The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-05-31

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see'o' % . triangle formed b the shocr
q AasDosa, ~ Golden Han ~ -
osd battered and almose ruinea v.l1
wnsch extends acsoos tho noank .ho.,I
: "af miles between thsss va1ess, ~ b.
no'd the third postion q the city vhiaa
/, y called 6tamboul and = built a ~
slte q tho ancient Bysantium vhi.a
w. founded about seven hundn.d -.
oe1o'e the Christian en, and like IL
seeeF Rome ut proudly o. it, Gwen
ni'b~ These begin 1t seraglio point And
r'se SUCCESSFULLY towards the wall On th@
we"e 1ts not strange that such an Inn
poftant position. commanding the com.
merce Of the Black Sea, should b
strongly contested tor. BY the ancient !.
; wen - modern nations, with tho rest
OF the 0r~cian world, It fell into The
nands OF Rome before the Christian o.,
and to this place, Constantine in the
fourth century, trAnsferrea tho eat Of
ms empire from the banks OF the Tiber
and from him the city derives its name.
II wasaftt rwardrecoveFed by the Greeks,
oesetged In turn by the Pesians, Arabs.
Russ1ans. Latin cru~adess and the Turks
and finally fell in 1853 before the sword
OF Mahamoud sec,nd, the conquerer,
and has since continued 70 Be the seat Of
the supreme, mporal and spiritual
power Of the house Of Osman.
The hotels here are lev and an
principally in the hands Of Italians and
are not Of the first order. Guides,
which regard nuisance elsewhere in
Europe, are quite necessary here, unless
one has knowledge Of the Tuvkish Ian
guage, and even then It IL better to take
one. - the different objects Of interest.
particularly in STEAMBOAT. are difficult to
find, 90 irregular and narrow and
crooked are the streets. The pay Of
drsgoman Is about six francs per day,
but In addition t, this they will manage
to speculate little In making payments
for you In strange money, whose value
huctuates .rom day to day ~ it becomes
scarce or plenty, and they geta commits
sion on everything the visitor may pur-
chase. They are generally Greeks or
Jews, and claim to speak several Ian
guaged. found in those employed. by
me while in the Orient = very meagre
acquaintance with the Eng ish,
Tor the most part confined to the names
Of places and objects, but they can con-
verse quite readily in French The
same rule applies to the walters and the
officers Of the railways and vessels, in
deed to merchants and business men Of
all nations here, except the Turks, who
rarely know anything Of the foreign
languages. A knowledge Of the French
il therefore oflnicalculable advantage %
It will enable the traveller to converse
with the people, by which I mean the
Franks, whom he will find polite and
communicative and ready to impart IN
formation.
One would not suppose, but It IL new
ertheless true, that Of the million people
that compose the population Of Con-
stantinople less than one-half are Turks.
The majority called Franks consists Of
Armenians, Greeks, for the most part,
and the remainder h made up Of Jews,
Circassians, Arabs, Egyptians and =
sprinkling from Ill the nations Of the
earth. The principal commerce b In
the hands Of the Armenians, Greeks
and Jews, Of which the former are the
richest and most clever. The Jews are
nearly all Spanish. The Ottoman Inn
perial Bank, the only one Of import
ance in the Orient, and which has
branches in Smyrna and in Egypt, II
controlled by English capital. The
Turkish Government IL now indebt d to
this concern to the extent Of fifty mil
lions. These advances are made on
bonds and railway and other shares In
corporations owned by the government
aud ut rates that would invoke . gentle
blush to the visage Of Montana bank
or. In the settlement with Russia It
was stipulated that the revenues OF the
government, . portion Of which snou'o
be applied to the payment Of the inden''
nity. should be received by this bank
Dissatisfied with the slow liqutdat on o.
that debt and suspeoting an undue cor
di.lity between the hank and the Porte,
Russia is now claiming the privilege o.
placing a comptroller in that concern e
INSECT its operations. This claim II
nrotested, and there are serious threats
+ ia rumored, Of the withdrawal Of the
Russian EnlbassadOr.
The Sultan lives in y Kiosk, or smal
ser,xlio, on the brow Of hill wn'cn
slopes back from the Bosphorns, SOME
t,;o miles out Of the city. He neve'
GOES out in public or Is visible at any
time except on Friday, when II moo" -
~oos down horseback half m'I'
threuah . walled garden to htt''
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