, 1880-04-11

| others being Incorporated into regiments in
Siberia. At length none remained but Pal
| hen, who had retained his situation as Mill
tary Governor OF st. Petersburg, and whose
sight had become remorse to the new E.l-
| peror, who pr0fted by the first opportunity
| which presented to send him away i'll his
turn.
II expected this" Palhen remarked on re-
ceiving his dismissal, and my affairs were
| arranged in advance"
| An hour after the Count was en- route to
Riga.
TRYING TO FOOL 4 SULTAN.
The Danger OF Playing Franks In q
! Palace.
Nt.p York Times.
An amusing story, Involving also some
| serious features, and bristling all the way
| through with the essential points for the
| plot Of a racy Cpera-bouffe, is told By Mr.
Oscanyan, formerly Turkish Consul at this
port, who had obtained the facts in late cor
respondence received BY him FROM Constan-
tinople. Some two or three months ago
there was telegraphed from Turkey brief
statement that a conspiracy against the life
of the Sultan Abdul Hamid and the safety OF
his realm had been discovered and frustrated.
and that several arrests of prominent parties
involved had been made. Since then no
further details OF the affair have been made
public It now appears that this regicidal
and revolutionary plot had Its origin In
shallow and thoroughly farcical Court in
trigue designed to advance the interests OF
two ambitious individuals, while the third
was probably hired fur gain to do his share
in the job The first Of these is vain but
enterpris1ng young man named Papadopoulas
IN individual who, having failed in bust-
ness, was living on the bounty OF, and under
dos, in the village ct Arnaontkeoy, suburb
OF Constantinople, on the Bosph0rus. The
| second conSpirat0r is 10 less parsonage
than Georgnki Bey, iIistarchi, . brother OF
Aristarchi Bey, the Minister OF Turkey to
the United States now at Washington. The
third man III the intrigue was vaingi0rious
youth, BY name Galanakl, Of no yesy great
social Importance in himself, but willing to
take 4 hand in amy grand enterprise wnesa
riors was to be gained. Papadopoulns Is
probably sort OF hare-bratned scapegrace
! sort OF byzantine swell or Man-ah0nt-toWl.
Georgald H:y, through family and political
| household as an officer Of the Su!tan's body
| guard. Though living 50 near tue glamour
| Of the throne. however, it appears he did not
| enjoy much favor from his monarch, and
| the Sultan, though from motives Of State
policy tolerating Georgaki's occupancy Of
the post OF honor did not condescenl even to
speak to him. The officer Of the gnard tried
in various ways to win the Suiclu's smile,
but to no avail, and his position was purely
nominal one, us Abdul llamid's repugnance
to him was SO great that lie seldom discharged
his duties for fear of being frowned upon.
Georgaki Bey Is Of Greek extraction, and
his family belong to the Greek Church. This
unhappy courtier in lis effort lo please the
abiure the faith of his fathers. renounce the
Greek Church, and embrace 1slamisnl. 10
do this in Moliainlnedan land IS to make !
sacrifice that can scarcely be eqnaled or up
strong bid for the encouragement OF the
fanatical party in power as the Adlninistra-
ton. In reno'incing his faith It was also
necessary that ~ should renounce Ills family
longer allowed TO be borne by one who Is q
believer in Mohamtnel. GeOrgaki, therefore,
adopted theproud Moslem title Of Self ullah,
which was the name given to khaletl, 4 PROM
tile Great, and signifies 1.-THE Sword OF Cod"
Papadoponlas having conceived dislike
for his uncle, who, in turn, did not entertain
any great respect for his nephew's qualities,
please the Sultan, conceived n plan which he
thought would cut two ways at once. and
impaired it to the hitter, He proposed, in
short, to emulate the example Of the rash
youth .Latude, who for his efforts to play
upon the sylnpathies and gratitude Of Nine.
Ponlpadour paid the heavy penalty of some
thirty years sojourn in the Eastile. The
plan was carried out, and Self Ullah was
to have the honor of discovering the wicked
plot to the Sultan. AS he was not permitted
to communicate the intelligence and wrote
a portentous letter to Abdul lfamid. in
forming his Majesty to the effect
that there was dcspernte scheme to
take his life and to oyertttrn the Empire;
that for the purposes OF this foul enterprise
there were concealed III the house Of Dinit-
rfados large quantity Ut g1lnpoTdcr, nitro
glycerinc, hand -grrnades, and other terrific
implements and elements of lestrucrlon; and
named Zarifa, was also planning and pre-
pairing for a revolutionary outbreak In the
Capital by causing the pupils In certain
Greek aca,lamies and colleges to be instruct.
ed in military science nnd tactics, ana sn1
Zarifa imported and palA Greek lnslruSt9ls