The New York herald., 1879-10-16

DengilTepe earthworks was made ON the
Plevna pattern After an Intellectual can
nonade the Russians made rush with
fixed bayonets, but were repulsed ana
retreated in disorder The Turcoman cavalry,
attacking the Russian flank and rear created
such confusion that when the vanguard reached
the main force in reserve, the latter was unable
to stem the tide of the retreat aud was itself
compelled to retire forty miles before order
could be restored! Accordngto to private inteili-
gcnce received in st. Petersburg the Russian
loss is much greater than the official reports
admit.
WHO WON THE BArrLEl
A despatch from Berlin to the Times says
"The Russian press is very impatient about the
dearth of news from tho Central Asian expedi-
tion, especially as no effort has yet been made
to reconcile the apparent contradictions in the
two official reports of the recent action ut
Geok-Tepe. Meanwhile letter from Tihis,
published in the Golos, says that ''grave ap-
prehensions are felt there for the safety OF
the expedition. The letter describes the inva
miserable plight and says that great num-
bers have died of diphtheria and scorbutic. dis
eases, and that the medical arrangements are
inefficient" Nevertheless, as all Russian news
papers are under the severest government CEN
sorship, the reports from these sources are
taken with reserve. Russia herself would be
the last to admit in Russian newspapers that
the expedition is failure.
QUOTATIONS FROM THE NoRD's NOW FAMOUS
ARTICLE, GENERALLY ATTRIBUTED TO PRINCE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES POSITION DEFINED.
1t is some twenty-five years since Prince
Gortschakof described the position of his country
in one of those epigrammatic sentences that have
made him famous--La Russie ne boude pas; ellie Sc
recueiLe. The N0rd develops the idea
in one of those articles which the diplomatic
world persist in regarding as bearing an official
stamp. 1t is most powerfully written but it vrtu-
ally admits that Russia now stands isolated in Eu-
rope. The Nord says :-.Russian statesmen will not
allow their equanimity to be disturbed by the noisy
and tumultuous demonstrations exchanged between
Vienna and Berlin. Russia has all this often
before. without going back further than the
reign she has empires crumbe to the ground al
liances made and unmade and the enemies Of the
become tho friends Of the morrow. Specially as
far Austria and Germany are concerned. = Russia
has seen those two Powers united for the of
crushing Denmark engage in mortal combat. and
after the utter defeat OF the former once more ex
change professions of eternal friendship Meanwhile.
while all these changes and vcissitudes occurring.
Russia ia still to the front, having doubt had
deals of her to through but with her strength
and vitality unimpaired, anc steadily pursuing her
onward career. while so many things beyond her
frontier passing away for ever. These consider
ations calculated to inspire Russian statesmen
with . calm and dispassionate view Of the events
taking place around them. Russia can afford to
hear with phiosophic indifference the hostile chorus
that procaims her isolation. What thoy call isola-
tion We call Independence. When we see how detri-
mentally Russian interests have been effected by
entanglements foreign to her national genius.
such as the holy alliance aud other parasite
GAL and injurious elements. it is impossible
not to congratulate her on having got rid OF
all these encumbering and injurious ontanglements.
To state that Russia is isolated Is to place record
tho fact that ut this present hour there is not
single Power in Europe which has any moral claim
upon her beyond what her duties o great CIV
zed State entail upon herthat there s not single
Power in Europe In whose favor she can feel CON-
PEELED to disregard her interests. This
is all profit for her. She has paid her
debt without calculating her sacrifices In the
discharge OF tho duties she had assumed
toward the Eastern Christians. Her task In
this respect is considerably lghtened and it now
only for her to watch aud that her work
is not undone. The people whose cause she had
taken up she has put in fair way Of living and
thriving. As regards the other Christian populx-
tions of the Ottoman Empire the Of their pro-
lection devolves upon all the great Powers On that
ground again. the action of Russia Is frecr than 1t
was. This same freedom of action IL . great
strength in itself when it is possessed by such
State in Russia strength useful for domestic de-
velopment. and not less available for influence
abroad. whatever Vienna politicians may think to
the contrary Russia. therefore. can afford to dis
regard the presumptuous clamor Of those who tell
her she is played out. State of her importance is
not to be extnguished by few newspaper articles,
and she ten times isolated than she Is said
to be- no change of Importance can be effected in
Europe without her assent. The Nord proceeds to
endeavor to reduce to insignihcsnce the conse-
qucnce Of Prince Bismarcks trip to Vienna, and
describes the inferences draw from 1t by the Cor
man press "phantasmagoria as hollow as Lord
BeaconsGeld's protectorate OF Asia Minor" 1t is
evident that tho irritation felt at St. Petersburg is
intense.
PARNELL'S POLICY.