The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
FOREIGN NOTES.

FOREIGN NOTES.
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The so-tauch-taiked-oi Aitiest oi Aifhanistah, All
dnrrahinan by Matte, Ia man OF about forty-nv
Tears OF age. He was some twenty -four years oil
when he began his deadly contest with his uncle
Shore All, for the throne of Cabul. lie fought how
ever, not for himself but in the interest Of HIS father
A terrible civil war lasted for over six years. A
last in 1869, he was forced TO fly for his life TO Rus
sian Tursestan, and was there taken care OF by tn
government OF the car ioI some Twelve tests. ni
rsSessliS.s, When tthe English inv invaded AfgSans
| Ian and caused Shere All to ny, his son Yakool
came into power, but was after four months dcpose
| and inerned In India, consequent upon the murde
OF Cavaguari and the British mission. The sub
| sequent British interregnum at Cabu lasted unit
| over the government to the present Ameer.
The last invasion Of Afghaulstan cost the Engllsl
,ioNOoNoOo and trcte Is Nd tslilnE What fet inter
teiente sth the DouRddres OF that coHh,ry wcos
Net ndN. II Russia had dhy hard cash to spare shl
could probably buy every inch of Afghan territor,
and every soul living upon 1t, including the Amee
himself, for onetenth of that amount. The Egyp
ian business has cost Great Britain In rough figures
With his usual cynicsm. ali N This is done for ,Ne ben
ent of the jewish race. The fight in Egypt wa,
orlginated by the desire Of protecting the rnancla
Afghans whom Eneand defends now are supposed
70 be Nothing bnt The descendants of the Te Tribes
wN e NJ ss q e Anan stCsS ~ VII be
,eSNlsn e,aiam,s; "WhS,Sytr ,htaltd.. esglaih,
being undertaken a season whet the clma ait itself
| will destroy II? a ifote furroselbss, aimless and
Sps BeDr SrS nSss Yss Ala Sf n,tn e l
lying, because ilnlsiers viii not acknowledge thai
| they made mistake
NJ Armlnus Fafibery, of the university OF Pesth
Hungary, one OF the greatest lifting authorities OF
Central Asian Questions, has published dn drticle II
| which he says "Whatever Russian dplomatists
| and Continental newspaper writer's paid By Russia
! may say, 1t is an undonbtcd fact that Russia's
present position in Central Asia FORMS but tempo.
rary, dearly-bought haltingpace on the way south.
ward. 1t has been costing her from 100000 to
| 1o000,000 roubes annually. English statesmen are
very credulous. and so easily ensnared by the Rus
irritation and anxiety OF the British nation Each
naT sSay ,hsp ynso to M Eng b{ d.
est In Sinking them, is Inevitable. In a few
years Russia viii peneltatc into The proximity oi
s sd osus MEANS o Raa rWa TG
through Mett She Will In time raise out OF the Tiir-
CONAN Bopnlation military force which viii be able
70 vie with the renowned native regiments OF India V
NJ. Nambery adds that he has obtained private intel;
ligence that already 5000 TrrGomat horsemeii,
armed with European rifles and drilled in the Rs.
sian manner ready for invasion, under the com.
mand OF Col. Lopatinsky. Finally, he declares that
the Russians, by gaining time, VIII possibly succeed
In winning over the Ameer OF Afghanisan, to whom
they VIII ofer heavier subsidies than those which
the English pay.
Speaking of recent occurrences in Central America
and on tile Isthnius, the London TIMES SAYS "The
United States are not concerted with nsurrec,iots
or civil wars Ii Central America; but they have
guaranteed by treaty free and uninterrupted transit
across the Isthrus. For the present this s at an
end since, Notwithstanding the defeat OF the insur.
gents with great loss at Aspinwall, thef maraudlng
bands are loong the piacesalo the line, constantly
cutting the telegraph wires. Through the suplne.
ness or conDvance of the Colombian authorities II
seems that the task of restoring order and guarding
the communications will devove wholly upon the
United States. They now have at Aspinwall 1--WE
ships Of war, carrying forly-eieht guns, together
with force l,2oo mep, 10 which additions are still
is probably not large, hut, such as 1t Is as matter
OF course IS rendering all the assistapce in its
the American squadron, has Instructions to confne
hmselt TO the work of restoring free transit across
na s Smus Mhan ba ana pTo,sSGng American citizens
selves able to maintain order, his work comes to an
end; Il ,. cannot, however, be supposed that the
RACES permitted by the weakness or BAD faith of the
Colombian governmtnt, TIE Importance OF the
sthmns n @ a. as trade route ncteasing every day and
dislocation of all commercial interests as has lust
taken place can fail to call forth measures of an
e1ecual kind to prevent Its recurrence. Colombia
VIII be called upon to give substantial guarantees
Tor the maintenance of security, and IL they are not
forthcoming the United States Government will no,
shrink from providing them for Itself The republics
OF Central and South America will be permitted to
brawl bray as they please among themselves, but thes
will not be allowed either to interrupt the transit
across the Isthmus of Panama, or to endanger the
route OF the Nicaragua Canan
Vanity Far, Mr.. Bowess Tory organ, is visor
Gus hater of Russia. 1t says: "The war with Rus.
sia If undertaken in earnest will be like the war
tween Rome and Carthage. say If undertaken h,
earneSt for that is the real point of the whole thing
VIII our government go to war meaning to make
the war an earnest one: There has been much talk
two nations, each OF which is promoting civilization
In its own sphere. agree to limit their spheres OF
tion, etc. do not know that ever heard anything
more loathsome than this Russia the promoter OF
civilizaon Russia working the same Kind of end
In Central Asia that England has wrought and IL
working in Southern Asia There has not arisen
power for $500 years, in those regions, that has
been the enemy of the whole human race except
Russia. All the accounts that we have of the old
Monarch.es OF Babylon and Assyria are reproduced
In this. Russians destroy and destroy and do moth
ing else. Under other conquering and even desolat-
ing powers something grew up and had vitality. The
old Asiatic Monarches made deserts and ruins The
modern one, the Turkish, has been the contrary
shelter under which those nations that it subdued
nave all, or nearly all OF them, continued TO exist
and been enabled TO arise. Russia alone is purely
destructiye and absorbs into its death in life
its new subjects. The Russian Empire IL the
Kingdom of Hell. Against this hidlous, anti-Chris-
tain, anti-Inoral power, the enemy Of the human
race-the Russian Empire-we are, 1t Is said going
to make war. War Is not to be undertaken lightly,
unless ruin is courted. We should enter upon It, not
OF choice, but because we must. We should Set be-
fore ourselves not the gaining of certain things, but
the vindication Of certain truths Russia has broken
faith In the occupation Of territory which she had
consented to leave to adjudication. Well, here is a
certain ground to go upon. But If we once condone
the theft we put ourselves out of court when we
think of protesting against it morally, at an after
II must not be confined to the point under debate
If man sins with his hands he sins with his whole
body War against Rassia should be in ASIA In the
Baltic Sea, IN the White Sea, In the Pacific Sea,
everywhere. Wherever she has enemies they should
be stirred up: Turkey, 30 whom we ought to re-
Poland, Sweden, the robbed and enslavei Iartars'
of Merv, in all quarters we should solicit and sub
scribe opponents of the Kingdom OF HE'LL.
The journal des Debats, referring to the progress
of Russian colonization in Central Asia since their
first arrival In Tutkestan thirty years ago, remarks
"As all the land best adapted for cultivation is al
the foot Of he mountains, the result is That the Rus
sian colonies are settled along the principal noun
tain chains. The government encourages this colo
nizaon by granting to the settlers certain quaint ity
of land without payment, upon condition that they
at once put 1t into cultivation Afler ten years.
cupaton the settler becomes the owner of the land
but should he leave 1t before It reverts to the gov
ernment. Numerous colonies have been founded
uOt OuIy III tue OF hlfRnZ tribes,
but In that part of the country inhabited by the
Tadiiks and Uzbegs, who have been sedentary and
civilized for centuries Thus 1t is that in the prov
ince of Syr-Daria there Is a series OF settlements
which help to consolidate the strength of Russia
In that REGION the most important heing Tashkend,
which has more than $4,000 Russian Inhabitants.
These are nearly all merchants, domestic servants,
and government officials; while just outside is the
village of Nikolaewka, where Gen. Tchernaieff won
victory twenty years ago, which has become
nourishng agricultural settlement, upwards Of 900
acres of barren heath having been transformed Into
n0urlshing farms occupied by 800 Russian peasants.
The result OF an Inspection made by competent Offi-
cals was that the province OF syr-Daria was found
to comprise 320 900 acres OF good land not cultivated
by the natives and $500 Russian peasant families
have now been settled upon IT, there being seven
other settlements besides Nikoaewka, some of the
settlers having from tue neghborhood Of Kuldja
rather than become subject to the rule OF China. In
the province Of the Seven Rivers (semretche,) the
colonization OF which by Russia dates from 1854, the
larger, and the settlers over 10000 among them
being several thousand Cossacks. In the valley of
Zerafchan, where the native population Is very
dense, the Russians have not been able to establish
many settlements, though they number 1000 at
samarcand, while there Is a floating population OF
several thousand In the delta of the Oxus there
are several colonies OF Cossacks from the UTal who
were exed for having reyolted against the govern
ment, and who now gain living by gardening and
fishing. In the Transcaspian deserts there s an i'm.
pofiant Russian colony at Askabad, and several
ondary ones at Mikhailovsk, kizyl-Arva, and Merv,
among the settlers being many Armenians and Mos
cow traders.
Vienna Neua I,aJs pFssss thinka "a npareful