The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-05-04
EUROPEAN wAR.
Gen. shermaan's and AdmIraI
FOrGer'S ODInIOmS.

POrGer'S ODKnIOnS.
A New York correspondent hal
been interviewing the heads of ths
United States army aud navy as to
the war between Russia and Tnr-
key, and reports their opinions Al
follows:
ADMRAL PORTER SAYS.
This war promises to be thu
most gigantic aud important to Eo-
rope, and even to the United States
that has taken place. It will be 9
great religious war and the conse.
quences can only be surmised. The
idea that Turkey is going to be
whipped out in q day IL q mistaken
one. The russians will never cap.
ture CODstantinople. It is not in
the power of their army or navy to
take the place. AZ for their navy,
It is of very little consequence in
contrast with what It is reauired &c
accomplish. They have about thir-
ty irOn-clads and Pa vessels of war
of other kinds. They have 10000
men in their navy and about 1866
guns
He then read off list OF their
iron-clads, showing that five of
them carry from sixteen to twenty
elk guns, and the rest from two to
eight guns apiece, and Continued:
All these iron-clads are the very
best material, aud their guns are of
The latest pattern and heaviest cali
bre, The other ordinary vessels
are all reported in good condition.
The larger portion of this navy is
now about getting free from the
ice of the North Sea, near ST. Pc
tersburg. Those vessels of the Rus
sian navy that are now in our ports
came here to get rid o the ice there
the past winter. The navy, how
ever, makes little difference on eth
er side. This war, as between Rus
STA and Turkey, is going to be in
the main land night. The Turks
have twenty splendid iron-clads,
with eighty four other good aud
substantial war vessels. They have
1918 guns and -, 600 men. For the
defensive this lie good navy. They
have great forts on the DardaneIls,
ali along from its mouth up to Gal
lipolis. Here they also have chains,
torpedo boats, their iron-clads, sun
ken hulks and other distractions.
The Russians have to pass through
these to Gallipolis, thence into the
sea of Marmora, and thence they
will have to fight their way up
through the torpedoes, iron-cladR,
&c, to the Bosphorus. AS they
pass Constantiuople up the Bospho-
rus, they have twenty miles of forts
to encounter, and having passed
these they are in the Black Sea
You see, sir, the fight is by no
means to be all on the side of the
Russians. They have no fleet in the
Black Sea. When SebastopoI was
destroyed and their great fleets
blown up and sunken and their ma
Wy yards destroyed on the Black
Sea, that settled their fleets in that
locality, and the European powers
have forbidden them eyer since to
rebuild in that locality.
THE RUSSIANS
have fine army, we'll disciplined,
well Differed aud doubtless their
arms, guns and supplies are of the
first-class. They are net commence
ing this fight for sentiment sake.
1t is the hope of their lives; and
they are now arrived at that point
when the Emperor will be able to
get every man and every dollar his
people have, so as to win the great
contest of the nation. 1t will be nc
use, though, as it will end in disas
ter.
THE TURKS
are thoroughly aroused. From one
end of the empire to the other, the
Mussulmans are crowding together
by the tens of thousands, aud al
ready the religious fansticism o.
the Turks is discernible. Just think
Of 100000 of peOplel They will
give every dollar and every Valua
BILE they have to aid their side.
They have the best arms in the
world-they were made by our
own people, aud Europe has nc
better. The large guns the Turks
get from Krupp, and, of course
these cannot be excelIed. There ii
no doubt that both sides have plen-
ty of arms and ammunition. After
the Russians get very much weak
ened and the Turks have worried
them a good deal, then the Austri
ans and, perhaps, the Germans viii
have something to say. France il
not particularly interested, and
mark what | say-she will not en-
gage in this conflict. She will gC
on with her exhibition, and it prom
ises to be grand success. The wal
will not affect it in the least.
AUSTRIA IS MOST INTERPRETED
in the contest, excepting England
and just how Austria is going t.
act remains TO be seen. She will bC
in the fight, however, before the
war has gone on six months. Eng.
land is the grand puzzle. You car
depend on it she does not intend tt
allow Russia to take Constantine
bic, even if she could, and her time
to enter into the contest will bt
marked by the circumstances of the
conflict.
EFFECTS ON THE UNITED STATES.
The great good that this war il
| going to have on our country can
not be computed. We will not on
ly sell flour, wheat, corn, pork, cloth
ing, arms and ammunition to the con.
bending parties, bat we will sell ali
these things to the other great ma.
tions, especially our cereals and
provisions. II the war continues
two years, and my prediction il
that it will, we will have to PLAN
for the whole world. The entire
agricultural pursuits of the greai
grain country of the Black Sea, will
be stopped. 1t was so in the Cri.
mean war. l was q lieutenant il
the navy and commanded the Sup
ply, in the Mediterranean SQUAD.
ron, and well do remember the
rich harvest our merchants reaped
during the war. This war viii
bring back again to Us the CONNER.
cial supremacy we lost during the
war If Congress legislates prop
erly in June, so as to allow vessels
to be bought and placed under oul
flag to remain there, our CONNER.
cial marine will be revived. We
have not time to build ships; We
must buy them.
Admiral Porter went on to say
that there probably would not b.
much blockading, and that our sup.
\ =