New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-08
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP WASHI SGTON. 4
The news by this arrival is not SO late as that
brought by the Europa, but it furnishes Euro
pean journals to the 10th, containing much i'm
portant intelligence r4~
MOVEMENTS IN THE BLACK SEA
According to letters from Odessa to the 4th Of
August, Admiral Menchkoff, with portion of
the Russian feet, appeared that day in sight of
Odessa. A steamer which was sent into the har-
Dor stated that the feet was to return to Sebas--
topol the same night 713 "it'' '8 Fl
The precise destination of the expedition from
Varna was not yet positively known. 1t was,
however, affirmed in some of the London papers
that 80, 600 of the allied army positively sailed
from Varna for the Crinea on the 18th of Au-
gust. This was communicated by telegraph
from Vienna, Marshal St. Arnaud issued an
address to the French and British troops on the
30th of July, apprizing them that they were
about to enter the enemy's country, and that
they must conquer or never return.
ANSWER OF RUSSIA TO THE AUSTRIAN SUMMONS.
The vHoniteur publishes the note of Count
Nesselrode to Prince Gorchakoff, at Vienna, re:
plying to the Austrian summons to evacuate the
Principalities, and also the rejoinder to that
note by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs
The great interest Of these documents induces us
to give them at length:
NEssELRoDE TO GoRTsGHAKoFF
| 7' ST. PErERsBuRc June 90
M Prince-Count Esterhazy has communi-
Gated to me the dispatch in which his Cabinet
solicits us to put a termination to the present
crisis by refraining from carrying any further
our trans Danubian operations, and by evacua-
| ting the Principalities at as early period as
possible.
| When giving as motive for this desire Aus
| trian and German interests, which the prolong-
alton and extension of the struggle upon the
Danube would compromise, Count Buol relies
| upon the argument that our occupation of the
principalities was the principal cause of the
war. We request upon this point to make q
| few reservations.
The occupation of the Principalities did NOT
prevent the opening and progress of the nego
| tiations. It Tas not that occupation which
occasioned the abandonment of the Viennt
note, the rejection of the propositions made Al
Olmutz with the concurrence and appreciation
Of Austria, nor the complete change in all the
| anterior basis of the negotiations; and if al
the attempts at conciliation have proved abor
| tive since then, the Austrian Cabinet can moi
deny that this result arose from incidents and
motives of more complicated character, re-
specting which we would rather be silent now
in order to avoid unpleasant recriminations
We replied by silence to the summons of France
and England, because it was couched in al
offensive form, and was preceded by open provo
cations, and was destitute of all conditions 0
reciprocity; and, if the war consequent,
ensued, it would only be just to impute tn
II cause less to the nature of our answer than t
the tone and the terms which provoked it, B
this as it may, if, in the opinion of the Austria
Government, the prolonged occupation of tn
Principalities was the motive of the war,
ought to be consequence that when the occu
patton ceased the war would cease from the fac
ITSELF seeing that hostilites would be suspended
is the Cabinet Of Vienna in position to Civ
J us the assurance of it? 1t cannot escape ii
attention that, from the first moment when tn
Porte declared war against us, and particu
r larly since the arena of that war, transporte
r beyond Turkey, on our seas and upon ou
coasts, has been extended without limit, the oc
e cupation of the principalities, whatever ma
8 have been its original character, has becom
e for US only a military position, the maintenane
f or abandonment of which is entirely matte
connected with strategical considerations
is, therefore, quite clear that, before voluntaril
s giving up, in difference to Austria, the onl
: point where, by assuming the offensive, "
g should have any chance of restoring in ou
d favor the balance against u.s. we ought, at leas
e to be made acquainted with the securities whic
: Austria has to offer us. For, if the hostiliti
h continue, if the powers, released from all al
n prehensions in Turkey, should be free either
e pursue US on the evacuated territory, OF
e employ all their disposable forces in invadiI
II our European or Asiatic dominions, with a vie
e to impose upon us conditions which could not
If accepted, it is evident that the demand ma
n by Austria was, that we should weaken ou
'e selves morally and materially by sacrif
j. wholly useless. To require that Russia shou
II place herself entirely at the mercy of her en-
= mics, who do not conceal their intention
,e overthrow or diminish her power, to expose h
IS to all the attacks which they may think rig
ID to make against her, particularly by redueil
is her to the defensive, to take from her, in shol
N in the name of peace, all the means of obtaini
ID that peace except those which would be ruino
4, and dishonorable- this would be an act so co
III trary to all the laws of equity, and to all I
s principles of military homer, that we feel pie
E. sure in believing that such an idea would I
by for moment enter into the imagination of j
ed Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph
lis In communicating to US the protocol of t
be 9th of April. the Court of Vienna points out
nd us particularly the positive engagement she b
he made with the western powers to bring aho,
e. by every means in her power. the final evacu
ed tion of the principalities; but in making ii
d, arrangement Austria can not interdict to he