The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-12-01
LOST TURKEY.
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can Citixens Outraged-The suaerinsy ef
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lConstantAnople Cor New York Herald.)
1t would be difficult to imagine q
country in worse state than Turkey
now Ia. From all parts of the interior
We hear of nothing but stories OF rob.
berries, piilage, murder and acts OF vio-
!ence OF all kinds. From every point,
both in Europe and in Asia, come com
plants OF Christians against their Mus
SULLIVAN neighbors, against the authorities
Tor negiecting TO repress the disorders,
and even countenanclng them. Fears of
massacre still exist, for it seems that not
III Bulgaria alone, but in Jerusalem,
Smyrna, and everywhere through Asia
Minor the Turks are using the same Ian
guage and making the same threats.
lake all the outrages said to have been
perpetrated in the South, concentrate
them in one State within three months,
it would then be nothing to what it is
here. Our information about this state
OF things is not derived from the COM
plants of the inhabitants alone or from
reports and rumors. 1t is certified by
official reports from the Cohsuls of al
most every part of Turkey to their lega-
tions at Constantinople, Armenian
towns and villages are pillaged by regu-
lar troops, aud the complaints of the in
habitants pass unheeded, or, if something
be done in order to save appearances,
the compliments are subsequently made
to sign documents saying that what they
had complained of was false. In
Smyrna, crime is increasing to such an
extent that the Consuls have signed q
joint note calling the attention of the
authorities to the inefficient state of the
police and to the bad government of the
province, and have requested their AM
bassadOrs to call the attention of the
Porte to the same subject.
Among other crimes several iron safes
belonging to American citizens were
forcibly opened, and the Government,
under various pretexts, refused to arrest
the persons who We're pointed out as
guilty of the act. This has compelled
our Minister, MIR. Maynard, to make
representation at the Porte for the better
administration Of justice and the increase
Of the police in Smyrna -Four Ameri-
can travellers were robbed last winter
neer Jerusalem, and not only has the
Pacha of Jerusalem excused himself
from performing his duty, but the Porte
has devised several pretexts to shield
him from blame.
The Consuls at Salonica report con-
slant murders and robberies throughout
the whole of Macedonia. Their reports
have been in part officially denied by the
Turkish authorities, bat, nevertheless,
the Governor of Salonica has found it
necessary to issue an address to the Mus
salman inhabitants, recommending them
to live ON good terms with their Christian
neighbors. While the burning of vii
lagos and the massacre of large numbers
of persons has ceased IL Bulgaria, out
RACES of every kind are of daily occur
renee, but, instead of wholesale slaugh-
ter, we now have separate and individual
cases OF murder, rape and outrage,
amounting in the whole to almost as
great a number as at any preceding pc
rioA.
The ebullition of public feeling in
England has had one good effect upon
the English Ambassador here, as it has
impressed him with the necessity of do
ing his best to allay the excitement and
retrieve his past omissions. Mr.. Barring
was sent mp to Bulgaria again with
mixed Turkish Commission, as was sup
posed, and as he himself believed, for
the purpose of weakening his report.
The additional evidence, however, which
has been brought before him has only
served to strengthen the conclusions
which he had already drawn. He has
had his eyes fully opened to the tricks
and 6saesses of &he Turkish Governors,
and has begun carefully to follow all the
cases of outrage reported from the
neiQhborhood OF Philippopolis, and has
insisted that redress be given to the
sufferers. Both he and Mr.. Calvert, the
English Vice Consul, have followed the
trials Of Bulgarians accused of partici-
pating in the insurrections and they
nave become quite convinced of the fire.
quent use of torture, fact which they
had not previously believed. Indeed
they paid 80 much attention to these
trials that the authorities considered it
best to discontinue them for the pres
ent. Mr.. Barring, by the direction of Sir
Henry Elliott, has also been urging on the
trials of the ringleaders of the massacre.
SO far, however, Ne has but little sue
cess. Tvs or three are under trial but
they have not yet been convicted, and,
Judging from what Mussulman members
of the commission cay outside of the
court, they will probs5ly be acquitted.
Chevket PAcha, who WAS living IN Con-
stantinoplet for whosearrest orders were
given at therequest OF Earl Derby, has
found means for running away.
Practically the Government has done
nohing for She sufferers in Bulgaria.
Tie authorities still damand tithes and
taxes, and are aow endaavoring to make
out that the Bulgarian population is so
rich that they need NO help. At
Perashtitsa, within three hours of Phil
ippqpolis, they have begun to build LEO
houses. The walls of none of them.
however, are more than three feet
from the ground, and the work has now
been stopped, as there is no timber to
be had. 1t is now impossible to rebuild
the villages by winter. In Some places
the Government has advanced money for
hiring reapers and Cor the purchase OF
agricultural tools, but they hsve taken
all precautions for payment. They only
advance money to the wealthy men, who
can give some guarantee that it will be
rapai1 For tha nooror claaa aud those