The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-12-20
Affairs i'm the East.

A gloom hangs over Europe at this
moment, which we have now no hope
will be dissipated without immense
waste of life and treasure, and proba
oly disastrous social and political
chsngs. Tho Washington Star pub.
lishes ltte, from Paris, for the
reliability "fwhivh it vouchrs in the
strongest terms, Of which the following
is al extrnct:
"l.urd PalmrrSton and Louis Ma
ro!."n have been almost i,lsrperabIe
since the former aigli,.d at the Hotel
Windsor. Their interviews have re
quilted in the decision to untiirl tl.
standard of Polish, Hungarian and
Italian Nationality, it Prussia and
Austria hesitate longer to declare
unequiv"caIly against the Car. The
probability is that neither the one nor
the other will consent tn do this; in
which case oil Europe will DC in arms
before spring.
II this be SO, it will be very bold
game, tor if once the genius of Revo.
luton is let loose, it will appear most
likely to fall nf"ul of Louis Napoleon,
the pet of Revolution, and therefore
its most natural victim.
is apt 10 cxact succesvast the
condition of favor to h,r Revolu,inna.
ry chief, and he failure of the great
siege of Sebastopol would be a most
omlnous prologue to any attempt to
awaken the sense Of national indepen
dence among the conquered nations of
Europe. The result ot this siege i
becoming more and more doub,tuI.-
The tclrSraphic news by the Atlantic,
ten days later than the foreign mails
received hy the Union, add nothing TO
the chances of the Allies To recover
their ascendency in the Crimca. :.
" hat these chances are, may there.
fore be considered rs fairly set forth
i'll the following letter to the National
ln,rIligencrr, and published in ,ha,
Journal on Monday last:
New lonK. December 8. 1854.
The Union ma steamer has arrived,
and you will see BY her advlces lha,
nothing decisive had yet occurred at
SebaStopol.
Private advices by this arrival,
however, state that o Russian corps of
thirty.tive thousand men, viii, h had
been despatched from Odessa, would
no doubt, be at Sebastopnl previous
to the 20lh Of November-a few DAYS
after the latest dates from thence
Besides this, upwards of twenty
thousand of the Imperial Guard had
been forwarded by railroad to Mos
COW, with orders to proceed with all
possible haste from thence TO the
Crimea, and would probably reach
Sebastupol by the lst of December,
rs they took up their line of march
from Moscow very early in October.
The distance cannot exceed one thou
sand miles, and they already had been
nearly six weeks en- route. Besides
these, further rcinforcements we're
going forward from other point, Of the
empire.
The Allies were also rece wing
reiaturcements, but they were those
which We're sent forward in small
numbers, with view to supply the
ordinary waste of the cammign.-
None of those which were SO urgently
called for hy the Allied commanders
after the recent bloody battles, lad
yet arrived. nor vas it probable ,E.
they could arrive tor eigh. or ten days,
or more.
!, thus appears that it is race
bet" cen the uSsians and the Allies
ss to which shall receive the ear les,
and the largest reininrcrnlcn,s; and
am very much Inclined to think The
Russians will keep ahead al item, Tor
Nicholas has had ample time to put
immense masses OF ,i"ops in motion
towards the seat ot VAR, and though
the distance they have to Traverse OVER
his immense empire are are very great,
end with none but the old and urdina
~ means ot transport except the
railroad from st. Petersburg to
Moscow, i'll, when they once begin
to arrive in the C,imea. they will
probably do 81 in overwhelming mum
bcrs and in quick succession.
] see nothing by these later aIviccs
which in 'icate II larger reinforcement
to the Allies than fifty thousand men,
and the Russian corps from OdesS;
will ui itself bc set of to that force,
81 lar At lsa-t rs detenSirc operations
are concerned. VIZ may well believe
that Nicholas is in earnest in this
war when he is seldi iion his
capital his magnificent Imperial
Guards, and that he will not leave any
thing to chance SO far rs numbers
are concerned.
The early arrival of heavy reinforce
rnen's to the Allies may save, them
from expulsion from the C,inea; but.
under the circumstances of the case,
IL 1. Il / IL ID