New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-05
FROM CONsTAyTTNO?LE.
Correspondence Of I'll. n. Y Tribune.

CorresrOr dence Of lie y. \. Juhun'.
CoNsTANT1NoPLr. Feb 3. 1864.
r BILuoUS STATE OF THE DANUBlAS P2IScIPAtI-
TIES.
While Germany, ambitious to become naval
Power is Selling upon the ports of Denmark, and open
ing the way for general European war. al South.
Eastern Europe stands ready to improve ;hs opPo
tuAity.
Itay can hardly keep back her hand from Ycnetia
Hungary is overlooking with starving peasants driven
despair by the failure Of their crops for two years
Galici- is under martial law. The people Of Here
goyina have already passed vote declaring that they
viii pay TO more taxes 20 Turkey. The Montonc-rins
kept down only by the large military force in the
moi chborng district Servia has armed every peasant
and Is ready TO improve tie very first opportunity 90 re-
pudate the authority Of the sultan, and drive out the
remaining Turks from her iortTesses. The lGicly
United provinces OF Moldaya and Wa!llcha arc equally
ripe for revolt and inst now the object Of great
sOicitnde on the part of the Turkish Government. a
question has arisen which bids fair 10 occasion the most
serioRs difficulty Prince COuza his accession 10 tho
Government OF MOldoM allachia found the Greek
monGsteres Of those provinces In possession OF vast
estates which tn - held under the Turkish Gov
eminent for several centuries. All this property
seized A. seQuestered by Prince Couza on the ground
that be these monn eries had been founded FOR the
benefit of the country they had become an inoleraD.e
burden and ourse--almost the whole Of their Hmense
enues being sent ont Of the country 20 support lie
Greek ecclesiastical establishments OF Asia Minor aud
TfeTer there was good reason for secularizlng and
nenatng the property Of monascrcs II WINS here, and
the National Assembly have almost unanimously rati-
fed the action Of the Prince bat Turkey protests on
The nominal ground that the Prince hrs exceeded the
limitation o. biz power and deLcd the sovereign author
ity OF the Sultan.
! Bot the true difficulty IS this:
]. - ..'si-ea thai dlH f, ..a h. No. ~ + I
people araust the Turks and also that the chief object
II the act 10 cast an open indniy upon the IafA
ih Government under the impression that il could not
be punished, and which WOnid thus give 10 the people
new confidence in their own power.
Tho Prince is undoubtedly supported secretly by
France and prOcaims his intention 10 carry this
urc cone what may. For the time the people have for
gotten their quarIels and rally round him with tie
create enthusiasm. There is no end 70 the subscrip
ions which are voluntarily made for the purchase Of
1ifed cannon and munitions OF war The PoI g. mean.
willie is concentrating army on the frontier and
threatens 70 occupy tho whole country unless the OBJ
uoxiou8 act is repealed
Sir Henry Bulwer ias been in Paris on a special mis-
sion settle this difficulty but with general war to
occupy tie attention Of Europe such settlements can
avail nothing The people prefer to ny the fortune Of
no MoxEY IN THE TURKISH TREASURY.
When Fuad Paska brought forward his famous
bu get showing O probable surplus for tic present
cnticpated 30 sudden collapse But II - notorious
fact that the interest aims unpaid on portion of the
public debt, ana thai tno unfortunate holders Of TINS
stock bCscire the sultan himself with petitions Tor 20
dress every time that he app af5 In public. In short
they have literally dunncd" him for months when
ever he has 10 perform lis prayers at the mosque
The clerks end employees Of almost all grades IN the
various departments OF the Government are equally I'M
fortunate having received nothing for several months.
The Sultan himself felt the pressure the Other day
having % pay iron has privY purse heavy drait nom
England account o.. the rOn-ciads building there.
4 temporary loan at the most eIOrbtant rates II
being negotiated in Gaata to pay inonths salary to all
in tao service Of the Government ~ the CONNIE sccmcnt
OF the Great fast OF k4mazan which is just nj hand. II
is said that during this month AL the Government
Offices viii remain closed during the day and open Tor
six hours N the night commencing three hours amer
This will be a rev arrangement, as they are generally
open during Ramazan only nonnaly, and that ;or tao
SEVERE COLD
At the commencement OF the year all Europe seems
to have experienced the intense cold felt in
America ~ the same time. Here IL almost uncx.
amplod. Snow fen every day Tor some three weeks;
people were frozen 70 death; thousands OF cattle and
sheep persisted and the wolves came down TO the very
outskirts Of the city.
The excitement was so great ct time that an IN.
fortunate jew who prophesed long continuance Of
similar weather seized by the police aud imprisoned
Accounts from al paris Of the Empire ten the Same
story Of intense cold and severe storms.
AMERICANS IN COSS1ASriNoPLE.
Tie wrr in America has cut of almost all the trade
between TURKEY and the United states ana has weighed
very heavily upon houses here engaged IN that blIess
i has suppressed that rowing enterprise for which
Americans have become somewhat famous in tbe East
A gentlcman IS now in this city from Ohio who has
come all this distance with steam tre-engine 10
tonsb the Turks, and make his Ortune-oT lose IT. 1t
is rather bold enterprise considering the fact that
most of the streets In ConstantnOpe are too narrow
Tor the passage OF single carriage and also that
the supply Of water is hardly sufficient for the little
hand.engines which are now carried the shoulders
Of tie fTemen. But he is genuine live American, and
bound succeeds so you need not be surprised to hear
that this city Of great fires Is last Furnished with
steam flreengines 10 WORK with salt water.
Another American, DR.. T. IL in the city trying 10 /
obtain perm isson TO bald harbOr at JaIa and con-
struct road thence ~ Jerusalem. Ho hopes 10
ph these two great works within some three years
that they may be used by the Jews on their return
Palestine at the second coming Of the Messiah which
is to take place about that time, as he believes
He 10 sngularly Interesting old gentleman and full
Of snthusasn but fear that he Is destined sad dis
appointment. He finds no favor with the Government
and the Turks are uneQualed sharpers He will be
likely 10 spcnd all his money here and see the years
pGss by without any improvement In the break neck
paths over the mountains OF Palestine.
TILE AMERICAN wAB-
Public opinion among tho natives here has always been
strongly in favor Of the North bat tho great foreign
population has from the FIRST inclined TO the belief that
the South would gain her independence.
The English especially have shown unbounded sympa-
thy for the suffering South The Leranl Herald the
English organ here has filed Its columns for three
years with unmeasured abuse and rdcule Of the North
But things have changed. We no longer insnlted
Mt every because We citizens OF the United
States. Even The LeUant HERALD has ceased 10 abuse u.s.
and now thinks IL very probable that tho North will