Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-30
we have taken 275 men and seven officers pri
soners, as well as two French cannon"
HEIGHTS or THE TcHFRNAYA


soners, as well as two French cannon"
HEIGHTS or THE TcHERNAYA.
The French lines are now so far advanced
that the allied cavalry water their horses in
the Tchernaya without molestation. The Rus
slams do not show in force. They have con
structed two batteries, one towards the bridge
and the other on one of the spurs running out
from the ridge of Inkermann. On the allied
side work has been constructed for the de-
fence of the bridge.
THE BALTIC FLEET.
On June 9Th, the English feet, consisting OF
sixteen lne-ofbatle ships, including three
French, was anchored close to Cronstadt, and
forming line across the bay, from shore to
shore. Admiral Dundas had gone in very
close with the surveying steamer Merlin, and
afterwards with boat but was not molested
by the Russians. All the ships in Cronstadt
were dressed in their colors, from which it was
inferred that the citizens were celebrating
either fete day or the visit of some distin-
guished person.
Admiral Baynes' (English) squadron, mum.
bering Is sail, anchored in the Great Belt, on
the 18th instant.
sEBAsToPoL AND THE CRIMEA.
1t seems impossible that Sebastopol can hold
out much longer. The official dispatches from
Kerstch state that recently large conveys of
grain and -four have been regularly despatched
thence to Sebastopol. Our readers cannot have
forgotten the graphic description given in a re-
cent letter of our special correspondent in the
camp above Sebastopol of the array of wagons
and piles of sacks, apparently containing grain
or flour, which he could see through his glass
on the heights to the north of the harbor.
These were, there can be no doubt, the
kerstch conveys; and this source, whence Sc
bastopoi would appear to have been exclusively
provisioned of late, is now cut off. We are
not disposed to build on the unauthenticated
rumors which have been flying about Sebasto,
pol, of dispatches captured at Kerstch, which
contain most lamentable accounts of the rava-
ges of disease among the garrison of Sebasto
pol. But there are two passages III the com
municaton OF our special correspondent, which
We publish to-day, that are pregnant with
meaning. On the 10Th ult. he writes:
The Russians have been burying an unu-
sual number of dead on the north side the last
few days. These burial places on that side of
the harbor are exposed to our view, and with
a good glass not only the recent graves can be
distinguished, but also the parties at work ex-
cavating or performing the last rites Of sepul-
ture.'
On the 18th he again remarks
"The Russians are still observed to be very
busy about the grave yards, on the north side
of the harbor."
At the highest Of the three grave feld-A-for
the term graye-yards" is hardly appropriate,
as they are not enclosed--as many as seven
carts were observed to be standing at one time
today. Several parties also have been making
fresh graves. These interments are not of the
soldiers who have fallen in battle, for they are
uniformly buried where they fall.
Our correspondent, therefore, naturally con.
| cludes that the numerous dead carried out IL
the grave fields" on the north Of Sebastopol
have been, to great extent, the victims Of
disease. II is beyond dispute, then, that the
garrison are being assailed BY sickness and
| famine from within at the same time that they
are pressed by their human enemies from with
out. And this pressure from without must
now be sensibly felt
After the capture OF the Mamelon, and the
works extending from il to Careening Bay,
that part of Sebastopol which is situated on
the east side Of the military harbor, cannot be
much longer tenable. It's capture will deprive
the Russians Of their arsenals and principal
barracks and what is scarcely of less import.
ance, it will leave the ships, which still remain
in the inlet of Sebastopol, denuded of all shell,
| ter from the shot and shells of the allies
| Already Sebastopol totters TO its fall. Nor is
the position of the Russian Crimean army in
| the field much more secure. A simultaneous
advance of the allies from Eupatoria and
| kertsch would compel it to concentrate itsel
upon Simpheropol or Sebastopol; and for this
| force to be coopcd up in the southwestern part
of the Crimea is to he exposed to the same
famine that is already telling 50 tearfully on
the garrison Of Sebastopol. The Crimea is
| lost to Russia.
| Nor is this the full measure Of the humilia
ton to which the Muscovite government has
already been subjected. The occupation o.
the sea Of Azof by the allied fotilla, and the
evacuation of Anapa by the Russians, has
re-estabished the independence of Circassia
| Threatened by the white mountaneers in front
| and by the naval forces of the allies on their
| flank and rear, the Russian stations on the
Kuban cannot be maintained their garrisons
must fall back on the line of the Don.
In short time Russia will not hold one
| foot of land south of the Lower Don, the north
shores of the Sea of Azof, the Putrid and
Black Seas, and the Lower Danube. Should
Russia sue at this moment for peace, it would
be madness to restore any territory south Of
this line to her. Sebastopol, British minister
has declared is a standing menace to Con.
stantinople as long as its Notifications are not
RACED.
! CONTINUED AND FURTHER SUCCESS.
The British Admiralty made public the fol
lowing
Captain Lyons, Of the Miranda, and Captain
Sedaiges (French) report that the naval opera
tons against Taganrog, Marioupol and Ghetskt
which took place the Sd, 5th, and 9th June
have perfectly succeeded. The public buildings
and numerous Government magazines of pro-
visions have been burned, and thus an immense
loss of supplies has been inflicted on the enemy
| The operations were conducted with great vgoi
and rapidity, the allies having only one man
wounded, although opposed by $500 soldiers al
| Taganrog.
| Details could not be received in England be
fore the 9Th or 10Th of June.
| SAD EFFECTS OF THE WAR.
A letter gives an occount of the miserabl,
state of Eupatoria. War and called occupa
tom have despoiled the inhabitants Of every
thing theyspossessed. For some time past Tho
citizens have been subsisting on scanty allow
ance of flour, given them by the British. Forty
or fifty deaths from exhaustion and low fevel
take place daily, and around the town new
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