Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-01-31

after an agitation which shook all Eu
rope TO its center an arrangement was
made which postponed tn fate OF the
Ottoman Empire. In 1854 the Crimean
war broke out, and Russia besieged, but
could not take, Silistria.
Sofia, that city in which Lady Mary
Wortley Montague In 17l7 paid her
notorious visit to the Turkish ladies
in the famous hot baths, is an extreme
ly beautiful city, aud without walls,
which accounts for its having been 30
easily entered during the past ten days
by the advance guard OF the Russians.
Between Sofia and Philippopolis, the
next important city on the route, IL q
narrow pass in the Balkans, where are
the ruins of an ancient gate of massive
stone built by the Emperor Trajan for
the purpose. it is supposed, of closing
the pass against bsrbarians; and at the
same place. In 1905, many followers Of
Bald win, Earl of Flanders, were cut to
pieces by the ss wage King of Bulgaria
after he had razed PhilippopOlis and
taken prisoner their lord and master.
Adrianople, which Of course, was
named after the Emperor Adrian, was
place OF importance, with Greek
name, even before his time. It's situa'
ton is ine, and the country round it
very fertile and beautiful. 1t is city
Of about 10000 inhabitants, though
frequently more crowded, and the
walls are said to be about eight miles
round. II stands upon the River
Martha (the ancient Hebrus), over
which il has two beautiful bridges.
The Martha In winter Is navigable to
its mouth in the Archipelago, near the
DardanelIes, but in SUM mer it dries up,
ami AdriaDople becomes notoriOusly
unhealthy. 1t has always been
place OF great importance. 1t was in
possession Of the Sultans hundred
years before they took Constantinople,
and during the seventeenth and eigh'
teenth centuries it was their favOrite
residence.
Numbers of Jews have always lived
there, protected aud privileged In some
respects even more than the Turks
and the two great bazaars
OF the place are extremely beautiful. |
Ia the city Is the great |
Mosque Of Selim 1. Its first court hasI
four gates OF great beauty, aHd its Sec
Ond thres. Both courts are surrounded
with cloisters, with finely polished col
umns of many colored marbles; the
whole pavement is OF polished white
and in the midst Of each court |
ls an ever. flowing fountain, and before
the great gate is portico with most
superb columns OF green marble.
Adrianople 10 about one hundred and
twenty miles from Constantinople.
The high road was an excellent one In |
ancient times, and the two cities are
now connected by rsilroad-badlyl
1t is to be feared, since ter
rible accident few days since occurred
to train containing fugitive women
aud children. Since the breaking out |
Of the war Adrianople has been the
headquarters Of the foreign relief COM
hospital workers and others
who follow In the steps OF our own
Commission. Here Lady
carries on her noble lsbors,
and here English surgeons are In charged
Of wounded men, brought down upon
rude bullock wagons from the seat Of
war. The place for months past has
been full Of women and children, who
have been gathered into clean but
poor houses, each mother receiving
1ne, two or three piastres Give, ten or
fifteen eents) a day, according to the
number Of her children. The two Ro-
nan Catholic converts of the Mission
Iires A Apostoliqes are doing their parts
In the work of mercy, and /
here is one Turkish lady named Gu
mana, resident of the place who did
lot leave the city In the panic, but re-
NAMED to take care Of her poor coun-
rywomen. An witness, whose
etter has been published in the Pail
Mall Gazette, says: CAT the station il
) always busy; but it is as often the
of files of bullock wagons for
he wounded as aught else, diversified
low and then by the stOppage of troops
,oing up to the front. Visits to the
tatiOn are always full of interest. FIRE.
luently special trains arrive in the
middle of the night, full Of wounded;f
hese are taken out, laid III wooden
heds erected for the purpose, whereI
English surgeons dress wounds as
Iuickly as possible, although some
lines eight or ten hours work; then,
lean and fed, the injured men remouut
he train and 60 on to ConstantinOple.
The thing to see is when, as has sever !
/ times occurred, q train of wounded
,oing down meets q train of soldiers
.oing up. No one would say after that
hat the Turks did not know how to
beer. Up jumps every man that can
ise upon his legs; every arm that can
move is waved, and every throat that
an utter a sound joins in the cheer with =
yell of welcome. They are not neatly
Iressed; ;they are often somewhat dirty;
hey are of all sizes, and they do not
ook exquisitely disciplined; but their
agerness and gladnees make up for c
reat deal, and their patient endurance
J beyond all praise" This passage
orcibly reminds US of the experienced \
f our own brave ladies attached to the 4
anitary Commission Ia our late sad
var, when they lived on board the
wilson Small in the Pamunkey, re-
Giving and assisting wounded SOL
iers OF both sides as they were brought
rom the battle-fields round Richmond
o be forwarded on hospital transports,
he milder cases to New York and the
more desperate to Yorktown.-Beit-
American.