The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-17

races promise to be very close, and the oars
men engaged are among the foremost anna
teurs in the country.
Tho lamentations in Turkey.
The methods of change. not to speak OF
reform, are apt to be violent in country
ruled as Turkey is. Mourad ", scarcely
seated on the throne from which his prede-
night to die dogs death a few days later,
will not find much to reassure him in the
story of the murders carried to him Thurs
day night. Foremost among those who
led the softas and the Mohammedan mob
when they called upon the late Sultan
to lay down his authority as Caliph and
Sultan were Hussein Avni Pacha, Rachid
Pacha and Kaiserli Pacha. Turning q deaf
ear to his entreaties, his frantic offers of
long-hoarded coin, they saw Abdul-Aziz
disappear from power with an odd mourning
train Of ffty-three boatloads of wives,
took their future sovereign out of Q
cellar, where his uncle Abdul had kept
him cool for few months. Then came
the murder of the dethroned Sultan. which
these quick-handed pachas glibly told the
world was suicide. There were, however,
good many reasons why Abdul could be
relied on to be quieter in his grave than out
Of it, and these trusty Ministers of Mourad,
the ex-cellarer, wanted, above all, peace and
quiet in the governing circle. Hence nobody
outside of Turkey believed that the spirit
less worn-out debauchee had cut the veins
nobody cared. Everything looked smooth
for Young Turkey. Midhat Pacha, the
Grand vizier, gathered his co-mates of the
late revolution about him and proceeded,
under the sheltering wing of the wizard
Disraeli, with the huge task of fighting fix
ing and conciliating which still remained to
be accomplished. Now, it required a revo-
luton to put them in their position of I'M
disputed power; but revolver sufficed to
settle two of the Ministers-Hussein Avni
and Rachid-as effectually as the scissors that
nicked the life thread of Abdul-Aziz, while
wounding a third Minister and scattering
lead among ministerial satellites in terrible
way.
The revolver was held by Turkish officer,
Circassian named Hassan, who had been
released on Thursday from prison, where he
had been lying charged with refusing to go
to Bagdad, whittier he had been ordered.
There is good deal unexplained in the late
career of this officer. We can imagine
that dashing soldier would prefer
command in the revolted provinces, where
he might win his way by potting
at the rayahs to smoking life away
in plague-smitten Bagdad. That he was
not sent to fight and was ordered to Bagdad
suggests that this fiery officer had in some
way fallen under the suspicious of the
powers that be. Smarting under his real or
fancied wrongs was he not just the man in
whose ear Conspiracy might whisper? We
have heard no political motives assigned for
his act but that may be the very reason for
suspecting them. It will recall in America the
crime Of Booth, happening like it close on
the heels of great change in the fortunes of
a party. II, as seems likely, he was attached
to tho late Sultan, the assassination will
wear different appearance from that of the
drunken soldier revenging his petty wrongs.
In the escape of Midhat Pacha from the
bullets Of Hassan the government Of Mourad
has escaped great peril. Hussein Avni,
great as was his influence, had neither the
brains nor the. representative character of
Midhat The uncomfortable event will not,
as far as at present visible, have much
political effect outside Turkey, though it
opens up avenues for Office in the ranks Of
the Moslems. Yet it will be asked, "Was
the hand Of Russia in this as England's was
in the undoing of Abdul-Aziz?"
Mn. BRIsrow's RESIGNATION, when the Re-
publican National Convention has declared
the choice Of the party for the Presidency
during the next four years, will not
have the significance which would have
been attached to it a. few days
ago. His retention of the Office up
to the last moment shows that he had
resolved, if fighting for the nomination, to
do so within party lines. His quittance Of
the field now will mainly be interesting in
discovering whom the President will
take to fill his place, whether the
Secretary of the Treasury is to be q friend or
a neutral in the campaign now opened.
The selection will mark in some sense the
degree of interest taken by the incumbent of
the White House in the struggle that will
end in November.
THE EXECUTION OF LowERY, the South Caro-
lima murderer, is a fitting vindication Of the
law in the case Of an atrocious criminal
whose hands were stained by the slaughter
of many victims, and who, besides, was
guilty of other crimes almost equally helm
ous Another ruffian named Bill Lee was
also hanged at Oquawka, ILL.,. for the muir
der of nm unfortunate girl named Jessie
Mccarthy under circumstances of revolving
atrocity. The advocates of mercy to muir