The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-12-30

slnope has been great place Ia tn day. II h
said u have been founded " AutoIycus and takss
n name from fabulous damsel, represented to
have been the daughter Of a river and town II
wac deemed a. one time FROM lie position IL be
impregnahlc.
ltrosiated successfully Mhhrida,es w, but was
tshen by PHARMACIES 4, the grandfather Of Mithri
dates Euergeies--or MithriIatesthe Great. II was
afterwards made the residence OF the Kings of
pontus until 1t was taken by the Romans under
Luculua. TWAS subsequently conquered by the
Turks who have retained possession to the present
day.
Here It WAS that the great engagement took place
between the Turkish and Russian feet. The for
mer had just been fitted out for the voyage 10 CIR
cassia with the troops that were to cooperate with
the Circassians In their resistance of Russia The
victory gained by the Russians although dearly
bought, was most valuable one, since il gives
them entire control over the Black Sea- while II de
sroyed the force designed to their Circassian
foe The remnant of Russian feet alter the battle
passed to the North side of the Black Seq to the
port of Sebastoopol which is in the Crimea (anceut
Tauric Chersonesus3 where il arrived IL a mos.
helpless condition
Inc toiioWlng is fecenf account OF The present
appearance of sinope:
.'The temples, palaces and portieoes erected by q
powerful line of kings have been leveiled with the
dust, Naught remains of so much nagni6cence save
dirty. oriental town OF thousand wretched houses
surrounded BY crumblng walls and tottering towers
of byzantine construction. Almost equally wreck
is the enormous hull of an embryo two decker which
stands uniaunched GU the stocks built here where
timber and work are cheap; never finished; allowed
TO rot Does this fact encidate the subject Alas for
Sinope.
"rse ancient capital of Pontus under that great
man, ithridates Equator and the birth place of that
great beast Diogeues, the Cynic, originally colony
phbious young lady who wss the unnatural offspring
of q river and town, the Asopus and Methone after
she eloped hither with a third element, Apollo or
the Sun, shows, indeed but few traces of such illus
trons antecedents Many fragments of aneie Mt arch
itectural art, however such as broken columns mu-
hlated cornices and halfdefaced inscriptions on
architrayes and sepulchral stones, naye Leen made
use Of in raising these feeble cr6catons, and thew
still attest what sfnope while the auarres
above the town, whence of the calcareous beds
10 the trachytc rock, overIaid by black volcanic
formation, seems to have furnished It's building ma.
terials tell eloquent tale of its sudden downfall
for large blocks lie there hewn and ready for reno
val, some sculptured and actually on their wpv
to the city. We also the picturesque ruins of an
aqueduct, designed by Plny the Younger to supply
the Snopians with good water, from a distance Of
sixteen miles: and the ancient mole can be disn.
gnished under the enclosing considerable space
along the shore, and leaving only entrance
for gaeys but many Of the great square stones com
of the waves, with the aid Of that universal destroy.
Time.n t-.-