The New York herald., 1876-09-07

they do
Nowhere do we md tha. Mr. Barring has remove
reproved the Turkish authorities OF having told then
they had done wrong; and everywhere we hear OF MI
Guarichino scoding bullyng and browbeating the Bu
garans In the presence Of their tyrants
II tell what have seen and heard 1t is because
want the people Of England to understand what thes
turks are, and IL we are to go on
BoLsrERNG UP TorrERISG DEsPorrsN;
we are to go on carrying this ioathsome
eyes and knowledge Of the facts; let see III,
ndeous things we arc carrying.
Mr.. Schuyler obtained mpe evidence of other crimes
TOO foul TO be even named. believe that Mr.. BarInG
nas obtained no information on tins point and does
There in crime. scarcely ;aa rene. w0nds,
tion, that avoid the light; that like those vile
creeping Ioathsome things found under csrron or In
and corners and escape Inspection Mr. Schuyler has
explored these dark depths TO the bottom with the
cVoir'ss @ oi surgeon, probing foul ana fostering
ulcer But do not think he Will be able to state the
facs in his report They without the pale Of tho
English language and for my part shall not again re-
And the Queen OF tho Bugarians," tho young
school mistress what became OF her? Alas her fate
was only that OF hundreds Of others | could not ask
her 10 relate all the story Of her mslortunes Ii was
though still gentle and sympathetic. face But
! ent when she fell into the hands Of three or
four bashibazouks. 'Yes, this educated, ntelIi.
ragged in the presence Of half dozen OF her Comrades
and neghbors, by three or four brules who still poluto
the tarth with their vile existence.
BxAGGERATED SIR HENRY, INDEED
Ana II your own daughter had been treated In tho
same way woudyou still go on pratng about exag-
gerationS But this was not enough Her father
was shot down in his own house, and she and her
mother dug his grave in their garden and buried
him. and sun the poor girl mad not suffered
enough. The Turkish authorities heard that she
had embroidered the flag and two weeks after the
snrrecton was completely crushed they ordered her
arrest Mudir had been sent 10 the village in the
meantime, and ho seized and took her to his house
a, ten O'Clock at night with tho woman at whose
woman of whom have spoken IN the beginning OF this
| letter. She told US what occurred in the Mudlr S
house that night The poor girl, IN spite OF tears
and prayers, that might have moved tiger TO Lity,
was stripped naked beaten spat upon aud again out
ragged 1t was then that she was nicknamed queen
OF the Bugarians, and the next day she and another
woman, who had been likewise maltreaied IN
more horrible way, were sent to Tatar- Bazardjik.
population. g on booted. jeered ps,ed with na mud.
| spat upon, and insulted with the foul st
epthets that a Turkish mob could find. 1t mattered
not that she was weeping girl all alone among
crowd OF cnemiss-nends rather than men. There is
pity in the breasts of these savagea Then, fantng,
nsensiblc, she was thrown into cart and sent oil 10
Phiippopois thrown into prison there and kept on
bread and water until the arrival OF Mr. Schuyler.
Then she was set at liberty ILL., shattered in health and
| broken hearted.
We saw this same Mudr Of Otluk-kui when we were
there Mr.. Barring spoke OF him as the most ilthy
brute no saw. The very night Mr. Barring was
there the Mudir, az II in very contempt for his pres
ence in the place sent for two young married women.
10 his house. They refused The night, when
Mr.. schuyler was there, he again sent for them and
they again refus cd; but they came TO Mr. Schuyler
day despair, saying they felt that
as we left the village he would send HIS zaptchs for
them When Mr.. Schuyler spoke TO the Governor of
Pniippopos about ihis Mudr, he simply replied that
hc knew he was bad man, but he had no better man
to put in his place.
nor will Achmet Aga, the destroyer Of Batak, nor an
| other Achmet Aga equally infamous, who destroyed
Perustza; nor lossun BeY, who burnt Kiissura; nor
Shifke Pacha who, beaten as general in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, wreaked his vengeance on the unresst-
ns people OF BazardJk, where genera ship had
| full scope. These men have, on tue contrary,
been rewarded, decorated and promoted. And
we can do nothing; am suro nothing will be
done. Diplomacy is impotent II Sir Henry
Elliot remains IN Constantinople he viii make few
mild representations the Porte which the latter will
receive with the best possible grace, and-that all
believe in the atrocities. How can he be expected 10
make strong representations on tho subiects or a
strong man may be sent in his place. who will 90 far
to make urgent representations 20 the Porte or who
may even go the length OF making strong representa-
tions The Porto Will promise everything II VIII
give assurance OF the most benevolent intentions,
II Will utter the most philanthropio protestati0ns Tho
ogovernment VIII issue more paper reforms the dipo
1t cannot be otherwise. There are not dozen
Turks the Empire who the necessity Of reform
There Is nobody to carry out the reforms The
Mutlcscrif OF Philippopolis told the simple truth
when che said he had no better Mudr &c
who s there now. But they would not t>rry out re
forms If they could The Mutl6-scri OF Pnilippopol
TOO yAvoRABLx TO THE BvLGARrAys,
and when were there the Turks were loudly de
mandng his recllL He seemed like very honest
right He entered into tho question of tht
misery Of the burnt out people with Mr.
Schuyler and Mr. Barring IN an earnest
serious way ,hlt carried with it the conviction that he
really working hard TO relieve their suiierings
He said money to te given thom their cattle TO be
restored their houses rebuilt and every possible thing
done for them. He was so earnest, so serious. SO
thoroughly convinced of tho necessity OF these meas
| ures, that you could not doubt his good in
.en'ions And yet. ne, not only 81, are the cattle l,
rebuilt but Mr.. Schuyler has found that this
same plausible, earnest, CONSCIENTIOUS Governor, at
the very moment that he was making these promises Ia
the people Of Batak well as OF the other burned
villages be forced to pay thor regular taxes though
men-one who is so friendly to the Bulgariaus
that the Turks demand his recall Here Is
example OF Turkish ideas OF reform.
Cntil the ast year the whole male Christian popula.
ton from infants day old 10 the Of loo, had
to pay the military exemption tax. Last year, how
ever, great reform was ushcred in with a loud
flourish OF rumpc,s In future only those capable of
military service were TO pay the exemption
tax, and there were great rejoicngs among
the people But when the tax came to bo
| levied, what the astonishment OF everybody
to find that each village ordered TO pay exactly the
same sum before. The tax only redistributej.
! The round before paid BY the whole population Of
the village falls the shoulders of those only
capable OF military duty. But the whole amount must
be made up This is the Turkish idea OF reform and
the Turkish way OF
THROWING Drsr IN THE EYES OF EUROPE.
And these are the people from wnom We expect re.
forms There will be no reforms. Tho thousands Of
helpless and children, of babes and suck ines
slaughtered cold blood whose bones aud flesh arc
fattcning the soil Of Bulgaria, cry out against the
hollow mockery, and give it the lie.
And you say, o statesmen OF Europe that the status
quo must be mantaiued that this must last. tell
you It will not last You must find another solution
Tor the Eastern question: or another solution WIN IND
you 1t will not last civilization is deiusion JUS
tce n mockery and Christianity farce and q failure