The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-03-22

that independence which In reality she
has maintained during the five centu-
res Of Turkish dominion in Europe.
Waves Of Ottoman invasion have Al
times swept over the Black Mountain,
and so recently as 1852 (when, on the
death If Peter Petrovic, the last Of the
line Of yladikas, or Prince Bishops,
founded in 1857 by Petrovic Njegos,
Danilo I. abandoned the spiritual func-
tons and title, declared himself Hospo-
dar, and ostentatiously threw off the
fiction Of dependency upon Turkey,
but for the interference of Austria and
the other European Powers, the gallant
little Principally would have been over
whelmed and blotted out. But never
has Montenegro given ground, and
whether Turkey was embroiled in war,
or harassed by instruction, or the
Montenegrins had TO engage her single
handed. they have never shrunk back
from fighting, as indeed befitted peo-
pie where every man Is warrior and
the right Of suffrage depends upon the
bearing Of arms. With gain Of terri
tory towards Podgoritxa and Antivari
on the south and Nicsic on the north,
she will doubtless acquire seaport and
that communication with the outer world
she has lacked when shut out from the
Adriatic by the narrow belt Of Turkish
and Austrian strand.
Besides these three independent
States, a new and powerful semi-inde-
pendent principality will be added TO
the map, and make the Turkey in
Europe Of our children's school-days
very different from that in our aliases Of
a few years ago. The western boundary
Of the new Principally # Bulgaria, as
defined In the treaty, follows the Ser
Wan frontier, thence past Mitrovitza
and Wranja to the headwaters of the
Karasu, following its course TO its mouth
at Contessa or Rendina Gulf on the
Archipelago. Thence the line sweeps
along the coast to Yenidge, half way be-
tween Kawala and Dedeagh, whence it
strikes abruptly northeast to Tchirmcn,
short distance northwest Of Adriano-
pie, past which latter city it sweeps due
west to Hekim Tabiassi, small port on
the Black Sea, about seventy miles
north Of Constantinople in direct line.
The east line stretches along the Black
Sea TO Mangalia, and from this point
runs northwest TO Rassova on the Dan
ube, thus cutting off the Dobrudscha,
which is given to Russia, and which the
latter proposes to exchange with Rou-
mania for the Bessarabian strip. The
Danube from Rassova to Widdin forms
the north boundary All that is left Of
Turkey in Europe is the peninsula whose
base is the line drawn from Hekim Ia
biassi to Yenidge. The province will
probably be composed Of an eastern
vilayet, with the Capital at Tirnova, the
old Bulgarian Capital, and western,
with the Capital at Sofia.
According to the armistice bases, a
Prince is to be elected for this new trib
utary Of the Porte by convention Of
Bulgarian notables, their choice being
subject to the approval Of Europe. Not
alone will Russian Commission super
wise the workings of the new Govern
ment till the middle Of 1880, and until
the same period strong Russian force
garrison the Principally, but Russia has
now begun to organize the militia on the
Russian system and under Russian Off
GERS, and the Car has candidate in
training for the throne. This l. the
Prince Of Batienberg, son Of the Gar
, mas brother, Alexander Of Hesse, by
| his morganatic union with one of her
maids Of honor, the Countess Won
. Iaoucke. As tits further in contempla-
ton to marry this candidate with the
, Cars l6-year-old niece, issue Of the
: morganatic union Of his sister, the Grand
Duchess Marie Nicolaevna, with Count
! Gregory Strogonoff, it will be seen that
his accession TO the Belgian throne
would mean the Russianizing Of the new
Principally.
And yet the Bulgarians are not Of the
Slavonic race, though claimed by the
Panslavists, being members Of the Ugri-
. an branch of the Firms, driven in 55y
!. from the Town Of Bolgaris on the Volga
I whence their nancy to cross the Dan
. ube and settle on both sides of the
Balkan range. They have Bulgarian
church, independent Of the Greek
} church, that they succeeded in having
! revived in 1870, after it had been crush
} ed by the Porte at the instigation of the
Patriarchs Of Constantinople (the
: Greeks and Bulgars having been imme-
} mortal and rancorous foes for over a
| century,. This revival, with the revival
OF the long prohibited Bulgarian lam
guage and the almost American rapid
, IL with which since in 1850 the native
{ merchants Of Philippopolis set them
selves to rekindle the fire Of national
/ spirit education has spread among the
! people, may well inspire hope that il
! the new Principality does not develop
into warlike Power, such a that
: which toward the close Of the ninth CEN
fury. under King Simeon, shook the
: gates Of Constantinople and imposed
: terms Of peace on the Greek Emperor,
r i may prove vigorous, prosperous,
! and well ordered nation, and play .