The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-03-09
GIGANTIC PREPARATIONS FOR CON.
TINUJNG THE WAR.

thus sums up the intelligence received by
the Baltic in regard to the preparations by
the Allies for the Spring campaign:
The preparations which are being made fol
a Spring campaign, are, in fact, prodigious.-
The recent ministerial changes that have ia.
ken place In Great Britain are popular, be.
cause they are considered by the people a
guarantee Of the most decided war policy,
and of the rejection of all proffers of peace
which do not involve the humiliation of Rus.
sia and the destruction of her power in the
Black Sea. Lord Palmerston is looked to,
to WELD the energies and resources of the
kingdom in such a manner as shall not only
drive back the tide of Russian encroachment,
but also restore to civilization the territories
which have been, one after another, by fraud
or violence, buried under the pail of tyrannic
barbarism. France and Turkey feel that the
coming struggle with the Sclavonic race is to
be one of life aud death, and the efforts of
Napoleon so to increase his army as to be
prepared for campaigns on the Vistula, Dan
ube, and if necessary the Rhine, excite the
admiration of the German as wei! as the Eng
lish press. The Austrian army, including the
reserve, will, by the middle Of March, amount
to nearly 100000 men, which it is proposed
to reinforce with 100000 French, and divide
into four armies. A general officer is about
to be sent from Vienna to Paris, to concert
upon the tactics most expedient to be adopt
ed in the forthcoming struggle.
Vast as these armaments are, in the centre
of Europe, the Crimea is not forgotten, and
the Allies have declared themselves more re-
solved than ever that the Black Sea strong.
hold shall fall. Accounts from Balaklava,
Eupatoria and Sebastopol, were becoming
somewhat more cheering, and it had been off.
cially announced bv Lord Raglan that tho
worst period had probably passed. The dis.
tress, however, continued great, and the want
of enough huts was severely felt by the Eng
lish troops, whose numbers had sadly dimin.
ished from the brilliant army which landed in
the Crmea few short months ago, so full
of hope and buoyancy. The English Minis
try estimated their present land force in the
Crimea at between $4,000 and 10000 effec.
tive men; but according to more reliable au-
thorties, it probably amounts to no more
than $4,000 to $4,000. Their commander in
Chief, Lord Raglan, is felt to have been une-
quail to his station, and appearances indicated
that he would soon be superseded by
younger and more energetic man. Brave to
a fault, kind hearted and honorable, he lacks
the genius which is demanded for great un-
dertakings, and the comparison which has
been drawn between his conduct and manage.
ment and that of Wellington in Spain, and
Napoleon in Italy, both leading to victory,
poverty stricken, suffering armies, has exhib-
tied in sorry light his want of enterprise
and vigor. Forty thousand Turkish troops
under Omer Pasha, were expected to be con-
centrated at Eupatoria, before the middle of
February, ang a large additional French force
was to be sent to the Crimea, about the first
of March, but those best Informed did not
anticipate that Sebastopol, under the most
favorable circumstances, would fall before
April or May These dates have created dis
appointment in the minds of those who are
eager for speedy action; but the deliberation
with which the governments of the respec-
tive invading armies were conducting prepar.
ations, was of itself harbinger OF final sue
cess.
Meanwhile, accounts from Warsaw, st.
Petersburg and Odessa, show tha. Russia is
wide awake, and entertaining little thought
of peace. Every fort in the Baltic has been
strengthened, and every point where land
ing might be effected, examined and provided,
as far as possible, with means of defence. 1t
is even said that the Emperor meditates, in
the Spring, step in advance from last year,
and will so fully have equipped his fleets by
May, that they will dare to seek an encounter
with the Allied fleets. The Polish army was
receiving immense reinforcements; larger
bodies of troops we're on their way to Bessa-
rabia and the Crimea, and the nation was
hopefully awaiting the close of winter in su.
perstitious expectancy, that the road 10 con-
quest would be pointed out to them by their
Car and Supreme Pontiff
A BIT OF RoMAsCE.-Some years ago, says
the st. Louis Intelligencer, a very beautiful
young lady was the ward of a person in
Louisiana, who defrauded her out of quite
large fortune. This lady came to this city,
where she married, but not living on good
terms with her husband, finally obtained a
divorce from him and retired to convent
Whilst she was there she received letter
from the son of her former guardian, inform
ing her of his fathers death, and that himself
had heired all his vast property, but that he
could not consent to retain what had been
treacherously taken from another, and Offer
ing to make restitution. The lady immed-
ately proceeded to Louisiana, had an inter.
view with the heir, and received back, both
principal and interest, all that she had been
wronged out of. The strangest part of the
story remains behind. No sooner had she
got possession of her fortune, than she re-
turned to this city, sought out her former
husband, and in few days was remarked to
him. Verify, the love of woman passeth un-
derstanding. The parties are now living in
St. Louis.
Rev. ELEAzER WLLIAMs.-A letter from
Albany says:
The Bourbon is among us Eleazer Will
liams memoralzes the legislature concerning
the st. Regis tribe; not now for the race of
the Louis, but for the weary, wandering,
wasting, band of men. In his memorial, he
|, "a member of the ST. Regis tribe of In
dams" ale is happier so to abide" 1t is
not often that the life of man vibrates be.
tween the claim for n throne and question
about an annuity.