The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-27

slopes; all render the southern por- I
ton of the Crimea picturesque and
productive. From the river Alma /
alone (the name meaning apples), 4
there are vast quantities of that fruit, /
shipped yearly by wagons to Peters (
burg, so baled IN India rubber and
mating that neither rain nor frost can
penetrate. Large quantities of tobacco
are also produced, chiefly of the small
Turkish variety. OF wine there are
many varieties, all said to command
good prices in the market. Prince
Woronsof has his agents to purchase
the inferior wines and convert them
into brandy, while the better are ship
ped with his own to Petersburg aud
Moscow. Thus the present of the
| Crimea is rather promising, especially
as many German colonists are settling
on the east coast. Still farther east,
on the Caucasus slopes, the soil, eli
mate and prospects generally are said
| to be most inviting and at Piatigcrsk
there are medicinal waters reported.
| the Marian, or Demigod- Baths,
whose efficacy is vaunted In the high
er terms.
At the various summer residences
on the Black Sea, there are bathing
houses on the shore, and the sea is so
pleasant that even the wealthy fire.
quently indulge in sea bathing. The
water is so mild that meduse and
other aoalephs are very abundant
Probably from this cause almost
every evening, by agitatiug the water
with stick, it gives forth the most
brilliant phosphorescence have
ever seen from a similar source.
OF the Crimean future, il is only pos
sible to judge from the shadows which
the present throws on the distant his
torical picture. European Turkey
seems likely to pass, at no distant day,
to the successors of Peter the Great ;
and the Russians. sustained now by
the Christianizing spirit of the Greek
Church, are becoming gradually civil
lied by the force of circumstances,
! and apparently almost contrary to
their wishes. With the large agricul-
tural resources of Southern Russia,
brought by projected railroads to
Bessarabia and the Crimea, and then
thrown from the great mart of Odessa,
! through the Bosphorus, if they acquire
its command, to all parts of the world.
J Russia opens for herself the prospect
! OF commercial and naval prosperity
and development, which bids fair to
, make her at some future day the great
J power Of Europe: the Prussian and
: Austrian eagles trembling before the
{ talons of the double headed Museo-
: vite King of Birds; and even the
King of Beasts himself (the British
} Lion) brought to couch IN an attitude
, of watchful apprehension beneath
: the soaring flight of the Russian ca
: gle. Should this dream of st. Pc
tersburgh be realized. then the Black
Sea will be her theatre for naval
; tactics; and the Crimea, rebastioned
and fortressed, the southern key
which locks and bars the entrance to
: a giant territory.
, On the 9th of October, 1869, we
were awakened from these reflections
: by traversing for the third time, in
order to reach Constantinople, the
4 Thracian Bosphorus, and to witness
its undiminished beauty, and mara
] time prosperity. with ever increasing
, admiration. Nor could we any
longer wonder, after seing all these
t oriental glories, why the Golden
, Horn" is a horn of contention be.
/. tween the Vladimir Cross Of the
J Russ, and the star-enclosing Crescent
of the Turk.
, Very truly yours,
= RICHARD OWEN.