Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-03-30
LATER FROM EUROPE.

LATER FROM ECNOfE.
The steamship Pacific, Capt. Nyc, arrived
at New York, on the evening Of March 23d,
having left Liverpool on the Sth inst.
The Pacific left at o'clock in the after
noon. Experienced heavy weather and tre-
nendous hurricane on the 18th and l3th.-
Saw hundreds of icebergs on the Banks, and
a vast pack of field ice, which detained her
several hours.
TIE WAR QUESTION.
The position of affairs is quite unchanged
The Greek insurrection had been almost
checked, and was no longer formidable.
+ The United States Minister had presented
bis credentials to the Sultan. and made an adj
dress, assuring him of the sympathy of the
people of the United States.
The British Chancellor of the Exchelucr
proposes to double the income tax, and the
FFre9cH Finance Minister to borrow 25O,OOO,-
0O06Gncs, to meet the expenses Of the war
The war preparations are continuing to be
made in England. The first division of the
eSeAr-the Baltic was to sail in day or two.
TheFrench g6ysrnhsnt advertiscs for one
HUNDREDS shi observation-disclosures and stores at
Marseiles, ta.thc Easf.~
| No baul han. occurred on the Dunuhe, ex-
cepttw columns: of the Russians had attack
ell each other in tie dark; in mistake for
Turks, and killed some hundreds before the
mistake was discovered However, continual
small skirmishes were going on beswrsn the
Turks and Russians. a. -.
The London Morning Herald, second edi-
ton, reports that Kalatat had fallen and that
the garrison had been massaercd.
BATTLE in TIE DARK.
On the 18th .of' February conflict took
place, by mistake, between two columns of
the Russian army.s The turkish positions
are extended III Al easterly direction, as far
as the village Of Cuipcrccnti, which is about
aImilc disfanttfrom Kalafat. For several
! days a Turkish corps, about 1000 strong, I'M
der the command of Col. Mirolai had been
posted ii front -osthc village, and in the di.
lIgsetio1{Vf' thS Turkish outposts. On this
] corps the sRussians determined to make an
onslaught ddlsg the night Of the 10TH
For this purpdSS two sanssiad eolumns were
brought up; SeSSSm 1000 to 5000 strong lone
by the roaS %hjch> leadsNto Kalafat, from
about tho'Mmge 6fssaribeza, and the other
from the left side of it, from about Roisna-
Prince Mooch's property-to advance unex'
pectedly upon the Turks, to supprea enclose
them, and cut them to peices& Tho Russian
columns commenced their march at o'clock
in the morning, and at 4 o'clock reached q
position from whence they were only half ar
hours march, from the Turkish pkkets, The
second column seems either to have missed
the direction by installing the road, or te
have come up long after its proper time. Be
this as it may, the latter column in the Oh
security of a foggy night, concluded the for
ner to be abody of hostile Turks, and in
stantly opened upon them terrific cannonade
which the others, who labored under the same
mistake, returned with deadly effect; pressing
toward each other, it came ere long to close
fire of small arms. This ill-omenod combat
lasted for an hour and half, until, when day
dawned, the combatants saw with horror, the
error they had committed The loss in killed
and wounded in the course Of this nights en-
counter, is reekoned by themselves at severa
hundreds.
The Turks were naturally alarmed at ev'
cry point, and at Widdin, which is but .
league and half distant, Omar Pacha, OIL
hearing the cannonade, took all requisite
measures for defense.
The Turkish corps at Cuipercenti stood a
arms in readiness for action at any moment
but did not advance, as it was at loss to i'm
agine what tho Russians were about, murder
Ing one another in that style. 1t was not til
between 7 and s o'clock, A. NJ, that the Rus
sian columns withdrew to their respective pc
sitions, carrying their wounded along witt
them.
The Earl of Londonderry is dead.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
|. The third edition of the Morning Herah
announces the arrival of a messenger, WHIT
was immediately closeted with the Queen
bringing the intelligence that the Russians
had carried kalafat and massacred all with
in its walls. The story is not generally be-
lieved, though the preceding intelligence hat
announced that the Russians had opened
their first approaches. The story has,howev.
er, thrown the public into the most intense
excitement
Admiral Corby's division of the British
feet was to sail about the 9Th of March for
the Baltic
The Austrian government has published an
Official document expressing its views on the
differences between Russia and Turkey. II
Ltregrets that the propositions sent by the
4 .Westsms powers have hardly hope for
lSiNorablo reply, but admits that their de-
ma nda. ,,sorn inst and In accnrdancn with tLo