New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-03

Orders are sent TO the district Governors 10 sehu
cavalry to the front Instantly and 1t is forthcoming
The means bv which the creation of cavalry IS ell
fected without horses has Just begun Ia come unuer
mynoticc here Inevcry distnctthcre are any hummer
of Circas,iaus who are haukeriug after hghi WIN
the Russians The Governor SIMPLY orders out il'e
Crcassiaus and they help themselves 10 HORSES anu
articles of equipment wherever they ma tholh' ana
report for duty with smiling counienances' ana 10
questions are asked They take horses IN the roads
or IN the feds Wherever horse Is, there thev are
/ gathered together Last week they dlsmouhtcd
doctor on one Of the BRIDGES over the Goldcrn Horn
aud sniritcd away his horse before he knew what
was bappening. In the country about, farmers ana
Transfers are paralyzcd with terror. Trade between
the villages. and even the harvesting of crops, is
stopped and men are hiding their horses and keep
! inc within their houses, lest they be stripped OF
/ money and clothing.
those who 20 robbed of more or less, rs the
! fancy moves the maraudng warrior. one man was
robbed four times the other day in going twenty
miles, and had but little left to cover himself on
reaching his destination The Circassans are cow
ardly robbers, however If the subject shows ignt
they deSist. If by chance they steal horse over
seventeen eighteen years of aye, they have Dcen
known IN several cases to he benevolent
enough 10 nUNI up lut bNHcI anu iN'''''
the brute. Government winks at these rob
berries although they take place in the very outskirts
of the capital I'm other parts of the country, too
brigandage is rapidly increasing, as deserterS from
the army and bands of volunteers on their waV 10
the front increase. There have been some very alarm
ing stories in circulation this week about mas
sacres in Biths and Van. and these stories have
been promptly telegraphed to Europe as on
the authority of the Armenian Patriarch
have seen the kilograms actually received by the
Armenian Patriarch, and they do not warrant any
such alarming statements. No massacre mas taken
place although the condition of affairs described in
my letter last week continues. Property Is only
safe through perpetual vigilance. Every one is
armed to the teeth waking sleeping as the only
condition of existence. The Government Is unable
to protect the people, and has not yet been brought
TO the point of conserving To organize the Ar
meniaus for home defence There Is a great move
meut uOrtawardS OF all the huris and nomads IN
Mcsopotamia, and the whole mass Is hungry for
plumber. This movement viii give the Government
a great force of irregular troops to throw upon the
Russian communications, hut It also bids laIr
10 make the country no longer worth lighting Tor
The Governor Of Van gave notice that he would
arm the people if robhcries did not cease, and the
threat Quoted the Kurds in that city, so that danger
was less than at last accounts. In one of the dis
tricts of European Turkey. where brigaudagc has
been rife lately. the Governor has been ordered to
stop the robbcrcs. and a telegram from him, pub
ished this morning in the official paper announces:
GLORY to God, bligaudaga has now been extinct III
my district for one week. 1t is to be feared that
the ascripion of glory and the declaration OF the
fact are alike false.
The Turkish official bulletins from the seat Of war
continue to be interesting reading. When the Rus
| slams were fighting at Sstoya for footing on this
side Of the Danube and every one vas suffering tor
| lures for news. the Government allowed no word OF
this to be Published, and instead gave to the public
the announcement that in am obscure place in Bosnia
a band of victory bearing troops of His Imperial
Majesty had by the grace of God destroyed a band
of Bosnian rebels, composed of four men, OF whom
three were killed and the fourth took refuge in mac
cesihe portions of the mOuntaius, and tine Imperial
troops captured this occasion one horse, three
mus6ets three revolycrS, one knife anda waterproof
oycrcoat, besides some food and some ammunition.
Fancy confding public buying an official bulletin
/ for two cents aud spelling painfully through the
mass Of Arabic characters composing it, ana finding
! its burden Of news to be only this at time when
| the line Of the Danube was being broken mp. After
! such matreamcut at the hands of the bureau of
news. the public will not believe a word of
/ the kilograms now coming in from EHcrum de-
scribing the rout and pursuit to the frontier
of the Russian Army of the Caucasus by
the eyer-yctorious Turkish troops. Evon the
Turks themselves cannot believe that such luck has
/ beiallen them. Rodif Pasha the Minister Of War;
/ has gone 10 the Danube and everybody, including
/ the sultan broaihes more freely. The Americans
of this city celebrated the Fourth Of July by at
tending in force the receptions given in honor
/ of the day by the officers Of the United States
| steamer Vandalia on board, and by MIR. Maynard
the Minister, at his residence. Al the foreign war
ships i'm the harbor were decled in flags including
| the Vandalia and the Despatch. The Nandalia
! leaves soon for the Syrian coast and the Marion
comes here in her stead. The Admiral, with the
Trenton, remains at Smyrna, where the Alliance
| will soon join him.