New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-22
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DEsHErIoS FROM THE ALLIES. AND RUSSIAN SITES

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.s7ssF BatAKr4v., Nov 8. 1854
After the dispatch of my letter Informed that t
statement Of deserter from the 10th Regiment hayu
gone over to the enemy true and further hat tw
men had deserted from the Royal Artillery On the cam
night Itnust be added giving some colornble rretex
for such baseneas that all these men had been oeged tb
day before for various oenses Their subsequent conduc
shows they deserved the punishment Ireed there d
good deal Of punishmens inflicted but 1t princfray 70
the grave offense Of being asleep when on duty.
strange incident is said to have taken place to-day
lines which true shows the astuteness Of the enemy
and the want Of presence Of mind the part Of
our officers. man in the uniform of French Office
Rauntsred ccoliy through lines to-day was civil an
polite to all he met entered into conversation with thos
who were walking about, smoked. and chatted. ans
laughed and at last got into sort Of discussion respect
ing the strength and weakness Of position In the
toward Balsklaya Nothing doubling our officers ex-
and spoks plainly Of the difficulties Of our positios AL
length one Of the officers Of the 10th, who had more
practiced ear than his comrades struck by bs rnnga
accent and curious idiom Of the soidsGs Frencbman
which In any but Erenchman would have excited
no suspicion bat still be afraid Of skisg mistake
and had no device ready at hand to truth How
he OF to Sir Goiin Campbell to ssy that he es
pected there was Russian spy arong them The sup
pssed Frenchman was not to be caught 80 easily His
anck eye detected the dispatch Of the messenger and
he gradually drew of from lines toward the valley
but In manner natural to per2lex those to whom
IAS cncer nfd communicated his u1egivugf,
he had gained good opg he quickend his pace into
rum and got right away into the Russian lines leaving
MS late comrades gazing mouthed after him It
argued no common cooness and audacity to undertake
such mission for had the gentleman in question been
captured he would assuredly have been hanged spy
INC french executed speedy ustics the ether day
spy whom they found disguised Tartar arabjee within
the lines, and shot him they had fonnd all
they could from him. But these Russians very r1ss
The sentinel before the hous Of the In
Balakiaya astonished to see horse with sack ot
corn on Its back deliberately walking past him the
moonght one night Hewent over to seize the animal
when the sack Of corn suddenly became changed into
Cossaek who drove the spurs into his stesd
and had vanished had recovered his speech
THE PRoSPEcTs-RussrAS TREATMENT OF THE
WOUNDED.
IL has been decided that the rae. Is not t be turned
for the present We said to be waiting for strong re-
inforcements. To-day flag OF truce was sent into Sc
bastopo The bearer OF 1T carried letter from the allied
commanders to the Commander Chief of the Russian
forces 1t stated that General Canrobert and Lord Rag
Ian had seen with detesation and disgust the merciIes
cruelty with which the enemy bayoceted wounded
on the fed and requested to know whether thu
be carried on in this barbarous and extermnatng
ner az then the allies would know how to act The letter
also contained hint that in Of prisoners beine
i-treated the Russian would do well to remember thai
we had many Of their countrymen in hands, whose
treatment would be regulated BY that which
ceived from them Russian major captured at the
close OF the battle He had been observed on many occa.
sons stabbiDg and hacking our unfortunate wounded
with his sword and directions given to party o
the Guards to take him alive possible This they ef
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having offered in vain bibe of gold pieces to
men to allow him TO escape He is to be tried by court
martial Tomorrow and the dispositions and aentence for
warded to whoever Of the many Generals in Sebasto
pol is the Chief If they consent to pun
sh him he will be given up to them II they decline te
interfere he will be shot as the laws of civilized Yarfrt
denounce the killing of defenseess wounded as murder
II he is found guilty there the least hope Of hi
escape, as the allied Generals determined to make
amples Of all who disgrace themselves by such inhuma
ity The Russian prisoners say they had four Generals
killed and three Wounded and that all their officers a.
soon as they fell, were carried to the rear r ss
NARROW ESCAPES. s
Some of the escapes OF individuals seem slmos
miraculous The of the Illustrated London
News had u most narrow one. Two round shot parsed
through his tent and before he could leave 1t they
followed by large she'll which burst inside the tent
within two feet where he was standing The tent wa.
literally torn to ribbons by the explosion yet the repre-
sentative of your pictorial contemporary unhur But
the destructive eectsof shell very uncertain ha5
seen twenty shells fired at regiment and burst clos
over them, and not man been hurt and two minute
alter three which burst Mt the same distance killed
wounded almost entire company. During fhs bssti
of Inkermann was standing some French artillery
when shell pitched in tent within feet Of where
was standing with two or three French officers No
hearing its fuse took it for round shut, and ha
turned our backs when suddenly it exploded with
conclusion which almost knocked us down Exeept tn
momentary shock of the report we suffered nothin
though piece of the same shell killed horse and
French artleryman who fifty yards at the othel
side of me. Many instances OF the same kind
to me-
HORRIBLE APPEARANCE OF THE BATTLE FIELD
On the evening of the battle went over the held
think have said and again that il was sigh
which could never be described considerable number
about 500 to 1o0O, Russians killed and wounded wer
lying among our tents, and here also were many to
many corpses of zouayes and French infantry Of thsine
All wounded have been removed, and the wounded
of the enemy being gathered in The kindness aut
attention of fellows to their helpless enemies be
yond all praise Brought them water got knapsacks t
put under their heads and borrowed blankets in whic1
to them from the night air Here and ther
small groups of them stood absorbed in pity round
prostrate foe to whom their kindness too late,
Who shot either through the head or lungs gasped
his existence in painful sobs terminated it in horri
bic convulsion which made your blood curdle to hear
little above the line Of the tents the brow Of the hi
overlooking Inkermann Lights Here was the spot wher
the Allied artillery engaged that Of the enemy after th
retreat and here the sight was sckening indeed.
There is nothing awful the spectacle of the bodie
of those who have been struck down by round shot
she'll One poor fellow Of the 95th had been struck by tw
"a Founders in the head and body shell afterward
burst him and tore him to pieces, and it only
the fragments of CLOTH with the regmenta buttons ad
herring, that you could tell that the rough bloody MAJ
which lay in the road had ever been human being Bu
it is useless to dwell these sicksnDg details suffice
that here among the carcasses Of some two hundre
killed and wounded horses lay the bodies Of our bral
English and French artillery men, all mora or less gh
fully mutated Some had their heads taken off ut th
neck, IL with others their legs gone from q
hips others their and Others again who were hti
the chest or stomach smashed as they had bee
crushed In machine. But 1t was mot alone the A'
who lay here the contrary there were ten Ruseia
eorpses to of theirs but the latter were all killed
/ musketry before the artillery came up. as
/ On this spot the Russians kept dropping shells Il
whole night; but their vindictve efforts were in vain
all who lay in reach of their missiles had suffered the la
4 which they were to endure earth. Passing up til
road to sebastopo between heaps Of Russian dead
to the spot where the Guards had been compelt
to retire from the defense of the wall above Inkerman
Valley. Here dead nearly numerous as Il
enemy's Across the path, side by side lay FIVE Guard
men, who were all killed by one round shot as they a.
vanced to charge the enemy They lay on their faces
the attitude with their muskets tightly grasped
both hands, and all had the GRIM painful froN
! upon their features, like who were struck down
the Of closing with their foes Beyond this the Ru
SLAMS Guardsmen aud line regiments lay thick cays
ntermixed with dead and wounded horses. The latt'
with fractured limbs then rising and after staggt
ing few steps rolling among the corpses, snort
and plunging fearfully Up to the right Of the wall W
the way to the twogun battery. The path lay throu
thick brushwood, but the path was slippery with bloc
and the brushwood was broken down and cucumber
| with the dead.
/ The scene from the battery was awful-avful beyo
description stood upon its parapet at about at ng
felt my heart sink as gazsd upon the scene Of @
mage around. The moon was atits full and showed eve
object as If by the Light of day Facing me was the
| ley Of Inksrmann, with the Tchernays like band
silver flowing gracefully between the hills which, for
red and picturesque beauty might vie with any part
the world. Yet shall neyer recall the memory Of
hermann Valley with any but feelings Of loathing q
horror; for round the spot from which surveyed
scene lay upwards Of 5000 bodies. Many badly wouns
also lay there and their low dull Of mortal ago
struck with terrible dstinctness upon the or wo
sti the hoarse, gnrging cry and vehement struggles
= those who eonynsed before they passed aW
Round the hill small groups Of with hospital street
ers were searching out for those who still survived
Others again. With lanterns busiy turning over the de
looking for the bodies OF officers who known to
a killed but who had not been found Here also wersE
n lish women who husbands had not returned, hurry
about with loud lamentations. turning the faces Of
dead to the moonlight and eagerly seeking for what
r feared to find These latter were far to be p
. than the inanmate forms Of those who lay slaughts
d around. 7s4 ii7s5' ~ f5ft asla34l
The ambulances as fast as they came up received Il
and ukNts