The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1854-09-19


The awful visitation by which thou
sands of the troops of the allied army in
the East have been ingloriously hurried
out of life, is the chief subject of contem-
plation in the recently received intelli-
gence from Europe. The deadly ipfuenca
Of the climate in the Drbbfntdeha al
ready destroyed, it is estimated, $4,000
Russian soldiers, before theif leaders be-
came alive to the necessity of eyacuating
It, Ten thousand French and, English
have since been destroyed by lhs safhs
dreadful scourge. The blow is fearful
one, and we have yet to learn at what
period the mortality will have diminished.
The sickly hopes expressed by the Eng
lish and French journals, that the rava-
ges of the cholera were diminishing, are
not in conformity with the latest news
from Yarna. Our accounts from there
reach to the 10th of August only, when
heat sGs Were "sn awaited SIX AND %Sffbbs bbss daSss
were small of the immediate disappsat-
ance Of the epidemic. The expedition I'd
the Crimea, which, it had been anticipa-
ted, would leave Varna on the 18th ult.,
had been deferred indefinitely. Such
postponement had been condemned by
the more headlong London journals but
we do not see how it could well hays
been prevented. Experience has not
proved that the deadliness of cholera is
diminished at sea, or on shipboatd, and
the cmbarkation of the allied army, at
the time appointed, would have been
equivalent to invading, with a hospital,
the Russian shores.
The proclamation of Napoleon III. I'd
his Eastern troops was well timed. After
all that was possible had been done, it
was prudent to express the sympathy and
encouragement that the head of so excita-
BILE nation as the French should feel
1t was evidently issued at the last md;
ment. when 1t was impossible to conceal
any longer the disasters of disease in the
army, and when the prospect of its con-
tinuance rendered every precaution neces.
sary against discouragemeht, discontent
and insubordination. The amount Of NOR:
tality among the French is greater than
among the English. Notwithstanding the
pusillanimous fears, Of some few Turkish
correspondents to London papers, it was
admitted; even in France, that the Eng
lsh Commissariat had been judicioisly
managed, with much forethought, and
that their supplies of all kinds were bet
ter calculated to ward off disease, than
those of the French. During a giveh
week, in which the number of dead is
specified, the deaths of the French reaeh-
ed one hundred day, while those of the
English reached, at the same place, only
twenty day. 1t is not to be conceived
that the latter will complain and rebel,
when their rivals in patience and courage
submit to o fas sraota- initiation
While England and France have been
compelled to inaction, the great central
power of Europe, Austria; has assumed
position whiEh increases the chances Of
an ultimate result favorable to Turkey
The note of Count Buol, under date of
9th August, has definitely setted the
question of her adherance to the Allies,
in respect to the terms of peace which
they may hereafter dictate. Whether AUS
tria takes part in the war or not, will de-
pend upon the faithfulness of Russia to
her engagements. If the latter powef,
after having promised to evacuate the
Principalities, prevaricatcs, and, contra;
ry to stipulation, holds fortified positions,
such as GalatZ, Austria will be compelled;
in honor, to drive her from them but if
the forces under Prince Gortschakof shall
have retired beyond the Prtith, no cause
of hostility will exist. That it is deteri
mined at Vienna to occupy the Principal
tiles cannot be doubted. The last news
from there positively confirms previously
received dispatches, that Gen. Shaffsgatts:
che's division had crossed the Danube.='
This is probably correct; but whether IL
be or not, the question is only one Of
time and prudence. Not paper in Eu-
rope accuses Austria any longer Of
wavering, meditating friendship with
Russia, or even meditating in her behalf.
Prussia alone incurs such suspicious, and
} their consequent odium.
Sir Charles Napier is becoming iinpop-
ular among the officers of his fleet in the
+ Baltic. 1t remains yet to be seen wheth-
, er deservedly SO or not. "Hope deferred
, has soured the ardent souls that months
ago embarked from England, prepared to
hear. in few weeks, the inspiring sounds
of "God save the Queen" in the streets
of st. Petersburg; and it is natural that
; they should cast about for objects upon
|, which to vent their displeasure. We be-
lieve that all that was possible has been
r accomplished, SO far, in the Baltic, and
> that Nelson. under like circumstances
; could not have led fleet to victory:
Espartero is manifesting, already, symp
, toms Of the unprincipled demagogue. :
His toast at the Editors dinner, to "Lib.
, erty,"-equivalcnt in his mind to "Espar
) tero was promptly rebuked by O'Don'
nell /; but there can be no doubt now, tha
new struggle in impending between the
ex-Regent, republicanized by ambition
. and his more disinterested and sagaciou'
associates, who foresee, in an attempt t
! overthrow the monarchy, civil war, an
. archy, and foreign intervention.-N Y
Q Journal Of Commerce.
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