, 1876-11-04

derzegoVlnians attempted to throw of the
turkish yoke; the instruction, which
was always imminent, broke out. The
people called on their brethren in Servia
to help them. The Servians remembered
what the Turkish yoke was. Within the
memory OF man, thousands of their maidens
were sold into slavery during the war of
independence, and honorable matrons
stul i've to tell how they saw their infant
sisters slaughtered in the cradle. Then,
when the rising began, they were stung
into fury by the sutferings of their neigh
bours. Their W brothers and sisters
tor SO they really regard them-bone of
their bone and flesh Of their fesh-were
cruelty murdered all round their borders
under their eyes. As a single example,
| shall mention what Colonel Stephano-
Vltz, head of the arsenal of Kragoievatz,
saw when making a reconnaissance on the
frontier eight months ago. He crossed
over with his men to an apparently desert
ed house. On entering, be found a child
cut in two, the halves flung to different
corners of the room, the mother dreadfully
mutilated and mad, another child roasting
at the ffe, near it the dying father, who
had been compelled to turn the spit. The
Turks, who had apparently been disap-
pointed in finding food or money, had left
an hour before. Still worse atrocities
were told me by eyewitnesses Of equal
credit. Under these circumstances, the
ungoyernabIe impulse of free and gener.
GUS people to join in the war was not dis
creditabIc though it may have been in the
eyes OF statesmen imptudent and even
technically understandable.
The war has been undoubtedly a popu-
lar war, both in its origin and its c|ontinu-
ance. The Serviaus have been %diSappoint-
ed by the suppression of the Bulgarian
revolt, and probably they vaguely hoped
for some aid from abroad in their unequal
contest, for such they we'll know it to be.
1t may welt be that many of them are
anxious for peace, and even that in an
army, which is only a peasant militia
except to the extent of 10000 men, the
reports OF instances of poltroonery and
standardization may not be without tounda-
llon. But they become better soldiers
every day, and The spirit OF the people is
my may iudhC ptuCC IL uO
help comes, but they will never give up
The hope OF setting their brothers free from
the hated Turks, and rather than admit
him again on their W soil they will fight
IN the forests and mountains to the last, as
they did under Kara George. The militia
reserves Glamour to be sent to the front.
The workmen in the cannon foundry are
half mutinous because they cannot go to
the war, AS we sat one moonlight night
under the ~acacias before the Inn at Krago-
j%evatz we heard the tramp of soldiers COM
ing down the street. 1t was a regiment Of
volunteers marching to the war. They
struck up a wild thrilling song, Of which l
was told the burden was o dialogue. eff
thou lowest me-, ali, why not stay Z"
j." Nay, | must deserve thee first; I go to
help my brothers." One could not help
contrasting the feeling Of these honest
peasants with the spirit in which their
antagonists make war upon women and
children. The salaries of the highest
officials are reduced to $780,. In short,
all classes cheerfully make the greatest
sacrifices.
The next observation which I desire to
make is that, so far as the feeling of the
Serviaps is concerned, the fear of Russian
influence is quite illusory. They prize