The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-19
RUSSIFYING THE EAST.
now RUSSIA Ts GAINING ADDITIONAL
TERRITORY.

Constaptinople correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press gives the following glance
at some Of the probable effects of the treaty
of peace.
It is generally supposed that the treaty Of
Turkey, or rather that ii exclusively concerns
the former. This Is Q serious mistake. when
closely serutinised It will be found that pro-
vision is made for the classification of all Ar.
,nenia. Batoum, Kars, Erdahan and Hayazid
are expressly conceded. The war indemnity,
however, OF e2,OOo,ooC, will force the
oc yan and s ns1ssa of ha Arsns
to Trebizond, inclusive. When the Rus
slams are installed In all the citadel fortresses
Of Armenia, how can they be dislodged. and
what p there to prevent them overrunnlng
harbor Trobsond Is an important point,
but its waterfront is an open roadside where
the anchorage, though good during the south
and southeast gales, is very insecure when
the present terminus of the trans Caucasian
railway, is O wretched place 1T Is an oasis
of dry land in the midst of swamps, Mala-
rOus fevers infect IL 10 such an extent that 1t Ia
indurated to pestiferous exhalations, passed
one night there and paid the penalty Of my
folly Ia malarious fever that lasted for a year.
Vessels ride far out at sea, and send their car
railway from Tiflis take steamer Of shallow
draft from Poti, which conveys them to the
Odessa boat at Batoun Now, however, that
1 this latter place has become Q Russian pos
session, the Ttlis railroad will avoid Pot and
terminate its course OF that point. Batoum
is sickly because Of the surrounding marshes
that impest the atmosphere, The Turks are
too lazy to drain them. they would rather
cause Of the local insslubrity. | never heard
OF the Turks, in fact evor taking sanitary
precautions. The open drain at Oassirh Pasha,
suburb Of Constantinople. in the rear of the
navy yard, has time after time been denounced
as breeding place OF cholera, At various
times the population dwelling along it have
been deeir1lated by the cholera and plague,
When the scourge had exhausted itself the
thinned ranks of the victims were always re-
plenished by new ones. Now that Batoum Is
Russian port we shall see its marshes
drained and the place rendered eligible for
settlement.
Erzeroum, the Russians are occupying as IL
1t were their own already. They are fortify
ing IL on all sides, and are putting it III i'm
proved communication with the Russian from
tier by military and trading roads. They
have established perfect order and equal JUS
tiee for oil classes, races and religions Where,
before their coming, there was violence dis
order and anarchy, tho quietude of oivilza-
dof and well-regulated government now pre-
walls. Erzeroum has rude climate. 1t is
over 5000 feet above the level of the sea, on a
For six months In the year its semi-subter-
ranean houses lie buried under the snow, and
bleak and raw Ia the climate. In all ages it
has been an important place. There converge
Persia, and to Mesopotamia and the Persian
gulf. 1t s a centre for the traffic Of the re-
mote and hither east. AS a military position
IL Is of the first order. | have no doubt that
the Russians intend TO hold It under one pre-
text or another, and that 1t will eventually
become point ddppuf for the extension of
their conquests into the heart of Asia Minor
Consider all Armenia Russian, and Asiatic
Turkey split In twain, one part Muscovite,
the other Ottoman. Fortunately it is in
Armenia that the Christian element mostly
predominates. Here live the followers of the
*0ld Armenian faith, who claim to be the most
orthodox Of all Christian scots, and there also
aare the HISTORIANS. the descendants of the
Nprimitve apostolic Christians. Armenia in
asGruth is the cradle of Christianity and of the
ton. There Is Mount Arsrat, and ouriously
It is the frontier boulevard Of Persia, Turkey
and Russia, whose converging frontiers clus-
ter about It's base. The Armenians are not
very interesting people. They, are. too in
tensely practical and money-getting,, They
art, and they manifest but little sympathy
with modern ideas and aspirations. Physi- |
cally, they are solid and substantial, and the
women have remarkable eyes, and, l am
sorry to say, also remarkable noses. The
nose is the prominent characteristic of the
Armenian. In the women 1t occupies the
larger part OF the profile. The Armenian is |
always distinguished by his nose, as the
Oriental jew Is by his long, scraggy, and
sensual neck. The Armenians rival the Jews
cut diamond when Jew and Armenian engage
IN game of barter. Both of them are in
tensely national The jew Is as proud of his
descent, Of his inherited woes and his perse-
cution and of his ancestral glory az the Ar
menian is of his diluvan history and of his