The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1876, Page 6

THE BULGARIAN ATROCITIES Mr. Schuyler’s Preliminary Report | of His Investigations, A CATALOGUE OF HORRORS. Whole Towns Razed and the In- habitants Slaughtered. TURKISH BRUTALITY AND DUPLICITY. | The Farce of Turkish Investi- gations. ENGLISH PRESS COMMENTS. - [From the London Daily Nows, August 29.) CoxsraxtixorLe, August 22, 1876, The following is the preliminary report of Mr Schuyler, the American Cousul General, to the Hon, Horace Moynard, the American Minister, resident im Cons.antinoplc. Mr, Schuyler is still in the ravaged district, and is doing his work thoroughly, dtr. Baring | returned yesterday to ihe capital Mr, Schuyler lef Constantinople at tho sume time as Mr. Baring, L venture to predict that iis Gnal report will give a areater number of burned villages, of murdered innabi- tants, of violated women and children, than i have subinitted to your readers As I have said p auly. throughout, the evidence has showa that have under- estimated the deviltry which Europe has allowed to go on for tho last two months, Every Englishinan, permit me to add, must feel grateful to the American Minister and Consul General for the service they are vendering to humanity 14 parsuing, im fearless aud in- dependent fashiou and solely in the imierests of bu- manity, this terrible investigation, MR. SCHUYLEK’S PRELIMINARY REPORT, ULIPOPOLIS, August 10, 1876, Sim—In relerence to the atro commited by the Lurks in Bulgar to intorm you that L have visited tb nople, Piuiippupolis aud ‘Catar-Bazarojik, and the Villages of dieuimakho, Kadi-Keui, Kritshina, Perus- I have the honor towns of Adria. titea, Peshtera, Radulovo, Batak, ‘Kalaglari, Panagu- fivtita (Otiuk-kui), Koprisuuisa (Avrat-Alan) aud | Kiissura (Ye or Dervent), mm tue districts of | Phiippopo! rdjik. From what | baye personally seen and from the in- quiries 1 have mace and the iniormauon 1 have re- delved 1 have ascerta ned the following lacts:— During the last winter aud spring, agents of the Bulgariay Committee at Bucbarest made an agitaden jor ao insurre no against the Turkish und met wiih cousiderable eucouragement mo: g the younger ation, Owing to the betray ction broke out prematurely on the Ist apd 24 01 May in the villages suri, Koprisutitsa, ristia, Novo-Sclo, ya, and, perhaps, one or two otbers. ‘There was | great alurti, andeven & panic, at Tatar-Bazdrujik and | Fhilippopoiis ; numerous tel Ss were Feni to the | Vorte lor regular troops, whiet, after some delay, were beys of Phiippopolis and Adritnople practically seized on the yovernment, and armed tue | Mussuiman muabitants of the towns aud of the coun- iry, arms being seut for that purpose trom Adranvple Constantivopie. Tue 1 Mugsulm. lrreguiar troops or busbiebazouks, — wer: together with the few regular »ps gent into & campaign ag the r vill gers, for the — purposo of wong | down the wsurrection and of disarming the Christian population, But few Circassians seem to kaye been employed at time. Their settlements are eest of Adriai as a levee en masse of the Mussulman | Villages against their Christian neighbors, The msurgeat Villages mace Lite or no resistance, Iu mony instances (hey surrendered their arms upon the first demand, Nearly ail tho villages whicu were | siiacked by the bashi-bazouks were burned and pil- | laged, as Were also ali those which had been aban- | aoued by the terrified inhabitants. The intabitants of some Villages Were massacred aller exlibisious of the most ferocious cruelty, and the violation not only of wouien and girls, Ut eVen of persons of the other sex, These crimes Were commitied by the reguiar troops as well as by the bashi-bazouks. SIXTY-FIVE VILLAGES BURNED, | The number of villages which were burned in whole oF in parti the districts of PLihppopolis, Roptebns, and Talur-Bazarajik 1s at least sixty-tive, of which the pames are as iollow bist Names of Vi Y OF PHILIPOPOPLIS. urches. Schools. Hndjerli. 1 i Stare Nove 1 i Yulestintea. .. 1 i Krustov 1 i Uann-geren “a Br 1 1 Pasiitusba 1 os darebrichka, 1 1 Kori... 1 1 1 1 bs 1 2 2| = a meee Narisa-Keut. en eer Boikovo. 1 1 Dudevo piove, . houses burned, i plundered, not burned. DISTRICT OF TATAMM-AZAKDIIK, Klissura (Versiten Dervent)... 700 1 2 Koprishiiea (Avrat-Aian)..... plundered, not burned, Baie " Victrona. Streets Poprntsa Kauuiovo.. KaraM Mavov Akaudjeivo.. banaxteh Dogunovo, (mixeu). 1 eered Meteo terete tat Dere-Orman Syrt-Orman, PEEPULeSreaeredt = so Liamove. Shiak iar, 1 1 1 1 7 i 1 Dinkata . Raresi Alakatel Bichukove aluyerov Lusitchove, Metetika Petrieh Lestnnso. . Fawaguristia (Otiak-ieu This list may vot irrrsrt ereretered Wes ed ered is revered fa Wed i brereyen eyererorerorarerss i 1 1 i i 1 * Have boil Turkis they may be repeated in or two | Sowe villages. too, are probably oimitted. Ow the of st certain ibe pop cages [ have houses. in geo of a family is that there and even many r of father In the larger Vilages the lower sic ¢ of stone, | the roots are tiled, the general air uf comiori nud we tention was given by the troops Schovls, whieh in some cascs Wer tro.eum aud gurpowder, The aitars were overt the pictures painted on the walls scrateled and pie aud the holy places detiled anu desecrated | Besides the Villages, Jour monasteries were burned— St, Teodor, uear Perustitea; the Panaga and the Bers rabrinitsa, near Krotsiima, and St, Nicolas, near Kalo. yerovo. these villages were | The Turks allege that many of burned by the insurgents for the purpose of compel ing the Bulgarian inhabitants to Jom them, Tam un able to find that su h was tue case in more than (wo or | three mstances, and even here the proot ' Al Bollova the insuryents burned the ral in Whiel some Zaptiebs ad taken refuge. Ih ae very dittoult ty estimate the number of Bulgari- ans who were killed during the few days that th Surbances iasted, bet [am inclined to put 16,000 es the lowost (or the districts I have uamed. The manner in which the troops did their work will Be seen froma few act é yh the spot from persons who escaped row t TURKISH DU Perustitsa, a tuwn of 400 houses and between 3,000 and 4,000 inhabitants, took no active part in the insure Tection. Becoming alarmed at the aitiiade of the Turks im the neigh voring villages, the inhabitants sent a deputation to Aziz Pacha, the Mutessarit of Philipp. | Opolis, ior regular troops to defend (nem He returned A written mesenge that he had no troops te send a that they must defend themseives, When the Basbi-Bazouks appeared Leiore wie town they theres | were | points of bayone | Fully 5,000 persons, a very large proportion ot the | that you have not toiled ta vain, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11; 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. lore refused to surrender, entrenched themselves in a church, retreating Nnally to another, and bel out for five days, aatil they saw the regular troops under Rashid Pacha, when the remainder gave themsely up. Many of the imhabizants escaped at the beginning of the straggle, but many were shot down, The church was bombarded, and about 1,000 in all were killed, many of them women and childrex. The town was” pillaged and completely burned; not a single house being How Blanding. Many women were Vioiaied, The floorjof the church, the churchyard, and many of the gardens were diy up atierward 1m arch for buried reasure, The Basbi-Bazouks here were commanded bye Ahmed-Aea, of Tamrysh, who Was sudsequently rewarded with a silver medal, TUSSUM bRY'S EXPMOITS, Klissura was nearly twice the size of Perustitea and proportioustely richer, as many of the mbabitants aged im the tnanufacture of attar of roses, y Were merc! ants travelling through the the insurrectionary movement began bere on of May, botit was pot until the 12th that the oaks, under the command of Tussum Bey, » attacked Lhe place. A lew shots were tired, when the Villagers surrendered and fled to Koprish- ta and to the mountains, More than 250 giul rians were killed, enietiy women and children, “The turks claim that fourteen Mussulinen (in part gypsies) were killed Delore and during the fight. As soon as the Bashi-Basouks entered the town the; it and burned i. Among other things 400 copper Stills used in taking attar of roses were carried away to the Turkish villages, Subsequent parties curried olf all that Was left, even to the nails trom the doors, and the tiles from the rools. ‘The church was desecrated aud biown up. Tussum Bey for this exploit was decor- ated with (he Mejidie, Koprishtitss (Avrat-Alan), although one of the first to rebel, was one Of the iast to be attacked. by the fate of Khssura and Panagurish’a, the ig nbabitants themselves arrested ihe ringleaders of the insurrection and sent to Phillippolis for regular troops. Iu spite of this the bearers of submission were fired on, and one, the priest Dontcho, was killed, the town Was several times pillaged, muily of the wome: were violated and about thirty persous were killed, Ne LOWL Was ROL burned, and a general massucre was voided by large presents of money paid by the tead- inbabitans to the Jurkish commanders, Thre 5 were, However, fired at the chureh, out did iittie damage, The villagers admit kiliing ten Turks and forty eypsies—the latter being suspected of an inten- thon to plunder the town, The Turks claun a total loss of seventy-oue. Panagurishta (Otluk-kui) was attacked vy a force of regwur troops, together with basui-bozouks, on whe 11s of May, Apparentiy no message to surrender was sent After a sight opposi.ion ou the part of the 1n- surgepts the town was taken, Many of the inbab- itatits fled, but about 3,000 Were massacred, the most of them being women and children. Of these about 400 belouged to the town of Panagurishta, aud the others to nine neighboring villages, the inhabianis of which had taken Fetuge there, Four hundred buildings, in- Cluding the bazaar and the largest and best houses, burned. Both churches were completely de- stroyed, and almost Jevelled to the ground. In one an oid tian was Violated on the altar and aiterward burned alive, Iwo of the schools were burned, the third— looking like a private house—eecaped, From tue nu- merous statements made to me hardly a woman in the town escaped violation and brutal treatment. The Tultlans attacked children of eigbt and old women of eighty, sparing neiwher age wor sex. Old men bad pad my country the 2d 10 sli their eyes torn out and their limbs cutoff, and were then leit todie unless zome more charitably disposed tman gave them the {pal thrust PREGNANT WOMKN WEAN RIPPED OPEN and the unborn baves carried triumphantly on the and sabres, while litte children were made to beur the dripping heads of tieir comrades, This scene of rapine, lust and murder was continued for shree days, when the survivors were made to bury the bodies of the dead. The perpetrators of these utro- cities wore chictly regular troops commanded by Hallz Pacha, The Turks claim and the villagers admit the geath of fourteen Musxulmaxs, two of whom wero wouien who were killed with arms in their bands during a coutlict with a party that refused to surrender to the insurgents, While pillage reigned rupreme at Koprishtitsa, and lust at Panagurishta, at Butak the Lurks seemed to have no sironger passion than the thirst tur blood. ‘This village surrendered without tirmg a shot, alter a promise of sulety, to the bashi-bazouks, under the command of Abmed Aga, of Buruuna, a chiet of the rural police. Despite bis prowise, the few arms once surrendered, Akmod Aga ordered ‘the destruction of the village and the indiscriminate slaughter of the in- habitants, about 100 young girls being reserved to sat- iaty the lust of the conqueror belore they tov should be'killed, 1 saw their bones, some with the flesh still chnging to them, in the hollow on the bili side, where the dogs were ghuwing them. Not a house is now standing in the midst of this lovely valley. ‘The saw mills--lor the town had a large trade in timber and sawn boards—which lined the rapid — little river are ail burned, and of the $000 inbab- Hants net 2,000 ‘are known to — surviv women und chiluren, perished bere and their bon whiten the ruins or their putrid bodies infect the ai ‘The sight of Butak is enough to verify ali that bas been said about tho acts of the Turks in repressing the Bulgarian insurrection. And yet I saw it three months aficr the mussucre, On every side were human bones, skulls, ribs and even skeletons, heads of girls stull adorned with braids of long hair, bones of children, skeietous sitll encased in clothing. Hero waa a house, the floor of which was white with the ashes and charred bones of thirty persons burned alive there. Hero was tue spot where the village notable Trandatil was spitied on apike and then roasted, and where he 1s now buried; Were was a foul hole tull of decomposing Lodies. Lere a mill dam filled with swollen corpses; here the school house, where 200 women and children who had taken reinge there were burned alive, apd here the church and churchyard, where fuliy'1,000 hail-decayed forms were sull io be seen, filing the enclosure in a heap several feet bigh, arms, fect und beads protruding trom the stoves which had vainly been thrown there to hide them, and poisoning all the air. nce my visit, by orders of the Mutessarif, the imakam of Tatar Bazardjik was sent to Batak with some lime to aid ih the dcomposition of the bodies and to prevent a pestilence. THE MUZDEERK PROMOTED, Ahmed Aga, who commanded atthe massacre, has been decorated and promoted to the rank of Yuz- ashi. These atrocities were clearly unnecessary for the suppression of the insurrection, for it was an insignill- cant rebeilion at the best, and the villagers generally surrendered at the first ‘summons, Nar can they be justified by the state of panic, which was over balore the troops set out on the campaign, An attempt, hows ever, has been mnde—and not by Turks alone—to de- fond'and to paliiate them on the groundot the pre- Vious atrocities which, it Is alleged, were committed by the Bulgarians, I have careluily investigated this point, and am unable yo find thatthe Balgariaus com- mitted any ouirages or atrocities, or any acts which deserve that name, have vainly tried to obtain fom the Tarkish otti heard vothin but vague statements, 1 was told by ani Pacha that the insurgents killed the wile and ughter of the Mudir of Koprishtitsa; but this Madir had recently gone there and had jeft’bis wife at Eski Saara, where she still resties, and bad no daughter, 1 was also told of the slaughter of the wile of the Madir of Panagurisita, but at the ime mentioned that Fillage had no Mudir. ‘I was referred for 1aformation to Hatiz Nuri Effendi, a leading lurk of Phiippopolis, In a very careiul statement made by hint he sets the number ot DMussuimans (including gypsies) kilied during the troubles at 159, of woom twelve are women and chile cren—the word childrea taken to mean any one under twenty years of age. [have been able to obtain proof th of only two of these women—at Panagu- iniy were not intentionally killed, No Turkish women or children were killed in cold blood. No Mussuiman women were violated, No Mus- sulmans were tortured, No purely Turkish village attacked or burned. No Mussulman housc was pillaged. No mosque was desecrated or costroyed, The report of the special Turkish Commissioner, Edi) Efendi, contains statements on this point, ag on every other. Which are utterly unfounded in fact, and the whole report may be characterized as a tissue of false. hoods 1am, sit, yours very truly EUGENE SCHUYLER, The Hon, Horace Mayyanp, &e, TURKS ‘‘INVESTIGATED” ATROCITIES, [From the Daily News, August 31.) Piruirvorornis, August 1@, 1876, Philippopolts—avbreviated into Filibe by the Turks, called Plovdiv by the Bulgarians—supposed to have beon founded by Philip of Macedon, is probably the picturesquely situated place im the interior of Turkey, tis bait on alow, steep mountain, whieh, scen from the south, presents masses of nearly per- pendieul between and among whieh the how are wedged in, clinging tothe uneven, rugged front, like swallows’ nests, Very beautiful itappoars seen from the broad valley of the Maritza, with tue white wails of the houses, the dark green of the trees, and sullen brown of the sandstone cliffs ail blending » one harmontous picture in the bri warm suu- now THE TRE shine, The lover of the ptcturesque will not be altogether disappoiuted either, upon entering the town, thongb lover of the comfortable and the convenient inay, The narrow, crooked streets wind and corkscrew them: seives up the steep slope in the most uncertain and vacillating fashion, twisting about among the masses of houses, and turning sharp around corners, as though not quite sure of the roa hesitating whether it would not be botter to give up the attempt as a bad job 1, and and go back to the bottom agun, Half of them are so steep and narrow as iw be impassa- ble for carriages, and many 80 steep that even donk would find their ascent a aiMouit undertaking, were it not tor the rude stone steps that offer in bad weather a somewhat precarious footing. Many of the houses are smaccessible to car. nd the owners who have carriages, neverthe- are obliged to descend from them a long distance from their doors and make tho rest of the way on foot, | THR KIANS OF PuILvvOPOLIE But once you get up into these airy perches you find The houses are largo 4 roomy, the air is cool and bracing, and the view valley of the broad Maritza, with the Balkans lying splendid, I wo hot, however, advise tourists to come hore for their pleasure unless they are prepared to rough it in the most primitive manner, or unless they bave letters of introduction that will insure their boing received into private houses, There are w Ey over the sleepy ‘ond, i s alist of such outrages, but have | | vitation which we readily | ing man of about forty, | that where you can have the freedom of an unfurmshea Toom, and privacy, too, provided you bring your own door with you. Unless you bring this necessary arti- cle of furniture with you, in the shape of a horse blanket or a rug or an Ulster overcoat, you will proba. bly Gad a number of inquisitive boys assisting at your toilet in open eyed wonder. Another inconvenience uttending these rooms ja that they aro generally innavited by a large and active community, who show their hospitality by instantly inviting you to a supper ¢ fa Poionius—not where you eat, but where you are must industriously eaten, “As I had pot come provided with a fail set of bedroom and drawing room furniture, together with doors and windows, | declined the proflered uccommodations of these khans, and gladly accep the hospitality of Dr. Ventilos, a Greek physicun, an old resident of the plice, who opened his doors, first to Mr. Schuyler aud alterward to me, with the most cordial nospitality. A PRUT LERT HANGING IN THE STREET. The first remarkable object which attracted my at- tention upon entering the — str of Philip. popolis was pot one that was calculate! to maxe me feel particularly light hearted and = merry. it was a priest, who standing in a greengrocer’s shop ina very retlective mood, ior be had his hands belind bis back and his head’ slighty incined forward and to one side, seeining to imdicate that be was gaz ing'at the ground in a@ brown study. There was a small crowd of poople on the other side of the street watching bim—a very silent crowd it was, that seemed slight'y awe struck, for it proffered not a found or amurmur, As 1 came nearer J perceived that the fect of this priest Were not quite touching the litle platiorm beiore the door of the greengrocer’s hop, ana, upon looking more closely to find out the cause of the strange phenomenon, I obsorved a szoall rove proceeding irom his neck to a beam a couple of feet overhead, He was hanging there, aimost in the doorway of the greengrocer’s shop, with bis | near the ground, so ealmiy and placidly, that { have parsed Dini by withont noticing bim vad been for the crowd over the way, He was a tine look- ‘There were wooden shoes on the feet, which were without stockings; a small sheep- skin cap on the bead, and the beard, which iell down over the chest, was slightly flecked wih gray. Evi- dently a peasant prieat—a priest of the people—bat the sunburnt face, which wus notin the least distorted, wore | a caim, stern, but mornful expression that was | strangely impressive. They sad he had died very | bravely. His step never faltered as he mounted the | green-grocer’s steps, and bis voice never trembled as | he looked around upon the assembled crowd and gave them his biessing. He hada wite aud five httle chil- aren, too, whom he left penniless and whom we afterward saw at Avrat-Alun. Sho came to us there at the house where we were stopping, with her ilve litle ones —a comely peasant woiwan of about thirty—and told us her story in her strange, meludious tongue, which so much resembles the Russian, pointing to her | babes, wringing ber hands, and finally beating her head | on tho ground in the extremity of her despair. Tho | only comlort we couid give her waa to tell her that her busbend died bravely, which did not seem to console—sher at all, as it should have dove a warlike wowan. Selim Effendi, the head of the tribunal for the trial of the | insurgents, a short time ago a telegraph employs, told us he had been guilty of fomouting the insur but as the depositions of witnesses Were taken in secret by Sclim, with no advocate to cross-question them, and as Mr,’ Schuyler obtawed proof that he | employed torture with a View to obtaining evidence, especially for the conviction of priests and school teachers, we may take the liberty of expressing our doubts of this priest’s guilt, a8 upen the of Selim’s judicial capacity and honest A TURKISH INVESTIGATION, L called on tho Mutte-Sarif, or Govervor of the place, next day in company with Mr. Sebuyler. There we inet Kian Pacha, who was sent bere to inquire into the atrocities committed by the Bashi-Buzouks aod to punish, or rather to not punish, the offenders, The mission of Kiani Pacha here was another of those plausibly coutrived Turkish plans for throwing dust in the eyes of Eurcpe. it was announced to all the world that he was tocome and puuish the perpetrators of these misdeeds with all the severity that justice re- quired, and we of course supposed he was to punish the Bashi-Bazouks who committed the alrecities gt May as well as those of Juiy, Not at all, He was noteven empowered to inquire into the monstrous massacres of May, but only those which were com- mitted within the last few days and the latter part of July, The Porte took good care not to make this dis- tinction wuen announcing the good news to the world, and gavo us to understand that the perpetrators ot ail these atrocities were to be tried und punished. Kiani Pacha was very affable, very {rieudly and very plau- sible, He spoke of the sad churactor of this ervil war, ‘of the woes of bis distracted country, of the difficulty of governing a people like theso Bulgarians, who were mere brutes and savages, of the feartul character of the insurrection avd the terrivie acts of mhumanity commited by the insurgents, which had finally driven the Mussulman population ‘to up arms to defend their hearths and their homes. No doubt they had committed sume excesses, but they had been driven to them by these savage Bulgarians, who gpared neither age nor £ox, and Who, he gave us to understand, deserved ail they got. We tried to get him to mention some definite acts of atrocity com- mitted by the Bulgarians, out he could give us only Vague and general assurances that they were very nu- imerous and very aggravated. Finally, however, be mentioned the wife of the Mudir of Oiluk-kui and the wile and daughter of the Mudir of Avrat-Alan, both of which cases Mr, Schuyler investigated, and, as I have already stated im a previous letter, ‘found them to be without tho slightest foundation in fact, He further spoke blandly of the simplicity and supe- riority of the Turkish courts of jusiice ax compared with the English, the absence of wigs and gowns, and of wil form and ceremony; the directness and rapla:iy with which they arrived ’at the truth, and the leniency and mercy with which they treated their prisoners. Mr, Schuyler remarked that’ the procedure would be more satisiactory if the depositions of witnesses were taken publicly instead of in secret session, and that tt migut be interesiing to know what sort of cross-ques- tioning these witnesses were subjected to, and what other means were employed to make them tell the truth, Kiaui winced a nitle, but smiled on, and said it was notin the Turkish procedure to take the de- positions of witnerses openly, ana that it therefore could not be done, but that after baving been taken down the depoa:tions were read in open court, in the presence of the accused, which was, aiter all, the ame thing. A TURKISH PACHA. Isnall have more to say about Tarkish tribunals anon, As W the Matte-Sarif, he had very little to say, Besides the tact that Kian Pacha was is superior in rank and therefore did most of the talking, he spoke no European iangaage, and all our talk with him bad to be carried on through an interpreter, which puis a, very elfectual obstacle in the Way ofan animated con. versation, Alter the usual compliments were passed he contented himself with imviting us to dinner, an in- accepted, after which he had very little more to say for himseit while our visit Jasted, He went on with his work while Mr. Schuyler and Kiant Pacha kept up the conversation, gad 1 was considerably amused in watching the way” in which this Governor of a town of 60,000 iuhabitants transacted business. He was a smal, elderly man of about sixty, with a perfectly white beard, cut off rather close round he face, and avery mild expression of countenance. fe sat or rather knelt 19 alarge arm chair, with bis feet drawn up under him, not cross-legged like the traditional Turk is supposed to always be doing, bat more like the people of Contral Asia, and every now and then he would hop down trom his perch when the occasion required, and then hop back again as hightly as a young man of iwenty. He was very active and quick in all bis movements, and not at all the heavy phlegmatic sort of party Lhad expeeted to see in a genume Turk- ish pacha. He Was avout as different in appearance from the ‘Pacha of Many Tales as couid well be im: agined, Bestde mim was a jittle table with writing materials, irom which every now and then he took irregular bits and scraps of paper, and wrote on them while holding them i his band, as is the cestom of peo- ple who write these characters, without the aid of desk or book, Then he would ring a lite bell, where- upon would enter a Very black uecro with very white eyes, avery long coat and very long trousers, that seemed to have been made for the great Irish giant, who Would take this scrap of paper between bis thumb and Ginger a5 though ho Were going io pick his teeth with it, and’ then walk out backward, holding it up betore bis eyrs, awe struck, This Matic-Sarit seemed to bea very honest, con- seientioas man, aud he appeared to be really tying to adtuimister his Wistriet with justice and vigor, ale had been thero nearly two months now, and as yet, it was said, be had never intimated a desire for a bribe, which was conetfored a vory wonderful thing by the Greeks of Philippopolis, Who vegan to regard bin ag a paragon ot virtne, He wes, bestaes, accused of being over friendly to the Balgarinis by the Turks, who were loudty de- manding bis recall He was so mild and soft in his hat Was in him. good Pacha, It ived that 9 iF words and pro- words andthatthey bore no truit, @ did not only not do what he promised, but did exactly the contrary, that wo began to doubt him, 1 | cannot say even yet that | live tormed a positive | opinion on the merits of the man, | sometimes think that if leit to himself, with means to entoree his order he might make a weak eflort to do what was right, am 1am imel.ned te believe that 1 he tesued orders’ that the miserable people of Batak and the other burnt vil- lages would be obliged to pay their taxes as though nothing had happened, it was because he bad received instructions to do se Irom Constantinople. But then we learned afterward that he was« brother of Chefket Pacha, the man who burnt Bazardjik, and this helped to incteage our doubts with regard to bitn. A MG DINNER. manners, and sected so really apxious to do right, that iora time we were s We the was not ii we matueg wero oni i ‘The dinner he offered us was a colossal one, It was a sort of combination of a Turkish and a Frank dinner, | multiplied by about ten. We dic not sit in acirele on the ground and all cat with our fingers trom the same dist, but around a large table, in the midst of which was large boaquet of flowers, and we ate with sliver knives and fork But 1 was a most uniooked tor dim. net nevertheless, full of surprises, of pitiaiis dug tor the feot of the unwary, of ambuscides and traps lad for the rash and ihe beodiess. Thore were some twonty-ilve or thirty courses, and three times did the fruits and the sweets come in, lending ime to believe we were approaching the end; three times uid I attack them only to be surprised and overwhelined by more roast beel, more botied mutton, more ragoits, more chickens, ‘more game, more partr ore fish, more pilaof, more cabbage and potatoes, that camo down upon me in crushing and unexpected quantities, it was more than man could bear, aad I finally the coutest. ‘ihe dinner commence 4 and continued anul midnight, by whieh time every: body retired from the assault, beaten and demoranzed, and there were «till whole companies and battalions of dishes of roast beef, of boiled mutton, of game, of ehieken, of ragouts, of ail sorts ot Turkish “fixtns,” fruity and sweets, ready to charge down upon us in irregular disorderly masses, had we shown the slightest | Bigh Of resistance, This diner had no sense of the | Fidicnlous It would have gone on repeating itself over and over again all night like « Stage army, had we allowed i, 1 must say, however. that everything . 3 at first sight seemed to be | hotels in the place, but only khans or caravansaries, | was very good, and could wo have bad about ten days t to eat itin, the dianer would have been a very great success, ERASTERN HOSPITALITY. Another fact connected with 1, which added zest to our enjoyment of the entertainment, was that ali the clerks whom wo had observed employed about the chancellary of the Governor Selem Effevdi and of Kiani Pacha were now waiting at table, and I must say that the trained waiters of the Muxison Doré or the Moulin Rouge would not have done it any better, fact should not be taken as derozatory to the clerks in question, for, so far from considering it as a menial service, they look upon it as an Louor, Here in the East it is still regarded as an bonor to wait upon the table of a guest or a superior in rauk, and it 18 regarded only as a way of testifying respect. Especially 15 this the case among the Bulgarians, for the master or eidest son of the house will wait upon you at table, and not con- sider bis dignity in the least imperiled by it, One day we were accoinpamed for several hours by an Arme- nian army contractor, who rode with us aud talked to us on terms of perfect equality. He was very rich, and had at that time a very large contract tor supply- ing beef to the army; bul that evening, when We ar, rived at the houge of the Mutte-Sarif to take dinner, ho ‘ed behind my chair with the servants, and ed upon us throughout the dinner in the most care- ful and conscientious manner; and when we left ho stood at the door and shook bards with us ail as we went out. WHAT THE ENGLISH PAPERS SAY. (From the London Times, August 30.) Although we havo not Mr. Baring’s report, we have 4 preliminary report from Mr. Schuyler, the American Consul General, to Mr. Maynard, the Minister of the United States at Constantinople, which contains the results of a searching personal investigation made by hom in a visitation of the villages laid waste. It isa preliminary report, because Mr. Schuyler bad not finished his inquiries at the time it was written, but as far as it goes it is detailed and complete. It confirms the worst that had been said or written betore, and even adds hogrors that bad not been betore re- vealed. The letter read by Sir Charies Diike at the meeting of his constituents at Nottinghill led us to expect this, aud we do not know that anybody now denies the substantial accuracy of the darkest piciures thet have been drawn of the atrocities in Bulgaria, Ail that 1s now attempted is lo suggest, somewhat feedly, that derds quite as foul were committed on the other side, which set tho example of inbumanity; but this palliation of Turkish outrages 18 met and refuted in Mr. Schuyler's report, in which the few specific statements that havo been made on the subject are examined and exposed, and the conclusion established, as far as any universal nezative can be established, that although some Turks were kitled in the course of the fant flicker of Bul- | Karian insurrection, no outrage or atrocity stains its reoord, (From the Daily News, Aug. 20.) It will be seen that those portions of Mr. Schuyler’s report which relate to towns and villages reported on by our special commissioner paint the airocities of the Turks in even darker colors than that gentleman had done. Mr. Schuyler was in constant intercourse with the Ottoman autho, tes throughout this inquiry, and he has taken great pains to ascertain what were those atrocities said to have been committed by the Balgarians at the beginning of these troubles which have been so often referred to in Parhament and elsewhere as having consiituted the provocation under which the Turks acted, and his statements on this subject are especially deserving of attention, The Turkish officials were, of course, the proper persons to give him information on these points, and they undertook to do so, but their attempts com pletely broke down, ‘I have varefutly investigated this pomt,”” says Mr. Schuyley, ‘and am unable to find that the Bulgarians committed any outrages or atrocities, or any acts which deserve that name.” He asked the Turkish officiais fora hist of such acts, but they had none to give him; he could only obtain vague state- ments which proved basoless when investigated. From bis inquiries it results that “no Turkish women or children wero killed in cold blood; no Mussulman women were violated; no Mussulmans were tor- tured; no purely Turkisp village was attacked or burned; no Mussvlman home was pillaged; no Mousque was desecrated or destroyed.” Edib ffendi, the Special Turkish Commissioner, told, indeed, a very different siory, but his ‘whole re- port,”? Mr, Schuyler writes, “may be characterized as a tissue of faischoods."’ Wo may take it then as catab- lished that when Sir Henry Elliot wrote home that tho Bulgarians bad perpetrated atrocities which were the cuuse of those alterward committed by the Turks, snd Woen the Prime Minister repea! d the statement tn the House of Commons, both™ were grossly deceived by their Tarkish informants. Another point on which Mr, Schuyler furnishes val- uable information is the share of the Imperial Ottoman goyernment in these alrocitics, THE NAVY YARD COLLISION. Usitep States STEAMER PLyMovt! Harvon or New York, sept 10, 1876. To tnx Epitor or tax Heraup:— Your leader and the tetter of your Navy Yard corro- spondent, which have appeared in this morning's issu, are both unjust and incorrect, producing an unfavora- ble opinion on tho commanding officer of this vessel. Your Navy Yard correspondent is not logical, as he contradicts himself in tho latter part of the letter, wherein ho describes the fancies of his imagination. The Plymouth was not at the Navy Yard when she got undor way to proceed to sea. The accident did not oc- cur yesterday, Dut on the 7th inst. Sho did not sustaim tne dainages mentioned in the letter—thac ia, “carrying away her head gear, mizzon topmast, and injuring ber bulwarks,” and so far from needing ex- tensive repairs khe could have proceeded to sea the samo evening, Her damages were repaired yesterday attour P. M., and the Plymouth would have gone to sea this morning if the Captain vad Hot received a de- epatch to await here further orders. I believe you seck truth, and you will do me the justice to correct the error of your correspondent ax well as the unfavorable opinion expressea by your leader, NAV THE GERMAN WORKMEN. Yesterday morning at six o'clock the news was tele- graphed to this eity from Sandy Hook that the Bremen stcamsiip Mosel, bringing among ber passengers the twenty-oight workingmen delegates trom the German Empire, was approaching the port from the eastern offing. At about ning o’elock the Mosel was moored at the end of her wharf at Hoboken, where the German Consul General of New York, Dr. Schumaker, with Mr, William Steinway, the piano maker, of this city, and a large number of German workmen from this and neighboring cities had gathered to meet the German labor represeutatives. As soon as they left the wharf they Iunched in Hobo- ken and then proceeded to the Union Hotel, kept by Mr. Marmont, at No. 465 Fourth avenue, between Thir- rst and Yoirty-second streets. Yesterday atternvon they visited Contra! Park. ihe party wiil probably re- main ten days at Philadelphia viewing the Centen=aal, after which they will visit tho Fails of Niagara, Tho German Consul at Philadolp iia, Mr. GH. Meyer, has organized a reception committse for the men. EN MAN. FREAKS OF A‘ DRUNK: James Stanley on Saturday ovening wanted to cross to Brooklyn, but being very drunk, was turned away from tho ferry. Ho strayed to the foot of pier 22 Kast River, and either fell or jumpea overboard. He was rescued by Ollicer Hulso and taken tothe station house, While there he attempted to hang himself with a blankot which had been given him to wrap bimseif in while his clothes were getting dried. Yesterday the would-be suicide was tuken before Jase tice Morgan at the Dombs roiice Court. He was quite sober and rational looking. The Justice asked him why he attempted suiciae. “I was very drunk, Your Honor,” he replieg, “and didn't Know what’ I was doing." Ho was committed to the Island for ten days, EXCURSION FOR THE NEWSBOYS. Mr, John H; Starin, of Starin’s City, River and Harbor ‘Transportation Company, will give an excursion on esday next to Raritan Bay to the newsboy# and boot blacks. The boys will assemble in City Hall Park ab seven o'clock on Tuesday, Thore will be plonty of fun aud soincthing to cat for 2,500 of the Inds LONG ISLAND AGRIC QUEENS couNTY. Tho thirty-fitth annual full exhibition of the Queens County Agricultural Society will be held ou the So- ciety’s fair grounds, at Mineola, on Tuesday, Wednes- day und Thursday, the 26:h, 27th and 28th inst The President, Mr. Horatio S$, Parke, and the other officers of the society, have been untiring in their efforts to make thie exhibition the most successful one over held in Qucens county, and the prospect 18 that their auticl- pations will be fully realized and that the fair will ate tract a large attendance vithstanding the counter attraction of the great Centenniul Exnibition, During the season Mr. Varke has secured a considet num. ber of $100 life memberships and im enlisting the sym pathy anu co-operation o! several prominent gentiem who bave not heretofore been Wdentifed with the Inter: ests of the society, In addition to the regular histor premiums offered oy the society, the number of special premiums is quite large, covering a great variety of productions and calculated to stimulate active compe- tition. LLURAL FAIRS, SUFFOLK COUNTY, The annuwl {all fair of the Suffolk County Agrieul- tural Society will aiso be held in the last week of tho present month, and the officers have been working to joake i a praud success, many new features having veon introduced. A centennial collection, sitnilar to that of the Queens County Society last June, promises tobe of much interest and ateraction. The re Premium list is very full, aud in addition the a number of specials, among them one by J. M. Rawards for the best collection of foreign curiosities, and one by ©. 0. Wells jor Uhe three Lest uressed dolls, open '0 all girls in the county ander twelve years old.’ On two evenings during the cootinuancd of the tar, whieh is to be heid at Kiverbead, thore will be moctings for free discussion, when jarmers and others may inter- change views ag to agricultural methods, &e. A POISON MANUFACTURER. Now a German Lager Beer Saloon Keeper Doetored His Customers. A CASE FOR THE BOARD OF HEALTH Yesterday afternoon word was sent to Coroner Croker that a woman named Mrs. Anna Beisky, aged thirty-five, was lying dangeronsly ill at her residence, No. 423 Fitth street, and he was requested to take ber ante-mortem deposition. Tho Coroner proceeded thither with bis deputy, Dr. MacWhinnie, and after asking a few quostions and learning that the lady was suffering from vegetable hydrocyavic acid poison- ing departed without making the ante-mortem exam- ination that had been requested by her attending phy- sictan. A Heratp reporter then made an investigation of, the case, whicn resulted in the revelation of the most alarming facts, He found that the deadliest poison known to ecience 18 boing extensively used in all parts of the city, and is bought cheaply or elso manu- factured by persons totally ignorant of its preparation or dangerous qualities, it is put up in botties, without a label, and placed where it can easily be used by chil- dren or others incapable of knowing its effects, The poison referred to 18 vegetable hydrocyanic acid, the essential principle of oi of bitter almonds. The facts in the case of Mrs. Belsky are as follows:— On she night of September 4 Mr. Carl Belsky, of No. 423 Fifth street, with bis wife, Anna, wore preparing 10 go out to @ rehearsal, held at the “Headquarters of the Bohemian Firet Brass and Quadrille Baud,” at No. 162 East Fourth street, kept by one Anton Koehier, Mrs. Belsky was complaining of toothache at the time, and the pain continued during the performance. Alter it was over her husband suggested that she should take some brandy to allay the peuralgic aching. Anton Koehler, the proprietor of the saloon was at the bar, and, when the liquor was called for, said:--‘‘Here, I'll give yoa something to cure the toothache.’ He produced asinall vial and poured about a table- epoontul of its contents into the brandy, Feoling par- tiahy relievea Mrs. Belsky took two more glasses, about the same quantity of the unknown liquid bemg poured into each, About half-past ten she arose.to return home, but fell down ina fit after having gone only a fow steps. Her busband procured assistance and had her carried home, Between five and six o'clock tho next day Dr, Ed- mund H. Moritz, of No. 97 Third street, was called to attend the sick lady. On entering the room the doctor at once perceived tho peculiar smell of bydrocyanic acid. He asked Mr. Belsky if they bad any such article in the house, as the lady must have drank some of it. Mr, Bolsky replied that they had not, but on the doo- tor’s still imsisting, he recoilectod the liquid that his wife had taken at the liquor saloon in Fourth street, and told the doctor of it, The latter, on examining the patient, found all tho symptoms of vegetable hydro- cyanic intoxication or cyanosis, Her arms and {aco were dark blue, lips black, and foam was coming out of her mouth, She was icebly moaning, and had paraly- sis of the glottis, so that doglutition was very dii- cult, The doctor prescribed the usual remedies of ammonis and turpentine taken in black coffee, The Jady’s radial pulse was entirely gone for nearly three hours in spite of continual rubbing of the hand, only & faint beating of the heart giving notice that she was alive, The doctor remained several hours at her resi- dence, until the beating of the palse returned. He then went with Mr. Belsky to Koehler’s saloon and asked to be shown the bottle from which the poi- sonmous liquid had been poured. The doctor opened the bottle and smelled of it, the fumos being so strong that he nearly got sick himeolf. Ho knew that tho poison was used in smal, quantities, one or two drops toa gallon, in Kirsch water, to givo it a peculiar bitter flavor, much loved by epicurean Teutons. Calling for a glass of water he poured a drop of tho liquid into it and the whole as- sumed a milky huo. Tho solution he then exhibited to the customers in the saloon, showing them the effects of the liquid and explaining its dangerous prop- erties. The proprietor of the saloon then took the Dottle and threw it into thestreet. Mr. Belsky is a friend of the proprietor, Mr. Koebler, and wished to hush up the facts in the case for fear of getting him in trouble. Dr. Moritz refrained from making any re- portof the case until yesterday, when he felt it his duty to do so, as he considered the woman's death certain to occur within forty-eight hours. Dr. Hoelger, of No, 300 East Fourth street, and Dr. Siebuckle, were called jn to assist in the case. The husband at last agreed with the doctor and made no further objections to the case being laid before the Coroner. Dr, Moritz re- gretied very much that the ante-mortom statement had not been taken yesterday, as ihe lady was then adie to converse and be feared a relapse. He said that the post-mortem would not so readiy reveal uli the facts vf poisoning aud would have to be corrovorated by hear- say evidence. The boitiv from which the poison was poured had no label, and any ove might bave u edit, The proprietor of the saloon did not know the full strength of the Liquid he was selling. It is use+t by a great number ot | hquor dealers in this city to mix with different liquors, | principally brandy. One ignorant barkeeper could | poison thousands In one day with the mixtare, A Small quantity 18 suiticient to prodace death, Tho article can be bought freely at drug stores. Many saioon keepers, however, prefer to make it themseives, buying ovly the ruerials, as the cheaper metuod, They buy the essential oil of bitter almonas and flavor 1M with @ Hittle lemon juice. | The attention o: the Board of Health should certainly be directed to the generai use of this dangerous com- pound in our midst, In the present case Mr. Koehler was only prevented from poisoning hundreds ot others b prompt interference of Dr. Moritz, who ex- plained to him the naiure of the substance. A system vt inspection by the Board of Health would prevent such occurrences for the juture, WHEKE TUE POISON I8 DOLED OUT. Tho frightful case vf poisoning by hydrocyanic acid—or rather, as it proves, aa imitation of that fatal riificial ol of bilter aimonds—conveys a tear/ul 10 those who habitually take * bitters an their drimks. From the investigations made by Hsxa.p reporters it is undoubied!y true that in many of the Jager beer saloons in New York “bitters” are manu- jactured by the proprietors on the spot, and that often-+ times what purports to be imported “ KORNSCHNARES ”? is but the ossential oi! of bitter almonds, poorly diz- tilled, and only tit to flavor periumery and soap, and totally unlit to enter the human slomac, ‘Tue poorer elass of Germans, Poles and Bohemians, who drink | What is knows as ‘simmel,” and that to an imunoder- aie exient, are in the babit vt imereasing the flavor of that peculiar brandy by kornschnapps, both liquors undoubtedly being a combination of active pou which, although not proaucing immediate paralysis of the yal powers, are slowly but surely the cause of death, AY THE SALOON, A reporter paid a visit last evening to the lager beer hail of Anton Kociher, No. 162 Kast Fourth street, be- low First avenue. This piace is tue headquarters of the First Brass and Quutrille Band, and the proprietor isa Bohemian, and the man who admiaisiered ast Tuesday evening to Mrs. Anna Belsky a liquid to stop the toothache irom which the mufortunate woman was gnilering, anc which has caused suca a dreadful result, | Kweiher was found seated ata table drinking with sev- eral companions, while a small boy dealt out lager 1a | glasses to the tuirsty guests, and filled mugs and tin | pans with the sare liquid to ragged little gitls who came to the dingy bar. Cpon the errand of the reporter being made Known Koeluer arose from the table and takin. outa dirty slip of paper from his pocket com- | menaced to explain what he had given Mrs, Belsky. “Ls this the recipe trom waiea, the bitters were made!’ “Ya, yal” Will you read what 1t is and explain at??? ya! ein quarter, twenty-five ceut wort (worth) of mirbane, tlieeu cont wort bitter pomracta ehl, mix and make strong mit wasser."” Hetore going iurther it may be as weil to explain to | tho reader tuat the pomraecn eli reterred to is nothing moro or tess than pomerance oil, or oil of bitter oranges, kod that the mirbaue is the artificial ou of ter almousls, the mode of making which will be ex- plained Lereatter, “Where did you get this 2"? asked the reporter. “dt was given ime by Heinrich Peck, who has now gone to Bohemia; be make the boule full of whieh L gave Mrs, Kelsky, and then gave me this rale to make more; it 18 sehr gut—very good.” “How did you give it tothe “Io kimmel, Ya, itis better than kornschnapps."” Do ail the lager beer people use it?” “Ya, good bitters; mix it with water and brandy, "” “Then a largo bowie of this stuff costs you just torty cents?” To this Mr. Koohler assented, and without asking afier the condition of the sick lady, seated himself at the table aud had his glass replenished. OTHER RALOONS. The Germania Assembiy Rooms lager beer saloon and restaurant was then visited on the Bowery, ibis is one of the Leiter class placesand the proprictor seemod willing to give all the Information m his power jm roferesce to jhe subject im question. He said ho sed the imported kimmel and korusehnapps and be- heved them to be comparatively harmless; the latter was distuled frow the best grain and the former was considered to be a guod brandy cordial; he had no doubt, however, that tho smaier places in making their own bitters were doing a great deal o! barm, and, probably, jeopardvaing lives. TEMENTS OF DRUGGISTS. A Visit was patd to the drug store of the late Peter Bail at the corner of Wires avenue end Fourth street, quiries, ‘that the druggists do not sell bydrocyanie acid except upon the PS rayepneng of aphysictam, as it drug is derived privcipaily from ey anide of potash, and mainly used by jewellers ia. reduing gold, The Jager beer sellers, in making their bitters, use oil of bitter almonds or the oil extracted: from cherry pips or peach kernelg, sometimes wild cherry bark, but this laticr is :00 expensive for their use; bet allof the above contains more or less of h: drocyanid acid, The real essential ofl of bitter al is used by perfumers and soap manufacturers for fla~ Mr. Valhitre, {the manager, stated, 1m is a deadly powon. Voring purposes, and the odor 18 very powerlul and can svon be detected. The way In whieh these igno. t compounders do ig this:—They take a galion of clear alcohol and place in this peach kert nd some fiqu ur they obtain of the mixers and counterfeitera of genuine articles, and thus produce a bitters? strong to the taste, but, of course, more or less polson- ous, as hydrocyanic acid 1s distilled in greater or less quantities, The Polish Jews especially are fond of these drinks and indulge in them freely. The kimmel is supposed to be a pure extract of carroway seeds, tb distillation being made of one galion of alcohol and twa gilons of , but most generally it is manufactured bp the easential ot! of carrowuy, Mr. R. V&¥n der Emde, a druggist of repute, at the carver of Second street and Bowery, told the writer that he could easfly detect the diflerence betwoen the artificial ot! of almonds and the deadly poison hydro- eyanic acid, He produced two bottles, each of which the reporter put to his nose by turns.” The first bud tho simple and agreeable flavor of almonds, the Jast was pungeant searching and so quick and subtile ig its action that instant dizziness was produced. OLKUM AMYGDALE AMARG ‘The oil of bitter almonds is distilled with water, from the kernels of the irat of the common amygdalus, rhe uitro-benzole, nitro-benzine, or artificial oti of bitter almonds, 18 a substance discovered by Mitsen litz, who obtaned it by the reaction of nitric acid o benzole, a cirvo-bydrogen orginally produced by a distiilation of benzoic acid with lime. It 1s char. acterized by an odor closely resembling that of oil of ‘bitter almonds, for which it hag recently been substituted for perfumery in consideration of the discovery of — benzol among the products of the distillation of coal tar and its cheapness Iu its preparation a large glass worm is used, bifurcated at its upper end so as to form twa junnel-abaped tubes. Into one of these concentrated nitric acid is poured, and into the other benzole, aud the two meeting at the point of junction of the tuvea form the compound in question, which 18 cooled as 1 Passes through the worm, and afterward fitted for use by washing with water 08 diluce solution of carbonate of soda. 3 It willthus bee seen what kind of a poison is puf into the cups of drinkers. Mr, Albert ©. Dung, the druggist, said that the aruggists bad plenty of sate guards around tnem, but the wholesale dealers bad none. Painters could sell Paris grecn without eves requiring a name, A HAIRBRAINED LECTURE, Dr. Joseph Treat delivered his third Sunday evens ing discourse at Harry Hill's Theatre last night to ap ; audience somewhat reduced, on account of the weather, It has been often and truly said of Dickens that you can read any chapter of his writings over and over again with pleasure. The same may be said of the Doctor, and is more forcible in its application, as there ig but one chapter to him, and bis eiforts te mako it comprehensible are mirth-provoking in the extreme, He is Communistic in his ideas, but expresses them with the same degree of clearness ag a negro minstrel does the arguments of 4 stump speech, minus the forcible accompaniment of a shattered umbrolla, He floats on the surface ot bis subject like a cork on the water, and hia ideas are of about (he game relative specific gravity. His efforts to dive below the suriace are atousing, and, like a iecble nibole at a float, the result 18 only a litle flutter and na fish, Aw the hour appointed for bis appearance ap- proached inquiries Wero made for bim in the audi- ence, ‘Mr, Hill, has the preacher man come f”’ said @ festive youth ina velvet vest and a red scarf. ‘I guess bis coachman disappointed him,” replied some one, he waiking 1s rather bad,’’ another suggeste with a wink of bigeye, Bat he arrived in time an movated the stage. “He labored away for an hour ou the same old story of man’s inhamaniy and the wrongs of ‘the poor. Tho time, he said, Was pear at hand when the poor of Now York would rise in their might and compel the passage of a law that would securo the happiness every man, woman and child ip the community. The Doctor’s plan of working out hig grand idea is to compel every man who owns more than enough to sustain a comiortable rool over hia head to divide up the surplus with his fellow men. Til that is done he thought there should bo nu churches built; court should be held in open air om fair days, with the protection ot a gingham umbrella in case of rain. A man wholived ina mansion, with milhot should Keep open house jor the poor, and issuc a life lease of an cqual share in its enjoyment. ‘Till this te done thieves should go unconvicted and murderers unbung, All that was necessary to bring avout thir state of things was the expressed will of the poor. The rich would be happier for it when the tact was accom- plisbed, as it was sure to be tn less than twenty years’ tume. Society, the Church, the Bible anu everythin; in which there was money to be dug out and divided up were arrujgned and condemned us the poor mana enemy, The Church be accused of favoring the fich and preaching to men’s pockets instead of the hearts, ‘The Doctor commuted bimseif to the same fault at the conclusion of his remarks by geal around a hat with a crown as big as a bushel. He wound up with a promise to address his hearers on the subjects of ‘Tweed, the canuibals and the Cannibal islands at bis earliest opportunity. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, The London critical press morcilessly dissects the Marquis de Compidgne’s “Equatorint Africa,” which ie a book apparently as tull of blunders as of lines. A supplementary volume of Augustus Haro’s “Me. morials of Quiet Life” gives fifty-seven photographs of places and persons commemorated tn the previous book, with somo interesting correspondence of Arch- deacon Nare’s, The cndless Shakespeartan literature has not been enriched by Mr. John Jeremiah’s ‘Notes on Shake- speare and Memorials of the Urban Club.’ Mr. William Morris’ new poom founded en the Nibo- lung legends is based upon the Eddas, and makes no use of the German version of tho story. , At the Centennial exhibition of books and literature at Philadelphia Mr. J. R. Bartiett’s catalogue of the Private library of John Carter Brown, of Providenco, in four volumes, forms an exhibit all alone in a case by itself. Mr, E. A. Freeman’s ‘‘History of the Norman Con. queat of England’ has been completed by the publica- tion of the fifth volume. This is the indispensable history of England for the pertod {t treats, containing ® prodigious mass of learning, vigorously and ao. curately treated. Mr. Walter Whito has given the padlica fresh ac- count of bis pedestrian travels in South Tyrol, Thongh he never leaves a mule path, and bas almost a contempt for the climbers of mountain peaks, Mr. White gives au immense amount of information about the country and the people, and a pleasant and varied diorama of hill and forest scenes, “Germon Home Life,” by a lady, reprinted from Fraser's Magazine, is the fost valuable contribution to our knowledge of Continental manners and customs, told in hvely style, which bas appeared for many yoars, Mr. Leckey, author of the “History of European Morals,”’ will soon publish a new volume on the “His- tory of Social Life in the Eighteenth Century.” fas well done as his previous works, this will possess a piquant if not a permanent interest, “The Round Towers and Ornamented Churches of Ireland” will form the subject of Lord Dunraven’s seo ‘ond volume on Irish architecture, The National Library of France has received by bé« quest of Mine. Cornaa voluminous correspondence of Napoleon HI, with that indy, who was his foster-aister, The lotters begin when Prince Louis was ten years old, and extend to the yearot his death. By the will of Mme. Cornu the letters aro sealed up, but may be pud- lished atter the year 1885. A paper on the North An@ican English languages, by Dr. J. Hammond .Trundwell, of Hartford, will ap- pear in the London Philological Transactions for 1876, The city of Geneva has received by vequest of the owner the splenatd library of Dr. J. ©. Coindret, ine cluding the Rougseau collections, tho original manu. seript of the “mile” and imuch correspondence and other manuscripts of the great Fronchman, The third volume of the English transiation of Lan- frey's “History of Napoleon 1.” has tardily appeared from Macmulian’s Loadon preas, Five volumes of the work have appoared in French, An interesting account of the progress and gencral condition of Chiil, by Horace Rumboid, has appearod ag a British Blue Book among the reports by the Sees retaries of Lega‘tona for 1875. It describes the Chil« jans as the most prosperous, well ordered, practieal and weil governed among the South Amorican roe publics. Colonel Gordon's African expedition has been heard from up to Juno 24, 1876 He found the White Nile split up into two branches south of Lake Albert Niyanza, one newly discovered arm flowing north. west into the Lardo Kbartoum branch of the Nile. Young Master Field's “Ail the Way Round the World” moves the London Academy to declare:-—"*We frankly avew that we are dumfounded by the pro- cocity of this awful little boy, who, at me age of eleven years, begins the narrative of his voyage round the world,” from the harbor of New York. An original manuscript of ‘we Imitation! Christi’? hus been discuvered and pablished by Professor Carl Hirscbe, of the University of Heideibera, : i .