The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-12-20
AMalrs i'm the East.

will be dissipated without immense
waste of life and treasure, and proba
bly, disastrous socin and political
change. Tho Washington Star pub.
iishes litter from Paris, for The
reliability Of which it vnuchcS in the
strongest terms, of which the following
il all extract:
"l-urh PalmrrSton and Louis Ma
po,"n have bren almost in>rperable
since the former aIigh,ed 1T the Hotel
" inds"r. Their interviews have re
quilted in the decision to unfurl the
standard OF Polish, Hungarian and
Italian Nationality, ii Prussia and
Austria hesitate longer to declare
unequiv"cally against the Gar The
probability is that neither the one nor
The Other will consent tn do this; in
which case all Europe will bc in arms
before spring.
If this be SO, it will be very bold
game, tor if once the genius of Revu.
luton is let loose, it will appear most
likely to fall nfnuI Of Louis Napoleon,
the pet of Revolution, and therefore
its most natural victim.
-~0hrance is apt 10 cHact succesSas the
condition 0t favor to h,r Revolu,iuna.
ry chief, and he failure of The great
siege "f Sebaslopol would be a most
omlnous prologue /" any attempt to
awaken The sense Of national indepen
dence among the conquered nations Of
Europe. The result ut this Siege i
br"ulning more and more doubtful
The tclrHrarhic news by he a Atlantic,
ten day : later than the foreign mails
rac"ive,i by the Union, add nothing 10
,hr chances OF the Allies tu recover
their asccndency in the Crimca. u
" hat these chances are, may there.
fore be considered as fairly set forth
i'll 'he following letter To the National
lntrlligencrr, and published in tina,
journal nn Monday last
New Ionk. Decrnbrr9 1854.
The Union ina steamer has arrived.
and Jon will see by her ady,ces tina,
nothing decisive had Yet occurred at
SsbaStopnl.
Private adrices by this arrival.
however, state that Russian corps of
thirty.tive Thousand men, whi h had
been dispatched from Odessa, would
no doubt, be at Sebastopol previous
to the 2Oth OF November-a few days
after The latest dates from thence
Besides this, upwards of twenty
thousand Of the Imperial Guard had
been forwarded by railroad to Mos
COW, with orders to proceed with all
possible haste from thence to the
Crimea, and would probably reach
Sebastupol by the lst of December,
as they took up their line of march
from Moscow very early in October.
The distance cannot exceed one thou.
sand miles, and they already had been
nearly six weeks en- route Besides
these, further rcinforcements were
going forward from other points Of the
a,:.pirc.
The Allies were also rece wing
reiat"rccments, but they were those
which were sent forward in small
numbers, with = sicw to supply the
ordinary waste of the caulJaign.-
None of those which were SO urgently
called for hy the Allied commanders
after the recent bloody battles, had
-. #rri"ad. 'nT VAS it rlopat,ic lilas
they could arrive Tor eight or ten days,
or more.
!, thus appears that it is race
bct"er the u.sians and the Allies
as to which shall ,ccivc the ear les,
and the iaiEr>t rrini"rcrn,cnts; and |
aln very much Inclined to think HE
Russians will keep AHEAD at ll.rln. To,
Nicholas has had ample time TO pa,
immense MASSES ot ll,ups in motion
towards the seat oi war, and though
the distance they have to t,av, r>r over
his Immense empire are are very great,
and with nnlIc but the old and urdina
ry means OF transport except the
railroad from ST. Petersburg to
Moscow, S i'll, when they once begin
to arrive in the C,imea. they will
probably do s." in overwhelming NUN
bcrs and III quick succession.
see nothing by these later advices
which in 'ica'c larger reinforcement
to the Allies than lii,y thousand men,
and thn Russian corps from Odessa
will ni itself be set of to that force,
81 tar at lsa-t as dcte"Sirc operations
are concerned. W may well believe
that Nicholas is in earnest in this
war when he is sel,di' from his
capital his magnificent lmpc,ia.
Guards, and that he will not leave any
thing to chance SO far rs numbers
are concerned.
The early arrival of heavy reinforce
nen;s to the Allies may save them
from expulsion from the CIi.nea; but.
under the circumstances Ot the case,
and the great llkcIih cd that Russia
probably III few days, certainly in
few weeks, will have at least two
hI1Ilrrl fhnuSunl In.n t.lm..nilntnI