The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-08
MONTENEGRO.

THE CAPACITY FOR WAR Or THE LITTLE NOUN
TAIN sTATE-A SPARTAN SOCIAL SYSTEM
HIGHLY TRAINED OFFICERS AND BOLD AND
HARDY soLDIERY-NTEEsE HATRED or THE
MosLEMs
cETrNeE Sept Is, 1875
One naturally wants 10 know something about the
capacity Of Montenegro sustain war with tho once
formidable and st not to DC despsed Turkish Empire
Thor courage Is sufficient and the natural ambition OF
every man is to fight Turks, matter what the odds
He has great contempt Of death and the punish
ment for Montenegro is logging
As soon as the Monenegrin is Of ago to bear he
is enrolled soldier and remains as long he is
lebodied. The whole military population Is formed
into corps daree and consists OF about so 900 men,
The subdivisions into baalons of 600, and these
into six companies. the company being the unit oil or
ganizaton. They are armed with breech-oaders and
each carries khandar, or long knife, and revolver
Of the Austrian model, loading with copper
cartridges Of greater length Of barrel than those
They organized infantry, and vel
drilled in all tactical movements, the higher officers
being mostly trained at S. Cyr other foreign mill
tary academies. There is good force OF mountain
artillery although the principal reliance the sharp
shooters and every Montenegro good shot
The men are capable Of marching twenty 1--WE miles
day, and the signal being given by telegraph to the
centre Of tho State in twenty-four hours The roads
simply good bride paths mostly zig gag and tho
country entirely impractlcable for regular military
operations so that the formation OF the Principal
II between one and two hundred years ago hostile
force has penetrated into the interior In
Omar Pacha's campaign he was supposed to
have subdued Montenegro, because only his
dispatches got out to the world, but the fact was,
that after hard campaign, in which the Turks had
three armies acting at different points and were conn-
ualy repuscd, he finally gained an advantage on the
frontier towards Scuar whore the country is more or
less plain and then entered into negotiations for peace,
which the Montenegrns left alone by their promised
allies having lost OF 20 900 in the field 5000
killed and 900 wounded-i half OF the whole force
hors de combat glad to accept not because they
were conquered but because they being eStermi
mated without any prospect of advantage The French
under Marmont attempted TO enter Montenegro ana
were defeated
THE PRINCE VINO Is THE ABSOLUTE RULER,
Is thoroughly able, well educated man. good soldier
4 and an adept in all military accomplishments good
shot good horscman, Of great physical strength and wor
shipped by his people He IS Commander Of the Forces,
judge Of all appealed from the courts and sits in
Judgment under large lime tree rough stone seat
! in the open street lie was educated in Paris and
/ speaks French perfectly, and has very complete
idea of what State should be. Since his accession
schools have been established IN every village IN the
country aud education made universal and obgatory
teegraphs to every district and carriage road Is
being made from Cataro which will be piece of splen
did engineering and furnish Of the most remarka
Bile drives to be found in Europe for its scenery There
| is seminary for girls under the care OF accom-
! plished Russian lady, and of the most eminent
Russian iurists is here now engaged in codying the
law of Montenegro which, he says is ono OF the most
interesting in the world made up OF edicts aud DECISIONS
some OF which or great antiquity
The system Of administration Of justice is military
| every man being considered soldier Capital punish
ment is by shooting, and the most dsgraceiu punish
mcnt is logging which only inflicted Tor stealing IL
carries with incapacity for any civil function and IRE
! trevable dshonor OF the few in recent times
culprits after the punishment have blown out
their brains and all others exed themselves voluntarily
for remnant their lives For murder nfanticdc
women punished by hanging Under the old system
the women considered as interiors, and no Monte
negrin would walk out with his wife, but the Prince
has discouraged this prejudice by mis- example, and
by his education of the females WILL in another genera
ton nave DESTROYED this remnant the old system Of
social organization. The Princess, who is a charming
woman and would be beauty in any European capital
well educated and interests herself IN the emancpa
tion of her much as her husband.
The government is carried on under the direct nitia
tive Of the Prince by boivodes charged with the va
rous functions corresponding to those Of ministers IN
other countries, and senators, who are consult
ing body They paid about ESQ yeara sufficient
income in the simple way that the Montcnegrins live
The details OF administration are attended 70 oy the
captains of districts, and so thoroughly That any one
who talk the Scrvian language travel over the
whole Of Montenegro in perfect safety The hospitality
is on the old paneyerything that the stranger needs
is at his orders, and there severe penalty Tor asking
stranger higher price than would be asked Of the
people OF the country and any violation of the law Of
hospitality would be punished most severely
CHARACTER PEOPLE IS VERY GRAVE
and undcmonstrative Except continual application TO
be allowed 90 to the war-going without permission
being considered equivalent to deserton and punished
by conhscation Of all goods-there Is display Of ex
i element about the going AT their borders
Hundreds have gone and but for the general conviction
that war will be declared thousands would go Monte
negro however, is mindful Of the war OF 1862 when
she left fight the Turkish Empire alone, and she
will not move till Servia has declared For this we
wait and when the decl ,raton comes the Prince viii
take the Geld al and Herzegovina IN force,
leaving about 600 for the defence OF the southern
frontier
This question must be decided in two or three days,
and until then suspend all arrangements as TO the
future.