The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1876, Page 3

THE BULGARIAN HORRORS. A Terrible Story of Reckless and Wanton Butchery. INDISCRIMINATE SLAUGHTER Women Outraged and Little Children Massacred in Cold Blood. SCENES OF DESOLATION. Ghastly Heaps of Mutilated Corpses Still Unburied. THE BODIES DEVOURED BY DOGS. Thriving Villages Tarned Into feaps of Ylackened Ruins. Pe a INDIGNATION IN ENGLAND. The Ministry Charged with Responsibility for the Atrocities. MOHAMMEDAN FEELING ede {From the Special Commissioner of the London Daily News.) TaTAR BazaRvsik, August 2, 1876, Since my letter of yesierday | have supped full of horrors, Nothing has ye: been said of the Turks that I do not now believe; nothing could be said of them Vhat I should not thivk probable and likely. There is, it would soem, a point in atrocity beyond which dis- | crimination is impossible, when mere comparison, palculation, measurement, are out of the question, and | this point the Turks have already passed, You can follow them uo further. The way 18 blocked up by mountains of hideous tacts that repel scrutiny and in- vestigation, over and beyond which you cannot see and do not care to go. You teel that it 1s superfluous to continue meusuring these mountains and deciding whether they be a few feet higher or lower, and you do not care to go seeking for molemilis among them. You feel that it 1s time to turn back; that you have seen enough. But let me tell what we saw at Batak. diMculty in getting away from Pestera. The authori- ties were offended because Mr. Schuyler retused to take any Turkish official with him, and they ordered the inhabitants to tell us there were no horses, for we bud here to leave our carriages and take to the saddle, But the people were so anxious we should go that they furnished horses in spite of the prohibition, only bring- ing them first without saddies, by way of showing how reluctantly they did it. We asked them if they could Hot bring us some saddies also, und this they did with | much alnerity and some chuckling at the way in whieh the Mudir’s orders were walked over, Finally We mounted aud got off, TALES OF HORROR. IN INDIA. We had some We had been besieged ail the morning by the | tame people who had blockaded us the night befere, or who appeared to be the samo, their stories Were su much alike. We could do nothing but listen 10 pity to a few of them—for it would have taken all day to hear each separate tale of misery and suffering—and gave vague promises that we would do all in our power to relieve ticir mtsery upon our return to Coastanti- opie. But diplomatic help is, alas! very slow. While ambassadors are exchanging notes and compliments inviting each other to dinner, discussing the matter over their coffee and cigars, making represeniations to be Porte and obtaining promises which nobody believes in, these poor people are starving and dying Many of them uecided to seize jhis opportunity aud accompany us to Batak, to visit. their rummed homes, and others caught our dridie reims, determined to make us listen to their Htories before we should start. Ove woman caught my hor-e and held it until she could show me where a bullet bad traversed her arm, completely digabling ber from work, ang this was oniy the least of her woes. Husvand killed and Iitue children depending on that broken arm jor bread—all of this told in a languag £0 much like Russian that | could uoderstand a great deal df it—so like Russian that I could easily bave fancied mysell among peasants of the Voiga, or the denizens of she Gostinot dvor, Moscow. Tne resemblance is strik- ng, and itis no wonder (he Russians sympathize with these people. a You observo the same sort of family likeness about tho eyes that maybe always seen among brothers and Histers who are utterly unike eavb other in featur inicks Of Countenance, movements of the hands, tone df the voice, even to that curious uucertain expression af the fave which often in the Russian peasant makes it almost impossible to tell whether he is laughing or | trying. A Russian, a Bulgarian, a Servian, a Monte- pegrin and a Tehek may meet nd talk, each in his | guage, and ail understand each other. You | might as Well expect the English north of the Thames hot to sympathize with those south of ‘t in case the latter were under the domination ot the Turks as to try Lo prevent these Sclavonic races trom helping each ner while groaning unuer a foreign despousa, AT BATAK. Batak i# #tuated about thirty miles south of Tatar Bazardjik us the crow ilies, high up in @ spur of the Balkans, that here sweeps around to the south from the mam range. The road was only a steep mountain path, that in places might have tmed the agility of a goat. Tuere wus a better ove, as we learned upon oar Teturn, but, with that perversity which distinguishes the Oriental mind, our guide took this one instead. We formed a cur.oas but somewhat lugubrious pre sion, as We Wound up tne steep mountain side, rst there were our two zeptiehs in their pic turesque costumes, bristing with kuives and pistols, our guide ‘likewise armed to the seein, then the five persons who composed our party, mounted on mules aud horses decked out with noude- | bcript saddles and trappings, followed by a procession of fifty or sixty women auu children wno had resoived lu accompany us to Ba Many of the women car- ried asmall child and a heavy burthen besiae, com- prising the provisions, clothing, cooking utensus or barvesting implements they had begged or borrowed tn Pestera, kven children, littie giris of nine aud ten Yeure, were trudging wearily up tbe steep mountain fide under burihens too heavy for them, and they ieee be five or six hours in reaching their destina- jon. After three hours’ climbing by paths so stcop that we were obliged to dismonut and walk half the time without then seeming quite safe from roli- Ing down into some abyss, mounting higher and higher unul we seemed ‘to have got among the clouds, we at last emerged (rom a thick wood into @ delightful little valley that spread out a rich carpet of verdure before our eyes. A litle stream came murmuring down through it, upon which there was built a miniature sawmill, A SCENE OF DESOLATION. It appears that the people in Batak did a con- | siderabic trade in timber, which they worked up from the forests on the surroanding mountains, for we afterwards observed a great number of these little mills, and were even told there were over 200 1m and avout the village. The miliwheels are silent how. This litue valley, with its rich grassy slo} Ought to have been covered with herds of sheep and cattle, Not one was to be seen, The pretty little place was as lonely as a graveyard, Oras though no living thing had trod its ren green- sward tor years, ascended the siope to the rignt, id when we reached the top of ive ridge which Beparated it from the next valley, we bad a beauntul panorama spread out heiore us. “The mountains here seemed to extend around in a circle, encivsing a tract of country some eignt or ten miles in diameter, con- siderably lower down, which was cut up by a great number of deep boliows and ravines that (raverseu 1D every direction, and seemed to cross and cut off each other without the siightest appearance of anything like reference to a watersned. It looked more hike an en- Jarged photograph of the mountains of the moon than anything else | could think of. Don in the botiow of one of these hollows we could make out aviliage, which our guide informed us it would stil wke au hour and @ palf to reach, alibongh it really seemed to be very near. This was the viliage of Batak, which we were in search of The billstaes were covered with little fields of whoat and rye that were golden with ripeness, But although the harvest was ripe and over ripe, although in maay aces the weil-filled ears had broken down the {ast- Heeaying straw that could no longer*hold them aloft tnd were now lying flat, there was no sign of reapers trying to save them, ‘The flelds were as deserted as the Httle vailey, and the harvest was rotting in the soil. In an hour we had neared the viliage. | great in Bulgaria as in England and France. DEAD BODIES DEVOURED BY Dogs. As we approached our attention was directed tosome dogs on & slope overlooking tho town, We turned aside irom the road and passing over the débrie of two NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. or three wails, and through several gardens, urged our horses up the ascent toward the dogs. They barked at usin an angry manner and then ran off into the ad- joining fields, 1 observed nothing peculiar as we mounted until my horse stumbled. When looking down I perceived he had stepped on a human skull partly bid among the grass, It was quite dry and ard and might, to all appearances, have been there for two or three years, so well had the dogs done their work. A few steps further there was another, and beside it part of a skeleton, likewise white and dry. AS we ascended bones, skeletons and skulls became more Irequent, but here they bad not been picked so cl an, for their were fragments of half dry, half putrid flesh still clinging to them, At last we caine to a kind of little piateau or shelf on the bill side, where the ground was nearly level, with the ex- ception of ittle indehtation Where the head of a bol- jow broke through, We rode toward this with the in- tention of crossing it, but ali suddeniy drew rei with an exclamation of horror, for right belore us, almost beneath our horee’s feet, was a sight that made us shudder. lt wasa heap of skulls, intermingled with boves from all parts of tbe human body, skeletons nearly entire rotting, clothing, human’ bur and putrid flesh lying there in one foul heap, around which the grass was growing lu@uriantly. It emitted a sickening odor, like that of a dead horse, and it was here the dogs had been seeking a hasty repast when our untimely approuch interrupted them. In the midst of this heap | could distinguish one slight skeleton form still inciosed in a chennee, the skull wrapped rbout with a colored bandkereluet, and the bony ankles encased in the embroidered foot stockings worn by the Bulgarian girix We looked uboui us The ground was strewed with bones jn every direction, where the dogs had carried them off to gnaw thea at their leisure. At the distance of a hundred Yard» beneath us lay the town. As seen from our staud- point, it reminded One somewhat of the ruins of erculaneum or Pompeit, HEAPS OF SLAUGHTERED WOMEN. There was not @ roof ieit, not a whole wnil standing; all was @ mass of ruius, from which arose as we listened a low plaintive wail, like the “keening” of the Irish over their dead, that filled the little valley ang gave it voice. We bad the explanation of this curious sound when we afterward descended into the village, We looked again at the heap of skulls and skeletons belore us, and we 0} served that tney were ail small, and thas the articles clothing intermingled with them and lying about wera all parts of women’s apparel. These, then, were ali women and girls, From my saddle | coun‘ed:about a hundred skulls, pot including those that were }, hidden beneath the others im the ghastly heap, nor those \bat were. scattered far and Wide through 1 feds. The skulls were nearly all separated from the rest otthe bones, the skeletons were Dwariy all head- less, These women had all been bebeaded. We de- scended into the town. Wathia the shattered walls of the first house we came to was a Woman sitting on & heap of rubbish, rockipg herse:t to ands (ro, wating kind of monotonons chant, bal sung, half sobbed, that was not without a wild discordant melody, Ip her lap she.beld a babe, and another child sat beside her pas tently aud silently, and looked at us as we passed with wondering eyes. She paid no attenuion to us; but we bent our ear to hear what sbe wad saying, and our imterpreter said it was as fol- lows My home, my home, my poor home, my sweet home; my husband, my husbaad, my poor husband, my dear husband; my home, my sweet home,” and 0 on, repeating the saine words over and over again a thousand times, In the next houge were two, engaged in the same way; one old, the other — repeating words nearly identical, “I bad a I ome and now I baye none; | had a husband and now am a widow; | bad a son and now [ have none; I had five children and now I bave one,” while rocking them- selves tu and fro, beating their heads and wringing their hands, Theséwere women who had escaped trom the massacre, and fwd only just returned tor the first time, baving taken advantage of our visit, or that of Mr. Baring, to do so. They migpt have re- turned long ayo, but their terror was so great that they had pot dared without the presence and protection of a foreigner, and now they would go on for hours ta this way “‘keening” this kind of funeral dirge over their ruined homes. This was the explanation of the curious sound we had heard when up the hill. As we advanced there were ture and more; some sitting on the heaps Ofstones that covered the flours of their houses; others walking up and down before their doors, wringing tueir hands and repeating the same despair ing wail. GRIKF TOO DEEP FOR TEARS. There were icw tears in this universal mourn- ing. It was ary, hard and despairing. The foun- tain of tears had been dried up weeks betore, but the tide of sorrow and misery was as great as ever and had to find vent without their aid, As we proceeded most of them fell into line be- hind us, and they tnally formed a procession of 400 or 500 people, mostly women and childreu, who jollowed us about wherever we went with theif mournful cries, Such a sound as their united voices sent up to. heaven 1 hope never to hear again, 1t may be well, before going further, to say some- thing about Batak, so that tho reader may form a better idea of what took place here. It was a place of 900 houses and about 6,000 or 9,000 inbabitanis. As there are no census Statistics, nor, indeed, trust- worthy statistics of any other kind in Turkey, it is impossible to tel! exactly what the population of any place is or was. But the ordinary rale of calcu- Jating five persoug to the house will, not hold good in Bulgaria. ‘The Bulgarians, like the Russian peasantry, | aduere to the old patriarchal method, and fath and married gous, with their children and children’s chil- dren, live under the same roof until the grandfather dies. Aseach son in nis turn geis married, a new room is added to the ald building, uaul with the new generation there will Oiten be twenty or thirty people living under the same roof, ali paying obedience and respect io the head of the family, In estimating the population, therofore, by the number of houses, somewhere between eight and ten souls ‘must be counted us the average. Edip Efendi, in bie report, staies that there were only about 1,400 inhabitants in the village, all told. A inore impudent falsehood was never uttered, even by a ‘lurk. Mr, Schuyler bas obtained their tax list for this year, and finds that there were 1,42i abie- bodied men assessed to pay the military exemption tax. This number in any European country would in- dicate a population of about 16,000, but here 18 would not give more than {rom 8,000 to 10,060 souls, ail told, and tis is the figure at which the popalation of the place is estimated by the mbabitants, a8 well as by the people of Pestera. BULGARIAN CIVILIZATION. I think people m England and Europe generally have a very imper.ect iden of what these Bulgarians are, I have always heard them spoken of as mere savages, who were in reality not much more civilized than the American Indians; aud I confess that L myself was not far from entertain- ing the same opinion not very joug ago. 1 was aston- ished, as I believe most of my readers wiil be, to learn that there is scarcely a Buigarian village without 1s School; that these schools are, where they have not | been burned by the Turks, in a very flourishing condi. uion; tuat they aresupporied by a voluntary tax levied by the Bulgarians on themselves, not only without being forced to uo it by the government, but in spite ol all sorts of obstacles thrown in their way by the perversity ol the Turkish authorities; that the instru tion given im these schools is gratuitous, and tat ail profit alike by it, poor as well as rich; that there is Searcely 4 liuigarian child’ that capnot read and write, aud, finally, that the percentage of peoplo who can read and write 18 as Do the people who speak of the Bulgarians as savages happen to be aware of these facts? Again, I had thought that the burning of a Bulgarian Village meant the burning of afew mud buts that were in reality of litle value, | and that could be easily rebuilt. 1 was very much | | | astonished to lind that the majority of these Villages are in reality well bulit towns, wit soild stone hou. and that there are in all of them a comparatively lar | burned alive; there «nother where a dozen girls had number of peopie who have attained to something like comfort, and that some of the villages might siand a not very unfavorable comparison with an | English or French village, = The trath is | that these Bulgarians, insiead of the | savages we have taken them for, are, in reality, a hardworking, industrious, houest, Civilized aad peace tul people. Now, a8 regards tbe insurrection, there was @ Weak attempt at un insurrection iu three or tour villages, but none whatever in Batak, and it does not | appear that a singie Turk was killed here. | TURKISH TREACHERY. | The Turkish authorities do pot even pretend that | there was auy Turk killed bere, or that the mhapitants offered any resistance whatever, When Achmet-Agha, | who cominanded che massacre, came with the Bashi. Bazouks and demanded the surrender of their arms, they at tirst re(used, but offered toYdeliver them to (he rext- lur troops or to the Kaimakan at Tatar Bagardjik, This, however, Achmet-Agha refused to allow, and insisted | upon their arms being delivered to him and his Basti- Bazouks. Alter considerable hesitation and parieying | this was done. It must not be supposed that these | were arms that the inhabitants bad especially prepared | for an Insurrection. They were simply the arms that | everybody, Christians and Turks alike, carried and wore openly, as is the custom here, What followed the delivery of the arms will best be anderstooa by the continuation of the recital of what we saw yestord At the point where we descended into cho principal street of the place the people, who had gathered around us, ported to a heap of ashes by the roadside, among | which could be distinguished a great number of cal- | cined bones. Here a heap of dead bodies bad been | burned, and it would seem that the Turks had been | making some {utile and misdirected attempts at cre- mation. | A litte further on we came to an object that filled us with pity and horror. Lt was the skeleton of a young girl not more than fifteen, lying by tne roadside and partiy covered with the débris of a falien wail. It was Still clothed in a chemise; the ankies were enclosed in footless stockings; but the little feet, trom which the shoes bad been taken, were naked, and owing to ihe fact Uhat the flesh had dried instead of decomposing, were nearly periect. There Was @ large gash ia the skull, to which a mass of rich brown hair nearly a yard jong still clung, trailing in the dust, Tt is to be remarked that ail the sk ns of women found here were cressed in a chemise only, and this poor child had evidently been stripped to her chemise, partly in the seareu tor money and jewels, parily out of mere brutality, then utraged, wod afterward Killed We have talked with many women who bad passed through all parts of t ordeal but the last, and the procedure seems to have been as follows:—Tuey would seize a woman, strip hor carefully to her chemise, laying aside articies of cloth. ing that were valuable, with any ornaments and jewels Then as many ot them as cared would violate her, and the last man would kill her OF Not as the hamor took hin, At the next house a mad stopped us to show whore a blind littie brother had been burnt alive, and the spot where he bad found his calcined bone tho rough, hard-visaged man sat down and sobbed hike a child. The foolish fellow did not scem to understand that the poor blind boy was better off now, and that he ought reaily to have thanked the Turks insvead of crying about it, REMAINS OF KUTCHERRD CHILOREN, Un the othor side of the way were tie skeletons of two children lying side by side, partly covered with stones, and with frightful sabre cuts in their little skull The number of children killed in these massa- | many in yours ?”” cros is something enormous. They were often apitied on bayonets, and we have several stories from eye-wit- bosses Who Baw little babes curried about the sireets, both bere and at Oljuk-kui, on the poimt of bayonets. The reason ia simple, W,.ben a Mobammedan bas killed @ certain number of infidels he is sure of Paradise, no matter what his sims may be, Mahomet pro- bably intended (hat only armed men should count, but the ordinary Mussulman takes the precept in its broader acceptation aud counts women and children as well, The advantage of killimg chiliren | that it can be done without danger and that a child counts for as much as an armed man. Here in Batak the bashi- bazouks, in order to swell the count, mpped open pre; Bant Women and kilied the unborn infants, As we ap proached ibe middle of the Lowa, bones, skeletons and skulls became mere numerous. There was not a house beneath the ruins of which we did not perceive buman remains and the street beside was strewn with them. Beiore many of the doorwa: women were walking up and down wajling their tuneral chant, Ove of them caught me by the arm and led me inside of the walls, aud there, in one corner, half covered with stones and mortar, were the retains of another young girl, with her iovg uair flowing wildly about among toe stones and dust, And the mother fairly shrieked with agovy aud beat tier head madiy agai . Tecoud oply juga round and walk out sick Wing ber alone with her skel.ton. A few steps lurther ob Sala WyiN4n on a doorstep, rocking hetrel{ to and iro, rey utiering moaus heartreudin, beyond avything | could bave imagined, Her hew was burned in her hemds, while ter tngers were unconsciously twisting abd tearing her hur as waged Ambo Ler iep, where iay three inue with the hair stiil clinging to them, iow did mother come tobe saved, while the children were vhe aughtored ? Boagpons; Perbaps she Was away ‘om te Village Wheu the massacre occorred. haps she bad @seaped wiih a bave rn her arms, leaving these to be saved by the father; or perbaps, most feartal, most pitiiul thing of all, se had Leen so terror sinichem that she had abandoned the three poor uutle ‘ones to their fate and saved ber own Mite by flight, If this’ be so, BO wonder sue is tearing ber hair in that terribly unconscious way as she gazes at the three little beacs iymy tn ber MIDEOUS SIGATS And now we begin (o approach the church and the senovihouse. Tue ground is covered here with skelevous, tw which are clinging articles ot clothing and Bits of putrid flesh; the air is heavy bw iaint, swgkening odor, that grows stronger as 8 beginuing to be horrible, The school ig on one sid# Of the road, the clrureh on tuo other. The schovihouse, to judge by the walls thas are in part Standing, was a fine, large buildiug, capable of accom. Movating 200 orB0 ciniiren. Beneath the stones and rubbish buat cover the tioor to the beight of several feet are the bones and ashes of 200 women and chil- dren burned shive Vesween these four wails Just be- Side the schogihouse is a broad, sbaliow pit. Here Were buried 100 bodies two weeks alter the massacre. But. the do, in par, The ‘water flowe lies there a bornd cesspeei,, with buman remains floating about or lying balf exposed in the mud. Near by, on the banke of the little stream that runs through Lhe village, 18 a sawmill, The wheel pit be- uentn is full of dead bodies floating in the water, The banks of vhis'stream were at one Lime literaliy covered Wh corpses of men and women, young’ girls aud children, that jay there festering ‘in the sun, and eaten by dogs. But the pitiful sky raned down a tor- rept upon them, and the little stream swelled aud rose up and carriea the bodies away, and strewed them far down ils grasey banks, through its narrow gorges and uark defies beneath the thick underbrush and tbe shady Woods agtar as Pestera, and evon Tatar Bazard- Jik, lorty miles distant, We entered the churchyard, but the odor here became so bad tuat it’ was wimost impossible to proceed. We tke a hand{ul of tobacco and hoid it to our noses while we continue our investigations. Tbe church was not a very large one, and it was currounded by a jow stone wall, enclosing a small churenynrd about fitty yaras wide by seventy- tive long. Ai first we perceive nothing in particular, und the stench is 80 great Wuat we scarcely care to look avout us, but we see that the piace is heaped up with sieves and rubbish to thé heigut of five or six foet above the level of the street, and upon inspection we discover that what appeared Lo be a mass of stones and rubbish is in reality an immense heap ot human boules covered over with a thin layer of stones, uncovered them tu, und now it ‘Ihe whole of the little churchyard 1s heaped up with them to the depth of three or four feet, and it i8 irom hero that the fearful odor comes, Some weeks after the massa- ere, orders were sent to bury the dead. But the stench at that ume hud become so deudly that it was itnpossi- ble to execute the order, or even to remain in the ueighborhood of the village, The men sent to perform the work contented themselves with burying a lew bod- tes, throwing a little earth over others as they lay, and here in the churchyard they had tried to cover this im- mense heap of lesiering humanity by throwing in Stones and rabbish over the walls, without daring to enier. They had only partiaily succeeded. The dogs had been at work there since, and now could be seen project from this monster grave, heads, arms, legs, feet, and hands, tm hornd confu- sion,’ We | were’ told there’ were 3,000 people lying hero in this littie churebyard alone, and we could well believe it. It was a tearful sight—a sight to haunvone through life. Thero were littie curly heads there in that festering mass, crushed down by heavy stones; little feet not as long as your finger, on which the flesh was dried hard by the ardent beat belore it had ume to decompose; littie baby hands, stretched out as if for help; babes that had died wondering at the bright gieam ‘of sabres and the red bands of the flerce-eyed men who wivlded them; chiidren who bad died shrivking with fright and terror; young girls who had died weeping and sobbing and begging for mercy; mothers who died trying to shield their lite ‘oues with their oWn weak bodies, all lving tuero together, festering in one horrid mass, They are silent enough how, There are no tears nor cries, no weep- ing, bo shrieks of terror, nor prayers ior mercy. TS ROTTING IN THE FIELDS, rotting im the ficlds und the reapers are rotting here inthe churchyard, We looked into the church wich had been blackened by the burning ot the woodwork, but not destroyed, nor even mach in- ured, Jt was’ a low building, with alow root, sup- ported by heavy, irregular arches, that as we looked iu seemed scarcely high enough fora tall man to stand under, What wé saw there was too Irightiul for more than a hasty glance. An immense number of bodies bad been partly burnt there, and the charred and blackened remains that seemed to fill it half way up to the low, dark arches and make them lower and darker still, were lying ina ate of putrolactien too {rightiul to ook upon. I had never imagined aoything so horrible, We all turned away sick and (aint and staggered out of the tearful pest house glad to get into the street again. We waiked ubout the piace and saw the same things repeated over and over a hundred times. Skeletung of men with the clotting and fiesh still hanging and rotting together; skulls of women, with the. bair dragging in the dust, bones of children and of infants everywhere. Here they show us a house where twenty people wer taken refuge’and been slaughtered to the last one us their bones amply tesufled. Kverywhere horrors upon horrors. ‘There were no dogs in the place, as they had all been driven away when the inhabitants began to return, and only bung around the outskirts of the village; but I saw one oF Iwo cuts, fai aud sleek, that sat compl: cently upon the wa is and watehed us with sleepy eyes. It nay be asked why the people who are in the village now do not bury these skeletons and these bones, in- stead of allowing them to be gnawed by the dogs and cats, Some of those who have been able to idenuly the bones of friends have made weak attempts at burying tnem, But they bave no spades to dig graves with, and they are weak and starving. Besides, many of the ‘survivors aro women, w have made iruitiess eforts to keep’ the bodies of loved oncs covered with a little earth, We had ample proof hat wherever bones could be identiied they were tenderly cared for, We saw many well-kept graves decorated with flowers, We saw others thas had been uncovered by the rain or the dogs, leaving parts cf ihe skeleton exposed, that were stili decorated with flowers We even saw skulls tying on the ground, within a doorway or a garden wail, with a bouquet of flowers lying Upon them, as though some one was caring for chem, aud Was Fet loath two bury them away ouvol sight. 1 ward, and its bollow yes guzing reproach/ully up at the | sunny sky, with a bouquet caretuily pl ced im its mouth; but most of these skeletons and bones bave nobouy to look alter the Of the 8,000 of 9,000 people who made up the population of the place there are only 1,200 or 1,500 left, and they have neither | tools to dig graves with nor strength to use spades if they had them, TCRKIBM MADNESS AND BLIND POLLY, t why huve the Turkish authorities not buried them out of sight? ‘The Turkish authorities wil tell you they have buried them, and that there were very lew to bury. Ol sil the cruel, brutal, tero cious things the Turks ever did, the massacre of Baiak is among (he worst. Ofali the mad, foolish things they ever did, leaving these bodies 19 le here rotting for three months unburied is provably the muddest and most foolish. But tis village was in’ an isoited, out of the Way place, dificult of access, and they never thought Muropeans would go poking their noses here, £0 they eymicaily said, “These Christians are not even worth burial; let the dogs eat them,’ We tulked to many of the people, but we bad not tho heart to listen to many of their stories in detail, and we restricted ourselves to simply asking them the number lost in each family, No other method would probably give a better idea of the feartul character of {he massacre aad the way in which whole families were swept out of existence, ow many were in your fami), we would ask, eu,” the answer would be, per “How many remain?” “Two. “How “Eight.” ‘How many remain?" “How many in youre?" “Pitteen.”” “Five”? And so on in fam}. lies numbering from five to twenty, in. which oply Tematned irom one to. five por. sons. One old woman came to us, wringing her hands, and crying in that hard, teariess nanner of whic I have already spoken, and when we couid get her sufficientiy calmed to tell’ us her story she said she bad three tall handsome sons, Ghiorghy, Ivantevu and Stoyen, and they were ali married to good and dutiful wives, Reika, Stoyanka and Anka, and they had between them twelve beautiful children, Angbe! and Iragan and Ghiorghy, and lvantehu, Letko Assen, Boydan, Stoyun, Tonka, Gingka, Marika and cika, so that the family counted ail told nineteen persons living Uador the same roof, Of all this large, flourishing family the tall, handsome sons, the dutital wives and the tweive beautiful children, there remained Three.” “How many remain?” only this poor old grandmother. They wore all brutally slaughtered tw the last one, Of this flourishiog family tree there remained oniy this —_iitele: withered = trunk, = and the poor old woman sat down and beat her head against the ground, and fairly screamed out her despair, Thero was ob old man who told us of Mis unele, Biagor Chris. tostoff, a venerable patriarch of the grand old type, He had five sons married, who had among them twen- ty-seven children, thas making a farnily that with the Wives counted upasum total of thirty-nino persons living ander the same root, Of this enormous family there are only eight left. TURKS, NOT CIRCASSIANS, THR BUTCHERS, We might havo gone on for hoors listening to these stories had wo but tine, There was another family of twenty-five, of whom seven were lett; oue of twenty, cone lait buried, with the tace up- | | eral boat loads of defenceless women and children; but | terve. of whom eight were left; numbers of them of ten to lifteen, of whom one wo five were left; and wo ‘heard beside of many families that | had been completely annililiated, mot one remaining. The peoplo who committed tis | Wholesale slaughter were not Circassians, aS has been supposed, but the Turks of the neighboring villages, led vy the Acnmed Agha already spoken of, The vil- lage of Batak was comparatively rich and prosperous; it had excited the eavy and jealousy of its Turkish | neighbors, and the opportuaities of plunder offered a temptation to the Turks which, combined with their religious {anaticism and the pretext of an insurrection in another part of the country, was more than they could resist. The man Achmed Agha, who commanded the slaughter, bas not been punished, avd wril vot be; but, on the contrary, nw been promoted two te rank of Yua-bashi and decorated, We were told that any number of children and young girls had off; that it was known in | What ‘Turkish villages they were kept, and that the | Turks simply rejused to restore them Lo their parents, Mr. Schuylor afterwards obtained a list, with the names and ages of eighty-seven girls and boys that had been carried off, with the name of the village in which each was kept DEPLORABLE CONDITION OF THE SURVIVORS. As to the present condition of the people who are here, it is simpiyfeartul to think of, The Turkish | authorities have bull a few wooden sheds in the out- skirts of the village in which .they sleep, but they have nothing to hve upon but what they ean beg or borrow from their neighbors. And in addi- | tion to this the Turkisn authorities, — with | that cool cynicism and utter disregard — of European demanas for which they are so distin guished, have ordered these people to pay their regular es and War contributions just as though nothing bad bappeved. Ask the Porte avout this at Constantinople, and it will be denied, with the most plausible pro tions and the most reussuring promises that e thing wil! be done to help the *suferers. But e: where the peopie of the burned villages come to Mr. | Schuyler with the same story—that unless they pay | their taxes and war contributions they are th | with expulsion from the nooks and corners of tl crumbling walls where they have found a temporary | Shelter, it is simply impossible for them to pay, and | whatewill be the result of these demands it is not easy | to foretell. But the government needs money badly, and must have it. Each village must make up its or dinary quota of taxes and the living must pay for the dei Woe asked about the skulls and bones we bad seen up on the bill upon first arriving in the village where tue dogs bad barked at us, These we were told were the | bonesoi about 200 young girls, who had first been cap- | tured and particularly reserved fora worso tate than | | qvath, hey had been kept till the last; they had been tn the huncs of their captors for several days—tor the | Durning aud the pillaging baa not ail been accomplished | in a-singie day—and during this time they bad suftered alte was possible that poor, weak, tremb ing giris could r oat the hands of brutal savoges. when the town had been pillaged and burned, when all their friends had been slaughtered, these poor young things, whose very wrongs shoud bave imsured them saleiy, whose very outrages should have iwsured them protection, were taken, in the broad hght of day, beneath the smiling canopy of heaven, coolly beheaded, then thrown in a heap there and lett to rot Mr. Disraeli was right when he witt!ly remarked that the Turks usually terminated their connection with people who feli into their hands in a more expeditious manner than by imprisoning them. And 80 they do. Mr. Disraeli was right. At the tine be made that very witty remark these young girls had been lying there many days. THE PROFOUND IMPRESSION CREATED IN LON- DON BY THE MASSACRES. Lonpon, August 23, 1876, As was predicted in a letter which has hardly reached your side of the Atlantic, the words which have risen into a tocsin allover England to-day are, “The Turkish horrors in Bulgaria!” Tho sneers of tho English Premier have hardly died out cf the air at tho Moment that even the most doubtful rumors find veri- fication a hundred fold. Aconvictioh of tho truth in regard to these dreadful affairs has been forced upon the English people by J. A. MacGaban, who “rode to Khiva’? for the Heraxb, and Eugene Schuyler, United States Secretary of Legation at Constantinople. Theso two gentlomen have made a journey through tho en- tire length and breadth of Bulgaria. ‘Tue horrors they have witnessed dety tne pen even of MacGahan to do them fall justice. Kngland has beon thoroughly aroused by the dread{ul tale his letters tell. AMERICA MAKES THE FIRST MOVE. Itiwamatter for sincero congratulation that the American Embassy at Constantivopie should hayo taken the initiative in a careful investigation of these outrages upon the boasted civilization of the nineteenth century. The English press heap censure upon tho head of Mr. Baring for his venal indifterence to this subject. some of the journals openly assert that Mr. Disraeli did not seek refuge in the House of Lords one moment too soon, and that, bold aud couzageous as he ts, ho never couid stand before the Commons again after his last speech mm defence of the Turks and his lamentable blunder m sending the British fleot to ‘Bowka Bay. NGLISH JOURNALISTIC ENTERPHISR, The Daily News deserves great credit tor the ener. getic and persistent way in which it has fought out its defence of tho rights of poor Bulgarian peasants and Jarmers, Had those poverty-stricken slaves to Turkish injustice deserved no kindtier attention trom the British press than they or Livingston got from the Briush Pariiament the sins tor which the Bulgarians suifer would have remained unatoned for and unavenged. It is always a pleasure to commend the enterprise of our English contemporaries, and adouble measuro is due when it has for its object a fair statement of the | wrongs under which thousands of tho subjects of Tur- key now suffer. A NEW MBASURE OF HORRORS, Cawnpore has become a synonym for all that is cruel but the deeds at Cawnpore were the work of a subject race in rebellion against their foreign rulers, and even the detatis of that massacre cannot bear comparison with the bestial ferocity of Achmed Agha and his butebers, whose patneless crimes cannot be hinted at in this place. Nuna Sahib, who for years was hunved as a wild beast through the jungles of India, was re- sponsible for a base act of treachery im firing upon sey- | his nands were elean compared with Achmed Agha, who, his garments still reeking from the shambles at | gnu ito Then, | ii | | F Bay, and it 18 the presence of this fleet which has | this distinction between Italy and the re made the Turks bold to perpetrate ali these astounding | giomé subject to th Ottoman — sabre? Was horrors, With shame we tod Briush statesmen st)il outending that it is necessary to maintain the rule of the monsters who bad done these horrible deeds in order that English interests in [udia may not suffer. Have we, then, forgotten the marsacres of Meerut and Delii1, have we forgotten the well at Cawnpore that we are willing to hold diplomatic intercourse with, und to zive moral and material support to, the people who have converted Bulgaria into a hell’ What should we have said if Russian #tatesmen in 1857 hud openly sided with Nana Saib, und bad stationed a leet off the uth of the Hoogly in order that the Sepoy rebels might have the woral support of the great Northern Empire? The Manchester Examiner says:— Ali that a man can do, as he reads the ghastly record, isto make his vow that never by his will shall (he government of England raise band again to help the State which shelters und rewards with bight honors and emoluments the savages who did these feudish deeds. ENGLAND CHARGED WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATROCITIES. Loxvox, August 24, 1876. The Daily News of to-day prints a letter from a gentleman whom it characterizes as ‘an eminent trav- eller, who knows the Kast better than any other person living”? The name of the writer thus referred to bas been ascertained, and it is only just to say that his Teasons for withholding bis name from publication are ciesrly accounted for, What imight appear an incon sistency iM attacking a ground which, before personal examination, be bad held, does not need to be explained, It Is only agreater guarantee of the grave causes which Lave produced such @ change iu his mind stated further on this point that three prominent members of Parlement are now in Bulgaria collecting material for an attack upon the conservative camp It may be | that will give great troubie to explain away or sueer | down. Tho Daily News’ letter is as follows:— THAT UNIAPPY ORDER. I do not not go so far as the press of Europe gener- ally aud that of Russia universaily does, as to assert tat tue Unhappy order for our tlvet to rendezvous in ‘aa Bay has caused Whe Whole of the terrible utro- ties which have lately shocked ube civilized world, but the measure so eurelessly and ignorantly taken doubliess sed a vast amount of innocent blood, and M. Jobn Lemoinne ty again right. ture the Turkish populace, aud not only the populace but also the officiais, and especially the officers of the army and navy, would say, ‘ek dv! (all right); the English intidels have sent their ships; they will /pro- tect Us, right or wrong, aga nst the Muskov and the Nimsa (Austrian), and We cau now deal with our own enemies as they Wish us to do. Our Giiours aro Cath- biies and ¢ 8, hostile to the will burn their fathers and delile their mothers without danger of getting into trouble,” And upon this priu- ciple they acted, heartily despising us ihe while, CAUSED BY, IGNOKANCK. Offical ignorance caused the disaster. It was tho sume in Syria during the massacres of 1860, a horror directly brought about by the late spirituel Fuad Pacha, who, bowever, invended nothing more than a mere tumult, Our good alites and protéges, the Druzes, at once began lo ravish and piunder, ravish and mur: der every Greek, Maronite and Armenian who tell into their hands, with the firm conviction that they were doing what was most pleasing to the ‘Brotestant? country. ‘The horror and repugnance with which we heard ‘their barbarities were looked upon as mere shams; such tevlivgs do not belong, aud are couse. quenuy unintelligible, to them; and T am convinced that whenever otuer atrocities of tue kind are comuit- ted in Syma the Druzes will, in their irienaehip for play exactiy the same part. Evidently the ish government, when it made the futal move of sending 1s fleet to support Turkey, neglected the first precaution, that of warning our discreaiiabic allies, the Turks, against their normal course of hur rors.’ Probably ‘the beads of departments never ex- pected these horrors, and the sysiwmatic snubbing of all 18 employés who dare to tell the truth when it is hot wanted prevented their learning what Wos to be expected—"Cawnpore multiplied twenty Limes over’? Evidently “this Turk, this tuing that governs 80 many miilions ot Christians,” saw what would be the plan of the Servian and Montenegrin liberating armies, whose ly chance lay in a general rising of non-Moslem abs, and determined to prevent it by the heilish crimes which poor Sir Henry Elliot and his clique pro- nounce to be “considerably exaggerated. ” PLAYING INTO RUSSIA 8 HANDS. The indignation moetings in England, which will probably ussume greater proportions during the recess. must be very saustactory te Russia, Tue great Siav empire will judge the feeling to be strong, When a man in Lord Shaltesbury’s position preiers to see the Mus- covite op the banks ol the Bosphorus rather than a continuation of Olloman misruie, In fact, our govern- ment could not have played more completely into the hands of Russia than by deiending, or at any rate pai- haung, the abominabie crimes committed and still coutiuaed by its protézé, Russia thus stands proudly forth asthe defender, England as the offender of ine taith; the former wius the friendship and sympathy, | the lalier the bitterest enmity and distrust of Christen- dom throughout the East; and in thus playing le beau role Russia need do noting, absoulutely nothing be- yond allowing Engiish blunders to play idto her hands, | The voice of ths e:vilized world has already devermined that the main, if not the only diMeculty of the situa. tion, is the antogonism between England and Russia, neither of which has yet secured ibe complete and whole-hearied sympathy of Ewrope, But the mighty intstuke of apologising ior murder and torture will se- cure for ovr authorities what they amply deserve, the antipathy of the right thinking, while the attempts to h delude the public vy local inquiry, neglecting men like | Mr. Wrench whose tried and noted honesty would have silenced ull objections, can only win contempt in mutters of this kind, also, pity for the sufferers is sure to spread, and to become intensitied, especiaily in the case of those who have no Indi to tremble for, THE MOSLEMS OF INDIA THREATENING ENGLAND. Thave littic doubt of what will be the effect of our last moves 1m the case of the Mohammedans of India. However much they may enjoy the maltreatment of the Kafir under our consent, of rather by our instru- mentality, they will look with the greatest aversion and contempt upon the Christians who are base, cowardly and untrue enough to jusuty the oppression or their coreligionists. 11 our governitent bas practised a cunning strategy to please tbe Indian Mosiem by sup- porting tbe Turks in the mnurder and torture of our jellow Christians it bas notably deceived itself. So far from strenghtening British rule, it will, a8 far as Mo- bamiedans are concerned, do its utmost to weaken our position, Whatever our government protesses to do from policy they willset down ax done from fear; and [am quite sure im so doing they will not be wholly wrong, The late Overiand Zimes will show you that the Mosiems of India are actually threateniug us uniess we support the wretched “Commander of the ul,” and we have yet to learn that the gditors of Batak, returns to Constantinople to “conter with” the | British Ambassador. He is a peace commissioner, alter Mr. Disraecli’s own heart, and i is to be hoped that he will find time, in the midst of that leisare which is vouchsaled to all noble barnacies, to read the peroration of Mr. MacGahan's letter, “Mr. Disraeli was right when be wiitily re. nection with pecple wno jell sxito their bands in a more expeditious manner than by imprisoning them, aud so they do, Mr, Disrael was right. mado that very witty remark these young girls had been lying dead many days.’? The impression created here is, as I have said, pro- found and deep, THE YRESS AK S In order to indicate only partially the feeling among the Englisa press in regard to the Bulgarian outrages I subjoin a few brief extracts from lengthy leaders in cach of the following journals :— The Leeds Mercury says At fs said that only some 1,200 of tho 9,000 inhabi- tants bave survived. Ot ‘hese large num! and girls, who have been carried off to Turkish villages for the woret of purposes. Mr. Schuyler, the Amei can Commissioner—why not Mr. Baring?-—-got the hates aud tho whereabouts of tany of these, and we | e more will b> heard of them. It would be an im- se rehef tothe Enalisn cousclence at the present ont if We could soe our somewhat frigid Foreign Secretary quickened by a spirit that onco shook other uespots than the Turk, The Manchester Guardian say#:— These descriptions will be read with and profousd indignation. There is no room on for Lord Beaconsfeld to insinuate that the counts are exaggerated, No description a At tho time he | | rents of blood, | us that “Mussulmaniar zalim deildir’’—the Mosiems | to save Turkey and to rum our position in the marked that the Turks usually terminated their con- | 444 "ben we | consuls who did their duty. horror | (1878) tr | could | Simp do justice to the burbarities of who have been Jet loose on the Christians, The details are horribig and repuisive, but | it is incumbent upon Evylishmen to read them in order that they may rigutly unde tue matier. What tie consequence wilt when tho ! Russian army and people become fully acquainied with | the hideous facts we need not at present specuiate upon. The Liverpool Post say: It wiil be atri indeed, if such revelations should not wet @ deep eal, Stamped solemniy with the sign of the cross, to the Wualterable resolution of the English people ne to protect Moslem butchers under any pretext, and it may well be impossible for any man not an English Minister of State to write coolly of such “quaint jmeidents” as ruined villages literally moaning with sorrow that will not be comforted and strewn with half-naked skeletons of behesded women and girls, victims first to the Mussuiman’s earthly just and afterward to his greed of Paradise. My Lord Bea. consfeld will please understand that these things are doserived, not by nameless nobodies, bat by gentlemen weil known to many members of the House jn whieh ho lately cracked jokes about the tative peculiarities of Eastefn wartare—gentiemen who have not gone singly, but in couples, the correspondent who has seen most having been accompanied by Mr, Sehuysor, the American Consul Genorai—gentiemen who have to come back to Londoa and ere, and incet al! and sundry who may choose to challenge their testimony— gentlemen, moreover, who, not being cbarvered itber- tines of Senatoria: wit of oriensal hyperbole, would be banished from society if detected in antruth, The great Powers a 4 to be preparing a circular on the subject of Tar: barbarities, [tis abouttime, Tho best circular is ready to their hand. The Western Morning News suys:-- With shame wo have to the fact that very timo a British Geet sill rides at anchor 1 this Besika e articles have been brought to trial as they de- AL Constantinopie, the Jstixbud newspaper openly declares that if we do not prevent the extension of the Liverating movement “the Caliphat of Islam will ssary to transform the world into « garden ol tulips’’—the’ popular expression for shedding tur- The Bassirat again solemnly aséures are not guilty of oppression—and it proceeds to throw the whole onus of their 12,000 murders upon the mur- dered. CARRYING AN OLD MAN OF THR SKA. We aro thus, it would appear, at once doing our best dd that our government, with the curious mixture of ili-judged interference aad timid back ward- ness which have characterized it for the last two years, proposes (o talk, bot to fight, im favor of the ‘Turks, aud that the Army Mobilization scheme, of Mr, Hardy lately gave the city se flourishing has been pronounced by practical oiticert all grades to be a sham, a delusion, an utter tailor he must be a bold man who does not despair of the res publica, AN INCOMPETENT AMBASSADOR. The feeling awakenea by the ‘snow-blooded policy,” and, Worse still, by the blundering iuactivity of the British Ambassador to the Porte, will provably end in his recall, a measure Which should have been taken yearsago, Sir Henry Kiliot, the Right Honorable, has opted in its enurety the réle laid down tor him by the advanced liberal party—that is to say, he has “el. faced himself’ with as much vigor and energy as his Russian colleague did the reverse. There are many excuses for an ordinary man placed tn ext circumstances, but none for the general line of policy adepted by Sir Henry Eliot Ip his nervous anxiety to “muke things eusy,” me pas faire des afiuires, a8 Louie Philippe used to enjoin his en- voys, this successor of the “great Eltchee’’ has allowed a whole line of such “Viziers’’ as Aali Pacha and Avai Vacha to have their own way in everything. They coald direct shots to be fired at English engineers wheo surveying for the Euphrates Valley Raiiway. They could order our Secretary tor Foreign Affairs to recall his By-the-by they alterward dthe same litte game with Ausiria, which, unlike Engiand, stoutly supported its employés and manded avd received eu unconditional apology the sooner we see Lord Napier and Extric! tie fens | Constintinopic the better for the Bouor and the true miserable | jyerests of England. TUE POLICY OF NEKO, Our government seems to think that it has fully and what their duty 18 in | qtoned tor pust imbecility and provided agaist fuiure Mmossacres by appointing an Engliset officer to accom. pauy the Ottoman Geueralissimo ia hia invasion of Servia. But they apparently again forget tuat vuis 1s ony ove of the fields ta which Turkish barbariy is rampant. The crveities still committed all over Bosnia are Now exciting the stroupest feeling im Souibern bu rope. Herzegoviua a'so, like Bosmia, is being doct- mated by murderous Circussians, gypsies and Basti- Bazouks; those rich and teruile provinces are threat ened, as, indeed, 18 the whole of European Turkey, fh a deadly dearth, compared with which the Temple famine’? of Hritisn Indian was a trifling searcity; and yet we are openly told by a talkative Under Secretary of state that our efforts to end this site of things are distracting attention from moro serious questions convected with the traditional policy of the country and the engay nts with other Powers to “support the territorial integrity of Turkey !"’ This is mere fiddling whilst Rome burns, WHY THIS CONTRAST? England js empuaticaily the lana of strong opinions and of diverging opinions, yet 1 cannot see, without amazement, @ large and influential portion of your press prowouncing itself in the harshest ternts against the glorious self-sacriice of the noble Servians and Montenegrits. The same papers extended ail their) good) =wishes to Garibaldi; they trusted in Mazzini, despite bis piotting pro- pensities, and the assassinations which were the ra uit; and with one vowe they hailed. the revolt of Italy avainst che Austrian and (he realization ofCavour’s dream, the unification of the Peninsula. Yet the seme pens aro now charging the Princes Milan and Nikow with “gross ingratitude to Turkey ''—save the mark |— with a last, not for liberty, bat for “more provinces,’’ and with reckiessly provoking a conflict which must end in ve viet But why. may I ask, ao v draw nglish Giaours; so we | AU such acoujune- | Austrian ruje more grinding and bloodthirsty than that of the Turk’ Oris tt that United Lally can- ot ufleet tae destinies of Europe, whereas a united can’? I prefer attributing this line of conduct yrance retuer than to a decay of the old Batioual which was ever ready to support right ant to ce wrong; still itis'he unhappy lot of Ena- lishinen, 1p this day, often perforee to side, not with the measures of thelr own government, bus with those of its rivals and possible enemies, France, in ber toval prevecupation about la revanche, 18 retiring trom hee duties to Europe, and isadupung the sellish and selt- isolating system that bas distinguished Great Britain during the last decade, Our Lopes must now centre im the action of Russia, who, vo mavter whether the ead justifies the means, Is the last prop of outraged Chris+ tendon. ¥ ENGLAND'S OPPORTUNITY, Again, I soe that many Lome writers look hopefully forward’ to the promised constitution in which Turk, Jew and Christian are to be equal ty the eye of the jaw; toelaim the same priv s and to share the same diguitics, Of course vou do not belleve in this dream, Turkey willeontinue to persecute, and havo Turkey to sufler and be oppressed, till the capital of the barbarous horde 18 transported irom Constantino. pe to Broussa, The British Organization of the Evangesical Alliance’ was derided jast year for is iussy deputation, its report, published on return, spoke the truth, the whole truth’ and sothing but the truth, In you, therefore, and in the gallant band of new Crusaders who are dow battle for the trath, we Eoglishmen now put our trast, ‘Be Loid, be bold, and everywhere ve bold!’ Frappez toujours et frap- pe: fort” Sirike at the incarnation of ivjustice and inbitanity il vou have cowpelled it to cry Am dn!” So shall you win the applause of Europe and deserve the gratitude of prosperity. A SEA CAPTAIN’S FATE, AMERICANS IMPRISONED FOR AN INDEFINITE TIME IN GUATEMALA. Captain William Lund, lately commander of tne Guatemalan man-ol-war steamer, General Barrios, writes trom the scene of his imprisonment toa friend in tuts city as follows: — You hadachauco to learn the particulars of the wreck of (ae General Barrios You no dogbt aso heard about the state of the vessei—that she was old and rotten, Was Hot litted out> with things thot w lor a seaworthy steamer, and that the los: een Soldiers Was Oecasioned by Lhe want of boats and also of materials from which tO construct a raft, You will be surprised to learn that my case ts Sul] in slau quo We are—(uat is to say, I, the mites and engineers— still PRISONBRS WITHOUT TRIAL and without hope o: wneud to the affair atall, Tho thing is suametuiin the extreme, and | think a great IpjU-tice IB done Lo Us, aba SUL the United States Minister, Mr. Wiluamson, does not seem to do anys thing anu lets the maiter slip along without inquiria mto ivatall, The idea that 1, after tuirty-two years ol seaiaring Ile, of Which nineteen were as captain, should have to stay under blamo for neglect of duty by people who have no idea of the sea nor ot the duly of & captain. During the late war between the republics of San Salvador and Guatemala tue latter Power had occusion to use @ steamer for the purpose of transporting men and material ot war to the scone of action ‘The * government ought down in Panama au old vessel of American build, once called the Cheniqui, She was in a wretched and utterly unseaworthy condition when sho became the property of Guatemala, To navigate this old bul acrew, composed of men from several nations, wero received into service, under a definite contract, at the rate of so much 4 mouth, payable iu specie. Captain William Lund, from whose letter the above para- graphs are taken, commauded We Barrios and seems to have been paid ai tue rate of $850 a mouth. Lund is a citizen of the United States and hails from Sau Francisco; 80, too, was his chief mate, While the prins cipal engineer was a Scotchman, who appears 10h buen iuduced to ship tu tue General Barrios at the in slance ol the British Vice Cousui, Mr. Magee. This is tho same geutieman Who was fogged a coupie of years ago im the port gl San José by the Spanish coumandant there, Lund and bis Lybtid crew made Wo Ups to San Salvauor, carrying artus, men and munitions of war, Te vessel Was ying ab anchor near the landing pluce of San José, when, avout tue 24th of May, a storm arose which, in the judgment of Lund, involved the necessity of raising tue aucnor, getuing Up steam and puiting to sea lor the purpose ol avoiuing the dangers of alee shore. The storm conaued with great vio- louce tor the period of three days or more, during which Une the ili-isted steamer spruag a iewk. Every effort that could be put forth under sucu trying cireumstancea Was made, bubail to Lo purpose. ‘fhe water continued to rise rupidiy, s00n the fires in the jurmaces were ex- tinguished, there Was no means of making sail and the Ship had 10 be abandoned to tbe fury of the tempest, ‘There was a detachment of iourteen aruilleryiuen on board commanded by an Ltalian subuliern, ‘These nen had workea bravely at everything they were put ww; and when It became apparent that tye ship must ba abaudoned it also became horribly eviuent that the three Hiboais with which the Barnos was ture nished could not hold all of the upward of forty per- sons on bowrd, Captain Lund says (hat he never gave any order to take Lo the boats, yet on ihe morning of the 25th some employés of the government did got into oue, aud the secund maie, a Chilian, belped 1b lower it from the davits. Tue mate and engiaeer, with some passengers, got into another of the boats, which Was successiuily taunebed; and about the same time Captain Lund took possession of the remaining one. Allthis time the enlisted men of the aruilery force were not heurd of; nobouy kuew what vecame of them; no One Was aware of Low they were occupied in that supreme momeut fur them, when ‘be threo boats shoved off from the ship's side and headed for the shore, Yet the officer who commanded these uptor- tunate soldiers wos sale on board one of tae boats, while bis Unconscious commana remained in ignorance, itis thought, of the horrid jate waich awaited them, The boats and tueir crews landed without accident at in José, but the oid ship, With her cargo of fourteen imiwortal souls, was heard ot nevermore. When the news of the loss ot the General Barrios reached the capital of Guatemala, the effect whicn it produced was one of deep seated sorrow for the loss of tho unfortunate soldiers. Captain Laud rendered his report, and Minister of War Senor Samayoa sent tor him 1 order to get further explinations ot how so horribie a disaster couid have happened. Some of the passengers—governinent oiliciais—who were on th sieumer imputed a great deul of blame to Captain Lund, saying that he had been very REMISS IN 118 DOTIE: that he took no proper precautions in time te fave the ip, aod that the Bul who were abandoned to their hopeless fate might have been taken into the boats had the Captain and his ollicers properiy discharged Ubeir duties. 16 was alsu surmised that the suspicions of the troups had been disarined by the crew telling thom trat here was bo danger, tue ship would wut be abandoned and they might go and sh It is waid that did retire to Tost and while asieop their guns were taken from them by some unknown persons and thrown overboard, Upon these statements and rumors the Minister of War ordered a court of inquiry to investigate the whole affair, during the pendency of which Captain Lund, the cluef and secoud mates, chief engineer and the officer wuo cpmmanded the irocps were reduced ta prison, The investigation lasted some three weeks, wt the end of which the mates and eng neers wero discharged from. custody, paid ap tue arrearages of their salaries and allowed to depart tree men Lo the port of Sao José, where they expected S009 to find a vexsel. Captain Lund, bowever, was not completely exonerated, and be remaiued a prisonet under bonds. A few days after the ex-officere of the Barrios had gone (0 ~an José, and before they had tine to embark, the Minister of War again reculied them to Guatemals and they Were @ second time put ander restraint. It does not appear upon what new testimony in the case the goveroment retes, but the matter has now been ging along since the latter end of May, and Capiaia ¥ and his vilicers, one of whom, im addition to bi self (us has been saia) is an American citizen, are suf. fering the penalty of « long imprisonment before con- viction, ‘ CLERICAL CHANGES IN JERSEY. Rey. Patrick Corrigan, pastor of St Mary's, Jersey City, delivered his farewell address to the congrega- tion yesterday, Only afew months ago he took charge of the pari as successor to Father Senez, who wag ur erred at his own request to Hoboken. During his brief pastorate he accomplished vast amount 0 good, not oniy in the fleld of spiritual labor, but espe. cially in the schools, to whieh he devoted a large portion of his time, His latest act of beuevolence te ‘be children was the purchase of a plot in the rear of the school as a playground. At the very time that he had won the aifection of his flock he Jearned that Father Senez had sent his resignation to Bishop Corrigan, and was about to return to his native Iand, but would remain on condition that he re ceived bis old parish, Father Corrigan thereupon sur- rendered his parish to him, and now goes to Hoboken to take charge of St Mary's parish and complete the ction of tae new church there. During bis pastor. ate in St, Mary's the moss successful mission evo Known in the city was held. Rev. Father Kilie pastor of St, John’s church, Newark, bos been transterred, at his own request, to Bergen Point, made vacant by the death of Fathor Dalton. Rev, Augustin Eberhardt, of the Redemptor! Order, 1n Third street, New York, has been appoint pastor in Westfield, BURGLARY IN JERSEY CITY. A dating burglary was committed yesterday in @ carpenter shop, corner of York and Varick streets, Jersey city. The thief was coolly marching of with a heavy load of tools whan he was overbaulea by Officer Eaton and Connoliy and twken to the Fiest premet station, He gave bis name as Charles Mahon, TIRED OF LIFE. Annie White, aged eighteen, called at the Seventh precinct station house at an early hour yortorday morning and stated that sha bad taken Paris green for. the purpose of ending her life. She told a story of nm. piness and desiituuon and stated that sno tet ber home nor triends. The poles sent her to Bellevue Hospital, where she i@in a fair way ol speedy recovery.