Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-02-17
FURTHER FOREIGN EXTRACTS BY THE STEAMER
ATLANTIC.

TIE WAR-Progresso Of the Siege of ,Sebastopol-
Nothing new or important has occurred since pre-
vious accounts The following are the latest dis
pitches:
To January l3th-A dispatch from Admiral
Bruat, of date January 18th, thus reports progress
"The cold has been pretty sharp the past few
days Since yesterday the weather is mder, and
the snow has thawed, though the wind is still from
the north
s:In the night between the 7th and 9Th, the Rus
SLAMS made sortie against the parallel which is in
advance of battery No. 10. Oar soldiers waited
until they were within point blank distance, and
then vigorously repulsed them. They left many
| killed upon the ground.
an the night between the llth and 18th, 1900
| Russians attacked our lines Driven back after a
| hand to hand fight OF some minutes, they left in
our works seven killed and two prisoners wounded.
Our loss was FIVE wounded"
January l2th.-Letters of this date from the
Crimea, state that the Flagstaff Battery had been
mined by the French, who only waited favorable
opportunity to blow 1t up
Another dispatch, which arrived at Marsailles,
jan %, stated that the allies had not undertaken
ANYTHING new in the Crimea as they were waiting
until the Turkish army should assemble at Eupato-
ria. No battle had been fought as was reported.
The beseged had repaired and reoccuped the Quar-
antine Fort General Brown was about to resume
his command in the Crinea.
Russian Rein toTcenentS for the Crimta--A let
ter from Odessa, of the 9th, in the Ost Deutsche
Post, says:
IL am able to inform you positively that the Rus
SLAMS have taken oil the necessary measures for
assuming the offensive in the Crime aud you may
shortly expec. to hear of their moving forward,
as they have received the necessary reinforce
ment"
The Wanderer Of Vienna, of the 20th, SAYS that
the exertions made to send large bodies Of troops
to the Crimea from the Danube are incessant =
Prince Gortschskoh, on the 9Th, ordered Gen. Lu-
ders to make diversion into the Doprudscha, in
order to prevent if possible, the Turks from leaving
Varna for the Crimea. Clhs order led TO the move
ment of Gen Pauloff on the 9Th and 9Th Large
bodies of Russian troops have been ordered to con.
centrate themselves at PerekeP so as to afterwards
advance on Euparoria and attack the place by as
sault Unnecessary.
A letter from Kamesch, of Jan 8, says:
THE batteries of mortars of the French army
cause considerable annoyance to the Russians, who
have retrested in great numbers towards Simple
rol
Under date of January llth, Constantnople
letter mentions that the French SO gun ship Henri
". which rau ashore on the 18th of November,
has been converted into fort, and Is oil much use
TO the allies. There are 100 men Oh board with
guds and the defence they can make is 50 formula
Bile that the Russians dare not approach the town
on that side The Russian cavalry, however, about
G,OO0 strong form Gordon around Eupatoria, and
effectualy prevent the town from being proVlsIohed
from the interior This source OF supply having
been stopped, everything 10 now brought by sea.
So extraordinary is the want of arrangement in
the distribution of requisites for the British that
Lord Raglan has been npeled to borrow 10 900
great coats from Gen. CanTobert. And in great
haste the other day, two agents of the British
commissariat came to Baaklava, and taking the
2 l. E,-I - ,alo 10
one that had laid at anchor for a considerable time
with a cargo from England on board, there being
no one authorized to receive it. they set out for
Constsntinope. On the way they happened to
mention the captain of the ship that their urgent
mission was 10 buy shoes for the troops who were
in a wretched condition for want. The captain,
in reply, gave them the agreeable information that
his ship had several thousand cases of shoes on
board for those very troops but that there was no
"proper officer" to receive them, consequently they
could not be landed
A letter purporting to proceed from St Petersburg
dated the 10TH says that for some time past numer-
Gus relays pos'e1 at intervals OF four leagues
from Odessa to Sebastopol for the purpose of
veyng, as soon as the snow is frozen over, rein
forements to the amount Of 10000 men for the
Russian army It is expected that the Russians
will have the 10Th OF February an army OF lGO,-
900 men in the Crimea.
At St Petersburg complaints are heard against |
Prince Menschikof, who, strange to say, is ac-
caused by the Imperial encourage, and even by the
people, of excessive prudence, and total want Of
that perous quality which sometimes inpels Gen
eral to leave good deal to chance. He is accused
of being too faithful disciple Of Gen. Koutousof,
who is said to have fought in spite OF himself the
battle of the Moskowa in 1912, aud not to have
displayed sufficient energy in preventing the
French from penetrating Russia. The people are
beginning to get camorous against the Prince anG
discontinued even with the Car, who, they think
has already made far too many concessions. To
more they will not listen. Osten Sacken is again
spoken of as likely TO obtain the command, in the
event OF MenschikofNs removal, with Lprandi as
ms second In case Of a change it is not certain
whether the Prince will be summoned TO St
Petersburg, or be left in the Crimea, with the duty
OF defending the city during the assault while o.
ten Sacken commands the army in the field. The
letters repeat the assurance that the feeling of the
population of St. Petersburg is decidedly for war.