The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-11-19
The Eastern War.

The matter now being reduced almost to
certainty, that Russia and Turkey are going in
to the business of throat-cuttng upon an extern
sive SCALE information from the seat of war
will be looked to with great interest. We shall
endeavOr to keep our readers posted up as fully
as the limited state of our columns will allow.
The Chicago Journal of the 10th says -
The details of the news by the Africa reach
US by mail. 1t seems active preparations are
going on. and that both Russia and Turkey look
upon war as fixed fact, Us the following cor
respOndencc more fully indicates:
OMAR PAsHA's LETTER TO PRINCE GoRrscIIAKoFF
MONSIEUR lie GENERAL 1t is by the order of
my Government that have the honor to adj
dress this letter to your EXceliency.
Whilst the Sublime Porte exhausted all means
OF Cancellation to maintain at once peace and
its own independence, the court of Russia has
not ceased to raise difficulties in the way of any
such settlement, and has ended with the viola
ton of misunderstanding the two Principali-
ties of Moldavia and Wallachia. integral parts
Ofthe Ottoman empire.
True to its pacific system. the Porte instead
Of exercising its right to make reprisals, con-
fined itself even then to protesting, and did not
deviate from the way that might lead to an AZ
rangement
Russia, on the contrary, far from evincing
corresponding sentiments, has ended by reject
ing the proposals recommended by the august
mediating COurts-prOpOsals which were alike
necessary to the honor and the security of the
Porte.
There only remains to the latter the indis-
pensable necessity Of war. But as the invasion
of the Principalities aud the violation of treat
les which have attended ii, are the yertable
causes of war, the Sublime Porte, as a last OK
preston Of its pacific sentiments. propose to
your EXcellency, by my Intervention, the evac-
uaton Of the two Provinces, and grants for
your decision a term oftifteen days to date from
the receipt of this letter. If within this inter
val negative answer shall reach me from your
Exceliency. the commencement Of hostilities
will be the natural consequence.
| While have the honor to make this intima
tion to your Excellency, | embrace the oppor
tunity to offer the assurance Of my high esteem
! (Sisnedl OMAR.
! The following curt document is Gortscha-
koff reply:
/ Ny master is not at war with Turkey, but
have orders not to leave the Prncipalities until
/ the Porte shall have given To the Gar the mo
raj satisfaction he demands. When this point
has been obtained. will evacuatc the Princi-
palities Immediately. whatever the time or the
season. If am attacked by the Turkish army
| will defend myself [contine myself to the de-
fcnsiye.]
(Signed) GORTCHAKOFF.
The Turkish force now in arms is estimated,
though somewhat loosely at 100000 men--
namely, 10000 between the Danube and the
Balkan 900 in Bosnia 5000 near Pristina,
on the Servian frontier; $4,000. who will Le
mustered within twenty days at Adranople
and from 81, 900 to 100 900 men on the frontier
Of Asia.
| The Russians, on their part. are actively in
crcasng their forces the Danube. Immense
barracks are being built on its banks, the ex
pcnse Of which Gortschak0f makes the HoSpo-
dars pay and to such lengths has the Russian
carried his demands, that the Wallachiau Go
yernnient has been compelled to borrow G,O0O.-
900 pastres.
rumor was prevalent in Vienna that the
Russians would attempt to cross the Danube
the 9th or 10th inst. This rumor rested ON no
foundation. Gu the 10Th, the Sultan requested
the British Ambassador to send for the fleets,
which request was assented to. The fleets were
to enter the Dardanelles, but not the Black Sea
except to rcpel any hostile movement of the
Russians.
LArER.-The steamship America arrived at
New York yesterday week. llth instant The
Galena Advertiser ofthe 10th, gives the follow
ing epitomc by this arrival:-
Dates from the seat Of war were not so late as
the 18th, the time set by the Sultan for the
commencement Of hostilties, but the fact APP
pears to be decisive that collision had acttl-
ally taken place on the Danube. The market for
breadstuffs was active, at Increasing prices A
Geographic despatch from Constantinople. dat
ed Oct, IL, ANNOUNCED that the combined feet
mad passed the Dardancles, and would proceed
to Constant!nOple. No other event had occur
req since Tue previous account. The army of
ASIA was every day receiving fresh recruits.
omar facha was directing the wOrks-he was
preparing to cross the Danube. The bridge
between the frontier ofWedden md the Islands
opposite was already occupied by the Turkish
troops. The Russians were marching with
great force opposite Wedden 1t was rumored
al faris that the text Of u new Russian mani
festo had reached Paris. which contained some
thing very insulting to France-characterzing
her as the hot-bed Of revolution. One of its
expressions is as follows:
MY rights l will defend, as well as the
rights OF my co-reiigonists against all foreign
interference whatever. l shall not stand
alone"
A letter from st. Petersburgh of the I4tb.
says:
:, The news of the declaration of war by the
Forte had produced u powerful sensation in the
north OF Europe. The army and the civil SER
vice were for war, but in the south they were
more pacific. Nothing like warlike enthusi-
"ueTe, dltuOuSn various
means had been taken to produce it. Notwth-
II;; ' all these unfavOrable symptoms pub
t nc opinion pm both in Paris and London believe
all ,hs resources Of diplomatic power were not
Oil eAnaus'ed' and that war may yet be averted,
TREATY FOR THE OPENING OF THE R,vrp
r n AND ITS AFr!LuENrs.-The N. Y. Journal
OF Commerce rec publishes 1.l letter from Rio de
Janeiro. OF the 18th September, CONVEYING tne
copy OF secret treaty entered into by the prn.
visional Director of the Argentine Confedero-
ton and Robt. G. Schenck and John s. Pen5ia.
ton on the part Of the United States, for the
free navigation of the rivers Parana and Urn.
quay. In this treaty the Argentine Confedera-
ton comedies the free navigation of these ri
vers wherever they may belong to her, to the |
merchant vessels of all nations, and vessels are
admitted to remain, load and unload, in the !
ports and places of the Argentine Confedera- !
ton, which are open for this purpose. A uni
iorm system ofcustom-house duties is to be es-
tabilshed, and equal privileges and immunities
are extended to the flag of the United States