The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-01
WAR NOTES.


WAR NOTES.
The Turkish staff Service.
correspondent of the London Times in
the Turkish camps gives the following ac-
count of the staff service Of the Ottomans:
Occasionally some pasha or other wakes up
sufficiently to scrawl apparently with enor-
NOUS labor, a few hieroglyphics on scrap of
paper, which he passes to, another pasha, who
is unable to read it. Then each of these en-
ergetic individuals fumhles in some unfath-
Omable pocket and produces small piece of
to af1ix his seal to the unintelligible document
by first wetting his finger, then dabbing it on
the Indian ink, then pressing his seal on the
Indian ink, and then transferring it to the
paper. The whole operation has occupied at
least half an hour. and another half an
hour is taken up in shouting for Ali or
Osman, the orderly, who spends an
other half hour in trying to find
his horse, ten minutes in trying to under
starts off at eistrely walk. The paper is to
tell the commander-in-chief that an import
ant crisis has occurred But the orderly
takes at. least four hours to find the COM
No Lying SO soul i being ever pd
he himself probably having not much more
idea than the mule that carries him. He is
eventually found, and then the writing pro-
cess begins again. More shouting for Ali,
and then the order finds its way back, which
Is naturally just five or six hours too late in
coming. Night has set in, the enemy has re-
occupied the position, but who cares? Are
there not more Of our invincible Nizams
ready to do the work over again tomorrow,
and do you think they will do it less we'll be-
cause as they advance to the attack they
step over the dead bodies of their comrades
who fell yesterday to accomplish the same
thing?
The Times Constantinople correspondent,
answering the inquiry how the Turks con-
trive to find money for carrying on the war,
says: IA partial explanation is afforded by
the facts that the government is not paying
the officers salaries; that the army lives on
the country it occupies and the payment of
the foreign debt is left in abeyance. The in
come, reduced as it is, suffces for the mo-
ment for such wants as are supplied from
abroad and which must be paid for in
cash; but the anxious question crops up,
what will happen next year when, the short
crops having come in, no taxes can be ex-
pected, and large arrears will have to be met.
No imports from abroad will have come for
ward, and all credit, public and private, will
have been exhausted abroad. The condition
of the working and lower classes even in the
capital is becoming the subject of great
anxiety, while in the provinces want and
privatiOn are such as no other people would
patiently endure. When winter comes upon
them it is feared that there will be much
misery and suffering, and it is fearful to con-
template what may be the results when the
country shall have been utterly drained of all
resources. Food fuel and clothing will all be
wanting, and the usual means OF supply will
not be available, all trade having been stopped
through the war.
Relieved from Duty.
IN Y. Trbune.l
The most ludcrous figure on the battle
field OF Plevna was Gen. Powzanoiff, who com
began, and then skedaddled, as Americans
would say. Mr.. Forbes is 50 charitable as to
intimate that it was not cowardice which
prompted the Generals abrupt withdrawal
from the scene of action. The correspondent
writes that the old soldier must have lost his
head rather than his heart The story goes
that the Grand Duke sent him away with a
fine mixture OF arbitrary assumption OF pro-
found medical knowledge and of genuine
kindly feeling for a soldier in misfortune. 81
observe that you are very i'll, and that there
is no chance OF your recovering YOU. health
without returning to Russia But, your
Imperial Highness, am not i'll at all; | never
to know better. I can see you are ailing seri-
OuSly, and must recommend you to recover
your health in the bosom of your family"
The Cars Probable AbdicatiOn.
The probability of the Cars abdcation is
again privately but generally discussed
Although he has passed the fatal date at
which, according to an ancient superstition,
the Roumanoffs should die, his mind is haunt
ed with the idea OF tragic death, and the
doctors urge him to quit climate where fever
and dysentery have begun to make fearful
ravages in the ranks of the army. His with
drawal from the theatre of operations would
be hailed with satisfaction, his relinquish-
ment of the cares OF State with something
more than Indifference for he is nuisance to
his generals, whose plans he thwarts on all
occasions, and the Russians rather reverence
the abstract idea of sovereignty than cherish
any particular respect for the person OF him
who is it's actual incarnation.
Russian Credit.
The Russian reverses in the field are begin
ming to have their effect upon her credit.
There are rumors prevalent in London that
Russia will be unable to pay her debt interest
due October /. It appears that the july in
terest was not paid from the revenues, but by
| means of advances made under onerOus con-
| ditionS by Berlin and Amsterdam bankers.
The Russian debt, which has been increased
about S150,0o0,0O0 since the war began, is
SO arranged that coupons fall due every
month, and the interest due October
amounts to S5,907,815. During the next si1
months, besides the advances above referred
to, there will fall due over S18, 600 600 in gold
and the general impression is that Russia vii
be unable 70 meet these payments excep
. through advances negotiated at a grea