New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-15
BLACK SEA TROUBLES.

4 against Sebastopol have regular growth and
increase. Each steamship brings us news Of
greater losses and darker prospects than the
one previous Delays 1T GalipOn- sickness at
Varna defeats before the city, and shipwrecks,
attended with terrible loss Of life on the Black
San. are the authentic accounts that come to
contradict rumored victories and conquests. In
the beginning the fall Of Sebastopol was hourly
expected; now, the rout and destruction Of the
Allies are looked forward to as q probable part
Of the news of each coming steamer. ssHe is .
happy man" said French officer, speaking Of
Ut. Arnaud, ssthat he died 90 early-'
The eight days later news brought from
Europe by the Collins steamship "Pacifc," and
published In our columns yesterday morning,
contain very grave and serious accounts from
the East, and leave hardly less momentous mat
+ ters subject for inference. On the fourteenth
Of the last month terrible storm swept over
the Black Sea, such as those waters ara liable
to at this season Of the year. Thirty-two Eng
lish transports we're sunk, on board Of at least
two Of which every life was lost. Three mail
steamships Of the first class, the Himalaya,
Andes, and another whose name is unknown,
were wrecked. Six Allied vessels Of war--the
Sanspareil, Agamamnon, Samson, Retrihution,
Henry w. and Pluto, we're either totally lost or
very severely damaged. The crews Of a
number Of these vessels followed the fate Of
The unfortunate Tigers and fell into the hands
of the Russians. In addition to their maritime
disasters in the Black Sea, the Allies are said
to have suffered the loss Of two cruisers captured
by the Russian fleet in the Baltic. The number
Of lives lost, the amount Of property destroyed,
Of ammunition, provision and ordnance swept
away cannot YET be estimated. Fuller particu-
lars hereafter will probably furnish an approx
imation to the truth, but enough can be gath
cred from the simple facts already published to
convince every one that the mere maritime dis
asters Of the Allies are Of an unusually aggra-
rated and serious nature Forty three vessels
cannot be taken from the service Of any nation,
at any time, without d sensible effect. AT o
moment when every possible means Of transport
ii needed, as now, the subtraction is more grave.
Furthermore, these losses by sea are not COM
pensated for by any successes on land, but
rather riyaled in their severity Of misfortune.
All the damage done to the city during the pre-
yious long, wasteful and expensive cannonade
has been repaired by the besieged, and through
the arrival Of reinforcements they are enabled
to show holder front than on the first day when
the Allies swept around to Balaklaya, and pro-
phecied an easy conquest. Their batteries have
ceased operating, and now the invaders are rap
idly raising harricades to prevent being them
selves invaded Such is the tenor Of our latest
.i.... 5,.,,,, lrisnaa
We are not disposed to exult unreasonably
over these misfortunes of the three banded powers
that we're to have humbled Russia and de-
throned its Gear, restored Poland and put into
practice On this continent the absurd doctrines Of
European diplomacy The losses by sea could
not have been aTerted, and those on Land were
certainly no consequents Of cowardice. They,
however, put off more and more remotely the
day when the tri-oolor, the crescent and the
union-jack shall float over the turrets Of Fort
Constantine and hostile nayies blockade our
own ports.
1t is to be feared that these disasters to which
We have referred are not all that the history
Of the Baltic expedition, up to the present time,
truthfully contains. The news reaches US only
through English channels and their customary
enhancement Of what Is prosperous and with
holding Of what is adverse leaves q very posi-
bic suspicion that the coming details may be
darker and gloomier than what is yet received.
Thus far the invaders have accomplished nothing
and the announcement to-day reads precisely
as ct the commencement - 6 Sebastopol Not
Taken