The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-09
For the Union.
"SEBASTOPOL EST PRISE"


The siege of Troy by "the allied forces Greece has
made considerable noise in the literary world at least
more than two thousand years the sackng of Rome by
the Gauls considered of the prominent in the
annals of that republics and the taking of Consannope
by Mahomet the Second extnguished the last of
the Grecian empire But of these celebrated events
have made half SO much noise in the civilized world
affected the interests and passions of so large portion of
the human race as the siege of Sebasopo the Ctenus of
Strabo and the Aktiar of the Turks
1t occupies the public journals of the Old and New
World regulates the price Of stocks at the Paris Bourse
the London Exchange and among the board of brokers in
Wall street 1t gives employment and bread, and exer-
cses the inventive powers of at least hundred thousand
letter-wrers who dispersed everywhere aud know
everything loads the telegraph with important dispatches
and establishes the value of the domestic products of the
United States 1t has already been alzenby tee
graph and according that greatest of all modern seers
the London Times to be taken agan-posyely for
the last tmehe l4th of October at IL o'clock precisely
Moreover its capture is put end the war; bring
the Gar down his bones and preserve "the
integrity of the Ottoman Empire and ndivsbe now,
henceforth and forever All the correspondents Of all the
public journals in Europe Asia, Africa and America
fdeny assure us that though this remarkable place may
not yet fallen its capture certain and only IA ques
ton of time" No doubt of it. But Time spins long
warm and who wait for the end very apt to get
out of patience.
1t cannot however be denied that Sebasopol is very
extraordinary place. One might be tempted to believe IT
the of the vitality Of the Russian empire and that
its fall would bury that stupendous fabric under its ru-
ms But the truth is this very extraordinary war-so
complicated in its interests and combinations that nobody
knows what they are the precise position of of
the belligerents Until the affair at Alma the Turks did
all the fighting for the allies who stood quietly looking
on contenting themselves with vanquishng the Car by
succession of blows from their hundred thousand journals
leter-writers and Geographic wires. They paed Omer
Pasha on the back, and cried out "Catch EN-, Towser
while the valiant old bearded MussuIman gaining a
series of victories invariably followed by what dscreety
called failing back new position"
In the mean time have been astounded with the care
full and tremendous preparations of the entente cord'de
the number of propelers the magnitude of their
guns the various dabocal engines of destruction, and
the wonderful range and accuracy of the Minnie rifles In
this respect they only equaed by the late procama
ton of the invincibe Hang Su Tsne he Prince of Peace,
recognised by Heaven Emperor of the world addressed
to he barbarian slaves and hairy foreign dogs of which
the following is an extract:
81, the King, have spoken of war; and talked of the
movement of troops We have many thousand guns of
divine power weighing millions of pounds We have
myrads of vessels 100 chang in length which without
wind carry themselves hence to the three Kiang prov
nce AS for YOU Christian dogs you ignorant of the
five relations you not susceptible of civilization On
lucky day (grace the 10th of October? which shall
select shall descend the provinces of Canton
and in the autumn shall send challenge to fight Our
clustering standards will shade the nine heavens and with
numberess swords and spears shall enclose the
Our divine fire shall consume your ships troops your
dwellings, divine weapons shall flash to the poles and
our divine youths and madens shall be thunder shaking
the skies"
It cannot be reasonably doubted that Hang Su Tsne had
in his eye the pompous of English and French
journalists and leterwers when he Illuminated this hun-
derbot The cocdence is too striking to be accidental
possessed of single sparA ct the divine inspiration
las Hang Su says of the London Times might here spec
ulae the consequences of the fall of Sebastopo should
it fall But prefer leaving to Tmenot the Lon
don Times-he best and only exponent of the future At
present shall content myself with intmang the opinion
that it will have no decisive influence the final result Of
the present contest That apprehend will not be settled
by the capture Of Sebasopo by nmnations in Paris
and London
Before concluding, however, this seems proper
sion caution the reader how he places implicit confidence
in the Geographic dispatches letters from foreign newspa-
per correspondents and most especially the London Times
the Paris Mone and indeed the European press general
ly 1t is notorious that with the exception Of England
the public journals of Europe dare speak the truth
and such is the state of public feeling that country that
Just now John Bull will endure to hear anything that
does go snow that he is paying his money for the
purchase of immortal glory that in becoming the cham
pon of Turkish desposm, hei not manisy sustaining
the liberties of mankind.
and England for becoming parties in the sustaining
the integrity its Ottoman Empire constituted gross,
and now palpabe attempt to impose the world. The
whole was stupendous humbug-a masquerade in which
of actors appeared in his proper character
quite natural therefore thst what was thus commenced
in fraud and imposition should be prosecuted in like man
ner and that the events of the should be suppressed
distorted or exaggerated In the spirit of deception
Independently of this small portion Of the Geographic
dispatches and letters from correspondents at the
seat of war fabricated for the sole purpose of affecting
the price of stocks in the great marts of Europe of
whose statesmen high in office have been suspected of be-
ing among the most eminent stock obbers.
One of the latest of these sbrcetDns the absurd
and incredible tale of the fall of Sebastopo which would
do honor to the redOubtable Baron Murchausen. Its
source and its objects have been pretty well asceraned
1t is now well understood that almost Immediately after
the declaration of against the Gar association
formed whose headquarters Vienna for the propa
CATION of fabricated pews solely with reference to this OBJ
ect private electric telegraph vas established and
agents stationed at various points at M seet of
war whose business Is TO write and convey ipforma-
ton either true false, the might require, solely
with view to favor the interests Of their employers and
associates II is thus that almost every item of
coming from the seat of war is distorted, or invented
TO suit the purposes and forward the interests of cabi
nets and SPECTATORS Fortunately for the government and
people of the United States these npQsiions can
else no practical influence the policy of the inp
ests of the other but the time may when belief in
some stupendous fabrication of this kind only for few
days might be followed by consequences that would be felt
for ages Let US a.cp the old Latin proverb cras cred
mus hode n,hil-to-morrow we viii believe, but nothing
to-dav ANTI-OTIDCUNC