Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-11
THE TURKS AND SERVIANS.
The Porte Willing TO Negotiate for Peace
whenever Leading Powers are Dis
posed TO Intervene, but is OPP
posed TO an Armistice.
The SerVians Refuse all PrOIfers OF Me.
dlatiOD, and will not Treat for Peace
until the Turks are under the
Walls Of Belgrade.
The Cross and the Crescent Humbug-
State Of Affairs in Turkey-The Pros
pect In SerVia-InterYieW with
the Patriot Prince Milan.


the Patriot Prince Milan.
PARIS, August 1O.-As article by
John L nile Lemoinne, to whom is in
trusted the supervision Of the English
correspondence of the Journal des De-
bats, published in that Journal tO-Gsy,
insists upon the necessity OF prompt in
teryentiOn to put & stop to the atrocities
Of the Turks. He gays it is for England
10 interfere, because England, baing the
avOWed proiectress of Turkey, is unani.
noously considered in E1rope to be re-
spopsible for the conduct OF the Turks.
A special to the LIE Temps, from VII
emma, says note, which restricts the
Servian premier, is preparing to be sent
to the powers giving an account OF the
atrocities committed by the Turks in Ser
via, and msy serve equally to pave the
way for mediation or for justitying the
war to the death.
LONDON, August 1O.-A special to the
daily NetOs, from Trebipjs, says that the
MontenegriBs have retired, some toward
PadsoIitZs, and some toward BaDgani,
Monkhtar Pasha has made an eX-
cursion to the frontier unmolested. An
offensive movement of the Turks is
probable. -
LONDON, August 1O.-The Standards
Berlin special says that the Porte has
positively declared a willingness to negc-
tiate for peace whenever tie powers are
Opposed to intervene, but is not will
ing to agree to an GTmistice before the
entry of the Tuks into Belgrade.
The Standards Ragusa special says
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vesirji with reinfOTcaments. The srriv-
al OF additional reinforcementsa at S3utari
is expected. They ale coming under
Mehemet Pashs, who will assume The
chief comm and.
PARIS, August 10 "A dispatch to the
Li6eTti, says the sultan is better, and
his recovery nearly certain.
LONDON, August 10.-General TschO-
lack, who, with General Autitch, de-
feated Deverish P6shs near Sienitzs, is
reported to be retreating from that
place. General chernsyeff is advanc-
ing in the direction of Bsnja.
A telegram from st. Petersburg says
that General HorvatoTitch maintains
his position at the Banja pass, where he
awaits reinforceme ants.
DespOtuveh. the new cOmmander-in-
chief Of the Bospisns, announces that
he has taken seven Turkish intTench-
ments and occupied several villages on
the Una.
PARIS, August 1O.-A dispatch to lie
Temps states that Ristics, the Servian
premier, rejec all offers OF mediation,
declaring that Servis will not treat for
peace until the Turks are under the walls
OF Belgrade.
CROSS AND CRESCENT.
Correspondence of the London Telegraph,
from ConstantinOple, July 1871
Cross and Crescent, side by side, on the
same crimson banner. Symbols Of two
religions decorating the same fl. g
Thsra is mistake sboat this strange
apparition. Broad daylight, the bridge
Of boats which binds STEAMBOAT of the
Mohammedan to Galsta CT the Giaour,
the wide, spacious, sun-lit BOsporus,
| and that ceaseless, wondrou5 crowd
which passes all day long from the one
shore to the other-such were the set
tiDgs OF as strange picture as eastern
or western eyes have ever beheld. Il
was heralded by weird playing upon
| pipes, and the monotonous note Of
| drum. There came first to view, press
ing through the throng, which almost
| filled the bridge, q you'll i Shose quietest
movements were these OF a maniac. In
| his hands cleaned two long scimetsrs,
on his head was the green turban, which
| denoted his descent from the Prophet;
and, as the noisa OF the musicians rose,
and the sound of the strained Yellum
| grew louder, he kept time ard rhythm
with head, hands and feet; now turning
round, and now jumping; now writhing
as though in direful agony; and then,
with 3 glance toward heaven, as though
| delivering an earnest petition, bending
his head to the dust, and prostrating
| himself on the ground. Behind him
were the reeds aud the drum; in rear Of
them again marched q standard bearer,
| and it was in his hands that wss borne
aloft the flag which bore the emblems Of
the Crescent and the Gross. At sight of
the lad-fOr he is not more than twenty
| years Of age-the faces OF the bystsnd-
ers urn pale with excitement and
almost every minute some one, en-
chanted, as it were, by the roCgh mel
ody and the dancer, falls silently into
the procession which follows the banner.
| A strange cortege il is, truly. There are
Sottas, Armenisns, Cd Turks and New
! Turks, Greeks and Roman Catholics,
some with fez and others in turbsn,
some with straw hats and others with
bsrs heads, all following the lead Of the
frantic youth. And when the air grows
liyelier or his gyrations more rapid,
when he raises his own voice and gives
loud cry OF anguish, knives, pistols,
sticks, swords are lifted high in the air,
or fiOurished round by those more moved
than the rest. To enc uninstTucted, the
sight is wholly inexplicable. Why the
Crescent and the Cross on one and the
same banner? Why this strange con-
junction of christian and Turk? When
was such spectacle ever bebeld before
ia the city of the sultan, under the very
shadow Of the Great Mosque of st.
Sophia? The answer was very simple.
In its dire need for help the Porte had
resolved to call for volunteers, to send
| rCuud the priests and call the lOysl OF
Stamboul to arms; and as these days OF
Murad V are very different from those OF
Murads in times gone by, il was resolved
that the.christisDs Of the By zantine city
should not be forgotten, but that their
aid should be asked too, and hence this
combination Of the Crescent and the
Cross upon one and the same fig. The
device was successful; band after band
mas been collected, and forwarded rap.
idly to Besioz-one of the little villages
in the Bosporus, notable to English
/ lACu lOt kuC b1lefl hullbS, SAIC SAALASob
war the British fleet lay there at
anchor-and there are drilled. Military
bell tents stand by hundreds on
that Asiatic shore, filed with
the Turks and the christians
who have responded to the call Of the
Porte, and, if strength Of limb and will
ingnt IS Of heart be anything worth, the
four or five thousand volunteers already
drawn together must soon do good work
should say that abOu: half of them
were Softss, young fanstical moham'
medsns, whom it will be just as well tC
have az far away from Constantmople
as pOsslble-very excellent young men
in many ways, tut very capable OF dis
turbing the peace at a3y moment, Five
hundred Of the recruits are Greeks OF
other shades Of christians; the rest are
gathered from the strange throng which
fills the streets of Stamboul, but abCu
which little else Is known. And day by
day the force is added to. No recruilinE
sergeant with the tsultan's shilling en-
tees the Adventures; for shillings are
scarce, and sergeants sCsrcer. The whole
business is managed by the people; theil
| n..ly Ty,1noap,a no