Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-07-14

as usual, and while the French were well sup
piled with food from some three hundred cattle
they had seized, the English force were without
supplies
"The march from Ambalak to Yenkale was
most distressing. The heat Of the day was over
poweripg, and water was scanty and bad Oh
o64 marines who landed from the fleet, iour-fflhs
fell out on the march, the men of that gallant
corps not being accustomed to such exeTtions, and
am informed that not more than 100 of them ar
rived with the regmental staff at Yenidale. The
Highlanders fell out in great numbers also, and
the falling off was extraordinary. The rear was
covered with stragglers for several miles, and an
active and daring enemy, with good cavalry, could
have inflicted the most serious losses upon us.
The officers baggage was left behind at Ambala-
XII, and many of them had to lie in their clothes
on the ground in season when night dews are
heavy and dangerous rhe men had their blan-
kets; the officers had nothing"
The writer describes those of the inhabitants
who were left as miserable and repulsive look
ing race, the women especially being hideously
ugly:
"Al the military and civil archives of Kertsch
since 1924 were discovered i'm boat towed by the
steamer which the Snake had chased, huddled
up with the valuableaof the Governor of kertsch
In general our army has found but little plumber,
they have been reigned tightly in; while the
French and the merchant sailors have had the
benefit Of the plage; but the 10Th regiment have,
il is said; been little fortunate in finding at the
advanced post to which they were sent near the
Quarantine Station, considerable amount of
plate in one of the houses. In the steamer chased
by the Snake, which afterwards was destroyed at
Berdiansk, it is suspected that the public chest Of
Kertsch, containing several millions of roubles,
was carried of.
Some of the tradesmen who remained drove 4
brisk business with the soldiers, but in most cases
the latter paid them for their goods just what
they thought proper. An apothecary drove a
brisk business in soda water. A story is told Of
loaf sugar, when the store-keeper, armed with a
cudge, pursued them, attacked three at once,
and captured as many loaves OF sugar.
"As general rule, the Russians proper in the
town were disposed to show fight in defense Of
their goods, while the other confined them
selves to circumstances and lamentations The
Turks have pillaged one of the chnpels. There
is guard placed on another, and the priests of a
third are selling the pictures, alterpleces, and
less valuable decorations, rather than have them
taken by force or fraud
To enter some Of the houses was like visit to
Pompeii. Breakfast laid out, with cavaIe and
wine, pianos open with the music ready to be
played from, cloaks and hats hanging behind half
open doors, told the suddenness of the event
which had driven many from their homes to
weary pilgrimage over the hills of the Crimea to
Smpheropol or Karasu. BY singular chance
several guns which had been taken from the
Turks aT Snope on the Goth of November, were
found at Kertsch and Yenkae, and these guns
have been given up to the Turks as the fruits Of
victory and recapture