Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-15
The Cars Winter work.

Throughout the winter, the Russian gov
eminent, and the people, whose energies are
at its disposal, have been occupied incessant-
liz with preparations for war on more ex-
tended scale. No ministerial crisis has
distracted the attention of officials at st.
Petersburgh; no unforeseen emergencies have
found them unprepared. The statesman of
the empire have long plotted an attack on
the Turkish territories, and every movement
by them is the result of plans deliberately
laid down, and skillfully corrected. Never
theless, the strange alliance between France
and Great Britain, has convinced the Gear
that, however great his military resources
may be, however strong his Notifications,
however successful his ;ntrigues, he will re-
quire next spring to oppose still more for
midable front to the united arms Of Europe.
Consequently, while, Prince Menchicoff
expressed il, Generals January, February and
March are doing their work, the forces Of
Russia engaged in making ready for a
fiercer struggle.
Let us not think that, in this new year, Sir
Charles Napier will be able to repeat his
bloodless regatta in the Baltic. We learn
from many sources-some of them private
that the dock yards of the Neva, early in the
spring, will LAUGH feet Of gunboats in the
proportion of at least ten to one of those
which the French and English arsenals are
arming. They are built on an excellent
model, and are, in fact, equivalent, i'm the
soldity Of their construction, to the best of
our own. 1t is to be feared that severa
American shipwrights are aiding in these
works, and it is well known that Russia some
years ago, purchased two English gunboats,
of which she has all the drawings and esti-
mates in her possession.
Moreover, we have heard innumerable re-
ports of the strength, as yet untried, of Hell
singfors, Revel Cronstadt. But what they
were last spring will be trife compared
with what they will be next summer. Close
! to each vast entrenched camp is being made
with earthwo on a larger scale than any
that have been attempted in the Crimea.
And here it should be noticed that Russian
engineers, so far as the campaign has yet gone,
have committed no errors in their system OF
I Notifications, whether for temporary or per-
manent objects. We, on the contrary, have
! fallen into mistakes, and dearly have we
paid for them. AT lnkermann, for example,
our soldiers rushed to defend battery with q
high parapet
They found it had no JaRguette, or lower
wall on which they coull stand to fire, and
they had to go outside, and expose them
selves in front, before their rifles could tell
on the advancing enemy The huge camps,
or auxiliary, which day by day grow stronger
under the towers Of their sister fortresses in
the Baltic, are said to be built with art and
care They are circumvallated, planted
round with detached redoubts, commanding
each other; and they are so contrived that
in each an army may repose as in a nest, pro-
tected from shot and shell. For, besides be-
ing situated on elevated plateaus, they are to
be provided with trenches of extraordinary
depth. Add to to this, that the guns which
during forty years, the ioundTies Russia have
necessarily cast, will be ranged 10 an iron null.
titude on their batteries, and it may be con-
ceived upon what magnitude our preparations
must be conducted if the war now wagging
in the south of the Cars empire is to be
pushed into the north, to assal the strong
holds Of the Baltic.
Every one has now heard of the road
partly natural, partly artificial, across the
i Putrid Sea. But it will be wellto remem-
Der numerous articles to which the Russian
engineers have had recourse, not only for the
PuiPoSc VI SuuIihS Iho aPpiOaCues w VI 1h-
stadt, against naval assailant but to KEEP
open, ggainst all exigencies, the communica-
ton between that place and st Petersburg
A rocky channel has allowed them faclitie:
for perfscting artificial fords, which a few
weeks labor would render passable, so thai
they would not depend, altogether, for tn,
transit Of their men, horses. and heavy mate
rial, on the flotilIas of the Neya We may
observe, also, that the lines have been mark
ed out for an intrenched camp, of enormous
proportions, near the capital; and that OF
the other side of the empire, Fort Alexan
der, at Warsaw, has assumed az entirely new
aspect.