The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-27
~ Tuesday MORNING. SEPTEMBER e. 1870.

that thew 70 through the various movements
in which they are trained with very commend
able steadiness and precision. These various
preparations are being made Wlthout tne least
demonstration or excitement. Only last week,
when I was going up the Bosphorus, large
difs. They were as thick as bees In hive,
or locusts clustering around the columns
and caves of house, yet not sound nor
a murmur was heard either from the ship
or the shore. An English ship pass
ing under similar circumstances up the
Thames would have been saluted by vocifer-
GUS cheers from the crowds on the banks, nor
would they have been left unresponded to-
for In these demonstratIve matters we are all
equally ready to join. Very different are the
Turks; indeed, all Oriental people are alike
In this respect, for there Is nothing more re-
markable about large crowds of people assem-
bled together in any part Of the East than the
extraordinary repose and quietness, and even
gravity, that usually prevail: And as the peo'
Die are, so are the Turkish Government:
Their preparations are going on without a
sign being made or sound being heard; out
they are not the less efectually pro-
crossing In the attainment of their
object. 1t Is known that Russia Is assem-
bling considerable forces in Bessarabia;
and II the Prussians succeed In driving the
French army back on Partisan event which
seems highly probable just now-people are
beginning to think here that Russia Will be
tempted to demand compensation In this quar-
ter. The aggrandizement of Prussia, or the
establishment Of q German Empire with the
King of Prussia as Emperor, might well sup
ply preteXt to the Car for taking possession
OF the Danublan Principalties. These, 1t Is
true, are only speculations; but the said specu-
lations have been extended even to greater
lengths. Still, just now, all people here are
asking If the war is going to spread, and II
Russia will be tempted by the present state Of
affairs to carry ont the policy in which she
was defeated at the time of the Crimean war.
I do not profess to offer an opinion on so
gcaFe question:; bat under the circumstances
I submit there can he onl5 one opinion Is to
the wisdom of the Turkish government, not
only In maintaining an armed, but strict neu-
trality, and preparing for what might possibly
occur, but also In abstaining IN every possible
way from drawing on Itself the very aanSer
that Is TO be apprehended- Some oil the local
papers, that set themselves up as advisers OF
the public In general, and the Porte In particu-
lar, and notably an English print published at
Pera, urged the Turkish Government on what
is called the morrow Of the War'-wAateVer
that may mean-to send two great armies
across the Balklns, one into SerVia and the
other to the Banube-the Whereabouts were
not mentioned-In order, OF course, te attract
offensive movements on the other side, Tor
that could be the only result Of such an Ill
Judged measure. have since heard that q
very high parsonage belonging to the Turkish
Government has observed that 1t Is great
pity that prudent men should not be editors OF
newspapers. instead OF men utterly without
discretion or Judgment, W no are fitted only to
be irebrands. The remark Is a good one, and
might possibly suit some people nearer home
as well as the person for whom 1t was specially
Intended.