The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-03
TURKEY.

FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE SULTANB
aovERNMENT-RAILwAY WORKS Stopped
STRIKE AT THE ARsENAL-AN Ex-GRAND
vIZIER SERIOUSLY ILL.
CoNsTANTISoPLE June ii, 1875.
The imperial Ottoman government again shows
alarming symptoms OF q relapse into Its old mala-
dy-an empty treasury. The inability OF the Porte
TO meet some OF Its financial engagements has oc-
casoned this week two important str1kes-one In
the imperial arsenal and the other on the works
of the Shumla Railway, In Roumelia. Some lew
weeks back the Construction Company OF the
railway line finding IL impossible TO induce the
government to pay the amounts due to them on
the last SIX monthly certificates, suspended theiI
works, after having du!y given notice to the gov
ernment upon which, promises being cheaper
In Turkey than cash, the governments sent earnest
assurances 70 the directors OF the Shumla works
that the money woulo be forthcoming at once.
and desired them on no account to persevere IN
their resolution.
ANOTHER TRIAL.
Work was accordingly resumed and Tor
another month the constructors waited In hope
full expectation, UNTIL convinced OF the deus!va
nature OF Turkish promises, they at length def
nitely stopped the works. ana thus another delay
is occasioned in bringing the Turkish lines into
junction with the European network OF railways.
THE ARSENALS.
As regards the strike at the arsenal IL Is worthy
OF note and worthy OF Turkish middle that while
the government cannot nnd money to pay the
poor artisans employed In the imperial arsenals,
the number of those useless toys anchored in
front oil the Sultan's palaces Is constantly being
increased. At this moment no less than four iron.
claGs on the stocks in England In various
stages OF progress, we'll as one frigate ana two
| transports in the native building yards Of lsmidt
| and Slnope. IL might possibly be considered only
|
dulge his fancy tor such expensive additions TO a
feet whose only DUTY IS TO maintain the Gordon
drawn around HIS Majesty's palaces on the Bos-
phorus, to the great annoyance Of tine daily pas
sengers between STEAMBOAT and the Upper Bos-
| phorus, whose time Is considerably wasted In the
detour which the boats are obliged TO make, and
to the greatly increased risk attending the navi
CATION OF the channel narrowed by this Gordon to
less than half its available width, II everything
else was smooth, and arrears OF pay In :ne army
and tue arsenal were things or the past. But
a MORE serious condemnation must be passed on
sucK extravaganza when 1t Is known that tue
men employed III the arsenas have been
KEPT OUT OF THEIR WAGES
Tor six months till ut last they grew hungry and
| savage. and to tnelr clamors one months wages
were doled out. mere drop In the ocean, aud
was soon gone, ana now they got hungry
and savage again and they have ceased 70 work.
Their demands are not unreasonable 1--WE ara
too hungry to work." they say; give US bread
and we snail have strength 10 work again.
| This cry goes up at scarcely half hours dis
tance from His Majestys residence at Dolona.
Bagtche, and the imperial despos, living in hi
magnificent isolation has his ears comfortably
stopped by his surrounding parasites, and prooa.
bly, mas no ether thought IN his mind, VIXEN be.
holding his lron-cads, than that lt Dehoves u
mighty Sovereign like himself TO possess a lew
more. and That his Grand Vizier Is not worth
keeping In MS pace II he cannot md tue means
to pay Tor them.
The late Grand Vizler, Husseln Arni, who was
| lately appointed Governor the Nlayet
smyrna Is, 1t Is eared, III very precarlous health.
he has been obliged to resign MS post aud TO pro-
coed to Europe Tor medical treatment. The ex.
Minister OF Marine, Achmet kaiserly Pacha, takes
mis- place at smyrna, and as he Is not much OF
he may probably take less serious view than MIA
predecessor OF the enormlty committed by the
missionaries III introducing books printed In
America IN the Turkish language, witR view OF
proseb Using the "true believers"
CURIOSITIES FROM CRETE.
The Imperial Museum has been lately enriched
by two liie-size statues Of Roman workmanship
One OF them Is supposed TO represent Poppea, the
second wife OF Nero; the otner, young girl oi
daughter Claudia. A leglole inscription on the
pedestal places this TACT bepono doubt. The
age OF Jour months but was alter ner death raised
oy an imperial edict to the rank OF divinity, and
jects Of antique sculpture are chiefly lnterestina
as Illustrating the state Of moral decadence INTO
which the art mad fallen In the days OF this mos
wicked Of Roman emperors
EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED.
terrible accident has taken place, causing the
death OF eight members OF Turkish family
Tempted by the spring weather and the calm
waters or the Lake OF series q family OF twelve
persons embarked Ia an open boat 10 cross the
lake In order TO be present at the wedding festiv
ties OF friends daughter, VINO lived ON the op.
poslte coast. the passage was safely accom-
Pushed Ia tue morning. and nothing occurred
during the day to ioreshadow the terrible doom
In waiting Tor some oil the party. The day wni
spent In roasting, singing ana dancing and to-
ward evening tue guests departed, hoping to re.
sumo the merry making Ut some day not lar dis.
tant. They mad scarcely passed the middle of tns
lake when squall struck them, the GOAT became
unmanageable, the cries auu despair OF the
ors, the storm increased, the boat was capsized
and its human freight were struggling IN the
water. The people on shore saw the accident and
put or 10 the rescue. but they had some distance
10 row, and by the time they reached cue spot 10
Jour only ont Of tue twelve could assistance be OF
any avail. The Others chiefly young girls, unable
TO struggle against tho waves, had SUNK to rise