Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-12
THE sCLAvONIAN REBELLION.


hundred Americans who pretend to un-
derstand the Schelswig- Holstein Cues
ton of few years ago. nor a round
dozen who really DO understand it. II
will come, in time. to pass into the cate
CORY of those mysteries which, as Dun
dreary describes them. no fellah can find
ont, and SO will be gathered under the
dust and rubbish of passing events. to
be dug up by 1.-THE future historian" and
illuminated and explained to the curious
world of nntiquaries. by his instructive
and imagination-pointed pen. And this
present involvement Of Turkey-in-
Europe and the little-known peoples and
interests Of far-of Bosnia, Montenegro
and Herzegovina, simple as it is, and
comparatively easy of understanding. is
almost as much Of an insolvable and
pulling enigma in the popular mind a.
the riddle Of Schelswig-Hols itself.
In general terms. the troubles between
these Danubian Provinces, and the
Turkish government are the troubles
naturally begotten between q subjugated
peasantry and their cruel oppressors.
An atmosphere of romance and classic
ism surrounded the Greeks when Byron
joined his fortunes with their cause and
Fitz Green Halleck wrote the stirring
lines of % Marco Bozarris - but except
in the instance OF the massacre at Scio,
We doubt if even the Greeks suffered
greater outrages 1T the hands of their
Turkish masters than the peasantry of
the Bosnian mountains have experienced
from the same nerciless and semi
savage rulers.
We OF this population Of fortune
hunters from the world around, have
contented ourselves with styling our
neighbors from the region about Eastern
Austria, Northern Italy and Eastern
Turkey, Sclavonians and Italians, and
have given bat little thought for their
birth-place history and native allegiance.
We have Jumped the lot and let i. 60
at that.
A very intelligent correspondent of |
the New York Herald, writing from |
Sussex, near the Austrian frontier. fur
nishes Us with some very interesting |
facts as to the kind of . country that |
Bosnia is, and its products and psople.
Also he enlightens US upon the causes of |
the present troubles in that country and
its neighborhood. Bosnia, it seems, is
q mountainous country, valued for its
timber. We Of the United States are
chiefly interested in it on account of the
prunes it produces and which We get by
the ships which sail up the Dards-
nelles" and land at Trieste. The Bos-
mans are described as simple, inoffen-
sive people whom long oppression has
made spiritless and submissive, AID who,
but for the really unbearabls expressions
of their Turkish masters never would
have dared to resist the hard authority
aud crushing laws under which they
have existed. But the meekest will find
heart for revolt in time; and these
broken-spirited serfs-for they are little
else-have at last mustered up courage
to resist the tide of tyranny which has
SO long been sweeping over them. Still,
the manifestations of spirit Of resist
ance are more of the nature Of Q retreat
from long-borne evils than bold upris-
ing against their further continuance;
and while the emissaries Of Omer Pacha
are raiding through the Bosnian mount
aims and burning the forests there, the
peasants only run away. seeking refuge
ON the neutral soil of Austria. Says
this Herald correspondent:
The Turks have already burned many
fine forests in the interior of Bosnia,
hoping thus to terrifv the insurgents into
an attitude of submission. But the
rayah simply runs away when the Turks
appear. and by 60 doing indicates his
determination to do anything rather than
submit. He has submitted SO many
years, this patient rayah. that it must
begin to be monotoneus. Whenever he
has asked for justice from the Turkish
officials for Bosnia he has been packed
into . prison in Sersjevo, the chief town
of the province, and there has sometimes
sweltered years without the slightest
hope of deliverance. His property has
been meantime taken away and sold or
coolly taken possession of by Turkish