The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-25
AFFAIRS ABROAD.
CONTINUED UxsAT1sRAcroRY CON.
DIrION OF MATrERs
DuLCIGN0.

The Negotiations Between the Power
aud the Porte still Drag Their SLOW
Length Along.
ROME, October 23.-The DfriEo says;
instructions have been sent the Turkish
Commissioner, such as 1t will be impossi
BILE for Montenegro to accept. The per.
plexity of the Powers increases daily.
The naval demonstration can not now take
place, owing to the lateness Of the season
and the certainty that the Turks would
oppose it even by force, II necessary"
In consequence Of representation Of the
ambassadors OF the Powers the Porte has
again promised the speedy surrender oi
Dulcigno.
The town Of Dulcigno, which the Alba.
mans are ordered by the Powers OF Europe
to give up to plucky little Montenegro,
lies on the Turkish side OF the Adristic
Sea, at point opposite Rome and Naples,
midway between each. Its called in that
quarter Of the earth Dool-cheen.yo. About
5000 people live there, and are the effete
descendants OF the most formidable band
OF pirates that ever existed. Il Is very
old town, as everything in that region Is
old beyond our Western meaning Of the
word. One hundred and sixty.seyen years
before Christ the city surrendered to the
Romans, and received exemption from
taxation and its freedom. From 1900 to
1000 pirates held full sway, and in 1918 q
great battle was lost there by the Vene-
tians. In the seventeenth century Dul.
cigno became temporarily as noted as Je.
rusalem on account OF the successful as
sumptions Of an impostor named Sabbath,
who proclaimed himself the Messiah. Con-
verts to Sabbath were numbered by thou.
sands In every part OF Europe. His face
was handsome, and his conduct austere
and becoming TO the part he played. He
was deeply yersed in the Talmud, and
able, through his fne education and gen.
eral earnestness OF demeanor to impose
upon all who came under Its influence. As
lis fame increased his responsibilities
widened, ard 1t became necessary that he
should depose the Sultan, the. enemy Of
Christianity. He therefore set out for Com
stantinople to confound the Turk with his
anatlema. Owing to the moral power
which he had acquired, this expedition
was not so crazy an affair as might be i'm
agined. However, the Sultan met him
with craft. temporized, and finally got
him in his power. Under threat OF ex.
ecutiou the impostor renounced his claims
and became convert to the Mussulman's
faith. He was then banished to Dulcigno,
where, such Is the power OF faith, his for.
mer disciples refused to accept the fact OF
his apostacy in any other light than az
divinely inspired means OF bringing Islam
10 his feet The religion Of Sabbath Of
Du!cigno continued TO thrive until his
death, and his tomb became o shrine for
fanatical pilgrims from Germany and
France.
The harbor o. old Dulcigno Is one OF the
Oldest on the Adristic, and the best that
exists on that harborless coast between
the southern point OF Dalmatia and the
mouth OF the Drin. The haven Is sure
safeguard from the south wind-the fierce
sirocco, but is exposed on Its northern
side. When the pirates were captured in
the sixteenth century, this harbor was
the scene Of the conhagration Of 500 OF
their ships, 3 lustration that at one blow
forever pureed the whole Adriatic Sea. In
1878 the Montenegrins took Dulcigno by
storm, most OF the Turkish garrison hav.
ing previously got away by sea. Austria
however, at the Berlin Congress, objected
to its retention by Montenegro. Austria
is chsgrined by the present cession Of
Dulcigno to Montenegro. The littlecoun-
try OF hereditary fighters is an unwelcome
neighbor, and its liability to also want
Scutari in the near future disturbs the
AustriaRs. The Dalmatian tongue Of land
which Austria is compelled TO guard SO
jealously is at all times open to the forays
Of the Montenegrins, and the stronger
they becoms, the greater the danger to
Austria.
The Montenegrins, intrenched in their
mountain businesses, can never be extir-
pated by their enemies, Their position is
as impregnable as was the retreat Of Cap
tain Jack in the Lava Beds. There Is q
vitality in their race which would seem to
prophesy great possibilities should they
ever drift into the Roman role Of con.
quest