New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-08
Foreign News by the Pacific.

Foreign News by the Pacific.
The Collins mail steamship Pacific arrived at
New York on the 28th. The following is 9 brief
summary Of her news:
II is affirmed that authentic intelligence has
been received Of the surrender Of Kars. The
report is, that General Kmety, with another
officer, had succeeded in making their escape,
and that when they quilted Kars, Gen. Williams
had been compelled by famine to send flag Of
truce to the Russian camp, offering capitula-
ton. $f
notwithstanding the very general rumorB
respecting negotiations for peace, the foreign
journals in the interest Of Russia persist in
denying that there are the slightest foundations
for such rumors
In dispatch from Berlin it is asserted that
the Grand Duke Constantine has ordered the
captain Of every vessel in the Baltic feet to
| make a return of supplies received, and espe-
cially to note those articles not furnished in
| sufficient quantity. This order is said to have
| been caused by the wretched state of the
crews, concerning which the most incredible
| tales are told. N 3gs
| It is stated in letter from Hamburg that q
squadron of ten new screw gunboats have en-
tered the port Of SWeaborg, coming from Cron-
stadt @fse
The Baron De Lsngenan, the Austrian Min
lister, has gone to Stockholm, with the object, it
is said, ofinducing Sweden to adopt the German
policy as regards the Eastern question, in pref
erence to that Of the w estern Powers.
Il a telegraphie dispatch is reported to have
Il been received in Paris, dated sebastopo1, the
Sth inst, giving an account of rather sharp
i engagement, in which the Russians were com
pletely defeated. The statement is to the effect
that between 1000 and 8 900 infantry and 400
and 500 cavalry had attacked Orkusta- -Skvada,
and that after an hours fighting, the enemy
beat retreat, leaving IN the hands Of the Allies
| about thirty prisoners, including two officers,
besides killed and wounded, Of whom the num-
; Der was not yet known The loss on the part Of
the Allies is said to be magnificent ~
! money panic is announced to have COM
, menced in Russia. At Moscow and other places
the bank notes are refused. a new loan for
$4,000, 600 roubles has been opened in Berlin,
but has met with very little success.
Advices from Berlin confirm the intelligence
that Bavaria and Saxony have notified to Rus
sla their desire to see peace concluded on the
basis Of the Four Guarantees. The communi-
cations from these States, it is said, contained
no other proposition
Il It is stated to be the intention Of the Russian
Government to effect the immediate emancipa-
tion Of the Rerfs Of the whole empire. The En-
peror is said to be favorable to the measure, and
the land owning aristocracy, who have been
sounded, offer no opposition.
Since the snow has been covered with a crust
of ice, enormous trains of sleds, g six miles
long" have entered the Crimea by Perokop and
> the Spit Of Arabat, loaded with provisions and
articles for the use Of the army.
u 1t is stated in a dispatch from Berlin that
: vast quantities Of sulphur and saltpetre CON
tinue to be exported from that country into
Russia, mixed with other articles so as to eyade
r the prohibition issued by the Prussian Govern.
ment, by assuming the form of an indigenous
product.
ii A letter from Vienna, Of the LIST, says tsTht
Empress Of Austria is again in an interesting
situation q
: Advces had been received Of the death O
!. the eldest brother Of the house OF Rothechi.d
! at Frankfort, on the 9th ult Baron Anseln
! Rothschild who has departed this life IN 1856
I the chef Of the house in Naples, Carl, and til
- chef Of the house in Vienna, Solomon, havin
= already died this year. Of the brothers the1
% remains now only James, the chef Of the houl
a. in Paris. Baron Anselm was looked on as tt
= founder Of the great financial Rothschild powe
and, though possessed of less cultivation az
te education than his brother, ives q decided g
MUS in money matters he died childless, an
has left to the house a fortune of 10000 ,0(
at gulden. The funeral took place on the morI
re ing Of the Sth ult,, and, though devoid of an
ed attempt at external splendor, it was attends
an by more than one hundred carriages of persol
to whom, during life, he had stood in so mar
varied positions of man of business, patro
DIS friend and benefactor. including all religio,
~ and professions.
1g Advices from Java, by the overland mail of Il
v 10th Of October, mention that, owing to the col
es tlnuance Of drought, great apprehensions WEI
ne entertained for the growing crops of riee suga
IS etc. The Java Bode states that at Indramay
at the evil had reached such height in that di
at trict that wild animals (monkeys, muskrat
III etc., had entered into the houses to seek #
N water, and allowed themselves to be taken b
Sc the hand. 1t is added that the inhabitants
er Indramays, in the short period of eight month";
& had killed and exhibited to the authorities 6
tigers, 5000 wild hogs, IS aligators, 1000 squil
rels, 100 bats Of the largest kind, $1,000 ratl
Y and 5400 muskrats.