Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-12-21

some time did no, renew the contest. OBJ
serving that The heeh. Of the wells preven-
ted our men from firing over, they collected
in MISSES close under them, and began throw
ing the muske,s and bsyonets Of their dead
comrades sFear- into the battery, with
huge stones. For this species Of attack our
men also were quite prepared, and in turn
hurled out the rough fragments of rock upon
their ssssiIsn,s. For nearly ten minutes
this stone.lhro wing continued without in
remission on both sides. And every now
and then the Russians made desperate dash
10 enter by The embrasures, but were bsyo.
Melted in the attempts till the embrasures
were cboked with corpses.
The fight was now quite among the tents
Of the ;2d end Ligh. Divisions. All the
canvass Of the tents was Gu. and blown to
pieces by The storm of shot and shell. But
q, this spo. the tide Of fortune turned. The
enemy were now completely ou. Of The bush
which had screened and sheltered them on
their advance, and, upon fair ground, they
stood no chance with our men Our regI-
ments hailed, extended their line to The left,
and commenced tremendous Gle-fre. The
enemy, in disorder, hardly returned sho';
bu, stood their ground, and fell by hundreds
and hundreds. Thrice they moved up s'o-
Idly to break our line on the left, and were
met each time bv terrible volleys Of muskel-
~, until they closed in, when our fellows
charged and massscred them q. the poin, Of
the bayone,. The fortune Of the day still
,Lsf
up oil their strength for a final effort. when
Canrober, come up with three regiments Of
Zouaves, FIVE regiments Of French infantry.
and a strong force Of artillery, and common
ced q terrible attack on The enemy's right
flank.
FINAL REPULsE OF THE RUSSIANS.
This occurred about O'Clock, and from
that moment the Russian chance WAS hope
less. Yet though under The French fire they
were li,erslly falling by bs,,alions. ,hev
never showed the less, signs Of trrpidati"n
or disorder. On the contrary, they formed
up in The mos. beautiful order, altered their
front so as TO meet The a,tsck Of the French.
and, extending their line 10 The left, prepnr-
ed, to resume their attack upon the English.
A, that time, however, our men were well
pre- pa red, and, without sny order or grunge
men,, flung themselves headlong upon The
enemy, charging with The bavonci. The
Russians boldly charged with the bayone
also, and for the space of FIVE minutes the
3O,h, 4ls,, 49.h. SS.h, aud six or seven Rus
sian regiments were stshbiDg. beating and
firing al each other in The most fearful mani
ner. A. last The enemy gave way, and be-
gan retiring, 10 good order. across toward
the lnkermann heigh's. Until saw il, ]
never in my life could have believed that
any troops in the world could have retired
under such q murderous fire in such perfect
order.
The French and English, with anhole
mass Ut artnery, Followed close upon The
retres,ing bsl,alions, pouring in volley aher
volley Of grspesho', shell, and musketry.-
10 fac. il was perfect carnage. Ye. 10 spite
Of ,his the enemy KEEP. their order, retreat
ing almost at slow time, and every five or
ten minutes hsling and charging deeper a'e-
Iy up the hill at our men and the French
In the charges the Russians los. feartuIIy.
We received them with volleys Of muskeuy,
and then dashed a, them with The bsyone,.
10 one Of these charges The 50'h French
Regimen. Of the Line recsp,ured the two
guns which in the commencement Of The day
we had lost. Bv 9 l-2 O'Clock the grea.
mass Of The enemy had completely fallen
back, leaving between 1000 and 5000 dead
upon the field behind.
Toward evening ! walked over the battle
field; bu! ] cannot describe to your reacers
what it was like. lis horrors beggar all de-
p.ion- $4,000 dead and wounded Eng
Isb, French, and Russians, Icy upon The
heights, and the groans end screams of agony
were rising up from oil parts. Alma was a
mere skirmish 10 it. VIVA, made the scene
worse was, that the Russians from the ships
in the hsrbor and the Notifications to The
north were throwing perfec, storm of shell
all over The field, killing their own and our
wounded.
GREAT STORM IN THE BLACK SEA.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. 20.--We have
intelligence Of terrible storms in the Black
Sea. which have caused mos, disastrous re-
suits 10 the Allies. Thir,y-,wo English
transports were lost on the 18th, and great
damage was done TO The fleets. The Prince