The New York Herald Newspaper, September 7, 1876, Page 5

. her set at liberty as soon as possible, NEW YORK HEKALD, THURSDAY, THE BULGARIAN HORRORS. Turkish Methods of Stamping Out Rebellion . —— BARBARITY. INHUMAN The Men TJutehered and the Women Ruthles ly Outraged. Regulars, Irregulars ard Officers Alike To Biame. —_——_-+—_—_— THE CHARGE OF EXAGGERATION. A Scathing Rebuke to the British Minister. THE TURKISH EMPIRE DOOMED. [From the special correspondent of the Daily News.] Pururroro.is, August 10, 1876. I bad not been here a day when I heard of a perzon- age whom the Turks jecringly spoke of as the “Queen of the Bulgarians,” This Queen, it appeared, was in prison and was, I was given to understand, a very con- temptible sort of person, indeed. I leurned that she had headed the insurrection, had been crowned Queen, bad promenaded the streets of her native village on horseback, bearing a fing lke another Jeanne @Are, besides ccmmitting a variety of other follies which seemed to form the subject of much merriment among tho Turks here. Naturally I con- ceived a great desire to make the acquaintance of this fallen Queen, and sce what sort of person it was who aspired to be the leader of a new Sciavonic Empire, I bad no difficulty tm accomplishing this, as Mr. Schuyler had no sooner heard of her than he demanded and oitaiued © permission to see hor, and kindly allowed me to accom, pany him, Sho was confined im the house ofan Imam or priest, with another Bulgarian woman from the same village, and these were the only two women we found in prison upon our arrival here, We were conducted to the Imam’s house by Dr. Viados, a Greek physician, who has been charged with the task of looking after the health of the prisoners. THE “QUEEN OF THE BULGARIANS.”” After a long walk through the crooked, narrow, stony streets we brought up before a low, rickety building, partly of wood, partly of rough unhewn stones, aud found ourselves beforo a pair of low, double wooden doors, opening outward into the street, The doctor knocked, and after a prolonged colloquy with a voice in- side, the door was opened about half an inch, and we caught sight of a barsh looking, partly vetled female face, that seemed to be regarding us with some suspicion, Apparently, this preliminary survey was catisfactory, for the door was thrown open a little wider, and a slight giglish figure atepped forward and stood in the doorway, fol- lowed by an elderly matron, tall and stalworth almost aga man, who stood behind and gazed at us over the girl’s head with tearful eyes, I was at first Inclined to think it was the tall woman who must be the Queen, as she more nearly filled my ideas of what an amazon sbould be, and I was surprised to learn that it was not sho but the young girl who had been play- ing at “kings and queens” with such disasirous effect to herself. A slight, graceful form, only too plainly seen through her scanty, miserable clothing, large hazel eyes, an oval face, slightly browned by the aun, straight nose, and a veritable little rosebud of a mouth. She was thin and weak, and seemed scarcely able to stand, and the young girlish tace wore a de- jected, broken-hearted look that was sad to seo, A handkerchief was thrown over her head, and she wore a coarse brown linsey-woolsey «jacket and asbort petticoat of the same material that scarcely reached below her knees, exposing a white delicate foot that rested timidly on the bare stones, She had no shoes and stockings, and this costume she after- wards told me was not her own, but was given.her alter she had been stripped of her own clothing. She told us her story in a few words, {rom which it appeared she had taken somo part in the insurrection indirectly, but that the report of her having been crowned Queen of the Bulgarians was a pure fiction, The name “Queen of the Bulgarians” had been given her by the Turks in mockery, coupled with the vilest epithets aud insults that a cowardly, brutal soldiery could think of Sh n }D prison two mouths, and during all this time had been given nothing to eat but bread and water, It was no wouder she looked weak and ill, Aa she was evidently too weak to stand talkin; there long Mr. Schuyser told her he would try to hav nd thon we took our leave, TUR “QUEEN'S” STORY, This visit of Mr, Schuyler’s aud the interest ho showed iu her resulted in her being released next day pron, Sha at hberty atew day y after in the khan or caravan- pion had found a tem porary shelter, and obtained tory in detail. 1s intimately connected with these Bulgarian tassacres, and wiji at the same time give an idea of the condition of the Bulgarian people, 1 as as she gave itiome. Hername is “Raika,’’ and she js the daughter of a priest inthe village of Otluk-kui, or Panigurishti, about twenty miles from Tatar-Ba- zardjik, At tho age of twelve she had been aiready remarked for her intelligence and beauty, aud a kind of village literary club, which exicie in the lace, decided to send her to school and educate her. For this purpose a subscription was set afoot, aud the requisiie funds were soon raised. They deciied to sead ber to Eski-Zara, where the American mission- aries had established a school for giris, which afterward turned ever to the Bulgarians, by whom i now conducted, It may not be amiss to remark here that the American and English mi-sionaries bave aone an immense deal of good in Bulgaria by establishing schools throughout the country, educating teachers and showing the Bulgarians Low to organize and estab- hsb schools for themselves, ln this they bave suc- ceeded so well that there 1s scarcely a village in Bul- garia without its school. Raika emained at this school four years, and acquired seemingly @ very fair educa- tion, better, perhaps, thay many an Eugl girl gets ti a better school. She dao particular fondness ior needlework, acquired so much skill in all ‘sorts of curious and tasteful embroidery that became famous ‘throughout ail the country, When she returned to her ative country, alter four years stuay in a boarding school, she was looked upon asa veritable marvel by all the people around her, It was particularly tho wonders she worked with her needle that astonished and pleased them, and this, with her wonderful edu- cation and her sweetness of character, made them be- gin to look up to her a8 a being o! superior order, She Was now sixteen, and there was a career alreauy marked ont for ber—that of a teacher; aud she entered upon it gladly, BULGARIAN SCHOOLS, The schools In Otluk kul, Panigurishits, as it is called by the Bulgarians, were at that um @ very flourisbing condition, Since Raika’s story 1 have been there, and 1 took pains to inquire into the matter, There were three schools in the place—oue for giris and two for boys—and to judge by the rune which I saw, they were fine, large buildings that no village of the same siz en in the lized part of burope, need have beon ashamed of, There were #ix in ali—three male pumber 500 were boys and 180 giris ‘paid—botter, I think, everything considered, than they are in England, France ana Germany. The three male teachers and Raika received each £60 a year, asum which, in this country, where living 1s cheap, where texpenditure 18 ‘required tm the way of uress, mountain village far away from raliways and jegrapha, was really a very comfortable income ika especially, who bad her the applied half the money spent on her education. Sle soon became the head mistress of the giris’ sebool, and os she wa: the only one of the teachers who was a native of the village, #he Was & great favorite of the people, It shoula be remembered that the schools in Bulgaria are supported by a kind of tax that the Bulgarians volun- tarily levy upon themseives, and the flourishing con- dition of the schools in one littic place like this, and the way In which they were supported, will enable us to form an idea of what they are all over the country and of the efforts these people are making to rise from the grovelling cons in which they have been id for so long. Kail tion a# schooim stress in a piace ko Panigurisnt wy bo m an unen- viable one. A schoolinistress in a place like this is a different sort of personage, it should be remembered, from a schooimistress in London, With her clever- esa, her education, her good looks, the esteem and re- spect in which sne was held by everybody, ber position was a very pleasant one, andshe was in reality a sort of village queen, I asked somo of the people there if sho had no sweetheart ali ‘this time, and what had become of They end there seemed to be nodody who aspired to her band, for the reason that she was so far superior to the yotng men of the place that they did not dare . to hope for such a prize ag she would have been, girl! not one of the young men who then thought her #0 far above them would (oad her now, Things went on pleasantly enough until the breaking out of the insurrection in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Raike was eighteen, she had been a teacher jor two years, and had nearly paid her debt, Then there were signs of approaching trouble Fresh upon the news of the wi in Herzegovina came the tax gatherer with demands for the year’s taxes and those of previous year, which had been remitted, owing to the failure of the crops Many were unable to meet these unlooked for demands Their property wag instantly seized and gold at any price it would bring. The cattle, the agricultural implements of the peasants were seized and sold without the slightest re- gard to future consequences. Some were even thrown into prison when nobody offered to buy the poor ef- fects that were offered ior sale. Naturally these acts resulted in a great deal of misery and dissatisfaction. ONBRARAKIE TAXATION. The taxes upon the agricultural population are heavy hough, often. amounting, as they do, to twenty and hirty per cent., according to the tax farmer's capacity or extortion, without being suddenly doubled at & moment's notice Hard upon this followed the demand for the taxes of 1876 in advance, which resulted in still more forced sales, extortions, quarrels with the tax collectors, misery and discontent. The young men of the place began to hold secret moctings and to talk of throwing off the yoke of the Turks, and asserting their independence, hke their brothers of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Mont negro and Servia.* | may a8 well state here that it was in this place that the in- surrection, ch pany outbreak as occurred here may be dignified by that name, broke out, There was, it seems, an Insurreetional Com- mitted at Bucharest, ‘composed of young Bul- garians, in the schools or in business there. They Were natives of the villages in this part of the country, and not Russians tated by the Turks as weil asour diplomatista, who see a Russian in every bush, “The insurrection wos fomented from without,”’ in the senso only that these young Bulgarians had their hearquar- ters at Bucharest, and there does not seem to be the slighest evidence to show that there were any Russians or Servians in this part of ‘he country, as is stated by tho Turks, and believed byr sir Henry Eljiot, Itdoes not appear that Raike had any- thing to do with fomenting the isurrection, She says the first posiiive knowledge she bad of anything brew- ing was in the spring, about Easter time. «She was summoned oe day to the house where the School Committee were inthe habit of meeting, She went, Supposing it was for some business relating to the school, but was greatly surprised | to find not ‘the School Committee, but a number of young men of the village, who were listen- | ing to a flery speech byaman named Bankoysky, | urging them to revolt. We have not been able to find out who this Bankovsky was, nor what has become of him.. Tt is supposed that be was killed near Sophia, but this is by nos means certain, We have only | been able to ascertain that his real name was not Bankovsky, and that be was a Bulgarian, 1 bee lieve that many of the peopie know wha he was and where he wasfrom, but that they pretend to know little about him in order not to be forced to tell what they do know and compromise bis friends. Raika describes him as a tall, handsome man with a blonde mustache, blue eyes, anda very flery, eloquent man- ner of speaking. | His words go worked upon them thot they decided unanimously to rise as soon as ry should declare war, which eventuality was" looked on 8s certain. They immediately commenced taking mea ures for carrying this resolution into effect, and it ap- peared that one of the first things they needed was a flag, With a flag everything was possible, and this was why the young schoo! mistress was summoned to the counetl, Her skill with the needle was famed through- oa the country far and wide, and they had fixed upon er TO EMBROIDER THE STANDARD OF REWELLION, Cnderstanding the dangef, she at Orst refused and tried to dissaide them from their project, but they were resolved upon their line of action, and wsisted upon her embroidering the fing for them. Urged, partly by threats, partly by persuasion, and perhaps in the generons hope thatthe revolt might after all be successfuj.she finally consented; and it is sad to think that r skill ip neediework, that most womanly of accomplishments, should have been | the cause of so icariul a’ misfortune to her. | In order to not compromise hoy father aud mother, | however, sho decided to do the work in the house of | ony of the insurgents. A vain precaution, It did not proven! her father from being slaughtered, with hun- dreds of others, in the church where he was officiating, We have seen the flag as it tell into the bauds of the Torks, and is now uscd in evidence on the triais that are going on bere. Tho poor rag, bespattered and torn, was prettiiy worked, with a naive design showing a huve yellow lion, with bis pawon a crescent, with which he seemed greatly displeased, and the inscrip- tion, “Liberty or Death,”? in Bulgarian, y the first of May, the day fixed upon for the rising to take place, the banner was ready, But Servia bad not declared war, and they had received almost cer- tain information (hat they were betrayed to the Turk- ish authorities. They determined to go on, «a they considered it now too late to etther abandon the at- tempt or postpone it, So having taken their arms they formed in body and marched to the church, sent for the priests, one of whom was Raikws father, declared their intention of rising and asked them to biesstheunderiaking. Thisthe priests did. Although soveral priests were killed at the time of the massacres, ] more hanged afterward, it does not appear t of ciVing his blessing in one or two insurgents, Having obtained th instances to blessing of the Chureh, the insurgents next called for Ravka, and informed her that as she had made the flag she must carry it through the vitiage at the head of a procession. She refused, but tney seized her, put ber upon a horee, put the flag in her band, and marched through the streets s°outing and singing in the most approved French manuer. Having thus declared war they proceeded to act. There was no Modir or Turkish Governor in the village at: this time, #o they had matters all to themselves and nobody to intertere with them. They tmmedtately proceeded to fortity the piace, and they do not seem to have had any other plan for the insurrection than that of wait. ing qui ena the village and defending it againet all | comers, This seems to have beon the plan adopted in the three or four villages where a rising really took place, and a more foolish one could hardly bave been imagined. But the rest of the population, without lead. ers and Without Organization, remammed ivactive and allowed themselves to be quictly slaughtered, There is little doubt, 1n my mind, that if the risin had been general, properly organized and provide with leader that the Turks would have been obliged to abandon the whole country north of tho Balkans an@ wtihdraw to Adrianople. They would never have been able to fight Servia and Mon- tenegro and at the same time keep up their communications through a hostile country that w: in arms against them, Thisis, in my mind, evidence that THERE WAS XO ORGANIZED INSURRECTION throughout the country ; for ‘f there had been it would have succeeded, All the people of Panigurishti seem to have finally engaged in the revolt, tor Raika informed me that even the women bad gone out and worked on the fortificae tions, so great was the enthusiasm, and that they worked at them nine or ten days. ‘The tea days during which they were throwing up | this puny earthwork did not pass without some incidents. In the first place two tax collectors who approached the place were ordered to deliver up their rms, an upon their refusal to do so, were fired upon and killed. These tax collectors were not, properly peaking, officers of the government, but rather agents of the tax farmer, who had excited the hatred of the people by their extortions. Shortly afterward seven more Turks who approached the viilage 'e ordered to surrender, and did so at once, Theso were two zaptiehs, two tax-collectors, ono clerk, and two makes ‘or Mohammedan Bulgarians, They wero all Fodzed ina Bulgarian house and well treated, except one of the zaptiehs or mounted police of the country, who had committed such acts of cruelty aad barbarity that they decided he had merited death, and they therelore SENTENCED AND SHOT 1M. A day or two iater some people, ina close carriage approaching along the road toward the fortifcatiuns, were hailed and likewise ordered to surrender, aud, upon their attempting to escape, were fired upon, The Carriage was captured and it was iound there were two | women in it, The two men and one of | the bad been killed by the fire; one of the remaining women seized sabre aud struck at ono of the insurgents, whereupon she was killed. The other woman was captured and sent into the villag - hen she well treated until tho arrival of the Turks, was set at liberty. Aw far have been able to learn up to the present those two women are the only ones that have been killed by the insurgents, and one of them, as I have just related, was shot accidentally. The Turkish anthorities in Philtppopolia state that there were tweivo killed in ail; but they bavo been unable to give Mr. Sebuyler either the names of these women or tho names of ‘the villages In which they were said to ba killed, and he therefore will not accept the unul he finds further proof. Kiani Pacha, who was committed by and daughter of the Mudir of ‘Avrat-alan had been killed, Mr. Schuyler found, upon investigation, that the wife of the Mudir had not been Kuled, and that he never bad a daughter. It was said that the wife of the Mudir here in Otluk-kui had likewise been killed. As I have already stated, there was po Mudir in this village af the time of the outbreak, and his wile coula net refore have been killed, O4 the twelve cases of Turkish women killed we have therefore investigated five, and found three of them were without the slightest foundat As we capnot learn the names of the villages where the seven o.ver women wore killed we cannot investi- aie, and we therefore take the liberty of doubting. fie story told by Edib Effendi of « Turkish girl who was killed and then matilated tn so disgusting 4 manner is a pure fiction, We have not been able to the least trace of It, Nobody, Turk or Chris- ‘atar-Bazardjik, near where it was said to havo red, ever heard of it; nor did tho different con- hilippopolis, who received daily reports of rything that was going on thoughout the wholo district, from the beginning of the troubies, ever sag e ‘of it until they saw the report of Edib Effendi, ‘truth fs thet the story is INVENTED AY KDIR RFFENDT which bas not even the semblance of probability. It 18 nOt ao act that a Bulgarian would be likely to com- mit, for this sort of heh ig not in their character. may be Bulgarians who are capable ot violating though we have not yet heard of re ia no Bulgarian who would viol rd, TI may be Bulgarians but there are none who would kili a woman and then mattlate the body. Tuat is a kind of bratality which ts peculiar to the Tarks, of which they alone are capable, Ed‘b Effendi, in inventing this beaey drew upon bis own foul Tark- ish Hnagiuation, and fabricated act of atrocity, of which nobody but a Turk would ever have thought This state of things continaed in Panigurishti or Otlak-kat for pine oF ten days, during which time nine Turks and two Turkish women were killed, All of theso but the two women and ive part In the jusur- | the ono zaptieh were killed with arms in their hands. They took altogether daring this time somo twenty prisoners, and these were well treated and eared for until the Turkish army came on and released them. It+houid be remembered that I 4m not giving the story of one person alone in making these statements, for since my conversation with the schoolmistress we hi been to Panigurishti, have compared her story witb the accounts received from other peopie, and find 1t corroborated in every par- Mcular, To tell the truth, it scarcely needed corrobo- ration, for the Turks themselves neither here nor at Philippopolis claim more killed than the number above stated. THR RISING OCCURRED ON THR 2D OF MAY. On the 12th Hafiz Pacha arrived before the palace with a regiment of regular troops, two or three pieces of ar- ullery, and a great number of Basbi-Bazouks, it would seem that the insurgents only bad about 250 men armed with muskets or rifles, The rest had only knives or pistole, that before these troubles were worn by everybody. One hundred and fifty of the best armed had goue out on one road toward Tatar-Bazardjik to dis pute way, and 100 on the otner road, for it seems they did not have spies out to see by which way the army would come. When Hadz Pacha arrived, he found onty 100 men to oppose him, and these, frightened qt the great superiority of the force brought against them, ran atthe first fire. It docs not even appear that they tired off their guns, for there was not a single Turk killed or wounded, The inhabitants, panic stricken, had in the meantime attempted to fly, but the town had alread: Deen surrounded, and they were either driven bac or cut down in the fields. I had forgotten to state that at the approach of the Bashi-Bazouks the inhabitants of eiqnt or nize neighboring villages, f stricken, bad abandoned their homes and taken refuge here, to the number of 5,000 or 6,000, and they now filled the streets, crying and screaming with fright, AS all resistance had now ceased, or, rather, as nove bad really been offered, Haflz Pacha bad nothing to do but march ipto (he town, arrest (he leaders of the imsur- rection and restore order. Instead of this, however, he brought up bis artillery, and witbout summoning the place to surrender, commenced a bombardment, RUTHLESSLY THROWING THE BURSTING BELLS into these crowds of shrieking women and children, Until midnight the cin of the bombardment resounded trough the streets, Hatiz Pacha was offering himself aconcert. The hoarse roar of bis caunon, (he scream ing of shells, the ear-splitting explosions, mingled with the feeble wal of women and children, made sw music to his ears, and he prolonged the entertainment. Ho wished to see it by night, lit up by the fires of burning houses and the globes of flame which leapt from the mouths ofthe cannon. It wasa safe and barmiess kind of amusement, There wree no stern eyed men there to give bim back ball for ball and shell for shell, but only women and children who answered with shrieks aud groans; id he continued the joyous concert untii midnight, Thea the loud mouthed dogs of war coused their clamor; they had done their work; ip was now the turn of the sabre. pe During the night and the next morning the troops and the Basbi-Bazouks eutered the piace, and then be- gan A SCENE OF PILLAGE, VIOLENCE AND MASSACRE only equaled by that of Batak. Neither age por sex was spared, The town was pillaged, then fired; about one-fourth of the kouses were burned; people down in th streets, on their own door- sieps, slaughtered on their own Vid’ men and women — begging for mercy and — children infants screaming 1h terror, perished alike beneath the swift aud certain sabre, It is thought that 3,000 people were killed in this place alone, of whom about 400 were inhapitanis ‘of the town, and the rest from the neighboring villages who had taken reiuge here. But we were not greeted bere with the scenes of horror that awaited us at Hatok, Hafiz Pacha, unlike Achmet Agha, had sense enough io have the bodies buried within the following three Gaye, and thus to cover up his. tracks, t been repeated again and again that these acts were perpetrated by the Bashi-Bazouxs ouly, and not by the regular troops, and a great deal is made of the statement as showing the massacres were commitied without the consent of the autborities. If the stat ment were worth anything the converse ought to b true—that if the massacres were committed by the regular troops then the authorities are responsi- ble. Now, as it happens, wherever there were any regular troops to commit massacres they rivalled the Bashi-Bazouks in atrocity, Here, as Mr, Schuyler will show in his report, REGULAR AND IRREGULAR TROOPS WERE CRUEL, pitiless and ferocious, aud Hafiz Pacha ia no less mity than Achmet Agha, The reason 1g simple. Thoy are all Turks alike and there ia nothing to choose between the: ‘These ma were committed by the order of the authorities, and that is why the men who com- mitted them have beon rewarded with decorations and promotions, When we were in Panagurishti we were shown in the ruins of the church, belure where had stood the aitar, a black spot specked with calcined bones, ou which lay a bouquet of flowery. This was the remains of a priest, Theodor Peotl, eighty-five yeara of age, who bad been seed aod tortured in the hopes of obtaining money, mutilated and mal treated in ways which only the fou’ imagina- tion of a Turk could invent, then killed and burnt here before the altar, In another place we were shown a biack spot where an old blind man, Dondje Stregleyoif, was beaten half to death, and then thrown senseless on a heap of wood and burat alive, ‘There was an old man here, Zwatko Boyadjiei by. name, @ public benefactor, a liberal contributor to RQUALLY the school fund, who in winter supported half the | widows and orphans ot the place, who was_re- nowued for his charities to Christian and Turk alike, Ho was likewise seized, tortured and maltreated, His eyes were put oct, and, after undergoing the most feartal torments, he was thrown on a heap of wood fainting or dead, tho ple do not know which, and burned, They seized the priest Nestor, and cut off his fingers one by one to extort money, and as the poor man had none to give them they continued by CUTTING OFF HIS HANDS, AND PINALLY MIS HAD, We were shown in the yard of a next little cottage, embowered in trees, a grave, beside which woman was kneeling as we It was the grave of a young man of eighteen, who’ had just returned Lome from school when the troubles began, after absence 0; two years, and who had taken no part in the outbreak. They had seized him, and in mere sport cat off bis hands one by one in the presence of bia mother, then killed him. What make these acts more terrible was that many of them were committed in the presence of the weeping relat ves—wife, mother, brothers, sisters of yictims, And they were repeated by the hundred. It would take a volume to tell all the stories that were re- lated tous, But it was not only old and young men who suilered; women, young girls; children, tufanis were ruth ly slaugite These Turks have no pity, no compassion, no bowels, 1! hot’ even the generosity, the pity beasts, Even the tiger will not slay the young of ite own species but these Turks, these sivong, bearded men, picked infants up out of their cradies with their bayonets, tossed them in the air, caught them again and flung them-at the beads of the shri: k- ing mothers, They carried little babes about the streets on the points of their bayonets, with their poor little beads and arms drooping around the barreis of their guns, and the blood streaming down over their hands, They cut off the beads of children, aud com- pelied other children to carry the still bleeding heads about in their arms, 1 would bave the reader remember that I am relating facts that have been coldly and concisely noted down in my presence by Mr. Schuyler; tacts that will appear in bis report; facts. that were told him by people who went and moaned and wrung their hands, and fairly tore their hair at the care remembrance of the scones they were relating. ‘undreds of women came to us recounting what they had eeon and what they had suffered. NOT A WOMAN IN THE PLACH SEEMS TO HAVE RSCAPED outrage. They all coniess it openly. In otner places where these things occurred the women have aliown a hesitation to sp To some cases they denied they haa been outraged, and we afterward learned they coniessed to others that they had been. At Avrat Alan a delegation of ladies called upon Mr. Schuyler to make their complaints, and be was somewhat as toowhed to Mud they had very little to say. Upon joing away, “however, they left him a letter sigued them ail, saying that scarcely a woman in the place hud escaped outrage. They could not bring themseives to tell nim viva voce ; bat thinking that as he was investigating here in an official capacity he ought to know they bad decided to write to him. Here, however, they did not hesitate to speak out. Our- rages were committed so publicly, so generuily, tbat wey feel it would be useless to try to hide their shame and they avow it openly. These acts were eommifted not only in the houses, but in he streets, in the yards, im the courts; for the Turks "have not even the decency which may accompany Vice. They have not even the modesty of vileness; they have noteven the shame of natare, Mothers were outraged m the presence of their daagh- ters; young girls iu the presence of their mothers, of their sisters and brothers, One woman told us, wriug- ing her bands and crying, that herself aud ber daugh- ter, a girl of fifteen, had beon violated tn the samo room. Another, that she was violated in the presence of her children. A girl of eightecn avowed, ing, and bowing her face in hands, that HAD BREN OUTRAGED BY TEN SOLDIERS. A woman, who came to us on crutches with a bullet still in her ankle, said she had be: jolated by three soldiers while lying wounded on the ground groaning in agony. Young, delicate, fragile little creatures, tea and tweive years old, were treated in tho same brutal manner. A woman told ua that her daughter, a ten del.cate little thing of twelve, bad been seized and ged by a Bashi-Bazouk, although she bad oifered ail the money she bad in the world, although sho if he ald spare the child. Anothet told us of # poor little thing of ten violated in her presence, with & number of other girls, Siill an- other told us how @ dozen young gels, twelve or tif. teen years old, had taken refuge in her home, boping to excape detection; bow they had been discovered; how two of them had been outraged and Killed because they had resisted, and how the others then submitted to their fate—white, shivering, their teeth chattcring with fright, And yet Sir Henry Elliot and Mr. Disracli will keop PRATING TO U8 ABOUT FXAGGERATION, forsooth! The crimes that were committed bere are beyond tho reach of ¢: ngs jon, There were stor es ing im their atroett: udder. ec related us that ar that cause the heart to swell ina burst of impotent rage that can only find vent in pitying, useless tears. We were told of a young girl of sixteen, outraged by three or four bashi-bazouks, In tl resence of hor father, who was old and biind. Suddenly she saw ono of them preparing, in mere sport, to kill the poor old man, and sbe sprang forward with a ebriek, threw her arma around hie neck weeping, and trying to shield him with her own delicate Ib was all in vain; the bullet sped on father and daugh sweet ing girl aud the blind old maa—fell dead in each other's arms I should, pernaps, beg pardon of my reade: dwelling on these harrowing details, But Lam not writing for children and young girly, but for men and women; and everywhere here I see the Turke jwoking upon tho English as their friends and egee unting upon us jor beip against their enemies, ing to us for ad and comfort and believing—moss exasperating thing SEPTEMBER 7, 1876.—ITRIPLE SHEET. of all—that they have our approval in everything they do. Nowhere do we find that Mr. Baring has removed this impression. Nowhere do we bear of bie having reproved the Turkish authorities, of having told them they had done wrong; and everywhere we hear of Mr. Guarichino scolding, bullying and browbeating the Bul- garians in the presence of their tyrants, Ii 1 tell woat | have seen and heard it is because I want the people of England to understand what these ‘Turks are, and if we aro to go on BOLSTERING UP THIB TOTTERING DESPOTIRM; if we are to go on carrying this loathsome, jvice-siricken leper about on our shoulders, let us do it with open eyes and a knowledge of the facts; let us see ihe hideous things we arc carrying. Mr. Schuyler obtained ample evidence of other crimes too foul to be even named. 1 believe that Mr, Baring bas obtained no information on this point and does mot beleve in it, I searcely wonder at this, There are crimes that repel investiga. tlon, that avoid the light; that, like those vile ebing louthsome things found ander carrion or in lowest depths of sewers, cling to the dark holes corners and escape inspection. Mr. Schuylor has explored these dark depths to the bottom with the coolness of a surgeon, probing a foul and festering ulcer, Gut I do not think he will be able to state tho facts in his report. They are without the pale of the English longuage, and for my part I shall not again re- fer vo them. And the “Queen of the Bulgarians,” the young schoo! mistress, what became of ber? Alas! her fate was ouly that of bundreds of others. I could not ask her to roiate all the story of her misfortunes, It was too plainly written’ in the pale, dejected, though still geutle and sympathetice face. Bub wo saw a woman in Otiuk-kul who was pres- ent when she fell into the bands of three or four bashi-bazouks. "Yes, this educated, intelli. gent, sensitive young girl was seizod and out- raged, in the presence of halfa dozen of her comrades and neighbors, by three or four brutes wo still pollute the carth with their vile existence, BXAGGERATED, SIR HENRY, INDERD! And tf your own daughter had been treated in tho same way, would you still go on prating about exag- ‘ation? But this was not enough. Her father was shot down in his owa bouge, and she and her mother dug his grave in their garden and buried him, and suil the poor girl bad not sufored enough, Turkish authorities heard that she had embroidered the flag, and two weeks after the in- rection Was completely crushed they ordered her it. A Mudir had been went to the village in the antime, and he seized and took her to his house i ten o'clock at night, with the woman at whose house the flag had been worked— the tall, stalwart woman of whom I have apoken in the beginning of this letter. Sho told us what occurred iu the Mudir's house that night The poor girl, in spite of teare and prayers, that might have moved a tiger to pity, Was stripped naked, beaten, spat upon and again out: raged. It was then that she was nicknamed ‘Queen of the Bulgarians,’ and the next day she and another woman, who bad been likewise maltreated in even a more horrible way, were sent to Tatar-Bazgardjik. Here sho was ‘surrounded by the Turkish population, hooted, jeered, pelted with mud, spat upod, and" ineulted with — the — foulest epithets that a Turkish mob could find, It mattered not that she was one poor weeping girl all alone among a crowd of cnemies—flenda rather than men, There is bo pity 1p the breasts of these savages, Then, fainting, insensible, she was thrown into a cart and sent oif to Pbilippopolis, thrown into prison there aad kept on bread and water until the arrival of Mr. Schuyler. Then she was set at liberty, ill, shattered io health and brok ed. Ww this game Mudir of Otluk-kul when wo were there. Mr. Baring spoke of him as the most filthy brute ho ever saw, The very night Mr. Buring was there, the Mudir, aa {f in very contempt for bis pros- ence in the place, sent for two young married Women, whose busbands had been killed in the massacre, to come to his house. They refused, The next night, when Mr. Schuyler was there, be again sent for them, and they again refuced; but they came to Mr, Schuyler next day in despair, saying they felt sure that as goon as we left the village he would send bis zaptichs for them. When Mr. Senhuyler spoke to the Governor of | send & | who is there now. | to pay the military exemption tax. Philippopolia avout this Mudir, be simply replied that ho knew be was a bad man, but he had no betwer man to put in his piace, THIS MAN WILL NOT BR PUNISHED, nor will Achmet Aga, the destroyer of Batak, nor an- other Achmet Aga, equally infamous, who destroyed Perustitza; nor lossan Bey, who burht Kiissura; nor Shifket Pacha, who, beaten as a general in Bosnia and Herzegovina, wreaked bis vengeance on the uuresist- ing people of Bazardik, where ais genera'ship bad full scope. These men have, on tue contrary, been rewarded, decorated and promoted, And we can do nothing; 1 am sure nothing will be done, Diplomacy 18 impotent, If Sir Henry Elliot remains in Constantinople he will make a few mild representations to the Porte, which the latter will receive with the best possible grace, and—that is all. How could it be otherwise? ‘Sir Henry does not believe in the atrosities, How can he be expected to make strong representations on the subject? Or a strong man tay be sent in bis place, who will go so far as to make urgent represeutations io the Porte, or who may even go the iength of making strong representa- tions The Porto will promise everything, It will vive assurance of the most benevolent intentions, it will utter the moet philauthropio protestations, the overntnent will issue more paper reforms, the diplo- Matias will be satisiied and that will be the end of it. It cannot be otherwise, There are not a dozen Turks in the Empire who see the necessity of reform. There ix nobody to carry out the reiorma Tho Muili-serif of Phiippopolis told the simple’ truth when ghe said he had no better Mudtr to Otluk-Kul iustead of the druaken beast But they would not rty out ro. forms 1f they could. ‘Tho Mutid-serit of Pailippopolis has the reputation of being TOO VAVOKARLE TO THE BULGARTAXS, and when we were there the Turks were loudly de- manding bia recull He seemed like a very honest, conscientious man desirous of doing what was right He entered into tho question of the misery of the burnt out people with Afr. Schuyler and Mr, Baring in an earnest, serious way (hit carried with it the conviction that ho was really working hard to relieve their sufferings, He said money was to \¢ given them, their cattle to be restored, their houses rebuilt and every possible thing done for them, He was 60 earnest, so serious, so thoronghly convinced of the necessity ‘of these m ins ures, that you could not doubt nis good tentions, And yet, not only are the cattle not restored, not only are the houres not rebuilt, but Sebuyler has found that this same plausible, earnest, conscientious Governor, xt the very moment that he was making these promises to him and Mr, Buring, was issning the strict orders that the people of Batak, as well as of the other burned Villages, be forced to pay thoir regular taxes ag thoagh pothiug had happened. Aud this is ong of the good men—one who is so friendly to the Bulgariaus that the Turks demand his recall, Here ts an example of ‘Turkish ideas of reform, Until the iast year the whole maie Christian popuin- tion, from intants one day old up to the age of 100, bad Last year, how- ever, a great reform was ushered in with @ loud flourish of trampets, In future only those capable of military service were to pay the exemption tax, and there were great rejoicings among the people But when the tax came to be levied, what was the astonishment of everybody to find that each village was ordered to pay exactly the same sum as before, The tax was only redistriutes, The round sum before paid by the whole population of the village Bow falls on the shoulders of those only pable of military duty. But the whole amount must be made wu This isthe Turkish idea of reform and the Turkish way of . THROWING DUST IN THE EYRS OF RUROPR. And these are the poople from woom we expect re- forms. There will be uo reforms. Tho thousands of helpless women and children, of babes dd sucklings slaughtered in cold blood, whose boues aud flesh are fattening the soil of Bulgaria, cry out against the holiow mockery, and give it tbe lie. ‘And you say, © statesmen of Europo, that the status quo must be maintained; that this must last. I tell you it will not last, You must fiud anether solution for the Eastern question, or another solution will find you. It wiil not last, or civilization is a delusion, jus- lice a mockery and Christianity a farce and a failure, A DASTARDLY DEED. A DISCHARGED WORKMAN ATTEMPTS TO POISON HI8 FORMER COMRADES, Officer Fredricks, of the I'wentieth precinct, yestor- day morning brought before Judge Duffy, at the Wash- ington Place Police Court, August Ronnenberg, whom he charged with a deliberate attempt to poison seven- teen workmen attached to the slaughter house of Spring & Heines, foot of West Fortieth street, where he had been employed as a dresser. On Saturday last Ronnonberg was discharged by the foreman, Frank Denew, and went away, threatening to “get square,” On Tuesday evening James McDermott, one of the butchers, saw Ronnenberg standing at the fee water barrel used by the workmen, Ho head in bis hand a tin measure, which ho repeatedly dippea in the water. Some timo afterward the foreman went to the barrol to geta k. McDermott cautionod him against using the bod he thought Ronnenberg bad po mew, however, did not heed the warn. ing and drank the water. On going bome he was seized with severe griping pains sod excessive vomit ing. Yesterday morning a bottio filled with water from the tank was taken to Dr. Brown, and on being examined it was found to contain a large quantity of muriatic acid, Officer Frederick then arresied Kon- nenberg. The prisoner, a stolid looking German, steadily refased to anawor any questions regarding tho matter. in the absence of Mr. Denew, who was too unwell to appear in court, Judge Dufty remanded the prisover until this morning, when a medical exam- ination will be made in order to determine exact character and quansity of tho poison with whi tee water was iinpregnated. WERE NOT. TRAIN WRECKERS. The mon arrested for stealing a bandenr from its fastenings at the Windeld depot of tho Flusbing and North Shore Railroad on Saturday evening, and who, after taking a ride to Newtown, left the car standing on the Long Island track, where {t was seen and removed by Mr, Manger but a fow moments before the west- ward boand train camo in sight, were yesterday ar- raigned before Justice Lawrence at Fiusbing. They Stated that they bad no intention to wreek the train, nd the matter was reduced to a siryple misde- meanor, harphy, the hy ag was fined $10 or thirty di fn the county jail, Two others were sent to the House of Refuge and one to the county jail. Hendrickson, the negro who informed the officer of the facts, was discharged with a reprimand. The others Of the te® inmplicated were also discharged, ! CREEDMOOR. THH AMERICAN AND THEER FOREIGN RIFLE TEAMS AT PBACTICE--THE IkISHMEN HEAD TRE List. According to previous arrangement the American, Irish, Scottish and Australian national rifle teams met yesterday at Crecdmoor for practice. The mombers of the various teams got on the ground shortly after nine o'clock, and lost but little time in distributing themselves along the line of fring points at the 800 yards butt, The weather was delightful, calm and clear, with a gentle wind from the southwest blowing up the ranges at an angle of about thirty-elght’ de- grees to the line of fire, All the conditions were very favorable for the practice, and tt was expected that fine scores would result from the earnest efforts which all of the teams seemed disposed to put forth, The Americans, who had done so poorly on Tuesday, would, {t was thought, regain their lost place at the head of thu practising teams; and as tho day was so good, it was hoped that they would equal a score of at least 1,550 points, They did nat, however, do anything like this, and to add to their poor luck, Weber made at 800 yards two bull’s eyes on the wrong target, and Yale recorded another mistake of the same kind at the same distance, by which he lost one bull's eye, The Australian team scemed to be in their element, so far as the weather was concerned, and did splendid work, The Scottish team shot.care- fully, but not so successiully as the day before. The Irishmen, under the watchful eye of Major Leech, shot with remarkable proctsion; and, as the scores will show, beat their last year’s record at Wimbledon by twenty-five points, After lunch in the middie of the day the teams re- opened fire at the 900 yards distance, and when they had finished shooting there it was found that the scores stood us follows:—The Irish, 1,037; the Austra” lians, 1,021; tne Americans, 992, and the Scotebmen, 989 points respectively, On the last digtance the Scotch might have retrieved their want of success at the first two ranges, but that a rapidly dechning sun throw a@ decreasing light very obliquely across the —fleld, = which —involved the necessity of rapidly lowering the elevations on the tangent scales, a contingency of whose local signifi- cance the Seotchmen seemed to be unaware. Tho practice was finished at hal-past five o'clock, A num- ber of ladics were present, who seemed to watch the proceedings with wuch interest. SCORES OF THE IRISH TEAM, MENRY DYAS. fards, 6555555438 4424555385 45555845 LIRUTRNANT GKOKG 85554455 4434455 4555484 A. WARD. 6455204 856355555 44555538 J. K. MILLNRR 845445353 b45508 8548 555 4553444555544 5 4-88-10 KR, JOUNSON. 4555555445535 3 5-65 5545345534455 4 500 6545505854024 4 5-58-1902 W. GD. GOFF, 543344 543855 5—60 5644055 6544 5R-61 4553554 435 6 5 407-189 w. 654455 3 565 R64625 5 453845 JAMES G. 845355 243455 844525 R. & GR 2R55 5555 045585 W. RUNS 8455555 845335 653505 MRNRY 7 44343 3453 8355 MAJOR J.T. SLEKP. 809 8455555855545 900 4544552550458 1,000, 55654555854555 LIKUTENANT T. 8, DRAPER, 800 4455555654555 900. 4445453445455 1,000. + 6455553333643 CAPTAIN B,J, WARDILL, 4555523555655 2250542384355 6464545554585 3 6—05—195 J 8 LyNen, 6335535655665 5 364 $65 94534896) 65-00 653455455455 4 5—co-193 CAPTAIN HL J, KING, 0444435344555 5545446454555 4365545546468 PTAIN J. MO. SMITH. 4444554504355 5324684554554 8845535564284 LOK BEKGKANT D, GEE. 8255555555435 3555854454445 608 450445546548 6 4-07-1954 Jd. J. SLADE, 444450454535 6 5-04 343450344453 4-58 494553005443 5 5—08—130 THE SCORES OF THE AMERICAN TEAM. Yards. LL ALLEN. Totals, 800. 4545553445555 5 0-06 900. 6445550553585 1,000, 4555555546455 MAJOR H, FULTON, 8445555684253 443445555525 4644655853455 ‘KR. RATHUONR 800, 555454355455 oo. 543545530544 1,000...... 533554443455 LG pRoCH 800. 4444054483354 900, 655265555505 1,000. 444555355555 1. WKBER. 800, 403533505054 200. 8455443456555 1,000, 8054355556556 ENANT COLONEL W. , FAR 800, 4256445553855 530544534532 B455445 45444 MAJOR G. W. YALE, 544445455555 3435456354534 803850544544 GENERAL T. & DAKIN, 245454445545 4542425835534 6056348540838 THE SCORES OF THE SCOTTISH Yards, M. BOYD. 445454545556445 bHS54545525554 4835456255653 5448 W. WHITELAW. 4590 5345565655554 6654454455453 4 5-07 24502655455 5444-50-11 CAPTAIN W, THORBURN. B465456854256445 5-63 655443355655 55 6—69 OF443564564438 55 4 —d8-155 f RAR. 6545555355548 8 4-06 3453535333553 5 4-09 6353385364553 5 560-185 W. CLARK. 45544255454453 5—08 45420935538443 5—5 65643054855855 46-190 A, MENZIES. 6435438856352333 5 5—5 0343388455345 55 555 6643543564543 00 0-0-1 R M’VITTIE, 3556554555355 444 854350035 444554 2444534054455 avers 55 6554530423 BO0843825543554 1,000 4340453056455 65 0—52—105 "py invitation, the Scottish team took lancheow ia General Dakin's marquee. Some of the members oi the American team were present, After ample justice bad voen done to the good things provided by General for the occasion, he addressed Nicitous speecu to his guests, in the course of which he said:— GexTLemeN OF THR Scortisn TRAM—I riko to dis- charge a very pleasant duty—a duty which I could wish were inirusted to one more able than myself. In ering Baad gentlemen, the health of the Scottish team ire to couple with it the hope that they may be successful in their fondest desires, 1t is not in my province to dwell on this subject, but I cn at least echo the sentiment of every true American, that they will return to their own but that they may also carry back with them 6 reminiscences of theif sojourn among u detaining you longer I pl the health of te am, Ip reply Colonel McDonald sai + GeNeraL Dakin axp GestuRwex: I thank you not only tor myself, but in behalf of the Seottish rill team, for your Kind expressions of opinion, and have no doubt they are heartielt, After the battle which we all desire to win, 1 have no coubt we shail have to congratulate you, or receive congratulations at your bands, Af it be possible for us to maintain the honor old well; but whether meet ‘With success or adversity, We desiro to maintain our- | hay. selves as true Sotchmen. Our chief desire in visit be | America ts to continue that fellowship which tbo: ! always exist betweeg two great nagions, and which hop already existed so long betweea the mighty people Should we gain the first place and the trophy whic} the Americin people have so generously fotlered “) shall weicome your representat) toour shores wi; a to reclaim it as we have been welcomed (} 0 Major Leoch received from General Patt ‘ Philadelphia, an ‘invitation for himectt und the felt team to dine with the Hibernia Society on Satardi+ Xt; but. the Major, notwithstanding the addition | inducement effered in the pleasure of mecting with t 4 me! bers of the Dublin Uuivere!ty Rowing Club’ , decided to decline. y Rowing Ciub’s bow SALE OF THOROU alee isHBREDS, Mr. P. Lorillard will sell at Tattersall’s, Broadway and Thirty-ninth street, on Saturday next, several o his famous thoroughbred stock, consisting of nine lots as follows :— BROOD MAR, No. 1. Daisey Derby, chestuut mare, foaled. 1853, bred by Hon. Bailie Peyton, of Tennessee, by O'Meara, out of Noty Price by Cost Johnson, second dam 8, Jones, by imp. Leviathan, third daw Charlotte Ham’, ton by Sir Charles, fourth’ dam Lady of the Lake by imp. Sir Harry, fiith dam by imp. Diomed, sixth da: by imp. Sir George, seventh dam by imp, Fearpauglit, eighth dam by imp.’ Jolly Rover, ninth damn imp. Mar} Gray by Roundhead, &e. This ‘is one of the richest bred brood mares in’ America, THURKE-YRAR-OLDS. ‘ No. 2 Baronet, bay colt, 3 years old (full brother Mr. M. H. Santord’s mate, now in Kugiand), by Ausy tralian, dam Maitie Gross, by Lexington, : No, 3, Lord Carlisle, bay gelding, 3 years old, by Lexington, dam Maggie Hunter, by Australian, ‘TWO-YRAR-OLDS, No, 4. Rancocas, chestuut gelding, 2 years old. by* Imp, Eclipse, dim imp, Blue Stocking, by Thor- mandy, out 0: Bas Bleu (Blue Gown’s dam No. 8, Bouny Field, bay gelding, 2 years old, by Bon y nie Scotland, dam Jessamine, by Brown Dick, No. 6. Orleans, chestnat gelding, 2 years old, by Planet, dam Alajama (Madge’s dam), by Brown. Dick No. }. Toulla, bay gelding, 2 years old, by Plauet, dam Ultima (Aitila’s dam), by Lexiugton, YEARLINGS, No. 8, Falkland, chestnut gelding, yearling, by Aue. tralian, dam Fauny Washington, by Revenue, No. 9% Tempest, chestnut gelding, yearling, by Glen elg, dam Estelle, by Auatralian, out of Paumie G A CHINESE FESTIVAL, DUCKS AND WATERMELONS OFFERED ON THE TABLETS OF DECEASED ANCESTORS—FILIAL PIETY IN BAXTER STREET—MARRIED DAUGH TERS’ DUTY TO PARENTS. The Chinese residents of New York, who within a few yoars have considerably increased in numbers, aro now engaged in the observance of the peculiar customs of their native country, which take place yearly when the days and nights become perceptibly covler, The Mongolians in our midst, un!ike the coolies in Cali- fornia and Australia, do not ali sport the lengthy plaited quene from the back of their heads, nor foliow the Middle Kingdom fashious in respect (o wearing apparel; but with regard to religious usages they, as far as cir. cumstances permit, strictly conform to the prescribed ceremonies of Buddhism. The poorest tenement in the Sixth ward inhabited by Chinese has its ancestral tabiet, and when the cstablished seasons arrive all finite to do honor to the memory of dead relatives, ‘The early days of September are one of these seasons. This Olial piety, as it 1s called, 18 the keystone to al! the teachings of Contucius. Yesterday a reporter of the HeRatp visited several celestial dwellings and learned that the present was considered an oxcelient time for parties to wake inquiries of soothsayers as to whether they may or may not be engaged iu marriage, and algo to make selections of lucky daya to engage in business enterprises, or as to the proper hour tor funefals to start for graveyards, when occasion calla, ip specified individual cases for such journeys ‘The festival now in course of observance has princi- pal reference to the happiness and comfort of tho dead, ‘The professed object 1s to furnish food, cloth- ing and other necessaries for defunct ancestors. To obtain this result the tablets above. meutoned aro brought forward, with buraing incense aud lighted candies in trout.’ It 1s indispensable that there should be among the edibles three certain articles—one duck, one watermelon and a dish of vermicelli, The duc belore being offered 1s brolled, Besides these, different varieties of meat, fish, trait and spirits aro om hand. Atl are placed bet the tablets, where they romain while customary Worship of the dead is performed by kneeling and bowing, Some Chinamen have Caucastar wives, but the latter pay no attention to these obser: vances, They look upon them as amusing, and ar their husbands seem to be uniniluenced by any relig- fous or. even serious impressions while they coatinuc tue women attend to their business as if nothing ua usual was im progress, ihe Cuinese are firm bellevers in the separate exist ence of the soul ufter death, but they believe, also, that every one has three souls. At the moment of dis solution ove, they say, gous to judgment in the unseen world, one becomes an vecupant of the tablets erected to the memory of the vepurted in one of the recesses of the Louse, aud the third goes with the corpse into the grave. They believe that the uoxeen world 16 an exact counterpur , only spiritualized, of things visibl and that the ghu Us of the departed ure in need of the saine support as they received while living, Food. raiment and other necessaries are required by them, reduced, however, to « state whore they may be avail: able by the disembodied spirits. The worldiy materials are accordingly brought to this condition by the pro- cess of burning. The Chiness, however, are too pru- dent to carry this extravagance to excess, Having to provide not only on the day of the funeral, but in overy September thereafter for the comtort of the de- parted, and baving to assist in tho suport not o! one alone, but of a long line of ancestors, the Chinese take care that the clothing, &c., furmished and which must be burned to be realized by the spirit, shall be aa inexpensive as via, ‘They therefore anu facture imitations of these necessaries in paper, the paper merely being covered with tiu or gilt foil,’ The food for the spirits 18 managed more simply still; the feast 18 spread bot and steaining, and this steam, wit! the fumes arising, forms the repast of the spirits. The substantial (ood 13 consumed by the survivors, It 1 uot denied by the parties coucerned that this sengibic course 1s to be pursued by the New York Mongolians, who have, according to their moans, purchased and prepared during the past few days supplies of meat, poultry, fruit and confectionery for the comfort o, their deceased ancestors, There is a curious custom, in which a marriod daughter hasan important part connected with thie 1yal in case One OF DOL ot her parents are deac and If she has borne a son. Sho is expected to present « trunk made in the shape of a wardrobe (material ga OF paper) some five orsix fect high aud threo or tour feet wide, with shelves in it, It is furnished witi miniature household utensils, as bedsteads, chairs, lanterns, plates and paper images of servants. These are to be burned on tho premises. She ts also ro- quired to make a present ot food, which must include aduck. Ju this manner the married daughter is ro- quired to give yearly proof of her filial affection to her deceased parents. Boing designed for the benefit ot those who afe already dead it would be co: becoming indeed to prosent th y alive, and if proffered would be regarded as a very un dutiful act and as imtimating her wish that they were already in their graves. OF RIGHT, Two young mon wore arreste! on Tuestay by OfMlcer Ryans, of Mr. Henry Bergh’s stall, on a charge, of driving a horse with @ sore back wader a heavy joad of Tue mou said that tho horso belonged to Barney B, Gray, of Long island. They moant the young man ofthat name, Inthe afternoon Mr. Gray, Sr., callod to get the horses and was locked ap by Oficer Evane, wuo refused to believe the old man’s statement that his son and not be owned the anim: Judge Ovier- bour, 1b Court, discharged the old gentieman, who spoke of suing the soviery represegted by Oillcer Evans for false imprisonment. | Subsequently the son appearod in court and aurren- dered himself, but was diseharged on his parole in consequence Of bis statement that although be owned the horse it was by order of the old man that the aui- a was used to bring tue load of hay to this city for sale. THE GREENE STREET AFPRAY. On Sunday, the 27th ult, Nicole Couri, of No. 94 Greeno sircet, was shot and fatally wounded by Ar mand Baus, of No. 93 Greene street. He was taken to the Chambers Street Hospital, where he died yester- day. Baus had been arrested ang beld to await the r: suit of the injuries, Dr, Goldrchimiedt yesterday m & post mortem on the body of Couri aud (ound that the ball had entered over the left clavicle, passing to the right and striking against the first dorsal vertebra and lodging in front of the fourth dorgal vertebra, forming an abscess which THE RESULT OF A FIGHT, Early yesterday morning George Shaw, of No. 480 Eighth avenue, and Joseph Dixou, of No. 082 Bleecker street, became engaged in a fight with two unknown persone at Thi first street and Righth avenie, The Tesult was asoveto beat g, and a few cuts on the neck and arms received by Shaw and Dixon, The assailants eacaped. MYSTERIOUS DEATH. Mrs, Frazer, of No. 3% Nosbit street, Nowarky died yesterday under mysterious circumstances, About a woek ago sho visited the wifo of Mr, Goodwin, rector of the Episcopal House of Prayer, and told Mra. Good- n that sho had been most brutally beaten by hor husband, and that she was at the time in @ most dgli- cate condition, Assistance was given ber and a \* plaint was lodged against ber husband, a ly, she was dying. It is now alle; b; that tio story stout ube beatin ~ a ‘A the only injury suffered by Mra. ic was by her own hi aa Mr. Frazer, who 1s spokem epowod industrious. well-d! naa, is Bot DOW Ia