New-York tribune., 1876-05-31

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deavored to revicua the fortress of Ncsic for some
time past bard pressed by the insurgents. After
good deal of fighting and loss he has failed
completely and retired to Gatzko. He describes
this achievement in the following words: we
have arrived at Gatzko victorious. Engagements
have been fought with the insurgents continually
during six days our march toward ana return
from the neighhorhoOd of Nicsic and the lmpeIlai
troops gained striking advantages over the enemy
although the latters forces were twice as numerous
as ours they numbering about 14,OOo.' Inc na'or
of this is not unlike the dispatches we usedl 10 ger
| from the Peninsula when Mcclellan fought that
| remarkable series of victorious engagements winch
began at Fair Oaks or beyond, and ended in new
base on the James River Mukhtar Pasha has won
every battle, hut abandons the object for when
they were all fought / will do him and his soldiers
the Justice 20 say that don't believe they longht
except under compuision. They have attempted TO
penetrate difficult country, harassed at every step
by the insurgents, who fought with many adFah-
taces except. probably, that of numbers and the
insurgents have had the best of it, as usual.
! The moment is one when an undeniabe and. to all
appearance discTeditable defeat of the Turks may
have a very serious influence on the affairs OF
Europe The best hope of peace lay IN the defeat oi
the insurgents. But it is evident they have been
largely reinforced from Montenegro though 1t Is by
statement of Mukhtar Pasha that they had been
Joined by 1000 Montcnegrns regularly organized
and that "this time the Prince of Montenegro
openlv made war on u.s." When the Prince takes
the field in person il is not from Constantinople or
by the mouth Of beaten Pasha that we shall near
the news. II win mean that Russia has made uP her
mind and that the lead thus far conceded TO Austria
has grown too wearisome for the Russian to endure
longer Every nsurgent success makes the Austrian
Y1a,- ti.sll
writes well-infonacd correspondent, 81 the pres
ent phase of nou-neryention results III
Montenegro and Seryia under the protection
of the Russian Slavophils, exhausting the Turkish
resources while Austria is restrained by the con-
sideration that neither Seryia nor Montenegro nor
Russia is officially concerned in the process" Day
after day the signs-ofen slight in themselves, but
pregnant with meaning when taken togethcr-that
the Slay party st. Petersburg gainius ground
increase. The EussH Mir gets more and more out
spoken. The imprudcnt language which Gen. Ro-
dich having failed in carrying ms point otherwise
with the insurgents, used, was said to Eayc used
! irritated Russians of the most moderate views.
| The truth about Gen. Rodch's mission came out
very slowly, or rather very slowly credited.
People were reluctant to believe the insurgents
capable of so much courage and resolution as Were
! reported Of them. But hear from Paris what
! NAV be called an official report of the Confer
ence and of the terms OH which alone the Insurgents
! signihcd that they would lay down their arms.
! Their leader said
We demand restitution from Turkey Of a third part Of
the @ a2 @ M' & ~, Hyn e't & '' Iovtc cd he insrr,c-
ton. We clam, also, 10 De eXoner1ted for period OF
Of ns v ii he wiiine 10 return home til Austria and
Russia have gua antecd us means oi sunsistthc' Io
ycai-rOiu SOW cattle, and everything Ncc sSdiE Tor
lie m settl, neut OF household We sire also tlat
m The six pces ,gaerc grrs us l,ft six scnia-
] - d \
Lastly we desire Turkish forces 10 cVacue thc ter
ntory Upon tnese conditions We will lay down ourasins
Everybody knows how useless it IS TO present
demand Of this kind at ConStantiHoplc. 1t would
be met with that PossgmHs which The Eastern
Pope knows how TO employ not less skillfully than
the Western. Matters have now reached n pass
when few difficulties would be made about such
| promises rs were embodied in the Andrassy note
with such show of reluctance. That note has ceased
10 lie ANYTHING more, as The IiRCs clcycriy says,
! than a memorial of good intentions. But what the
insurgents now demand implies performance as wei
Gs promise rather it implies and aiiiins tiiat
they care nothing whatever for Turkish promises;
they want precisely that security which the An
Grassy note failed to give them. See how short
sighted the clerer,st diplomacy is! Coun ArdrasSy
and the other able who took part in the concoc-
ton of that note undoubtedly believed thdt
it contained The germ Of peace. They were
warned at tho time that the insurgents would not
be content without foreign guarantees for the cxecu
ton Of its reforms. But the Pashas who speak in
the Sultan's name peremptorily refns to give or
even to discuss. guarantees. And ! suppose that
Count Audrassy believed that the insurgents would
believe the assurances of Austrian agents that every
thing should he done to insure Turkish compliance
with the terms agreed TO. But there never has been
one single moment when the llerzcgovinianS have
shown the least sign of Willingness to accept any
thing of the KIND They proved stubborn alike to
coaXiug and to threats, and the effect of Gen.
Rodic's bullying was to create panic, not among
the insurgents but in the Stock Exchanges OF Europe
Now have more than once remarked that Eu-
ropean Stock Exchange is anything but an lnia-
lible political barometer. The value of the good
and early information which leading operators often
get is almost neutralized by sheer tlmidty, and also
by the creduiity with which bad information is ac-
cepted and acted on. bascless rumor Will do IFS
work in sending stocks up or down almost as eject
ually as an official Dispatch Last weeks pane has
passed like the thunderstorm of the week before
Both denoted an atmosphere ovcrcharged with elec-
tIicity; an uneasy feeling remains. little more
knowledge of the real character of the men VINO
have kap, their ground all Winter in the Businesses
of herzegovina is slowly d.fiused. Let me quote
MASSAGE from letter of Mr.. Stman to show
how grudgingly people yield to the influence Ok the
facts which are put before them:
vous hvpotheses are continually put forward to ev-
plaiu the ,,indcy oi the insurgents In refusing thc AN
drassy reforms except under their conditions, hut
il IS tolcably open secret and really requires no IN
renuty to explain it, Every chief ol the lnsllecllou
ti. moral ccrta nty that lis lie is not worth para
If lie puts himself III the hands OF the TURKS no ml'ter
nader what promise. sanction; that the IulAlsh du-
tb1rfics alc incapable If willing. and unwilling II cap-
ble OF protecting mm from summary NeHgcdhc. Mlei
sul,missiun and if even the Russian Government Hto
q, fue IN