New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-24

cloud,, the smiling daughters of old Ocean, wing
Ing their way up the Shy on the soft rind viii throw
their Heecy mantle around tho.e frosning broFs
az sirlish innocence will sometimes thrOE Vail
over the fare Of bleeding shame strlcden age
The terrain over which was passing I'D been
cOpsecraied TO bloody Nsrs BY strange fatality
the CHILDREN Of the Occiden. and rte Orient have
net upon the plains Of Eastern Eurspe to hglt
the decisive battles of the world What leg,ons
have trod this roll in the ebb aLd flow vi conquest
zone upsuibe aae scarce rolled away,
ALotb,r flow. in q7ieh sa'oes nm
After the fall of Silisiria ard the captulstion Of
Warm. in 1879, the Russian General. Dtbitsch
cspce, ed the bold plan of lea ing he Grand vizer
in the intrencted camp Of shuIlls, and by cross
inc the Balkans strike blow At the very heart OF
the Ottoman Empire. This hardy achievement
which gave him the name Of Zabalkan-ki, (cr,ssee
OF the Balkans,) was executed, and Carried dismay
among the Ott1Dsns The Russian General pro
cur, d favorable treaty Of peaee at Adfiioople,
although his serviceable force did not amount 70
more than Il, 600 men, an army which the Turks
would have despised bad they known Its real
strength About 1900 years before, Darius, III
his memorable expedition against the Scyth1us,
bad also crossed the Balkans, but Ia aO opposite
direction He passed the Danube. as he had al
ready the Thrscian BOsph0rus On fridge OF boats
but bis immense army soon melted away IN me
sgsups of Modayis, beneath clouds o. Scythian
arrows. Forced 10 retreat, he in time overran
Thrace and MacedOnis-tJ have his hosts shlvered
in battle by the Creeks on the plain of Marathon
There are many sOuvebirs OF the poet Ovid IN
Eastern Europe The Hungarian points proudly
to bis suppOsed tomb at SzOmbathey. The Wal
lacbian peasant, able at this day To comprehend
the language Of OVID conducts the traveller 10 his
so.caled prison in the valley Of Temes, which, &C
cordDg to the tradition of the country, the Roman
soldiers FASTENED to Writ when Trsjan led them
into Dscia. Even Won Hammer, the prince OF
CrentaDi.ts, is unable 10 locate with certainty
Torua the place OF tie posts exile and death 1t
was probably, however, on the Euxine ear Varaa.
know nothing more sad than Oyids Tristid,
written in this distant region aud fairly perfumed
with fearful memories OF his native land. gifted
son Of Italy, enriched with the best culture OF
classic Athens, ovid was the sweetest and most
subtitle of that tunefu throng which Augustus as
sfmbed at his Court, nominaily to enjoy the I'm
peria patronage but in reality TO clothe witch the
most seductive cOloring the despOtism he was In
PRODUCING at Rome. de became frivolous aud Ii
eentiOus, and wishii & TO reduce to system the
"Art of Love" published poem under that title
The immortality OF this work was the 0sten,ible
cause of bis baDishmeIt TO Thrace, but as the al
eustan sge was not remarkable for virtue in high
places, the Roman Emperor doubtless had reasons
for babishiDg the author Of the Art OF Love-
which have never been made known The plain
tive sopes of Ovid moved world to tears, but
could soften neither the infexible Augustus nor
bis successor TIberius the murderer of German
Gus. He spent the last fifteen years of his life on
the inhOspitable shore of the PODtus Euxinus
ever sgbiDg for the soft skies of Italy, for that
Rome whO.e glory was at the same time the sub
iect and the inspiration of his verses Let those
who would deity ty rants by prOstitutng genns TO
their praise, apd are willing 10 kiss the hand that
bas smittep hem to the dust, remember the fate
of PUblius Ovidus.
expected to reach Varna by night, but for the
first time amODg the Turks was sgreeably disap-
pointed. On ascending the crest of an elevated
ridge early in the afternoon beheld all at once the
Black Sea bounding the eastern borizOn-Narna
stretch; out be map at my feet and IT'S bar Dor
filed with vessels belonging TO the allied fleets.
Thaiono M0i0nd, cried, after having ,rayersed
Europe, and doubt not that was as much de-
lighted to brhold the Euxine as the ten thousand
under XenophOn were to look upon its GLAD waters
atier their retreat from the Euphrates. The
point IRON which began to descend was at least
300 feet above the level of the sea. Yarns ap-
peartd TO be- not more than ole mile distant, but
the ARABIA required two long hours to reach the
city gate. At my right was the little lSver Derna,
along which the English and French encamped
last season. Beyond this stream and the twin
lakes through which it runs, was the high ridge
which terminates 10 the promontory OF Jalata
The Emperor Nicholas encamped upon the latter
in 1875 but il is now dotted with the Write tents
Of a regiment OF the NiZam.
There are several large swamps in the immedi-
ate vicinity of Nsrna, and more fatal place could
not lave been selected tor the rendezvous of the
allied troops. That, however, was but one of the
errors on the part of the Allies which have
marked the progress of the Eastern question
through the entuDelements of cabinets and the
strataeem of camps.
Peace to the ashes of the brave thousands smit-
ten down by disease along the lethean Derna lm-
patient of glory, they were condemned TO an in
glorious death by men unit to lead the armies IN
the OrieDt-men less accustomed 10 the camp aud
the tented field than to the more Paphan warfare
ofSt James and the Tuileries. Says Arlstopnaaes:
The Jaws of Athens are discussed by sages aud
executed by fools" In reference to the Eastern
war it might be said with equal truth Patri-
clan fools have discussed 10 London and Paris,
and plebeian heroes executed on the bloody
fields OF Alma and InkerGann."
And comparing the nefliceDcy of Lord Raglan
aid the Duke OF Cambridge TO the heroic conduct
of Miss NIGHTINGALE, we may aptly use the words
Of XeIxes after the battle of Salams 4" In his
" conflict men have acted like women and women
" conducted themselves like men.'
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