New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-17

and far less ambitions line Of operations ,ye crossed
NE stream at the extreme lcfti spParentithout sny
very serious opposition Omer Pacha lets thu into tho
Dobrudjs 70 ali appearance willingly enough WI Il
that be believes the step to be rather Of waf.wa
sSsn N anober coumn"or S.e.use he thnss v,ess %
| in vani Or because he thinks the Russaes NAV he
more readily dealt with on the new ground hss taken
than on the old Which Of these reasons have Ne,bed
/ with the Turkish commander time alone can how;
but il being clear that the Russians hare chsen
Dobrudjs for their fret station on the Turk.h
10 become Of them there For ten hours ssaDing
above the Sulns quarantine station, there Is scarcely
human abode to be seen except on the rVer oank. Az
the driest the wide swanps scarcely all rd foot
ing for the sportsman who goes after the water fowl Ihe
culs are as much at home there the ne.ghboiag
sea In the winter under strong easteTy Wind there
are scu 81 wrecks when the waters sgrgng over the
lend knocking the trading craft of the Danube TO pieces
among the reeds There rising grounds to encoun
ter for the whole district at as the periodical sub
dence of water can make it Besides the mouths of the
Uarube there countless intermediate and branching
channels and lakes and ponds, all bordered by shaking
boys The whole region within that bend OF the Danube
is 6esola,e ard uninhabtabe the Dead Sea Valley
with cold mss instead Of hot glare no more resources
much wore footing, and liability TO an nhnity OF
diseases IL lie ncoup!ehensble how artillery AN traverse
the soil how the heavy Russian sodery march or
where they rest, ard above ALL where they mean TO
20. II is often said that the DObru is probably much
in The same state that il when Traian built hi
wall tromrvert out there Is to believe that
il has much 6eerioraed The last remains of old villages
hidden among rushes and long grass that the herds
man sDmbles them, signs Of habtati0n once
practicable, but no longer and indeed il il
Tejsn need hardly have troubled himself TO build that
wall the place Rad then been in its present condition In
the summer il admits of the grazing of scattered herds
ard group of ten, or twenty, fifty vuures show
where horse a bullock has met lis death Bat now an
army already ncumbeTed end weakened with fever aeue
ard oho can traverse that space in warike trim il u
conceivable Hence probably the reason why the cross
Ing nearly unresisted The place il anything bu!
siloutfor there is silence wi ere the water fowl
abound and tho herdsmen dogs and in the best weather
of the year, the best Of the sheep and the din of multi
of in
broods in places too deolae for human. habation but
there paved roads in Rousn times to echo to
the tTdmpo horses and men Which way can the Russians
mem 10 turn
If they turn to the left they may soon find dry ground
for the coast rises in the direction # Varna Bat they
pOlt from the which s we hone, by this time az
allevensv guarded by our ships There rcs to be
olecr t Le Russians 70 gain the coast but mdc i0r
em TO lose il they turn to the right there is the Dan
uhe with its thousand ditche and clay bat ~;,,iice
here ard there but nothing thet "@ "a he'll a. f,Icrn,o
wall running ri hit from Rassova to the coast The
rising ground which Inc wall built DO the
only for the existence Of the district at ALL for the
Donute sweeping eastwards az that point would cut
across to the but for those hills. They ris
ng grounds, with hollows between; and along their
slope, 6rd now sinking and rising, runs that green
tnce-as tie old barrier may be called at this day.
Once twelve feet high and faced with stone, it was
real buwsIk and even now, with the stone gone, aud
the ridge broken it might afford some advantage for
d6Cute # 1t had been thOul h necessary. But there
better deftnses. There is sistra ifs-a place pretty
the Illusions seeing mat % oVU ut iher
troops nine months in taking it, when its garrison
cor sisted of only goo Turks in 1879 1t is understood
be in the finest order and whether the Russians
TO pass or 10 invest A. er prospects seem almost
equally raoseeng how their open both from
tie ana the river Ii they forward they have
Sitiia also behind them with Narna and Shumla intron
to ay nothing Of other fine foricaOns the slope OF the
BGlAsn. H. sober truth we cannot make ont the move
mont be consistent with any other idea than that Of
from the extreme right OF the position the Rus
SLAMS have hitherto held in other words that it is step
ratl or of Withdrawal than advance.
Where is the mistake Supposing the ~ to be true
the Russians mad as their master o have the
TuIks been unaccounobly remss about this swampy
eion while setting sufficient guard every where else Or
is the Danube really efeeuuy closed that cannot
get into it If done by filing up the channel the eff
feet will tell in ways the allies will be kept out but
the foundations will follow the marching host At its
best th the channels of the Danube insufficient for
tie carrying away Of the waters Of the 100 rivers that are
Of whole ranges Of mountains in April and May and if
the natural outlets suficiIt 10 Obviate floods
now hob ed up TO keep out boGswhy the Russians
will hardly get back dry slod Whether the mouths
are opener closed do not envy the armies in the
DObruCja their position. Now they are there. the
thing 10 he done is TO make It trap. We shall
soon hear bow quickly the allied forces can arrive. 1t il
nconco able that the Russians make much progress
meantime and to doing mi, chief there TO do
in the swamps but 10 stretch out few poor berdmens
yla corTses forthe Black Sea ages to feed UPON
Above Slistra the Danube well guarded If it has not
been hitherto below Slstria, from confidence ia
its desOGtion that the thing be looked 10 now That
done, and the Russians halted anywhere within the trian
gle formed by the forresses of Slistra Schumla and
NGTne, their sIpaTen fate TO be pushed the cliffs
into the Time will show whether we are wrong and
where but it certainly appears if the Russaos had
chosen out OF all possible traps the into which their
enemies would most wish to drive them. We hope we
ball not find that is done in reliance the unrealness
II naval force. If al force deserved such
practical sneer we should expect to whole nation
ounte ring go and push the horse and his rider and
M the host of the hard Pharaoh day into the Black
Sea.