The Nevada journal., 1854-01-06

are upon the contest now raging between these
two powers. 1t is not mere contest for a
few provinces-it is not for that pregnant cause
of quarrel, commercial jealouses, but it is the
effort of new and growing empire to subvert
an old and declining one, and thus to extend
its domain, and enlarge its aggressive powers.
Strange to say, the Turk-once name of ha-
tired and fear to Christendom- now the
concentrated sympathies and hopes of the mas
ses of Europe, and its more enlightened gov
ernments, on its side, while Christian Russia
is hated and feared. Turkey represents the
higher ideas of liberty and conscience Of the
age The reigning sultan has extended to all
classes of his subjects equality of rights, and
introduced into his government many Of the
maxims and principles of free nations. We
believe also that the results of this war will
prove that Turkey has rejuvenated that iber-
al measures have not crushed the military spir-
it of its people, while they have given it mo-
tives that seldom fail of vndication. IS
Russia, on the contrary, is the most unmiti-
gated dsspotism now existing in the world. Its
laws, the mere volitions of the Autocrat, are as
sanguinary, its punishments as barbarous, its
lower classes as degraded, as those of any peo
pie history unfolds to US. In the midst of this
nineteenth century collosal power is erecting
itself, on the foundations laid in the last, that
creates ignorance and servitude wherever its
shadow falls, and crushes out the political and
social existence of all within its influence.
With these parallels clearly before the world,
illustrated by the antecedents of both empires,
Russia and Turkey have engaged in war. Rus
sia is the invader, on most hollow pretences.-
The Sultan, after waiting with dignifed patience
for the operations of mediating powers, at last
declared war. Up to the last advices only sew
eral skirmishes had occurred in which the Sui
tan's forces were gamers. .......
The news by the Sierra Nevada Of the sue
cess Of the Turks in pitched battle at Often
itza, on the Wallachian side of the Danube, is
to us peculiarly gratifying. This success is i'm
portant to Turkey more as giving the prestige
of victory than for material results. 1t will
animate the Turks still more, and will tend to
keep neutral those powers that are disposed
through fear of Russia to side with that power.
It is little loss to Russia that the cannon has
devoured some three thousand Of her soldiers,
but her resources are more in men than in
money, and an abortive campaign is more felt
on her treasury than in her conscriptions. The
following are the particulars of the battle of
Oltenitza:
On the I'd and Sd instants, the Russian gen.
eral Pauloff endeavored in vain to prevent the
Turks from establishing themselves in advance
of Oltenitza, on the Waachian side of the Dan
ube. The Ottomans maintained their positions
and caused the Russians loss of six hundred
men, among whom are eighteen officers. The
position of OltenitZa. situated about thirty
eight miles from Bucharest, which is the basis
of their operations in Wallachia, appeared so
important to Russian generals, that they resol-
we'd to make fresh effort to dislodge the Turks
from it. The attack was recommended on the
4th, and continued through part Of the 5th.
The Russians have had twelve hundred killed
or wounded, and it is stated as certain that the
Ottoman chasseurs, armed with the Vincennes
carbines, made terrible havoc in the ranks of
the officers. Almost all the commanders of
forces have fallen. We will admit that we have
no details of the consequences of the second en-
gagement but from the summons made to
Prince Gortschakoff, by Omer Pasha, to deliv
er up all the fortified places into the hands of
the Turks, and to evacuate the Principalities
as speedily as possible, there is reason to infer
that the troops of the Sultan have assumed a
real attitude of superiority"
A dispatch from Vienna, Nov. l4th, says
prince Gortschakoff set out on the 9Th inst.
for Otenitza, to chastize the Turks, having
with him $4,000 troops, mostly infantry. On
: the II tn he came up with the Turks, who had
come out to meet him. Severe fighting ensued,
and the Russians were obliged to retreat q Sc,
cond time in disorder on Bucharest, having
now lost in four attacks on Oltenitza not less
than 5000 men. This is authentic. On the
9th, the Turks were driven from the island op-
posite Guirgevo. Re-inforcements came to their
aid and they Immediately retook it, and now
hold it. Omer Pasha is moving on Galatz. -
GENERAL Nov vEABSrs.--A Paris correspon-
, dent thus sums up the general movements OF
all parties, presuming all the reports to be true:
The Turks have beaten the Russians in Asia
The Turkish left wing in Europe has beaten
the Russian right comprising their principal
: force while the Turkish centre has whipped
3 nine thousand Russians at Turtukai, and are
:, now pressing in on Bucharest; and both the
/ Gar and Sultan ref use any further negotiations
n Admirals Dundas and Hamelon are at Constan
tinople, and the fleets are anchored in the Bos
s phorus. There is rumor that Bucharest has
been stormed This is perhaps premature
The son of Aras Pacha is named Minister o.
l. War, and fresh levies are raising in Egypt The
: pay of the Turkish army is disbursed regularly
6 The Russian force defeated and driven back te
e Bucharest, was the main body of the Russians
under General Danenberg, and thirty thousand
q to forty thousand strong. The Austrians have
forty thousand men spread along their frontier
The French and English have feet in the sea
a of Marmora. The Russians have about thirty
8 heavy ships on the Black sea- The Turks have
feet of about equal strength, and under the
command of an Englishman, admiral Hade,
T. l.