The Russellville Democrat., 1880-11-04
THE DESCENDANTS OF PIRATES.
4 Town Upon Which the Eyes of the
 World Rest.


 The town of Dulcigno. which the Al banions are ordered by the Powers of Europe to give up to the plucky little Montenegro, lies on the Turkish side of Adriatic Sea, at a point oppposite Rome and Naples, midway between each. It is called in that quarter of the earth Dulcheen-you. About 5000 people live there and are the etfete descendants of ever existed. It a very odd old town, as everything in that region is old be- yond our VTestetn meaning of the world. One hundred and sixty-seven years be- fore Christ the city surrendered to the Romans and received exemption from taxation and it's freedom.
 From J,500 to 1900 pirates held full sway, and in 171S a great battle was lost there by the Venetians. In the seven- teenth century Dulcigno became tempo rarily as noted as Jerusalem on account of the unsuccessful assumption of an imposter named Sabbatai, who pro- claimed himself the Messiah. Converts to Sabbatai were numbered by the thousands in every part of Europe. His face was handsome and his conduct austere and becoming to the part he played. He was deeply versed Tn Tal- mud, and able through his fine education and general earnestness of demeanor, to impose upon all who came under his in- fiuence. As his fame increased his re- responsibilities widened, and it became necessary that he should depose the Sultan, the enemy of Christianity.
 He therefore set out from Constanti- nople to confound the Turk with his an- athena. Owing to the moral power which he had acquired. this expedition was not so crazy an affair as might be imagined. However, the Sultan met him with craft, temporized, and finally got him in his power. Under threat of execution the imposter renounced hls claims and became a convert to the Mussulman's faith. He was then ban ished to Duligno, where such is the power of faith, his former deciples re- fused to accept his apostasy In any other light than as 3 divinely inspired means of bringing Islam to his feet. The re- ligion of Sabbatai of Dulcigno continued to thrive until his death, and his tomb became shrine for fanatical pilgrims from Germany and France.
 The harbor of old Dulcigno is one of the oldest on the Adriatic coast, and the best that exists on that harborless coast between the southern point of Dalmatia and the mouth of the Drin. The haven is safeguard frnm the south wind-the fierce sorocco, but is exposed on its northern side. When the pirates were captured in the sixteenth century this harbor was the scene of the conflagra- tion of 500 of their ships, lustration that at one blow forever purged the whole Adratic Sea. In 1878 the Monte negris took Dulcigno by storms, most of the Turkish garrison having previously got away by sea. Austria, however, at the Berlin Congress, objected to its re- tention by Montenegro.
 Austria is chargrined by the present cessioe of Dulcigno to Montenegro. Tire little country of hereditary fighters is an unwelcome neighbor, and it's liability to also want Scutari in the near future dis turbs the Austrians. The Dalmation tongue of land which Austria is com pelled to guard so jealously is at all times open to the torages of the Montenegris, and the stronger they become the great CT the danger to Austria.
 The Montenegris entrenched Tn their mountain Businesses can never be extir- pated by their enemies. Their position is as impregnable as was the retreat of Captain Jack in the lava beds. There is a vitality in their race which would seem to prophecy great possibilities, they ever drift into the Roman role of con quest.