Year: 1875

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to it, but chanced 10 break in the dull OF
the year. when newspapers hardly know what to do for
copy, and was a capital opportunity for giving en-
| poyment to those hangerson OF the press who
must be employed and then and receive retainers
because they may be really wanted time other
and every journal nowadays must know where to put
/ its hand suddenly on


CORRESPONDENT.


II is for this reason and for this only far
be present dscerned that raid Of cattle steal
ers has passed into VIII ch and
cabinets 1t is partly Stock Exchange and partly


AN AUTUMN CONCERN


The Turks dealt with by the Western Powers after
these methods and In some such fashion as
DOGS BADGER,


have taken up the thing grim earnest and the cattle
stealers are everywhere flying before them Unfor
tunately for the Herzegovinan farmers, they are
WRONG WAY


and contrve amid the general confusion, to hurry
such large hocks and herds the frontier that
fat OK is sold in the Croaan markets for $5 So
| Thus much is known to-day of the warke aspects of
the revolt, and no The leaders of the rebellion
if there any besides the newspaper
imaginary leaders, who


so MANY GYPsIEs POLITICS,
have all run away They have disappeared com
petely when brought to book by the Turks that the
1
would have some military importance
RIAL WAR,


was relieved without opposition from the presence OF
the insurgents. That is to say few barelegged lous,
who thought they could steal prohtably at a
distance took to their heels, and the rest that
they had never seen either thievng
making noise. That


TRUE


of the relief OF Trebigne Also the monastery of DuZi
! oft tho haado rooft, riot
OPPOSITION


by the Turks who thus the arms and
ammunition stolen from them fortnight ago All the
troublesome rogues in petticoas who have been max
ing the hulabaloo of late hiding themselves in the
hills close to the Austrian frontier When detachments
of Turks follow them they sneak the border and
turn up staggering with stolen pistols at Ragusa OF
course, they would like to have another turn at their
trade and they will do if the thing can managed
with mpunity under colorado pretext-not other
wise.


In truth all the neghboring nationates object to
divide the sympathes and subscriptions of the emo
tional


FRIENDS


with the cattle dealers of the Herzegovina and the
energetic hostility Of the Hungarians who succeeded
the Poles the enjoyment of the profits be derived
from the spare cash Of humantarans has frustrated all
plans of annexing Bosnia and the Herzegovina Aus
tria, or erecting their provinces into
SEMI SOVEREIGN STATE.


Austria WILL and must stop short at proposals for re-
forms, which Turkey may or may not accept "What
reforms 9' may Mahmoud Pacha very pertnently ask
To which question Count Zichy, the Austrian Inter
nuncio at Constantinople, may will answer "Ahp
After this conversation it probable that the conserva


tive ministry, just raised to power by the Sultan will
upset. and the same farce will begin with their sue
cessors.


None of the reports in circulation respecting the sue
of the rebels worthy of credence Thus it
said few days ago that 900 Servian troops were
marching to the aid Of the insurgents whereas the
is that the effective army of Servia only amounts
1850 men all told, and of them have budged an
inch few hundred Servian boys may possibly desire
to mnge in the ''scrimmage but they too may change
their minds when they have had talk with their
friends, and the hot enthusiasm with which they left
their schools and colleges will be much cooled down
because the Servian ministry, which politically
represents


THE YOUNG sERvIANs,
is much opposed to the 0breunovich dynasty repre-
sented by Prince Milan and MISS Keshko; and they
want to restore the old Georgian Princes" " family
which bundled out of supremacy by the Swineherd
who founded the princey governing The
Importance to be attached to the politics of these bar
barous people may be estimated from the fact that the


sERvrA


neither read write. His name it Stevtscha as
nearly ii be written in Latin characters and
there is Ristich, who do his writing and read
ing for him. In Bosnia the insurrection-f insurrec
ton it be called-has been fairly crushed out
Should Montenegro Servia move the Sultan in his
present angry mood would probably send orders to
occupy servia and Montenegro, of proceeding
which would really give diplomacy some work to do;
for Turkey would entirely subject them begin TO levy
taxes and leave the six Powers to protest and 60
about their business.


1t is not clear that they could take any effective
action in such case. Russia and Germany would con
fine themselves to diplomatic dealings, which would
mean all talk and fighting Austria could not act
in thc teeth of ali the national feeling Hungary
France is paralyzed, and would have no reason
TO act If she free TO do So Eng
land would welcome any policy which would
give better chances to Turkish bondholders Italy is
out of the hunt altogether for any practical purpose
Thus the outlooks of Turkey 80 bad as they
seem, and she has every nducement vigorously
after her lights


The six commercial travellers who to have met
at Mostar to settle the business have had some din
Guilty in assembling. IL is reported that their
efforts in the Cancellation way have failed; but that
cannot be true, because they have yet made any
collective report The notion that the Russian Consul
was taken Ill Tor diplomatic reasons and that the Con-
suar Congress broken up in that way is too alb
surd to be entertained. "only fancy said Russian
boyard to yesterday, with loud laugh ''Prince
Gorschakofr sending instructions to a consul to sham
Sickness in order that he might not be obliged to meet
five other mercantile at out of the way town IN
Turkey" The objection to


MEETING OF coNsUIs


at Mostar is this-they have no one to negotiate
with when they have met They and the presiding
Pacha might pass any resolutions they pleased among
themselves but when they had done So things would
remain just they before. If one we're TO
imagine council of Norman burghers, negotiating to
pacify Sherwood forest during
OF ROBIN HOOD
might get much clearer idea of the present situa
tion in the Herzegovina If one could imagine six
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