New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-05


one OF precaution; its mmedste results are Of M
great consequence.
The second expeditio is of grester impor,.nc.
The allied fleets. with about ten Thousand trooo.
first made demonstration of Odessa, where how.
ever not shot Was fred and then SAILED to gi.-
burn. This place Il situated the eItreuity,f
a tongue of land which on the south encl,ses n.
estuary of the l'neper and Bug. At this point,
the estuary is about three miles wide; bar with
fifteen feet Of water according to the best ct,r,n
closes its entrance. On the north side Of this ,n,
rsnce is situated OcEakof on the south sileo Of
kiDburn Both these places first ,me into notories
during the Russo Turkish campaign Of l7S7. wA.a
the Bug formed the frontier of the two en-.
pires, and consequently Oczakof belonged to
tie Turks and Kinburn to the Russians A,
that time, suvorof commanded the let
wing of the Russian army under Potiomks) aad
was stationed az KiDbun. The Turks, then mae
ters Of the Black sea, crossed over from Otshakof
They first made diversion by landing behind the
town Of Kinburn, TO the southeast; but when they
saw that SuvOroiF was not 10 be led asray By this
false maneuyer, they landed with their nam body
at the northwestern extremity of the spit ekictly
opposite Oczakof. Here they entrenched them
selves, and attacked the fortress; but Suvorof
sailed forth with far inferior number of men,
engaged item, snJ with the help Of retniorcemsnts
coming up, drove them into the sea Their loss
was enormous SuvorOf himself, however. was
wounded during this action, which was followed
up in the following year l7SS, by the storming Of
Oczakof
This time the Allies landed. not below, but
about four miles above the town Of Kinburn. so a.
to intercept its communications by land with Kher-
eou and the interior Of Russia. Their gun-boas
will very likely sson intercept the communications
by water also. The spit of kinburn. for six miles
above the town, is extremely narrow, like that Of
Arabat and so low and sandy that on digging q
few feet below the surface water lie found rhus,
strong Notifications With deep bitches cannot be
constructed there in hurry; and the works thrown
up BY the Turk. in l7S7 were either stockades or
sandbsg batteries. The Notifications of K,nburn
tbtm,elves cannot, for the same reason be very
formidable, no good foundation for masonry scsrps
being possible though since that time broad yet
bitches have 10 doubt been constructed Neverthe-
less, we think that Kinburn cannot long hold out
a. aipst the Allies if theoretically attacked, and
once in their hands il opens to them perspective
of important operations in the direction of kherson
and Nikolaef-that is, the direction Of the base
of operations of the Russian army in the Crmes
This descent, then. may prove very important if
properly followed up. But up to the departure Of
the steamer no news Of anything decisive had
arrived. ard thus we are led to conclude that
this expedition is also to be conducted in the
habtua easy, joytrot style of the Allies.
The defeat OF the Russians before Kars will very
probably prove to be the browning event of the
campaign in Armenia. The Turks, badly organized
and short of every requisite for war had played
but poor part in this portion of the seat of war
Unable to hold the field, they confined themselves
to the occupation of Kars, Erzeroum and the
country Immediately under the command Of these
fortreses Gen Williams who had entered the
Turkish service, commanded at Kars and superin-
tended the construction of proper defensive works
For the greater part of the Summer the whole
campaign on either side was confined to skirmshes
forays aud foragng expeditions in the hill country
the general and first result of which was that the
Russians, gradually gaining ground, succeeded in
blockadiDg Kars and even in cutting off its com.
municatons with Erzeroum. Ksrs is situated
in a lateral valley of the Upper Araxes; Erzeroum
at the sources Of the Euphrates; Batoun, on the
mouth of the Churuk Su (Batbys), the upper
course Of which passes near, both to Kars and to
Erzeroum, so that one of the roads between these
two places follows the basin Of the Churuk Sl
as far as Ott whence it strikes off across the hills
toward Kars Otti was, therefore, the central
point for the Turks as road from Batoun there
Joins the one mentioned above aud Batoun was
the place from which the nearest and strongest
reenforcements were to be expected. Had tho
Russians succeeded in taking Kars, their first step
would have been to establish themselves at OFT;
thereby cutting off Erzeroum from its nearest and
best communication with the Black sea and Con-
staniinople. The Turks, however were 50 dis
pirited that they retired as far as Erzeroum
merely occupying the mountain pass between the
upper Euphrates and the sources Of the Araxes,
while Otti was all but completely neglected.
At last when Kars was more closely hemmed
in, they attempted to form convoy Of provisions
at Otti, and with a strong escort TO force an en-
trance into Kars. Part Of the cavalry from kars
having been sent away, as it was useless there,
actually fought its way through the Russians as
far as Otti and the convoy started shortly after
ward but this time the Russians were better on
the alert-the Turks were completely defeated,
and the convoy was captured by the Russians.
Kars, in the mean time, began to run short Of pro-
visions Omer Pasha was, indeed, cent 20 take the
command in Asia and to organize at Batoun an