Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-18
"RASHKA'S GARDEN


Russian Officers CIempriuR for the
" "Marsett'atsa" aLa VARIETY show
In bucharest.
Vienna Cor London Telegraph
There is a public garden in Bu-
charest called Rashka's, which COM
bines orchestral music with per-
formances of the cafe chantant
genre, poses plastiques, cancans,
and the like. 1t is almost the only
place Of amusement here at the
present moment, and is crowded
nightly by Russian officers and
officials, Roumanian flaneurs, the
Undesirable riff.ratf that hangs on
to the skirts OF an army in the
field, and ladies of easy virtue, or,
rather, Of none at all worth speak
ing Of. The great prince-chancellor
himself does not disdain to honor
this al fresoo resort with his pres
ence from time to time, and one or
two Of the foreign diplomatic agents
are steady patrons of its tenth. class
delight. 1t is well for some of the
gentlemen wearing the uniform of
the Russian army, and who are
fortunate enough, while their COM
rades are fighting hunger, thirst
and the Turk in a temperature
ranging between ninety-six and
one hundred and thirty degrees
on the other side of the Dan
ube, to enjoy privileges which en-
able them to "sport with the
tangles of Ne@ra's hair" and dine
luxmiously in Brofft Is cool bowers
or Hughes shady patio, with its
bubbling fountains, that the ven
cradle statesman who has taken up
his abode on the banks Of the sweet
Dumbovitza was not having his
accustomed recreation at Rash
ka's yesterday evening. Had he
Strolled into that "gradina" about
IL PM, he would have been witness
of a sight calculated to inspire him
with profound vexation; namely,
that afforded by some fifteen or
twenty Russian officers, in full uni
form, clamopng Rt the top of their
voices, and, with a pertipqcity that
not only interrupted the fulfllment
of the programme Of the evenings
entertainment for fiye-and-thirty
minutes, but threatened to result in
a disturbance demanding the inter
yentiop of the police, for-what do
you think-yOH would not divine it
in twenty guesSes-fOf the "Mar-
seiiiseise T" Had ! not been present
at this extraordinary demonstration,
which took place in Tue presence Of
several hundred persons, amongst
them many friends of my own,
members of leading families o!
Roumanian society, to whose testi
mony | should not hesitate for
moment to appeal, were the aceu-
racy Of my statement as Is not
bable--impugned by any Of your
Russophile contemporaries, could
scarcely have believed it possible
that Russian officers, the very ex-
in the flesh and its out
ward habilIment, of absolute impe-
rialism-of a regime in the very
nostrils Of which the word 0Reyo-
lutioR stinks with intolerable
and which has proved
itself the sternest and most endur-
ing of foes to any and every cause
which has identified itself with the
political principles, or rather no.
llons, of which Rouget de PIsle's
vehement verses are the passionate
Russian Off
GERS, repeat, in time of war, with
the enemy not forty miles dis
tant, and with their emperor
the perils and priyations
of an arduous campaign, should
strain their throats and shout
themselves hoarse for the best
part of an hour in the endeavor to
elicit the arch-hymn of revolt from
the painted lips of a raddled can
caneuse, whose vocal and plastic
specialties were never destined to
rise above the level Of interpreta-
ton required for the rendering Of
claimant fAmanda" or "Y
trop de monde a la maisonp How
ever, seeing and hearing are believ-