Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1854-05-13
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missing steamship City OF Glasgow. Messis.
Richardson & Brothers, the agents, say there
need be no fears of the steamship being
ultimately lost. The ship was perfectly
efficient in every respect was provided with
a suflcency of water for forty days, and
also distilling apparatus, by which an
abundance OF fresh water could be procured.
Her provisions were sufficient for 65 days,
and her Goals equal TO 30 days s,eaming.-
She has on board 37s passengers.
The war news presents no new features.
The treaty Of closer alliance has been rat
lied between France and England.
treaty OF alliance offensive and defensive
has been signed between Austria and pruss;,
lhe expulsion of the Greeks has been rig.
orousiy enforced. The insurrec,ion assumes
'he shape OF Guerilla warfare, harrassing
ont not formidable. Lord Stra,ford has
Puohshed a strong manifesto against The
creek government for favoting insurrec,ion.
massacre OF the Greeks at Vao has been
reported, but is thought 10 be doubtful.
Inc accounts are still vague IN relation 10
Inc violation Of The Servian territory.
Fr'nce Daniel is reported 10 have sum.
moned the Montenegrins TO arms asains, the
Turks
Inc campaign in Asia is expected 10 be
opened about the middle of April,
The French navy has Sc 600 sailors oao,,
fhoM The SEAT OF WAR ON The
DANUBE.
The Russians have advanced with, 70,
miles OF varna.
Inc latest and most trustworthy accounts
from the headquarters of Omar Pasba nrove
'ne urgent necessity of the allied forces al.
fVing on The theatre of war without loss Of
,i'he' IL there be desire TO avoid as General
paraguay dHillers is said 10 have expressed
u IN one oil his dispatches, The repetition on
iand OF The catastrophe of Sinope A com.
pe'ent person, who has very recently exam
ined, and with the greatest attention. the line
OF Danube, from Widden TO Rassovo. and
VINO mas very INFINITELY scru,inized the effec.
i've iorce under the command of Omar Pasha.
win lis capabilities and organization, is no,
OF opinion that it is able 10 meet the Russian
army single handed, or 10 oppose its onward
march TO the south.
NO doubt is expressed as TO The zeal tbe
enthusiasm, and the valor of the Turkish
army but the same authority declares that.
Notwithstanding the wonderful efforts made
ny omar Pasha 10 introduce regularity and
order IN the host he commands, there is still!
"ueP'oraoie deficiency in these respects -
with the exception of Omar Pasha himself
who is admitted 10 be man of much in,elli
gence, and two or three others at the most,
there is sad want of military capacity
among The superior officers, and infinitely
less among the subaierns.
The Turkish army of the Danube does not
amount to more than 10000 men, while the
Russians have now 20o,O disposabIe and
elective men in the Principaities and Bes-
sarabia. Fortunately the presence of the
allied fleets in the Black Sea renders i, i'm.
possible for the Russians TO obtain supplies
from the coast, and considerable portion
OF that immense force is employed in con-
veying provisions and stores 10 the Drobud-
scha.
An Austrian paper has the following teIe.
graphic despatch:-
The important frontier town of Fokshani,
in Wallachia, which had just been fortified,
has been destroyed BY fire. All the Russian
stores, provisions, arms, clothing, ammuni-
ilon and all the military hospitals, have fallen
prey to the flames. The Russians occupv
Kostendje.
The Spanish government has issued a
highly important decree against The slave
'rade IN Cuba, according TO which all slaves
are 10 be Immediately registered, after which
any slave found on the island without copy
OF the register, will be looked upon as fraud.
ulenlly imported, and declared free. The
decree also provides for the introduction and
organization OF white laborers
RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, April IAN imperial
uSase ordains the calling in of mole reserves.
1t is estimated that this measure will in
crease the army by 1900 men.
THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
LONDON Saturday, April 22.-3 o'clock,
p M-NO,hiug new has ranspired to-day,
except rumors, both from Paris and Vienna,
OF new Prussian mediation
LIVERPOOL, Saturday estimated
sa'es'o' Cotton to-day are 5000 bales. The
market closes tameiY, but quite steadily
fr!ces are unchanged
BERLIN, Friday,-Yesterday an offensive
and defensive alliance between Austria and
Prussia was signed by Baron Map,euGel an
the one side, and Baron Hesse and Conn,
ihun on The other.
A despatch from Omar Pasha confirm. ,ho
previous accounts, that The Turks were IN ,;co
successful against superior forces a, The mas.
sage OF the Danube, but in obedience To Or.
ders, they reireaed in the line of Karasan
The St, Pclersberg pap,rs contain a mani.
ieslo in reply TO The English and Freneh
declaration Of war; II throws the responsi.
e'li'y OF the war wholly upon France and
England.
Nothing later has been received from Ike
Baltic.
II is asserted from Copenhagen, that swe.
den has positively entered into secret treu,v =
with Russia, by which an absolute enae,men,
l'io'diing more than four ships at once 10
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