Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-09
THE GREAT STRUGGLE.
Valuable Statistics--The Strength of
the COmbatants---Russia Feeling
Turkeys Financial Condition. Etc.
From Various correspondents.

Two interesting tables are annexed by
Baron Henry de Worms, to the fifth edi-
ton of his, " England's Policy in the
East" only recently published. The
! first gives the population, trade, finan-
cial, military and naval resources of
each power concerned in the Eastern
question. The second presents the vari-
Gus creeds and numbers of each of the
nationalities in the Turkish Empire
Beside the So, 586, 900 inhabitants in Rus
STA, 1904 ,435 in Austria-Hungary, and
S,5OO,OO0 in Turkey, etc, Montenegro
looks strangely insignificant with a pop
ulation of 10000 The revenue Of this
| little state is put at $25, 900, and it's
/ fighting capacity at $4,000 men, which
is equivalent to saying that al male
Montenegrins of full age are soldiers.
The Russians debt is given at $1,5O4,-
900, 00O, the Turkish at ST. 900, 100000.
The total Russian army he gives as l.
l7S9, 81 men; the Turkish, $40, 1856; the
German, 1,24S,744; the French, 1,11S,-
525; the Austrian, 954,028; the Italian,
GIL 81; the English, 5000, all of
which is, in fact, great exaggeration
For instance, there is a force of only
1892 in the English army, and of
these So, $40 are in India, and 21,172 in
the colonies. In number Of iron-clads
France comes first, with SO, and 800
other vessels of war England has 81
iron-clads, and 449 other vessels of war
Russia has 81 iron-clads, and 124 other
vessels Of war; Turkey has q iron lads
Italy II, Austria IL, Germany 8, and
Greece 1.naao 9d a-r.. sme Of hHr ZEN
Of the whole Ottoman Empire, includ-
| ing now the tributary states there are
100000 Turks, 100000 Arabs, 6OO,-
900 Turcomans, Tartars and Gypsies, s.
| $4,000 Romans, 100000 Greeks,
1920 Servians, and 100000 Bull
garians, and that 500, 900 of the Servians
and 5000 Of the Bulgarians profess the
Mohammedan religion. There are $780,
! 900 Servian Roman Catholics, and 100,-
I 900 Albanians of the same faith With
the tributaries the total population of
Turkey is So, 092,058, but 100000 Nu-
bians, 100000 Egyptians, as well as
Servians, etc, go make up this rather de-
! ceptive total. 81 ,..-.. .. -, ,..t,.t,.
/ The insolvency Of Turkey has been, to
! a considerable extent, increased by the
! issue of paper money (eaime) TO the
amount of 7OOOO0,O00 piasters, about
4 S29, 100000. When in August, 1876, the
/ government declared its intention of is
suing paper money to the amount of 300,-
100000 piasters, it promised the public
that no further issue would be made I'M
til the first issue should have been re-
called. This promise, like most of those
made by the Porte, was soon broken; for
| shortly after the commencement of the
present year, another issue to the extent
of 40O,OO0,OOO was put in circulation.
/ The result is a complete state of stagna
ton, and unless some unforeseen event
wards off the impending blow, it will not
be long before the Turks to quote Mr..
! Gladstone, must "bag and baggage"
/ leave Euprope. Outside Turkey this pa
I per money, or caime, has no value what
ever The caime daily appreciates in
value. Our latest advices quoted it at
4 1885, that is to say, for a Turkish liza
! (S4.1O nominally 100 piastres, money
changer would give you 1855 piaastres in
notes Different values are attached 40
| the caime by different establishments,
and when ono attempts to spend his
money he is entirely at the mercy Of the
/ shopkeepess. The officials of the govern.
ment are also made to suffer, as they
are paid at the rate y Of 100
| piastres to the Ira instead of at the rate
of 165 piastres, the negotiable value of
the money. The armyptoo,, when paid
at all, are paid in scaime. This fact not
long since led to almost q riot. . The
i troops stationed at the Dardanelles re-
ceived some money on. account of four
months arrears that were owing them
This was paid in caime, but as the pay
masters bod nothing less than notes for
,. 100 piastres and they wished to pay the
men % piastres each, they overcame the
difficulty in this way The soldiers, were
/ told off into tours, and to each quartet,
I in the presence of the other three, was
given q note with instructions to get
change for it where he could, and then
pay the Others. The sarafs (money-
;. changers) and, shops were at once be-
sieged, but the difficulty experienced in
obtaining change was enhanced ten-fold,
owing to the fact that the soldiers set a
very different value upon the caime to
what the "tradespeople did Dispute
arose, assaults were committed, and ulti-
mately the shops were closed. Fortu-
nately for the commercial community of
I the place, the next day a supply of 20
piastre notes arrived from Constantine
pie, and the soldiers were enabled to dis
! solve their unwilling partnership.
Between the caime and the "good"
money come the copper piastres, which
are now current at $50 to the Ira. In
each gold ira there are five silver med
jidiehs, and in each medjidieh there are
four beshliks. one of which is equal to
franc; consequently, with copper at $50
to the Ira beshlik, should be worth =
piastres, copper; while with caime at 165,
a note with nominal value of five pi-
astres should be represented in copper
by a fraction of a piastre under the
value it bears upon its face.
The feeling in St. Petersburg against
England is growing more bitter every
day. It has been intensified by the re-
! ported snubbing of Madame Ignatieff by
! Queen Victoria. It appears that the
great Russian diplomat had his wife
with him on his recent visit to London
and OF course, was presented at court
When Madame Ignatief' was introduced