The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-27
FROM EUROPE BY STEAMER.
THE CONGREGATION OF sovERETGNs.
PRUssIAN ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN ENTENTE COR
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Bovereigne at Paris, their intimate friendly rea-
tions with the Emperor of the French, together
with the interviews that have taken place
between the respective Foreign Minister'S are
not only events of historical importance, but
events by which certainty OF agreement between
the Governments is definitely established.
New guarantees for the maintenance of peace
are thereby gained which is high satisfaction
to us to be able to announce to Europe.
THE sULTAN's PRESENTS TO THB BoNAPARTBs.
ConStantinople (June 12) CORES. Of Parts Monde.
The presents intended by the Sultan for the
Emperor and Empress of France are of great
value. The Empress Eugene will receive from
Abdul Azziz, as memorial of his visit to France,
an enormous uncut diamond, which has been
in the treasury of the Sultan more than three
centuries, and which to its great intrinsic value
adds that of very curious historical circum-
stances connected with it. 1t is called TchobdR
7dschi (shepherd's stone). To the Emperor
Napoleon III are destined eleven Arab horses of
great beauty.
Princes lzzeddin, son, and Mehmet Mourad
and Hamid, nephews OF the Sultan, bring pre-
sents fOrthe Prince Imperial, the value of which
consists in their origin and oriental colors.
The Sultan's suite will be composed in all Of
from seventy-6ve to eighty persons. The cost of
transport will not be much, for every one will
go on board the Sultanie, his Majesty's pleasure
yacht.
1t would be difficult in France to form an
idea of the irritation excited in the Greeks and
Russians by the voyage of the Sultan to Western
Europe and which they would wish TO prevent
by any means. At ConstantlnOple the Russians
have set in motion every spring of which they
can dispose. They have intrigued with the
Vaide and the Cadine mother of 1Zzeddin-
Effendi, in order to fortify the fears and repul-
sions which, in their simplicity and ignorance,
they entertain relative to temporary absence
from the capital of their son and grandson and
of the ant1-0ttoman influence this journey will
exercise on the Mussulman Prince.
The Russian agents have also sought to excite
the retrograde faction of the Ulemas; and there
a M folep lvinU invnn tiOns n which
they have not had recourse to rouse the feelings
OF the masses and eventually 10 bring about
some explosion of discomfort among the people;
but everything has been useless.
THE SULTAN AND NAPOLEON BLOOD RELATIONS.
The 7aTquie of Constantinope, under the
heading 'The Sultan Relation of the Emperor
Napoleon III, has the following curious article:
In what degree of relationships? We know
nothing about 1t, but we remember having read
in the "Histoire de la Martinique" by M.
Daney, the tale which we subjoin:-In 1888
Mad'lle Dubuc de Rivry, creole OF sixteen,
having finished her education in France, took
her passage on board q vessel belonging to one
of the French Atlantic ports, to go to Mar
Unique. Having encountered contrary winds,
the ship put in at Gibraltar to repair damages
and renew her supply of water. Soon after set
ting sail gain she was captured by pirates and
carried 70 Algiers Mad'lle de Rivry was pos
sessed of q beauty beyond description; she was
one OF those magnificent creole types Of which
lovelineas, full of royal grace and delicate Ian
guor, is sure to inspire love.
The Bey of Algiers considered himself
worthy to reign over the heart of SO perfect q
creature, and she was reserved for the Sultan.
Selim III was then on the throne The Marti-
nique creole knew how to captivate his heart;
but as on entering the harem she had not abdl-
Gated her qualities of mind, she soon acquired a
great ascendnacy over the Sultan, whom she
inspired with his better resolutions. When
General Sebastiana came to Constantinople as
ambassador, in 1902, the English fleet passed
fhp DardanplIeS and anChOrnd in the Golden
Horn. CONSERVATION reigned everywhere.
Mad'lle de Rivry was then Sultana Valide; she
infused her energy into Selim; defensive works
were undertaken under the influence of the
French am bassador, and the English fleet had
to retire before the formidable batteries which
were opposed to 10. Madlle de Rivry was
cousin-german of Mad'lle Tascher de la Pagerle,
who became the Empress Josephine, aud whose
daughter, Hortense, was the mother OF Napoleon
III, and as the actual Sultan descends from
81 linn, the relationship exists. Beyond any
doubt, the influence of the Sultana Valide de-
veloped the reforming spirit of her son Nah
mould; and thus 1t Is to a Frenchwoman that
Turkey is indebted for her first steps In the way
of progress.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOUTH.
If President johnson is blind enough to ina
glne that he can stand up against the whole
loyal North, and defeat the matured resolve OF
the nation by bit of chicanery, it IS clear
enough that the South has no such overweening
confidence in his abilities, and does not mean
to accept the bid he is making for its support.
In an elaborate article on the Attorney-G Generals
opinion, the Charleston Ddtty NeloS OF the 10th
sWin the Republican party who passed this
act, and who have resolutely supported the
action of the military commanders, desert
General Sickles in such case VIII not the
issue thus made become party issue? and who
is to pay the costs Of nth the controversy put our
that we have been made to pay for our conf.
dence in the President. He undertook to re-
ms N he TTniOn If WOuld narfOrm ca
tain conditions. We fulfilled them. Have we
been restored What has he succeeded in doing
that he has undertaken to do? Upon every oc-
casion from the Convention betw cen Sherman
and Johnston to The Reconstruction act, he has
finally yielded, and we alone have suffered from
the resistance. We have too much at stake now
TO repeat our errors. II the President undertakes
at this day-after permitting, without one word
of remonstrance or objection, the practical en-
forcement of one theory of the Reconstruction
act-to reverse that theory, TO prevent the ex-
ercise OF this extravagant claim OF military au-
thority, and to remand the State to the control
of It's own civil authority, let us at least have
some security that he Will persevere in his ac-
tion and that If, under the opinion of the
Attorney-i General we refuse obedience to the
usurpation of the military commanders, we
shall be held harmless for our conduct; that If
this construction ls repudiated by Congress,
which Mr.. Stanbery's opinion will as certainly
call together in July as II the summons had
already been issued, we shall not be held respon-
sihie for the delayin the work OF reconstruc
tion and the act will not be amended SO as 10
bear more harshly upon our rights and inte
e"Whether the administration of Gen. Siczles
has been wise or not is a question into which
We do not at present seome snss ne mas
which he has done we would nave had other
wise; aud whenever that question comes up Tor
and we hone Justly. But the question which
is now raised Is a much larger one. we 90 not
even undertake TO say tnaI Inc oPinlon S oi MT
that If IL is IL ought to have been Issued months
ago. That now, correct or not, IL WIN surely