Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-03-30
FHE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
lyILMNe1oN. \. O.. ERIpAY. MARCH 80, 1855.
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II strikes us that this Black Sea Fortress is destined
10 historical prestige equal, if not SUPERIOR to thai
of anv stronghold in the annals of nations. Ger
tainly in the number of men lost in It's attack and
defence, il stands without parallel. Victor Hugo
in an address the French people, states, upon rea
bic data that the British have lost in the trenches,
before the city, thirty thousand men, and the French
forty-seven thousand. 1t is fair to presume
indeed, it is hardly presumpton-that the Rus
sian loss has been equal to the French, making
in all one hundred and twenty -four thousand men
and this address issued on the 24th OF February
and lis calculations based upon adVces received up
to that time. 1t is moderate estimate, lndeeo' 10 put
down the deaths since at number suhclent 10 swell
the aoorecate to full one hundred and fifty thousand,
and the trouble is only begun. The real force OF the
cOmbattants is only beginning to come into action
Sebastopo is stronger than The French Will De
prepared to open the Spring in the CHmea with over
one hundred thousand menthe British with at least
forty to say nothing of the Turks under Omar Fashd'
who knows how to get good service out of them VI
course the Russians will not be found wanting, ana
the destruction promises to be in the future far great
er than it has teen in the past.
Old Homer made the greatest Epic of all time upon
and vet that serge was a contemptlbly small affair
compared with the seige of Sebasopol. Achilles ana
his raggamufins would have melted out before the
fire of the MIME rifles like at the approach OF
S2rpg. The fact is that MenchlkoH beats Hector all
hollow and if the beseIgers have no Ulysses TO 40
their planning they have or will shortly have i've
hundred heavy guns in position, and are therefore Ger
tain 10 make noise in the world. The whole oooy
and bones real and personal estate OF Grecans ana
Troians put together would not begin to detray the
cost around Sebastopol for six weeks, and the 1acC Is
that the people of three, yea four vast h"''on' 'e
getting already very tired of the sport huS'"'
France England and Turkey, all feel that IL Is eat
ing into their vtas 1t is all work and no pIay-ho
CLEAN of gIory-no bright success showing glimpse
of happier and peaceful future, but lns'eao'
visions of still more buidcnsome debt, and more or
pressye taxation, with the present knowledge that
fathers and brothers and sons and husbands sa-
crifced like dogs for the ambition ofkings or the glory
of aristocrat c leaders.
And in that little peninsula of the Crimea IN few
months have fallen masses of men outnumberng
every grown white man in North Carolina fit to bear
arms. Every living man now upon lis soil has a
representative among the dead who slumber beneath
its sod and who have fallen there since October last
Who can doubt that Sebastopo will be a memora-
BILE name as long as the world lasts-tha in after
times it will be marked with black as it is with
blood, and if ever man becomes other than The half
tiger and half idiot which he occasionally shows
himself, he will look back to it with loathing and
ask if indeed such things could be-