. Details of the losses have not yet cdmo to hand, A BATTLE 19 ONOR MORE DRKWING in Asia Minor. Prince Mirsky, the new com. mander, is on the way to headquarters, Pending bis coming, the Russian arny, rein. forced, bos been apparently manouver- ing for a position whonca thoy can assail tho lines of Mukhtar Pasha with the bost chances of success. ‘I'hoy dared not operate north of Kurs, because that would oxpose their communications, bnt thoy seem disposed to try whether a decisive blow cannot be dealt from the southeast and south. The main position of their troops is said to have moved down the Arpa River as far as Ani, famous for its ruins; while Gen. ‘Tergukaseoff, who hasbeen strengthened, les behind the extreme left wing, ostensibly many days will not elnpse bofora wo hear of 8 battlo in Armenia. Moanwhile ANEW FLEMENT has been imported into the situation in Ea. rope by the sohievements of Suleiman Pa. sha, There seems no reason to doubt that the Russians have not only evacuated Ko ranlik, but all their positions south of the Balkans, and that Gen, Gourka in retreating through tho Skipka Pass upon Tirnova, THE ARMIES. GALLIPOLI. Consrantinoriy, Aug. 8—The Porte bas informed Minister Layard that it 1s about to complete the fortifications and Increase the gar- ison uf Gallipoll. The Porte adds it will be able to defend Gallipoll against any attack, ANOTHER DEFEAT. Osman Pasha telegraphs from Pleyna that elght battalions of Russian infantry and eight squadrons of cavalry attacked Lovatz on Tues- day. The garrison at Lovatz, having been rein- forced by five battalions of infantry and some cavalry from Plevna, repulsed the Ruasiaus, whu Jost 500 killed and 600 wounded. PLEVNA. Bocuanest, Aug. &.--The Russtan troops around Pieyna have been reinforced. and now number 70,000, Tho Roumahian army, num- bering 2,000, now passing cuntinually to Niko- polls, wil form the extreme right of this force. TNE TONKS REPULSED. Lonpon, Aug. 8.—Varlous speciala state that on Aug. 6 5,000 Turkish cavalry attacked the Rusatans between Lascar, a village near Plevna, aud the River Rusica. The Russians who occu- pied =the =~ fortifed = ne, and = who now outnumber the Turks, repulsed them without difficulty, but made no attempt to fol- low, as the Grand Duke Nicholas docs not wish to waste the energy of his troups in a partial engagement. TURKISH REFONT, The Porte has inforined the English Embassy that ufter two days’ hard fehting at Lovatz tue Nassians euffered’a severe defeat. PIONT NBAN RASOMAD, ‘two regiments of Russlarr cavalry and a bat- tatiou of infantry have been repulsed fn two attacks on Jgslar, south of Rasgrad. The battle was bloody on both sides. Tur CZAR Pants, Auz. 8.—The Journal des Debate an- nounces that the Czar has just recrossed the Danube. : 5 GENERAL. , CONSTANTINOPLE, . ‘ALEXANDHIA, Aug. 8—Onlers have been re- celved at Suez to prepate titmediately for sery- Ice§ all availabie ateamers.. Four will leave Suez to-day. It ts supposed they will embark ttoups for Constantinople. ConstTantixor.e, Aug. 8.—Reculations con- cerning the forced foan of 600,000,000 plastres, and the formation of a civi! guard for the Capital, have been published. AN Ottoman eubjects, without distinction, must partietpate inthe loan, Men from 2 to 40 years of age will be cnrolicd in the clvil gaard. ON THE DANONE, Viera, Aug, 8.—It Is stated that large num- ders of Russian troops arc crossing the Danube on pontoons tothe nelghborhbood of Turtulkal. High winds and heavy ralneghave snoll.n the river, and make the attempt to throw a bridue across Lnzardous. Tho Ruasiau bridge mate- rial, moreover, {s altogether invomplete. ‘The two monitors taken at Nikopolis arc now ready for action. It is believed they will be directed aguinat the Turkish monitor at Rustehuk, which is damaged and short of cunt. AUSTRIA AND SERVLA. Lonpos, Aug. 8.—The Austrian Minister af Fluance, on belng questioned by a correspond- entasto the attitude of Austria in the event of a Servian declaration of war, sald, Some weeks agol would have emphatically replicd, we should occupy Servia, but now Anstria may allow that principality her freedom of action.” CONSCRINTION, Theanaual conscription duc at the end of the yeur ts being carried out in the Polish provinces of Russia. : —_; RUSS AND TURK. WILL TUE MUSCOVITES REIEAT ON EUROPEAN SOM, THEIR ERRONS OF THR ARMENIAN CAM- PAIGNI—PROGNOSTICATIONS OF TIE CAM- PAION, London Times, July 25. If tho Russians repeat on Europcan soll thelr errors of the Armenian campaign, it will not be for want of warnings from the foreign spectators of the contest. Their rapid advance from the Danube over the Balkans does certainly bear o suspicious reacmblauco to the rash adventure which tau Graud Duko Michael dirtcted or per- mitted. But, if tho same faults are to_ be com- mitted, we must suppose that the European army is blindly carrying out a vlan formed be- forchaud, when the Turks wera tuo -con- temptuously regarded, and that the Generals rave not enough originality and promptitudo to modify the plan of cainpalgn in accordance with the dearly-bought enlightenment of their brethren in arms. Or else {t must bo imagined that political or flnanclal cune!dcrations compel the Czar to order on advances at all hazards, and bring the war ta.a close during tho next few weeks, There may be something in both these considerations: tho plan of the campatgu as devuloped In the present gigantic operations bears tho stamp of a PItOW AND ELABORATE CONCEYTION, and there can be no doubt that the relations of the Russian Empire to its neighbors, as well as the exhausting efforts to which it {6 committed, impose the necessity of making the work as short as possibic. Yet it would be an error very prejudivial to a due forecast of events not to recognize that the military conditions in Eu- rope differ greatly from” those In Asia, and that. an audacious campalgn may have better chaucey in the former theatre. Indeed, we may almost suppose that the complutences of the plans for the udvance of the vrand army, ay well as the contidence of its leaders, stimulated the ambitiori of the Generals fu the secondary war, aud finpelled them acalnet the fortifeutions and passes which werv allotted to them to conquer. The Army of tho Caucasus was orighnally deficient fu numbers, a large part of the traopa consisted of local levies {n- jerior to the Russian stock; somu of the reei- dents appear to have been uf duubtiul ddelity; a jong line of communications bad to be guard- ed through a country which threatened fnsur- rection; itwas ueccseary te detach troops to qitell actual disturbances, trausport was ex- cecdingly dificult, and the consequences was that the 40.000 wen who attempted thy conquest, of Armenis failed tu the enterprise. ‘The conditions of the campaigu in Europe as regards the Russiaus AKE VERY DIFFERENT, ‘They have either actually on the accno of war or advancing from the futerlor of the: Kiwplre a considerable superiority of force, New levies oualarge scale are Lelug ruled, and, though these can only be brought into servicu tu case ofa profowsution of the war, the knowledge that he bas, so to speak, other urmics beltad bin, will make the Russian commander m coniident in operations which iuvulve a vacritice of troops, On the other hand, ft is udmittet that the Sultan stakes whatis practically his only army. But, puttivg aside the question of futuge relnforcewents, and regarding only the troops which may take part In the preecht campaign, there ts reason to belleve that wheu all thelr ariny corps cross tho Danube the Russians will large- Jy outuumber their oppouents. Our correspoud- ent pays that thoy belleve the number of the Turkle troops in the Quadrilateral to be greatly exaggerated. Whether this belief be use ded or not, there can be vo doubt.tbat the Russian of the Empire will be sent tothe Danute, where, the content must be really decided. 30 much for the relative strength of the armies. With regard to the compasition of the Russian forces there ts also a superiority as compared with the Asinticeampaign. The .best. and most thor- oughly disciplined troops of the Czar are in Bul- aria or marching thither. ‘The scene of war and the basis of operations are aleo ereatly more favorable to the Russians on the Luropean eide. Here they have no hos. tile tribes to trouble them in their rear, Itisa terrile commentary on Turkish rule that whenever the {invader comea he is recelved by the Christians with enthusiasm. Not that Rou- manians, or Servians, or Bulgarians, or Greeks have sny liking for Russia; on the contrary, they have ery uncomfortable mntegivings about. the future, and arc not at all disanttafied that Enaland, and Austria, and Germany will claim tohave a rotve tn the final settlement of the East. But hatred of the Turk . OVERPOWERS MVERY OTHER CONSIDERATION. They have been bred init from their earlicet Years; on the theory of hereditary disposition they may be said to have been bora toit, for the fecling nas porsessed yeneration after cenera- tton for hundreds of ycars.. Even the Rouma- nians, who have had no substantial complaint againat the Turks in our time, are as hostile as the immediate Rayahe, The bulgarians, who in yeurs gone by scemed the most indifferent to Tevalutionary teachings of all the Christian pro- vinclals, aud'in whom a Jearned Turcophite saw a real Christian support {cr the Ottoman rule, are now the most ferocious of rebels and appear to be cunductine themselves most atominably, Whatever judgment may be formes on the inorality of this movement, there can be no doubt of its universality and of its effect on the war. The Russians bave on their side the whole Christian population of Eu an Turk- ey. 5,000,000 Houmantans, 2,009, Servinns, Bosnians, Herzecoviniana, and Montenegrins, 500,000 Christian Bulgarians, who are Likely soun to have the whole Province to themaclycs through the Mluht of the Mohammedans, and 1,500,000 Greeks, whose part will begin when- ever tho Russians ere able to send aa army corps tn thelr direction. To this tt must be added that Roumanfa and Bulgaria are produc- tive countries, from which the Ruzsians will be able to draw supplles. Tne army fe, in fact, already belug largely fed from the former coun- TY. THESE-CONSIDERATIONS SNOW, not, indeed, that the Turkish cause 8 hopeless or that the Russians A nothing to fear from the yet unbroken armies of the Quadrilateral und” Roumelia, but. that a confident advance does not necessarily prove foolhardiness or an fgnorant contempt of the enemy. The plan of the campaign seems gradually to revenl ftaelf. dn part it seems to have been suggested by the events of the war of 1870. ‘The (ermans, avall- ing themselves of their superiority of numbers, did net think ft necessary then to delay their atvance until they had ‘reduced all the strony placca on thefr way. They invested Met: they aid siege to Strasburg, bat they followe the Emperor to Sedan, and then marched on Paris, Wo may suppore that, if the Russiona are really convinced that they have a great superiority of force, they will attempt an analogous causpaign. The diiference te, that the Germans had previously wou great victories; they had crushed MaeManon, they had beaten and demoralized the army of Razaine, The Russtans have won priceless strategical wlvan- tayes, but us yet no decisive victory. The Turks have still thelr puwerful urinies unbarared, and there fs no reason tu_suppore that the solaler is atall discouraged. For this reason we inay ex- hect that the Russians will not advance’ on Adrianople in force UNTIL THEY MAYE BNOKEN Tux QUADRI- LATERAL, and reduced the forces there to a number and a vosition which will admit of thelr being held in check while the main ariny goes over the Balkan, With this object Rustchuk “and Sitstria will be attacke), and every enerzy employed for their reduction aud for the capture of the troops con- tained Inthem. Here it must come to hard fighting with the Turks {n their favorite post- ton, behind strong worka: and thouen the Rurauts ae sud sodiepose of {umense re- sources aud to have brought up prodigious’ sluge guns, wo should be sorry to venture prediction on the course of cventa. But supposing that they succeed in capturing Rustchuk and Silietrin witha considerable part of the Turkish army, they would then possibly tind themsetres strong cnough to treat Shumlans the Germans treated Metz. They would have the advantaze that the progress in the construction and the use of artillery makes it possible for an invest- ing force to inipeison, securely a force uot much {afertor to itself, Bazaine had in Metz 170,t0) men, Prince Frederick Charles had not more than 200,000 A soldier of the oll schoo! woul have laughed at the idea that the invested force cond be kept in, elnce it could be thrown with its whole weight against any point of the thin line around it. But {t fs the fact that, when the Germans had fortifled thelr positions around tho placc, it was {inposalble for Bazaine to break out. The samo experience was yiven by the slege of Paris. It may thereforv be in TUE PLANS OF Tif NUSSIAN COMMANDER, in case the great Danublan fortresses are ro- duced, to shut up the main body of the Turks at Shurla, and to pass the Balkau In furce. In all these operations the amount of provisions col- lected in the varlous fortresses will be au im posiant clement in the chances of the campaign. t is said that €0,000 men have retired into Rust- chuk, (We believe this to be 9 gross exaggcra- tion; but, supposing half the number to be there, the Sucation arises how long they can hold out when the communications are ‘Inter- rupted. The same consideration will apply Ina larger measure to the camp at Shumla. WWthese calculations may be {defeated hy a vigorous and well-<lirected action of the Turk- ish army against the long line of the Russian ad- vance. “There can be no doubt that the Turks have been fricht{ullydeceived and outgeneraled up tothe present time. The notion that the late Serdar Abdul Kerim, in pursuance of some profound strategy, permitted thd oecupation of the Dodrudacha, the crossing at 8imultza, and the passage of the Balkan, is THS MEREST WALLUCINATION, Abdul ‘Keriin is an ofd man, past 70, with a painful chronic complaint, who passed the day ong sofain his tent; bis chicf merit was, that he had been a gallant young offiver iu the war of 1328, He muintalued the apathetle defensive in perfect confidence; but he fs the lesa ta bo blamed sluce the Turks in general, and even the forelgners who yoluntecred their advice, were of oplnion that the Danube could not be crossed withont repeated efforts and tmmense losses, The ‘Turke have now new Generals; Abdul Kerlin has returned to Constantinople in dis- rife se, and with him the tate Sernskier HMedif ea whose precise offensg It 1s diilcult to as vertain. Mehemet Pasha commands the Bale qartan army, and Suleiman Pasta, wae has dis- tinguished himself against the Moutenegrina, Janded a few days agu with a large body of troops at Dede Agatch, the railway-terminus on the Koumelisu coast, und bas gone up to acet Gen, Gourka and the Russlans who are across the Balkan, The futuro of the campatgn will DEPEND LARGELY ON TUB CAPACITY OF TURSE MEN. ‘They have both’proved themselves road officers. Meheimet Pasha is a German by birth, but it Is ambstskoto suppude that bo has uny German training, He was taken to ‘turkey in boyhood, and was brought up there; he fs consequently, in alt casentiats, a Turk, He willbe expected todo what Abdul Kerim did not do,—that Is, to assume the offensive, and to attack the Rus- stana who ure closing iu upon Kustchuk, or to break thelr communications with Tirnova, (irabova, und Shipka. © Can he maneuvre $0,000 meu in the jivld, or can such a force of Turks be tuaneuvredt Such a machine requires consutn- mate akiil in him who directs {t, and must also have 3 igh degree of excellence in its own con- btruction. We are still very ignorant of the capacity of the Turks in the fel. If they can be moved In masses agalust the eacmy, the for- tune of the campalgn inay be very doubtful, THE DANUBE RIVER, RUSSIAN DAMAGE TO ITS NAVIGATION, Pirmouts, Epz., July 23—To the Editor of the Loudon Times: Tho official news which bas just reached England that the Russians baye eunk several barges luden with stone in the Suliua brauch of the Danube, backing them up with a mags of stoue, so as to Icave only four feet ot water on tho sill thus formed, is of « Kraver uature than would appear at tirst aight, as I will endeavor to explain ia afew words for the jaformation of your readers. To 1880, the European Commission of the Danube, by virtue of the Treaty of Paris, was charged to cleay the mouths of the Danube, and to dx and levy dues on shippiug, in order to cover the expeuscs of the necessary works of improvement, : sett, the United States Minister, has been seat totho State Departinent on the pubject of American interests in the present crisis, GERMANY. TORPEDO COMPANY. Banrix, July 25.—A special torpedo com pany fs being added to the German naral are tillery. -: SURTERNANBAN TRUEGRAPT CABLE. A subterrancan telegraph cable, 400 miler long, has just heen lal down between Berlin. Frankfort, Mayence, and Cassel, the longest thing of the kind in existence. Tho new Iint wilt be absolutely safo from tho disturbing In- fluences to which open-air telecraphs aro ox wosed. The Emperor Wiillam has sent tho fol lowing message frum Gasteln. to the Post niaster-Ceneral of Germany on the occasion of the completion of this line: “sty hearty con Hratulations to the finisting and snecessful working ot the undersrotnd line between Berlin and Mayence, f thank you and all the otherd assembled for your kind wishes.’* GEEMAN NAMES OF PLACES, ‘The aubstitution of German for Polish names of slaves has already been avptied in about 500 cases In one of the tivo districts of Posen, The Polish-speaking inbabitants avoid the use of the new vanes whenever it fs possible. In.German Lorraine, alsu, ninety places have Just received. Germau names, cet. In April Isat, on my annual visit to the Lower Danube, J found that tho least depth over the worst shoat in the Sullns branch waa seventeen and a half feet (equal tothirteen fect at extreme low water), and the least depth at the mouth twenty-one feet. But for the long-contiaued and auxfous Inbors of the European Commis- flon of the Danube, the least depth fn the Sulina branch would at that thine have been lesa than twelve and a nal! vt (equal to seven and & half fent al extreme low water), and the depth at the mouth would probably not have excecded nine fect. Owing to the creat muccess of the works, the charges on shipplie have been reduced from 15 shillings to shillings % pence per tons the number of stipe fecks har: decressed from thirty-nine In, 10,000 fn 1855-63 to two in 10,000 frown 1869-'78; nad =the exportation of grain from the Lower Danube has increased from less than 2,009,000 quarters annually before the im- [geyementa to upwards of 4,500,000 quarters In $75, inore than two-thirds of the latter being transported in British bottoms. = The Russtan dam has been formed across the Sulina branch at one and one-balf initce below St. George's Chatal, and ‘if not spcedily ree moved it will render almost nugatory the labors otthe Commission, and the heavy outlay that has been {ucurred over a period of twenty years; for the branch oeing robbed of a” large rtlon of its normal flow will focvitably eterlorate ot a rapil pace. In other words, the alackened current caused by the submerzed silt will cause considerable deposits of sund und mud to be rapidly thrown down throughout the whole lengta of the brauch as long ns the ar- tifelal obstruction remains, while’ at the em- bouchure the abeence of a strong fluvial current, Will perinit the waves to drive auud silt Into the navivable channel, and there form a considera- bie shoal. The {ntention of the dam is evidently to pre- vent the ascent of Turkish frouclads above St. George's Chatal, and to cut off the retreat to the aca of the Turkish river fleet. This very serious act, as regurds future couse- quences, Is quite at variance with the epirit and letter of the following paragraphs from the tle- cree fsaued by the Russian Government for the gutdance of the Russiay authurities ductuy the preeent war, aud wich appeared iu cxtenso fn the Tima on the 34 of last month: * VIIL Daring the military operations on the Danube and un the banks of ‘the river the Com- matter-tn-Chief of the Rucslan’ army, fs) in structed to tike all the measures he can to ale Jow the navization ant legitimate commerce of neutrals on the river to be, as far us pussthle, free, and only to subject them ty such tempo- rary reetrictle igencies of war may which restrictions are to be removed as quickly us possible. “IX. The military authontics will, inorcover, epeclutly protest the constructions, works, and staff of the European Danube Commission, cov- vered by the spect neutrallug of this Com- mission.”. [atn, alr, your obedient servant, MALES A. HARTLEY, Consulting Engineer to the Enrvpeau Comuingion ofthy Danube,» CUBA. JOVELLAT MARES WAY POR BLANCO. New Yous, Auz. 8.—A Havana letter records anumber of disastrous business fatlures, with increasing commercial and financial trouble. Geu. Jovellar has been relieved from com: mand and Gen. Blanco appointed. He will ar- rive in a few weeks. Sick aod wounded soldiers are constantly ar hss aml hospital room is taxed to’ the ‘utmos CAMPOS APPEARS. HAavaNa, Aug. 3.—en. Martinez Campos an rived lant night privately, The General had « severe full from his horse near Santlage de Cubs sume tite ago, but received no seriuus Injuries. Tt is supposed that the fusurgent chief Gaspar Betancourt bus been Killed in action in the jue iadictlun of Puerto Iriueipe. SAMAICA. HORIIDLY INHUMAN TREATMENT. Kinastos, Jain. Aug. 1.—Some horrible tte clusures have buen made as tu the treatment of thy boys in the Government Keformatory, rho Were go ill-fed—only getting bread un Simday, and ane salt herring to elgit youths—that, ave cording to Dr, Campbell, thé mediva) officer, whenever they got iberty they rushed to the plg-trouzhs sid raveuously ate the putrit offal and foot that hud been thrown there for swine. — GREAT BRITAIN, LOUD OP THE ADMIRALTY. Loxpon, Aug. &.—In the House of Commons this afternoon the appointment of Willa H. Smith, one of ‘the Julnt Secretarica to the Treasury, as the successor of the Rt.-Hon. George Ward Hunt, First Lord of the Admiralty, deceused, was announced ofticially. WILL RESIGN. The Standart understands that Dr. Butt will resign lis seat for Limerick and offer himself for re-election, in order to decisively test tha oploton of. the people of Ircland ax to the relar tive authority of himself and Mr. Parnell. FOREIGN MISCELLANY, ZOYPT—ADYSSINIA. Lonpoy, Aug. 4.—The Daily News specia from Alexandria rays: “It Is rumored that the Abyssinians are maseing troops on the Ezyptian frontier, and threaten o descent on Egyptian territory, unleas the traitor Walda Mikall Is do livered up immediately. Gen. Gordon fs expect. ed onthe frontier shurtiy to prevent further complications.” Gen. Gordon will leave Khartoum for Sern hatte und is expected to embark shurtly.for rypte PAMINE IN INDIA. THOUSANDS DYING OF STARVATION—MILLIONS DESTITUTE. Cancorra, Aug. &—The famine ts increasing in Madras Preside London Times, July 25, The reports which reach us of the famine in Southern India could hardly be more gloomy. We published yesterday a telegram from our Calcutta correapondent, dated July 2%, and this morning we publish a Ictter from our Madras correspondent of the date of exactly a month before. The combiuation uf these two commu- nivations agyravutes materially the gravity of the prospect. In Madras a inonth ago our vor- respondent was writing after a shurt period of favorable weather. “Here in Southern India," he says, “we have had so far aplendid rain.” Yet even with this, he ontieipates several months of most dangerous scarchiy. He points out the mistake of eupposing that after goml rain the tension. of famine isutanend, This was true in the case of thy recent Bengal fainiie, but that was o famine of rice, and nut @ scar ity of uther artl- cles of food. In the inore terridle Orisas laanne the greatest suffering and the highest mortality occurred after the ralus hud fallen, and ata tine when tho young rive was lixunaut. » Simle Jarly, the rains in Madras, our Madr corre- spulident reports, would not avail to pravide fool for the distressed districts for the next four months, aud for that period at least they woukl have to depend to uw very large extent on imported food. But if this were the prspect eveo when “splendid rain” was failing, what tnust it be when the rainy cease?! In that cure we have to lovk for- ward not merely to an interval of scarcity before the natural supplies of the country ary renewed, but toa prolonged period of Inereas- ing destitution. Such, however, according to the Calcutta telecrain of last Sunday, has heen the actual reault. Jt reports an *ulmost en- tire cessation of the rains in the fninine di: tricte,” and adds that “if rain does not fal: within the next few (aye (a all probability thy next week of two will determine whether Mal- ras and Mysore are doomed to undergo the ¢ lamity of a second year of searvity.” ‘There are exceptions to this gloomy account on the Mala- bar coast and fn Bombay; but these are more than counterbalanced by unsutlsfutory reports from districts not hitherto aifected by the scarvity. Comphints are hear from Northern India, from Behur, fron the Northwest, the Central Province, Avsainand Nepaul, and prices have risen greatly fu Caleut- ta. ‘fhe next week or twa,” our Calcutta correspondent concluded, * will decade the fate of Southorn Indiz. There 1s atiit hope, but we must be prepared for the worst."” ‘fhe result, therefore, of these two Independ- ent cummuncations 1%, that while, even with “splendid rains.” we had to fook forwanl to three or four months of the gravest auxicty, we now have to add to that anxiety an almost entire cessation of rains fu the districts rimarily affected, and a dangerous: dinunl- Fon oe them. ins districts upon which we have hitherto depented iu great measure for supplice. The full signiticance of this prospect may be appreciated by means of some statistics our Madras correspondent fur- niahes respecting the population already auffer- Ing from famine, Including both laborers und peuple ‘unably to work, the Madris Government s now sppporting vou tnillion and a quarter of the population, and the mortality in the relief cainns is at the frightful rate of 200 per cent. In May, out of # strength, of 50,284 10 these cainps, thero Were no fewer than 4,037 deaths, In other wonls, ff this rite of mortality were continued, the present occupants of the rellef camps would bo altogether swept away within twelve mouths. It would seem unquestionable from such stathatics that the ginount of relief hithertoallowed has been in- sufiicicnt. It would seein that willions of the population are cxisting at an extremely low puint of vitality, and a month's delictency or Belay might produce a wholcvale destruction of {fe which tt would be horrible to cor it weadd toall this tho fact unnot terday by our Calcutta corresnonie: hat drought and scarcity aro threatening some of the very districts fram which private trade was expected to provide the neccessary pupplics, it willbe plain that itisno time for relylug on the ordinary rules of supply and demand. HAYTI, ‘THB THROES OF KBYOLUTION, Nuw Yous, Aug. &.—Advices from Hayt! state that the revolution bas agaiu broken out in that Repdblic. The insurgents are’in force about ten miles from Port au Prince. Port au Vrince fa declared in # state of sieze. A large portion of the city was fired, and the confagra- tlon continued for two days; and bad not been extinguished when the mail steamer left. President Canal was uupopular with the na- tive clement, from his known {cellng of cordiality with forelgn merchants and forciguers in geau- eral Ho le suspected accordiugiy on that a count. He is a good soldier, however, but how- ever strong this foreign clement may be, (te cau- ‘ot protect him from the desizos of thoss who seek to yrain the object of thelr ambition by as- bassination. dieu. Sloman, a black man, formerly Mivister tw Englauc under the imperial rule of Soutou- uc, is the present aspirant to office, and says thst when be gets futo power the colored man aod white man may both lock out, asa black Republican will make the strects of Port au Priuce rivers with tho bloud of buth of them, The southern aide of the island is equally dis- INCREASING. Catcurra, Aug. 8.—The famine fs increasing in Mudras Preeldency. THE FURNCH PRESS LAWS. Pants, Aug, 8.—Preeident MavMahon wilt visit the Central and Southern Departments during the month. A deputation af Parisian journaliata waited upon Minister Fourtou to-day and protested against measures tending to restrict the sale of papers, GN, GRANT. Lonpon, Ang. 8.—Ex-President Grant arrived. ot Como to-day, and procecdut by way of the Jake tu San Maurigio. ‘ NIOTING IN DELPAST, IRELAND. Benrast, Ircland, Aug. 8.—Roting was re. newed to-night and the military agaiu called out. 2 ——— FIRES, AT AYLMER, ONT. & AvLunn, Ont., Aug. 7,—Fire this morning ta tho business portion of the town destruyed, seven bulldings, including the Commercial Ifo- tel, A. Murray’s store, Hambridge's bakery und confectiouury store, Gundry Bros.’ drug sturo, White’s gents’ furnishing store, «Wright's bakery, and Furthine's try-goods store. "Tha fire caused a Loss of $40,000. Tusurance, $25,000, NEAR JOLIET. Speciut Dispatch to The Tribune. Jourer, IN, Aug. 8.—The Ited Mill, east of this city, took fire this afternoon from’ sparks from a (tas, locomotive, and was badly dam- aged. Fully insured in J.8, Millar & Co’e agency. ——___ CANADIAN ITEMS. Speetit Dispatch to Tha Tribune, Montaxat, Aug. &—The Royal Maseam ant’ Lambert's Gallery of Art, recently established by Mr, Thomas Sarony Lambert, from England, has collapsed, and Lumbere absconded to the States. * The Barefooted Carmelite nuns, who had been established at Rimouski since the winter of 1575, leit that village to-day for thelr formicr realdeuce at Baltimore. The principal cause of their Jeaving ls the ecurcity of novices, iua trotting race at Lavine Park to-day Mr. Laplerre’s St. Jean Baptiste wou the station race in 3:40, 3:35, and 2::3\—three straight heata,. Auuuste Nuel's b. na, Alice wou the 3:33 race in 4:90, 2:33, and 2:20—three straight heats. «+ Special Dispatch to The Tribune, |, + ‘Toronto, Aug. &8—At tho Cenadiun Trades- Union Congress, whicn Is to scasion here, a number of hnportant subjects were diseussed today, smoug which was the depression of trade, its causes and remedies. Tho follawjng resolution was passed: we ‘That the circumstances of thie country pty present tine detnand that the Domluton and focs governments cease all eflurts necessitating public expeuditares for emigration purposes, and that iy falure we will discounteuauce any such grunts, Alderman Ball was to-day charged at the police court with assaulting James Douglass at the Dunken polling booth, and was remanded. Mr. Ball is a brewer aud 4 strong opponent of hack of which plaintiff’ is an energetic sup- porter, Spectat Dispatch to The Trituas, Hativax, Aug. 8—The Hon. Alexander Mao- kenzle, Premier of the Doininion, arrived here to-night. He is ona tour through the maritime Provinces aud bas delivered polltical addresses at various places en route. He will speak bere SOMOTTUNG ectal Dispatch to The Tribune spectal CoLLingwoop, Aug. %.—Steamer Quebec, -which arrived from Luke Superior to-day, brings {nformmation that the splenuld steamer Cumber- Jaud fo atitl ashore oo Lule Royal with her back broken, cabin washed uff, aud a general wreck. It bas been decided to, abandon ber. Efforts will, towever, be made to save her machinery. SURED PaeNTEERIT ~ OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Sax Fuancisco, Aug. §.—Sailed+Steamer City of Tokio, for Hong Kong via Yokubuna. New Yous, Aug. 3.—Arrived, steamer Can- ada, from Havre; Abyssinia, from Liverpool, aod Hamuwola, from burg. The eteauiship Denmark bas been ordered seized upou arrival from Liverpool on thecharge of having smuggled over 000 worth of goals, principally silk, by ber otticers and‘crow. Naw York, Aug t—Arrived, steamer Cul 3 = ieee i LEN PARK HOTEL, 4 Le bf lar aad if wares, Gm FLUST, Proprietor Apouintinents At. ¢ ree, bead for circu fornia trum Glaazow, ae . eet Bus tree. PRU ntarkssh > | watching Iamail Pasbs, but aleo posted where | Goveruinent la bringing luto the eld every wan | ‘The Sullua branch and mouth haying been so- | alfecto and at Jucmel thee eaually dts; | ,