Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-10-25

Ice intelligence received Il few DAYS aye 81 tie
capture al >eha-tepsl. OF srcat victory on tie
kaIanta plains. mud at Russian ~lain and prison
e. BY tens # thousand, proves to have been a
gross imposition. W expressed our doubts. on
tuesday h,'. with .cgard Ia the authority # the
rumor that ~eba-topo, lad fallen. and that ,jcto-
fir- had been gained the 2:id and gath sep
TENDER. Ncve-thrles-, We lad no conception
that every item If information received subse-
quent 10 the hattie on the i ma. would turn out
10 be n forgcry such, however, prove, TO be- the
ca-e and, for the ir-t time since h"-tties com
menced the only correct report given. was
through the medium Of dispatches 10 II. Peter
burg. II should be noted "a II remarkable fuct in
this war that, for once, truth VIZ contained in
official Russian bulletins, Hnd AT time when all
other accounts were at fault
Tie capture Of Seba-inp5 j.. after all. only
question Of time. The advance Of thu Allies has
been fully a, rapid a. could have been reasonably
expected and the precautions taken and mca>-
adopted, reduce ultimate success Ia nrarly
mathematical certainty. The forces of Prince
Menehikof had been already reduced from fifty
Ia twenty thousand men: the allied strength "aS
being increased by rointoreemeni- from Ohar
ia-ha; hope on uhr side met by despair 81
the Other, and there Gun be 10 doubt that the
conquest and occupation of the entire Crlmean
peninsula will be eventually secured, II 1t has
not been already. Russian encouragement
must have been very great 10 induce the destruc-
ton Is officially reported, Of The fortress ot
Anapn, IN order To transfer the few thousand
troops which had occupied that stronghold OF the
Aba-an coast To- Sebnstopol. They may never
reach Seba~topol; but even if they Do. Prince
Mcnsohikoff i. probably no longer there, and
they can render but little assistance; not enough,
We imagine, to compensate for tie abandonment
Of the second fortress in power ia thu Black
SEA.
The battle Of the Alma proves to have been
H. 4 IL Il
slhns were entirely defeated, ii was not without
great sacrifice on the part If their adyersares.
In one English regiment, every officer, excepting
three, i said To lave been killed. Probably not
less than nine or en- thousand men were put on
the 10Th September hors du combat not includ-
ing several thousand Russians who nade
prisoners. We are still without detailed ac-
counts of the operations Of the allied armies be
tween the 2Oth and 18th If September; but we
know that during that period several actions of
greater or less Importance had taken place. and
and the Russians bad been gradually forced back
from the katcha the Belhcb and the IchrInaa,
until every external defence around Sebastopol
had been carried. The heights above Balaklaya,
only seven miles from Scbastopol, formed the
head quarters of the Allies, and its bay, one of
the finest in the Black Sen, IA rrndo Zynus for
their fleet. The army of Prince Mcnschikof
seems To haue been cut off from communication
with the fortress, which thus reduced viii be II
bic to offer but f eble resistance.
The news from Austria, if it should be CON
hrmed, is of the highest interest. The Court of
Vienna i, said to have at length decided to notify
the Cabinet of st. Petersburg, that continued
rejection of the four propositions will be regard
ed by her "A caSpS behi. Iii probable that this
intelligence Is premature but it is also possible
that Austria, dccei we'd, with the rest of Europe,
by the tclegraphic dispatches from S,tria,
may have felt that the time had come to act, in
order cflectually to secure for herself what the
Turks and Allies bad already won. lfit should
prove true, that such note has been set to st.
Petersburg, the aspect of European affairs will
he greatly changed and there will be no possb-
ty of avcltng a general war. The Emperor of
Russia Is not yet sufficiently Inundated to ac-
ccpt the four propositions and will prefer hostl-
tice with Austria to yic Idng,at the first reverse,
to claims which, one year ago, no European Court
would hive dared or dreamed OF prop sing. If
Austria has sent such note,-Nhich are not
yet ready to bcheye,-it is doubtful whether she
will be seconded by the other Powers of Germany,
especially by Prussia and Wrtemberg 1t is
possible that even an endeavor may be made in
the Diet at Frankfort, To throw the influence of
the Northern German powers into the scale of
Russia.
The news from the Baltcis undressing At
tcntlon had been entirely absorbed by the con-
Trajectory dispatches from the East. Denmark
and Sweden remained in the same reserved posi-
ton rs IN the commencement of the war, and no
advance had been made towards the capture of
Constadt.
Omar Pasha was evidently meditating impor-
tant action on the Danube though to what en-
tent, i'll what direction. could not be ascer-
tanned with precision The probability is, that
! he will await the entire success of the Allies in
the Crmea. and notification from Marshal st.
| Arnaud before making any movement upon Bees
.,raba After Sehastopol has fallen, and his re
! treat shall be secured in case of reverse, we
shall expect 10 hear of the meditated attack on
| l~mail, and an endeayor to wrest Soathem Rus
STA from the dominion of the Czar.-Jouradi Of
Commerce.