The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1875, Page 3

THE REBELLION IN TURKEY Speculations and Spasms of the Stock Exchange, AWKWARD ASPECT OF EVENTS. The Khedive of Egypt Offers Help to the Porte. ATTITUDE OF GERMANY. Project for a South Sclavonic Empire, POLICY OF THE BRITISH MINISTRY. Viexwa, Sept. 3, 1875, ‘The news of thts morning must be very vexatious for the real friends of Turkey who are ‘THE TURKISH RONDHOLDERS. She does mot seem to have any other; but perhaps, if sthe whole truth were known, she is tolerably well pro- tected by the honestgr part of them, How far, how- ever, the present er oa in the Herzegovina may be a Stock Exchange speculation from first to last is a ques- tion which must be appreciated in their own way by the discerning. This much is certain, that if Turkey keeps possession of her Christian provinces and the present business should come to be settled satisfactorily, whieh there is no grave reason even yet to doubt that it will bo, an enormous sum of money will have been gained by speculations in Turkish and Austrian securities. ‘The Turkish national debt is not large, though there is so much talk about it, and ifthe integrity of the Otto- man Empire ts preserved; it could bear a debt at least ten times as heavy. But, nevertheless, Turkish Securities are now offered at prices which would pro- duce from twelve to fifteen per cent, and should her credit rige again the buyers of bonds at that figure will have done a very lucrative business, though not a better one than is to be done in English railway shares just now. The fact is, however, that stock jobbers now-a- days have become a very powerful class; they will not be content with sinall gains, and it may hernoticed that every autumn, when politicians and Parliament men are everywhere taking thoir holiday, some sudden riot | is made ina remote part of the world by which a good deal of money may be made. Thus in the present instance the best informed states- men in Europe were of opivion that there was very little in the Herzegovina business; yet it ha’ been so adroitly complicated and fomonted that the intelligence received, even from trustworthy sources, when eliminated and sifted from the icredible | Tubbish of rumors, wears a serious look, It is reported from Belgrade that the Turks have, for strategical rea- sous, set fire to all the woods along the Bosnian fron- tier. The destruction of property thus occasioned can only be estimated at millions of dollars; but the measure can hardly be blamed from a military point of view, because the rebel bands never fight but under cover, and act altogether by ambushes and night sur- prises of convoys of provisions. They shoot at small detachments of Turkish troops from trees and hiding Places, and then run away. That is the only style of warfare which they comprehend, and thus, but thus only, a few dozen robbers may become as dangerous to regular troops as the French * franc tireurs’? were to ‘the Germans in the late European war. From Constantinople also it is telegraphed that all the blockhouses on the Montenegrin frontier are in the hands of the insurgents, and that two whole battalions of Tarkish troops in the south of the Herzegovina aresur- Founded by the insurgents Again, it is said on trust- | worthy authority that there ts groat excitement in Armenia. It is all about taxes, Turkey, pressed by her bondholders, has been obliged to put the screw on hor taxpayers, while the Christian population of the Empire have been told ina hundred ways that if they do not wish to pay government dues they need not do Bo, and that if they make noise enough they will be ex- einpted from all future payments, at least for awhile. Moreover, some very nasty news appears to have been received by the Turkish authorities from Mostar, the principal town of the Herzegovina; and this news is sup- posed to be of such an explosive character that the | | Porte dares not make it public; at all events it is kept | secret, Large reinforcements of Turkish‘troops, how- ever, have been hurriedly sent to Trebenje and to Biolatz, Meantime the Czar has commanded Prince Milan to | Preserve a strict neutrality; and-as the estates of his, aillanced wife (Miss Keshko) are situated on Russian | soil, the Prince will certainly obey ordere, Russia has, | however, suggested for some time past the formation of Bosnia and the Herzegovina into INDEPENDENT PRINCIPALITIES ; but Austria has resolutely answered that, rather than allow the realization of a scheme threatening the in- togrity of her own territory, she would herself annex these provinces. Some time ago Germany settled the aificulty thus created, ACTING AS MEDIATOR. I was talking this morning with a member of the Austrian government, but I could not induce him to take a serious view of the revolt. I told him my news, and asked him whether the Ministry had received con- tradictory information. “Oh, yes,” he said, lighting a | cigar; “itis all nonsense, We shall not interfere if we can possibly avoid it, though we have been obliged to concentrate a considerable body of troops on the fron- tior. Russia is equally indisposed to meddle just now, but she has done likewise; and these facts coming to the ears of the special correspondents of newspapers supply the matter for alarming telegrams, But the insurrection in the Herzegovina will be put down again this time by the Turks, The revolt in Bosnia was sup- pressed last Thursday, and was never of any conse- quence. A considerable number of Servians have, how- ever, crossed the Drina, and are ‘ ROVING ABOUT ON PLUNDERING EXCURSIONS, They have not gained any military successes, and whenever they come in sight of Turkish troops they | take to their heels with great swiftness and energy. Telegraphic communication between Constantinople and Banjaluka, which was interrupted, has been re- stored; and the Turkish Ambassador, with whom I | dined yesterday, has no fear of the result. He was very frank, and said that the telegrams from Constanti- nople might be relied upon, for the Ministers of the Porte were anxious that the bondholders should see | their danger if the insurrection was further supported. He said also that the Khedive of Egypt had offered to Send a contingent of troops to put down the revolu- | tion.” This statement represents the general opinion of Austrian official persons very fairly; and, indeed, there | is still no doubt that the Turks would be able to do their own business successfully if left to themselves, Evory day, however, makes it more difficult for them to act with energy, because of the threatenod interven- tion of the great Powers. Three empires, two king. doms and a republic have asserted their rights to inter- fere in the internal government of Turk ey and there” fore the Porte is placea on THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA, It is of extreme ‘mportance, on the one hand, that the Turks should act qiickly, because a single victory on the part of the insurgents, no matter how it might have | ‘been gained, would induce the Servians to break from the feeble hold of Prince Milan, who is not a strong minded young man, and who bas a very limited in- fluence over his subjects. Moreover the first news of such a success would encourage Bosnia to rise again, and half Croatia might burst from the control of Austria very suddenly. But, on the other hand, i¢ the Turks resort to prompt and severe measures the Northern Powers may assert that their efforts to insure @ peaceablo settlement of the trouble have been treated with disrespect. Finally, any delay in suppressing tho Fevolt will reduce the Mobammedan chiefs of the Herze- goviniato absolute ruin and despair. Their corn and cattle will be all carried away by BANDS OF PREDATORY THIEVES, mostly foreigners; « famine will set in with the winter, ‘The usual foods which occur in the rainy season will render military operations impossible. The Turkish |, ment, | be provided for him. | or, garrigons wi) be shut ug in barracks or encampments, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. 3 <n ‘Banditti will wander about the bills to the destruction of trade and travel, and such a sanguinary civil war may follow as shall oblige Russia and Austria to put an end to it one way or another by the strong hand All Europe might even drift into another war, literally shoved by the breech into causeless hostilities by MEDDLERS AND MUDDLERS. Delay is the great danger, indeed; for the rainy sea_ son is about to commence, and there are no roads, canals or other means of transport during bad weather in these countries ; and the Turkish armies must re- main inactive in their winter quarters or go floundering about in pathless bogs to no purpose atall. For halfa century, at least, plans bave been from time to timo submitted to the Porte for a good canal bétween Priepol and the Save; but nd effect has ever been given to such proposals. Engineer after engineer has tried to get contracts for roads, but no roads have been made, and therefore the Herzegovina is fairly shut off from the world for six months out of every twelve. Herein consists really the bad government of Turkey. The eharge which ean be properly brought against the Turks is not that of ferocity or oppression, but of laziness, I have just heard of a plan for the founda- tion of A TRIUNE KINGDOM, which it is proposed shall comprise Croatia, Sclavonia and Dalmatia, The King of it is to be appointed by Russia, and it is to be incorporated into A SOUTH SCLAVOMIAN KMPIRA, { can think of no better illustration of the wild ideas—not of the rebels, who have, perhaps, no ideas, but of the odd lot of politicions who are looking on at them and trying to pick up something out of the gen- eral scramble. The worst tidings I have heard for the Turks is that Prince Bismarck, it is said, is in favor of the annexation of the Herzegovina to Austria, Itis certain that the papers, inspiredby the Berlin Foreign Office, are beginning to write with unexpected favor of ‘he insurgents, Moreover, the German delegate at THE CONSULAR CONGRESS OF MOSTAR has been instructed to support his Austrian colleague in any demands he may make upon Turkey. It is said behind the scenes here that Prussia desires a catas- trophe in the East, that Austria may find employment for her troops and be kept out of any alliance with France. Should there, however, be some truth in this rumor, Prince Bismarck has abruptly become more Austrian than the Austrians, for peither the Kaiser nor his advisers have any desire to increase the difiicultics of Turkey. Lord Derby is understood to be supporting a very questionable policy, and an English pecr, who is on as intimate terms with the Foreign Minister as any one ever is, said frankly to me that the British Foreign Sec- retary would like to see Russia entangled in a quarrel with Turkey to check her advance upon the Anglo-In- dian frontier. 1 find the opinion everywhere gaining ground that the Consul Congress at Mostar will prove a failure, as my previous letters must have enabled the American public to anticipate, The insurgents aro afraid to put down their arms while the Congress is sitting, and, moreover, they arc so divided among themselves that it is difficult to open any satisfactory negotiation with them. Several of the persons who call themselves lead- ers of the insurrection would be willing to treat on the basis of getting some advantage fur themselves; but {t has been hitherto found by experience that none of them had any real influence over the wandering rob- bers who make the real strength of the move- fnd who will go on plundering and cattle stealing till their arms are forcibly taken away from them. The Turks, upon their part, cannot put an end to hostilities, because if they did so they would leave the Mohammedan population of the province entirely at the mercy of the insurgents. A congress of six commercial gentlemen sitting to arrange the condition of peace, upon which nobody is agreed, during the midst of a civil war, would be a very novel spectacle, and no good can be expected from the inter- ference of the great Powers until the fighting has been Drought to an end without it, Moreover, precedents in this case are unfortunate, and they certainly lend color to the belief that the promises of a. mixed commission of this sort are not to be trusted. It has been said with great truth by a living statesman, to whom all forms of evasion are familiar, that “accepting a mediation in principle” (as the Sultan has done) ‘is the most cour- teous form of refus'ng a demand.” Thus it so happened that when last a rebellion broke out in the Herzegovina, in 1861, events took much the same turnas they are taking now. The insurgents kept quict during tho dalavering of some consuls, presided over by” Omer Pacha, and at last a proposal of peace was drawn up by their joint endeavors and forwarded by a special courier to Constantinople for the Sultan’s approval, The Sultan, however, de- clined altogether to ratify the treaty, and, meantime, Omer Pacha having received large reinforcements of troops, stamped the rebellion out, Its leader, ONE LUCA VUGALOVIC, | now forgotten, died;a fow years ago, a Russian pen- sioner at Ocessa It was, perbaps, a satisfactory end of the business for him, because Odessa is a pleasant sea- side bathing place, with a good climate, and his pension was ample; but Russia has now survived the weakness | of giving pensions, and Ljubibratich, who is the best known rebel of those now jn arms, cannot prudently feel sure that a dignified and gilded retreat will Indeed, Ljubibratich has fur better cards in his hand if he knows how to play them; for it is just possible that the Turks may make use of him as the French made use of And el Kader and the Russians made use of Schamy! during the wars in Algeria and in the Caucasus. It would perhaps even be good policy to let him proclaim trimself Grand Vojvod, and to recognize his title, if a sufficient number of the insurgents could be brought to do solikewise, be- cause the Porte would then have somebody to treat with) and a somebody who would be found managesble enough if the usual terms were offered to him. Schamy! and Abd el Kader, the heroes of Algeria and Caucasus, were both found extremely willing to sell countries, which ir no sense belonged to them, for a small pension. THE YOUNG SERVIANS—PROPOSED CONGRESS OF THE SIX POWERS—THE RELIEF OF TRE- BIGNE. Vimswa, Sept. 4, 1875. “phe telegram from Ragusa” trick has been found out, and within these last few days has been exchanged for “PRE TELEGRAM FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.” Both of them are mere Stock Exchange devices, and Tlearn from good authority this morning that several of the messages by wire, dated from the Turkish cap- ital and published in the principal European journals, were never sent from Constantinople. Fabricators of false news should remember that the governments of the Old World keep a very STRICT WATCH OVER THE TELEGRAPH, and all the despatches which do not seem to refer to ordinary business or to love affairs, as well as those which bear unknown or false siguatures, are trans- mitted to a department specially organized to de- cypher and explain them, The despatches, rather, some despatches, alleged to have been sént to the Heratp in the Arnim case, \ ere said to have been deciphered and were read in court, the Prussian government leaving it to be inferred that the correspondence had come into their hands by this dishonest method. Indeed, neither the post nor tho’ wire is inviolate in Europe. ‘ The news of this morning is meagre and contradictory. ‘There is some talk of A CONGRESS OF SOVERRIGNS before the fine weather is over. That i& another Stock Exchange idea. The Sultan will not move from Con- stantinople in so far as he is concerned, The Czar could not visit him without offending all the traditions of his people and all Eastern customs, by which it is under- stood that the first visit must always be paid by the inferior. Tho Emperor of Austria would not go again to Constantinople or consent to mect the Sultan, because the last or rather the only time that these two saw each other face to face the Sultan insulted the Kaiser and turned that fat back of his upon his im- pertal brother. Moreover, the Sultan now feels sullen and angry; he does not, personally, care two straws about civilized Europe, afid has taken some pains to show his contempt, His sentiments are very much like those which may be not unreasonably supposed to actuate A BAITED BULL with a fly on his nose and his tail tied with ribbons to his horns, What is much more probable is that there will be A DIPLOMATIC CONGRESS AT VIENNA, but why it should assemble, or what it will do when it has assembied, are questions to which nobody can find ‘ satisfactory answer, TH BUSINESS OF THE HERZEGOVINA ‘was at ite commencement a mere border foray or raids of cattle stoalera, If the big Parliaments had been sitting, and a few “personal explanations” such a8 that between Mr. Plimsoll and Mr, Bates, between M. Gambetta and M. Raoul Duval, between Herr Falck and the leader of the German clericals, had taken place, no one would have paid the smallest attention to it; but it chanced to break out in the dull season of the year, when newspapers hardly know what to do for Copy, and it was a capital opportunity for giving em- ployment to those hangers-on of the press who must be employed now and then and receive retainers, because they may be really wanted some time or other, and every journal nowadays must know where to put its band suddenly on A WAR CORRESPONDENT. It is for this reason, and for this reason only, as far a8 can be at present discerned, that a raid of cattle steal- ers has passed into an event which interests courts and cabinets, It is partly a Stock Exchange and partly AN AUTUMN NEWSPAPER CONCERN. ‘The Turks, dealt with by the Western Powers after these methods and \n some such fashion as DOGS DRAW A BADGER, have taken up the thing in grim earnest, and the cattle stealers are everywhere flying before them, Unfor- tunately for the Herzegovinian farmers, they are PLYING THE WRONG WAY, and contrive, amid the general confusion, to hurry such large flocks and herds across the frontier that a fat ox is now sold in the Croatian markets for $5 or $6. ‘Thus much is known to-day of the warlike aspects of the revolt, and no more. The leaders of the rebellion, if there ever were any leaders besides the newspaper imaginary leaders, who were "80 MANY GYPSIES PLAYING AT POLITICS, have all run away. They have disappeared so com- pletely when brought to book by the Turks that the heap of mud hovels which is called Trebigne, and which would have some military importance im A RRAL WAR, ‘was relieved without opposition from the presence of the insurgents, That is to say, a few barelegged louts, who thought they could steal more profitably at a distance, took to their heels, and the rest swore that they had never been seen or heard of either thieving or making a noise. That was THE TRUE WISTORY of the relief of Trebigne. Also the monastery of Duzi, one of the headquarters of the rioters, was STORMED WITHOUT OPPOSITION by the Turks, who thus recovered most of the arms and ammunition stolen from them a fortnight/ago. All the troublesome rogues in petticoats who have been mak- ing the hullabaloo of late are hiding themselves in the hills close to the Austrian frontier. When detachments of Turks follow them they sneak over the border, and turn up swaggering with stolen pistols at Ragusa. Of course, they would like to have another turn at their trade, and they will do so if the thing can be managed with impuuity under some colorable pretext—not other- wise, In truth all the neighboring nationalities object to dividy the sympathies and subscriptions of the emo- tional YRIENDS OF LIBERTY with the cattle dealers of the Herzegovina, and the energetic hostility of the Hungarians, who succeeded the Poles in the enjoyment of the profits. to be derived from the spare cash of humanitarians has frustrated all plans of annexing Bosnia and the Herzegovina to Aus- tria, or erecting their provinces into a new. BEMI-SOVERRIGN STATE. Austria will, and must stop short at proposals for re- forms, which Turkey may or may not accept. “What reforms?” may Mahmoud Pacha very pertinently ask, To which question Count Zichy, the Austrian Inter- nuncio at Constantinople, may or will answor, “Ah!” After this conversation it is probable that the conserva- tive ministry, just raised to power by the Sultan, will be upset, andthe same farce will begin with their suc- cessors. None of the reports in circulation respecting the suc- cesses of the rebels are worthy of credence, Thus it was said a few days ago that 4,000 Servian troops were marching to the aid of the insurgents, whereas the fact is that the effective army of Servia only amounts to 8,500 men all told, and none of them have budged an inch, A few hundred Servian boys may possibly desire to mingte in the ‘scrimmage,’ but they, too, may change, their minds when they have had a talk with their friends, and the hot erthusiasm with which they left their schools and colleges will be much cooled down because the new Servian ministry, which politically represents THE YOUNG SERVIANS, is much opposed to the Obreunovich dynasty, repre. sented by’ Prince Milan and Miss Keshko; and they want to restore the old “Georgian Princes,” a family which were bundled out of supremacy by the Swineherd who founded the princely race now governing. The importance to be attached to the politics of these bar- barous people may be estimated from the fact that the NEW PRIME MINISTER OP SERVIA can neither read nor write. His name it Stevtscha, as nearly as it cau be written in Latin characters, and there is one Ristich, who 1s to do his writing and read- ing for him. In Bosnia the insurrection—if insurrec- tion it can be called—has been fairly crushed out. Should Montenegro or Servia move, the Sultan, in his present angry mood, would probably send orders to occupy Servia and Montenegro, a course of proceeding which would really give diplomacy some work to do; for Turkey would entirely subject them, begin to levy taxes, and leave the six Powers to protest and go about their business. It is not so clear that ‘they could take any effective action in such a case, Russia and Germany would con- fine themselves to diplomatic dealings, which would mean ali talk and no fighting. Austria could.not act in the teeth of ali the national feeling in Hungary. France is paralyzed, and would have no reason to act if she were free to do so. Eng. land would welcome any policy which would give better chances to Turkish bondholders. Italy is out of the hunt altogether for any practical purpose. Thus the outlooks of Turkey are not so bad as they seem, and she has every inducement to act vigorously after her own lights, ‘The six commercial travellers who were to have met at Mostar to settle the business have had some difi- culty in assembling. It is even reported that their efforts in the conciliation way have failed; but that cannot be true, because they have not yet made any collective report, The notion that the Russiag Consul was taken ill for diplomatic reasons, and that the Con- sular Congress was broken up in that way, is too ab- surd to be entertained. “Only fancy,” said a Russian boyard to me yesterday, with a loud laugh, “Prince Gortschakoff sending instructions to a consul to sham sickness, in order that he might not be obliged to meet five other mercantile men at an out of the way town in Turkey.” The objection to THE MEETING OF CONSULS at Mostar is this—they have no one to negotiate with when they have met. They and the presiding Pacha might pass any resolutions they pleased among themselves; but when they had done so, things would remain just as they were before, If one were to imagine a council of Norman burghers, negotiating to pacify Sherwood forest during THE TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF RORIN HOOD, one might get a much clearer idea of the present situa- tion in the Herzegovina, If one could imagine six European mercantile men, from the Hanse towns, Venice, Milan, London, Amsterdam and Glasgow as- sembling to pacify ROB ROY MACGREGOR, one might form a perfectly Just notion of the labors of six Consuls at Mostar, A sly old gentleman named Vukotik (pronounced Vussetitch), who is related to some corn merchants at Odessa, and who is father-in-law to the Prince of Mon- tenegro, has been acting as go-between in the present instance, Vukotik called on the Russian Consul Jastre- bow to see what was going on under the auspices of Russia, and he was promptly told to return home, “Give me something, then, to be quiet,” eaid Vukotik; and he added, “if you don’t, the Montenegrins will be up.” “So much the worse for them,” said Consul Jas- trebow, after which nothing more was heard of Vukotix in that direction, Then, too, the insurgents altogether distrusted Vukotik, because he could do nothing. “Can't you let us go cattle stealing in peace while the row lasts, you meddlesome old Vukotik?” said the rebels, or such of them as Vukotik could discover, ‘owWell,” said (or thought) Vukotik, “perhaps I had bet. ter leave you alone;” and so Vukotik disappears from contemporary history, his pacificatory mission having failed in the sight of all the penny papers. Of course our old friends Cashlesse and Rowdyman, with the Vicomte de Videsac and Freiherr von Wenig. wits, are rushing to the scene of action with money borrowed from their tailors, who are not sorry to see the last of them, That is to say, all the riffraff of Europe which bas @ stomach for fighting and is in Pecuniary straits has gone off to see if its promissory notes can be cashed and a hand to mouth living of some sort can be got out of the shindy. One would like, however, to know what the borderers of the Herzego- Vina will do with euch allies or what they will do when they get to their destination? They will have to skip about the hills in the rain, without anything to eat, be- yond an occasional putrid sheep’s head baked in a hole of @ mountaiu cavern, and they will have to run away as fast as they can go whenever they see ared cap. After a week or two of this trade, unenlivened by gin and water or casinos, they will perhaps have had enough of i If not they will do more harm than good to the cause they join, if it be a cause. The troubles of the Porte are, however, increasing. One Coronous, a baggy-breeched Greek, who was mixed up with the fighting in Crete a few years ago, has set off with a plot in his head to get up ariot in Epirus. Now, both Epirus and Thessaly have been long ripe for re- volt, and are made of highly inflammable material. They have been crying out for the last twenty years, through the Athenian newspapers, for annexation to Greece. ‘What the cry signifies is not so clear, forno Greek of means or respectabtiity has ever thought fit to reside in his native land, and the Rallis, the Rhodoconachis, the Mavrocordalos and the rest of them have all preferred to go on enduring a voluntary exile in foreign countries. But the people of Thessaly and Epirus are as ignorant | and silly as the populace in other places, and it is very likely that Coroneus may induce them to make such a disturbance as will cost the Porte some money to quell it, It is not necessary at present to inquire into the ro- mantic aspect of the case, nor to ask whether it is right in the abstract tliat Christians should be governed by infidels, The real question at issue is whether Turkey shall be broken up, and, if so, how are its possessions to be divided? As amatter of fact the rayahs in Tur- key are not in any sense governed by the Mohamme- dans, They have their own laws and their own magis- trates to administer them. They have absolute free- dom of worship. How are they going to get a better government? And if no good is to be done by Coro- neus and other red-hand agitators, why the sooner they are caught and abated or put to flight the better. Avery queer complaint has been made against the Turks, Itis reported| this morning in some of the liberal papers here that ‘the troops under Dervish Pacha (who is, by the way, an Austrian, while his commander- in-chief, Mehemet Ali Pacha, is a Prussian) have com- mitted several acts of violence.” In the same journals it is announced that the insurgents nave ‘‘carried off all the live stock”’ in the neighborhood and are “selling them openly” in the Austrian markets. Now that cattle-stealers who have been stopped in their opera- tions or molested while stealing should complain of rough usuge is something peculiarly frank and amusing, yet this is the latest charge against the Turks, and it has aroused a considerable amount of indignation. Let us be thankful for small mercies. 4 THE TRIPOLI OUTRAGE. END OF THE TROUBLES—THE PASHA MAKES AN APOLOGY, Unrrup States Stzamer Conaress, Orr TrIPoLt, 7 BARBaRy, August 26, 1875. The Consular troubles have finally been settled amicably by His Excellency the Pasha acceding to the demands made upon him by Captain Earl English and Captain D. B, Harmony, United States Navy, the former of this ship, the latter of the United States steamer Hartford, both ships having been ordered here to settle, in conjunction with Michael Vidal, American Consul, the insult offered to the American Consul a month since. The demands were as follows, viz, :— : First—A withdrawal, in writing, of the letters written by the Pasha to the American Consul, on the 5th and 6th of August, demanding his appearance at the courts, to answer a charge brought against him by two officers of the Ottoman Navy. Second—A written guarantee of the peaceful inten- tions of the Tripolitan authorities toward not only the United States Consul, but all of its citizens. Third—The punishment of the sailor of the Ottoman Navy who surreptitiously entered the premises of the American Consul on the 24th of July. Fourth—The suspension, for four months, of the Judge and other officials of the court which demanded the presence of the Consul. Fifth—A verbal apology from the Pasha, in full uni- form, with all his insignia of rank, at the,American Consulate, to the Consul, at half-past three P. M., Au- gust 26, 1875. The apology was given on this date, at the time and place fixed, our government being represented by Cap- tain D. B. Harmony, Captain Bartlett, United States Marine Corps; Second Lieutenant Gibson, United States Marine Corps; Lieutenant Commander H. Elmer, United States Navy, and ten privates of marines, who assembled with the Consul in his consulate and recoived the verbal apology offered, in French, by the Pasha for the conduct of himself and ofiicials to the American Consul. I write in great haste, having but a few moments to spare beforo the Hartford sails for Malta. We follow her in thirty-six hours to the same place, from where I will forward you an accurate account of the whole matter, correspondence, &c., with also an account of the insult offered to two of the officers of this ship when on an official visit to the American Consul’s, on our arrival here, August 17, 1875, which was apologized for by the municipal authorities of the city of Tripoli verbally at the Consulate on the 23d inst, STEAMSHIP DISABLED AT SEA. THE DELAY OF THE OVERDUE STEAMER ETHI- OPIA ACCOUNTED FOR. Considerable anxiety has been felt by the friends here of passengers from Glasgow on board the steamship Ethiopia, of the Anchor line, on account of the delay of that steamer. This anxiety will probably be lessened by the news reported by the Dutch steamship Maas, from Rotterdam, which arrived here yesterday. The Ethiopia left Glasgow on the 4th inst., and has, conse- quently, been out sixteen days. On the 14th tnst, she was sighted and spoken by the Maas in latitude 44 deg. 60 min. and longitude 47 deg. 40 min. She was then moving slowly under sail, Captain Craig reported that the main shaft of the engine was broken, but that repairs were being mad and "that tho Ethiopia would probably be enabled to with steam power upon the 16th inst. He declined | offers of assistance, but transferred the mails which the Etbiopia was carrying to the Maas. Captain Craig, of the Ethiopia, is known as an able and courageous seaman, and it may be relied upon that he will bring his vessel into this port if it lies within the power of man to do so. tis probable that the voyage of the Ethiopia will be lengthened a day or more still by the severe weather which now prevails. BURNED AT SEA. DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STEAMER ZODIAC. ‘The steamer Antonio, from Savannah, which arrived in this port yesterday, brought among her passengers the chief engineer, two firemen, three sailors and three passengers of the steamship Zodiac, which was burned while on her passage from Nassau to this port. The following details were gathered by a Herap reporter on the subject of the burning of the ill-fated vessel :— The Zodiac lef Nassau on the afternoon of the 6th inst., and the fire took place at five o'clock on the fol- lowing morning, when the vessel was about twenty- nine miles from Abaco, near where the ill-fated Missouri was burned’ some years ago, All the Zodiae’s passengers and crew wore saved. How the fire ovcurred is a mystery. The last seon of tho vessel was that she was enveloped in a wall of flames. The fire was first discovered in the forward lower hold. The smoke came out in blinding volumes as soon as the hatches were taken off. The engine room was soon | filled with the dense smoke, and the engineers and tire- men were unavle to see, The fire gamed with terrible rapidity, and all efforts to save the vessel were at once seen to be useless, The boats aud raft were speedily, lowered, and good order prevailed, which is doubtless tue reason that no lous of life occurred. The steamer's silver, some passenger baggage, and some provisions were placed on the life raft. The crew and passengers left tho vessel in three boats, one of them towing the raft, which provi go heavy that ithad to be abandoned. After rowing for many bours under a broiling sun, Elbow Key, Abaco, was reachod, several of the passengers sufforing from exposure to the great heat, The crew and passengers then took schooners to Nassau, and from there pro- ceeded to Savannah, Captain’ Chapin, of the Zodiac, his purser, Mr. Charles Weldon, and the steward, are still at Savannah, but will, doubtless, come on here within a few days. The rest of the passengers of the Zodiac arrived in this city by railroad Inst Friday, Tho investigation as to the cause of the fire and the loss of the steamer will, doubtless, be commenced by the United States local inspectors of steamships within a couple of weeks, FIGHTING MISCEGENATIONISTS. George Robinson, a colored man residing at Jamaica, was badly beaten and stabbed in the right shoulder, on Saturday night, on Washington street, in that village, by Jobn Pheifer, a white man, who is married to @ col- ored woman, Cause, jealousy, FALL RIVER STRIKE Thousand Operatives Forty Mills Idle. THE “VACATION” DIFFICULTY Fifteen and Statements of Manufacturers and Society Leaders. A Review of the Situation and Probabilities. Fau Rivur, Mass., Sept, 18, 1875. Notwithstanding the resolutions of the weavers at the Opera House here the other evening, it will probably be weeks before the operatives go to work again, Fifteen thousand of these people are now parading the streets day after day, the victims of shrewd, designing men» who live by their misfortune, When they left the mills six weeks ago to go on what was termed a “vacation” for thirty days, it was to avoid the ten per cent reduc- tion which manufacturers proposed in consequence of the dearth of trade and the falling off in prices. Thoy claimed that the mill owners had reaped immense profits before and since the war, and could afford to run on low rates, for atime at least. The “vacation” was therefore agreed upon—which was, in reality, a strike— and the mills were closed. They did not propose to bear the burden alone, in any case, and before the ter- mination of the thirty days two divisions of the help Proposed a compromise. They will go to work again ay Something less, but they must be allowed to go back to their old places, justas they were before. Then the manufacturer#’ met them with this reply:—"We demanded a reduction from twenty-seven cents to twenty-four cents a cut, as it was only at this rate our capital would give us any return whatever. You im- mediately agreed upon a plan of suspension and left our works standing idle. Under the circumstances we would as soon keep closed, The demand is so stight for cotton and print cloths that t does not exhaust our stock, and there are but few contracts to be had. Still, we might go on making for stock. We cannot do so on your terms, however. If you go to work again it will be upon our terms, not yours, You left without cere- mony, and we cannot and will not be ruled by any such arbitrary discipline as that to which you appear sub- jected by your leaders.” Thus the manufacturers and the help stand face to face in open conflict, THE PROBLEM 48 IT 13, It isastrange problem, Here are the 15,000 oper- atives, mostly withouteven the barest means of sub- sistence, led to abandon their work by a few scheming organizers, Then they are willing finally to return to their looms and spindles, but want conditions. When they stopped, the monthly wages, amounting to $500,000, was lost to the town and the tradespeople. There staud the manufacturers in an attitude of half defiance, half reconciliation. Their forty mills and plant, representing a capital of nearly $30,000,000, are nonproductive, though the heavy mortgage interest must be met as before. They have a stock of goods from which to fill special orders, and seem confident of meeting a limited demand for six months But thoy are not making any money, and do not expect to make much, supposing they were to re- open their mills to-morrow. If the different divisions of labor here—the spinners, weavers and carders—will agree to forego all clains, all society conditions among themselves, the owners will open ther factories at the twenty-four cents a cut, and go on making at the barest profit, as they claim. But they intimate that it may be necessary to cut down lower still. Supposing the men and women go to work at the reduced rate now and continue to increase the stock, the result will be to send prices down stil! more; and, anfortunately, the near future has not the most promising aspect for manufacturers. If the twenty- four cent rate is the lowest (as the help claim) at which they can earn even the smallest necessaries for themselves and families, how will they act when smaller compensation is determined upon? And if the owners do not receive remuneration now, when they have so reduced the labor scale, they can scarcely expect their capital to be more productive later on in the winter, when orders and prices may fall off. THE HAND-TO-HAND CONTEST. This seems to be, at first sight, one of those insur- mountable difficulties between capital and labor, The laborer is quarrelling with the manufacturer and starv- ing his family because he cannot controi the capital from which his bread is derived to suit the society rules by which he is governed. The manufacturer stands in a half-menacing mood, declaring that he will doas he likes with his own, and threatens to with- draw his capital into smoother and more remunerative channels of trade or place it in savings banks and estate, The fact is; both sides are strongly tinged with selfishness. The laborer, with that shortsighted- ness characteristic of him when he wants to strike, | mistook the signs of the times, and when he had filled his employer’s warehouses with stock, under the impression that the goods were orderea, went out, believing that the employer could not do without him, notwithstanding the em- ployer had demanded the lower rate. The manufac- turers saw some little advantages in having their mills closed fora while, In the first place, it was expected that a sudden cessation would cause prices to go up and then their stock would havo produced nice little fortunes, Inthe next place, the market was full, and as contracts were scarce und but little more was being rade at the time, they did not object to saving the half million, dollars a month which they bad Deen paying for wages. But both the capitalist and laborer have been deceived. Prices did not raise sufficiently to pay the smallest interest on the idle plant and capital, and when the mills closed here manufacturers in other places be- gan making the Fall River classes of goods, thus keep- ing down the price of printing cloths to 5% a 534 cents. UNREMUNERATED ENTERPRISE, Since the panic of 1873 there have been three reduc- tions in the wages of the help at the mills—i. ¢, reckon- ing the present ten per cent, about which there has been so much troabdle, Despite these the manufac- turers claim that the operatives have been saving money. As a proof of this they point to the $10,000,000 now on deposit in Fall River savings bank# and the gradual acquisition of dwellings and stores by the thrifty and provident. But it seems scarcely fair to place the whole of this amount of savings to the credit of the operatives. Hundreds of storekeepers and even men of oxtensive means have been accumulating in the savings banks during the past two years, as the inter_ est paid by these institutions has been higher than the profits from special speculations. A short time since Governor Howatd remarked that his capital in manu- factones had not returned so large a percentage as though he had put it into the savings institutions, and hinted that there was no longer a margin in the cloth trade, THE MANUPACTURERS’ STATEMENT. Yesterday I met a member of the Manufacturers’ Board of Trade, to whom all matters concerning the interests of the mills are submitted. Speaking of the strike, he said:—“The whole difficulty bas been incited and fed by afew Lancashire men, who, as officers of organizations, go around fomenting trouble. These people want us to acknowledge their superior strength and wisdom by taking back their society friends and them only. This we don’t propose to do. We made a little money by the temporary rise in prices, though not enough to pay the interest on capital for a month, However, that does not amount to much, There is no doubt in my own mind that the instant all these mills reopen prices will fall very low. Swll, we are will- ing to go on making goods, for we believe that it is only by this means, by strenuous efforts at production, that trade can be brought back again into its proper channels. If @ man goes on consuming and producing nothing, the veriest boy, versed in the principles of political economy, will say that soon there will be nothing left to consume. So that if we want to arrive at a healthy condition we must produce all we can and then look round for consumers. Wo believo, at least, this is the only method, and are willing to start on this plan. “People,” continued my informant, ‘complain that the state of affairs is less favorable to the help now than it was before the war. Now, we are paying from forty to fifty per cent more for labor than we did in 1860, and vet the price of food and rent here bas not Seemed advanced to anything like that extent. Our corpora’ tions build tenements and rent them trom $9 50to $4 50 a month for each family, so that you can see that in this one important item alone they have received a considerable advantage. “This fight between the help and the manufacturers. must be ended. If the help want to control us and our capital it is manifest that they have undertaken a seri- ous task, serious espectally for themselves, for of course we shall keep our mills closed for a certain period, and, after that time, shall reopen with non- union bands and work, even though we should have to employ armed guards to protect our persons and prop- erty, But, as I said before, we are willing to opem our mills if the help express their desire to work at ourterms, I do not apprehend any trouble even thongh we should keep closed all the winter. Nothing can be gained by violence or Communistic re volt. The people who talk loudest about rioting andi robbery are the officers of organizations who will do all’ they can to continue the trouble,” “Butts not the continuance of the strike causing great distress #” I inquired, e “Doubtless,”’ said he, ‘there are cases of individual suffering. Yet, of the whole population of 46,000, there are but few instances of starvation, We have allowed the operatives to remain in our tenements, in the first place. Had we turned them into tho streets when they left the mills the distress would have been much greater, Some have left of their own accord, however; others may have to leave later if they become obnoxious, What we want is tosee the spinuers (who are all men) and the other organizations (composed of men and boys and women) come to an understanding among themselves; then we can treat with thom, At present they are divided into hostile factions.” BUPPERING AMONG THR OPERATIVKS. Of course this gentleman desired to make the picture brighter than it 1s, There is really intense suffermg among the operatives, Hungry and poorly clad men and women haunt the rooms of the societies, hotels and stores, asking for rolief and assistance, The othe® morning when they broke ground and commenced getting out the foundations of the new Post Office and Custom House on Bedford street there were 600 or 700 men looking on and anxtously waiting for work. But you need only to walk the streets for two or three. hours to realize the suffering of these poor people Young girls, from ten to thirteen years of age, may be seen without shoes or stockings walking about the small thoroughfares, looking neglected and sorrowful, and, in some Instances, with scarcely sufficient clothing to render thom decent. At every corner, in every stree dozens of sad-looking men stand gazing about them with their hands in their pockets. There is scarcely any building going on, and but for a little city work, such ag tne making of sewers, laying gas pipes, &c., there would be an absolute labor famine. The huge “palaces of industry,” like the Mechanics’, the Merchants’, the Granite and Troy mills, are as silent as the grave, A tour amid these places gives you the idea of Sunday, so quict and monotonous everything seems. Said a hotel keeper to me, “I wonder they have not raided on us before this.. Their appeals for ‘something to eat’ aro constant, But we are doing nothing, and may be said to be almost as badly off as they ara There is no money circulating; there is no work going on ontside of the mills; there is but little for store- keepers but trust business; altogether we are in a bad strait now,” THE OPERATIVR’S STORY. Moeting a prominent weaver, I asked him why his society still advocated the maintenance of a strike that had already caused so much mischief and suffering? His reply was short but characteristic. ‘Our labor is our capital. Our labor has not been sufficiently remu- nerative for two years, and we propose to bring the manufacturers to terms. We bave made many of them rich, while we are mostly poor. They want to squeeze out of us the last pulse of energy and be able to starve us into absolute submtssion to anything they may pro- pose, If we accept the present reduction of ten per cent in a month we may be docked ten per cent more, When the markets rise we get no increase. When the markets fall we are made to bear the full amount of the depreciation by having our prices cut down. Why shouldn't the manutacturers share it with us? They haven't done so, but we will make theru, if Or can, in the fature.”? OTHER VIEWS. ‘There is a singular idea prevalent with some that the mills are too numerous and that it would be better either to close one-half of them permanently or reduce the general working force to that extent. For instance, an old Fail River journalist informed me that there was no doubt in his mind that the mill owners had overdone matters. Their business was promising a few years since, but lately, notwithstanding the slackness of trade and the waut of promise in the future they had gone into mill building quite extensively, and several were yet igen uniinisbed state, Said Ne:—‘There is but one way out of our difficulty, and that is to’settle our labor dispute and open up some new source of trade, The operatives must soon either work or rebel. I think that they will soon come to believe, however, that half a loaf is better than none, and that they will unanimously agree to accept the twenty-four cents The weavers’ committee may recommend this, But these organizations war one against tho other, and neither is able to help its own destitute, Ono organization has been sonding agents about the country trying to collect money with which to buy food tor the hungry, but they have not succeeded well. The others have in some iustancos exhausted their available funds and are unable to meet the demands made upon them. SUNSHINE IN THE Rast. Everything looks murky just now, but there is aray of hope in the distance, and that is the new source of trade, which may solve our difficulties. You remember during the cotton famine in Great Britain that a certain ambassador stated if the Chinese would only take to wearing English calicoes and linens there would be work for every man, woman and child to provide the goods, Now, our manufacturers are determined to try what they can doin Japan and China, aud have, I under- stand, sent several very large consignments to these countries with flattering results, Should this enterprise prove a thorough success we may soon see a return of old time basiness days and a speedy end to the troubles we now suffer from.”” THE EXTREMISTS. “What will be the probable result if the mill owners should insist on a lower rate than the present ten cent. reduction?” I asked, “I fear,” said he, “that we shall then have trouble, for you cannot always reason with people who are led to believe they are being perpetually robbed. But we earnestly hope that the good sense of the manufacturers will lead them to avert any such trouble, Of course there are a few old country operatives, English and | Irish, who believe that they have been ground down to the lowest point, and if they accept the present reduc- tion it is the lowest they can or will accept without making serious trouble.” Thus, looking at the affairs here trom every side, we see a total cessation of business, great poverty and much quiet suffering, a sad want of confidence between the employer and empioyé, and the locking up of mil- lions that might be circulated for the general weal, COLD WATER POLITICIANS. The Queens County Convention of Prohibitionists assembled on Friday afternoon in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, at Hempstead, and organized by the choice of FE. J. Hendrickson, of Queens, as Premdent; Dr, True, of Flushing, Vice President, and Edgar McMullen as Secretary. The Committee on Nominations reported an indorsement of the candidates for State officers as presented by the State Temperance Convention, with the Rev. B, F, Reeve, of Patchogue, for Senator in the First i and the following county ticket:—Treasurer, Hen: Rider, of Hempstead; Superintendent of’ the ‘Poor, Elias J, Hendrickson, of Queens; Coroner, George K: Lewan, of Newtown; Justice of Seasior Wallaco Kirby, of North Hempstead; Assembly, First district, Silas W, Alvertson nd district, David K, Elmen dorf, of Pearsalls; School Commissioner, First dis- trict, John P. Ellis A County Executive Com- mittee was also appointed, and strong resolations were adopted favoring separate temperance political organizations, the Suffolk County Prohibition Convention, held at Lake Grove, mado thé following nominations :—Assem- bly, Edward Y. Reeve, of Nattituck; School Commis. sioners, Sylvester T. Tuthil, of Cutchogue, and Egbert H. Hal of Bellport; County Treasurer, Charles H. Hulse, of ville; Buperintendent of the Poor, Othenicl 8. Smith, of Patchoguo; Justice of Sessions, J. Halsey Youngs, of Riverhead; Coroners, Dr, James J. Bakery; of Yaphank, Dr. Isaac Borts, of Saville, and Wither H. Gritfing, of Kast Marion; for Coronar to fill vacancy, Dr. be P. Terry, of Cutchogue, A county commit. teo was also elected. YACHTING NOTE. Yacht Madoloine, N.Y.¥.C, Mr, Voorhis, from New. York, is at auchor of the Henao telegraph station at Whitestona