New-York tribune., 1878-04-15
GENERAL NOTES.

Sebastian Bach with extraordinary facility and ntel
gence. Al previous psriormanee the child
pianist had played MOzarts Ninth Concerto accOmpa
MED by full orchestra. The babes name IL Mile Doas
Theodore TiltOn says that he has made no
! Overtures for a reconciliation with his wife, A few
hours before he delivered lecture in Fort Wayne Ind
one day last week. copy Of Chicago paper containing
sensational of his domestic peace-makng was
! shown to him. and after he had read the story he
remarked with scowl, There not solitary word
Of truth in that letter from beginning endo He said
that he had only NewYOrk three days for several
months and that he expected to be engaged the lee
| ture platform until June. when he would sail for
| Europe but he would go alone and would return In
| September with his daughters Alice and Florence lie
dlscreety declined to say anything about ms domestic
affairs, but reiterated that the stories which have
recently appeared in the newspapers concernine his
reconciliation with his wife were false and entirely With
| out foundation
! Yankees are to sink wells and refine petrO-
eum the oil regions OF Russia the western shore Of
| the Caspian Sea. Agents. representing one Of the
wealthest mercantile firms in st. Petersburg, have 10
Gently made tour OF the OIL regions in Penn0ylvania
and have purchased and shipped to Russia all the ma.
| chinery necessary for drilling and pumping wells To
operate this machinery the services Of number Of e1
perenced Odrlers have been engaged, st the head Of
whom is George Adams, of OIL City These men are TO
be paid large in gold The Caspian oil wells aver
age about 600 feet depth produce daily from 40
to 200 barrels each. The oil IS very heavy having
specific gravity Of 80, and is comparatively free nom
sediment 1t has TO be carried many hundred miles uD
the Caspian Sea and the yolga River TO HovgorOd,
whence is shipped by rail to St. Petersburg The cost
of transportation has been heavy that American oil
has always been sold at lower rates than Russian OIL
The Car, realizing what an important industry can b
is OIL territory mas directed the imposition OF tax
equivalent to SO 30 barrel on ali foreign Oil.
Edward DIcey, in the current number of
Tie Nineteenth Century, argues that whenever whether
by Congress or otherwise, the Continental Powers
| A., ffafan win fha
session of Egypt they ought to find British flagstaff
already PLANTED On the soil He relates fresh anecdOte
as an illustration Of the kind OF British pluck which Is
needed at the present time. score OF years ago
French feet arrived suddenly at Alden on an unknown
| errand The officers were invited to dine with
the Governor OF the settlement and in the course OF
| the banquet the commander Of the French squadron
casually informed his host that daybreak he TO
sail for Perrin, under secret orders TO occupy IN the
name Of France the island rock which commands the en-
trance the Red Sea- Those were the days when tole
raph wires had not yet spanned the world aud when
British officials not afraid to act on their own
popsibity The Governor OF Alden drank success the
French expedition but before his guests had Quilted the
table dispatch boat had stolen out Of the harbor and
| when the French squadron reached Perm few hours
oter they found the Union Jack flying TIE rock aud
! guarded by English sentinel Ihey had come TOO
late and the command OF the Red sea- alone anu unls-
| puted. was secured TO England
The spread of RatiOnaism ia Cavinisdc
scotland has illustrated by the votes Of the Pres
ery OF the Free Church in the recent heresy Pro-
fessor Robertson Smith, Of Aberdeen, suspended
from his college chair year on account Of certain
articles which had contributed to the new edition OF
the "Encyclopeda Britannica" eOnspicuOusly thoss
! on Angels" Bible" and "Canticles." The Presby-
erv arraned him three general counts, under each
OF which there were eight specific charges OF heresy,
relating 20 such points the historical character OF
Deuteronomy the existence Of angels and the nature OF
prophecy. The first general count charged him with
contradlctng the Confession OF Faith, but when tbs
votes we're taken In February each OF the eight spe
fcaons he was declared guilty. the division on the
first minor proposition being IS to H. and on the eighth
95to g. The second general count which embraces the
dangerous and unsotlng tendency OF his writings was
subsequently discussed, and on March H. by majority
Of one il was decided 20 be relevant The Presbytey
by this vote ala convict him Of heresy but merely
decided that II he should be found guilty OF holding
| and utterng opinions with dangerous and unse,tiog
tendencies there would be ground for hbeling him. lie
has obtained q months delay IN order to prepare an
swers the eight specifications. IL hf he again acqu
ted he will be aTraIgned under third general eOa9y
which charges him with disparaging the authority Of the
| Scriptures and drawing unwarrantaDle nfercnces'
The foreign correspondents of the London
papers are described by The Spectator irresponsible
ambassadors report daily to the English public ana
whose influence it is difficult TO exaggerate. The EN-
barkation OF the Russian Guard Buyukdore is cited
| an illustration. One correspondent believed, or vas
told or assumed belief that this embarkaon was pro
lminary to one Of the most astounding acts OF treason
on recOrd-the seizure Dy Power which had Jus SSHea
treaty OF forts belonging to its submissive adversary
Instantly whole country is in commotion the uDc'
recede and there is general expectation OF war; ana
but for the prompt denial OF the report by other eoro
spondents it might have been impossible 70 preVensA'
passage OF resolutions which would have rendered nVs
tcs inevitable II is not too much 10 say thaN ..
or five correspondents had combined, the policy OF nan
the statesmen OF Europe might have been oVer'uin'
and the world once more visited with the Savest S c.
.,n.fa
stance, which is more striking Is given OF 'ne iu
| chief which be wrought by newspaper eoe
| spOndent The Spectator maintains that tor ~A
years the whole position of great country mas Dee
affected by the letters Of the American correspondence
The London Times during the civil war-letters "r''
by man whose good intentions were never snspeeas
but who sympathized so far with the South OK WV.
English sympathy with the South that he could not sss
which way the struggle would 60 or T9Ss ,Ss s nsnTy
therefore, The Times went Southern, and with ~ wy
whole upper and middle class The conclusion : r cos.
In view of the new standing obtained by tOreish W.
respondents, the anonymous ought TO disappear
The Mosque of st. Sophia now shelters aDoa'
three thousand Turkish refugees. correspondents @'
Daily NeUs who recently entered the ancient churcnou
every available inch OF the ground hoor eo'e
with these poor peasants from Eski-saghra ana keD
from the mountain passes and the valley Of the Via s
the Martha. On the stone floors OF the arcades p'
have been laid down. one small square floor for eaehs
n.y. and here, as well all over the great straw m'~
Of the body of the mosque the beds are spread. ~"
rudely-panted boxes, bales of clothing and baDke'A
pile of copper utensils, braEier with live Goals SOM
times long gun and pair OF pistols-these are coee
beside the beds that each family has its own NV.
space and Its own little rampant OF possessions i
women gather and gossip, the men sit In groups -
smoke all day long, while the children scamper ao0-s
play hide-and-seek among tho columns and shous sN
laugh untf the interior resounds and seems Ike an wv
mense chlldren's playhouse. The people all seem " =
Portable They have clothing enough 10 keep 'a
warm; they cook their food on little brazers " W