New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-23
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY %, 1856
DAILY CRESCENT CREiSsC
Foreign News by the Atlantic.

stantinople are TO the 18th, and from the Crimea
to the 11th ult
The details are unimportans, the only item Of
interest from the camp being that the Russians
attacked the French position at Baga and Our
kust on the 9th, but we're repulsed with loss
Of eighty killed and twenty prisoners.
A letter from Sebastopol says:
The enemy fire upon the town most perti- |
naciously and futilely, for they do not in the
smallest degree hinder the execution of the |
struct the duties Of the garrison. Their fire is
especially directed upon the docks, and it is not
to be wondered at if some few casualties have
been caused by it. all attempt to reply to
their fire appears to have been abandoned by
A letter from Sebastopol, Of the 7th, gives
some account Of the Notifications which the
Russians are now executing on the northern
side Of the harbor:
cannot say What advantages the Russians
expect to derive from all the works which they
are constructing on the north side Of Sebasto-
pol; but they are certainly most actively en-
gagged on them, and there is not hillock,
creek, or any position, however insignificant it
may be. that is not secured by battery, q fort
OF 8 redoubt. t&
"All these are commanded by the citadel,
which has been SO much increased that all that
formerly existed snow concealed behind the i'm
mense work recently executed. As have al
ready mentioned, the activity Of the Russians is
most surprising. Every day bodies of from 2 1000
to 5000 men leave the citadel and proceed to
their work"
Miss Nightingale continues at Scutari, and
proposes dividing her time this winter between
that place and the Crimea. 5sm .5nGs
A high mass was performed on board the
French flagship in the Black Ses, for the repose
Of the soul of Admiral Brnat
An Odessa letter mentions that the forti6ca-
tions at Nicolaieff are completed. Gen. Todle-
ben was at Odessa. So large is the influx Of
strangers into the Crimea that $4,000 persons
are said to be at this moment at Simpheropol.
DR.. Hufnagle, American Consul General for
the East, was at Rentoi, Dec. IL. ,h .m,64,
Gen. Luders has8gain taken up his quarters
in Odessa, and recently gave ball to celebrate
the nuptials Of his daughter-the only surviving
child out Of family Of twelve-With Col Wei
marn. 5s -.ma~ @
Marshal Pelissier is reported to have notified
his government that no military success is pos
sible from the present base of operations in the
Crimea. Hence, they say, the grand council Of
war to be called in Paris to decide on q new
plan for the spring campaign. IF @..
The Fall Of Kars. ..s@.@ s,u
Advices from Erzeroum to the 29th of Novem-
ber bring full accounts of the surrender Of Kars
Gen. Williams had intended to hold out to the
end Of November, in hopes Of relief, but on the
Oath eighty men perished Of hunger, and seeing
that no succor was at hand, he thought it need
less to prolong the suffarings Of the garrison.
The Journal Of St. Petersburg contains the
official act of the surrender of Kars Mussif
Pachs, the commander in chief, having given
General Wilhams full power to negotiate. The
fortress to be surrendered with all material in
tact: the guns not to be spiked: the guns and
stores to be given up in the state they are &C.
tually in. Nothing to be detracted OF taken
from the archives. On eyaeuating Kars the
| troops are to leave post Of three men and a
corporal at each fort, treasury or hospital. I'm.
| mediately the troops have left the place the
posts are to be relieved by Russians. The gar
| rison of Kars surrendering prisoners of war
/ with the commander in chief of the Turkish
army and oil the military authorities, will leave
the place with all the honors OF war, and de-
posit their arms, flags, etc, in spot agreed
upon previously, when they will proceed to the
destination indicated to them by the Russian
commander-in- chief AS testimonial Of the
valorous resistance made by the garrison of
Kars, the officers Of all ranks to keep their
swords. Various other stipulations are made,
including one that those permitted to return
home are not sgain to engage in the war.
The Peace Prospects.
A letter from Vienna, OF the 2Oth, in the Post
Gazette Of Frankfort, following in the opinion
of the Frankfort German Journal, says that the
third point" has received o new Interpretation
to the effect that "in place of the propositions
previously drawn up, the naturalization of the
Black Sea has been admitted % The Western
Powers put forward this Interpretation some
months ago; and if Austria did not Immediately
adopt it, it was because Sebastopol vas not
taken, and because it was not to be expected
that Russia would accept conditions which, so
to speak, would oblige her to destroy her fleet
and raze her fortresses. The capture of Sebas-
topol has removed the obstacle to an understand
ing on the third point. Count Buol has not
disguised from Prince Gortschakoff that the best
thing Russia can do is to accede to what is now
proposed. The great powers consider the third
point as the condition sine qua non of peace,
and Russia can accept it without injury to her
political and military position. 1t thus appears
that it is once more on Russia the decision of
peace and war depends. lie Nord expresses
disbelief of the statements that Prussia supports
the Austrian propositions; and at home the
Times embodies the general sentiment in saying
it Improbable that the mediators of to-day will
ina few months quit their middle proposition,
for's' the German Powers have felt that the war
! is about to assume terrible earnestness, which
will make Indifference impossible, and affected
| moderation folly"
A letter from Berlin, under date the goth,
published in the Emancipation Beige says that
| the Ministers Of the Court, as well as the King
himself, have renewed their efforts at the Court
of Russia. ssTheir language" says the writer,
sis this time characterized by much frmness,
| and | have every reason to believe that the
| Gar will be touched by it. Our statesmen de-
clare loudly that the war has been provoked by
Russia without legitimate motives; and, the
chances Of war having been against them, there
| is double reason for him to withdraw from it
honorably. They add that Prussia will not
| abandon the system of neutrality she has adopt
ed irreyocably, even though she saw the enc
mics of Russia increase. No one here now
doubts that Sweden will enter actively into the
| Western alliance. 1t is even admitted as cer-
tain that Austria has promised efficacous assist
| ance to the Allies, in the event of the Czar
| rejecting the oVertures of Count Esterhazy.
Public opinion hourly increases against Russia -
| The following is said to be an extract from q
private letter from a Russian nobleman attached
to the court Of the Emperor Alexander, to q
relative in Paris:
'We suffer greatly from the war and every
| body desires peace-everyb body. But
in spite of our sutferings Ee would not consent
to peace dishonorabie to Russia, nor to one
which should diminish her power in any re-
speet. Even those who opposed the war in the
| beginning, and we're loudest in their complaints
| Of Menschikof, now say the same thing.