Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 25, 1877, Page 1

The Chicage Daily Teibune, 63 san ! g 3 i ") Ju J'm""’] ” £ 5 ' VOLUME XXXIIL DAMAGED GOODS, SPECIAL SALE Damaged Linens Will offer this week, 1,500 pleces damaged Irish Linen, 100 pieces damaged Table Lineus, 1,000 doz Linen Napkins, 1,000 doz damaged Linen Handker- chiefy, and 1,000 picces damagod MINERAL WATERS. THE GREAT EUROFEAR NOVELTY,| HUNYADI JANOS. NEW APERIENT WATER. Bpecially recommend. ed for richnesn tn aper- fent nlts, and I cacy (n Bilious attacks, preventlon of Gont, Piles, eto., and as an ordinary aperfent by LIRB1G, VIR OI,ID\V, EUAN- 7 [ (ily, e nJ«. nd the ent) medl prafesaion In Engli ind Germany, s Ko NES, -(eneral U, 8, Al . 3R BA N e el VA ot 4n7 o the Witicr wate ot 12 Iwe Nainsooks, Lawns, and Dress LJON RI M, New York. “Atalaxs: | GOOdS at half price. preferitto every other mineral wa: . WM. A, TEAMD fe, The DR A O e S surgarins waters. PR3 AL = The above lot of Damaged Goods comprises tho stock of Messrs, Smith & Taylor, Importers, Nos. 70 and 78 Leonnrdest., New York, vory slightly damaged by water and smoke at the recent fire in their storo, 800 pleces Irish Linen at 250, worth 400, 800 places Irish Linens, alightly damaged, st 300, worth 500, 200 places Fine Irlsh Linens, slightly dame aged, at 374 and 50g,worth 60 and 780, 200 pieces Loom Damask Table Linensnt 20¢ and 300, worth 400 and 600, 100 pioces Bleached Tablo Linens at 37%, 50, and 85c, worth 800, 75¢, and 31, 1,000 dos Linen Napkins at $1, $1.25, and $1.80, worth $1.50, $1.75, and $32, 500 Marseillas Quilts at $1.50, $1.75, 3, $2.80 and €3, worth from $3to §8, slightly damaged. 1,000 doe Linen Handkerchiefs at 5, 8, 10, 1214, 18, 20, and 250, half regular price, alightly smoked., 1,000 pieces Nainscoks, Striped and Oros; barred Muslins, at 134%, 16,18, and 200, extraordinary bargains. BANKRUPT STOCK 2,000 Ladias' Cloaks, Having purchased two manu- facturers’ stocks of Ladies’ and Children’s Cloaks, will offer the entire Iot at, 50¢ on the dollar. Theso stocks comprise Finoe Mate- lasse, Beaver, and Chinchilla and 8llk Cloaks: . 1,000 Ladies’ Matelasse Oloaks at $4.50 and $8, former prico 9 and §10. 800 Elegant Trimmed Matelasso Oloaks at $0, $7, and §8,worth $13, $14, and $15. 1,000 Long Boaver Oloaks at $3, $3.50, $4, and $3, worth 85, $0, $8, and $10. 500 Ladies’ All-Wool Cloaks nt $5, $0, and $7, former price $8, $10, and $13. 200 Hoavy Chinohilla Oloaks, oxtra long, at $6, $7, and $8, worth $10, $12, and $15. 300 Elegant Gormanis Boaver Imported * Matelasse Olosks, Handsomoly Trim. med, at $10, $13, $14, and $16, worth $16, $20, $26, and 830, 1,000 Children’s Clonks in Chinchilla and Boaver, at $1.50, 31.75, $2, 33, and $4, bankrupt atock, worth $3 to 87, 800 Children’s Cloaks {n Fino Heaverand Matolasso at $5, $0, and $8, former 8} purga DR. ALFRIED L. l.‘IOMTF‘NGW York. "'l"ra enty speciall; BRI CBiah el . i k. '*Ro. L T DR.LEWIN A. BAYRE, New York, ‘Pre- ferred to any other Iaxative,” A WINEGLABSFUI, A DOSE. 1 th t The Apol- AL e (he aamost Ko Apo FRED'K DH BARY & CO., 41 & 43 Warron-at,, New York, Sole Axents for United Btates and Cansda. ¥OR SALE BY DEALERN, GROCERS, AND DRUGGISTS. CROCKERY, CHINA, Etc, lightly dameged, 83 & 85 State-st. WILL SELL AT Actual Cost! Until Jan. 1, 1878, All Coods strictly FANCY and ORNAMENTAL. FARM LANDS, A FARM AND HOME OF WOUR OWIN. . Now is the Time to Secure it ONLY FIVE DOLLARS FOR AN ACRHE of the Best Land fo Amerfes. 2,000,000 Actes IN EASTERN NEBRASKA, On thellns of the UNION PAQIFI0 RATLROAD, NOW FOIl SALE, ‘en Years! Credit Olven. Intorest Only6 Per Cent. ;nmnv ths orily lands for Saia on Fe tie of tils prico $8, $10, and $12. Great Riallroad, (he Worlduliighwar., 1,000 Ladies' Ofroulars at $3, $4, and$5, fi%.:".:f‘fi‘.’;‘;mSfi’;“.f"i.’m.h'a?":m ar worth $6, 87, and , . mation with Teps sent FILKK. 0. F, DAVIS Land Ageal U, P. R, OMAHA, NED. OCEAN STEANMSHIPS, AMERICAN LINE, Philadelphia and Liverpool. SR e e A e RED STAR LINE, garmytam tho Dlgtan and Untrod Stasas il hing d: [ itely f) PHILADRLPHI i;fi?i‘?%u'{'fiui IE.T."{" ONLY 'to ANTWEILE rafia i amouDis (0 bedeatbing STATE LINE. TR TOL 52 LAY T S DB KO hursday, Dec. 37 hursday, 1,000 Bots MINX, BHAL, ALABEA, and MARTEN FURS at 800 on tho dollar, bankrupt atock, BOSTON STORE, 118 & 120 State-st. OLL PAINTINGS, A BMALL AND CHOICE BELCTION OF OIL PAINTINGS, FOR SALE. Room 4, 86 East Waslington-st. INCLUDING WORKS BY Jan. 10 It eabls 4 according to socommoda- u%‘fi bi(‘u:r;ficflu B b e Ta b, cupecanyaon: ond Ci n, Return tickets at reduced raies. Bteer: ~ age, 826 Apply to AUSTIN, BALD' €0, Qen- C d 'l. Dllurln&lllfl[ l:[n_ o et 13 d! ues o Mtk beal, Camaia ine etc., all nowestatyles, lonk azcd, n miak and of " tgeir ows e, at manufcturers ANCIOR LINE MAIL STEAMERS | Fur Mamfac- ew York and Glasgow, - prices. Also, all otherlines 3 VORIT. Jaa. 1 57 Fur cloods (. iavet Y- A el o % cflunu:'fl 159 am t“l‘mg 00., Fiety. T ig tho Brat ine New York to Gisssow, Liverpool, or Londonderry fiance in sho history af ihe rffi{:f" RN T U Foy S Dirchise satants driions o T T Madison and Frank-|Ranufsciuro holeaals b e B e a1 ount B4 T EITC, B 15111 R 0 L e Sk =82 BUQEI BT, North German Lloyd it PORSEETTIR. .. s D AU 3 Thastesmersat ths Compaz wil il gvary swar- South Park Bonds, from Lremen Pler, foot of Third street, Hobuken. ‘ualgnl i Now Tork lo dosuhampion, | The Coupans muturing Juo: 1. 1978 wil bo pait at don, remen, first cabla, .‘;(Ml I:I:qna ho National Bank of 1ilnots, CI IcaRo, OF &L Lo Amer- St & esprenct Fyristibe | foan Ketaneg Ratlonad binkc N YOIk, Ghon bro- 3 Bowllog Gresn, New York. J- IRVIXG PEARCE, Treasurer South Park Coniinission, llinois Farm Mortaggs, We Invite the attention of careful Inveators to our Farm Mortgagos Ileldlufl Der cent Interest, They aro KL EREDAE0 Wb nd mel nars praniable, urt e Banke o . ‘hl Dlnkf.dllltllu & o — . 3Boyllig Great Wuutfimn ’Etenmshlp Line, %flmrl.".l"l';l?' to lfl_(Kn‘hn.d) dlrsct, Cabln !Ill)i# Btan s OUNARD MATL LINE, 5 i3 Xy COUNT *Mossrs, N, MATSON & CO. will be open to- day until 1 o'clock. FOREIGN. Terrible Snow-Storms in the Vicinity of Bucha= rest. A Russian Transport Train Frozen Up---Fears for the Plevna Prisoners. They open this The COzar Determined to March to COonstantinople for an Army Review, morning Elegant NEW G00DS in Onyx Look- ets and Chains, Paint- Mbasi.ng of Muscovite Troops Around the Walls of Erzeroum. ed and Enameled Sets, Shawl and Scarf Pins. State and Monroe-sts. WILL BXZ OPFPEINT -Chri_s_t_mas! A H. MILLER, JTEWIBELER, Cor. State & Monroe-sts, 25 cts. 1b. FINE CANDY GUNTHER'S Open All Day Christmast UNTIL OPEN &3, NOON WM. E. HICLEY'S Dia- Q}ond Parlors will be open un-~ til noon to-day. 125 State-st Scotch Merchants Favor the Con- + tinuance of British Neu= trality. Tarkey's Expulsion from Europe Rec- ognized as Incvitable, TOE SBEAT OF WAR. * TENRIBLE SNOW-STORM. Loxpox, Dee. 24.—A correspondent at Bucha- rest telegraphs that it is impossiblo to find out anything concerning tho condition of the Tark- ish prisoners en routo from Plevns, or the Rus- duced a terrible effect upon a transport train rest, to await the cessation of the atorm, on Sunday. Tbe wagons and horses were entircly burfed In the suow, and working- partics were nine men had been found dead. The men had sought shicltor In the wagons, and were frozen within half a milc & mile of, Cotracent. THE ROUMANIANS will nof accomvany the Hussians ucrogs the Balkans. They will garrison Plgvna, Nikopolts, and Rahova, and co-operate with the Servians against Widio, ¥ ABIA MINOR. Enzenous, Dec. 24.—The snow has ceased, the operations of tho Russians, RECONNOITERING. Reconnoltering detachmonts of Russlan cay- alry frequently appoar In the villages {n tho plaln of Erzcroum, T SICK MAN. CONSTANTINOFLE, Dec, 24.~The Sultan has held a grand reviow of troops in Constantinople, Great cnthusiasm was manifested by every- body. 1t 1s statod that Turkey is prepariog to con- cede the free passago of tho Dardanclles, which meets with opposition from England, CROSBED TIIN LOM, Loxnox, Dec. 24.—Dispatches lrom\ Bt. Poteraburg say that the Czarowitz has u;ouad the Lom. TUE CZAR RETURNS 4 to the war in & month, when, It is declarsd, the army will march through to Constantinople, as the Germans did to Parls, TAKE ELEVATOR. HOLIDAY GOODS, - Russia contluues to pay Bervis 1,000,000 of roubles monthly, & BOOERS, | o ks or samoow, * " RZRROUM, Dec. H.—Tarkish telegpaphic HA"Q::I&};}MYW'B}hQ\.w ;‘_5. 9.0 p'; communfestion s tbreatened. £t fs belloved the alego of this place will soon begin, as the Russlan forces are overwhelming, and Russian infantry (s advanced into the plain of Erzer- oum, ! . THE RGYPTIAN CONMNGENT, ALnxAxDRIA, Dec, 34.—Hulf of the Egyptian contlogent, destined to reinforco the Turkish army, loft here this morning, it is rumored, for Crete. The troops wera nostly blacks. RUSSIAN JEADQUARTERS. Bucnaxfust, Dec. 84.—It fs rumared that the Russlan headquarters will shortly bo transferred from Bogot to Selvl, which & about twenty-five miles southwest of the former place. W %mxfl G{@‘g = ataee 4 Sl AT O v, DIAMONDS, The beat selected and most . o e iy, Cail Ane eEampgg oo ILIL B Cor, Btato & donroa-sis. ‘The Grand Duke Nlcholas telegraphed from B es?Em B% 00, | Bogot to Prince Mitan of Bervis, congratalating DRS, MoCHESNEY, | biin upon the succeasful ogeniug of - the cam- landolnh and Clark-ats, paign by the Servians, TO JOIN ZIMMEEAAN, Loxpox, Dec. 35.—A Vienua correspondent says that the commanderd of the Russian ad- vanced corps have recclved orders 13 remain on the defensive untll reinfofegd by troops from the peighborhood of Plevpa, It is sald 35,000, men with seventy cannou lately passed Galatx; part of thesa crossed the Nanubs by the Ibrail bLridge, while the remaludyr went in the direc- tion of Kalarash. It 1s thonght thess reinforce- ments will foln Gen. Zimmbrman, and operate agoinst the eastern slde of the quadrilateral, primarily aga{nst Sllistria; while ¢ division of gronadiers and a division of the resmrve former- 1y before Plovna will go to Blela md joiu the Twollth Army Corps for the stege cf Rustchuk, The drand Duko Nicholas will jiln the army operatiug agalust Sophia. The Ciarowitch is oxpected to command that destinecto advance thrungh the Balkens further cad, probably through the Trojan pass. i + DEVEAT OF THRE ENRVIAM, Loxpo, Dec, 24.—A dispatch fran Constan- tioople says the Scrvians attcmpied to Yatre by assault, and were repulied with m- menso loss, They were pursued byihe garrison 10 Yavor, about flve miles distant. | TURKRY KNOWS LER WBAKNESS, Svecal Dispalch (0 Tha CAICago Tydune. ‘Wasuixarox, D. 0., Dec. #4.~Tlo Btate Do partment has for some time been 1o possessiuon of iuformntion from officlal sourca in Eurupe o tho effcct that tho Turkish Givernmeut, from the moment the war began incarnest on tho part of Rusafa, aud without hterference from Western Powers, would not be sble to inh L. Finest Gold Bl.lllnz. Loweat Itates, DIAMONDS, WATOHES & JEWELRY, A T, OLABK AND MONRO.BTS. ETATS MACKBNZIE, 3 MADIBON-8T, PARISKIDGLOVE DEPOT, AGin mufifflflflfisafi’mml- tos 1 , 18 abox of KID GLOVES. PO 1D ORGAN, W. W, RIMBAT.L, Cor, State and Adsms-sts. SINGHR, 11 STATH-ST. UOLDEMID'S, "b::.flux Blasiohn- Jeweisy, owelry, WHERE TO BUY HOLIDAY GOODS. fting s ft s vk tosad i s UNTY ORDERS PR S mage | AR City Vouehers Bought By To mEnT, [ sammanvoa, FOR RENT. NV [ L] JOHN @ ASHLEMAN, - 136 NTATE.ST. DESTRABLE. OFFICES ¥ TEE TRIBUNE BUTLDING TO REN'T, Apply to WM. 0. DOW, ' BRoom 8 Tribuue Building, WINTER nziowri. : WINTER RESORT. . Royal Yictorin Hotel, NAS. Fins ctac ef sulted to sl sights un sclen rin- ctpien “Dpers snd Field. & lamiia ol actenitte prin- scopes, Baromelers, STOCKMOLVERS MEETING, Siackhotders Hevtng, Commerclal National Bauk of Clicagu,” or the elece Son of Directors fof the cuauiog year will bo held st M. L uoyr, Bupi MELLEN.'OXOVEN & x1xg, Prop're. | Lhe Olfice of sald Bank. la Chlcakv, vt sy, Jeauary A Gnca T BR Vv Yok Sulaia beimeen Vus Rours b bk By SIS B NTOCKUHOLDERY JMEETING. Notlco i heroby given t8as thers whil be & mectingof he stockbolders of the Merchanta' 5avings, Loan, and Tuported German CANARIES, Lol ¢ 18 e Tuesday, Jau. & 1878, bu- pifkins el s ke | HrunComparbops Gls T RIS 3 Clo Aquariacs, most suitsble Loll- | $lecHog dloven Truste day Prescats: FRED KAEMP- | fay come up befure ¥EB, 197 Clark-st. BORITCdbics: 6 clove weepio duriog the ensuing ear aad for the Lraasacuiea of such uihier businces ibe mectlny. CUAKLEY MEN- NEW YEAR'S OALLING CAHDS, NEW YEAR’S CALLING CARDS IN GREAT VARIETY, Pooket Diaries for 1878, Pooket. Books of every desoription, Gold Pons and Pen aud Poncil Oases of the best quality,Autograph Albums, Elegant Sorap Books, Games, enter- taining, amusing, and instructive, Dressing OCases, Glove and Hand- kerchief Boxes, &o., &o., at retail at reduced prices. OULVER, PAGE, HOYNE & 00, 118 & 120 Monroe-st, TLERY, Rodgere: Pookel Kulves, Rasors, and Felsor At slao" Bkatos, Fitors: 't KELL] 68 Mad. i o i i S Wy T TG 6 i LR, T Gold N el ik SLATS MiTTULE, HASCO & RUM. ® kg“]%fl‘x‘lf- malatain itsclf {n Europe, but wouldbe obliged to withdraw {nto Asla and sbandor Constan- tinople and all Turkey in Europeto Hussis. ‘This informnation came from an offler of nigh rauk, and in a position to have reliabh fnforma- tion upon such subjects asthis. Tils feeling among the Turks was known o our mthorities some time beforo the fall of Pigrna. ————— ENGLAND'S NEUTRALITY, MILITARY PREFABATIONS, Lonpox, Doc. 24.—No special preprstion {s golog on at Woolwich Arvenal, excep!tho man- ufacture of ficld-guus. Only 4.000 isnds arc employed. A war force {s from 10,0040 18,000, It sbould, however, bs addsd that eqwipinent 1s alroady {o storo for two army cory PEACEFUL SCOTCHMEN, The Edinburg.Chamber of Cumumere to-dsy sgreed to memorialize the Governmery to con- tioue its neutrality in the prescnt wg, Ounly two members of the Chamber were a;o&wl to tho adoption of tho resolution. s O THE MOVE, s A portion of the Britian fleet in Balka Day 1s expocted to proceed ta the Gulf of Yolo. —— 2 CONSTANTINOPLE - RAGE OF THE 7UNKS AT TUR RXGISH. 8pecial Disoaich 10 London Tiimes. Panty, Doc. 6.—~1I have to-day receved tho {following letter, dated Coustantinople,Nov. %), the writer of which holds » position 3¢ tyyst CHICAGO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1877. p slan troops caught on the march by tho snow- storm. The cold weather and driviog snow pro- which halted near Cotracent, a suburb of Bucha- extricating the train. Forty horses and twenty- and the weather {8 now fine. This will factlitata connected with one of the highest personages of the Ottoman Emplre: We are beglaning hera to npen onr eyes o the aravity of our disasters, Onr military honor, pat- riotism, and fidelity to onr faith ars saved; butoar cause we dcem lost. We may still have s gratify- ing moment, we may atill make onr enemics pay dearly for their nltimate sncer but that success o know we can no longer prevent. Onr means Are exhausted, our Tronsury {s empty, qur provis- fonn are conramed, and oor noldlers feel that they are advancing towards privations ang death. As long a# Kara held uut our courage did nut alnk, and the enemy, blow, but it foli with the walle of Kara, 1n pasainz thein, dealt ne a mortal Row renlating with hierole derpal in teying to arrest the enemy's m i these lines reach you both will have nnderzone the fate of Kare; Osman wiil be vanqulaned or kiiled, and Mukhtar will no longer prestiae to atyle hin- relf ‘Uthe Vietorinms," ‘\%M will then remain for us to do? Europeha« nbandoned [LH woree, it has condemned and delivered ua up, bes cause we preferred death to dishunor. Want has #tolen within var walin, and §n the fofiermost re- cennca of our houses are o be heard Dnl{ the lam. entitions of women and the maledictions of old :’"‘.] \;el"l what l;!ln :"t then 'I“d,, Au;wn :t ar Jast hope hus dismppeared, whon the Adtianople road threatened, when Erz- croum, which our reinforcements cannot cflectanlly defend, in fallen, we mhail ffpbefora the victaraand treat with thom, and witn hem nnl{. Mr. Layard will vainly tell ns that wo have £o gt odo s, that we' derend Tntereats which sre not oura atone. We anall not hmten to him. Euaropocan ask nothing of an; wo know It no longer; we only know out enemy and our per- sonal defense. The Runsiana are now those who leasthate us, and what they wanted we have al- ways known, for they have nover concealed It, and they have not disappointed onr hopes. The so- calied comman Interests are just those whict least affect un, The Dardanelles and the Bosphorus matter liitle to ne. When the Russians reach Adrianople we ahall yrcsu givingup the Bosphotus to letting them mafch ' on Constantinople, We shall save the suzoralnty over onr European posscasions, and place ourselves under Rusaian protectlion raiher than rely on pretended protectors who fold their arme due. ing ouragony. The protection of Tiussia will be zincere as s00n a8 sho haa obtained the conditions ahe menns to Impos2, We have fooght alone, and will discuss our ransom slone. Wo are told wo shall thas lose Egypt, No matter; we a ot «trong enoagh to nold ngpl ander our allegiance. 1t 1s for Eutope ta sce whether thia sultait, ot we know very well that Europe exist stiil less than we do. Germany haads ue over Lo Rtnsala. She 18 repaylng her dabt of mratitude At onr expensc, Austria wonld not mind if her cotnplaisance were requited with eliccs of the Torkish body; but her iunatinble desires will be balked. France played a Rusien pollcy nn Jong as she hada voice in the mat- ter. Now ahe raya nothing, becanse nobody listens to het any longer. Italy is watching Austria, She, toa, would 1iks somothing, and she is waiting for Austriato furnish her wlth s protext. The two nations wili some day avengu ua on each other, As to England, with lier we are at present most angry of all.” We hate her more than the Itusslans, and e should Infinitely prefer to see a Ruselan flcet fn the Hosphorne to” an English one, We o not kaow wiicther thore who cali themmolves Torlen havo dona us tho more hatm, but both partics bave dono their beat to baeten vor destruction. Tho Ttusalans are well & that they will never enter Constantinople, Wi untd soouer et fire lo it ourselves, and recross the Iosphorus by the light of ite flamen, nml;,'hunnnbcdlme: from Stsmboul to Pera, and from Yera to Gnlata, every one would lenda hand Int. Do not think these lines are written under the influence of & transitory and desperate atato of mind, No, we think it, wa wish it; wo should do it, and wo ahould carry withs us the convictlon and the hope that from the heart of Asla sooner or later wo shionld become more men- scing for Enrope, cowardiy Europe, than we wre niow 1n our Capltal, threatened by every misfor- tune, and abandoned o the rage of oné conquer- ors, " But you know ue, ina weok the wheel may turn; another Osman may reetors our conrape, and then we should regain hops and perhaps vie tory. Hut, alaal I have ceased to believe in it,and nobody here heaceforth belloves in it Commentingon tho above, the London Zimes says cditorfally: The coaler hcads at st Conetantinople most see that the English will not go to war with H; 0 belp thew, ond, indeed, 1t is stated with r frankness na Turkish letter published in our Puris correspondonce of yestehday. Thoy are awara thoy have 1o chance of turning the current Of war unlces they get ald from abroad; and by that they mesn ald from Englsnd. Indeed, thu Turkn now IIMMIIIIIX say that they wonld never have fought If they tind not been assuted that we abould wive them'hulp, They oxpected that En- Rland would ln‘mlr thum with'ofticors, that an En. kltsh army would again bu ween at Gallipolt, and, above all, that wo should lend them money ont of ik B, B, e ere low of Englls! 1 ian! e, oai the good times orulha Crimoan :‘-‘; Wore to retnrn. If tho Turka were betrayed b suck llluslone, they have to thank, not England, 't a nolsy handfal of Engliahinen. * Never aldan; Govummenlf_‘vel clearer warning that 1t would not Aght for Turkey, and uever did & country more unmistakably afliri that same determination, The Turks, {f they have been deceived, murt settle accounts with the Irresponaibie persons who boast- ed ot Lord Sallsbury did not falrly express tho mind of the country, or even of his colleagues fn tho Cabimet. It ls important to warn tho Tarkish Clovernment thut it wlll not change or shake the resolutlon of ehla coantry by threats that it will wake a soparata peaca with Russla in abaolate diy. regard of Lritish Intercats, Wo sball be porfectly well ablo to take caro of our intorcats at the proper time. Lot the Ottoman Ministers Jook to those of thatr own imneiiled State, and close thelr cara againat tho reckloss adviecrs who urge them to con- tinue an exhiausting and hopeless strugglo, WAR NOTES, TOR RUMANITY OF TIZE RUSSIANS IN RULGARIA. Milttary Corresvondence London T¥mes, Ido say that the Russian srmy was excop- tionally humane when compared with other armies that I havo seen fu the feld, and, per- haps, less than any other deserves to be brauded as crucl. On the march from the Dan- ube towards Tirnova, when the Village of Batak was occupled by the Dragoou Brigade of tho Duake Eugene of Leuchtonberg, somo shots wore fired from a bouso at Russian soldlers and oflicers walklog in tho streot. The men who did the deed wero taken® captive, treated with clemnency and kinduess, and sent next day to the rear to be judged by military law. Every day armed nien m.-s-‘mmuml in clvll dress and brouglit to headyuarters for ¢xataination. With one accord thoy put the strange and lugm:nlru question: **What death ars we to diei® to an audieuce which, amused, hall {ndignant, ulways replied: ro Chiristiaus, and don't kil uners. u tuke us for Turksi" At Tirnova there' Temaincd a few Turks, who were treated with -mdnl kindness, and told that protection would be extendod to them and all that might'come In. The soldlors were not even quartered upon the inhabitants, and d the many hours that elapsed bLetore un orderly Government was set up In the tow; there wus nol ouly o crueity, but no parade o conquest. Frou tha villagvs around came & isss of frightenad Turkish imen, women, and chil- dren, whom the Husslans received and fod, be- causy they had fled from the Bulgurlan peas- ants. Of thls Bulgurian cruelty 1 will ?wlk ?‘:xu‘:ur. At present, let us talk ouly of the ussiang. At Kezanllk s very few Cossacks entered some of the Turkish” houses and msked for muoney,which was given to them ; but complainta wero madoat once to $ho authorities, und o prompt end was put toall such frregularities, 1 cuuld never trace a single act of barbarity ou the part of the Ruesluns, Yet men were not ssbumed to como_to me with such trivial complaints as that a Cossack had snatencd off a sesin the stroets, I should certalnly have kuown of any unll{ cruel ex- ccases had they occurrod, just as 1dld kuow of auch excesses on the part of the Buigarians. On tho day when the Bhipks Pass was taken by the troops of Uen. Quurko, there was to be scen astrange spectacle. Within a couple of hundred yards wers two groups of men; vu this side Turks, on that Russians.” The Turke wera prisoncrs, guarded with all care, but treated with mercy, and sluoat teuderness, They were being supplied with food and watcr. Those of them who were wouuded were under the hands of Russlan surzeons, who were dressing the wouuds with every care. And there Were surgeons cuough Tor the task, ‘bocauss they had no Russtan wounded to attend to. Not ove. Everv man who had fallen under tho fire of the Usmanlii the day before, wheu the altack, bad been ropulscd, lay in that otber group, Leadless aud hidcoosdy maogled. ‘Flefr Lving Lodics bad becn subjectad to torture and mutila-, tion of tho wost fusalting kind. Thelr com- rades, wen of the sawe race, avd cven of the same brizade, looked on the awful spectacle, turned awsy, aod, with minglod wiath «nd grief ju their hcarts, washed tho wouuds of the en who doae that terriblo deed. This is no bearsuy tale, I eaw it, and the sceno was depicted by Fronch and Bpanish aztists who had arrived toat dsy, too lato o scu the galiant tightiog of the Russfan tirrailieurs, but Lot too late to recond thelr terrible fato_or the grand forbearancs of thelr cowrades. Yet &b that e and since the favorits cxpression in Englaud Las been that with regard to cruelty it was ' aix of ono sud balla dozen of the other. Eaglisbwen love fulr ploy, snd their recoguition of thy quality of werey in the Russian character is only & question of tine, 1 mighbt quote nstance upon lustance of Rus- sian kindoess and mery, uxlfln describo In de- tail how the prisoucrs who, In great numbers delivered thewaclvea up 10 the Cossacks. aud Plerna s nay, were bronght, without hart or fneult, to Rezan- ik, were fed exactly like the Russian soldiers, aod treated with honor; how the Turkish wounded had & hospital to themselves, under thelr own doctars, better found and cleanerthan that of the Russians in the monastery, Hut surcly sufliclent has leen safd to prove to all who will listen to the truth that savagervis not @ characterietio of the anny which has in- vaded Turkey. Yet, lest any should imagine that the ~Huasian soldier bLecame lcsk carefal to show mercy as time went on soutl of the Balkans, it may be well toremind them that, durini the very Jastfight, when Gourko defeats ed Keoufl Pasha after & severc fight, the tirail leurs, finding, as the struzzie swayed back- wards and forwards fnn the wood, that all thelr wounded comrades who fell into the hunds of the Turks were treated s those others hiad heen abore shipka, began to bayonet such of thelr enemy ss lbu{ caught, withont heed to whether they resiated or not, bat were sternly checked by their oflicers, who sald: * Leave their punishment to God.” The cxpression had & meaning to them—for tho Russian eoldicr is s religlous animal—and the tiraflleurs obeyed. INCIDENTS OF THE BIEGR OF PLEVNA. Corraepondence Loinn Sansard. Bkohelefl's wound was not danzerous, but would liave been were It not that on both oc- caslons when hic was struck he was wearing a thick double shecpskin coat, which turned the rifle ball angd prevented the frazment of ahicll doing more than rip the flesh, Skobelell rode away to vialt the Czar,and 1, having hreakfasted with Iis statl, eallicd out with jta chief, Col. Keroupat Kiuc, to view the positfons a0 gal- |aatly taken and so obstiately defended on the nlght of tne Uth and the morning of the 10th, As I scrambled knec-deep in mud g the stcep sides L the * Monte Vert." could hut wonder to myself how, under the Ditlless fire of the Turkish regulara, the Russmans_had succeeded at all In making. good their hold on thesammit. Arriving on the crest 1had o glimpse at a corner of the Turkieh po- sition, but ax it was dangerous work to litt even for a moment one's head nbove the cover of the gll‘ no view could be got worth deacribing, till, what I did witnoss und will endeavor to tell you uff was oue of thuse little epfsodes of war which strike home its horrurs to the heart nore dcepl{ than aday’s wholeaalu slaughter, From the Turkish lines stole out five men, crouching, creeping, und running over the broken grouud between the lines toward a fleld of malze, distant some 500 yards from theirstart- foe puint. Thelr rifies were In their left hands, and every now and then, thinking themseives safo from Russlnn ken, they would stop as though tosce who of them should go on first, and then went on oguln, all of them together, There object evidently was to gamns corn:tleld sbout 15) vards from the spot where Keroupat Kineand I wero lylng, and’ gather the standing cars, then make back with them to feast on with thelr comrades In their trenches. But, alas for them, In this very corn-fleld the Russians had their rifie-pits; It was all over in Jess tine than It tokesto write! A the five on hands and koees ot amid the corn, the Russiuns leaped from tho trenches In which they were hid, and, In o moment, four 'furks wWere quivering under thelr bayoncts. The fifth had prese enco of mind enoui'h to fling from im his rifle, and such was his azons of fear; and the strenth lent by 1] that the plece few some fit- ty yords. He was pushed down with the butt end ot a rifle, and brought In 0 prisower. Ho told us that bunger had comyuelicd some fifty facing us within the Turkish trenchies to draw lots of five as to who should o vut and gether from the field in thelr front bugs full of carw of Indian corn, and to thess unlucky five the chanco had tallco. In the earlicr part of the day, whilst T was breakfasting with the stafl, as already mention- ed, a lttlo detail of war vceurrod walch, thourh of o fmportance n taclt, scrves 1o mark the character of war, und brings out its sufferings, and_tho callousness to the fatu of others, which t must of necessity engender, aven In the kindest of disposttlous. A young, good-looking sub-Licutenant of some twenty years or o presented himself with a military salute befors our breakiost table, holding in bis haud his coat-tall riddied with bullet-holes, and vxpleined that as junior artii- lery officer of his battery e bad been ordered to cifmb a tree to direct and mark the fircon a newly-constructed redoubt thrown up by the Turke and out of sizht from the ground evel, 1hat ho had Leen up thero tio hours, the latier rt of which he lad been the target of sume our Turkish sharpshooters, who were gradually Improving thelr practice, and he thougit that he had had enourh of 1t, and begged to bo re- leved. Eversbody laughed as the Colonel Chiet of the 8(aff ordered him back agnin to ils vost, to remain untll he fell or was called dawn. Andas I laughed too, in clhorns, not quite undorstanding for the. moment what the matter was,—of 1ifc and of death,—he muve mo a8 ho took himsell off “to ubey on &% (u, Zrute look that I shall not foruet. GERMANY, ALSACE AND LORRAINE. fnispouvrg, Dec, 24.~The Alsace-Lorraine Provincial Committeo, passed a resolution ex- pressing the wish that Alsace and Lorraine ehould recelve its own constitution as a Foderal Btate, snd bave a represontative fn tho Federal Councifof the German Empire. DEAD, . Baniw, Dec. 24.—Philip Velt, the celcbrated German fresco painter, ts dead. =i CUBA. TNSURGENTS BUDNENDERING, 2’ IIavana, Dec. 24.—An official telegram from Banctus Spickns says aixtyjeight insurgents sur- rondered lu the Central Dapastment. Among them werd ‘the wife sud family of Maximo Qomez. The surrcuderof the famlly of Maxino Gomez had been previously offered, and Gen. Martinez Campos permitted thim to surrender, either on tho Islaud of Cuba or outside, accon- Ing to their wishes. To-day forgy-six surrenders wero reported In tho Central Department. FRANCE. Bl MORR CHOW FOR M'MAHON. G Panis, Dec. 24.—M. Do Marscre, Minister of the Interlor, has ordered Prefects to relnstate all municipal councils dismissed since tho . 10th of May. other ISABELLA AND CARLOS, 3 Parts, Dec, 34, —Ex-Queen leabella of Spain has vislted Don Carlos, This fact causes mich comincut, notwithstanding tho statements pub- liskod that the visit had no political siguid. cance, RUSSIA. MINISTROLL APPOINTMENTS, . 8t. Pererssura, Dec, H.~—~Prince Gortecha. Kkoff has assumed the direction ol the Minlstry of ¥orelen Affalrs. Gen Ignstfoff has beon ap- polnted mowber of the Councll of the Empire. praisilaiis GREAT BRITAIN, THINCE LXOPOLD. Loxpox, Doc. 34.—The conditlon of the bheslth of Princo Leopold, the Quocn's youngest son, {8 agalu causiug anxiety. bkt . CRETB. A PROYISIONAL GOVEUNMENT TO BB FORMED, Viznna, Dec. 24.—The fnsurgents fa Crete have convoked tho Natloual Asscwbly to estub- lish a Provisiogal Governwent. il SICILY, P GEN, GHANT, Parxnxo, Doc. #84.—Ex-Presilont Graut has arrivegd bere. ——— THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE, Avecial Déssarch U» Ths LAioago Tyidune. Jowizr, I, Dec. 24.—A series of temperanty meetfogssat Werner Hall, conducted by Dr. Reynolds, of Michizan, the famous red-ribbon Fofurmer, closed yesterday oveutog. Tho weets Ings weru o declded success, snd great luterest was wavlfested. Two lhundred and tity sddl- tional recruits sigued the pludge of the Tempere anco Keform Club, which slready vumbered over 2,000 members, Tho attcudancs last night was 80 groat thet the meetin, dlv\dtfi‘ f’an ot tlc audience adjourulug 10 the Cout) vesby- terian Churchy whero au excellent address was wmade by the Hov. N. H. Axteli. - e—— e GUILTY OF LIBEL. Yaxwxron, D, T, Dec Si.—In the District Court to-dsy tho jury tu the hbel cuso sgalnat ths propriotors of the Lukola Herald for pub- lishiog lbelous articles sagalvst Gov. Peoniug- tou brought ln a verdict of gullty, after bel out tbiziy-alx bours, el e bus be show PRICE FIVE CENTS. WASHINGTON. Complete Collapse of the Ware Bubble on the Mexican Border, The Diaz 'Tronpu Co-operating with the United Btates Forcesin Keep- ing the Peace. Gen. Shertdan Thinks the Situa- tion Hins Been Grossly Exaggerated. The Land Controversy Between the Northern Pacific and the Settlers, A Demooratio Btory -Berlously Refleoting upon the Officlal Conduct of Beerotary Sherman, . THE MEXICAN BORDER. NO TROURLES ON TIIA FRONTIER. Bpecial Divich tn The Chicagn Tribune. Wasitixatox, D. C., Dee, 24,—The testimony of 8 namber of military officers before the Houso Military Commission shows most positively that for at least a year or eighteen motls past there has been no trouble on the scttled parta of the Texas frontier. There have been no ralda by Mexicans into Texas, and there bas not been the least cxcuse for threatening war with Mexi~ €o, It was reported the other sy here that an offlcer serving on the border had sald that not a Lioof of cattle had been stolen from Texas since the beginning of the present Adminfatration, and Gen. Steridan‘stestimony literally bearsont assertion, e commands tho department which includes ‘texas, nnd all_reports of border trou- bles aru made to him, faro the most Interesting of all that was aiven. e knuws of nu ruid from the Mexican sido into ‘Texas duriug the Isst year. or since the Diag Government came into power, thoueh lie basan fmoression, ut no knowledge at all, that a few cattle have been stolen. The only crossing he had knowleage of was on an occasion durlng the summer, wheu a_revolutionary force under the Tnotorious Pedro Valdez was formed in Texas, and crossed from Texas It was et and defeated by Mexican troops who pursued tho fnvaders back {nto Texas n beat them agaln on our soil, but In this affale the first fnvasion Mutican Government had ‘cause of .com: plaint acainat us, this T1is Lestimony was therc. and fnvaded Mexico. cume from our alde, and the NEWS FIOM THE RIO GRANDR to-night Is rerarded as war with Mexico, Mexican rezuls with our troops In following outiuws futo Mexico shows that the Information was true that was sent hers a short time ago, to the effect that the regular troops that Diag was sending to the border were really to pro- serve the peace aud not for the purpose of ate tacklug our forces. — ¢ NORTIIERN PACIFIC. THE LAND-GILANT CONTROVENHSY, Special Disputch ta The CAlcago Tridbuna. ‘Wasuixaroy, D. C., Pacifle Rallroad Company has made an argu- ment before the Becretary of the Interior In favor of a new withdrawal of lands aloog o lino ot rond which they claim Lo be a new locatfon, Tho land-geant which hias acerued {0 them on aceount of the completed road Is that In the line from Tacoma, on Puget Sound, to Katams, ou the Columbia River, a branch MNne, for whicq & plat was tiled In 1878, running northward from Tacoma until {t reaches 2 practicable Dass, and then castward to foln the maln line. It -traverses a very considerablo portion of Washington Territory, Inud wus withdrawn when it was located, Tho Company hins ceustructed a short branch road frow ‘Tacoma to_ecrtatn coal mines, Iutely fliod o map muking a continustion of this stort branch through a puss, which has been des clared by army oflicers 1o bo ita priucipal branch ruad, and on account or this branel 1t now desires to sccure a new witdraw- 8l of lands from the Sucretary of the Interior, X l"l:l Washlngton” Territory, on the hauy cannot be a branch The citizens cnding tho question of The co-uperation of the Dec. 24.~The Notthorn and A very Jarge tract of and it has Impracticable, a8 aroc. coutending that road this on account of the impracticable charactor of the ronte over which 1t is cmmflu? they will build it, and the; 88 1o portion of tho tirst were 0 extensively withdrawn bas been com- pleted, that theso lanas shall also be restored to tho market, THE NATIONAL OREDIT. A DEMOCHATIO STORY ABOUT SECHETARY SUNR. the Company that urther contend that anch for which lands MAN, Dispaich 1o Cincinnatt Eaguires, -Wasninarox, D, C., tary Sherman, with the view to fifluence fnan- ulal legisiation, ts buslly eugaged, both directly ‘angd judirectly, in tmpairing the natfonal credit, 1. [dly charged ugalust him thaf ho has ro- celvad, Liimecous uot. Dec. 22..While Bocre- > propositions from American bankers to subscribe for the entiro 4 per. cent loan. Indeed, it is moreoverassertod tlat some of the propositions offeced aro upon‘a, better contract than that which he entered into, with the forelgn Byudicate, ¥very proposition ‘which has thus far been made Sherman bas withheld from the public, cxcept In one single {nastance, when a New York firm offered to take a stated amount and make payment insilver. Thispropo. altion Sherman did give to the public, bat only for the reason that, assuming the siiver dollar to ba worth only 93 cents, he made a cun- ning argument (0 reply to show that to accept it tho Government would lose a larger amount, It is o inatter of history- that, ever since the Silyer vl passed the House, followed by the il for the repeal of the Resumptiou act, the most doleful' sounds againat American credit have been sent forth from the Trcasury Departe went, Tha dally cry ts, shat funding operatious must ccase, because Eum?un investors, ularined pt the cry of repudistion heralded b Bberman aud bis” bond-holdiug allies i Wall streot, refuse to take our bunds; sod yet, fn spite of the fact that tho entire 4-per-cenit loan . e asked bankers, to upen to subscription in this coun- try, Jobn Bhierman, who should be the detender o(vAmerlmn credit, not only refuses to go ahead with tho funding uperutions, but utilizes this re- fusal to tuako o appear th an lo suspension of subscriptions to our loans, Thera are not & fow Wi tir tirod of this repeated cffort to destroy tha natlonal credie to Awnong them 1s Gen. ofleriug a resolutfon, wheu yenes, to Investigate the transuct! Syndicate, and at the sawe time clts Jobn Sher- inan before s Cougressional Committeo o tiske . public the fuct that he has had repestod oppure tunities to sbrogute the contruct with the Byu- dicate) which Las been already violated, aud eater loto one quite as advant. bankers, who guarantes to take the whols 4 per ceot loan, place 16 on the American markes, and dliposs ot 1t expeditiously. An hoy vestigation in this quarter will auduoubtedly thyt S'ermun lLeads a cabal deaperats €ouugh to resort to soy extremity 1o defuat the repeal of the date fixed for reswinption and the bill for tho rewonctization of silver, lor by numerous Amnerican at tho law-making tusell, 1t responsible for sterl meu who are got- baerve personal enda, ing, who coutewnplates L'ougn'u wguin A'dll‘l- the 18 of cous with home ot in- NOTES AND NEWS, TOK AGHICULTUKAL DEPARTMEST, Svectal Disoatch 10 T8 (Xicago Trivums, . Wasuwierox, D. C., Dec. 3.~0en, Leduc, Commlssioner of Agriculture, sotme to be foly lowing hard o the foofsteps of Issac Newton, the far-famed If w0t potorious Commisstoner of Agriculturd of Mr. Lincpl fugto have the bead of his Department de- clared a Cabinot poaltion. The wovemest ex~ cites considerablo ridiculo, but for alithay itis - - actively in progress. n's term, and ls scok- . WANT RESTORATION. Every day brings now candidates for restars- tlon to the army or uavy rofls, based upon the late declsion tn tho case of Burgeou Draper, of the uavy. A aumber of ofticurs who were s -