The New York Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1873, Page 4

4 KHIVA~NO. 5. Russian Organization of the Amny Corps of Invasion and Rapid Execution of the Orders of the Czar. A. Thousand Miles in ' the Desert. | ATTACK ON THE TU BOMBARDMENT OF KHIiVA. ‘OMANS. | Re ial The Rus the ams inter Town. The purpose of count of the Russi Paigu against the Kt ofthe march of Gen fore Khiva and the General Kaulm ing to do, Althc came to Kaufmann, ul of th the work of General Pertovkin, {t1s not commonly known that General Kaufmann had been preparing for this expedition two years before it was an- nounced St. Pe sburg last September, and when he went to St. Petersburg to ask the permis- sion of the Czar to invade the Khanate every- was ready in Turkestan for the opening of campaign; but as there were many cou in the Russian capttal to which | was the best route for invading Central Asia, the Emperor decided to send three expeditions, rom the Caucasu: ler General Muroksom the cam- ative a bri nu of Khty. | Periovki nts which on hae honor uitiva! be- nn’s divi zh the the fi thing the as second from Orenburg under 1 Reysan- obsky—the government of its de » he con- fided to General Periovsin; and the third from | Turkestan, under the c and of General Kauf- mann, which your correspondent accompanie Mauroksoff’s expedition failed, as you know. BR sanobsky received his orders in January, and the everything was ready—tran s, arma: forage, provisions, tents and clothing sullicient for the campaign in the coldest of winters and over 1,100 miles of country— n six weeks aiter the order of the Czar was given, shows what | the Russjaus can do in ay of rapid prepara- | tion for war. THE KINDE Of the adventures of 1 will not speak now, except t deiell the Kinderiie d of Kinderlie, on the Sea, and was cov! fantry—in ail 1,400 w four-pounders, with cameis and no means Cossacks were dism used as beasts of bu marched Lieutenant Stum the German government, t who was in Khiva b the w a for troops at one part of their route marct without water, under ascorching sun. Many bad | thrown themselves down on the sands to die, and were only aved y a cavalry advance, w brought a small supply of water in bottles. joined the Orenburg detachment after a 40 days’ march in the wilderness. This was a markable march, being the longest ever made in history. It 48 not less than 1,009 miles from Oreuburg to Khiva. On the Ist of June Periovkin | tered Koomgrad, which the ans had aban- doued in ruins. The town and fortress had fallen into decay from the wars off rival khans, and | mainly trom a siege imposed upon it 15 yea ago by the Kban of Khiva. From here Periovkin continued his march until the 4thofJune. The Knivan forces had shown thez es now and then, but had made no resistance. They simply sent messages to the Russians requesting them to return toSt. Petersburg at the earliest moment, under pain of the Khan’s high displeasure. On one occasion the Khivan Governor sent a message to | the Russian General asking him to wait three days until the cannon should arrive, when he would give him battle; bat that, if the Russian General insisted upon advancing in spite of his admonition, he would simply refuse to fight—and he was as | good as his word. Further on the route, alter | leaving Koomgrad, the Turcomans commenced showing themselves in large !orce: nd from that ‘time forward there was scarcely a night or day when the Russians were not harassed by skirmish or alarm. Thg Turcomans hung on the flanks of the army all day, uttering shouts, feigning attacks on the trains, sometimes mak- ing real assaults, firing (rom behind walls and trees, now harassing the rear and again the ad- vance at all hours of the day and night, so that the troops were indeed always on the alert and could find no rest. Thisis the Turcoman plan of Wariare. Although there did not occur during this whole campaign a single pitched battle there took place several interesting contests, in which the Russians lost from 10 to 15 killed and 25 or 30 wounded. Before reaching the village of Murgit, June 3, the Russians were fired upon. The soldiers, ‘who supposed the village had surrendered, and who had been incensed beyond measure by the dis- covery a few days before of the headiess bodies of eleven Russian marines, who had been decoyed from their flotilla to their death, immediately put the whole village—men, women and children—to the sword, and applied the torch. It was indeld a scene of horror, and many officers who were present spoke of it to me after- ‘wards with a shudder. I allude to it more par- ticularly, not so much to illustrate the character of the war as to state that it was the only incident of the kind that occurred durjng the whole of the campaign. ATTACK BY THE TURCOMAYS. On the 7th of June, when the army approached Khiva, the Turcomans made another attack on ‘their trains, Which almost proved successful. The army had camped for a noon rest; all except those on guard were lying on the ground asleep. Sud- denly a body of Turcomans on horseback made a descent on @ drove of camels and carried them off. If the enemy had succeeded in their attempt of course the army would have died from want, Be- fore the tniantry could get unger arms the camels almost Ars were out of reach, The colonel who led the advance had, however, veen | making a reconnolssance with some Cossacks | from the Uraland another company of Cossacks from the Caucasus. On their return they hap- pened to take the very read by which the Turco- | mans were hurrying of with their prey. This Coionel, Scobelom# by name, seeing the Turcomans advancing towarde him driving the cameis, imme- diately charged them, Although they were twice his number, taken completely by surprise, the Tur- comans fled like geese, leaving nearly 100 dead on | the feild, most of whom had fallen by the sharp cimeters of their brother Mussulmans. It wasa Kind of hap-havard contest, uot requiring science or tactical evolution, In fact, nothing of this was required during the whole of the campaign; for it was never possible to know what the Khivans would do, because they never did what they ought to have done, The Russians were compelled to ignore the ele- mentary rules of wartare and to gain victories by committing what would be called the groasest mil- itary faults. Their whole military science was em- braced in simply keeping discipline, marching straight ahead and Plovecting the camp from Ambuscades, THE MARCH ON KiIVA. So tbe men marched upon Khiva without muca @urther adventure. General Periovkin, leading » Fecounoltring party im person to determine the exact position of the town, unexpectedly found Himself within 100 yards of its gates, hidden as it qas by trees and forests. A sudden fre was | Khivans were as effective as th iK | message a NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OVEMBER 26, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, MAP OF THE CITY OF KHIVA AND ENVIRONS. 1. The Palace of Khau (Arik), 2. The Palace of Khan-Arik. 3. The Mosque of Holy Polwan-Ata. . The Mosque of Seit-Bey. 5. College (madresa) of Mohamed-Rahim- Khan. . College of Mohamed-Ami . College of Kutlu-Mrat-Inaca. . College of Rahman-Berdi-Bia. Khan. The hat the inferior arms of the opened upon distance was so ne pleces of cannon, e of the Russians. The Russians were surprised,especially as they were beginning to lose a good many men, Periovkin immediately ordered the cannon tobe taken by at the point of the bayonet. While this was being done he received a wound which disabied him. Four companies were ordered out for the attack, The Russians charged the walls, bay- oneted the gunners and took the caunon, There was no way of dragging them out of their position, as the scaling of the walls was a surprise and there were no ladders or preparations for retreat. Their position, therefore, was critical, for while they held the captured guns they were cowpelled to fight the main force of the Khivan arms, unable to advance or retreat, At length the Russian artillery came to the rescue and drove the rivans from the walls by and the captured cannon were brought aw nough not without suble and loss of Lif ould say 15 killed and 75 wounded. F This might be tainly the Russian attack haa ty HT OF THE KHAN. repulsed. Nev- d a Khivan victory, for cer- | ertheless it Was this victory of the Khan, coupied | with the bombardment which began immediately, which convinced him that resistance was useless. It may be the Khivans sustained a heavy loss, but | it was the belief in the Russian army tnat when the Khan saw the daring manner in which the Russians captured the cannon he became convinced that opposition was out of the question. Certain it is that as soon asthe fire bad lessened his cousin came to General Kaufmann offering an unconditional surrender, and requesting that geu- eral to stop the bombardment, He also sent a king for a 24 hours’ truce, but as the Rus- sians suspected the message to be a subterfuge they only consented to a three hours’ truce, pro- vided the Khan wocld surrender at the end of THE PLAN OF TH 9. Coll of 10. College of Alpa-Cul-Khan. 11. College of Hodjas-Mehrem. 12. College of Fasul-Be 13. College of Davlet-Kara-Kysa. 14. College of Be! jasa Divan Begi. 15. House of Mjahtjar. 16. House of Kusch Begi ay House of Divan Begi. TE KRIVAN CAPITAL. The Wall, Fortifications, Mosques, Siave Mart and Institutions of Learning In the Failen City—The Local Police= Powers and Privileges of the Khan— Barbers and Beards. Vamb¢ry introduces his chapter on the city of Khiva by quoting from the essay of Voltaire:— “Les principaux sirent asseoir le Khan sur une piece de feutre et tut dirent: Honore tes grands, sois juste et bienJaisant envers tous; sinon tu seras si misérable que tu nauras pas meme le feutre sur lequel tu es assis.” The sentiment therein nttered certainly indicates that there is an authority other than the absolute despotism of the Khan. Mr. MacGahan, in bis re- cent letters, 0! cruel, despotic ruler by nature, as most unior- tunate monarchs always have been, but that he was under the influence of a designing courtier, Khiva, the capttal city, an exce.lent map of which we print this morning and for which we are in- debted to the courtesy of the American Geograph- ical Society, from whose archives it was taken, is like an inferior Persian city, containing 3,000 or 4,000 mud houses, standing in different directions, in the most irregular manner, with uneven and unwashed walls. The city is surrounded bya mud | Wall, 10 feet high, and has nine gates and 10 quar- that time. To this the Khan made answer that he was willing to surrender, but that the | Turcomans, over whom he had very little | control, would not, and if the Russians would cease: firing he would come out nextday. It was now nearly night, and as the Turcomans on the walls kept up ascattering fire the Russian artillery continued the bombardment of Khiva at intervals | during the darkness. This bombardment had the effect of frightening the Khan, woo abandoned the town without waiting for Kaufmann’s response to his offers of surrender, Several shells had fallen into his palace, and as he had never heard of a shell until the Russians brought them to his at- tention his terror wnen he saw them exploding ail around him was uncontrollable; so with afew hundred of his Turcoman cavalry he sougnt refage on the open plain. Ir was then that the people set bis brother at liberty, who had been a prisoner for some months a8 a conspirator, and arrangements were made for a@ surren- | der. The Turcomans, however, continued firing, and the Russians resolved to take the town by gtorm; soin the morning 24 shells were thrown against the gate, which was soon battered down, Then Colonel Scopelof, with about 1,000 men, rushed to the assault under a lively fire of small arms from the walls. Wten the Russians entered the city the Turcomans showed themselves in masses, as though they were going to contest the streets, but at the sight of a few rockets that went tearing through the air they fell away, and Khiva was taken. The Russians had 14 wounded in the assault and nobody siain. There was really no resistance, for the authorities had surrendered the town, and the acts of war were aets on the part of uncontrollable Turcoman warriors. But the affair shows that if the Khan had been a judicious, courageous prince and had made up his mind to submit to @ siege, Khiva would not have been taken without some trouble, KAUFMANN ENTERS THE TOWN, So the town was taken at last. Count Scobelom Was the first to set foot in the captured city, fol- lowed by young Count Schouvaloff, who will be re- membered in America as the companion of the Grand Duke Alexis. Having dispersed the Khi- vans, the Russians marched cautiously in skir- mishing line through the streets to the Khan's palace, An amusing evidence of Russian disci- pline 1s that, having made the assault and entered the city without the knowledge or permission of the Commander-in-Chief, they were not at all sure of the comment General Kaufmann, who is a strict disciplinarian, would make upon their victory, ‘They had been tn the palace only a few moments when they were informed that Kaufmann was ac. tually entering the clty by another gate in great state, having accepted the formal surrender, ‘they thereupon harriedly left the palace, just in time to give place to the General’s procession, which came later, Thus fell Khiva into the power of Russia, after asuccession of disastrous expeditions ex- vending over @ period of 200 years. Tt is DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS, Khiva proper and Itch Kale, the citadel, which can be shut off from the outer city by four gates. Khiva is not famous for her bazaars, The Tom" Bazaar is a Jair specimen, and this one contains about 120 shops and @ caravansary, and we find exposed tnere the products of Persia and Bokhara, besides the grocer shops, the soap and candle mar- kets and 12 barber shops, where the heads alone are shaved. “I say the beads,’ observes Vam- béry, “for the man would be regarded as out of his seases or would be punished with death who should have his beara shaved.’ Among the bazaars is ters. THE SLAVE MART, where the tekki and tomuts are exposed for sale. Khiva, like acity in many respects similarly situ- ated in Alrica—we meau Khartoomi—has derived | all of its prosperity from the traMic in human flesh, THE MOSQUES, The mosques of the city, the resorts of Moslem idlers, are not grand, yet Harzreti Pehliran is an edifice four centuries old, but not very ornamental. Instead of spending their time in wholesome in- dustry, the idlers derive their greatest happiness by monotonous repetitions of the Koran. M. Vambéry finds that in Central Asia LEARNING has long been known both in Bokhara and Khiva. As will be found by reference to,the map, Khiva is richly endowed in this respect. The chief college, Mahommed Enuu-Khan Madresa, was built in 1842, by @ Persian architect, after the model of a Persian caravansary of the first rank, On the right is 4 massive tower, somewhat lottier than the two-storied colleges, and not yet completed. This coliege has 130 cells and accommodations for 260 students, and it has a revenue of 12,000 batman of wheat and $12,500 in corn. The colleges are credit- able to the Khivese, showing as they do that knowledge is one of the purposes of existence in the neglected regions of Central Asia, They are the only edifices which can be called buildings of decent appearance, and form a marked contrast with the mud houses, among which they are set as diadems, Their courtyards are clean and are planted with trees, and LECTURES OF THE PROFESSORS are delivered to the scholars in the cells, The groups of listeners are arranged according to the relative degrees of intellectuai capacity. The police is well organized and eMeient. In each quarter of the town there is a “mirab,” who is responsible for the good order of his district; while by night there are 32 watch- men, who arrest every man caught out ef doors half an hour after mianight, “And,” exclaims the Hungarian traveller, “woe be to those caught tn Slagrante delicw.” Such is the city whose conquest has long been sought by Russia, It is not to be supposed that the mere prize of the Kiivan capital were worthy of an expedition of 15,000 men, equipped at great expense, Now that the Russians have the capital and that the Khan has fled, 1t remains to be seen what kind of a governinent will be substituted for the ancient laws and customs of the Khanate. ‘rhe Khan was absolute with his subjects, and was re- Garded as the father of a family. He was only re- strained by the superior wisdom of iearning of other men, which always produces @ powerful effect in Asiatic countries. Yet it may seem Strange that M. Vambeéry gives at length the Khi- van Constitution, whieh @ ef Mangal ariatn. served that the Khan was not a | E CITY OF IKHIVA. 18. Caravansary. 19. Covered Shops. 20. The Market Square. 21. The Gate of Abdal-Bab. 22. The Gate of Bakchi-Darvas. 23. The Gate of Chermohamet-Ata. 24. The Villa and Garden of Angrik 25. The Villa and Garden of Gildengali. 26. The Villa and Garden of Rapsik. 27. The Villa and Garden of Chirdjeli. 28. House and Garden of Berdi-Bey. 29. House of Sit Mahmut-Turja. 30. House of Usuf-Beck. 31. House of Mjahtera. 32. House of Ibragim-Berdi-Beck. 33. Reservoir of Ismarnud. 34. Place of the Execution. 35. Cemetery of Abas-tau. There are twelve classes of oMcials, who are styled Sipo-ht, and they comprise the various civil and military grades, EVACUATION DAY. lide Bas Ue Parade of the Seventh Regiment and the Veterans of 1512—Great Display of Patriotie Bunting. Yesterday was the ninetieth anniversary of the evacuation of the good city of New York by the British troops. AS it was not a legal holiday but few places of business were closed, but there was a@ magnificent display of tricolored bunting, and nearly every second nouse on Broadway was orna- mented with the American Nag—a fact which was caused, no doubt, by the recent outrages of the Spanish soldiery on the American martyrs at Santiago de Cuba, At two o’clock the Seventh regiment paraded to celebrate the anniversary of our iathers’ liberation. The regiment, equipped in tall overcoats, left their armory at ten mieutes past two o’clock and marched down Broadway to the City Hall, at which place they were reviewed by Mayor Have- meyer and tae Common Council. The regiment araded 600 strong and was in command of Colonel hinmions Clark. Among those present at the re- view were Thurlow Weed, the Earl of Roseberry, a young English nobleman; Captain Frederick Ward, aide- ‘amp to His Excellency Lord Duf- ferin, the Governor General of Canada; General Morris, and General Duryee. At daybreak J. Gould Warren and H. J. Elderd hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the old fort in Central Park. At noon the veterans of 1812 and 1814 assembled to the number of 42, in the officers’ room of the Sixth Regiment Armory, East Fifteenth street. General Raymond waa arrayed in all the glory of his Continental uniform, With one other excep- tion no attempt at military dress was made, the cockade on the hat being the only distinctive mark. The assemblage comprised men whose ages Tange trom neariy 100 down to threescore and ten, At one o'clock Adjutant Warner called the roll. Forty-two persons responded, while some 20, among whom was General John A. Dix, were ab- sent, Tue oldest veteran on the roll is John Hol- brook, aged 97, and the youngest John Strain, aged 71, who remarked, as his age was called, “Ihe youngest upon the roll, and the father of twins, eight years of age.”’ Line was then formed, and the veterans filed down Patek weatn they were met by the officers of the Sixth regiment, and all sat down to a bountiful dinner, Adjutant Warner read a preamble and series of resolutions calling on the government to vindicate Les ee honor and to recognize the Cuban Re- public. The resolutions were unanimously adopted, after which toasts and responses were indulged in, when the assemblage dispersed. There have been four deaths of veterans since the meeting a year ago. A CURIOSITY OF THE TICHBORNE T RIAL, 34 BESSBOROUGH STREET, Nov. 4, 1873, To THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND:— My Lorp—Seeing the death of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas recorded in the pub- lic press and that the Attorney General 1s likely to be made his successor, and knowing Your Lord- ship’s high character for justice, I feel sure Your Lordship will forgive me for drawing your attén- tion to the Attorney General’s conduct in the late trial at the Common Pleas and the language made use of by him about me and also to the fact that he made use of forged letters for the parpose of de- feating me at the last trial, knowing, as the evidence of M. Chabot and his own letter of July 24, 1873, published in the Times and other papers, proves, that he knew the letters were forgeries at the time he used them, or, in legai language, he uttered them, well knowing them to be forged, He has also had the same forgeries brought against me in the present triai, although he acknowledged them as Jorgeries in his speech, and, no doubt, they would have been used against me had not the Lord Chief Justice of Engiand at once condemned them. ‘The public, who have found me the movey to defend myself, know all these facts as well as do, and that this prosecu. tion is only carried on for the purpose of crushing me and saving the reputation of the Attorney Gen- eral. 1 now ask yon, my lord, not to appoint this per. son to be Chief Justice of the Court where I shall eventually obtain 7h just rights, and where, even whe did not try the case, he would influence his brethren to deny me justice in the same manner as his predecessor, Sir Wiillam Bovill, aid. 1 beg to remain Your Lordship’s obedient servant, B,C, P. TICHBORNE, FUNERAL OF A PROMINENT WILLIAMS. BURGER, Yesterday afternoon the last tribute of respect was paid to the remains of John Osmer, for the past 20 years proprietor of the Kings County Hotel, Williamsburg. The services, which were impressive, were conducted by the Rev. J. D. Wells, of the South Third street Presbyterian church. All the ceremonies were under the direc. tion of Cnited Brothers Lodge, No. 356, PF. and A, M. The forge named gentlemen acted as pali- bearers:—J. D, Bloom, D. H. Strauss, George Estrupp, John Puckhaber, H, Sandmann, Gustuye Voege and M, Masterlein. Among the prominent citizens present were Mr. William Wainwright, ex-Sheriff Anthony Watters, Aldermen Frank Nolan and Eckert, ex-Judge oorhes and ex-Fire Commissioner William A, row, THANKSGIVING EVE, The National Holiday and How It Will Be Observed. Provision for the Poor, Perishing People---What Our City Charities Will Do To-Morrow, To-morrow, Thursday, November 27, is the day Set apart by the President of the United States, as the holiday of Thanksgiving. This festival is one that has been, since its first inauguration, strictly kept by those who feel gratitude for the many bless- ings vouchsafed them by a benificent Providence during well nigh 11 months of the waning year, and has become one of “our most glorious institu- Uons,” as Mr. Jefferson Brick would say. Certainly it is a day that should be venerated and kept holy for a)l time, it being that upon which the praise of erring manis tendered to the Most High for His most merciful forbearance and the care He takes of even the most worthless of mankind. The first day of public and universal thanks- giving of which we have any record was cele- brated at Plymouth, Mass., A. D. 1621, by order of Governor Bradford, In those days the country was, metaphorically speaking, in swaddling clothes, and THE PILGRIM FATHERS found it rather more dimicult to provide for their households than even the most impecunious citi- zen does at the present time. Arduous toil failed to make the virgin soil produce in plenty the nec- essaries of life; steam ploughs, patent irrigators and seed distributors were unknown; fertilizers Were to be discovered by posterity, and the fair sur- face of earth was not nearly so fecund or produc- tive as art and science have made it since the country gained its independence. There had been drought, famine and privation; the barns and granaries were empty; the immolating hand of the grim goblin Starvation was upon the people. But He “who marks the sparrow’s fall’? turned an attentive and sympathetic ear to the prayers of the aMicted. In their dire need they lifted up their Voices and He gave them aid. The perched and thirsty earth was refreshed with genial showers, the wilted trees resumed their bloom and pienty came once more. The golden sun shone down upon uplands teeming with ripening grain, THE THATCHED BARNS ECHOED the strokes of the flail, and ere chiil winter snows mantled the earth goodly crops were garnered and misery evanesced. It was then that the Puritan pioneers of civilization in the Western World determined to show their gratitude by keeping select and sacred one day out of every year upon which they could render tribute of thanksgiving to the great Creator. With the rapid march of im- provement and knowledge during the last two centuries the customs observed upon this holiday have materially changed, and, in fact, it was not until Mr. Lincoin’s term as President that Thanks- giving was made a national holiday and all public ofices closed in celebration of it. SINCE “HONEST OLD ABR’ made that enactment public interest in Thanks- giving has yearly increased, and the day is now almost as joyously anticipated as the celebration of “the glorious Fourth.” There is also a most Peculiar and astonishing unanimity of ritual in the manner of the celebration of this holiday, when the diversity of sects and creeds be taken into con- siderations As becomes a feast day, and has ever become one since the ancient Greeks and Romans held high carnival in the celebration of their tutelar deities, hearty cheer and free indulgence in all kinds of harmless mirth are the chief features of Thanksgiving Day. The churches are thrown open for the pious and grateful to worship the Giver of all good things, and, indeed, few services are so well attended by those secufarly inclined as those held upon this day of general rejoicing, But it is, after all, the Thanksgiving dinner which is the great feature of the day. Mater familias has been in @ stew anda furry for the past week to cater for the party she expects to entertain, and her anxieties never cease until midnight ushers in another day and the last guest has departed or gone up stairs to bed. To provide a substantial feast for a large circle 18 an onerous task, us on this day poor relations and new marriage connec- tions must perforce be invited, and poor relations, especially if they are envious, are apt to be dis- salisfied and hypercritical. TH TURKEY, WHICH LOOKED So PLUMP and tender in its plumage, turns out when plucked to be skinny, sinewy and bony as an antiquated spinsver or agrilled ostrich, The capons, which Were thought to be iuicy and fat, prove old shanghae roosters, and the cranberry sauce has got burned in the pan. ‘Ten to one the cook has appropriatea the wine which was to flavor be yw) side- dishes and entréméts for her own us, ang Mater- samilias, on her return from CPurch, finds her mixing catsup with celery ®auce and giving vent to her jeelings in a rUvald song. Butitall, comes right in the end, for even the worst-natured eyme in existence could not sit ata table laden with dainty viands and surroanded by fair afd happy smiling faces And retain ill huinor long. Poor and friendiess indeed is the man who dines by himself on Thanksgiving Day; a subject desery-» ing of more pity cannot Yeadily be conceived, Gn- less 1b be the Lugklne = dtd WR gets_po di rat ail, The 3" "who goes to a restaurant aloé on ‘hig 19st day is probably the very one who detests \wTkey and the fowis of t.e@ air generally. The Waiters pounce: instantly upon him and name the Very dishes he most avoiinates. The diner—half avery already—giances over the carte and picks out a dozen dainties running. ‘Not got dat td. day, sar,’18 the invariable reply. “Nice turkey, sar; roast chicken, sar," and the poor, solitary fel- low las finally to order a sirloin steak, which is sure not to arrive until his appetite bas fed, which proves to be tough when tt does, and becomes & victim to the consciousness that every one of his nitecuth amendment brethren are regarding him as ‘mean white,’? who can’t afford fowl on Thanksgiving. As the year has rotled along on the wheels of Time many and peculiar changes ta the lives and for- tunes Of men have taken pluce. Some of those who Were living in opulence and ease, and who ate thevr last Thanksgiving dinner surrounded by their relatives and admiring and enyious triends this year may have to bez @ meal or accept, with & graieiul heart and good appetite, the HOLIDAY VARE OF A PRISON, Others who regaled themselves on pork and beans and coflee and cakes last November wilt thus year find their feet under a bright-polished mahogany and (heir palates tickled with the chotvest delicacies, ‘This 18 a world of ups and iowns, ® Kind of see-saw at which children of an older growth delight to mH play. The tuigty “Boss of Ring” will keep Thanksgiving (?) behind prison. . While his more acute partner in crime, ‘Slippery Dick,’ will SIP MOSFLLE IN A PRETTY CHALET amid the snow-clad peaks of Switzerland. Many of the buils of the stock Exchange having beem uoabie to bear the tightness of the money market will keep the feast im foreign climes, and many of is Will growl over the unsavory boarding ¢ provender which is all the late panic has left In Suilicient to pay tor. y in the money market andthe are now apa us will alfect in & far harsher manner thousands of those who have taken neither part nor hand in the straggle for easily acquired wealth that has half paralyzed the country, In this city alone there are literally thousands of honest persons without even the mere necessilies of life, and this through no fault of theirown, The laborer is willing to work for hia family, the widow to toil for her children, the orphan girl to earn her daily bread honest. but lor these there ts no work, and, consequent po Thanksgiving dinner ppless ie charitable cone, qo their aid, Felons will be Well caréd for On this’ feast day by the authorities, the tnmates of the va- rious charitable institutions 1 this city will be well loosed after by the governing committees and those specially interested, but our citizens and citoyennes should make tt their especial duty to do their utmost to relieve the necessities of the de- herving and create aheartfelt sense of gratitude: in the breast of the impoverished members of the community, “THE LORD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER,” and the sweetest sauce conducive to appetite that can be served with the Thanksgiving turkey will be found in the knowledge that the honest poor have not been forgotten on the national feastday. ‘The managers of the following charitable institu- tions have issued appeals for aid to assist them im providing cheer for tue needy and destitute on ‘Thanksgiving day :— é The Ladies’ Union Relief Association for the Care of Disabled Soidiers and the Widows and Orphans of the War request contributions, and earnestly hope that no soldier’s widow or orphan will be sent away empty landed trom the rooms of the association, Twenty- ond regiment Armory, Fourteenth street, At the Five Points House of Industry to-morrow services will be held in the chapel from noon until one o'clock, when dinner willbe served, At two P, M, the annual dinner co the outside poor, trrespective of sex, color or age, willbe given. Aid in the good work 1s solicited by the trustees, The children of the Sunday school, Day Nursery and Free Reading Room, in connec- tion with St. Barnabas Honse, No, 304 Mulberry street, wiil be regaled with a Thanksgiving dinner, under the direction of Sister Ellen, At the Home of the Friendless, No. 32 Kast Thurtieth street, din- ner will be served to several hundred children at one P, M, About ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY OLD PEOPLE will be treated to an excellent repast at St. Joe sept’s Home for the Aged, No, 209 West Fifteenth street. The little ones of the Sheltering Arms, Tenth avenue and 129th street, will be treated to a feast of good things and made as happy as possible. ‘the children of the Protestant Hali-Orphan Asy- lum, No, 65 West Tenth street, will attend the Church of the Strangers, and afterwards be re- galed with a sumptuous repast. A nice dinner will be provided for the inmates of the Home for ‘Training Young Girls, Seventh avenue and Thir- teenth street. At the Midnight Mission, No. 260 Greene street, the girls wil be provided with din- ner at midday. The Association for the Benefit of Colored Urpbans will provide a Thanksgiving re- past for the children in the asylum at 143d street and Tenth avenue. At the House of Refuge, Randall's Island, services will be held in the chapel, and an extra dinner of fowls, pies, &¢c., will be served at noon, after which the children will be allowed to amuse themselves with various sports. Dinners will be given at the Home for the Aged (connected With the Protestant Hpiscopal Church or the Holy Communion), No. 330 5ixth avenue, aud to about 60 children of the parish school, ‘The day will be observed at the Howard Mission and x HOME FOR LUITLE WANDERERS, D z , 40 New Bowery, with the customary festivities, ner On @ grand scale will be prepared for about 1,000 children and adults. At the Wilson Indus- trial School, St. Mark’s place and avenue A, the day will be observed in accordance with the usnal custom. The Children’s Aid society will regale the cs in its care at their 1odging house, No. 27 St, lark’s place. At the Newsboys’ Lodging House, No. 49 Park place, the lads will be feasted in the evening with juxuries, alter which addresses will ve delivered. Lady patrons of the New York Infant Asylunt will bein attendance to receive donations at the Reception House and lying-in Department, No. 24 Clinton place; at the Infant Asylum, Tenth avenue and Sixty-first street, and at the country home, at Flushing, Long Island. At St. Vincent’s Home for homeless boys of all pee No. 53 Warren street, the boys will be provided with & substantial dinner, and, tadeed, none of the charitable institutions in the city will neglect to do their best to make the day one of general thanksgiving to their beneficiaries. CHURCH SERVICES. There will be divine service in ail the churches of the various denominations to-morrow, The Catho- lic Union will attend high mass at the Cathedral at half-past ten o'clock, at which hour there will also be high mass in all the Catholic churches in the city. The patients 1n the hospitals will all be provided with wholesome dinners and select entertain- ments, and at Bellevue a free concert wiil be given, THE MARKETS. The annual scenes at the markets on Thanksgiv- ing Eve will to-night be enacted. ‘The venders of poultry will be in their element, and tell more talse- hoods about the quality of the fowls they dispose of than they will be able to atene for by a strict course of probity during the next 12 months, Mis- erable specimens of henpecked humanity, whose fashionable wives compel them to go marketing, wills tamely submit to be outrageously robbed ratper than argue the point, and will get terrible curtain lectures when the wives of their bosoms realize the fact that they can scarcely tell achicken Irom a turkey buzzard. That terrible old lady who core a cheap boarding house will be well represented, and will attract the notice of edestrians by the reckless Manner in which she angs her heavy basket against their iegs, the vol- ubility of her speech when bargaining for'a pair of roosters tough enough to give her boarders tetanus, and the peculiar epithets which she hurls at the de- voted head of her newly imported and astonished “help.” But in bright contrast, there will be the neatly dressed, smiling housewife, whose sole ob- ject and care 18 to provide a real nice DINNER FOR HER HUSBAND ig and his friends on Thanksgiving. She will glide quietly about and the venders will vie to do her homage, ior she comes like @ sunbeam athwart a battle fleld—and depend upon it, her sbare of the Spoil will be of the choicest. Washington Market may still be considered to bear away the palm as a poultry emporium; but the Metropolitan will doubtless do a large business among the dwellers far WA town, while the old Fulton stands will, as heretofore, monopolize a great Aaya of the Brooklyn and east side trade. This week has been a mourniul one for the feathered bipeds of the barnyards. Many thousands of gallant birds now mourn their mates; but Thanksgiving Day is near at hand, the steel of tne pouiterer has been sharpened and mankind must feast, make merry and be giad, Happy the man who devours his tur- key and cranberries with gusto to-morrow. Thrice happy he who escapes a severe attack of dyspepsia when the carnival of fowl is ended. EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA. The American Colonization Society has sent more or less emigrants to Liberia every year since the first company embarked from New York, in the spring of 1820. A goodly number are now on their way from the South to take geaeere, in the bark Jasper, which satis from this port for the Airican Republic in the course of this week. The headquarters of the OOte Ey in Washing- ton but it has a branch oMce tn the Bivie House, New York, where any desired information in regard to this expedition or the cause generally can be obtained, sine RECOVERY OF STOLEN GOoDs, For some time past goods, to the value of $3,000 or $4,000, have been stolen from the store of George 8. Levy & Brothers, No. 42 Crosby street, New York, manufacturers of fars. Yesterday, about noon, OMcer E. Brown, ot the Filth pre- cinet, arrested a young man named Phineas Selliar with a portion of the stolen goods in his sion, Hiiar was locked up in the Fourth aireet station hoyse tg await examination, and residin; 10. 320 Grand street, Willtamaburg, poases-