The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-09

errng costly decorations European Princes and giving
Immense sums In gold to the poor of London and Paris
we're being enforced throughout the Empire which have
nea the very air with groans and signs and curses. In
ton 10 the previous oppressive taxation the people this
year are required pay oneenh of all their income to the
government This tithing is carried in way which
agu 70 Trana any praceng it With public IN
era whose headquarters at Damascus If thes are to
be collected he ought have them collected by regular
people there would some way appeal But this
DONE The thing for Syria is sold out to the highest bid
der who again sells out the thng for the various districts
to others, who again sublet it. The government receives
thus the tthes of Syria in lump from the chief 1.-THE
farmer and asks no Questions as to how much he raises from
the people, how he raises it. The hrelngs who actually
collect the hes among the vilest of the vile They
every thrashing floor to the gran in very
ed orchard garden vineyard and hepcoe appase the
fruits of the earth they fifth or fourth from
the thrashng floor appaise the olives and
at ten times their value there is redress The peo
pie may gnash their teeth in anguish and beg with tears
but there is no remedy. No Mes Kadi Kaino Ma
kams will hear their appeals They must the bread
taken from their chldrens mouths by these reling vii
lans, to whom the Sultan has entrusted this infamous bust
ness and congratulate themselves that it is And
it in places Two of the foreign Consus in the
city of Sdon informed that of the 1.-THE collectors in
that district went to the village of and after
ing all the of the place the thrashing floors
armed horemen to guard hem while he went into the vii
age and compelled the and girls to yield to his vile
demands and those fathers and brothers have redress
And thus it is throughout the empire, far
learn.
The Geographic wire between Beirut and Consannople
d
pleasantne has occurred between the Turks and the
Nusariyeh people year ago the Turks on some preex
attacked large Nusariyeh village at midnight with nfan
try and artillery burned nearly fifty and children
DEATH and shot sixty of the they tried to escape
The Nusaryeh vowed vengeance and said they would exc
Not long since they commenced the work. Every traveller
from Latakiah south toward Markub shot whether he
Moslem Christian Arab Turk. The number of
murders had reached about fifty when the people of the
gion wrote to Tripo for military interference Turkish
Pasha has to the of disorder He has already
dall he of Rel
all had fled; but at length the accumulated Nusar
iyeh warriors down the troops and number of
wounded soldiers have been brought to the Laaah hospital
The wires still cut that the trouble probably still
tnue The management of that district is chronic bunder
and bloodshed.
Mark Twain thus descourses in letter from CONSTANT
nople, the Dancing Dervishes' of Turkey:
They are deusion and folly. They a pack of
miserable lunacs in long robes who spin round and round
and round with and elevated and extended
and look ridiculous it possible for any creature
look They keep time to caterwauing of barbarous in
suments and barbarous human voices and travellers
call the stupid performance and its infamous Accomplishments
impressive" So would be carnival of idiots and tom
CATS The Dervishes holy that you must take your
boots off when you enter their menagerietheir mosque if
you like it better There 300 visitors 800 bare feet and
two of them emit similar fragrance Here you have
800 different smells to start with There 80 Dervshes;
they spin around large close nine times and exhae
different odor every time and So there you
have $40 separate and distinct smells and any of them
i've. The Dancing Dervshes the drearies slies hum
bugs in all the Orient. They know it well anybody
Yet ass that comes here from distant land rushes
photographers and buys their pictures which l did
not do I wish were Sultan for day. would hang
all the Dervshe for 40 minutes and they did not behave
themselves after that would be severe with them.
Walrussia.
The correspondent of New York contemporary, writing
from Ska August 19h says that by the cession the
part of Russia of this vast territory the United States
into possession of region nearly five times large Cali
orn having 5000 miles, and Astounding with
fine harbors, vast forests, and rich fisheries
With the United States, territorial acquisitions the