Washington sentinel., 1854-06-28
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

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New YoRK, June 25, 1854.
The Atlantic, which arrived at this port from
Europe yesterday, brings considerable budget
of readable news, but nothing definite or i'm
portant from the seat of war; Nothing later
from the invested Turkish fortress of Silistria
on the Danube, except flying rumors unworthy
of credence. The impression among intelli'
gent Europeans here is, that, should the fortress
hold out until the arrival of the Anglo-French
forces, the Russians will raise the siege, and
proceed with all despatch to concentration
of their forces with the main army OF Prince
Paskiewitcsh, higher up the river. The object,
therefore, of the Russians is to capture the for
tress and destroy the Turkish ari'-y defending
it, before their French and British allies come
up. IF the Russians should do this, it will
require some little time on the part Of the
Turks and the allies to repair the damage; and
in the interval Paskiewitcsh and his subordi-
mates will be enabled to fall back, or concentrate
their forces upon the allies, as circumstances
may Justify. Should the Russians fail in re-
ducing Silstria against the arrival of the allies
the result will be disastrous defeat, or dis
astrous failure on the part of the army Of the
Gear. Indeed Silistria is by many regarded as
the key to the fortunes of the campaign en- the
Danube. The next steamer, it is expected,
will settle the question.
A detachment from the allied squadron ofthe
east has been doing good service in cleaning
up the Russian forti6cations along the eastern
shores Of the Black sea, thus making fine
opening for Schamyl and his brave Circassians
to come down from their mountain fastness,
and take the offensive in the plains below
against the Russians. For twenty-five years
the Czar has been maintaining war against
these hardy Crcassians who belong to the ori
ginal stock from which the leading white races
Of Europe and America are derived, and for
twenty-five years the Circassans, ingle-handed,
have maintained their mountains against their
powerful enemy. Nicholas had wasted i'm
mense armies in reducing these people, until
his policy had become that Of regular siege,
fortifying himself as he advanced, parallel by
parallel, until the poor Circassians had nothing
left them but their labyrinth Of mighty noun
tains, where military science is defed by the
barriers of nature. And now the parallels Of
decentralization, which have cost the Czar twcn-
ty-6ve years of expensive war and engineering
to establish an broken down by half dozen
vessels of war, and Schamyl and his vigorous
mountaineers are down upon the plains
Now, let us watch the result of this contest
for maintaining the balance of power in Eu-
rope let us see if the lazy Turks, who have
suffered their fine country to run to seed, are
to be continued as an independent power at
the expense Of England and France, while the
more deserving Circassians, the descendants of
our distant ancestors, and brave as Julius Ce.
sar, are to be turned over again to the tender
mercies Of the barbarian Cossacks. The Cir
cassians deserve their independence, and are
entitled to as much respect as the Swiss can.
tons among the Alps.
1t is certainly the policy Of England to
check the advance of Russia into Central Asia.
whether by Turkey or by the Caucasian and
the Caspian. But there is reason to appre.
hend that when the allies shall have used the
Crcassians as far as they may be needed, they
will be left to shift for themselves. So little
do the real issues of justice and principle APP
pear to enter into the real designs and objects
of this war; With western Europe secured,
and the straits Of the Dardanelles and the
Bosphorus maintained against the aggressions
of Russia, it is highly probable that England
and France will be prepared for peace, leaving
the Circassians thousand times more deserv-
ing of independence than the Turks to be ex-
terminated by the Russians, by the slow but
wasting process of gradually hemming them in
by circle of artillery and fornfealons. Noun.
tains may defy the discipline and engineering
Of military science; but barren roads and
glaciers can only be held for limited time,
even by the Circassians, without subsistence.
Hence, we congratulate them on being let
down into the plains, and trust that some strong
voice will speak in their behalf in the final
arrangements of peace.
Kossuth has been making at Sheffield tre-
mendous speech in behalf Of the proclamation
Of the independence Of Poland by the allies;
but, in addition to Russia, there are other par
ties interested in this question. Austria has a
slice Of Poland; and Prussia, in the partition
of the kingdom, got snng little corner of it.
Austria and Prussia, therefore, would be in,
fexibly hostile to any such movement as the
re-estab!ishment of the kingdom of Poland,
from the fact that they might be called upon to
make restitution of their part of the original
| spoliation. Moreover, the liberation of Poland,
as Kossuth frankly admits, would involve a
revolution in Hungary, and the probable lib.
GRAFTON, not only of Hungary, but ofthe Italian
States, before the trouble ended. The Austrian
empire, proper might also be comprehended
/ in the revolutionary consequences Thus, while