New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-30

proceed 10 the Sir Dars rveT and male experiments
and researches, for the most part on the Influence Of
the so-caed continental climate on animals. THIS
il the FIRE. mention that has been made Of these
gops in the press for the last two yesrs although Just
previously they were subjects Of great interest The
last de- finite information that had reached Us here in
IN. west was III at the Russians after proceeding up
the river to Ak-Metchid, called Peroffski, had
stationed q chain Of poets al along the river,
perfectly TO command ts passage, and 20 get the va
nous caravans passing 10 the north and consequent
ly the commerce of the people in the south entirely
INTO their power All that has since trsnspred u the
movements Of the Russians in those parts amounts only
to vague report Of their having taken possession OF
Tasbkend in the course Of OF those feuds which
seem 10 constitute a chronic disease in khiva and
Kokan and which often give rise TO predatory
sons on the part Of the kgses up 10, and even over
the Chinese frontier OF no other Of Russia's adj
vanced posts in the East is so little known as Of this
settlement the Sir Daria. Fog instance, from the
military post on the other side Of the Bakssh, We
hear not unfequenty that respectable military force
is assembled there having under its protection suf
fciently numerous population 70 admit OF the numer
ous advant ages Of the soil and locality being turned
to account; so that comparatively charming oasis
has been created there beyond the region Ut the
e,eppe The lake there, and the ryer Iii, which flows
into IT, are navgated by steamers; welsupported
of military post protects the frontier the supe
rior officers receive every and then encomiums
from the Home Government for their skIlfri admins:
traitor and the Junior for their bravery in the numer
GUS affairs they have with the frontier tribes &C. In
fact the whole tract OF country round ana ABOUT the
Lake Aral and between that lake and the Caspian
Sea- frr fishes Just but very little matter for the
public press II would almost appear a. the reports
that were lately so rife OF the Russians having
founded number of settlements on the east and
south-east bank Of the Caspian were unfounded. or
that the Russians have kept the matter so secret that
nobody can hear anything OF them Ii is averred by
Rus, ians themselves that, from the very beginning
such establishments appeared very mpro0aOle mas
much as they would tend TO disturb the good relations
So. III DarSia. and
mace Of establishments in those inhosptabe regions
is matter Of so great difficulty that even New Peoh
ski itself would have been long ago given up, II 1t
bad not been ndispenssbly necessary to have some
means TO keep the Turcomans in check and thus pro-
vide for the safety Of the caravan traffic. Among tho
numerous valuable results that have proceeded from
the recent researches of ". Bahr in the region be-.
tween the Caspian and Black Seas may be recxoned
the settlement OF question that had long interested
men of science, Is TO whether there had not
formerly existed water communication be.
tween those two seas-vz IN the valley oil
the Manitch, which stretches nearly due east ana
formed now. The traffic between the two seas goes
at present into the two riyers-Don and Nolga winch
approach each other very closely above place oeo
Zaritzyn and are there stated to be connected ny
railroad II think the last we heard of thir lace
was few moaths back, that railroad was proJepted
there but had not heard till now that the raifosa
already existed.) One circumstance that seemed 10
favor the plan of a water communication was ihat,
in addition to the Manitch, which rises in the ngh-
borhood of the Salt Marshes, and flows into the Don
near where il emptes itself into the Black Sea- there
is also another river, rising not very far from the
source of the former and falling ato the Caspian. NJ
Bahr has, however, ascertaned that no water connec-
ton at present exists, and that the valley Of the
Upper Manitch lies far above the level Of the two
seas that the cutting of a canal between them by
means OF the two rivers would be- If not impossible
at any rate so expensive that could IL turns
out now that Admiral Count Putiatn, whose departure
for Kachta was mentioned some little time back, Is
really gone on mission TO the Chinese Court at Pekin
and must by this time have alre ady arrived there
The frisate Ovuzza, which left Nicelaieh last Au-
tumn, and is now daily expected in ST. Petersburg,
has already forwarded home letters which che took in
at Hong Kong about the beg ming OF February, in
the previous November she mad performed her mis-
sion which consisted in exchanging the ratiiications
of the Russian treaty with japan, which took place at
Sinoda On this occasion the Olivuzza stayed some
weeks at Simoda, during which time the guns Of the
Diana that had been wrecked there, and which were
kept there for the Russians, were made present Of
to The Japanese During part of January the frgate
was stationed near Hong Kong, and some OF her Of.
fcers happened TO be shore at the time OF the grand
arsenic conspiracy there, and among the suffer
els from t. The report the captain of the vessel has
sent in about the state of hngsa Canton is said to be
couched in very reserved terms but gives the reader
TO understand that the Chinese this occasion will be
able TO offer more steadfa,t defense than on former
occasions"