New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-26

the customs duty on all grain imported from ABROAD
This exemption from duty is to hold until the lotn
of March, 1873. Already some flour has arrived
here from Trieste. Let our American gram dealers
prepare to extend the circle Of their operations.
An English gentleman just in from the Pieyna
road says he counted go dead bodies OF BugaIlans
lying by the roadside in distance of sixty miles.
The statement made to him was that these men were
peasants from distant parts Of the country, whose
teams had been pressed into the service for army
transportation They had safely made the journey
to Plevna. and, after being discharged, while strag-
Cling along the road on the homeward Jour
ney. they had been shot, one at time, by
Turkish refugees. VINO wished to use the teams
in their flight before the Russian advance"
The horrors Of this war absolutely limit
less. Three hundred and sixty Jewish refugees
have arrived here via Austria and Roumania' rom
Bulgaria. They have been subjected to every IN
suit and outrage by the Bulgarian Christians ana
have escaped to the Turks for safety. The Bul-
carians Justify their savagery toward the jews ny
charging them with acting as spies. and the jews
defend their conduct BY charging previous outrages
on the Bulgarians. 1t is a series Of ordinations ana
recIimnatons that have neither beginning nor end.
The Government has promised a new levy OF 2oo'-
600 troops Ii has undoubtedly decreed tins levy IN
true Turkish form, as if the word would create the
men. But the new leyies come IN slowly. several
hands Of the recruits have been marched through
our streets chained, some even with iron collars ana
desertions are common even IN the city.
The troops from Syria, which were To nave
come here for service in European Turkey,
have been ordered 10 Erzerum, to meet
more pressing needs in that region. This change IN
the plan occurred ten days ago and It was then in-
tended To send the garrison Of COnstantnope toward
Plevna leaving this city IN charge of the ne" civic
guard. But now the newspaper correspondents an
uounce that 10 600 Russians are preparing ~ cross
the Balkans. and the Council of War Is afraid 10
deprive the city of regular troops. The wretched
anxietes of the pashas are increased every
day. and no men ever prayed more dcvoutiy
for rain, snow mud, anything To block the artillery
wheels o. the Russian armies. The anXleties of the
qa.has are not only rs 20 men, but n To means.
You see daily men going from house 10 house ana
shop to shop, with memorandum and pencil M hand'
asking aid for the army. "Alust give, asks the
shopkeeper "Oh no; IL is a voluntary contribu-
ton" Then | have nothing TO spare " All
right: but you should know that We publish the
names OF all who do not give Thu. draw, the sub
scrpton, and the next man takes IBIS turn.
party of volunteers from Albania has dis
tngui,h,d itself by robbing an the villages through
which 1t passed in gong 20 the camps ON the Greek
frontier The thing became 80 abomiuablc that
even Turks could not stomach 90. Troops were sent
out To arrest the volunteers who resisted. and were
only captured after stubborn light. n which their
captain and eleven men were killed. The rest were
chained in pairs and escorted TO Moalatir. where
they now ht iu prison.
some of the Kurdish chief, from the army az
Erzcrum have been brought Lere to see the sultan.
They are picked men. | saw one on ihc Gnlaia
bridge day or two ago. The common hert of men
stood barely "a, high ~ hi. broad shoulders, that
he lowered above tine crowd like saul. lie was
dressed in ,y-blue broldcilth. and on hl7 feet were
huge morocco boots of the most brilliant crrn~"n
color: ms head WI, wound with brislt-coortd,ilk
turuau; by his side wa, e curved sword sheathrd ia
solid silver and ON hi, shoulders was white scarf
Of silk gauzc, cxqusitely embroidered. The man 4,
lace wa, naughty, but not bad or at all ropn.sive
lie was commander OF q band OF scouts which have
done good service in wagayiug Russian conveys
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