The Russian VolunteerSteamer Voronish, from Odessa to Singapore and thence direct to Nagasaki, left that port on the 4th inst. for Vladivostock. She had a valuable cargo of 5,000 tons of railway materials. General Tchetchagoff, and a lange staff of officers and their families were passengers she is taking also a fine body of 850 Kuban Cossacks to form a guard for the Manchurian railway, where the banditti have been giving great troubletotheconstructors. we been engaged for years similar duty in protecting the trans-Caspian railways against the Tekkes and othernomads. They are all mountaineers from different tru in the Caucasus and are men of splendid physique, having been selected out of a large number of volunteers from the railway troops in the trans-Caspian region. They are very well found in everything, and have besides a pay of a rouble a day; and many have their families with them. Some are Cherkesses and ygrelians and there are afew Grusians and Lesghians. For years these hardy mountaineers maintained a desperate struggle for independence; it was not till the capture of Schamyl, " the prophet warrior of the Caucasus," in 1859 that the subjugation of the Caucasus was
still offered a stubborn resistance, and it thought to be complete; but the Cherkesses was only in 1864 that Russian authority was extended over the whole region; and then rather than submit it is said that half a million of this tribe trekked into Turkey. Tt is from these emigrants settled in Turkey that the Bashi Bazouks are mostly recruited. It speaks volumes for the skill of Russian rule that it can successfully chang in a few years such implacable foes into faithful soldiers. They are particularly fine riders and they will be mounted from the large mobs of wild Siberian horses in the trans-Baikal, and any bandits that may happen to meet them will be Rength of the railways projected under promptly attended to. When the great
Russian influence in and about China is compared with the extent of those in trans-Caspia it may be taken for granted that this force is not the last one of its kind to find its way to the plains of Manchuria.
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