New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-20

VI. Ristics the Servian Premier. has sent dis
patch to NJ. Chrstics, Seryian agent at Constants
nople, stating that a demand from the Porte for
Scryia to disarm. would produce seIious complica-
tons in that principally.
THE TURKISH CAPITAL IN WAR TINE.
NOTED EXILEs AT LEMNCs-rHE OBSERVANCE or
The RAMAzAS MORE ATROCITIES Ar EsKI
sAGnRA--AN ARMY LOST AT TIE snIPKA PASS
rRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENTS or rHE rgiBrsEl
CoNsTANTINOPLE, Sept. 12.-Rcdf pasha, tho
ex-Minister of War. has been ordered again and
again TO appear before the court martial. This ho
has positively refused do, and the court has bro
ken up finding the nsouble. This leaves no
doubt Of the motives Of Damad Mahmoud Pasha in
assigning himself TO duty on the court. The over
throw of the Ministerial Ring was only f,igned,
and unless Damad Mahmoud Pasha can Dee finally
put OF Office. he will ultimately rotate Rcdif INTO
prominent position again. Redif Pasha. with fyo
companions in adversely have been sent " to reside
at Lennos, and have had the mpudence 10 tcle-
graph back that obey concluded on the hole not 10
TO LemnOs but will live at SciO instead. Beggars
are choosers in Turkey. 1t is rumoIed to-day again.
that Dlmad Mahn0ul is out of favor, and u,
about to be plunged in abysses Of cold despair Tho
ways of palace intrigue are not fathomahie, aud tho
Sultan may yet get rid of his incubus after an.
We IN full enjoyment of the month OF Rama
fires at haf-past 3 every morning, 10 oat a sump-
tuons breakfast, with the wretched certainty that
the lack Of appetite iuseparable from that uucarhy
hour viii be bitterly regretted before the day IS
done. After our hopeless breakfast. shall lounge
around in feeble way until half-pasi II. when,
according to the orders just issued. must If
ployed IN Government Departments, 90 10 the Bu-
reau for work. and must work NJ least f,ur hours.
with what energy we can get ont Of an empty
stomach. Then shall sally forth 10 gossip on tho
Streets taking not to look at any woman. and
seeing to il that. above all. do not smile at any
woman. The lynx-cyed police which have suddenly
multiplied themselves on the streets, have for their
principal business the arrest OF men Who shall 10
seen To profane this blessed month by ogling women
At the end of the long dreary day We go 10
the steamer which H. 10 carry ms ~ thc Bosphofus
For thirteen hours we have not eaten We have not
moistencd our parched lips, and more than all for
thirteen hours We have NOT smoked - we roll M
our cigarc aud break into convenient muIsrls tho
bread and cheese bought on the bridge. 3nd -t on
the steamer aud contemplate the result OF these pre-
partitions with impatient clnichings Of our
watch and stTainings OF the ear 10 eaten
the first sound of cannon. AZ last comes
The booming, echOing sunset guu and WIN
GOODNESS amazing 10 ourselves We dcyuur our bread
and hight our cigarette, and drink glass of water,
and are no more gurlv, quarfolsomc wrctchcs, but
men. At home have a grand feast, which lasts
far into night, and then sleep a few hours. In
Ramazan all great men Ike p open house and any
one who chooses may drop ~ Tor a mcai AT sunset.
This year It is announced that tins custom VIII uuG
be observed, ~ the country needs the money meh
would squandtr on their tables. As good example,
the Grand Vizcr has given 10 the Refugee Fund H.
600 piasiTes, and the Foreign Minister lOOJO saved
i'm mi. way from household EXPENSES. RamaZan has
always been the vacation of Turkish apartments.
Even in the Post Office they tell you that You may
come by night If you want yOur letters, and TO
kilograms which arrive during the day are not de-
Lvered until alter the evening meal has set men
tree. The war does not permit such delightful
lettering however, aud the departments are forced
to keep mp their normal pressure OF business for
which the Russian GiaOurs are TOundly cursed as
enemies of humanity"
The operations of the Ottoman Army upon tho
coast of Circassia. have come to end. tho
last man has left Sukum Kal6 and many
of the troops lately engaged in the scramble for ife
among those mountains are already well on their
way by railway to the Balkans. Forty-hye thousand
refugees from the coast Of the Caucasus have been
reed upon the southern coast of the Black sea-
i'm a pliable condition. The singular spectacle u
now presented of appeals 10 sympathetic purses IA
behalf of the poor suffering Circas.aus. Other
refugees still Hooking into the city from various
parts Of European Turkey. These are mostly Mos
lens and all quite as mn, moved oy landahie
desire 10 visit Constautiuopie and Ia get modicnn
Of Government pap, as by any pressing fear OF tho
mighty Cossack. Government allows them trans
portation Tor almost anything up to horses and
wagons.
The hideous work Of the Adranope and Philip
popolis courts-martal continues. Yesterday and
day before lify-six more Bulgarians were hung &C
various points IN the province of Aduanope. These
eases are not new ones. The were arrested in
the prescribed region. when the Russians fcl back.
aud their turn Is but just come. The Turk. OF tho
better class themselves arc beginning 60 bo honor
stricken at the wholesale slaughter The people
eeuted are not from Adumopleor PhlppDp0lis. but
from district comprised within circle Of thirty
miles radius, described about Eski >aghra. Tic
boundary N sharply defined; beyond II the Bull
garians ate living IN peace and quiet ~ such j. pos-
sible when these scenes are beng enacted before
ones very door Only thirty miles northeast OF TINS
district, YOU will even hnd Bulgarian governor
ruling the town OF kasan to the perfect satisfaction
of the Turks In COnstantlnOpe, all the Bugsuans
from the Esi SaghTa and keZanlk region who
have not gone TO Europe have been arrested.
Many of them have lain IN the murdcrcT's
prison without trial for some weeks. One,
n bow Of seventeen, had influential friends.
Ills story interested Mr.. Layard, who heard Il &c
noon II "A Saturday, aud turning t0 one of has dragu-
mans he SAID " Have tins boy released at once
The dragoman went To the city, ten miles away. and
az 4 o'clock that afternoon the boy va free,
which shows that Mr.. Layard has influence with
tho Turkish Government Full 5000 wounded
men from Shipka Pass have already been broughA
here aud every second day long ghastly trains OF
500 wounded arrive by rall. There now threo
foreign agencies at work caring for these wounded,
besides the local society, which collects lint aud
bsndages from the harems VI high and low society.