The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-02-02
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dates TO Saturday 18th. Passengers los
Arrived at Halifax Friday 3lst at 9 30 P
III. Asia arrived at Liverpool early Sunda,
18Th INST but lay oil several hours for wan
OF water. Reached her berth at noon -
Baltic arrived at Liverpool on Thursday IL
The general news of the week ia tha
Rnssia agrees TO negotiate on terms pro
posed by the Allies. Final announcemen nj
was made at Vienna, and telegraphed to the
London Times in these words: "Russia &C.
cep,s Allied proposals Internationally. -
Tins is authentic. 1t caused immense Sc n.
sation, funds rose 3 per cent, cotton firth
ing and panic reigned in other markets
Next day Government published a dispatch
from Minister Seymour at Vienna az fol.
lows:-"Rnssia agrees to accept the "A lies
proposals as basIs Of negotiations. This
qualified announcement crushed the excite.
ment and alarmists began to fear that Rus
sia merely seeks to gain line by deceptive
negotiations. In the meantime funds re.
! main steady Previous to the above an.
nouncement Vienna papers represent a
state OF affairs as most serious, unexpected
| and alarming, and that all persons of the
| Austrian embassy have received orders to
\ quit ST. Pe,ersburgh and Russian embassy
| to leave Vienna.
! The actual circumstances were that
! Count Esterhazy had rendered to Count
NesseIrode ut ST. Petersburg the Austrian
allied note Of December I'd, he said he was
! not authorized TO enter into discussion, but
if his note was not accepted unconditional.
y before Jan. sth, he and all the Austrian
embassy must leave st. Petersburg. To
prevent this Nesselrode communicated with
Vienna direct, and Jan. 18th, Prince Go IT.
chakoff produced memorandum expressing
general inclination on the part OF Russia
to negotiate, but proposed certain altera-
tons in the programme. Count Busl for.
mally received the document, the next day
Friday 18th, but inasmuch as it did not con.
tain acceptance pure and simple of the prop.
osition; Austria could make no reply, with.
out the concurrences or France uHd Eng.
land.
The embs ssadors of those powers accord
iugiy sen TO Paris or London and received
for reply that the western Powers had no
motive to change a decision which had
been already carefully considered; further,
that if by Jan 18th. Russia did not accept
the utimates Esterhazy and the Austrian
legation would leave ST. Petersburg and
Austria would Immediately seek to obtain
the armed cooperation OF the Gcrmanic
diet against Russia. During the week that
elapsed between Russia's first and second
reply, intense apprehensions existed at Vi
emma, although without sufficient cause, for
the Austrian Cabinet had taken precaution
to satisfy the western powers, that notwith-
standing the rupture of diplomatic relations
Austria would not be in position to COM
mence hostili,ies this year. On 10th, ap-
prehensons were set at rest by announce
ment above stated that Russia agrees to ne.
gotiate on the terms proposed. Very little
other news.
Nothing important from the Crimea.-
Numerous ambuscades of kossacks are dis |
tributed arourd the allied camps, but yigi- |
lance prevents many stragglers being cap
tured. Several additional explorations were
made in Sebastopol. The docks now al
most destroyed France and England each
reserve one gate as a trophy. A Paris pa
per is published with dispatch from Gort.
chakof' saying that party of French wear
ing white cloaks to prevent being seen in
snow storm advanced by night and surprs- |
ed some Russians whom they bayoneted. |
Our party retreated when the Russian re-
serve came up.
Gen. Codrington's latest despatch Jan.
3, reports merely that the health the ar-
my is geod. Baron Ellbarch left Berlin on |
the 18th on return TO Paris. Sweden con- |
,nues warlike preparations. The Copen-
hagen official journal denies the existence |
of any circular regulating the Swedish al |
lance on the part of Denmark.
St Petersburg letters say Marshal Pas
kiewitch has requested as his dying injunc- |
ton to the Emperor to make peace. He
never would have given this advice to Mich |
olas, whose battles he had fought, but to
the Young Emperor who had no hand in rais- |
ing the war, he urged the policy OF peace.
The French council Of war continues it's /
sittings at PART. Two commissions, one
for the army and one for the navy are ap- |
pointed
Ar. Stewards Speech.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.
Senute. MIR. Seward reviewed at length |
the history of the Central American ques. |
ton, including the proceedings Of Great |
Britain in that country, and combatted the |
positions of Lord Clarendon on the points
at issue between the two governments, and |
he arrived al In6 CVHCIuStOIl tHuI tho ANTI /
lean positions are just, and the American
demands are right. He then osked what
are the United States now to do, and pro-
ceeded 10 the conclusion OF his speech as
follows
| can now only glance at some of the cir
cumstsnces which affect the question,
regret that in any case il involves q posi-
biiity of war. Although believe war
sometimes justifable, regret it, neverthe- /
less, as a calamity and an evil ! do not
agree with those who suppose that it con.
tributes TO nations prosperity, | should
therefore deeply deplore any war with any
nation, and more than any other with Great
Britain. That power no longer arms alone.
lis wealth and influence easily secures al
lies, and in such contest, the adjacent
American States would at least cooperate
with the u. 8. II would therefore be gen
eral war, and consequently more extensive
" INJURIOUS and widely demoralizing than
any other in which we could be engaged.