The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-07

GENERAL ToDLEBEN NOT DEcREP1T OLD
MAN-REsPoNsIBILIrY OF THE PRESS FOR
THE ruRKo-RUssIAN wAR-ALLEoxD BRIBERY
OF TURKISH OFFICERS.
From the London World
contemporary ayers that General Todlebsn's ar.
rival cannot DO regarded unmixed blessing TO
tho Russian arms, seeing that he "has long been
d<oomne" and that no Ia ..heipless and hopeless"
victim TO the Woo OF drunkenness | only hope,
should It please Providence to preserve aivo to
tho age OF sixty-avo and 70 in1ct with fourteen
wounds that may be ds0omme 10 the tune the
defender OF SebastopoL When Todleben camo TO
Bucharest the other day on his way TO Bulgaria he
wanted 10 buy some chargers TREND Of minc. an
English correspondent had big Stallion noble
horse. indecd-but SO unruy as to DO nearly useless
took deal Of riding In tho streets OF Bucharest
aud with troops there tho devil TO pay with him.
Todleben the horse and anced him; he was SNOWY
and up the Generals weight no warned that tho
animal carried 100 many guns for most young mon
but he mounted him, rode him Tor an hours trial
through The streets Of Bucharest, sticking TO him
throughout o sores OF com pcatpd antics manner
anything but ''helplcss and hopclcss;' and finally
bought him for a charger, with the remark that no
risk Of becoming ennuye whom riding him. Later,
after joining the army, Todcben rode IN day tho
circuit Of tho Russians positions around Povna, .
distance OF iorty miles, This Is certainly sin
sular phase OF "dtgoDsm0ge."
HOW OPINION ID FORxKD.
II may be sct down almost universal rule that
liberals Russ0philcs, at least antTurk and that
conservatives Turkophlles, or at least anti-Russ
But there Two signal EXCEPTIONS Tho Duke OF
Sutherland the head oil the stafford House fund.- and
the Edinburgh Reciew-the old ''bIue ana Yelow''-
has rs last number an article. the "isussan In
vas,on Of Turkey" which is bittsrer and adler
anything that has appeared elsewhere. In de-
taIls, nevertheless, It contains sundry mac
policy to ..Prince Gortschakon aud his under.
ling General lgna.ien.n Technically, no doubs,
sense In which Mr.. Layard Is the underling Of Lord
Derby but every man wko " NJ all behind tho
Of Russian politics knows that GortschaKoh and Isna
ueG were in quito opposite camps regarding the war;
Mr. Gladstone, General Ignatien, j. A. MacGahan and
the Day responsible 10 Russia and TO Europe
IRON Il and made any conccalment
OF his dis,astc tor an appeal TO arms. Again,
the Edinburgh Reviewer, writing OF tho DIM
u mere compliment to call the Roumanian highways
roads This ID erroneous; there arc no bettor roads
well engineered, exceilenty bridged and thoroughly
macadamized Yet again he characterIZes tue
Russian spirit ration ''as great source OF expense
and intoxication" Now, IN peace time the Russian
spirit ration is two drains OF vodki per month; in
war time II ceases altogether. Not single rprit
ration has been issued a healthy Russian solder
first vi Strukon's Cossacks crossed the
Pfuth.
HAS THERE BgKS BaInxRY9
Speaking OF Russian money, Osnan Pacha might
become wealthy beyond the dreams OF avarice' II
that sturdy Turk would listen 10 the voice OIL the
MuSCovlte CuATmer nnu sell IlevuA INC OLD RUSSIAN
pts.aler TO the Dayonets-l moan "the golden keyD
that INSTRUMENT which opened The gates vi Varna and
bought tue crossing OF the Danube 1S2s-has been
by no means forgotten IN tho present war. 1t was
Russian goa which Kept Abdul kerlm Pacha supinc
50 long on the heights above Alexinatz last
year and enabled The Servlans TO boast that
They had kept tho TURKS nj bay Tor tour long
months. IL Was Russian gold which brbed the old
IN June last 10 permit 80 iscilely tho Russian
crossing Of tho Danube and his .'plan, y hugo old
reproDate MS he is was bigger imposture than him.
self. Rustchuk was bought when IN July last tho
Cxarowtch marched SO confidently TO the LON. The
plan was that IA lew thousandn Russian soldiers
should i1ccd In sham coup de man from tho
and side, coupled with bombardment IRON Giur.
geyo. aud that tho place should lal d la Ncopolis
IguAtcH's garruiity spoiled the scheme corrcspon
dent OF the Vienna Neue Frei Prcssc got oil IT,
aud wired hint 70 the Turkish Ambassador At Vienna
VINO promptly ca Cd with Coustantinopc, aud
the oil Kustchuk chan god hands the very day
before thut liked for army Of tho Czarcwilch 10
take up an cnvironlng position In readiness tor tn
assault. Tho new has been found as incorrupti
bio ~ OsmAn PScha Mchcnet All Pacha WAS
moved because Of suspicious ut Constantinople that
he might be succumbIng 10 temptation. Nothing was
prov ca against HIM, ana fancy no WAS pure enough
but he Is a foreigner II was known thai overturcs
had been made TO him. and no Was pursuing Fabian
military policy. Those wcrc separate facts, not
necessarily huks In chaiu but they snniced 10 bring
about the recall oi perhaps the best soldier OF the
Turkish side in the present war.
DECORATIONS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Mr. Archibald Forbes, who has returned to town 90
thoroughly by fortnight III his native mir ns ~
contemplate returning 70 his post In the nrst week vi
Dccenioer been decorated with ihe cross OF 81.
StanlslAs (luifu CLASS viii DWOrusr Win FOIUcs
we're decorated viatchcsla Siivcslrovich Rossoovski
aud Alexander Dnitrvtch lvanof, correspondents oil
tho Nouoe vreniid aud Dr. Carrick representative oil
the C0tos aud Scotsman. Nr. Forbes was decorated
Tor the courage he displayed while attending the
wounded under the lire OF tue enemy with the utmost
GOODNESS aud self abnegaton, ana the same reason 10
assigned Tor the distinction cp ierrcd on Dr. Carrck
The latest Russian papers rccdrted give complete de-
tails VI the expulsion by COLONEL Hasenkampi oil Mr.
Boyle, correspondent OF tho SdndIrd rom the Rus-
sian army aud Roumania The pretsxt assigned ~
that ho failed TO Keep his word Oi honor ny giving IN
positions OF tile Russian troops. In spite OF all re.
monslrances and excuses tho insignia OF correspOn-
dent we're taken from HIM and banded over 10
tho custody o: Colonel Lpocano, who conducted him
TO Bucharest, and thence dcported hun over The Rou
manian frontier Two German correspondents
Captain Won Dannhauer. OF the National Zcing, and
Lieutenant Won Marco, OF ULer Land und Mer-havc
likewise been rewarded. but with the order vi th o
third class O 81. Ann. Both already had won the
iron cross In the FrancoGcrman war aud tho present
decoration ~ conferred Tor tneir gallant conuuct ut
Ncopolis the I'D (l5th) oi July, and Plovna on
.0n ska al.