The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-26

BILE. The occupation OF this stretch OF
country, where in former campaigns |
countless Russians have laid down their |
lives-the bones of at least 100 900 of
them lie In the maTshes-is most Inn |
portant before any general attack along |
the whole line. The Pruth eli pties only |
twelve miles to the east of Galatz. The |
terrain Is no place In which |
TO conduct o campaign, since as far as |
the eve can reach it sees only lakes and |
swamps, and In early spring, when the
Danube overfiows, the landscape be-
comes one stretch OF water, from which
only here and there the hllltops rise
like islands.
Persia and Turkey.
Tallgemeine zeiung.l
The Russian envoy at Teheran, Gen.
Hinovyeff, has, during the past year,
labored to bring about an alliance be-
tween Russia and Persia, Ia view OF the
eventuality OF war with Turkey, and
there Is reason to believe that he has
been successful. although the Shah was
very unwilling to enter Into such an
alliance. As to the influence OF Eng
land, which had for some time been
waning, it received its last blow when
Baron Reuters concession was can
eeled through Russian intrigue. The
hagen, has not been made successful;
but he has the Russian government at
his back, and 1t would certainly have
assisted him Il 1t had not more i'm
portant things to consider just now.
The Psrsians have no great love for
the Russians, but they have long had q
grudge against the Turks as the posses
sors of the tombs Of the Shlite martyrs.
Iii and Hossein, at Nedjef and kerbela.
These totnbs are in marshy districts.
inhabited by Bedouins, who often at
tack the Persian caravans or pilgrims
for PURPOSES OF plunder; and Persia
hopes that II she should herself become
| the possesser OF the holy shrines, wit
Bagdad, the nearest large town, she
will be able to Duta stop to these preda-
| tory expeditions.
| Already, beside the troops stationed
by Russia's request at Tabriz. Persia
has corps at Kirmanshan, on the line
of operations TO Bagdad, and other
troops are being raised all over the
country. All these military move
ments, however, are probably only ln-
tended to act as diversion in order to
detaeh q portion OF the army which Is
now being attacked by the Russians on
the frontiers OF Asia Minor. ''The Per-
sian army" says the writer, sis SO inef-
ficient aud demoralized that a few of
the Turkish battalions would suffice to
put to flight o whole army corps OF Fer
sians." And. he concludes. the only
reward Persia has to expect from Russia
for her complaisanee is the dangerous
gift Of strategieal line OF railway from
Titlis to Teheran.
The Armies of Russia and Tarkey-Theli
Relative strength.
TParis Core spondenoe London Times.
independently OF the vast numerical
superiority that Russia can bring intt
the field. she can now fully reckon or
the cooperation OF Roumania, whom
geography has placed at her discretion
Of Servia, Rosnla and Montenegro
whose accounts with the Porte are no
yet satisfactorily settled; Of Greece
whose armaments have been TO
months carried on with undisguised os
tentation OF Crete, where anarchy i
, rampant in town and country, aud In
surrection openly organized; Of Persia
which has been treasurIng up grudges
for years. and eloaks her ambition we'll
and, finally of the disaffected subjects
of the fu1te tt1fuug gtoutt tt1t5 Empire, I'll
OF whom, Christians in the European
provinces and Mussulmans In Asia, es
7 peciaily in Syria and Arabia, and evel
in Oonstantinople-al Of whom, / say
unite In their intense feeling OF hate t.
the overbearing Osmanii, and look t.
{ the struggle which has now become i'm
minent as an opportunity for the graft
tieation Of their long pent.up vehe
! menee. We're Turkeys ruin decreed b.
fate, she would be sure to fall without
friend, for nothing can be more hollow
, more skin deep, than the attachmen !,
which many OF the self-styled Turko
philes whom interest binds to her for
Y tunes. profess to feel for her cause.
For their own part, the Turks, besid
their regular army, which even tn
l Russians reckon at SOC, 900 combatants
3 and the Bashi- Bazouks, who thirst to
blood and plunder, can swell their fore
, to almost an indefinite extent. Beside
J their position on the Danube. unequale
in strength for defensive purpose, an
8 besides the command OF the sea, whicl
D insures them easy communication be
Q tween their two main armies, they seen
3 to set no limits to their imaginatio
when they conjure up the auxiliarie
muster in the field under the banner c
the Crescent. We hear Of Kurdis
: chiefs calling together the nomad tribe
4 OF the desert, and preparing to come t
8 the rescue with 1000 horsemen
. We hear OF Egypt, some Of whose bal
3 talions are still encamped In the Boz
o nian or Albanian districts. arming an
q eauipping fresh contingent OF 25,O
9 men. Equally jealous in his duty as
t vassal of the Porte Is said to be the Be
: of Tunis, and lavish both OF his me
: and money. He Of Tripoli alone, 1t az
/ pears, evinces lukewarm, Ii not actt
It ally unfriendly, disposition towards h
: Suzerain. What more? Yakoob Khal
of Kashgar, who one hears has enoug
T to do to keep off the Chinese, is expee
4 ed to be able to spare the Sultan tift
!. thousand Of his Turkomans; ana {
d to the Mussulman multitude which is
+ flock here. no one can say by whs
:. route, from British India. it Is SOM
= thing positively battling calculation.
;, Many days will not pass before the:
), . auspicious dreams fade into thin al
= = and the Turks see themselves col
. fronted by sober and stern reality, K
independently Of the madness OF rel,
;, ing on the aid OF the wild warriors
|, the desert, or on that OF ambitious az