The New York herald., 1879-10-09

AT TEHERAN-THE NEAREST ROAD TO HERAT.
Hitherto little attention has been called to the att
tude Of Persia The latest rumor concerning the
of England and Russia for Hcrat gives tho gov
crnment of Teheran interest which it has.
in no modern times awakened The import
ance of Persia arises from the fact that
it supplies Russia with the shortest and easiest
route to India From Asterabad to Herat there is
road which Arminius vainberg declares to be the
easiest in Central Asia. All the way from the Cas
plan to the Afghan frontier water and forage
are abundant food and transports plentiful
aud there of those terrible deserts aud i'm
practicable mountain roads. which make an advance
from Tashkend an operation of exceeding difficulty.
The distance to Herat from tho Russian base on the
Caspian is less than that from the English base
the Indus; and it is pointed out by Russian military
writers that even If Herat than Russia
through our occupation of Candahar still Russia
has no Bolan Pass the road 10 impede the move
ment of her forces. Tho belief is also common
among these critics that the apparition of a
Russian flying column ut Herat would set the
whole of Aighanistan in flames. Now lit
has not escaped notice. says the Lon
influence Teheran has diminished to mere
tradition. the power of Russia has developed to
alarming extent. Not to speak OF the prepon ndersnce
the activity OF Russian agents throughout
the country, there are the material ., advances
minions. and which daily grow more ominous to
our interests. The acquisition OF Kars has led TO
a remarkable Development of her influence
tho Kurds. who form by no means incon
siderable factor in the population Of Persia
and there exists unmistakable evidence of desire
the part of the Grand Duke Michael to absorb
these people in the manner that kauf-
mann has absorbed the kirghlz. 1t is only
few days ago that the official kackdz.
in speaking of the incessant raids into Erivan
of the Persian nomads. declared that unless the
Iran authorities preserved better order among their
slbjects military expedition against them would
become necessity. The with which
the kurds allow themselves to be trans
by the circumstance that there are at present
at Erivan several regiments OF horsemen formed
OF the Kurdish rregulars who fought against
Russia during the recent war. Other evi-
found i'll the reorganization of the highland
districts, which has been carried out in such
ruthless manner by the wholesale deportation of
the tribes to Saratof and Krasnovodsk. that
other rising among the Circassians is counted
q matter of inpossibility. \ military road
has also been made from Datoufu To Kars,
the Titiis-Baku Railway has been commenced, the
highway from riilis IT, Teheran has ben
placed under Russian postal staff. and de-
signs have been prepared for the construc-
Russian government is ambitious OF possessing
control each OF the three railways that
will one day to India. 1t has already made sure
OF the Orenbutg- Tashkcnd line by securing the
but has yet play its cards for the possession
of the Iihs-Tcheran route and the railway
running along the Persian Gulf from Asia
Minor. In the of Russia following Lord Sails
burys policy in regard to ASIA Minor, aud inducing
the Shah to accepta over his dominions
Russia would control all tho railway routes to lDdia.
aud our hold upon Asiatic possessions would be
ut tho mercy OF tho Cossack.