The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-03-14
The New Map of Europe.

1t was inevitable that the allies of
Russia should profit by her victory, and
in some instances at least-peOple will
not regret that this is so. Servia will
extend her borders to the south and
southwest into Bosnia and Old Servia,
taking Sienitza, Now Bazaar, and Wran-
ia and Nisch, and obtain her independ-
ence. The Serbs in the day of Stephen
Dushan might have founded virile and
enduring empire on the ruins OF the
Byzantine Power, but, with the defeat
of King Lascaris at KOssOva, the down
fall of Servia and the ascendency of the
Osmanlis were assured. In modern
times the Serbs have shown courage,
coupled with cruelty, in the Insured
tions led by Kara George and Milosch
Oberenovitch, but during the late war
their conduct has been far from heroic.
Only Russian gold brought them into
the field, and only Russian leaders,
prodigal of their own lives, could keep
them there; and, after being soundly
thrashed by the Turks in 1876, the sub
iects of Prince Milan played during the
campaign of 1877 almost as cOntempti-
BILE and cowardly part as did those of
King George of Greece, for not till the
Sultan's power was crushed beyond per-
adventure did their often &c modified
army venture over the frontier. There
may be the germs of national greatness
in the Servian race, but their turbulence
and failure thus far to display any re-
markable talent for sef-gOvernment for
bid us to entertain any very sanguine
hopes that the new Kingdom will take
prominent part in the history and pol
itics of Eastern Europe.
1t is different with Roumania. This
Principally cast in her lot with the Gar
at the outset, and proved staunch and
valuable ally. In the assaults upon
Plevna the descendants of the colOnists
whom Trajan planted nearly l 800 years
ago, in the pleasant land whence by fire,
steel, and poison he had driven the Da-
clans, were no less headlOng and tena.
cious than the picked soldiers of Skobe-
leff's forces. The ROumanians have re-
tanned the organizing capacity of their
Latin ancestors, and proved themselves
capable of submitting peacefully to
good Government as well as peaceably
Overturning bad one. Their railroad
system is well advanced. A Western
Prince occupies the throne. The coun-
try is one Of great natural wealth, and
it will be singular, indeed, if the new
Kingdom does not in the future make
respectable showing in the Orient. 1t
may be an important factor in future
calculations, being Latin nation with
Teutonic sovereign, and having COM
mercial relations of Importance with
England, should its people treasure up
against Russia their undoubted griev-
ance concerning the proposed forced
exchange of Bessarabia for the less de- /
sirable Dobrudscha.
Little Montenegro-the "black Tcher- F..
nagOra" to which TennysOn last year
addressed a fine sOnnet-will obtain
from the Porte formal admission of
that independence which in reality she
has maintained during the five centu /
ries of Turkish dominion in Europe. .
Waves OF Ottoman invasion have at .
times swept over the Black Mountain,
and so recently as 1852 (wheu, on the .
death of Peter Petrovic, the last of the .
line of Vladikas, or Prince-BishopS, .
founded in 1867 by Petrovic Njegos,
Danilo |. abandoned the spiritual func-
tions 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
wbelmed and blOtted out. But never
has Montenegro given ground, and
Turkey was embrOiled in war,
or harassed by Instruction, or the
had to engage her single
handed, they have never shrunk back
from fighting, as indeed betitted peO-
pie where every man is warrior and
the right of suffrage depends upon the
bearing of arms. With a gain of terri
tory towards Podgoritza and Antivari
on the south and Nicsic on the north,
she will doubtless acquire a seaport and
that Accommodation 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, new and powerful semi-iude-
pendent principally 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 wears ago. The western boundary
Of the new Principality Of Bulgaria, as
lefined in the treaty, follows the Ser
rian frontier, thence past Mltroy1tza
md Wrania to the headwaters of the
Harasu, following its course to its mouth
,t ContesSa or Rendina Gulf on the
Archipelago. Thence the line sweeps
llong the coast to Yenidge, half way be-
ween Kawala and Dedeagh, whence it 1
strikes abruptly northeast to Tchirmen,
| short distance northwest of AdrianO-
de, past which latter city it sweeps due
vest to Hekim Tabiassi, a small port on !
he Black Sea, about seventy miles
forth of Constantinople in a direct line. ,
The. east line stretches along the Black :
sea to Mangalia, and from this point /
uns northwest to RassOva on the Dan
he, thus cutting off the DobrudScha,
Which is given to Russia, and which the
after proposes to exchange with Bou- !
mania for the Bessarabian strip. The Z
Danube from RassOva to WidJiin forms !
he north boundary. All that is left of I
turkey in Europe is the peninsula whose
ase is the line drawn from Hekim Ia
iassi to Yenidge. The province will {
be composed of an eastern {
ilayet, with the Capital at TirnOva, the
Id Bulgarian Capital, aud a western,
nth the Capital at Sofia. L.
According to the armistice bases, a
'rince i tn ne elected for this new trih. .