Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-07-14
The War and its Horrou-Death In
Many Forms

The War and its Horrors-Death In
Many Forms
According to the sdvices by the Baltic,
something like eight thousand lives were
lost in the recent struggle between the
French and Russians before Sebastopol.-I
The list of victims is thus continually
swelling. The end too is not visible
Thus far half a million of human beings
have perished directly or indirectly by the
war, or q number equal to the entire popu
of Philadelphia! The sufferers, too, were
all men, an many ofthem the heads Of
families. These brief facts tell an awful
story. The chances are that at least half a
million more will perish. AL this too, in
the nineteenth century, and among enlight-
ened people.
In France, new conscription Of one
hundred and sixty thousand men has been
ordered; and in Russia, the Emperor has
lust issued Proclamation, which annuls
all exceptions heretofore made in recruiting
in towns and villages, and makes persons
under the age of thirty seven liable to serve
and included even the only son of family
The exigencies Of the nation must be great
to authorize such a cruel and proscriptive
'order. The side scenes, and the many ep-
isodes, no doubt, posses deep and touching
interest, and are calculated to wiring the
heart. Within Sebastopol the condition
of affairs is said to be terrible. 1t must
be so, when we remember the showers of
shot and shell that have been poured upon
the fortress and the city. One of the la
test dispatches says that the Russians Tor
some days had been engaged in burying
their dead-that at one time as many as
seven carts were observed standing together
laden with corpses, while several parties
were noticed busily engaged in digging
fresh graves.
! The intermittents, moreover, were not
those of soldiers who had fallen in battle,
for they are uniformly buried where they
fall, but of citizens and soldiers within the
the town or the garrison, who had been
) swept off by sickness or by famine. An.
other despatch states that on recent occa-
: sion, some French soldiers who were retir.
r ing from barricale which they had beer
r attacking, dropped upon their knees tc
S take advantage OF the inequalities Of tho
i. ground. One of them in SO doing broke d
, small glsss tube. lie looked at it and
made a sign to his corporal; they search
! ed further and found a series Of similar
= tubes, filled with some substance Of very
5 pale yellow color. The specimens wert
? carried to the camp, when the engineers
l found that the substance was a mixture O
, Illuminating powder, phosphorus and salt
J petre Other soldiers were next sent, anG
they, following the course of the tuoer
found that they led to wooden boxes bus
f led about six inches in the ground. On,
5 of these boxes was removed and found tc
contain TASKS Of explosive materials II
l all, forty-four Of these boxes were found
all connected by means oftubes.
: The Paris Moniteur also contains des
patch from Admiral Brouat, in which des
$ cribing the advance through the passage 0
G Cape st. Paul, he says: "A great man,
| ships have been sunk in the pass. Scat
e tered by the currents and melting of tn
: ice, these ships were so many reefs, the ap
] proach Of which was not revealed b.
soundings, and OF the position of whic
: we were entirely ignorant. The encm
: had also laid here ar d there at the bottor
}, some internal machines, like those we hay
II found in the arsenal Of kertch, where W
l. have been able to examine them at OF
!, leisure. a triple wire, cased in gutta pc
A cha, connected these machines with an ee
e. trio apparatus placed in St. Pauls batter
lie In this manner it would have been cas-,
L. as soon as our ships got entanglcd in Il
ne pass, to cause these to explode instantan
or ously under their sides, the effect of whi(
IT. explosion must be decisive, provided
IN we're to take place at the precise m
he ment.'
Here. then, we have brief outline
lis some Of the horrors and dangers OF the wa
in The engines Of death are planned in a tho
nd sand forms. The cannon ball. the she
IS the musket, the bayonet, the sword al
he then the underground and the undersea a
at paratus, all arranged with the nice t ski
in and ready to be exploded at any opportu
re, moment. The pictureis, indeed, an app
'ur ing one, and Humanity must gaze in We
d's agony and weep tears of blood.-Phtl
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