The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-05
THE RUSSIANS IN TURKEY.
The Natives Of All Races ON VntriendIy
Terms With the Russians.
IN. Y. Tribune

IN. Y. tribune
CoNsTANTINOPhE. April 5-All eyes are di
rected TO the West, watching for the next turr
of the dice Every hint of that which Is to bt
throws the city into fever to Judge from The
terrible leaps made by the price of gold Ter
or twenty piasters per day up or down Is q
common response to the news from the West
| bringing diSmay to all traders who s,Iffe,
pangs every day until they learn the closing
price Of gold. Although we watch the West.
ern skies for our storms, there is a certain
sense Of insecurity here as we'll Who
! knows but we shall vet find our houses
| in tho line of fire between two armies, for
neither of which we care in the least The
streets are full of Russian officers i'm full uni
! form, and perfectly at home. The Lvadia.
the yacht Of the Grand Duke Nicholas, is es-
tahished In the hafbor, and the Grand Duke
himself finds the Russian Palace in Pera a
most comfortable residence, 50 that although
in theory he lives on the yacht. the hcadullar-
tors of the Russian army have been trans
ferrod practically from San Stefano to Con
stantinope itself, At San Stefano and vicini-
ty are the great camps Of the waiting army
all precautions are used as If in the presence
Of the enemy, not the least of the duties of
the sentries being to report every steamer
seen coming from the Gulf of Nicomedia
On the other hand, there are the great Eng
lish ironclads lying at Niecmedia. They. too.
observe the vigilance common in war time
Every night the gulf i3 dotted with
steam launches on guard, full of men armed
To the teeth and the caution used against
torpedo attacks is az If one was hourly ex-
pected. But this is not all The fleet does
not content itself with a campaign on the
sea- Nicomcda is patrollcd by English ma
lines. This state of affairs raises fearful
visions In the minds of the tmid, Russia has
Constantinople and the European shore of
the Bosphorus in case of war. But Eng
land will send ironcads to keep the Russians
from crossing. while Nicomedia, held hv
English marines, will be the landing place
for the English troops. who will seize
the Asiatic shore of the Bosphor,ls |
Then the war may have to be fought /
ont by artillery duels across our beautiful |
strait Verify. the timid have fair field to
make hair-raising pictures of tho result of |
this terrible Anglo-Russian war. The path |
OF Russia Is not all smooth, even II England |
leaves her alone. and Austria concludes to
say nothing. The Russians are eyerywhere
but everywhere the people are doing great
deal OF thinking about one central point-how
to be rid of Russian influence. Sorvia. Mon
lencgro. Roumania-all owe their freedom TO
The Gar and yet all are fretting more and
more under the burden of the Cars requests.
Bulgaria has no sooner got the prom
he people, than all the leading men are nut
ing their heads together to defeat the Rus
sian candidate and to elect one who shall not
,e amenable to Russian influence Even in
he Dobrudia. newly acquired by Russia the
lat land of the aat-faced Tartars- there Is
more or less ferment. There are in the cities
NJ that region Greeks, Bulgarians. Turks.
Jews and immgrated Russians Every one
VI these various races hate the Russian adj
and Russian officials only less
han they hate each other.