The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04


their religion As the Bosnian asserts his right
to independent manhood in some man.
ner than he has thus far manifested intention 70 do
the Turkish persecution will be at end
| The Culpa River, broad, struggling current whose
high and unkempt banks remind Of those many
Western streams in the United States runs through
the town OF Sussex which divided somewhat arbi-
trarily into Sussex commercial and civil and military
Sussex. wooden bridge spans the river and below il
short distance the old chateau at the conu-
OF the Culpa and the Save The latter river which
is born among tho grandest mountains Of
Austria and comes roaring and riotously leap
ing down through denles and gorges its
way to the Danube is, below Sussex, wide and,
when the channel is full majestic II courses amid
forests and along the edges Of plains which stretch
away far the eye see-pans dotted only here
and there with the tumble down wooden villages Of the
peasantry immense herds of cattle and swine,
guarded by the wild looking herdsmen clad blue caps
wide white trousers and loose TUNES and with
sandals bound to their feet The Croatian peasantry
picturesque and savage looking The FIRST glimpse
of crowd OF wagoners herdsmen is startling TO the
stranger Unaccustomsd to the sight of these
types, which frequent whore tho East
and the West begin to mngle their peculiar
ties one may imagine them group OF barbarian ban
dtt. But they are simple minded and Knd-hearted
/ folk, who work hard every day, and who overwhem
] you with their awkward and servie politeness you
! come in contact with them
Sussex has stood many stout siege by the Turks,
who passed that way in their incursions landward to
Vienna The old chateau, now used as butter and
cheese factory 70 Temporal u will last many century
yet and may possibly be be-
| sieged by Turks But this latter is a contingency
| which seems scarcely probable, for l observed
in the military quarters of Sussex goodly number
IF pdtu ahr
thoroughly able to repe any number Of Turks in case
of future invasion. Austria is guarding her frontier
carefully, but does fear any ntrusons at present
The landwehr, with their medieval caps and old
trunk hose, look like archers marched of il
Illuminated mssa Of ancient times There is restric.
ton upon ngress and egress of persons the frontier
but the government has and then conascated boat
loads OF ammunition and provisions which
| friends of the Instruction quietly shipping
down the Save TO point where they
hoped to get them ashore in Bosnia Last several
! boat loads of material con1scated. In Sussex
there committees interested-one in tho success
the other in the failure, of the Instruction Neither
of them is in any troubled by the Austrian
government.
IL the high wooden bridge at Sussex that saw
/ THE FIRST BOSNIAN REFUGEE.
He came lmping and warily looking about him. as If a
little doubtful as to the reception he might get the
| town He was dressed in q pair of baggy
blue trousers, which were thrust into stout knit
stockings, and his feet were shod with sandals
| tied with multitude of strings. blue tunic, which
had been handsome but now bore evidence Of
many months of hard usage, thrown over his
| shoulder, and his matted locks crowned with a
red cap something like fez His sunburned features
intelligent, yet there crnging expression
upon them which was painful to note. The grmly-
smiling wagoners and the market women at the corner
surrounded the refugee and endeavored TO bring him
into conversation but he shook his head and down
with that irresolute yet unworred air character
stic of the sow-gong people of the Orient In
the market place, where the peasant women clad
only single garment of loosely flowing
white with centuries bringing in fruits and vege
tables There was charming group OF young Bosnian
girls waiting thus far vanlyl at sissek in hope of OBJ
tanning work. Their features regular and OF
them were extremely pretty; their blonde hair was
combed smoothly away from their low brows and
braided simply behind They stood with their hands
folded reminding of pictures of Circassan girls for
sale in slave market They barefooted and
dressed in white robes of coarse stun almost universally
in this region and in the provinces beyond there
was not an ornament of any kind upon them. They
of higher life both morally and physically,
should say than the of Sussex who stood gaping
at them.
1t easy, through the medium of the merchants
who knew something of the Sclavc tongues TO con.
with these Bosnians, but nothing satisfactory
was be cleaned from the interviews None knew
anything definitely. Every differed in his or her
version and had seen any actual fighting The
Turks had brought soldiers after the In
surrecton had been declared and so they
away. 'Tho Turks angry" said another,
''and We afraid We dared not go To Serajevo,
so came here" At the town of Serajevo, it had
been fanced by some, understanding between the
insurgents and the Turks might be arrived at If grand
popular 'mass meeting should take place there But
fanaca portion of the Turkish population IN Sera
jevo showed, and still shows, such bad humor that
meeting there is possible and the Bosnians appear
| to pay little attention TO the pacific mission
on which the consus have gone from Ragusa
to Mostar the Herzegovina is said that tho in
surrection has broken out in quarters where the
Turks fancied that the presence their troops would
such Of the inhabitants remain; and that there
have been small but bloody skirmishes in the
vicinity Of Alt Grasiska In the 'New Damascus as
the Turks call Serevo, there serious battles as
yet between the two opposing forces, because the
Mussulman families outnumber the Christian Ave or six
times All tho insurgent forces now operating in
Bosnia could hardly form a force large enough to in
splre in the minds of the $4,000 Mussulmen
which Serajevo contains
A TRIP TO PETRINIA,
! an hour and halfs ride a wrctched road in a
wretchcd wagon after the wrechedest Of horses and to
Kostencza the Austrian shore of the Unna and but
few minutes ride in boat from Turkish territory is
enough to convince that the instruction will last
long time. The Turks thoroughly angry with tho
fugitives who, they say in no danger whatever
and would not have been plundered But the in
habitants not to blame for being alarmed at the
sight Of their forests in flames and roinorcements Of
hostile Turks pushing through the country in all drec
tons Kostenicza, where the Unna gives
its pure waves TO the Save has been for many cen
turies like Sssek fortress intended to resist Turkish
invasion. Opposite 1t is town which is a monument
to the genius Of Turkish carpetbaggers II is made
up almost entirely Of Turks, who have rooted the
original settlers round about, have come into their