New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-11


A. NJ, had very heavy west winds the first five
days Saturday I'd inst. passed ship Stor of the
Ocean, bound west Ten miles east Of Fire ls-
land passed bark Angela Brewer. OF Rockland.
The Africa arrived out at half past O'clock,
morning Of Sunday the goth.
-.-.. The War.
e.. CAPTURE OF BoMERsUND.
Our Liverpool correspondent succeeded in pro-
curing in time to be telegraphed per Europa D
via Halifax, the earliest intelligence of the sur
render Of Bomersund to the Allies, on the 16th,l
with its garrison of 1000 as prisoners of war
The papers to hand by this arrival confirm
the announcement.
On Saturday, 10Th, the English steamer
Baslisk and the French steamer Refine Hortense
arrived at Dantzie with the intelligence that at
1890 p NJ, on the 10th, the fortress at Bonner
sund capitulated, and the garrison, numbering
1000, was Immediately embarked on board the
allied feet. There was little loss of life on
either side, the French having lost 100 in killed,
and the British only or 4. The round towers
behind Bomersund, named respectively Forts
Tee and Nottich, had been previously reduced.
no very difficult task, as they were garr1soned
by only 40 men each. The handful Of artil-
lerymen in Tee made q stout defence, fifty
being killed, and only thirty-five taken unhurt.
Nottich was carried without loss. .
Both forts, when captured, were blown up,
and the main assault was then directed upon the
fortress of Bomersund itself, the walls of which
were badly damaged before the garrison con-
sented to surrender No other result could
have been expected, for it was impossible that
1000 could long hold out against besieging
army of 10000, supported by feet in force.
The honor of the victory, such as it is, belongs
wholly to the French, and therefore, on Sunday
the goth, the guns of the Invalides announced to
the citizens of Paris the first victory of the war
Our private accounts from Dantzic say that
the number of prisoners does not exceed 1900,
and that they have been sent to Ledsund. 1t
was reported that a considerable portion Of the
garrison had succeeded in retiring, and that it
was intended entirely to evacuate and destroy
the works, but the attack Of the Allies prevent
ed this intention from being fully carried into
effect.
An overwhelming display Of force was made
on the part of the allies. No fewer than fifteen
sail Of the line-of which four ships and four
steamers were French-lay with their broad
sides within range of the fortress. The allies
claim to have found one hundred pieces of cannon
mounted and dismounted Our correspondence
does not state whether or not the feet fired on
the fortress, but from the circumstance that the
English papers have a list of the casualties in
Cured BY the ships Penelope, Hecla, Termagant
and Bellisle, while s. under fire at Bomersund,' .
it is likely they did.
From the circumstance that Admiral Napier
had issued notice warning all neutral vessels
to leave the port of Riga before the 10th Of
August, it was surmised that Riga would be the
| next point Of attack. An account of the Bonner
sund affair, from Stockholm, Goth, mentions that
a bombardment was kept up from o'clock
morning of the 18th, till o'clock afternoon Of
| the 10th, and that part of the works we're blown
| up before proposals were made to surrender
| The prisoners will be sent to France on board
English ships Gen paraguay dIIilliers had
narrow escape, cannon ball having passed be
| tween him and the aid camp with whom hs
| was conversing.
| GERMANIC CONFEDERATION.
| On the 18th inst, Austria and PRUSSIA sub
mitted TO the Bund the Russian answer to til,
| Austrian summons, as we'll as the correspon
| dence with the Western Powers, containing tn,
guarantee of peace required by the latter.
Prussia is arming all her ports.
A dispatch from Vienna in the Paris .Moni
| tear revives the rumor that the Austrian troop
are about to enter Wallachia. The dispatch
says they have received orders by telegraph tt
march.
| From Berlin, Aug. IS. We have semi ofica
article in the Prussian Correspondence, which
| says that the evacuation Of the Danubian Prin
cpalities by the Russians does not, it ig true
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fec,prooal opIgatlous Oh me Two oeFn1an power
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we're eohsiaerei necessary lor tue interest,"
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between the eontractlhg powers on III, tne soelec
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RUSSIAN treaty OF zo1h April iase'
5 BLACK SEA
Itmay he remembered that recently Russia,
steamer. sunposed to be the Waldimar. wa
cruising Mt LARGE in the Black Sea. and eausin
great CONSERVATION among merchantmen. II i
| now said that the steamer was on her Way from
| the United States to Sebastopol. The other fIa
she called boldly at the coalinr station at Kos
loo. coaled. DESTROYED two Turkish brias there
and made off safely for the open sea,
AS usual, from the Allied fleets We have t
/ report-nothingl
| The statement is that the expeditiou to til
Crinea is only temporarily deferred until til
abatement Of cholera and fever among the troops
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