Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-07-10
Further Foreign News.
Tie Russian Massacre at hangO-IH&gnant Com
ments of the British Prtss--A Loud CdH JOI
eMgtunce on The Russidus.

leMgeuHceOn Me NHSUuHS'
from The l.onion Times.l
Il has never fallen 10 our lot In the cOurSa Of
long experience iU comment upon any one event
so distressing 10 thu best feelings Of this nation,
50 dissraceIUI TO ihe enemy with whom we ate aI
war, so shameful 10 humanity, "s The massacre,
committed by the Russians on the boats crew VI
IItitsh man Of war Oh lhe 6lh OF June ut Han
70. mol only DO we NOUN the loss VI sixteen
gallant young fellows, wh"Sa late would have
been glorious IL they had fallen by any Of lilo
Common accidents OF Waf,-lOI only afe We IT,
y0l,el ky lie t(eaCheIy which fist allowed This
boat 10 reach The shore under lug Of truce, aud
then bulcIteIeA tlIa clew--unatnled, WnretiSlins-
with on overwhelming force Of troops, who Sptang
I'M ttom their lurking places IN the locks, hut,
while we tltpIore The passion and Violence which
80 base aud uIUClOuS al action will impaI 10 every
future encounter IN THIS MaI, We Participate N
the coHyiCIiun that 10 effort IS TOO great und no
measure isl.O SlGUlIs 10 btllg lie authors Vi this
ctne 10 the coiljisn punishment they deserve
WaT, no doubt, iSiull VI horrors aud Is marked ny
a long Track Of devastation aud u blood; tut II
Is also llle school OF honor, and no laws aEe norc
sacred than those which regulate Its exceSSeS lie.
tween civilized nations those acls Of i0fbehtAnGe
and OF courtesy which ore not unIrequcnl even III
tho heat Uf contest, mitigate thu wildet paSSUnS
and show that IN defending The interests VI Their
country The cumbalanlS have moi forgotten The Ills
Of humanity.
The boat OF The C0sSSck was engaged In one.Ol
these vety elr0nds Of civlllty al the moment wlell
this InurlerOuS onslaught was made upon i, II
was 10 convey seven Finnish pIis0lefs 10 hansO,
whom The Admiral had no wish 10 dstain, as They
wete not 10 tic service Of Russia, that the boat
was senl on shore. The StewNrdSo Of HE mess &C.
companed The party, In the hope that This little
attention would be acknowledged NY HE nttnIls'
sion 10 buy some fresh Provisions. Thus conldlug,
thus deceived Lieut.. neneste and his men pulled
in behind the islands of tanko Point, II may
here be observed thai Ibis YVES NJ pot OF our Off.
ctrs 10 send boat into Tango llarboh ior onets
had Ueen given by the Admiral 10 land the prison.
ets whichever they pleased, AMI II was by their
own choice that llanso was selected.
A ilug Of Truce, visible lIOI tile shore, was n.y.
Ink oil The time on the ship, and OH approaching
The ietty The officer in command Of The boat sgnln
waved The some enSiln OF peace. II Is, however,
apparent from The result that he approach Of This
boat on its friendly etranA had been delibersely
used by The russian officers In command Of lhngO
10 organize one OF The most deleSiable and bloody
sirat0geIns recorded ia history. Eve hunlEed
aimed men lay concealed III lle immediate neigh.
burhool Of The landing place, The liberated priS.
onsrs and tlG officers Jumped out OF lhe boat they
were Immediately surrounded BY this oYerwlltIm
Ing force.
The nscleant commanding The party seems 10
have Leen man OF some education, iUt lre spoke
Envlish-enough ut least, 10 utter a b.ulal Ualh
upon that nag OF Truce which lie was about 10 VIC.
late. tY his order the rihemen opened sharp
Gte Immediately aud indisctinNately on the oil.
eers who had landed, on The men IN The boat, and
even OH The Finnish prSosts who had Just been sci
OIL Sloie, and who fell 10 man under lie tetcl'
less bullets Of their own lytants Every Min was
struck down, aud, with one exception, murdered.
Oi tue boat, where he had fallen, and buyonele'l
eScaRed by feigRiug death as soon lie was Int,
and ultimately cutting the boat adti(t.
tAothet account says tLat Henry Gildon, A.
D., was lie wounded man WHO was taken from
the boat aud bayonetted oil lie wharf by the Rus.
SLAMS, and that Dt. Easlon was the fist man shot
down..
A crime OF this NATURE violation OF all that Is
held SaCrtd aud hontiablc and brave among lIleI--
leaves an ndeliblv trace upon The annals Of ma.
ton. period Of 221 yeats has mol eiIiced from
The mtuloIy Of The people ol England The atroclly
Of the AmiOyna maSsacFe, when IN English sea
lcanau aut, nine VI his men wete sacrificed 10 The
suspicious policy Of I'VE Dutch; AND CENTURY has
moi diminished the nfamy which The night oil The
Black Hole OF Calcutta LEFT upon Tie memory oil
the rule OF bengal.
As lous as the annals OF this memorable veal
ate recorded In the pages Of history, lie massacre
Of tlanso will rank with these sinister achieve.
ments, iot no parallel can b. found 10 II save In
thR wntst and nnSt ueIflliOUS aCti0US which have