Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-03-02

Western art would use ststues Of various or.
ders, the Turk employs representation of vas.
IS filled with flowers. Invariably the founiaip
bears sacred inscription. which, according
10 the belief Of the natives. keeps the water
sweet and pure. The custom Of writing In
seriptlons Is very common; every Turkish
dwelling bears over It's main entrance words
like these, God IL great" or God IA good" ["
&c
Conycniencies for reaching the Interior are
more imaginary than real. Not half the CON.
fJrt is obtainsd as In America hefore a rail.
road was laid A stage route docs rot belong
to the country, There is need everywhere of
Saxon push aud PLUCK.
However there are $50 miles Of railroad in
the entire Empire. and project has been re-.
Gently formed for extending one from Con.
stantinople aQtth 10 Alexandria, thence TO
Belgrade and on 10 Vienna. This is expected
to be completed In two years, which will
| bring US within three days Of Paris, and short.
en- by two days tue distapce 10 the United
States. We have ony been able thus far, to
state in general way, the state VI atfairs in
this part Of ihe Eastcan world With few
words upon the Capital we close:
Probably no city oulgide oG China is more
densely populated than Constantinoplr, nor
more disgusting in lis utter disregard of clean
illness. The awful fire of 1870, in which a
thousand lives were lost and several thousand
buildings burned, also introduced a more
modern style of architecture and streets in
that quarter The city now contains one mil
lion souls A stranger coming from the West
Is at once struck with the antiquity OF the
walls, mosques and towers, and the older class
of Turks seem to b,long ip a hy.gone age
The city has Il growth of more than fifteen
hundred years, while Byzantium, which pre-.
ccded it, goes back thousand years more.
The national emblem Is the Crescent, adapted,
according to one authority, from the belief
that during q memorable sege au dark
night in B. c. $40, when the Maoed0nians were
on the point of carrying the town by assault
light appeared in the heaycns, revealing the
danger to the Inhabitants. But certainly, you
will not expect a detailed history of the city
| will 90 no further than to give the date, May
29th, l459, when II came under the rule of Mo
hammed III, and has since been the seat of the
Supreme, temporal and spiritual power Of III,
Sultan, as also the Greek Patriarch
The greater mass OF the people here lodg'
in miserable wooden structures, O story or
story and half high, and the great wonder i
that when confiagration comes, like that 0
20, all are not swept away, especially. wher
we see the condition Of the Fire Department
There are two towers and at their tops flags AFT
raised, indicating by their color the precise
quarter Of the fire. In these towers watch
m are stationed, who, the moment the
alarm is given, act as runners or poor sub
stitute for bells with us. Each holds in bant
an iron od staff and rushes shouting, Yang
hum var ~ or there is fire You have gonC
idea Of the engine used when l tell you ii is
small ba1 cdrried on tie shoulders Of four men
II would be just the apparatus for Que of ou
ordinary gardens, but rather out of place
when whole districts Of city are burning
Pardon the extFeme length of the above
Yours r.