Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-12-26
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4 Is A great army r = great DESTROYER. bsf II i
also great consumer II used to be said, in
deed OF armies, that the land might be az the
Garden of Eden before them, but il would be.
come as the wilderness behind them !; and Al.
i tia beasted that the grass would not grow
/ where his horse had planted its hoof. Bu; that
was only true Of huge armies comprehendins
whole nations which kept always on the move,
ansis noeesi, only survived BY the rarsdity Of
thcsr motion. An army fixed to spot. or NOR
ing aboutin limited area. is very different ai.
1 fair The allies have altogether more than SOB.
900 men, with an unknown multitude of ser.
wants and followers of all kinds shut up in one
| inland sea, bsxping and spelling eyery particle
OF food or fuel, and even every drop OF good
wntcr that they find before them, but taxing all
the wealth and ingenuity Of the civilized world
to procure, at any cost, the very same things for
their own subsistence. The latter influence il
telling far and wide. All over the East there Il
snch demand xfor provisions of all kinds as
never was known before. A huge yoracjous
monster must be fed, and many nations and
tribes are only too happy to feed him. The
most fabulous stories reach us Of brilliant specu
latons, Incredible profits, miraculous changes,
and unprecedented activity. tits the West gone
10 visit the East, and all England could not make
Q greater stir on its visit to the French Exhibi
ton than the Western Powers by their protract-
ed so1onrn in the Euxine. 1t is true their prirna.
.ry object Is simply to protect Turkey from Rms
sia bnt incidentally they have conferred upon
her a more substantial boon. - So
All round Constantinople, the shores tof the
Dardaneies, the coasts Of Asia, the islands of
the ltrchipclaeo, Gambia and Greece. are yer.
tsssnt with unWented cultivation. Immense pro-
hts are made out of crops that once were hardly
worth reaping. Even in Syria whole districts are
being transmitted from Rock and waste into the
likeness OF fertile Belgium, or the picturesque
Black. Forest AZ early as last spring We all
heard what was doing at Heraclea. There the
working of the coal seams had created roads, d
railway, canal, n port, yillages-in fact, a new
county of Dnham, with every thing but a good
hishoprlc and four golden prebends, on the shore
OF the Black Sea. The same process is going on
everywhere. Market stuff is almost as heavy as
coal, and there does not exist everywhere in the
East line of road as direct and well metaed
as that which conducts the produce of Turnham-
green to Convent-garden. So water carriage is
first sought for, but roads to the port soon
follow; and even as you coast along the shores
OF the Levants you can easily detect everywhere
an unusual stir. In fact, the war has proved a
California to the dominions of the SULTAN, and
is opening outregions which have comparatively
slept since the days Of CRGsUs, or at least oi
the Lower Empire. Market gardening is civil.
izing the East, and far better process it is
than gold-diggng; though the youthful student
may suffer a slight shock when he hears the
isles of Greece" and so many other spots sa-
credin his imagination are growing magnificent
crops of potatoes, onions, carrots and other
food for man and beast.
The Greeks and the Armenians have posses
sion of the market they know all its channels
they have the ships, the sailors, the command OF
the husbandmen; in fact, all the materials of
the. speculation. While the English, French
Turks, and Russians are only exchanging hard
blows, these acute, but by no means high-minded
people, are better engaged in making their for
tunes out of the squabble, In fact they regard
it much as all the neighboring publicans do
prize fight or a race. So long as we only break
one another's heads they will be we'll content
that the war should last forever, provided cnly
that there remain sufficient customers for the |
crops. The Turks, of course, are either too
busy fighting, or too idle at home to enter much
into competition. ..-......,-. ....,.f