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NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. bs] THE OTTOMAN ENDIRE Bosnia Said To Be Tranquilized. 9 RECENT REPORTS NOT CONFIRMED, The Consular Conference at Mostar. How the Standard of the Cross Is Raised. DIPLOMATIC EMBARRASSMENTS. [SPECIAL D¥SPATCH BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Lownox, Sept. 12, 1875. The correspondent of the Daily News tele- graphs from Ragusa that the condition of affairs in Bosnia is remarkably quiet. Previous reports of the widespread re- sumption of hostilities by the insurgents, the sacking of Turkish towns and villages, with wholesale massacre of the inhabitants, have not yet been confirmed. THE MOSTAR CONFERENCE—A DIPLOMATIO EF- FORT TO STAY THE INSURRECTION. ConstantinopLe, Sept, 12, 1875, The foreign consuls acting as mediators will leave Mostar to-day, and endeavor to see the. insurgent leaders, when they will inform them that there is no hope of foreign aid and will advise them to submit their grievances to Server Pasha. PLAN OF ACTION. The consuls will reassemble again on Wednesday and Thursday at Stolatz and in- form Server Pasha of the result of their mis- sion. If the result is unsatisfactory Server Pasha, will issue a proclamation promising redress of all grievances on the condition that the insurgents submit within a certain time. BAISING THE STANDARD OF THE CROSS—HOW WARS ARE MADE. Vienna, August 29, 1875, The revolution which began in the Herzegovina, or which has recently burst out into an observable flame there, has been ready to make itself visible any time: during the last half century when the power of Turkey to dealas she thought fit with her revolted provinces was practically crushed by the Anglo-Russian forces at ‘THE BATTLE OF NAVARINO. Engtand, indeed, soon saw the blunder she had com- mitted in destroying the Turkish navy, which ranked fourth among the fleets of the world, and she tried, witha somewhat ludicrous haste, to retrace her steps. Mr, Canning and the Philhellenists having decided that Greece should become an independent kingdom, cooler heads than Mr. Canning’s resolved that it should be made as insignificant and powerless as possible, and in all the subsequent disputes between the Porte and Russia the British Ambassador was instructed to sup- port Turkey, and he generally did so, adding much un- palatable advice, But the example of Greek independence was not lost upon the other Christian provinces of Turkey, and ever since then they have been more or less. restless, The Moldo-Wallachian provinces were the first to throw off their allegiance to the Sultan. Servia claimed a Separate government, and a hotbed of aspiring Euro- pean Consuls was established at Belgrade. Meantime Mehemet Aly, the ambitious ruler of Egypt, thought the opportunity too good to be lost, and, therefore, Beated a new dynasty on the throne of the Pharaohs. Tripoli, Tunis and the Barbary States also openly as- serted their independence, while there was a good deal of talk about 4 A SEPARATE KINGDOM OF BULGARIA, ‘Thessaly, Epirus and the principal towns on the sea doast of Asia made and make no secret of their desire bo form part of the resuscitated Byzantine Empire, of which the capital is to be Constantinople, Some of these projects have been realized. Some are still but dreams, and hitherto such of the Turkish de- pendencies as had ngt succeeded in shaking off the * yoke of the infidel had an uneasy idea that it would be. an awkward thing to deal with the infidel in a hand to hand fight, The recent rebellion in the Herzegovina has relieved them of any such fears, and the unani- mous intervention of the great Powers has proved that any of the Christian population under Mohammedan rule may revolt without fear of consequences, The Stock Exchange alone has seemed fully to com- prehend the true scope and meaning of the present qrisis in Turkish affairs, The Turkish five per cents wero Quoted at42\on the 16th of August. They have since fallen to 35, and {t is difficult to get any serious business done in them, except at Amsterdam, where capitalists are fond of risky securities, The sort of value which may henceforth be uttached to Turkish bonds will be best understood if the investor asks him- self how they are to be paid when the Sultan comes to rule only over hordes of barbarians, such as the poverty stricken populations of the Empire of Trebizond, the wandering horsemen of Koordestan and the wild tribes around Bagdad, with such heaps of mud huts and ruins as the cities of Erzeroom, and the heaps of rubbish which encumber the sites of Tarsus and of Sardis, even if so much remains faithful to the successor of the kaliphs. There no arguing against the eloquence of figures, and when we seo that Turkish securities have fallen nearly thirty per cent in less than a month, it is time to ask what is the meaning of so startling a fact. THX LEADING EUROPEAN POWERS will not, however, allow the Turks to manage their own business in their own way. The Ottoman Empire, if left to itself, would have nothing to fear from the rest- lessness of its Christian provinces. It would send down & host of bashi bouzooks and other terrible fellows, who would teach the doctrine of passive obedience with ex- treme energy to the rebels, It is not going too far to fay that Turkey could reannex the kingdom of Greece, win back her lordship over Egypt, reoccupy the Danubian principalities and plant her flag again on the walls of Tripoli and Tunis in a very brief space of time. Her navy, as reorganized by Admiral Stade and Hobart Pacha, is still formed of mighty fleets, to which neither Egypt nor Barbary could offer any effective re- Bistance. Her army has been so disciplined by English, French, Hungarian aid German officers that it could Sweep over Moldo- Wallachia, Servia and Bosnia like an Irresistible torrent, But, of course, if the Turks were allowed to settle their differences with their rebels according to their own method, there would be some flerce work. Now, Russia, which more than any other Power represents the rayahs, will not suffer them to be hurt. This is not a question which, concerns the Emperor of Russia himself, and it should be considered quite apart from any of the ambitious projects attributed to Russia by the Anglo-Indian newspapers. The fact is that THE RUSSIAN POPULATION is very fanatical, They are also very ignorant; and they do not like to see their co-religionists of the ortho- dox faith under Mohammedan government, while they do not even inquire whether they would be happier or more prosperous under other circumstances, There- fore, whenever there is an outbreak among the rayaha they are assured beforehand of support from Russia, whether they are in the right or whether they are in tho wrong, because the Cabinet of St Petersburg is | taries of State, who says, “Hello, Elliot! what's the row | out your way? I suppose there’l] be some special service forced by public opinion throughout the Russian Em- pire to take part with Christians against Mohammedans, whatever may be the merits of the case between them. THESE NEWSPAPER POLK, however, sit like an incubus om the breast of Turkey, | The Turks have no newspapers of their own, or,at least, none worthy of the name, and if they bad, not one Turk | in a thousand could read or understand them. But the — rayahs are fairly newspaper mad, Most of them can | speak a little French or English, and they buzz round | foreign correspondents like tlies in autumn. They fib | with astonishing impudence, and they delude every | man of letters, who is not on his guard against them, into giving currency to the most astonishing accounts of Mussulmammisrule and Christian martyrdom. | In- deed, the ordinary correspondent can hardly help him- self, because hc must either write what be picks up from rayah sources or trust to his own observation while in a state of semi-blindness, and utterly unable to judge or to learn anything relating to the Turkish side of the question, Turkish being a language which can only be acquired after half a lifetime of study, and very few of the Turks, even among the most highly edu- cated, being able to speak any other tongue than their own. Thus, Europe and America are constantly hearing nothing but one side of the case, and the Turkish view of Turkish questions seldom or never gets into print at has been explained, for nearly all, its. ambassadors to foreign courts are rayahs or the sons of rayahs; that is to say, ostensibly renegades whose sympathies are really with the rayahs, Mussurus Pacha, in London, and Aris- tarchi Pacha, at) Berlin, may both be placed in this catogory. ‘To tell the Turks, therefore, to govern quietly and to keep out of scrapes is first to tie men’s legs and then to tell them toruna race, All the Christian priesthood of | the Greek faith—a very numerous aud a very ill-edu- cated body in Turkey—are in correspondence with the Russian authorities, and whenever they decide upon making ademand on. tho local pacha or karmacam, however unreasonable their demand may be, they set off to the local Russian consul, who. knows very well ‘that his own professional promotion will depend on supporting it, for were he not to do so, or were he even. to inquire into the true state of the case before using his intluenee, he would have the whole body of the Greek Church against him as well as Prince Gortscha- koff and the sentimental tea party who surround the Empress. THE LOCAL GOVERNOR, on his part, is well aware that if he docs not immedi- ately comply with the peremptory request of the rayah or his priest the influence of the Russian Consul at Con- stantinople will be used against him and he will be infal- lbly dismissed from his post—a painful prospect for him, considering that directly he is dismissed he will also be squeezed till he has not a piastre left to his name. ° Frankly, therefore, it is nonsense to talk about the oppression of the Christians in Turkey. They are, in fact, the real tyrants of their nominal masters, and they are, in good truth, so conscious of the advantage of that position that very few of the Greeks have emigrated to their own independent kingdom, preferring to trade and to intrigue in the name of outraged humanity at Smyrna and Constantinople, THE STORY OF TURKISH TROUBLES in her Christian provinces is always the same, Some hot headed young fellows, mostly lawyers and doctors who have been educated at Athens, at Bucharest, in Vi- enna or in Paris, tired of walking about in varnished boots through the mud of their natiye village and not finding much else to do, get up a riot. They are soon joined by other lazy lads, and then they contrive to telegraph to the French and English papers that the Standard of the Cross has been raised at some place with an unpronounceable name which has never before been heard of. They take care not to add that it was raised in a coffee house oyer a bottle of raki, Having made their riot, the first thing they all do is to inform against each other, and give the Turkish authorities privately to understand that their most fervent desire in this life is to be bought off by small places under government, But sometimes before they can obtain any lucrative employment the telegrams sent to Europe come crashing back to Constantinople, and, if it ig a dull season of the year, special correspondents from the great journals arrive on the scene of action, all asking for Kyrios Birbautaki, or Bano Skampovich, who has announced himself by. wire, through a literary friend at Syra or Trieste, as the leader of the insurrec- tion, By this time Birbautaki, or Skampovich, as the case may be, thinks he has got hold of far too good a business to give it up for a small appointinent under government. He will have something big, or nothing. The position of Leader of Christendom js not without charms for Skampovich, or for Birbautaki, At all events he has got world-wide celebrity, and when he does not dine with the correspondent of the Times he can dine with the representative of the Daily Telegraph, who is also a very good fellow and a capital listener, Henceforth the wires are never still, The heroic Birbautaki or Skampovich gives a sitting to the artists of the Illustrated London News and the Graphic, He marches against his creditors, sword in hand, carries off the favorite old horse of the Turkish cadi, who has ven- tured to interpose, and the great journals announce that he has won “another victory over the Turks,’ or that “the result of the battle is unknown”—a form of ex- pression used during the recent rebellion’ to signify that the creditors of Birbautaki or Skampovich have given him a beating. MODERN DIPLOMACY, About the time when matters have arrived at this crisis, and the ipsurgents are living jollily on the news- papers, while the newspapers are also trying to live on them, the Russian Ambassador receives an atito~ graph letter from his august mistress, the Empress, who tells him, in language which is quite charming from its piety and good faith, to protect the cross of the Redeemer from outrage and desecration—the fact being that Birbautaki or Skampovich have just robbed a church, and charged three Turkish water carriers with the sacrilege. “Ah!” says the Russian Ambassador, who often re- ceives such letters, ‘‘My nephew shall carry Her Im- perial Majesty a full report on the subject. Dumkofisky, the dragoman, can make {t, and perhaps the boy may get t)o knightly Order of St. Gridiron from his ortho- dox sovereign. At least I can put him in tho way of de- serving it; for such are the rewards of diplomacy.” By the same post the English Ambassador receives a note marked ‘confidential’ from one of the Under Secre- going. If so please take care of young Tudor Plan- | tagenet, who is hanging loose pn you justnow, 1 should be glad if you would give him something to do and the office will see to his expenses.”” Now, the German Ambassador, who is very well served by his ctaff, perceiving that Prince Popoff II, aud young Plantagenet are on the move with despatches, thinks that he would lke to take the waters of Ems or Gastein himself before the season is quite over, and the present opportunity might serve him well enough to | get a short holiday without forfeiture of salary, which would happen to him if ho asked for leave of absence on private affhirs. The Austrian Internuncio, having the gout and feel- ing unwilling to be disturbed, tries to pooh! pooh! the | whole affair; but he is close pressed by the councillor | of his ombas#y, a restless middle-aged man, who wants | to go to Vienna for promotion, so His Excellency tells his private secretary to try and write a secret despatch to oblige the councillor, who will carry it personally to Count Andrassy, Then says the Italian Ambassador to himself, “1 should vastly hke to know what ail this is about?” Skampovich is, I know, the son of my cook, or Birbau- taki is the brother of my barber. Such men are not | likely to lead a new crusade, Still, Italy must assert hor importanco or I will lose mine, and the King will be angry with me if he learns anything from London or Vienna which he should have had from me, 1 will | therefore call on my colleagues and learn something to put into a despatch,” Likewise the French Ambassador, who was at Vichy when Birbautaki or Skampovich first revealed his ex- jstence to the world, comes out to his port in a man-of- war, and, knowing nothing whatever of the question, proceeds to instruct his colieagues, tho other Ainbassa- dors, 80 fully upon it that they all agree to demand an audience with the Sultan, and to make representations to His Highness on the following day. ‘The Austrian | Ambassador, however, hinting that the Sultan cannot listen to them all at once, there forthwith commences a dispute for precedence, which the Frenchman claims by a treaty of 1711, The German Ambassador will not hear of such pretensions, and the English Ambassador claims the first hearing by right of seniority, The Aus. trian Internuncio, whose gout renders him anxious te | further, postpone all visits of ceremony as long as possible, would willingly go last, and, indg@f, handsomely offers to settle the dispute in that way; but the Italjan Ain- bassador, who is very jealous of his dignity, hotly as- serts that there isa treaty etill existing between the | Porte and the Genoese, now represented by his august master, aud which is far anterior to that on which his French colleague founds a spurious claim for preee- dence. Nono of the illustrious personages being able to agree on this important subject, they separate with some coolness and write to their respeeuve governments to beware of each other as diplomatists of dark and deep design, ‘A PERFECT MUDDLE. The whole business hus got into-a very pretty mess by this time, Birbautukl or Skampovien are drunk all day long, and make peremptory demands for brandy and tobacco all over the country. Whichever of them hap- pens to be before the public orders himself a new crown, after the fashion of King Philip of Macedon or the ancient Vaivodes, and becomes so confoundedly tm- pudent that the newspaper correspondents can no longer get anything out of them. Nay, rather he talks of ordering one of them to be shot because the newspa- per he represents has printed something to the disad- vantage of him (Birbautaki or Skampovich, as the case may be), These little squabbles may, however, be settled by purchasing the favor of the great leader's henchman for $2 and a yellow silk pocket hand- kerchief to tie round his head, But the im- pression is gaining ground that Birbautaki or Skampovich is a terrible felow when left sober too loug, and besides, the correspondents have held him up to the admiration of mankind so vividly during the dull Season that now they would like to write about some- thing else and got out of the mud hovel in which they have been half eaten alive by vermin during the au- tumn. The revolutionary chief whose fame they have made will not let them go, and public opinion is get- ting everywhere excited about him, The Court Journal of the British aristocracy compares him to Rienzi, with whose biography it has become acquainted through Bul- wer’s novel, The French Figaro considers he is more like General Hoche, The Daily Telegraph is of opinion that he might be titly compared td Leonidas, at which Mr, Sala cries “Buh! Why not to King David?” But the Times, which always prints strongly, declares one morning that he is the greatest hero the world has yet seen, and the next that there is “evidently nothing in him.” COMING TO THE CRISIS, Then come the Ambassadors’ audience with the Sul- tan, His Majesty isa stout, elderly gentleman, with a very short temper, and he has a habit of expressing disapprobation by very loud grants and a sideward movement which is extremely contemptuous. His Majesty has, moreover, some very expensive wives, und his chief preoccupation in this life is to keep them quiet by means of presents of jewelry. Most of his time and money gocsgin that way. So when the Am- bassadors have expressed their grievances in accord- ance with their instructions, “Humph!’’ says the Sul- tan, in a voice like the growling of distant thunder, and he turns around on his sofa cushion, so that the lower portion of a round back only is exposed to the diploma- tists’ view. ‘Yet there 18 a great deal in that “Humph!” It means, in the first place, “Go to Jericho, thou pestilent Am- bassador! Thou bast badgered me already three times this year, and now again!—but never mind.” If the Sultan was as sultans were, and could direct his cavarres to steze the Ambassadors by their necks and heels, and = to throw ‘them into the Bosphoros. he would certainly do so; but he has to think of the new loan that he will want next week, and his exponsive wives, who are waiting for it, so that after all the “Humph!”? must signily that he will do what is required of him. “May the graves of these fellows’ grandfathers be defiled,” however says the Sultan, when alone with his Grand Vizier, “What do they want of us now? If I were an angel sent down from heaven to govern, what could I or my Ministers do more than we aro doing? Were we to rule these royal dogs as England tells us to rule them, and oblige them all to read the British Bible, ag we were asked to do a few months ago, Russia would be offended, It does not suit the Czar that I should be on good terms with my subjects and have a little quiet. On the other hand, I can never be at peace with England unless I give the English all my railway contracts, and if 1 dohow am I to pay my Jewellers? As for the Em- peror of Austria, I told him a piece of my mind person- | ally when he came here, and I wish I could say the same things to his imperial and royal brothers and sisters.”” ‘That is really the state of the Sultan’s mind, and the upshot of the whole thing is that a pacha has now been sent down to treat with the latest insurgents, on the clear understanding that he is not, on any account, to punish them, but to tell Birbautaki or Skampovich that they are very gallant fellows, who did quite right to kick up @ row and acquire notoriety. ‘The envoy pacha from the Turks will be met by a rabble route of European consuls, who will treat him much as the Ambassadors treat the Sultan, purpose to inform yen how insurrections are fomented or appeased unucr «ais queer system of management, which seems too ridiculous for the incidents of a farce, but which is somewhat sorrowful reading for Turkish bondholders. The net result of the intervention of the six Powers is the destruction of the independence of the Ottoman Empire, for it shows that the Sultan has no longer any authority over his own subjects, “A. LITTLE DUCK.” ‘MISS BECKWITH'S FIVE-MILE SWIM FROM LON- DON BRIDGE TO GREENWICH. {From the London Standard of Sept. 2.] A young girl named Agnes Alico Beckwith, daughter of the professor of swimming at Lambeth Baths, yester- day accomplished the difficult feat of swimming from London Bridge to Greenwich, The distance is rather more than five miles, and the time was remarkably fust— namely, th. 7m. 458, Mr. Beckwith has been con- nected with the Lambeth Baths for nearly a quarter ofacentury, and for fourteen years held the proud position of champion swimmer of England. Tho heroine of yesterdays proceedings is but fourteen years old, of slim make and diminutive stature. The object was to decide a wager of £60 to £40 laid against her by Mr. Baylis, the money being deposited with Bell's Life, The event created a great deal of excitement, and all along the route the progress of the swimmer was watched by excited crowds on the wharfs and barges. In addition to the London Stexmboat Company’s Volunteer, a pri- vate steam launch, and a rowing boat containing her father, the referee and some half dozen others imme- diately interested in the result,*a perfect swarm of Doxts accompanied—and indeed impeded—the swimmer the entire distance, London Bridge was crowded, as were the vessels and other points whence a view of the start could be obtained, MISS BECKWITH DIVED from the rowing boat at nine minutes to five, and at once commenced a rapid side stroke, which she main- tained to the finish. She was attired in a swimming costume of light rose pink Hama, trimmed with white braid and lace of the same color. smooth und the tide running about three miles per hour, Swimming about a couple of yards in the rear of the referee's, boat, Tunnel Pier was reached at 11 min- | utes past five. At Horseferry Dock (5;22) a salute | was fired, and the switumer was encouraged with lust cheers. ‘The Commercial Dock was quickly lett behind, and soon after the Hilda, on her return from Margate, crowded with excursionists, passed the flotilla, Passing Millwall Miss Beckwith crossed to the north side and took advantage of the strong tide. At this point she was met by the saloon steamer Victoria, whose passengers | were vociferous in their applause, The Foreign Cattle | Market at Deptford was breasted at twelve minutes to | six, and, as Greenwich Hospital appeared in sight, the | mitelligence was conveyed to the swimmer by repeated | cheers, 4 salute being also fired from the Unicorn, The p at Greenwich and the grounds of the ship were crowded with people who cheered to the echo when the spirited strains of “See the Conquering Hero Comes’? | aunounced the success of the attempt. Miss Beckwith swam some distance beyond the pier, and was taken on board at 8m. 458, having accomplished the dis- tance, as stated above, in 1h. Tin. 453, She seemed almost as fresh as when she started, and to all appearance was capable of going consiacrably It is worthy of mention that this was Miss Beckwith’s first essay of the sort, if we except a trial trip on Monday from Battersea to Westminster. Her nearest approach to the present feat was a swim of two and a half miles in the Lambeth Baths in three-quar- ters of an hour, YACHTING NOTES. ‘Tho following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Sloop yacht Lottie, B.Y.C., Mr. Valentino, from Fall River for New York. Yacht Fleetwing, N.Y.Y.C,, Mr, George A, Osgood, from the eastward for New York. Yacht Columbia, N.Y.¥.0., Mr, Lester Wallack, from | Stamford for New York, | Yacht Comet, N.Y. ¥.C., Mr. Langley, from New Lon- don for Now York. Yacht Bunsby, B.Y.C., Mr, Cook, from Newport for Now York, In my next letter I | The water was very | THE NEW YORK DENOTRACY, Early Gathering of the Unterrified in the Halls of Syracuse. TAMMANY AND ITS OPPONENTS. The Canal Ring to Make a Fight at the Polls Instead of in the Convention. RAG AGAINST HARD MONEY. Will the Course of the Ohio and Pennsyl- vania Conventions Be Repeated ? SOME QUEER STORIES AFLOAT. Synacuse, N. Y., Sept. 12, 1875, Although the Democratic State Convention does not meet here until next Thursday the indications are that @ majority of the delegates will be in town by Tuesday morning, and active preparations are being made at all the hotels in the city to-day, Sunday although it is, to afford accommodation for the hundreds of politicians who are expected to be on hand to assist the delegates, regular and contesting, from New York and other counties where the faithful have agreed to disagree on certain little points, upon the decision of which by the Convention some of them think the future prosperity and safety of tye State entirely depends, Extra cots are being placed in the small rooms, and every large room in every hotel has already been engaged, some of the New Yorkers having taken the precaution to capture the lion’s share of them at the Vanderbilt House by telegraph over three weeks ago, thus compelling the anti-Tammany party, who made application some days later, to find quarters atsome ono of the other six carayansaries. As the members of the Central Committee have secured their parlors at the Vanderbilt and most of the Tammany men’s rooms have been taken on the same floor, the Wigwamites may flatter themselves that they have al- ready scored one against their foes, who were very | anxious to be next door neighbors to the gentlemen of the committee who will have so very much to do tow- ard making them happy or miserable on Thursday. Morrissey—who rejects with scorn the charge that he and his delegation are anti-Tammany, and splits the difference by declaring that while he and his tollowers are as good Tammany men as they ever were, they are aot Kelly Tammuny—has succeeded in getting quar- ters near the committee’s council room, but his followers have been obliged to content themselves with the promise of the hotel keeper that they will be provided with board and lodging at his home, which is some distance away from the other hotels, if they come up before Wednesday. Governor Seymour has not been heard from yet, But a friend of his says that he will be here while the Convention is in session at the house of a friend, where, in case his good counsels are deemed desirable by the Governor’s friends, he will be found “at home” to a select few at all hours of the day and night. Mr. Tilden himself, it is said, will be in town on Thursday afternoon if he can manage to get. off an agricultural speech he is to make in the forenoon at Utica in time to catch the train. It he does come, he, too, like Seymour, will keep away from hotels and do all the wire-pulling he may find requisite for the discomfiture of his enemies in the house of a prominent resident in a secluded part of the city, At all events, in order to make assurance doubly sure and have somebody on guard here, in case he should not be able to put in an appearance in propria persona, who can be trusted with telegraphic instruc- tions not intended for general inspection, he will be rep- resented by his nephew and private secretary, Colone} Pelton, who is to be quartered across the hallway from | the parlors of the Central Committee at the Vanderbilt, Senator Kernan is also to be another watch{ul sentinel over the interests of the Governor's candidates, and he, and Seymour and Colonel Pelton will, no doubt, before the Convention is called to order, see to it that no delegate | west of Spuyten Duyvil, at any rate, goes into Wieting Hall until he has been thoroughly sounded on, if not convinced of, the expediency and justice of standing by }{r. Tilden’s policy and wishes, no matter what they may be. However, it is a foregone conclusion that’ the great majority of the delegates will need but little ad- vice when they come here as to what they ‘should do so far as giving the Governor’s reform warfare their hearty support, for every convention in every county that has thus fur elected delegates has, in unmistakable terms, ordered their representatives to vote for no man who is not in “sympathy” with the Governor. There are those who believe that this fact will prove an addi- tional STUMNLING BLOCK TO TAMMANY MALL if, provided ali her delegates are admitted, she should attempt to force upon the Convention any particular candidate of her own for any of the State offices to be filled at the election next November, as but with two exceptions the district conventions in New York city remained suspiciously silent about the Governor when they elected their delegates, But Tammany has no candidate of her own, so far as can be learned at pres- ent, although a few weeks ago some of the leaders did imagine that they could come to the Convention and, as of old, browbeat, by sheer force of compact numbers, many of the country delegates mto doing their bidding. ‘The State Central Committee may possibly be induced to make arrangements to get rid of the contesting dele- gations from your city without allowing the contest to be fought over too scandalously in the Convention it- self. Still it is said that the contestants are as much bent upon having a row in the Convention, if they learn beforehand that they will be defeated, as if they were liable to secure recognition out and out. To this end Iam reliably informed that they have already cb- tained a pledge from several prominent delegates from the country districts who will fight for theie cause to the Ditter end and force the Convention to a square yote on the question of admission, By the way, a prominent politt- | cian from Oneida county, whose name I am not at lib- | erty to give, in referring to the probable admission of the entire Tammany delegation under certain condi- tions, gave me a rather surprising piece of what he calls reliable news. He says that the question of HARD MONEY AND RAG MONRY will have to be taken hold of boldly by the Convention, and that it is known that the Tammany delegates wero present at a secret meeting of the Committee on Organ- ization last Tuesday night, held at the Wigwam, where they were pledged to vote in the Convention as one man for a hard money platform and to do all in their power to prevent any resolution even being seriously consid- ered that smacked of rag money principles, That being so, if a majority of the country del- egates should be rag money men the Tammany men will have hard work to be admitted, and, he added, that, in his opinion, if left to themselves, if not a majority at least a very large proportion of the delegates from, the country districts would openly advocate a rag money platform, as the democrats in Ohio and Pennsylvania had done, and he would not be surprised if the hard money men among the delegates would be few and weak-kneed and to see Governor Tilden sactifice his own views ou the money question to satisfy what he might deom the do- mand of the democratic party of his own State and to secure for himself the support of the Ohio and Penn- sylvania democrats in 1876, Reliable as my informant, who gave me this precious piece of information, 1s, I am rather inclined to believe that he has been badly sold, and that he, and those who have the same opinion of the Governor’s willingness to sacrifice his principles for doubtful party favors to come, forget that Mr, Tilden last year was elected ona hard money platform, and that he is, if report speaks truly, a heavy holder of govern. ment bonds, To show how mixed some of the politi- cians hereabouts aro as to what kind of a financial plank the Convention will put Into the platform, 1 may mon- tion, as an offset to what I have just stated on the au- thority of the Oneida man, that a gentleman from this (Onondaga) county asserts that Mr, Kelly’s visit to Hendricks was in reference to this money question, and that, as aresult, the Tammany delegation will go the 7ag petcy if the road isclear, Another thing I finds whieh some of the democrats imagine will give the Con vention some trouble, even though a majority of the delegates elected up to the present have declared in fa- vor of Tilden’s canal reform, is the probable ACTION OF THR CANAL RING, for there certaimly will be a few of the “Old Guard” left ready to get up a how! if ordered on Thursday. But the indications point to quite a different system of tac- tics on the part of the Canal Ring leaders than such a foolish one as would be an attempt on the part of any one of their friends either to defend them or‘openly im- pugn the Governor's motives in the Convention, It is true that Jarvis Lord, who knows he is to be thrown overboard and Judge Comstock put in his place on the | Central Committee, and several other of the prominent canal men are to be here on Wednesday, but I under- stand they are to counsel their “baker's dozen’? of friends of the Convention to keep quiet rather than get up a rumpus which would only plunge them deeper in the mire in which they are now floundering. The fact of the matter is, they have been convinced from the shape things have taken ever since the Broome County Convention elected its delegates over a month ago and ple them to support only those nominees who would be the Governor's choice, that to attempt to fight the Gov- ernor in the Convention would be an act of supreme folly. That they intend to “get even’? with him, however, somehow, is an established fact. I was shown a letter to-day, written by a gentleman who is an out- spoken enemy of the Governor, simply because of the stand he has taken against the Ring, which—after stat- ing that, at the primaries in the country districts for the selection of electors for the district conventions to elect delegates to the State Convention, the Governor's opponents to the party offered no determined opposi- tion to the election of his friends—makes use of the followmg SIGNIFICANT EXPRESSION, | “It is one thing to nominate a ticket, but quite another thing to elect it.” ‘That tells the whole story. Whatever power the Canal Ring may be able to wield will be fortheoming, not in the Convention, but at the polls next November. But will this policy amount to anything? It may be that this much talked of Canal Ring will turn out in tho end tobe pretty much like the Tweed Ring, which every voter in New York City once upon atime looked upon &s invincible, but we all know how, when the oppor- tunity of stealing the public moncy was taken away from them, it was discovered that they had no power of | themselves at all.” The Canal Ring is after alla close i corporation of but a dozen men or so, and now that their chance of further stealing is at an end it is more than probable that their boasted power to control enough votes next November in any district to defeat the democratic nominees in order to humiliate ‘Tilden, whose nominees they will virtually be, may by that time be found to be of very little damage to any- body. At any rate it is now certain that it is in this | way the Ring will try to strike back in return for the blow from which they are now reeling. One of them aptly puts it when he says that the men who are op- posed to the Governor in his own party cannot afford to let him have control of the Legisiature. It is under- stood that the POLIOY OF THE REPUBLICANS wil be to go into the campaign in tho Senatorial and Assembly districts with tho ery that the Governor in the next Legislature should receive a hearty support in his canal reform measures, but that they profer that republican members of the Legislature should give that support rather than democratic members, ‘This the canal men say will prevent republicans voting for democratic Senators and Assemblymen pledged to the Governor's support, and this makes their own work against his chosen candidates on the State ticket as well ag on districts all the more certain of final success, They claim, as a result of this plan of battle, that re- publican Senators will succeed Jarvis Lord in the Mon- roe, Johnson in the Seneca, Parmenter in the Rensso- lacr, Ray in the Dutchess and Columbia, and Dayton in the Albany district, In addition to this the republi- cans contend that if Laning (democrat) is not renomi- nated in the Erie district, a republican will be elected, and that if hoe is renominated the result will be the same, while Bradley stands astrong chance, when he, runs again, as he will, of Deing elected to stay at home. | Tiie canal leaders and the republicans in the in- terior seem, strangely enough, to be of ono opinion as to their districts, 80 if, by their policy of exhorting republican yoters not to voto for ‘Tilden’s | democratic supporters, they manage to hold all the other Senate districts they now hold, with the possible exception of the Orange and Sullivan (Madden’s) and the Greene and Ulster (Connolly’s) districts, the Canal Ring will gain something of a victory over the Goy- ernor, even if by effecting it—to use a vulgarism—they cut off their nose to spite their face, THE PENNSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN, SERENADE TO JUDGE PERSHING—SPEECH OF MR. HUGHES ON THE RAG MONEY QUESTION—yVIO- TORY PRESAGED—-MOVEMENTS OF GOVERNOR HARTRANFT, PorrsviLiE, Sept. 12, 1875, Judge Pershing, the democratic nominee for Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, was serenaded at hig residence last night by several hundred citizens of Pottsville, without distinction of party, asa mark of congratulation. The Judge was introduced by Mr. Hughes, the man who successfully championed the cause of rag money at Erie, and was warmly received. Possibly out of consid- eration for the nature of the demonstration, and proba- bly not to hastily commit himself, Judge Pershing did not allude to any political question, He remained con- tent with an expression of thanks for the honor of the visit and with the statement that he had not expected the nomination and that he could not promise to attend the inauguration of the next Governor of Pennsylvania Mr. Hughes made a speech, in which he congratulated the citizens of Pottsville on having from their | number furnished the next Governor of Pennsylvania Judge Pershing would be elected beyond a doubt, as the people's candidate, He had that day received a letter signed by all the officers of a great and non-political organization promising to help swell Pershing’s | majority to 100,000. He placed the minimum figure of | that majority at 60,000, At Erie there were reproscn- tatives of other political beliels, who asked to be in- vited to assist in the campaign, prominent among them the liberal republicans, Such ‘an invitation had beon extended. A long letter had been received at Erie from prominent republicans promising that, if tho | Convention adopted a platform of financial principles such as were enunciated, the whole Western part of the State would go en masse for the nominee of the Convention. He believed the statement, The in- | dustries of that portion of the State are in a state of | terrible prostration, and the people believe the only | path leading from ruin 1s by the legal enactment of just such A FINANCIAL SYSTEM, as called for by the Democratic Convention. The re- | publicans of Chester and Lancaster counties have ready in their county conventions repudiated the fiuancial platform of the Republican State Convention, Before the contest 18 over democrats and republicans will march arm in arm to cast their votes for the Hon, Cyrus L. Pershing. The character of Governor Hart- ranft for honesty, integrity and patriotism can’t be successfully assailed, but the exigencies of the hour de- | mand 4 man of wider learning and greater statesman- ship than can be aseribed to Hartrantt, Judge Pershing will make @ wise, efficient and ag cera Governor, There is much speculation here to-day whether Hughes alluded to the Workingmen’s Union or to the Grangers when he spoke of the gre organization | pledged to support Pershing. From the known con- | nection of Piolette, nominee for Treasurer, with th Grangers, it is generally believed the latter were meant, i GOVERNOR HARTRANPT will reviow the Fourth division of the National Guard here on Tuesday next. There are preparations making to get up @ monster demonstration in his honor im the evening. THE SPEAKERSHIP. | HON. SAMUEL J, RANDALL DEFINES HIS POSI- TION—HIS VIEWS OF THE ERIE TICKET. A correspondent of the Evening Star of Philadelphia met Mr. Samuel J, Randall at Erie, after the late Con- vontion had adjourned sine die, and gives the following report of an interview he had with bim on political matters :— I started the ball rolling by asking Mr. Randall how he was pleased with the result of the Convention's labors, Mr, Ranpai-—Well, on the whole, T think we have reason to congratulate ourselves, The candidates are among the most worthy men in the State, and the plat- | form, i its most vital particulars, is everything honest | inen could wish, And what pleased me particularly was the enthusiastic manner in which its statements were received. @. You think the ticket a strong one, then? A. Yes; exceedingly strong, Hartranft cannot com pare with Pershing in abilivy, and then the election of our men breaks up forever that monstrous leech on the public purse the State Treasury Ring. The tivan- cial plank in the platiorma is not exactly what I wanted, butthen men who are just as good democrats, and have as much, If not more, wisdom on the subject than I, differed With me as between immediate resumption and inflation, The result was the compromise for the benelt ot all, The republicans are gy | the people on. ‘this currency question, 1 exposed atthe last sos sion of Congress when the Sherman-Morton compro mise bill was before the House, That was a bill patched up to uit the ultra on each side of the question, and is tho biggest kind of a frand. I am a hard moneys man, but I don’t believe in gettin ack to hard ‘money by deception, Tt is a question that will naturally work out itself. But the currency question was a secondary matter to me ta the Convention, All my energies were bent in the direction of honest government in our State, The in- famous State Treasury Ring at Harrisburg was my <. I felt the national Congress could take care of the currency, but we, the people of the State, must take care of ourselves when our ollicials are robbing and ruining us So 1 wanted men nom! nated whose honesty is beyond even the suspicion of a doubt, and | know we have them in Pershing and Piolett, If these men are elected it will be the greatest triumph our people have bad since We became a State, for it will be an immediate end of the State sreesiry Ring. wineh has robbed the State of millions on mill- ions, and when it falls the fullof the Philadelphia City Ring will rapidly follow, Q@ I hope you are right about the downfall of the State Treasury Ring, but I am afraid the people will have grave doubts about the honesty of anything com- ing from a conyention in which two such well known beneficiaries of the State ury Ring as Senator Wallace and Mr. William V, McGrath were leading spirits, A. Mr. MeGrath was simply a delegate, and, ak though he and Mr. Wallace had a preference for other men, they heartily joined in the spontaneous indorse- ment given Pershing and Piolett, Q. You feel coutident of the election of your ticket? A. Not so contident that we need not Work, for the republicans are putting forth herculean efforts to carry the State. We have a majority of voters, and, thanks to the new constitution, if we give the proper attention they cannot cheat us, a8 has been their custom, Q. Is 1t too soon to think of figures? A. No; I have talked with delegates from every por- tion of the State, and they all report the party in splen- did organizauon. ‘The victories of last year have given the party a new life, and we enter the canvass with confidence and determination. ‘The feeling is general that we have everything to gain, and if we lose this fall it will be demoralization in the more mportanti election year hence, We count on coming to Philadelphia with at least 15,000 majority, but I think it is more likely to’ be twice that number, With all their cheating the re- publicans in the city cannot give more than 10,000 te their ticket. Ona fair vote we can carry the city, but an honest vote while the present officials are in power is almost a forlorn hope, The fer id are badly split up in Allegheny, Lancaster, Htntingdon and along the northern tier, Where Strang, the defeated cand) date for the nomination as State Treasurer, has @ large following. These dissensions are oqual to at least 5,000 votes to us, Pershing’s nomination heals all dis- seusions in our own party in the inining regions, which will bring at least 3,000 Votes buck to us. ‘The prohibi- tion candidate will poll at least 15,000 votes, nine-tentha of which will be from the republican ranks, Q What are your chances tor the Speakership, Mr. Randall? A. Well, [can hardly say. Iam told that my own delegation will be solid for me, and from the letters I have received from members all over the country Lam anelined to believe that I lead any of the candidates 80 far named, Q. The New York Manhattan Club and the New York World tree trade influences seem to be moving heaven ‘and earth to beat you. A. Yes, it would seem so, but I think the democratic party has had all it wants of New York leadership, ‘Tho party has been led from that quarter for the past ifteen: yeurs, and we all know with what success, Q I see it asserted, evidently in the interest of Messrs. Kerr and Cox, that if elected Speaker you would make the committees high tariut A. Now, what an absurdity, These people know very well that if am elected Speaker I shall constitute the committees to represent the majority of the House, Where is there a Speaker that would dare do otherwise? It is not a matter of choice with him, but a matter of compulsion, He cannot carry his own individual opin- fons, likes, dislikes and prejudices into such matters, nor in his position as Speaker can he be expected to usd it for the efit of his own particular district, He 1s the servant of the majority and must act up to this fact without the slightest deviation, And if I am elected Speaker and find that a majority of my party in Con- gress are for free trade, 1 shall unbesitatingly recognize the fact in the appointment of the committees, The sume rule shall govern me in the matter of the cur- rency. a Did any feeling crop out in the Convention as to the next Presidency? ‘A. Hardly, Some names were canvassed, but the feeling was that it would be necessary to have the result of the full elections before knowing the public pulse. T noticed one thing, and that was a determined feeling against the New York intluence. I think Bayard or Hancock would be Pennsyivania’s first choice, If these men have uo show of, success, I think our State will unite with the West in the selection of a candidate. Q. Lsee going the rounds of the newspapers a state- ment that Speaker Blaine selected you to take the lead in fighting the “Worce bill’ at the last session of Con- gress. A A. That is a story made out of whole cloth.” I cannot imagine a “brain weak enough to concoct such a statement, My leading iny party on the occa, sion mentioned was not the result of any agreement or selection, I was so indignant at the attempt of the re- publicans to pass their intamous bill that I threw all the ardor of my soul into the fight, and being an old member, and having made the complicated rules of the House a’study, I naturally fell into the position of lead- ing the combat against the experts of the opposition. ‘We democrats all worked shoulder to shoulder, and by our fidelity and courage won the fight. Any one wha knows anything of the fight knows that ine did lis utmost to beat us. NEW YORK CITY. William Walker, a glass merchant aged sixty years, died suddenly yesterday morning at his residence, No. 38 Sheritf'streot, Wilham Dieckinann, aged forty-seven years, of No, 131 West Fortv-fifth street, fell yesterday morning out of the third story window of his residence to the ground, and was almost instantly killed, While working in Chamberlin’s stables, No. 148 East Twonty-fifth street, yesterday, Thomas Barry, of No, 425 East Twelfth street, was kicked by a horse and severely injured mternally, He was taken to Bellevue Hospital. ‘At a quarter-past two o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out on the second floor of the six story brick building in the rear of No. 199 Hester street. ‘The fire was confined to the second and third floors, ocerrpied by Priest & Son, japanners. Damage to stock, $800. The building, which is owned by Mr, Montgomery, of Hoboken, was damaged to the extent of $500, The fire originated from an overheated flue, BROOKLYN. George Dorer, three years of age, of No. 61 Withert street, was run over and instantly killed on Withers street, on Saturday night. The grocery store of John Cordis, in Fifth avenue, corner of Park place, was burglariously entered and Tobbed yesterday morning. Andrew Egerley, a negro, thirty-three years of ago, was arrested for fighting, and on being searched at the station house a slungshot was found in his possession He was held to answer. Matthew Ferris, aged nineteen, was yesterday com- mitted to jail, by Justice Delmar, for stabbing Jamot Kenney on the head with a penknife, during a drunken quarrel, Kenney is severely, though not dangerously, injured. Owen Rorke and Bridget Sheridan, of No. 54 Emmita street, quarrelled on Saturday night, when Owen s8o fat forgot himself as to strike the woman on the head, im flicting a severe wound. She was removed to the City Hospital. Rorke is in custody, LONG ISLAND, The cool weather of the past few days has had the effect to greatly diminish travel to Rockaway, and the season may be regarded as about closed. Jonathan Latham, of Orient, on Friday eveming went to a'store in tho village to make a purchase, Not return ing as soon as expected, a messenger was sent.for him and found hima lying dead in the road ashort distance from his house, Cause of death, heart disease. The Board of Managers of the Queen’s County-Agrt “cultural Society held a meeting at the fair grounds, Mineola, on Saturday, and furthered preparations for the thirty-fourth annual fall exhibition, which will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 28¢h, 20th and 30th insts, The body of adrowned man was found on the shore of the Sound near Saddle Back Rock, a short distance from Greenport, on Thursday afternoon, Justice Tim. son, of Greenport, was asked to hold an inquest, when it was ascertained by papers found in the pockets that the body was that of Captain Oliver Davis, of Port Jef. ferson, whose vessel—the schooner Transit—was run into and sunk by the steamer Kleanora on the night of the 30th of August, the rest of the crew being picked up by the steamer. » Captain’s friends removed the body to Port Jefferson for inverment. MEXICO'S VETERANS. ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE CITY op THE MONTEZUMAS, To-morrow the veterans of the Mexican war will cele- brate the twenty-eighth anniversary of the fall of the city of Mexico, which took placo Sept, 14, 1847. They will assemble at ten o'clock A. M., at the Worth monu- ment, and parade to the City Hall, where they will be reviewed by the Mayor and Aldermen, The escort will consist of Bragg’s Battery and a detachment from the National Guar Tn the afterooon they will proceed to Rust River Park, where they will be addressed by the oo George E. Pugh, ex-United States Senator from 10. THIEVERY ON A OAR William W. Carter, of No, 698 Broadway, yesterday afternoon reported at the Central office that his poakat had been picked, while ho was ing on a Sixth ave. nue car na the chro of aan tei strovt, of @ gold hunting-cased wateh and chain,