Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-29

leaped into the battery, followed by his men. The
lieutenant OF artillery, who Is man Of courage and
resolution, soon discovered the subterfuge, and as
sembling his soldiers, charged the Russians with
the bayonet, In the dark, and drove them out Of
the battery, killing seven and taking four prison
ers--among whom WAS an officer speaking French
remarkably well, who had received five or six bay
onet wounds. He died very brayely the next
morning, having constantly refused to give US any
information He merely stated that our artille-
ry--the howitzers in particular-had done much
injury. We learnt from one Of the other prisoners
that this officer, and the men who accompanied
him, had volunteered to spike and destroy our
guns, which act, they were told, would save the
place and the garrison The conduct of Lieut..
Clairin and his men was admirable; it saved the
battery. .es,
EXPLOSION or A GUN.
On the Gath, (the eighth day Of the seige,) we
had another explosion on the right attack. The
story has an air Of Munchausen about it, and II the
facts were not well known, should have some scru-
Piles In telling IT, An eightinch gun had just been
loaded with live shell, and the match was applied
to fire 1t OFF; at that moment one Of the enemy's
shells entered the gun, and the two shells exploding
burst the gun. Every man in the battery was more
or less hurt. Some were killed
RUSSIAN orFIcER
The Russians were seized with panic, many OF
tucih tcW uV"h thCH uiiu utu III ulbOfutf
Their leader alone showed courage. When his men
commenced to waiver he seized one Of their mus
kets, and waving it in the air, tried to rally them
While holding II in this position he received ball
in the elbow, and at once took the weapon in the
other hand He was thus vainly trying to restore
courage TO his men and urge them forward, when
two of the sharpshooters took aim ut him. One
of the balls wounded him severely In the neck and
face, breaking his lower jaw He then tried TO re-
treat, but was made prisoner and brought, together
with one of his men, into camp. He was power
full man, and scarcely distinguished in dress from
the soldiers he was lace instead of tho
CLOTH shoulder straps, and the superior gliding OF
the buttons, which showed him to belong to the
33d regiment, alone marked the distinction, and
could only be noticed when standing near.
FROM ONE IN CAVALRY CHARGE.
There were the Grays and First Royals up at this
time, and we charged thcm-they had nothing
else for it, SO they charged at the same time Oh,
God! cannot describe it. They were SO superior
in numbers, that they "outfanked" US, and We
were in the middle of them. / never certainly felt
less fear in my life than did at that time, and
hope God will forgive me, for felt more like
devil than man. We fought our way out of them
as only Englishmen can fight, and the 4th, 9th and
9th were there up with US. I escaped without
scratch, thank God, though was covered with
blood; my horse was not even wounded but OIL
the work of slaughter that then began-'twas truly
awful, but suppose it was necessary; we cut them
down like sheep, and they did not seem to have
power to resist The plain is covered and covered
with dead Russians, and of course we left some OF
our poor comrades on the field We only lost two
and about seven wounded.
THE RUSSIANS.
/ saw two orders or medals which had been taken
from the coat of one of the dead, one of the date
of 1882, the other Of 1916. On leaving the field
Of battle turned one of the wounded Russians
L. Ill q atSr<.a IN
his side. The poor devil looked anything but good
tempered at they all stern, determined look
ing fellows and ftkese asample ofthe army, they
are certainly not clothed in the wretched manner
that the majority of the people in England are led
to believe. Their clothes are very good-quite
equal to our army, and their arms also. speak
of their cavalry. did not see any of their infan-
try among the killed or wounded, as they were not
engaged near the spot.
THE BOLD MAGUIRE.
A private Of the SD regiment, Duke of Wei
lington's) by name Mcguire, has attracted the mo-
tice of the commander-inchief by act Of during.
He was in advance as a sharp-shooter, and was
made prisoner. He was being marched away be-
tween two Russian soldiers, third being in rear,
when seeing his guard for moment careless, and
looking in another direction, he suddenly seized a
loaded mtisket from one Of the two men at his
side and discharged it at him. No sooner had he
done this, than he swung round the butt-end, and
with it struck the second man on his other side a
blow on the head which felled him to the ground.
The third Russian decamped, and Mcguire effected
his escape. He was at the time within a hundred
yards of the Russian lines. His own Mimic, which
had been taken from him, was being carried by ono
of the two men by his side +; but he knew this had
been discharged, and therefore seized musket
from the other soldier, which fortunately turned
out to be loaded. The affair was Witnessed by a
sergeant of the rife brigade, and in consequence
of his report, Lord Raglan awarded Mcguire with
a gratuity of f5. A very inadequate reward for
so bold an act Surely so bold and successful an
act deserved promotion rather than money, or both.