The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-07-26

The RUSSIAN CAmPAIeS.-The following
summary Of the result of the Russian cam
paign cannot fail to be interesting it is from
the Paris Pays:
The retreat Of the Russians beyond the
Pruth heDeeforth takes away a great part
Of their importance from their feats of war,
ofwhich the Danube is said TO have been
the theatre up to the 23d of June. But it is
not without interest to point out the conclu-
sion, evident to US, that if the Emperor Of
Russia retires, il is not in obedi ence to any
diplomatic consideration, but because, his
position, was no longer tenable, and that he
found himself on the eve of having neither.
soldiers nor generals in the Municipalities
Every one knows the checks which that
army ofinvasion, whose passage of the Pruth
pro luced such an impression througout Eu-
rope, has met with during the last eight
months Turkey was not prepared, and
her open frontiers did not appear to promise
any resistance. The affairs Of Olteniza first
opened the eyes Of Europe. Since that
event, every step in advance Of Russia has
shown her real weakness in presence Of the
patriotism of the Turks Her occupa-
tion of Lesser Walachia was checked
before Kalnfat, to afterwards meet with
the disgrace ofthe defeats Of Citate, of Kara
knl, aud Of the Toarnu. Her entrance into
the Dobrudscha has cost her thousands of
soldiers, and has made her find burial place,
where in 1929, she sought for road to
Constantinople. Now, after a four m onths'
siege--after bridges thrown over the Danub
marches and counter. marches, reinforce
ments, Of troops and Of generals, all she has,
obtained 10 an enormous loss, the real amount
which will never be known, and the putin
NM th.o
non, ofall the men on whom she relied for the |
accomplishment of her work of conquest |
Luders, Schilder ,Cortschakoff, Karamsne, |
Orlof, and prince Paskiewitseh. The siege
OF Silistria alone, which has excited so much |
admiration and sympathy in Europa, will re- |
main rs striking testimony of all that 10
Illuminating for the Car in this forced evacua-
tor. A fortified place Of the fourth rank,
defended by $4,000 men, has de6ed during
three months his finest army, and his most
illustriCus generals. Each of the twenty
assaults which 1t had TO undergo was the oc-
casicn Of fresh triumph, and sowed death
and alarm In the crowed ranks Of those who
hoped to reduce It. After the affair of the
18th, which cost tho Russians 3,40O kiIlsd
the siege was dsfacto suspended by the
discouragement and decentralization Of the
bvsiegerss before being 90 by an imperial o.
der from St. Petersburg. It. is under the
impression Of this discoeragement that tbs
Gar has evidently acted. His position was
no longer tenable; anarchy pre-, allied among
his generals, snd his army was at its last gasp.
The devasted country could no longer sup
ply provisions; fever, famine, and the enem, 3
guns filed the folds with dead bodies, and
the hospitals with wounded. The Turkish
cannon left the Russians neither truce nor,
hope. They were attacked night and day,
from Nicopolis to Ruasova, by sorties, OF
passages of the river. Exasperated Wal
lachia threatened to rise en- masse, aud the
allied troops 10 destroy theLi Ia single bat.
tie. The Colossus took alarm, and fied be.
fore the prospective Of . Lat and crowning.
disaster !"
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