Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-07-26

blow. The government. is preparing for oil
emergencies, and is sending to the Csimea
$4,000 men from the camp in the North.
For the Port Tobacco Times.
THE EASTERN WAR.
Mr.. EDITOR: send you an editorial az
'icle on the effec. Of the war (oow going on
in the Crimesn peuinsula) upon Russia. 1t
is taken from journal Of exceIIen, aulhori-
~ and Of high responsibility, edited 10 New
York. It's statements ss contained in this
article are grounded upon fscis as they have
,ranspired during the progress Of the war,
and they do no. admi. Of rational contra
dction. The article will serve to correct
The vague impression, upon the subject, Of
not few Of your readers, and Of the some
time, perhaps, to qualify the groundIess
boss. Of those who say that Sebas,o?ol
never will be taken by the Allies.
July 20th, 1856. OBSERVER.
WHO Has GAINED, THUS FAR As The
war in the Crimea has lately assumed Fo
si.ion Of increasing interest, end apparently
crisis in the progress Of hostilties 10 about
being reached, j, msy help Us to q clear
view Of the presen, posture Of affairs, to
look back 10 the commencement, end see
wha, each party has thus for gained OF lost,
more just, Than to yield to the influence Of
a few weeks only, Of vigorous exer.ion OF
unexpected reverses.
At the time when war was declared. Rus.
Ella was in undislurbed possession Of the
Danubian Principsli,ies. She also, soon af.
ter, crossed the Danube and occupied the
Dobrudschs, investing Silis,fia with force
Of 10000 10 $4,000 men. end threatening to
take it, penetrate the Balksns, and capture
Conslsntinople, before the Allies could come
to the rescue. Repeatedly bealen in the
field, and finally driven back defeated from
the wells of SiIistria, Russis has been COM
PEELED TO abandon every foot Of ground she
had 'hus occupied. No, Russian soldier
is now 10 be found west Of the Pru,h OF on
the southern bank Of the Danube.
Nor is j, only 10 wha, she had ,hus un-
lawfully seized, tina. war has visited upon
her q just re.ribu,ion. Both by land end
sea she has lost large portion Of sba. which
q past century had lsboriously gained. Al
the beginning Of the war, she was mistress
Of The Black Sea. 1t was Russian lake {:
and the bloody day Of Sinope we'll nigh an
initiated The Turkish fleet. Now, no, Q
Russian vessel dsres to thrust i.s PROV be-
yond The protection Of the batteries Of Sc
bas.opol. The Allied fleets command ell
the coasts, and every town is at their mercy.
The Sea Of Azof is penetrated, it's skIriing
towns have been secured, its commerce de.
s.royed, its ros DIS and communications brok.
en- up. And in the Baltic, the powerful
Russian fleets are as Theoretically sealed Up
within their granite harbors, IS in the Eux-
inc. The only way in which the Russisns
have been able 10 use their ships, has been
by sinking them, to block Up the entrance
to their barbors. A few ships sunk ere
found 10 stop the enemy far more effective
Iy than whole fleets aflos,.
On land, they have lost the long chain Of
foItresses on The eastern shore Of The Black
Sea, which had for years fe,lered The indie
pendence Of Circsssis. Anspa-.he strong
est, the nearest TO the rest Of Russia end the
last TO be absndoned-is at length evscus.
ted by the troops Of The Car, and occupied
by the Circassisns. There yet remsins. in
deed, Russian army in Asis, Of which there
is little TO be said, excep. ,ha. i. is no, quite
SO bad, in any respect, ss the miserable mob
Of Mohammedan ts,terdemslions, which is
all that remains Of the "Turkish Army" in
the same quarter Of the world. But The
prestige of Russian power is BUNDLED in
ASIA and if Sebss.opol should fall, ,ha,
prestige will disappear for centuries.
Great boasts were made, .. first, Of the CO.
operation Of Greece. A King and o Queen
became conspirs,ors in aid Of the Gar and
the champion Of legitimacy sgsins, Revolu-
ton, stirred up rebellion. Blu, it wss with
the utmost ease crushed out once. Greece
is now Of no farther use 10 Russis, sxcep,
as furnishing its ablss. spies.
But the most serious loss by land, 10 The
occupation Of . portion OF the Crimea by
the Allies, who have 90 fortified themselves
in their position, that j, is very evideu, tho
vhols military powe, Of Russi, campo,