New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-07-08
TURKEY.
From Our Own Correspol dent

From Our Own Correspondent
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Monday, Juue 9, 1856
Letters from New York, as well as the welco ne
TRIBUNE, reached here by the Persia ist IN
twenty days from the dare Of their bsiog mailed.
This may be considered another of the wonders OF
our ,ime.. We used to allow six weeks for let
Ter to pass between this and the United STATES,
then one month, and now only taenry days aro re-
quired for journey, by sea and land, Of s"me five
thou sand miles. AS there is al edition OF Mr'e's
work extending frsm Cops'shtibOple to Liverpool,
via AdIlaDople, Shumla, Rastchuk, Viaon', &c.,
it is cow possible TO procure the Persas Amer can
news in five or six bours after her ar'iSai-sdds
bringing New.York aud Constantinope within ten
dpys Of esch other.
1t is much spoken Of here, and seems to be geo.
eraly be!itytd-ihough indeed an obliged to I'D
init all igporsDce OF the origin of the report-ih'f
a line of Amer'esn steamers is sbOu. to b. starred
between New.YOrk and ODESSA, touching at va
,ious intermediate ports in the Mediterranean and
Arcbipejago. There have already been two Amer
lean shipa ut Odessa since the peace--the George
Hubbard Of Boston and Martha Am Of New
York. The former returned with the same re-
port and it wa, thought that the Car Was going
to subsidize such line, in the view of connecting
lore and more lie country with the United States.
All the merchants here are greatly pleased with
this project, and promise ttenselves 10 see Amer
lean commerce extend itself faDously in the East.
Such lie, touching at Marseiles Genoa on its
returp) and Smy RIA, would form nj interesting
route and ought to pay well by its passengers.
The Turks are xttDding their teegruphs, and are
about putting up line from Adrianople to Bel
grade, on the Danube, and from this place through
to Albania. Even the Persian Government has
projects Of this hind from ts Turkish frontier near
Bayazid to Teheran. An int. llgent J Dung gentle
nan, Aid de.Camp of the shah, aud chief Drago.
man Drag, Oh y, named Mira Melcur Khan has
been sent here for various purposes connected
with the foreign relations Of tersia with Europe
al d America, and H. obtain information respecti,
the telegraph, of which a marvellous accouot, he
sous, has reached the ear Of the kiblek Aalem
(cepter of the uDiverse) / have made point OF
posting him up with regard to some data about our
OF tel. grsphs and their inventor In particular.
ard am Or. mined in case the Shah does put up one
in Persts. to receive for the Professor his Majes-
tvs most valuable order Of the Lion aud the
sun" American shipping, which abOunded here
during the war; is beginning now to fall
off, Some of the fine clippers, however, having
been chartered by the year. or for shorter periods,
have not yet worked their contracts out The Great
Rt public bias bad hpe charter, now ABOUT 70 eX-
pire Ct f3 0C0 onth. She has takepher last load
Of 5000 soldiers, l76 officers, large amount Of
ku,sian cannon, and goody number Ut officers
bors,l on deck. She has been valuable serSsut
10 the French and her muster, Capt. Licseburner
has done his country and calling credit. Mango
tie American captains have had their wives with
them; some have left them at home and taken
Substitutes in their stead during their servic in
tie laid Of tie Pay him aud the Russian arrange
m,nt, though OF course entirely Of domestic
nature, which has been too peculiar not h. have
been Known hey ohd the family circle and may
be regarded az smother IS sign Of tae times."
Tie Ottoman Government is about tO seDd to
the United Ststes for another .hp builder, sace
the DEF arturo Of the regretted Rhodes, ~bose
colossus, the double banked rs gun frIg.te, called
the "Nusrttieh' or TIE Victorious, is ono OF the
finest ves,es in the world. After he left Con-
sfsDtinople his pupils built several ships for the
presebt sultan, nan, Of them good ones; ana all
showed themselves worthy Of their tutor. Inc
superior Ulcers 10 the Admiralty, sucb as MUS
taJha and Sao Pacbas, having been educated IN
III, land Tor at least cent there for that purpnsel
ara ON Ing their Advancement wholly 10 toeomc-l
aid Of toe British ambassador, they have made
Point of roofing cut everything Amercaa from
tie Arsenal, and teepin. il wholly under English
paw. Consequently, the machinery and even
now ard then q stesGcr, has always been pur.
chased in nelsDd. In line. English influence
rules the Sllfan's bal, and not bird even has
been allowed to 6y over it haviDy the least plume
of an American color.