Mower County transcript., 1869-12-30
VISIT TO THE SULTAN

El1t;ENIE'S VISIT TO TIL i SULTAN
Eng lnnd and France Sustaining the
Most Debase.i Living MOmarchs-
"a Nation Impoverished by nLtbcr-
tines AArelns
N. Y. Evening Mail.
Public attention just Mt this time is at
tracted to the Sultan of Turkey. and many
very "pretty stories" are told OF his inter
views with the Empress Eugenie Among
other things wo have description of an
interview between Eugenio and tho mother
Of the Sultan. This latter named venera-
ble dame, We are told, lives with her son
in his palace. 'where is tho imperial har-
EN- of some eight hundred beauties. "
Now the facts regarding the family ante
cedents of the present Sultan are more
than usually infamous. He is the son of
Circassian slave, of a very low order of
intelligence, to whom his father was never
married save under tlloloose code of A1oham
ctlan law. II" is consequently the son of
an 'sickbal." or ''favorite and is there fore
iIlegitimate as an inheritor of titled estates
according to Turkish law. The mother of
the pre- cnt Sultan is now living, and is
alluded to above as having been introduced
to Eugene. She, the slave mother of the
Sultan, sustained her influence over Sultan
Mahnoud, the father of tho present Sui
tan, by pandering to the basest passions OF
his nature, and her sou, Abdul AZiz, is
probably to-day the most debased creature
that ever sat on an Oriental throne, and
has been made so by his infamous mother.
The woman encouraged her sou from his
earliest childhood to exclusive association
with female slaves, and she has inpovcr-
ished the treasury of Turkey by her
squanderings upon the harem of her son,
the present Sultan. Under this womans
influence the present Sultan has not even
made the pretence of having wife, and it
is boast Of those about the Sultan's Court
that he has /, new favorite every month.
The Turkish ambassadors all over the con-
tinent of Europe and Asia are nothing else
than agents II they should be called by all
infamous nanle--to bargain for and pur-
chase young girls to send to Constantine
pie; ;and now, by the visit Of the Empress
Eugene, we learn that the Sultan has
eight hundred of these unfortunates i'm
prisoned in his palace.
And this is the man, and this is the gov
ernment that France and England sustain
intact, lest the Dardanells should fall into
the possession of Christian Russia. Ma
tional jealousy keeps the miserable Turk
in ''encampment in Europe" because it
suits Christian powers who give their treas
ure e3nd their blood to sustain the Cres-
cent over the Cross. The Sultan of Tur-
key is miserable bankrupt, and most Of
the money he has to spend is taken from
the industry of the working people Of
France and England under the head OF
Turkish loans And now that the Viceroy
OF Egypt has shown on enterprise worthy
of the nineteenth century, in opening the
Suez Canal, this miserable Sultan OF Tur-
key promises to degrade him from his ex-
allied position Of regenerator Of Egypt.
When will the Turkish empire cease to be u
blot on the civilization OF the nineteenth
century.
Lighting Street Lamps by Electricity.
Last evening. after the adjournment of
Councils the members witnessed an exhi.
b;tion Of the Bostonion invention Of light
ing and extinguishing lamps by electricity.
The trial was made on the lamps in 1nde-
pendence Square, and was found to prove,
in every respect. satisfactory, but few
seconds being required to extinguish or
light the several lamps in the square.
The apparatus consists of u small box
about two and II half inches square, which
is attached to each burner. The boxes
are connected by wires with central office,
something after the fashion OF our fire.
alarm boxes. A small battery and one
operator can control the entire city. The
wires which are required for the purpose
arc encaset in = small tube and can be laid
under ground. A city can be divided up
into circuits Of one hundred lamps each.
It will require about four minutes to light
one circuit. The circuits are all started at
the same time by means of clock-work,
worked by telegraph and separate batteries.
The time now required to light and extin.
guish the lamps by hand is about two hours.
The boxes under the burners are so ar
ranged that the lamps of each circuit light
successfully, and not simultaneously, so
that q much less electric force can be used.
One cell with a Rumpkotf coil is sufficient
to light the circuit. The gas is not turned
on at one general head, and then lighted,
but each burner, by an automatic arrange
ment, turns the gas both off and on, as
may be wante". There is thus no waste of
gas. The gas does not have to be lit be-
fore it is wanted. It can be turned on ard
off in a short time, and several times in one
night, if the weather should make it neces-
sary. The cost of employing the boxes is
about five dollars TO each lamp, not in
cluding the laying of wires. The cost of
introduction it is said, is more than made
up in the course Of one year by the saving
OF gas and the wages of lighters. The cost
of running, when once introduced. Is in
considerable. The members of Council
and others, vino witnessed the experiment,
expressed themselves as being greatly
pleased with it. Philadelphia Enquirer.
Sad Accident in Newark-Five Men
Drowned in the Passaic River.
From the N. Y. World.
At noon yesterday, an accident occurred
in the Passaic River, near the foot Of Mar
ket street, Newark, by the sinking of q
boat, by which five men were drowned,
and eight others narrowly escaped, in a
balf:frozen condition, by swimming ashore.
A large number Of men have for some time
p st been employed in the New Jersey
Railroad Company in the erection Of their
new drawbridge across this river at Market
street, which is to form part OF the new
shortcut line that is being built for through
trains passing Newark. A party OF iron
workers, from Pit:sburg, were put on the
force in September last to put up the iron
work of the bridge, and it was this gang
that occupied the boat which was swampei