The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-11
SHERMAN At SHAMEFUL.
Continued Hospitality Of the Saltan
10 His American Guests.
Tbs Model Farm Of His Majosty-Tho Veterans
Visit to the Palaces and Summer K'csks
Of Abdul AK KAaa-Plae33 Of Inter
cs. o. the Turkish Capital.
Cos5rANrmorLr, April Is, 1872.

Cos5rANrnoPLr, Aprl, Is, 1872.
General Sherman, Colonel Audenrcid and Lieu
tenant Grant continue TO be the honored guests OF
the Sultan. IL Is said, however, that taeJ VIII
leave for Circassia, via Se5astopo, Eertsi aud pot
(ancicnt Colchis, wnence they win proceed,
the new Russian railroad 70 Tins, the capital OF
the Russian possessions in the Caucasus. After re-
naming some time at this Inter place, and receiv
ing the attentions OF the Russian Prince Governor
General, they win proceed TO seapor. OF the
Caspian Sea, at which point the Russian commercial
steamers touch for freight and passengers. The
navigation OF the Caspian IL q long an'l dreary
o,c, almost totally void OF interest. Thence. how
ever, General Shernan's route to Moscow, up the
great river volga, especially il he witnesses the
As!atic Fair OF Niinii-Novgorod, viii be exceed
ngly interesting. The route laid out for himself is
very novel one, aud shows that General sherman
retains his Old taste Tor marches IN the rear from
"moantsn TO sea'-thus taking the Muscovites by
surprise in their most vulnerable part. Governor
Curtin, the Minister OF the United states at st.
Petersburg, is expected to arrive here In day or
two, 50 as to join ana accompany General sherman
on his tour.
THE suITAN's REQUEST
General sherman was to have left Constantinople
last tuesday but remained few days longer at the
special request OF the sultan, who sent him word
that il he could do so he would give him his own
large powerful and splendid yacht, called the
Sultancb Qmpcrlal to carry him and his party to
Scbastopol and other points OF the Black Sea. SO
marked attention decided him, it is said, to wait
Tor Governor Curtin anal 1t is supposed that he
viii remain until next week. In the meantime the
sultan has not been unmindful of his American
guests. Yesterday he sent two OF his finest Euro
pcan carriages, each with four horses and out
riders in his own livery, decorated with bells on
each OF the coach horses with the request that they
should favor him with visit to
4 FAvoRITE FARM OF HIS MAJESTY,
situated some ten miles from Constantin0pe,
on the route to Buyubdlr and the upper
Bosphorus. This farm Is rather country
palace constructed after q model procured
by the Sultan during his travels in 1867 In
France or Austria. 1t is his avorite farm where
he keeps brood and Arab horses, for the pur-
pose OF improving the breed OF his animals In con-
nection with this he has some line< English and
Swiss there, goats ana sheep OF the best breeds
and is doing much good in this manners1or ms
peasants and farmers. He often spends u day
there with his sons and nephews; and, AZ in the
immediate vicinity OF the farm there is fine woods,
called Hadim Korusa, he, In tie fall and winter,
tries MS hand at woodcock shooting The American
Minister Mr.. Baker, ana family and M. Archibald
Ii. Lowcry, OF New York; Mrs. and Kiss LOwery
accompanied General Shcrman on this little
excursion. From this palace farm the
Sultan has had lnc macadamizcd road made in
the picturesque ''Valley OF Sweet Waters"-along
which lows quite little river mot quite so large
IA the Mississippi or the OhSo-down to the head OF
the Golden Horn, passing over the Sultan's one
mile race At the extremity OF the valley is
/ the imperial summer palace Of Kias Hanch-i. G.,
| the .Swcet Watersr-and there the American party
/ partook Of refreshments sent on purpose for
/ them from the Sultan's present residence The
whole affair most crcdtable To the fine feelings
which dictated 1t, and greatly gratifed his Ameri-
| can guests by the splendid manner in which it was
| got up 80 much oriental show must greatly i'm
press them with the idea that If republicanism has
It's nggardly simplicity, monarchy has its gallant
Inequalities. What the public get up in the United
states the sovereign docs here that on this point
the two kinds OF sovereignties meet for the same
purpose.
THE SULTAN's STABLES.
The Sultan has two magnificent stables, each con-
tainirr almost any number of carriages and horses
H.. ..arness as well as for the saddle Among the
latter are horses from England, France, Germany,
Italy, Austria and Russa-mo5tly presents from
their respective soyereigns. NJ. THEIRS has not yet
any, but it is fully believed that when the res
toration comes or amends will be made for the
omission The Sultan has, perhaps the best stud OF
Arablans in the world and is not only very fond OF
horses, but also excellent rider His own saddle
music so to accustom them to 1t.
There are still many fine ana interesting spots for
General Sherman's inspection in and about SIAM
bOu. Palaces and summer kiosks are as plenty as
huckleberries on the Bosphorus and in the many
hooks and corners OF the mounts and valleys bor-
dering on it, The General would be delighted were
he to visit them in detail and so be able to tell the
natives of his own New World OF the progress made
ION this line" by his Oriental host. He has, however,
most unaccountably proposed to slip away from
"fuss and feathers' and imperial display, and in
spect the famous Seven Towers, where, In other
times and under other Sultans, Ambassadors were
shut up when the Sultans declared war against their
soveregns to keep them out Of the way OF harm
and trouble. There he read some sad Inscriptions
cut in the stone walls by these hapless tenants ofthc
Towers for want of more intellectual and active en-
ployment telling the tale of their bondage and
forced seclusion from all other pursuits. Along
the old and decayng walls OF the city OF Constan-
tine the General arrived at the spot where the last
OF the Constantines (Palc0logus) fell, on
the outer wall, in mortal strife with
the Janissaries OF Sultan Mahm0ud III. The
walls in the same condition in which they were
left in 1892, the year in which Columbus made
the discovery OF the country from which General
sherman comes. The spot is therefore hal
lowed lin the minds Of all military
men the death scene the last
farewell OF a whole Christian people and nation 1t
Is deep ravine, in which Sultan Mahmoud Ii.
fred upon the defenders OF the city, threw shot from
the huge cannon made for him by q Hungarian
genius. All that the Greeks could do In return was
to assail him with missiles from Colapatts and
| Greek fire. No one knows where the last En-
peror fell. His body was never found, and 1t Is
supposed that his remains were cast into some
! common ditch with those of his people, His purple
slippers "a sign OF Imperialism in those days, ana
not in these) turned mp In the possession OF janis
sary who 1t is supposed, pulled them OH the H.
fatcd Emperor SO to wear or sell them 10 the
highest bidder Close by the spot are Turkish monu-