The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-07-26
TIE RUSSIAN CAmpA1cs-Tb. followir

The Russian CAmPAIeN.-The following
summary Of The result of the Russian cam
paign cannot fail to be interesting; it is from
the Paris Pays:
he retreat ofthe Russians beyond the
Pruth kenceforth takes away great part
Of their importance from their feats Of war,
ofwhich the Danube is said TO have been
the theatre up to the 23d of June. But it is
not without interest to point out the conclu-
sion, evident TO us, that If the Emperor Of
Russia retires, it is not in obedie ence to any
diplomatic consideration, but because, his
position, was no longer tenable, and that he
found himself on the eve of having neither
soldiers nor generals in the irincipaities
Every one knows the checks which that
army ofinvason, whose passage of the Pruth
pro luced such an impression througout Eu-
rope, has met with during the last eight
months. Turkey was not prepared, and
her open frontiers did not appear to promise
any resistance. The aff;lirs Of Olteniza first
opened che eyes Of Europe. Since that
event, every step in advance Of Russia has
shown her real weakness in presence Of the
patriotism of the Turks. Her occupa-
tion of Lesser Wallachia was checked
before Kalafat, to afterwards meet with
the disgrace ofthe defeats ofCitate, Of Kara
kal, and of the Toarnu. Her entrance into
the Dobrudscha has cost her thousands Of
soldiers, and has made her find burial place,
where in 1929, she sought for n road to
Constantiuople. Now, after four months
siege--aftes bridges thrown over the Danube
marches and counter marches, reinforce
ments, of troops and Of generals, all she has,
obtained isan enormous loss, the real amount
which will never be known, and the putin
hors de combat by disease, orthe enemy's can
non, Of all the men on whom she relied for the
accomplishment Of her work of conquest
Luders, Schilder ,Cortschakoff, Karamsine,
Oflof, and prince Paskiewitsch. The siege
OF Silistria alone, which has excited so much
admiration and sympathy in Europe, will re-
main as striking testimony of all that is
humiliaiing for the Gar in this forced evacua-
tor. A fortified place of the fourth rank,
defended by $4,000 men, has defied during
three months his finest army, and his most
illustrious generals. Each of the twenty
assaults which 1t had TO undergo was the oc-
casion OF a fresh trumph, and sowed death
and alarm In the crowed ranks of those who
hoped to reduce IL. After the affair of the
18th, which cost tho Russians 3,4OO killsd
the siege was defscto suspended by the
discouragement and demoraization of the
oes'egsrs, before being so by an imperial op-
der from st. Petersburg. IL Is under the
impression Of this discouragemsnt that the
Car has evidently acted. His position was
no longer tenable; anarchy pre-, allied among
bic generals, and his army was at It's last gasp.
The devasted country could no longer su,,-
ply provisions; fever, famine, and the enem, !.
guns filed the fields with dead bodies. and
the hospitals with wounded. The Turkisb
cannon len the Russians neither truce nor.
hope. They were attacked night and day,
from Nieopolis TO Russoya, BY sorties, OF
passages of the river Exasperated Wal
lacbia threatened to rise en- rnasse, and the
allied troops 10 destroy theLi Ia angle bat
tie. The Colossus took alarm, and fed be.
fore the prospective Of last and browning
dleaster ~
Such Is the strong language, OF a you nal
which is known nsvsr 70 speak awithout
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