New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-29
RUSSIAN SPIRIT AND RESOURCES,

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RUSSIAN SPIRIT AND RESOURCES.
The NewYork Tribune Of the 21st ultimo CON
tains very lengthy and able article on the
present war in Russia. We are net told from
what sources It's information is drawn, but the
minuteness OF detail, as we'll as the harmony
existing between its statements and such facts
as we're previously known, prove that it is not
a merely imaginative composition The opins ons
advanced in the article to which we allude are
briefly these: that Russian diplomacy is in
fnitely inferior to its reputation, and to that of
other countries; that The Car ID not personally
DESTROYS Of war, but compelled to it by the
national feeling; that the struggle is considered
a religious one by the Russian people in general
that the resources Of the nation have not yet
been affected, and are sufficient to meet, with
out embarrassment, more prolonged contest
than the Allies can endure. Two Of these opinions
are immensely important, if true; for if the ma
tional resources are competent to the support Of
the war, and the national spirit is enlisted in its
behalf, all ideas Of an ultimate victory to be
won BY England, France and Turkey. or even
Prussia aud Austria added, are wholly chimeri-
cal. Against such combination no successful
war can, By any possibility, be waged,
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s Inc Aflnuhe holus ele ioiioNing aanguaGe
The general feeling in Russia strongly hostile to the
Diplomacy OF Nesserode The wariike excitement gen.
oral sf this increase. This harmonizes with the
Russian character which stimulated by danger or dis.
disaster The war is fully considered as national and
religious one and the SACRIFICES in favor general we'll
Individual immense Men, Who since left the
and have passed lives of pleasure or acquired esys-
ted positions in the civil department. the SER
ycs with grades IL would appear at first impos
sibe opposed the general opinion of European
iournaiists but still it Is fact the most pacific In
diyidnal In Russia the Car with Nesserode and few
OF bib adhersats me muchadmired pluck Of Nicholas
bone Nov. as in the great struggle with Napoleon in
1919 the national subbornness pedestal for the mpe
iii force. ss8
TIE resources OF Russis msy be appositely remarked
arc not yet No scarcity of money felt
atst Petersburg Moscow atleas not for the govern
mental expenses Even according to the Brtish jour
mails tho Russian export trade has this year been
crippled by Blockade in the Baltic but has been even
foreign buyer being obliged 70 pay
nessy IT, a. II ~ az tn a song o
tne nsaian psas~pry Ilseems likewise that The gold
ano p @ oI years
put into circulation,
m assSns emerssDcies Is ssa % have sssn
mobiasd This fund organized on the PRINCIPLE Of con.
soon and since then has increased q
an imsHss extent But whatever may b. the cause
tha enissa u paper i not exoessireaad few weeks
ago god seasssy sny premium e sellers Dur
cssing % colossal scale. y the isvies 90 addi.
nas pas ~ ~ e dne oa
that Of the arenadiers doubled From the recruits
II NM M y bors az Nh ar,sa h
time most Of the provinces have Sustained at their
Ssraa pobity ot ths Baltic provinces have spoptans
ously devoted lu per cent Of their Income the