New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-17
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FROM TURKEY.
Cor.spond.nes Of The N. Y. Tribune.

Cores pom dsncs Of The n. Y. Tribune.
CoNsTANTNOPLE, May 90. 1861.
News from the United States reach this place
IN some rs hours after its arrival at Liverpool.
There is daily communication by telegraph be-
tween Constantinople and London and Paris, so
that, though our New.York newspapers are only
dated the 18th and 10Th Of April, we are ac-
quainted with occurrences there of the 9th.
We look forward to each days bulletin OF tele-
graphic news with an interest and anxiety which
may well be appreciated by all Americans who
love their great country and bewal its ruin. The
Minister Resident, j. Williams of Tennessee, has
resigned his Office, and leaves in few days for
his State. He is warm advocate of Secession,
and has told the members of the diplomatic corps
that he is to take command of its forces as
q general. When he arrived here, am told,
bis effects bore on them the title of Captain
81. Williams" and it was also said that this
was in consequence Of his either having owned or
commanded a steamboat on the Tennessee River.
Soon the title grew TO be Colonel" and next
General" so that those who had a motive to
serve. dubbed him His Excellency General James
Williams, &c. &c. &C." At party which he
gave on the 22d of February last, hear, he sur
mounted his very richly embroidered coat OF Minis.
ter Resident with pair of large epanlettes bought
or borrowed for the occasion, from an English
tailor of the place, each bearing the letters :" h"
So much for the Marcy orders against uniforms
The extensive bulk OF his c0rp0rosiy Will probably
disaualify him from serving Gen. Davis in the In
fantry, and the Dip. Corps OF Pera may learn
that in compliment To his long beardland mustacl.
o.. saving nothing of his hair, he has been gifted
with a distinguished position in the Sappeis and
Miners, q cherai, Of Chattanooga. His remarks
respecting the present unhappy state Of things, to
all the members Of the foreign legations aud others
who would listen TO him, were far from beng those
of man who represented the Government ct the
United States, and may have done much harm.
Upon any of his fellow. cOuntrymea they certainly
hive had no influence, for | am sure there Is not
one disuuionist among them.
You will perhaps remember IN Armenian named
Tatosan, formerly resident OF New-iork, as the
maker of Zig Paste" or Rahat iknm. Some two
or three years ago, this man, am told, came here
from New-York, and married an Armenian girl OF
humble parents, whom he took back to the United
States. Since then. ho again returned here, and,
after sundry difficulties with his spouse, ended by
novel prosecution on her part before the American
Consul-General, for deception practiced on her'
and subsequent abandonment, together with hel
young child Lam told that in the course OF the
time when in the United States passed of as d
Baron" (the word meaning Mr. in Armenian)
that he also reported he had been named Embas
sador to the United States by the Sultan OF Turkey
but for some private reasons declined presenting
his credentials; and that he won the hand o.
the young Armenian girl by figuring before
her as General in the United States Army
He promised her mother to marry her II
SMYRNA and on his arrival there practicet
an imposition on her, by sending some one to her t
figure rs u clergyman in surplice, aud perform
some kind Of "a ceremony which united their iates
In New.York she was presented by him as MS wife
and received as such by oil who knew him. liz
procured passport for her as such from the Depart
ment of State with which to precede him thence =
Constantiuople. Here, ha:o" with his brother y.
wife, discovered by his own, IN a6tis pdsrants c
casioned dsap reement between them, and the ana
az posture of the whole affair. He is now under ar
rest for the payment of the damages for which nc i