The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-02

The castles surrounded and repeatedly attacked
fearing to be cut to pieces blew up magazines and
sought shelter in their ships The Sampson further
ports that tho Circassians fell the garrisons who
retreatng from two hill forts put them TO tho
sword The Crcassan coast is at present free from the
enemy
THE WAR IN ASIA.
KARs February 90 1854.
arrived here on the 9th inst early in the morning
after very pleasant journey the all thngs
being taken into consideration Iwas most kindly 70
asked me to dine with him. Every morning he attends
the council which sits every day since the arrival of
biity for two months, but trip to Kars will be amply
repaid by all the true information gathered the spot
bizond, and Erzeroum Willingly unwttingly
At the present moment the troops quartered
mp BY sickness BY cold bad and seant1
food, DC, and the typhus The average deaths arc
tsr aons to o. five day Gson has has
subaltern officers and the He has established
oorop Of ouposts and detached sentnes all around the
city, at the distance Of some fifteen or sixteen miles.
They extend in a demlune hundred miles Of
ground the farthest being only separated by small
river from the advanced sennos OF the RUSSIANS and
all being red In good military style with the town. The
Turks had no idea Of any such thing before and great
pains necessary in order to make them understand
the usefulness Of this most important part Of military
craft and warfare The thing last accomplished
his staff they all unite in saying that the Turkish
soldiers, when once you have explained to them what
they must do do their duty we'll It is useless for me to
-
ricousness and peculave propensities of the Muchir
and other gros tanms here Suffice it say that all
exaggeration (smply because impossibe) has taken
place. | wish you could see General Guyon. He
manners, conversation, and everything. l should
say he is from 30 to 40 years old middle szed with
lie has hnack Of looking at you from time to time With
quGa sharp, penetrating glance that seems to go
all who approach him. and all Of newly arrived gene
rails and all completely to his side. BY
advent the foreign officers here have reached the number
Of twenty.threo, and ! enclose list of their
Bon edu that officers compose all the society here,
as not snge civilian from Europe graces this ungodly
place. None of the supernuities of life are to
be met with here-nothng but the necessary is to b
found and even that not always ntrgues are Of course
Of kars each one Working ON his own private HOOK The
arrival Of Haireddin has seized them all with terror and
time will show i he is an honest and capable man or
zeroum, is named Muchr Everybody is waiting for the
post with the greatest anxiety.
FOREIGN OFFICERS AT xARs.
PoIEs.-General Brianski (Schahan Pacha), General
(Rufan Rey), Colonel PachecE dorm Bcy), Major Jor-
or thoskOvssy tAdam Emr), Adiutant- MAYOR Tasmin
Toussof Adjutant Major sopchins (Moussa), Captain
Choskovsky Jean (Omer) Captain Farnese (Ar Captain
Pefkovsk QRabia), Lieutenant Prorock (Achmet), and
Doc or Narkievith.
HuSoARnNs General Of Division Guyon (Kurschd
Pacha) General OF Brigade Kmetty Isa Pacha) Major
Schedenberg fRahr), Adjutant Major Schimler vely)
Lieutenant Mandei lsem) Lieutenant - (soAman),
ITAIAN.-Capian De Coelis Hoorschid)
AMERICAN -One captain.
forgot to tell you that there not one single desert
or here from the Russian army-mush less three four
thousand as sadk Pacha said in constantinople The
Polish generals and everybody else waiting for news
from Constantinope All depends upon the first cou-
rier.
Tomorrow morning all of to the outposts for
few days We received orders from General Guyon
this evening. One hundred and thirtytwo villages
to be explored as to where accommodation
found for ten more battaons and squadrons of cavalry
and infantry that must be CHARTERED there The fall q
Acnet and the elevation OF Zsr Pasha present Cover
nor of Eraeroum, 10 the Muchirlick Of kars on
clay communicated to Us this evening" and everybody
Accounts from state that Zarif Pasha Gene
ranC Of the army Of Anatola, arrived at Kars
enthusiasm. The army was being supplied with money
ammunition and clothes, that the ensuing campaign
would open under better auspices than that which closed
SO disastously in December. Artillery TO be sent
carly the state of the roads would permit but at pre-
sent with some feet in depth Of in the valleys and
military operations impossible Kurschid Pacha,
Zen GuyOn was sti earnestly occupied in dsciplining
concentrated at Gumr (Alexandrorol) which they
fortfyng very strongly SO that should the Russians
Gumr must precede all attempts at aggressive move
msnI on the part q Re Ottoman commander The
ally offered to the service OF the Sultan.
EGYPT.
Accounts from Alexandria to April Sd state that The
Consul General OF Austria 10 whom the protection a
Russian subjects had been conded since the departure
Of their consul, had officially informed them that
he should to project them after the Goth inst and
that they must prepare to esve Egypt by that date
The rupture Of diplomatic relations between the Porte
and Greece leads to the belief that Aexan-
dria will aso be compelled TO leave Such .
would great In the OF that
city as the Greeks very there and almost
IL OF them are merchants. The rising in Epirus had
reduced Considerable agitation among the Greeks both
tCairo andet Alexandria
THE GREEK INSURRECTION.
The expulsion of the Greeks from Turkish territory ID
going but private despatch states that Greek sub
jocts who profess the Latin faith viii be allowed 70 re-
main
From Syria April despatch states that the Greeks
had been beaten ut Amro where they LOST three hundred
In killed Discussions prevailed among their lsaderz
who begin to each other Of treachey NJ MetAxa
Minister at Constantnoplc, had arrived at Athens.
Neither the English French Austrian nor Swedish minis
assisted al the " DcnS April O. tho anniversary
celebration Of Greek independence.
THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS.
From the London Times, April 19.l
Tie question put 10 the Foreign 0ce before the d.
ration of might be resolved into general inquiry
s TO what the effects OF the laws and usages Of vnx
would be On the relations Of Brtsh subjects and thsir
property in the enemy's country The given "
these questions by the legal authorities amounted 70
declaration of what the laws and OF war had been
when last they exercised by Great Britain ana -
they laid down in the memorable decision OF Lord
stovell. BY that standard OF orthodoxy We have M
according 20 the laws Of nations, As interpreted ~
tha Poi