New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-23
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expected to assaulton the 1st May, with SO 900
men. They have erected seventeen heavy bat.
teries under cover Of which they will crors the
river. The passage at Oitenitza is expected At
the same time Notwithstanding all these for.
midable Statements we must not forget that |
Silistria is too strong a position to be carried |
without a severe and perhaps prolonged
struggle.
dAE BALTIC. = The British feet had been
further reinforced, and were awaiting the ar
rival Of the French squadron. Until the latter
arrives, British force will cruise off the Gull
OF Finland and Bothnia. M
On the 2lst, nineteen British ships anchored |
before stockholm. Admiral Napier arrived on |
the 24th, and on the 25th, had an audience |
with klng Oscar. He returned to the feet the |
same day
A depot of coal for the feet is being formed at
Tahroesund, on the Island Of Gothland
Russian powder factory on the Island Of |
Cronstadt, and containing 10000 pounds Of |
powder. blew up and killed so operatives No |
damage was done to the fortress.
The Russian schooner Libertas. Capt. Rass,
was taken by the British, and prize crew was
put on board to navigate the vessel to England
Captain Rass, being acquainted with British
tastes, supplied his castors with unlimited
allowances of brandy They got drunk the
Russians nailed them below matches, and car
ried them as prisoners into Caolseronal.
strong note has been sent by France and
Britain to the Senate of Lubec, calling the gov
ernment OF that city to account for having per-
mitted the clearance of q cargo Of sulphur to
Russia, after the declarati on Of neutrality was
issued
The DANUBE. 1T was fully expected that the
Russians would undertake important operations
against Rustchuk, Nicopolis and Rassova No
fears were entertained of the ability of Omar
Pasha to maintain himself until the allies ar
rive. The Turks from Kalsfat have already
occupied Muglavit, Gunia, Pojana and Palechti
and were expected to reach Krajoya on April
18Th or 18th. The Russians, ON the oath, evac-
uated their hospitals and magazines at Krajova;
Gen Liprandi, with the division under his com
| mand, was expected there on the 25th, and
| would leave on the 9th IS
The evacuation of Little Wallackia by the
| Russians is complete, and was skilifully per-
formed, the retreat being covered by a success
sion of unimportant yet harrassing attacks
| upon the Turkish positions. The retreat of
| the Russians, of course, rendered necessary 8
change in the Turkish front, and makes it no
longer requisite to maintain at Kalafat the
10000 men, and immense force of artil lery
hitherto mounted there. Part of the Turkish
force from kalafat has, therefore, occupied
Muglavlt. etc, as above stated, and anoth er
portion Is moving on more menace points of tn e
| Danube, and in particular on Iona, Rahoya and
Rustchuk.
| BY this change the army will be under the
| hand of Omar Pasha, who will be able to con
centrate ms whole strength in case of necessity,
to meet the new operations of the enemy. The
right will now probably rest on tIl e river Aluta,
| with Its headquarters at Bucharest, and the
\ main interest OF the campaign is nee more con.
| centrated on the operations below Nicopolis,
and especially between Rustch uk and Silstria.
| Notwithstanding the accounts of the siege Of
this latter fortress there is still some reason to
| hat fha oJ
| fined to the fire of some heavy guns from the
| opposite bank of the Danube.
ENGLAND D-Three more Russian trading ships
| had been captured in the channel and brought
to England, namely: the bark Frya Broder,
4uO tons; another bark of the same tonnage,
name unknown; and the schooner Johannes
All the prizes were laden with salt
James Montgomery, the poet, died at his resi-
dence, the Mount, Sheffieid, April Both, aged 81
MIR. Hobbs, the famous American locll. picker.
was invited at Manchester, ON the 2St9a ult, to
pick lock manufactured by EiHard Cotterill,
| of Birmingham, and was allowed twenty four
hours to accomplish the task He faile d TO open
1t within the time specified, and frankly sowned
up.''
| very large sum was collected in the churches
throughout Great Britain, on the day of hu-
initiation, for the support of the wives and fami-
lies OF the soldiers in the East. Government is
| about to issue Recommendation how to
manage this fund.
dreadful catastrophe had occurred in the
English Channel. At 2 o'clock on the morning
| of April 2S, the American bark Hesper, Capt
Jones, from Charleston, s. o., for Antwerp,
came in collision with the bark Favorite, Capt
Hoegemann, from Bremen, for Baltimore, with
$50 passengers. The Fayorite was struck ON the
starboard bow, cut down to the waters edge
and foremast carried away. The captain, mate
and four seamen of the Favorite got on board O.
4 the Hesper during the collision, and the re-
mainder of the crew are thought 10 have taker
4 TO the boat, but have not since been heard of
| At daybreak, nothing was 10 be seen of tht
bark, which, no doubt, sunk Immediately, aCiH
all on board, The Hesper also sustained dam
| age, but proceeded on her voyage-having SEN
the survivors of the Favolite to Portsmouth by
a pilot boat. The collision occurred off tn,
| Start .."
FRANCE. France does not cease in prepasa.
tions for grand war. Ine,essant activity is dis
played in all the departments Of the army ant
navy.
AsrA.-Aceounts from Asia, via Constantine
pie, to the l7th, state tn at the snow was still
deep on the hills, and weather was severe
Money to the amount of 14,000,000 piastres ii
required for the payment of the troops at Ere
roum and kars. At Batoum the troops were
healthy, though during he winter they had suf
fered much. The 1000 m en- who recently refused
Il w hitiiNh w ihtAs hIG sn up tLelT DurTach
at Eraenonm. g"
HoRRBLE MURDER The Petersburg Expires
gives the particulars Of d most horrible murde
committed at Accoma, G. Fl, Va, on the 10th
young man, aged 90, named James Ames, GO
intoa difficulty with hi step father, Mr.. Georg
East, and seized gun to shoot him, when hi
mother, Mrs East, induced him to put it dowr
He thereupon drew out huge butchers knii
sharpened like - razor, which it seems he ha
been carrying FOR eighteen months past, an
gave chase to East, who had started to run
| Overtaking East he stabbed him re peatedly be
hind, till he fell VII the assassin got upon hir
and literally cut him to pieoes-ripping out th
bowels from his breast down cutting him in tn
breast, laying open hil' heart an inch or two
and stabbing and gashing him in number {
| places And to cap the climax, after the blood
thirsty monster had left him, fearing, as b
| says, that he was not dead, hereturned, proppe
up the body against the fence, and cut tn
throat from ear to ear, the wound extendin
entirely through the windpipe and disiointin
the neck. He then returned to town and deliy
cred himself up, saying he had been intendin
to do it for a long time; and if East was not the