Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-12-10

titles, the soon fall victims to famine and dis, a.
SEES and epdemics diy thin their numbers v hen
exposed TO scarcity or ue Ii is to the tact and
management OF Baron Muffiing, the Prussian am
oaSSauor' rather than to proves or efficacy of
her military force or the skill of her generals that
RusSla owes her chief successes against the Turks.
LII was this Pru>sl n amba sador, who by his re-
ports increased The panic of the Divan and impos-
cd on the creduhty of England and France. Peacs
was al length signed and SO highly was this SER
vice looked on by the Russian Emperor, that Muf.
ding obtained his highest military order but one,
and OF the first class. as well as regiment in his
own country, through the influence which the Gear
exercised over his tather-inlaw, the late King of
1 F'SSA During the campaign in Poland the cab
ilct OF st. Petersburg only able to send no.
ooo men across the frontier whom 25 OOO per-
isHed within three weeks not bravely fighting a.
salnst an enemy, but from forced marches, from
Ihe iacicmen"y OF the weather, the badness of the
provisions, the corruption ofLbe commissariat, and
me ignorance, nctficency, and inattcntion of the
hospital stat-evIlS always hitherto incident to the
march, AMI, it would seem inseparable from the
existence and organization of a Russian army.
Throughout the whole of the Polish war the Rus
SLAMS were never enabled TO bring into the field
larger ooby than sc, O0O men and thee were OPP
posed by 10000 Poles of whom one seventh were
employed IN garrison duty One third of The re-
naming portion were peasants, badly armed and
ondI clpiined, and who learn their duty by hard
lighting IN the field. Everybody knows that it was
not RuSsan waller by which Hungary has been OPP
pressed that on the contrary, she owes her defeat
to the overwhelming number of her enemies and
The treacEery of Gorgey. For during the last hun
ured years the successes of Russia have been fully
as much owing to the purse as to the sword, and
TO the knowledge that her generals were always
supported Ito use the words of u recent writer in
tie Morning Chronicle well informed on the sub
Ject OF Russia by command of money, by the
most unprinciPled means, and Ply unblushing per-
fdy.
These facts sufficiently prove to GU mind both
the nefhc!ency the Russian tactics and the exag-
gcraton as to the really effective amount of the
Russian army; but if additional ev ence were
needed, proof Is not wanting in the successful OF
position OF the Crcassians,a nation Of goo 900 men
who, though surrounded by Russia, have contriv-
ed tor the last twenty years, not only TO resist
the power the empire but to become the victors
IN many engagements. Although We are ready to
concede the valor of the Creassian people and to
admit the difficult nature of their country though
We are free to allow that their mode OF warfare is
peculiar and harasSing ; still we conted that Cir
cassla would be to either England, France, and a.
ny other main power, although not perhaps an ca
sy still a certain conquest and that her people
more troublesome than formidable, would within
given time, have been eventually subdBcd.
Washington Union.