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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1878)
72 THE WEST SHORE. November, 1878, OI K l oKKK.N ( ORRKSPOKDBHCEi fOiriTlHTIKOrlH, Kept l't, IAL Wl Shm, -Bmi school-boy know. Dial ('aaasUatittopla n dear.i,daI !roBJ ancient By untium W. read that ao early u Mu QfcMt HyKuitium waaaOreak colony; it. nama I Im, 1nl from Hutu lla founder. 11 li rurviiH lact that, although HyMntiutn i. fn rally frMI U h.v. Owl colony, 11" r..l "I now idea with !hl "I lly:rrrt, a Mill ., A.i. Minor. sllmled to kf Valerie. r"l- i in mi Mm . ib i.tur, Iwwit, the ink .ni call. IIimm lluim II mini h.vr ktM ul'j" t to l'r.i xxiii after tin period, ainrai 1M lin tall, ua, bn VI , chap II, Ml H, that tat yiwr 174 II. CM It waa Ukmi from Ilia PtftataM by Uia Uii-nha under th rouim.nl of Anal idea. It irm.M,l thua na hundr.il ami Ihirly.ix year., alion 1'lilllp, of Maerdi.ii. laid align to the i ity, Iml a. ..latl, aa tlir II) uiitiari. aay, by nurru l,..i. Mtmajalturtl and the wladi.m ol Phocion Ik. MMMaW VM Oftalfc fOfVt OtSMMi'i loftd. Iha .li.gr, a fluall ill la aahl i. Lata hrhtad up tit. fMfMaafJttMa1 Bitf fl"ht at..! a. ill aril rVfnb. the JMnltloli ill tbf lie- from the debris of iU shadowy plat, ami f .1 it BOW stands; a great entrepot of the present tun... Indeed. th. ro It, primps, o other exist ing city which offon uch a strange combination ol the extreme ancient anil modern phase. Dm pMHi popaUtioa of Constantinople, or, u.Turk would say, " Istamboul," may ho put ,lwn ,i ,lv.irt Hnn.lHid Of theao, moro than one half are Turks- while the remainder may bo os tt,.d follow.: dreeks, 140,000; Armenians, , I., v.intincs, 20,000; Jew, :I0,0IK); besides notify array of Persians, Arabians, Circassians, EUndoOf, and latterly, English, French, (iermans ami Americans. From the deck of an approach ing ahip, the city presents a beautiful appearance. Constantinople proper, or the old town, is about twelve miles in circumference and encompassed by triple wall pierced by from thirty to forty gates. While this pluf is provorbial for its ran dom lanes and unkept strecta, thanks to the good MM ol Conslantino, some vestiges of Homan en terjinae tad magnificence may yet he seen in Km ItmpllUni the public squares which still remain IntMt "I these there urn MOOUntad seven, imd they may lie ihni;iiiited as follows: At Mitlnn, UoiM "' ii nr.-, or rather, a portion of the old llip- EeiJd Serai, tho o!d Seralio, nearly four thou sand feet ill circumfereni e, is in the heart of the city and contains the office of the Secretary of War, a few barracks, and a military academy, The outer gato of klie new Seralio is called the "Sublime (r) Porte," now a common expression for the power behind the throne. The number of Mttjid, Mosque or " prayer houses " in the city is over live hundred, Hie Muau,ue ol at. aoplua be ing the grandest and most magnificent. Of other sects, thore are twenty-one Greek churches, the English Memorial Church, erected in 1S58, branch houso of tho American Bible Society, and various other places of worship both Protestant and Homnn Catholic. Among the benevolent and charitahlu appliances, there might be enumerated more than a hundred lmartt, or public soup houses whoro thirty thousand people are supplied with food overy day. Two hundred hospitals are sus tained with moro or loss attention to cloanlinest and sanitary principles. Nominally, there are about four hundred primary schools, although but littlo more is taught in thorn than reading, writing and the prayers of the faithful. A few military academies are the only places where anything like a systematic com i study is pursued, Mo- nanf ill I " 'la9bpV"Mkf'5H!!f"ft9 aTPr- "fci' 'ASra'yfaaaTaWWaaf aaWTjv'faTTTTanWI if i fktTaffai IWlP ifal 'fc 'a.'Wl.'laJaaVr,raMT' 9 ffSKmPaUBjtvSSr WTPr'l' afffjlK aflTLl HfMaataTTaJ. "rli art.) tkat IWion w MM It mine .l.alaly mMj loda and tlUriy duontnttl ll M-. tMttatt Tlma, II,. nly waa a.rl . ,. Mktia m tJMM ackaowMfmani, .t.m,. Ua raa , , .J,,,,,, , tMM iltttn aa tb. .i...,.l Udj. ol Unit cih Htaaw.lt. Tmki.l, ... ,i ,(,r (MhM d,y ,B(, ii.. mat! u..l WWttM M ., k .11 Mulu.iaiiMd.il ktatk h t yaw of Ml toU, mi, CwaUtHm. tU tlraa.l.il tm 1L,mu mfmf who ambraraal ' "! -' M.I .., s,,.rI I- .., U.. ni, , , l,,uum. whfh Mtti j.at lalaaa any u .tt t irlanotw situ. Tbaatet. Ml H w rmllaal l ot,.uUa.,ftW. Um - i naUliM. U IliJ. Ik. Tiiik aaa.t lb. laaal. a-li t Muk.ri.mr.l. Ia wid look UnaUn. "-T "T " .W aino. Miltri Mt SHI ut IW. (ill Tfc far . t,n Uwinaii,,. ( c,,,,,!,,,,,. MfttM M WMl nly. a, aill , tmtlv. ONSTAKTIKOPLF, FROM TANAR. podrome; Srrai I.-im, P.l.ce upmre ; Tatiml BMMTj Vro.U,, , , Kurum Tliuri. iin,i Viilds , Kl Mulnn, whero public execu ' I'b"-. nod I Ml,,n. The Sultan's 1 1 ""'b' i. ftalltUj, a minialuro walled " ( Vwmtm, the Horaho, is kMM t bUm , circuuilereiic. and comprises I'"'' " MtaMI ol Mo..,u,.,, dwelling., Uths, a,l car,!,, ph. mint, .raenal, government oflice. an I '.rraauiy huildinga. alM located here. T.e wi.nd, i ful .1,., .. , , , ,. lho ifluhng ,vltniSm t Ntk IfJtaM, it. BUMX, .ml the p...n,g be.uty if hMlt M . upaut., h.v. MM into th, thin air of fiction ..um tb. Innoaure hat been thrown opM t" tat pr,.g MfJO. modern vi.itora. In fart. It. pnn, a,rtmrt.U are quie ifonijr to many g M tMtaMI mIuoii. of other Kuropean ,.!.,. h.l. th. ,or, unoffending women it rWt. t" hide lr the MMjat , . MMtwl ..I Tuik.-h cr..!, Ilrrm, Uohhm mUiiiao;, and vuiily. htramadan literature is foaterod and kept in pre carious existence by thirty or forty public, circu lating libraries. In regard to manufactures, tho whole thing mtf t comprehended in a few words. Beautiful car peto, rich embroideries, gold and silver tapestry, morocco and the heavier kinds of leather, swordf and fine cutlery, drugs nnd medicines, perfumef, and everything appertaining to opium and tobacco smoking. Within a few decadet, Constantinople baa become the center of an extensive banking l usinew U.lween the commercial point of Europe and Asia, lu trade with other parts of tho world may bo understood to some degree when it it statea that more than thirty thousand teatels, all tola, arrive at and depart from the harbor each year. For a Mohammedan city, the press it well rep resented and .uitained. Our meant for obtaining detiuiu knowledgo of the newspaper! in the city are extremely limited, but the following list com pute, it is thought, nearly if not alt the papart