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L1X. NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1895. TWELVE PAGES. NO. 309.

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THE BECORD FOR ATLANTi Over 100,000 People Crowd Into the Exposition Grounds, It Was South Carolina and Atlanta Day Combined. Governor Evans Created a Sensation by Declaring That the Sonth Proposed to Bole the Country Again. Senator Tillman Followed It Up by an Attack on The Pension System of the Country, and Iinprored the Occasion by Expressing His Contempt of President Cleveland The Progamme of the Day. Atlanta, Not. 28.

To-day was set apart at the exposition as Atlanta and Sonth Carolina day combined, and the son had hardly risen before the prediction that It would be the greatest day in point of attendance in the hiutory of the show was a certainty. Over a hundred thousand visitors are in the city, more strangers than were ever in Atlanta before. The streets were moving masses of humanity during the early hours, and before 9 o'clock the capacity of the turnstiles at the exposition entrances, towards which the multitude flowed steadily, was being taxed, while bets were laid that the paid admissions to the grounds would reach the hundred thousand mark before the gates closed for the day. The combination of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Palmetto state celebration and Atlanta day were responsible for this enormous attendance. The stores, shops and offices in the city -were closed and all Atlanta joined the army of visitors at Piedmont park.

South Carolina covered herself with glory, excelling all other tates that hawa-haoVperil day at the fair in the number of visitors contributed and in the military display made. Since yesterday morning a score of trains loaded with South Carolinians have rolled into the city and a fair estimate places the number of Carolinians now in Atlanta at from 12,000 to 15.000. Governor John Garry Evans and Senator Benjamin Tillman, accompanied by the governor's staff, arrived yesterday afternoon and took quarters at the Arji-gon. Governor Evans suffered considerably from the fatigue of the journey and was Indisposed during the night, but was reported better this morning. Evening and night special trains come from across the- 41 ne bearing between 2000 and 3UOO cadets and state militia and several hundred school girls from the Win thro Normal and Industrial School at Rock Hill, while still other sections and specials brought overflowing carloads of citizens.

To-day Columbia, South Carolina's capital, and the halls of the etatehoose are quiet. The officials of the state are In Atlanta. Not one is left in Columbia to operate the departments. The governor deserted his pout and the constitutional convention, which has been in session for a number of months, was adjourned to give the members a chance to visit the exposition. The excursion trains arrived in the following order: First train, with students of Clemson College, at Calhoun, with 20S people.

Second train, with Tillman Blues of Clifton, with 100 men. Third train, with Governor Evans and his staff and members of the constitutional convention, including 263 people. Fourth train, with Wlnsboro, Ridge-way and Greenville people. Fifth train, with 266 school girls from Rock Hill. Sixth train, with South Carolina College, of Columbia, and military companies from Union and Jonesville.

Two more trains will arrive during the day. having on board the Citadel Cadets and the state troops of Charleston. Shortly after 0 o'clock the military began assembling on Walton street and in a short while the three brigades had formed for the parade. In a few minutes they began moving in the following order: The marshal of the day. Colonel John S.

Candler, with the members of his staff; First and Second Battalions of the Fifth Regiment of Georgia; the Macon Light Infantry and the Macon Volunteers. Governor Evans and his staff rode at the head of the South Carolina troops. The governor's staff was as follows: J. Garry Watts, adjutant and Inspector general of Sonth Carolina; W. W.

Bruce, assistant adjutant and Inspector general; Colonel George S. McCreary, Colonel N. G. Evans, Colonel 1. McOall, Colonel J.

W. Floyd, Colonel A. H. Patterson, Colonel W. McLaurin, Colonel W.

R. Bullock, Colonel D. R. Low man. Colonel W.

J. Rollison, Colonel H. T. Milan, Colonel J. A.

Moony, Colonel Thomas Martin and Colonel Boyd Evans. The Fourth Brigade, commanded by General Anderson, was the next in line. Then the Second Brigade, under the command of General Rlchbourg. This, brigade was composed of the following companies: Clemson College Cadets, 225 strong; Company A. Captain R.

K. Lees; Company Captain O. M. Peguisj Company Captain B. R.

Tillman; Company Captain I. M. Mauldln; Company Captain W. H. Carpenter; Company F.

Captain F. G. Thompkins. Colonel Wiley Jones, of the First Regiment, and Colonel Halland and staff were also with this brigade. The first regiment, under the command of General Stoppelbein, was next In line, made up of the following troops: Cadets of Patrick Military Institute and Johnson.

Military Institute, Dowlegton Guards, Captain Thompson; Manning Guards, Captain Fanning; Gary Evans Volunteers, Captain Davis; Governors Guards, Captain Bateman; Edisto Guards, Captain Wise; Richland Volunteers, Captain Weston; Fairfield Rifles, Captain Jordan; Hamburg Guards, Captain Greenbrlar Guards, Captain Lemmons; Tillmanr Volunteers, Captain Glaffey: Ridgeway Captain Johnson Salley Rifles, Captain Salley; Pomariel Captain Eagle. The Governor's Horse Guards and the Atlanta Artillery closed tip the rear. The line moved along Peachtree street to the exposition grounds, the South Carolina troops creating -the greatest -enthusiasm and being cheered again and again. When the line reached the grounds the soldiers passed around the plank walk and were reviewed at the government building by Governor Evans and Governor Atkinson. After the review the troops gave a dress -parade on the plaza and were inspected, by the governors.

Afterwards the Sonth Carolinians gathered in the auditorium, where they held their public ceremonials. They were wel comed to the city and state by President Collier of the exposition and Governor Atkinson. Fuliy 3000 people were crowded Into the auditorium to hear the speeches of the day. It was 2 o'clock before the military review was over, and it was some time after that before the exercises began. Senator Tillman appeared on the stage first and was enthusiastically cheered.

Governor Atkinson, accompanied by Governor Evans, Mr. 8. M. lnman and the military staffs of the two executives, came in a tew minutes later and received an ovation. Commissioner E.

I. Roche, acting as master of ceremonies. Introduced Dr. Toomer Porter, of Charleston, who offered Atkinson In an address of welcome. HIsJ opening remarks were a tribute to the beauty and virtue of the Carolina women.

Referring to Governor Evans bachelorhood, he humorously remarked that if he did not appreciate the beauty of the women of South Carolina, Georgia stood ready to do so. He spoke of the bonds that united the two states from colonial times and pf how the sympathy and aid of Georgia was so nobly and generously tendered when South Carollan freed herself from negro rule. He said the large audience present showed that the people had attested their higher opinion of the worth of the two leaders present than that of the president of the United States. Ho spoke of the development of the south, and of South Carolina and Georgia especially, and said it was not. as many held, that this development was the result of foreign skill, money or enterprise, but that no foreign capital ever put its foot on southern soil until southern energy and enterprise had first pointed the WFr.

Inman was then introduced, and welcomed the Carolinians on behalf of the exposition. He was surprised at the excellent military display made by the state and he had been amazed at the variety of its products and the immense possibilities of future development. Governor Evans responded on the part of the state. He said that to say he thanked Georgia for its kindly welcome seemed cold, coming from a mother to ner daughter, for Georgia was a daughter of South Carolina, and she was proud of her. This was a day of Thanksgiving, he said, but Georgia and South Carolina could witnoni -narauii" "Thank God.

we are not as other states! He believed it was time for the south in congress to rise up and speak out on the various questions and say that -while a part of the union, and always to be a part, yet, by the help of God, she would rule this country again. He spoke of South Carolina's Pre-cml-nent position In cotton manufacturing, but said the state was esesntially an i agricultural one. and upon that depended the prosperity of the whole country. The only true Democracy In the union was to be found in the agricultural classes; among them alone could be found true patriotism and love of home and country. Senator Tillman was next introduced and coated a great deal of nthuslasm anions the Carolir.l.ins pre-cnt, who rose up, waived their arms about and cheered ftAfteraa7few pleasant and humorous hits at Governor Evans about being unmarried when so many pretty women were about, he said he had seen but little of the exposition yet, bnU from what he had heard and seen, Atlanta's how came a good second to the magnificent world's fair, and no other city but the Chicago of the south could have accomplished the undertaking.

He took the exposition as a groundwork to talk about pensions, the enormous amount of on the sonth that it wwnderful that as this. The south, he said, does not receive more than a tithe back pf what she pays. Since 1861 eighteen hundred and sixty million dollars had been paid ont In pensions. The cotton states paid not less than one-quarter of this, vve hnd paid f4O0.O0O.O0O to our conquerors. He was getting up no new rebellion.

He realized lull well that the south wou never govern any more. It could only hope to wield the balance of power between the north and the great west. It was very certain, he thought, that not as many northern millions had been Invested in the south as she had paid in pensions to the north, and northern capital invested in the south was pension tribute coming back. He held that If at the close of the war the south had had an equal chance, if the tariff had n'ot robbed the farmers and the finances of the country had not been allowed to concentrate In the hands- of a few, there was no conjecturing what this exposition would have been. The bankers and capitalists do not realize, declared Senator Tillman, that the man who follows the plow Is tne salvation of the country.

These fellows sit in their offices and every time old Grover grunts they say: "Me, too. It did his soul good to be- told that two bob-tailed reformers like himself and Evans had been received with greater enthusiasm and by more people than the president of the United States. This completed the exercises and Governor Evans and party repaired to the Illinois building, which had been tendered the Carolinians, and where a reception was held, at which refreshments were served. The sensation of the day was the new departure taken by Evans and Tillman. Up to this time all the speeches deliv-, ered at the exposition, whether by northern or southern men, have been pitched upon the keynote of fraternity and national unity.

Governor Evans and Senator Tillman struck out on a different line, however, the governor declaring In a dramatic manner that the south proposed to rule this country and Tillman going out of his way to attack the president and abuse northern pensioners. Great Snow. New Nov. 28. Mayor Strong has Just returned to this city from Atlanta, where he has been attending the exposition.

In an interview he said: "We were all pleased Immensely pleased with the exposition. think for a town of only 100,000 people Atlanta has made, and Is making, a wonderful showing. So far as it goes, the exposition is fully equal to the Columbian exposition. When yon compare the size of Chicago with that of Atlanta, and take Into consideration the aid that the national government gave to Chicago, and the historical event that the Columbian exposition I am- inclined to think that southern public spirit, as shown by this fair, outstrips even the public spirit of the great northwest. "I was," continued the mayor, "no stranger to Atlanta, yet I Vaa not even half way prepared for the great manifestation of push and public spirit which Atlanta is putting forth.

The whole south has entered with tremendous Tim into this exposition." 'Cotton ly Auction. One hundred bales more or less, will.be sold at the Columbia Press at 10:30 this morning by W. L. Hodgson Son, auctioneers See their advertisement. DARING BURGLARY.

Sale Blown' Open aad Balldlag Wrecked by tne Explosion. Opelika, Nov. 28. (Special.) A faring buvglary occurred this at Auburn, seven miles south of Opelika. Burglars entered the post office between: 1 o'clock and daylight and drilled a hole In the safe containing the government money, filled it with nitroglycerine and exploded it, tearing the safe to atoms, cracking the walls of the building, and shattering the glass.

One hundred and seventy dollars In money and a large number of stamps of different denominations were taken. The burglars left a diamond drill, several chisels and some- othex tools. There is no clew whatever as to who they The department at Washington, D. has been notified, and every effort will be made to apprehend the burglars, who left no clew whatever as to their A professional gang of daring thieves is at work in the vicinity, and are causing much concern. THAISGIM 15 THE CM.

A Noteworthy Incident in the St. Paul Church Celebration, Dr. Waters Mating an Appeal for the Touro Infirmary. Methodist Ministers Point Ont Evils to Be Corrected, Presbyterian Praise Followed by the GiTln? of Alms. The Day Made an Occasion of Doing Good, AH the Charitable Institutions Shar-insr in the Bounty, And the Spirit of Benevolence Forms the Text and Lesson of the Observance.

Peace, health and reviving prosperity obtain throughout the confines of our stite, and for these and manifold other blessings granted to us, it Is meet and incumbent that we, as a Christian people, should set apart a day of thanksgiving and prayer to God for his inestimable goodness and loving kindness; Therefore, I name Thursday, Nov. 28, 1805, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and trust that it will be observed by all In grateful thanks and praises to God, and in substantial, liberal and kindly remembrance of the poor, that their burdens may be lightened, and that even the most unfortunate may know that they are not forgotten, and have many reasons to turn in thanks and prayers to God. Given under my official signature, and the great seal of the state, at the city of Baton Rouge, this Nov. 10, 1895. MUBjPHY J.

FOSTER, Governor of Louisiana. BISHOP BESSUMS' SERMON. Preceded by Dr. Waters Appeal in Behalf of Hebrew Charity. The observation of Thanksgiving day at St.

Paul's church was a solemn and Impressive one, and the sermon, which was by Bishop Davis Sessume, was full of deep meaning and beautiful expression. There was a large audience. The decorations were on the order of those at the harvest services in New England. This is a custom at St, Paul's. On the ledges of the windows of the chancel were piled apples, oranges and other fruits and vegetables, and there were palms and other plants tastefully pisced about, and around each there were apples and grapes imbedded in moss.

On the reading desk at the side of the chancel thee were great clusters of green and purple grapes, and there were chrysanthemums and other flowers placed about among the other decorations. After the reading of the lesson by Dr. H. H. Waters, rector of the church, which was from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy, Dr.

Waters said that the collection was for the parochial and city missionary work, and that the money obtained at the last Thanksgiving day service was devoted to the work at various institutions of charity and benevolence- in the city, which he named. He regarded this collection as one of the most important of the year, and hoped that those who bad much would give largely, and the others give what they could with a spirit of generosity. Dr. Waters then said: "Thanksgiving nay seems to suggest a good opportunity for me to say that I am much interested in effort which is being made to raise a sum. of money sufficient to free the Tkuro lnfirmary from tne financial embarrassment In which it is at present placed.

The Hebrews of this city aiave always shown themselves ready to assist generously when any calamity has visited this community, and In establishing the Touro Infirmary have added greatly to the well being of New Orleans. It is to the upper part of. the city, in a measure, what the charity hospital to to the lower part, its free clinic, open daily, has assisted during the past year some 20,000 persons in seedy circumstances, a very small Dronortlon of whom were Jews. I have always found the authorities of this noDle institution most reaay ana generous whenever I have bad occasion to call upon them in behalf of the sick and suffering. The expenses, entailed especially by the Introduction of the free clinic, have exceeded by $10,000.

as I understand it. the sum of $30,000 contributed almost entirely by the Jews themselves, and the purpose of the enterprise which is now being attempted is to raise this $10,000, ana thus free the infirmary from the embarrassment which such a debt lays upon It. "I am glad to eee in to-day's papers that the mayor has Issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens of New Orleans to give their aid to the good work. It is a right thing to do, for the Touro Infirmary is one of the most Important and useful of all our public Institutions, and what the mayor has done as regards the citizens generally I wish to do as regards my own congregation." Dr. Waters then gave way to Bishop Sessums, who took for his text a portion of the eighth, chapter of Deuteronomy, Including the words "and thou say In thine heart, my power and fhe might of mine hand havU gotten me this wealth." Bishop Sessums said that the whole story of the old Hebrew people about.

wnose modern oretnren tne rector nad spaken and whose words found a hearty response in his own heart, had for main purpose and secret to make them God's people. They made a mistake and thought that It was meant to exclude everybody else, and the same mistake has been made by others down to the present day. Still this ought not to obscure the purpose that the lesson was to be taught that everything In the nation should be God's. Sculptors, poets and scholars and statesmen were to trace all their achievements back to the divine essence. The pattern was set by which everything should be gauged and that God's rule and coloring should be wrought and Imbedded.

In it all. God gave ail the details about the tabernacle down to the minutest detail. Not that God cared anything about the fringe or the Incense or the garb of the priests, but they were great metaphors and great examples that ail their life was woven in the mills of the eternal -7 Men were' to see themselves as dependent on God. The artist was not to say that It was the power of his mind by which he achieved his triumph, or the statesman his insight of the ways of men that made him a leader, nor the great poet that tt was by the power of his own genius by which he wrote the psalms that were to be the wings by which man's worship was to go up to God. Man was not to say that success was due to his genius, but that it was a trumpet set for divine lips to blow upon.

Man was not to feel that his hand had been taken ftom the clasp of the divine father. Man was not to think that he had become a Caesar on the seven bills of his own achievement, but that uie dignity and goodness and all that Is natural and supernatural, all that is human and superhuman was to express and consummate man's dependence on the divine father. It was not strange that tt Jews should find themselves, when they got away from their relation to not cast out. but deprived of their own consolation and solace because finding themselves In contact with the strange any mysterious hands reaching through nature; when their plans weut away they felt that It was because their relation to the divine master was lost and that their work was running to no end and purpose, and that they were come to the weeping and wailing of defeat. The speaker said that man's first consciousness was to feel that be was In the midst of strange and mysterious Influences that surround all men and the first instinct was in all religion of man to acknowledge his dependence on the great mystery which we call God.

When he tiuda that his mind spreads out and that hi hand can change and mold, he imagines that there Is some great power in himself and that he can set up a sort of rivalry to those powers. He struggles to have some sort of Independence and become a kind of rebel and rival god. The end of all this antagonism and this passion to stand alone is that it comes to a synthesis, an adjustment. He sees how there can be some power and independence In our own lives not Inconsistent with the power of the invisible, aud then comes true religion. God is the channel through which it all comes and In our own services to Cod we come at last to enjoy that liberty.

In this struggle people say that they will not need God in their business and family a Cars, but when the thunders come and the darkness of night is there they feel that they have been in antagonism with the great powc-r and surrender their independence and creep bark to the divine will. All power comes to us by our reception of God The consciousness of the reception of all things from some invisible power Is the foundation of all religion and on this Is to be built the mighty temple of man's life. It gradually dawns on, our minds that all things that come to us must come flaming with the divine stamp. We Bee God a the divine giver and rise to the conception of our own trust and our own mission. We see shining with divine purpose and destiny the use of all things.

Man then rises to tne responsiomty 01 a divine task. He sees man's dep idence on God for all that can Irradiate and make noble our human life and that all gifts are to be used as he would hvre them. That is the very essence of religion. Out of the feeling of dependence on God, the speaker said that fatalism and pantheism grew. He then spoke of the sense of recreancy that man feels when in antagonism to God, such as comet to the- traitor.

The speaker then explained how it gradually dawns on man what is meant by faith. It is consciousness of dependence that the human being is rooted In the To be-saved by faith is not degradation to Impotence. The effort of the master to recognize the great companionship with God made It possible for us. When the gospel telle men to live and to be saved by faith it means that its glory and beauty is no fictitious thing but our own human being, spiritual reality all we think and feel mnt mnv from God and that we are not cut loose from God but lifted up and made eternal because God flows tnrougn an. It was the very essence of Christ's life that he came to do the will of God.

First and last he made plain his dependence on the divine mystery. He solved, tne secret of the relation or man to tne mystery that we call God and summed up all in his eternal fidelity to him. He said to his mother, "Wist thou not that I must be about my father's business?" Bishop Sessums then spoke of the divine goodness consecrated and hallowed by a divine purpose and said that the relationship of man to God becomes the relationship of confessed dependence; of human genius given over to divine ends. Man's ways shall become God's ways and man's thoughts the thoughts of the eternal father. He then spoke of the divine broth rbood between the sons and daughters of God and the manner In which men must depend on each other.

Society Is the plan for carrying out God's purpose. Peoole build ramparts about themselves and yet but for the dependence of man on man the world would be one great camp of rival Gods or rival demons similar to Milton's picture of the war of the fallen angels against the divine hosts. The speaker drew a final picture of the time when hostility and criticism shall be done away with and brotherly peace and love shall reign till the dream of the divine master shall be realized, the war drums silenced and the flags of hostility furled. The music for the service was furnished by the surpliced choir and the organ music was excellent. It is the custom of the church to devote, the fruits and vegetables used In decorating the church to purposes of charity.

a rinoj SERVICE, In Whtcb the Methodist Churches) Participate. A union Thanksgiving service, In which all the Methodist churches of the city participated, was held at 11 o'clock yesterday morning In the Felicity Street church. A -large congregation was present, and the services, both choral and formal, were full of Interest. The- Rev. Louis A.

Reld, pastor of the Carroll ton Avenue church, officiated, the venerable Dr. J. B. 1 Walker Raid was, fifty years ago, a clergyman In this city, and is now In the fifty-first year of his ministerial life. He chose his text from Numbers, 22d chapter, 23d verse: "What Hath God The discourse reviewed at Urge the civilization of the day as illustrating the handiwork of divinity.

Dr. Beid said: "The people of the United State are particularly favored, but are nevertheless wicked. By maintaining a superfluity jot saloons they manifest a deplorable ton- aency. J. tie nnest noiet in uio a shrine for a pretentious saloon.

It; is impossible to get around the wickedness of our life. Even the schools are wicked. There is in them no prayer or scriptural instruction. The body la cultmted. but the principal part of man is neglected, so that young men grow up unprepared to resist temptation.

All the crimes in the decalogue are committed bv young men. They are trained to sin artistically by the scientific instruction of the day. Wickedness implies disobedience, and disobedient men cannot return thanks to God; nor can we who are wicked properly celebrate the day. There ought to be a day of- penitence and prayer to precede Thanksgiving, in order to purge away the wicked thoughts and prepare the soul for giving thanks properly. Yet, in spite of our wickedness, love is constant.

God's nature is love; and even If we have no love for him. he still cherishes love for us. Obedience Is the sign of love; and, therefore, if we obey either an earthly or a heavenly father, it presupposes love for that father. The first step towards obeying. God is to love him; to love the Lord, our God, with all the heart, fs the first commandment, and without obedience to that law obedience la vitiated.

I say the nation falls tn this respect. A few people do obey thia great commandment; and the president, in calling on them to assemble 'in their respective places of recognizes that these few right-eous ones can save the nation before God. Continued on Paso Seven. THE SULTAN IS STUBBORN. He Refuses to Allow.

Gunboats to Fast the Strong Measures Threatened by tho, Foreign Ambassadors American Missions at Marash Burned by Rioters. Minister Terrell Has Hot Obtained Details of the Massacre. Turkish Soldiers in Palestine Carry the Flag of Islam. The Butchery of Armenians Con tlnnes Without Abatement Call for the Red Cross Society Trial of General Sanguflly Premier Orispi's Statements. Constantinople, via Sofia, Bulgaria.

Nov. spite of the assurances which the Turkish minister for foreign affairs, Tewfik Pasha, gave the ambassadors of Great Britain, Russia, Austria and Italy yesterday that the firmans allowing the passage through the Dardanelles of four extra guard ships for the use of their embassies would be Immediately Issued, by the porte, the necessary documents have not been forthcoming. Consequently a serious condition of affairs which was looked upon 1 aa having been definitely cleared up, is now again perplexing the ambassadors and threatening to cause the adoption of strong measures upon the part of the powers. Frequent conferences between the ambassa- dors have taken place on the subject during the past twenty-four hours, and there have been many consultations between the Turkish ministers and the sultan at the palace regarding the same matter. The ambassadors have also peen in communication with the palace, as well aa with their respective governments.

The answer of the powers to the re quest of the porte that tney retrain xrom -pressing their demand for the extra -guard ships was that they could, see no reason not to support the demands of their ambassadors for. more effective means of protecting the foreign resl-. dents of Constantinople in an emergency, -and In the' presence of this unanimous reply it is considered in foreign official circles thut the sultan has no alternative but to yield, and especially In view of the probability that the powers will have the extra gunboats convoyed' through the Dardanelles by battleships if the saltan persists in his dilatory tactics. -v Indeed, It seems highly probable that tho ambassadors have already -determined -not to wait beyond a certain time for the firmans, and. therefore.

It may soon -be announced that the gunboats are coming, a portion ox tne rsritisn neec -which has been at anchor in Salonlca bay for some time is understood to have left those waters for Smyrna, and should now be quite near the entrance to the Dardanelles. That the porte anticipates trouble is evident from the fact that all -the forts about the straits are now fully manned and supplied with amcnition and have been placed In the highest state of efficiency compatible with the circumstances. Search lights are kept in good -order and are worked nightly-over the waters. For over a month past the work of strengthening the fortifications In this vicinity, end particularly about the Dardanelles, has been in progress, and It is. understood that the system of submarine mines and torpedoes have been practically conrpleted, so far as the resources of the government 'will allow it.

In this connection it Is recalled that the St. Petersburg Geographical Society last year succeeded by strategy in obtaining satisfactory data respecting the depth of water and currents in and abo.it the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, with the object, it is understood, of enabling a "Russian fleet to force the passage of the Dardanelles should that step turn oat to be necessary. The society. It appears, obtained permission from the Turkish government for a scientific expedition to mission of the porte. In the Turkish vessel.

In order, ostensibly, to ascertain If the earthquake of Thursday last had made a change In the bottom of the sea. Apparently work was afterwards to be continued, still by the per mission of the porte, and the Turkish portion of the Aegean sea and on their way through the Dardanelles the Russian "scientists" were caught sounding those waters. The Turkish officers protested, the work was stopped, and the Russians returned home disappointed. The British admiralty is said to have obtained complete soundings from English merchant steamers which have repeatedly passed the Dardanelles, and It is suspected In some quarters that the British? naval reserve officers may have been engaged on board these vessels In obtaining all the Information necessary for the admiralty department. As to the system of mir.es and torpedoes about the Dardanelles, they do not cause much apprehension among the foreign officers here.

They believe that a few torpedo catchers could cut the shore connecting wires in short order and little counter-mining would do- the rest. MISSION AT MARASH BURNED. Trustworthy information which reached here from' Marash to-day confirms the worst reports concerning the massacre which- Is said to have occurred there recently. It appears that the outbreak occurred on Monday, Nov. 18.

The Mussulmans, apparently at a given signal, and acting in a deliberate manner, began the work of masacrelng the Armenians who, 'anticipating trouble, bad done everything possible to defend themselves. The number of killed is estimated at Bagral hundred men, women and chil-drerT Threo building belonging to the American iilssiou there, the Theological Seminary, Academy and a boarding-bouse were burned by the rioters, who looted the Theological Seminary previous to setting fire to that building. The Mussulmans killed two students belonging to It is understood that all the American missionaries, five in number are safe; but whether they left Marash before the dis-. turbances broke out or whether they are under the protection of the Turkish authorities Is not known, as Minister Terrell has not yet beenable to obtain any news from Marash. In fact, he has not that a massacre has occurred at Marash.

-although since the time the first rumor of trouble reached him he has been doing his utmost to communicate with the American missionaries. The authorities insist that his telegrams are not delayed and that he receives all the mail and dispatches addressed to him. Most startling reports are still current.